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It was either a ridiculously expensive protest of punk commodification or a blatant publicity stunt. Regardless, Damned frontman Dave Vanian didn't take kindly to Joe Corré publicly setting fire to some £5 million worth of punk memorabilia last November as a reaction to Punk London, the city's celebration of the 40th anniversary of the infamous cultural movement. In the process, the wealthy son of punk impresarios Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood destroyed such pricey artifacts as an ultra-rare Sid Vicious doll and, perhaps less appealing, a pair of pants worn by Johnny Rotten.
"Wasteful, just wasteful," tuts Vanian, whose legendary and still busy combo were the first British punk outfit to release a single, 1976's bombastic genre-defining "New Rose," which sent their Damned Damned Damned debut album (recently reissued) rocketing into the UK Top 10. "If he was going to make a statement, why didn't he just donate all the money to a good cause of some sort? I think it was a big publicity scam, actually, and that doesn't sit well with me."
Besides, figures Vanian, why shouldn't London be able to trumpet a sound and fashion style that helped define the city four decades ago? "If people want to say it was a great time and admit that something good came out of it, that's fine. It's only bad when you exploit it and make money from it," he adds, delivering one last dig, "which is obviously all Malcolm and Vivienne have ever done."
The Damned's classic lineup consisted of Vanian, Stooges/New York Dolls-influenced guitarist Brian James, drummer Rat Scabies, and bassist Captain Sensible. And while Sensible is still involved, the membership changed almost as often as the group's sound, including a grim mid-'80s Goth phase.
"We've never written anything to a formula for any particular reason — it was just that we were exploring that kind of music at that time," says the singer, who through PledgeMusic is crowdsourcing financing for the next Damned disc, which he promises will be much more psychedelic. "So we don't sit there and go, 'What exactly is this album going to be?' It generally writes itself after a while, and we never know how it's going to turn out."
The Damned spent much of 2016 on the road, commemorating its own 40th anniversary, highlighted by a gala gig at Britain's Royal Albert Hall and worldwide screenings of director Wes Orshoski's in-depth documentary The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead. Vanian has also kept busy with soundtracks, a rockabilly side project, and briefly hosting a cable-network horror show. The rest of the time, he lives a quiet family life with his wife of 21 years, Bags/Gun Club/Sisters of Mercy bassist Patricia Morrison (who has also joined The Damned from time to time) and their teenage daughter Emily.
Vanian says the original punk movement was much less homogenous than it's been made out to be. "There were no restrictions to what you did, or where you got your influences from," he recalls. "Then suddenly, it became a movement, with laws and a uniform. But The Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash? The only similarity was that we were all young kids, just trying to do something with our lives. And do it in a way that people took notice."


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Crack sealing is an important maintenance process that stops water from seeping into cracks and further deteriorating your asphalt surface and base. Failure to seal cracks results in further cracking, potholes and eventually a major breakdown, leading to unnecessary expensive repairs. Crack sealing is an extremely economical way of maintaining pavements. Midwest suggests to crackseal yearly to prevent any further damage.


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The Student Arts Showcase will be on view April 13–21. The Museum Club hosts a free reception celebrating the annual showcase and the opening of Hair: Untangling the Roots of Identity, with a variety of student performance groups, art making, refreshments, and more. This reception is funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.
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On today's Just the Tips, we talk with Matt Watson, who had enormous success early in life as co-founder of Vinsolutions, and after selling that company for $150 million, started Stackify to solve the biggest problems he had at Vinsolutions. Matt tells us about his early days, how he sort of fell into work on Vinsolutions and how it went from side hustle to major hustle. And he shares his unique insights as a developer and an entrepreneur, and how his parents' entrepreneurial spirit inspired him as a kid. He's no Dean "Pigeon Man" Holland, but Matt has a great story to tell.
Matt's story as an entrepreneur literally starts with the apocryphal "back of a napkin" at Applebees. Matt was selling computers at Sears in the early aughties when a customer came in and asked if anyone could help him with a software solution. Matt volunteered and became a de-facto cofounder. After two years of getting Vinsolutions off the ground, he was able to quit his job, and then after another six years sell it for nine figures. It's something of a meteoric rise, but it also speaks to Matt's work ethic and eye for solving a market's problem. And one of the fascinating things he says on this episode of Just the Tips is how they never got into a "startup" mindset. They were just running a business.
Matt's time at Vinsolutions let him peak behind the curtain a bit, and see what problems both businesses and developers were wrestling with. And so that's how he started Stackify, which essentially lets businesses see how well their applications are performing. In other words, if you go to a restaurant's website and order food, and the application you're ordering through is slow or crashes, you'll likely lose that customers. So Stackify lets a business see how well an application is running, how satisfied customers are, etc. It's a really savvy approach, one forged in the fires of running a large business.
One of the interesting things about the software space right now is that there's huge pressure to constantly add features and iterate. As Matt says, agile development is the name of the game right now, but it can be a difficult balance to strike between having a stable software solution and adding more bells and whistles to it. As Dean says, he's dipping his toe into software development, and has really tried to focus on having the software just do one thing, so it stays as simple as possible. And as Matt says, that's very important when you go to market.
One of the problems Matt discovered with Stackify was that it was really difficult to reach his target audience. Senior software developers tend to use ad blockers and other means to avoid being marketed to. So his company released a free tool for developers that became popular and served as a calling card, and then he also turned to content marketing. And he has a very unique way of going about content marketing. He calls it a three-pronged approach. What are they? You'll have to tune into this week's episode of Just the (Prong) Tips to find out.
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Thou shall not judge…
I spent the first two weeks of July in Ouagadougou attending APSA Africa Workshop on Religion and Politics in Comparative Analysis. This workshop focused on the research and study of religion and politics in Africa. Religion has always been integral to the lives of Africans and it is a force to reckon with in Africa.
Each morning and evening when driving to and from the hotel and workshop venue, we had a glance of life in Ouagadougou. What seemed to amaze most workshop participants is the intense use of motorcycle as a means of private transport. As a result there is no traffic jams in Ouagadougou unlike other cities in Africa.
Of course motorcycles are becoming the most reliable and fastest public transport means in developing countries' cities and towns. This is partly due to their relative low-cost operations and efficacy. The Chinese have made available affordable motorcycles that most youths can afford to start up a transport hire business. There are many names for this emerging transport such as 'bodaboda' in Tanzania, and '…………….' in Uganda. However, unique features about this means of transport in Ouagadougou are (a) motorcycles are used for private and not for business purposes; (b) women and girls ride them for work and leisure. In the morning, we saw many women and girls riding motorcycles as they were going to work in the morning wearing formal/professional attire, and in the evening we saw women riding them with school children at their back. I saw a woman riding one with a cooking gas tank at the front and a bag (I guess it was groceries/foodstuff) at the back. I was sad to miss a picture of that 'strong' lady.
At the University of Burkina Faso, many students both males and females, use motorcycle to go to the campus.Well, one scene that struck me hard is the above picture. When I saw this woman, wearing an Abaya with Hijab and holding a toddler on her back while riding a motorcycle early in the morning, my mind started running. It was a marathon. I thought of media stereotypes, academic/scholarly biases and assumptions, theories of feminism, and many other assumptions that we may have. Here are some of my thoughts in brief paragraphs:
As a result of media and scholarly assumptions based on evidence that cannot be generalized together with other biases, it is almost a 'conventional knowledge' that Muslim women are not free and that they need to be liberated. When it's Muslim and African, the stereotype is even worse. As women who fell in these two categories are thought to be dependant and lack freedom.
For those who argue that Muslim women are not free, often use an example of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia where they cannot drive or leave the country without male guardian permission. . However, the picture above is one molecule in the waters of hidden evidence that shows a free and an independent Muslim woman.
Something also to consider is that the picture was taken during the Holy Month of Ramadan. I am not an expert on Islamic Studies, but Muslims and Islamic scholars can probably say something more about this. All in all, the woman kept reminding me of Tariq Ramadan's argument that 'for a fruitful discussion (on the issue of women in Islam) it is imperative to change the terms of discourse. And as a first step, it is necessary to recall that the Quran was revealed over a 23 year period and in a specific historical context: it is important to take these two factors into account.
The first helps us to avoid a literalist reading of some verses by being cognizant that they have to be understood through a sequence of different verses leading us to the global message. The second forces us to consider the cultural environment within which the Quran was revealed and alerts us not to confuse some cultural contextual features (whether historical or contemporary) with the universal Islamic teachings. These are indeed the two main problems we find when it comes to the women issue: literalist reading and cultural understanding.'
With regards to feminism, which I must admit that I am not an expert of neither a 100% follower of its ideas, perhaps this picture can help generate more questions for the feminists. For example, how would a feminist describe this picture? I will leave this question as it is as I am not very comfortable discussing a theory that I have never managed to grasp it entirely. But I think there are many cultural aspects that must be considered by different schools of feminism.
Other issues that I thought about are with regards to health and safety of the child. I kept asking, how she could dare riding a motorcycle in the highway with a toddler on her back. The baby was tied used a simple cloth. But I then asked myself, do I know better than this woman? I challenged my thinking, that why do I assume that I know about the safety of this toddler than his/her mom? Such critical analysis of our own 'conventional knowledge' is imperative.
I don't know where this woman was going to in that early morning, but what I know is that she confidently left her house, with her very young baby, wearing her religious inspired attire, and riding her own motorcycle. She seemed confident. In all aspects, this picture is a display of a free, hardworking, and independent Muslim African woman.
In all these, I settled into one Biblical principal, 'thou shall not judge'. Through the so-called 'conventional knowledge' that is produced through the process of globalization to exert influence and power, we tend to judge other human beings based on our narrow understandings. Such judgments are often driven by the feeling of 'otherness', which is depicted through what Edward Said terms as 'negative representation of the other'.


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This is nothing surprising. This is the sort of thing that conservatives had said would happen. As soon as people could use the locker room and restroom of their choice, based on their 'preferred' gender identity, we knew it would cause problems.
Take for instance this high school boy who was in the locker room in his underwear getting dressed when he noticed a girl there also getting dressed. Mind you, this was the boy's locker room. So why was there a girl in the boy's locker room?
Because she 'identified' as a boy.
Obviously, this made the boy and others uncomfortable. But see, that's 'intolerant' and evidence of deep-seated bigotry according to school officials, who basically told them to get over it and try to make it as 'natural' as they can.
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Now, the school is under fire from the boy's parents who have secured an attorney and filed a lawsuit against them. CBS News reported:
A high school student is suing a Pennsylvania school district after claiming "he was exposed involuntarily" to a transgender student while changing in the school's locker room.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a self-described conservative Christian organization that "advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith," said in a statement that the student and his parents are suingBoyertown Area School District for sexual harassment and violation of his personal privacy.
The group said the school district didn't give any notice to students or parents that they would allow students to use restrooms or locker rooms of the gender they identify with.
"My client is standing up not only for himself but for others who feel bullied," said Attorney Randall Wenger, with the Independence Law Center.
The student claims he was standing in his underwear about to put his gym clothes on when he noticed a transgender student in the locker room who was undressing.
That student was a girl at birth based on external anatomy, but identifies as a boy.
"It's an egregious violation for the school to just brush off these students and tell them that their feelings don't matter and to make it 'as natural as they possibly can'," added Wenger.
The group said "Joel Doe" brought a complaint to school officials and was told he needs to "tolerate" the decision.
Breitbart added that according to the lawsuit, "The plaintiff and several other boys reported their feelings to the school's assistant principal, but were verbally assaulted by the school official for being 'intolerant.' Dr. Foley [the assistant principal] told [the plaintiff] to 'tolerate' it and to make it as 'natural' as he possibly can."
They act like the boy who felt uncomfortable needs therapy.
And that the girl who thinks that she's really a boy deep down is perfectly normal. What a backwards world we live in.
The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by EagleRising.com


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This is the time of the year for les bonnes résolutions. Start 2017 by joining a French class in the pleasant environment of the well-established French Institute, Galway's very own French school, located in the Bridge Mills. The friendly staff are fully qualified, very experienced, and native; thus ensuring all students are immersed in an authentic linguistic and cultural experience.
Do you wish to take up a new language, refresh your school French, prepare for your holidays, or even plan a new life in France? Do you need to enhance your professional profile, avail of greater job opportunities, or develop your company's potential on the French-speaking market? Or maybe your children would like to get a head start in French, or get good grades in their Junior or Leaving Cert examinations?
Then the French Institute has a course to suit you.
The French Institute offers classes for adults, companies, secondary school students, and children from four years old. The school is now enrolling for the new term, starting the week of January 16 for secondary school students and children, and January 23 for adults.
The school also runs School in France programmes for transition year and pre-Leaving Cert students, and exchange programmes for all secondary school students. These programmes are extremely successful as there is no better way to learn a language than to fully immerse oneself in the culture of a country.
Full details of courses and programmes, as well as registration, are available online at www.frenchinstitute.ie, or contact the office at 091 568925, email [email protected].


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Bay Freight are looking for a new Driver Trainer & Compliance Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced driver to take on the Role as Driver trainer & Compliance officer at Bay Freight. It is your role as Driver Trainer to ensure that all company policies and procedures are adhered to. Induct all new drivers into the company, complete all essential training for each driver to be able to complete their day to day work effectively and efficiently. At the site, there are 40+ HGV vehicles providing, collection and delivery services. The daily duties of this position will be compliance-focused.
Roles & Responsibilities of a Driver Trainer & Compliance Officer:
- Communicate effectively with the Compliance manager of the group
- Maintain and develop effective transport compliance policies and procedures
- Review and implement all training requirements, operational staff and drivers
- Analysis all commercial vehicle accidents and incidents, identify all route causes and drive corrective actions to minimise repeat failures.
- Monthly KPI's and reports to take back to the board. Including performing Audits
- Support the company with insurance claims where needed.
- Ensure the site operates within the conditions of the O'License, if required
- Assist with all changes to the current O'License, if required
- Keep up to date with all driving legislation, including drivers' hours rules, tachographs
- Ensure all vehicles are being maintained and serviced on time
- Good understanding of FORS, not essential as training will be given
- Be Confident sitting in and leading Health & Safety Board Meetings
- Train and induct all new employees on Health & Safety
- Train and induct all new Drivers on all aspects of their role
- Manage Driver Infringement within the Bay Freight Fleet
- Use the HSE portal to report all accidents, incidents both vehicle and personal.
- Driving & Warehouse duties as and when required
- Complete CPC training for drivers, training will be given
Key Skills required for the Driver Trainer & Compliance Officer:
- Comprehensive understanding of transport, drivers and plant operation legislation, transport related COSHH and Health & Safety requirements.
- Experience writing risk assessments
- Needs to be a practical and have great man management skills, willing to be hands-on and lead change from the front and comfortable working in a range of environments.
- FORS experience, you will be given full training
- Willing to undertake further training as and when needed
- Hold a full Class 1 Licence. (instructors Licence would be advantageous)
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- Pension
- Loyalty Awards (Recognises employees with 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 years' service).
- Employee Benefits Platform (Includes a Cycle to work scheme, Childcare Vouchers and access to a range of offers and discounts).
- Life Assurance
- Employee and customer referral schemes
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Phuket Phi Phi
Phuket Transport | Phuket Airport Phi Phi island transfers
Phuket Phi Phi is the key route for the main sightseeing Phuket tours, Phuket Diving, and transfer from Phuket International Airport out to the islands. This route takes you through some of Thailand's most enchanting scenery, a southern Phang Nga Bay studded with islands and rocky outcrops.
Leaving Rasada Pier at Phuket Town is the start of your Phuket Phi Phi ferry trip. The Rasada pier is a new and smart government pier on the Phuket river mouth home to a large deep water fishing fleet from Thailand, Bangladesh and Hainan China. These colourful and traditional fishing vessels put out to sea accompanied by the sounds of firecrackers giving them good luck and good fortune. Out into the Phuket town bay you can see a whole host of estuary birds dancing between the shoals of white bait.
Clearing land you come to Maiton island with the elegant Maiton Resort a remote get away paradise. Pushing on towards the Phi Phi Islands you can now see clearly on the bow of the ferry. This daily Phuket Phi Phi ferry connects the 2 islands and is the main life line. See Phuket Phi Phi ferry detail here.
Phuket Phi Phi ferry timetable
There isn't a great deal of flexibility on the Phuket Phi Phi ferry timetable as the distance between Phuket and Phi Phi is large. The ferries move out in the morning at about 8.30 am (island time often prevails)and returns at 2.30pm from Phi Phi island. The ferries that leave Phuket after midday stay on Phi Phi overnight and return at 9am in the morning. The full Phuket Phi Phi ferry timetable is here.
Phuket Airport Phi Phi island transfers
A large number of people aiming to do the Phuket Airport Phi Phi island transfers are coming in from the airport which is on the north of Phuket island. This obviously entails a trip from the airport to Rasada pier. This can be done by shared minibus of private taxi. The taxi has more flexibility but the mini bus is cheaper. The latest arrival time you can have at Phuket Airport is midday as it takes about 45 minutes to the pier.
If you arrive later than midday you will need to stay over night in Phuket. A convenient hotel in Phuket town, just 5 minutes from the pier is the 3 star Royal Phuket City. This city center hotel is just 5 minutes walk from the old town and this makes an interesting contrast to Phi Phi. Other Phuket town hotels are here and if you want to be on the beach have a look at Phuket Graceland Resort And Spa or Best Karon Hotels
Phuket Phi Phi Tour
The Phuket Phi Phi Speedboat tour dashes across sea between the islands, a 48km distance in about 45 minutes. This is a rush. Starting at the smart Royal Phuket Marina on the east coast of Phuket you get out to Phi Phi Island in no time and get to see Bamboo Island Hin Klang as well as Phi Phi Don Island and Phi Phi Ley. This Phuket Phi Phi Tour is for those who want to see and do a lot, those who want to take adventure and see where it goes.
The classic Phuket Phi Phi tour is the one day tour by large comfortable cruise boat. This tour is designed for those who want and need time to enjoy what they are seeing. This popular sightseeing tour has the option to go snorkelling on the reefs but allows you beach time to relax and let you soak in the glorious views of Phi Phi. The Sea Angel One Day Cruise is a fine tour and starts at 7.30am from your hotel.
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I lived at the beach when I adopted my dog Maggie. It was the first place I took her when she was an eight week old puppy that I could hold in one arm. She grew to be an eighty pound dog and I grew to love her with all of my heart. We have a connection, Maggie and I, and so it makes sense that she would grow to love the ocean just as much as I did.
During the first three years of her life, I took her to the beach constantly. She loved to chase the shorebirds in the sand, barking when they outsmarted her time and time again by flying into the ocean. She went swimming with me and started imitating my bodysurfing—paddling out and then turning towards the shore when a wave came to let it push her in.
Then, Maggie and I moved to Colorado. And being that it was easier to fly back to North Carolina than it was to drive, Maggie was never able to join me for any of my trips back to the beach. She's almost eleven years old now, having been through two knee surgeries and a few other weird diseases. I knew I had to take her back to see the ocean.
You see, I saved Maggie's life by adopting her as a rescue. And she, in turn, saved my life. When I was in a really bad relationship and had lost all my sense of self-survival, it was my concern for her well being that finally urged me to leave. She has been a firm presence by my side during some very hard times. During the past eleven years, she has been my constant companion and though she might have many more years left, I didn't want to wait to take her to the beach again.
And so we made the drive back across the country, this time with the car pointed towards the Atlantic Ocean. When we made it to the beach, I unhooked her leash and watched her run like a puppy towards the waves, chasing shorebirds and barking. After a few minutes, she turned back to me, tongue hanging out and her white face smiling with joy.
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Here (via the Guardian) is just another reminder of the timeless appeal of the miraculous:
The name Jesus is stamped behind the pulpit in thick blue lettering. But at the Pentecostal Church of the Miracle the headline act is not the Son of God but a six-year-old girl in a pink dress. A banner advertises "an explosion of miracles" at the entrance to the church – a converted warehouse on the impoverished outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. "She places her hands and the miracle happens." On the roof a placard promises "health, happiness and victory".
On the street outside, anxious followers quiz dapper evangelical doormen: "Is she here? Is she here?"
"She" is Alani dos Santos, a "child healer" better known as the Missionarinha or Little Missionary, who is reputedly capable of healing the sickest of congregants with a touch of her hands. Twice a week, bandage-clad and cancer-ridden believers pack this cramped "temple" in search of a miracle.
"Thousands of people have been touched," says her father, Pastor Adauto Santos, 44, a former hairdresser and car thief who runs what is one of Rio de Janeiro's most talked-about churches and believes his daughter can cure ailments from cancer to Aids and TB.
"She's a normal kid – apart from this gift," he says, adding: "It is Jesus who cures. She is an instrument."


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How to implement and drive organizational goals?
Organizational goals are the strategic objectives and the specific targets which the organization seeks to achieve by its' existence and operations. Organizational goals outline the expected outcome and guide the employee efforts.
Goals are derived out of the vision and the mission statements as visualized and dictated by the founding members and the promoters of the organization.
Goals are much more than being just a business statement
They are not merely the big words written across in business statements and depicted across boards and the email signatures. The organizational goals indicate the desired state of affairs that organization seeks to reach.
They characterize the operative deliverables amounting to financial targets, sales targets, quality targets, customer base targets, geographical reach, and integration of processes, brand enhancement, corporate social responsibility among others.
In his book, "The Analysis of Goals in Complex Organizations", Charles Perrow classified the organizational goals into
- Official Goals: The formally stated goals of an organization described in the charter and the annual reports, usually which are emphasized in public statements and media
- Operative Goals: Outcomes that the organization seeks to attain through its' operating policies and activities
- Operational Goals: This define the performance objectives and desired behaviours within an organization
While the planning for arriving upon the goals is one part, organizations struggle to implement and drive the goals.
The catch lies in sharing and communicating the goals and objectives with every employee of the organization. Every individual hired may be a bundle of infinite potential, but if not clear about his or her role and responsibilities, may never drive home the goals.
Organizations need to frequently ask a few uncomfortable questions. Whether the organizational goals are communicated clearly? How does it happen? Whether the communication is effective? Are individual employees and teams clear about their key performance deliverables?
Is it really important to align employees with the organizational goals?
In the knowledge economy, organizations derive competitive advantage from human resources. Organizational productivity and excellence are directly proportional to the performance of the employees. For organizations, the performance of its employees to their fullest potential is vital for achieving goals.
For any organization, the pay checks are one of the highest costs. If the employees' performance is sub-optimal, then the great asset transforms into a great liability.
A study conducted by Kaplan & Norton and mentioned in "The Strategy focused organization-2001, HBR" indicated that only 7% of the employees knew about the company's business strategies and their roles in order to achieve the company goals.
When organizational goals are charted and communicated to the employees, they can see the bigger picture and synchronize each and every task with the bigger goals.
Conveying a realistic, achievable and legitimate goal is paramount to the success of an organization.
So what hinders the organizations from freely communicating with employees?
We see that with the modern day work pressures, the alignment of tasks with the pre-set goals takes a backburner.
On many occasions, departments carry out their planning activity ignoring several aspects of the pre-set goals. This creates a greater gulf between the achieved targets and the set targets, posing a serious threat to achieving organizational excellence.
Communication barriers like improper reporting channels, staggered coordination among teams also play their part in derailing the effective execution of strategies.
So, what should organizations do about it?
Tasks assigned to teams and individuals must be coherent with the goals and objectives of an organization and that's where the modern day apps can be leveraged.
Communication and collaboration platforms facilitate organizations to effectively delegate work, systematize, control and get things moving swiftly in your organization.
They also take care of intimating the teams and individuals with deadlines. Hence, common problem symptoms like "Oh, the deadline is over" or "Was it me who was supposed to do this job?" can be effectively eliminated.
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The critical step towards achieving organizational excellence is linking each organizational activity with the pre-set goals and for this, Wittybee is the perfect app.
Wittybee is a team collaboration app that allows employees and departments to work together on the single platform and monitor the task progress, share information, give feedback and appreciate work.
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England har 85 sharia-domstole. Det er 17 gange flere end man havde regnet med. Fænomenet vokser voldsomt, og der er mange eksempler på, at de dømmer imod engelske love og FNs menneskerettigheder. Særligt går det hårdt ud over kvinder. Dommene afsiges bag lukkede døre, og der er derfor ingen kontrol:
"Britain has 85 sharia courts: The astonishing spread of the Islamic justice behind closed doors
At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday.
The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted.
The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles. They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts.
However, they operate behind doors that are closed to independent observers and their decisions are likely to be unfair to women and backed by intimidation, a report by independent think-tank Civitas said.
Commentators on the influence of sharia law often count only the five courts in London, Manchester, Bradford, Birmingham and Nuneaton that are run by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, a body whose rulings are enforced through the state courts under the 1996 Arbitration Act.
But the study by academic and Islamic specialist Denis MacEoin estimates there are at least 85 working tribunals.
The spread of sharia law has become increasingly controversial since its role was backed last year by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice who stepped down last October.
Dr Williams said a recognised role for sharia law seemed 'unavoidable' and Lord Phillips said there was no reason why decisions made on sharia principles should not be recognised by the national courts.
But the Civitas report said the principles on which sharia courts work are indicated by the fatwas - religious decrees - set out on websites run by British mosques.
Mr MacEoin said: 'Among the rulings we find some that advise illegal actions and others that transgress human rights standards as applied by British courts.'
Examples set out in his study include a ruling that no Muslim woman may marry a non-Muslim man unless he converts to Islam and that any children of a woman who does should be taken from her until she marries a Muslim.
Further rulings, according to the report, approve polygamous marriage and enforce a woman's duty to have sex with her husband on his demand.
The report added: 'The fact that so many sharia rulings in Britain relate to cases concerning divorce and custody of children is of particular concern, as women are not equal in sharia law, and sharia contains no specific commitment to the best interests of the child that is fundamental to family law in the UK.
'Under sharia, a male child belongs to the father after the age of seven, regardless of circumstances.'
It said: 'Sharia courts operating in Britain may be handing down rulings that are inappropriate to this country because they are linked to elements in Islamic law that are seriously out of step with trends in Western legislation.'
The study pointed out that the House of Lords ruled in a child custody case last year that the sharia rules on the matter were 'arbitrary and discriminatory'.
And a 2003 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said it was 'difficult to declare one's respect for democracy and human rights while at the same time supporting a regime based on sharia, which clearly diverges from Convention values.'
However last year Justice Minister Bridget Prentice told MPs that 'if, in a family dispute …the parties to a judgment in a sharia council wish to have this recognised by English authorities, they are at liberty to draft a consent order embodying the terms of the agreement and submit it to an English court.
'This allows judges to scrutinise it to ensure it complies with English legal tenets.'
Decisions from sharia tribunals can be presented to a family court judge for approval with no more detail than is necessary to complete a two page
form. The sharia courts in the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal are recognised as courts under the Arbitration Act. This law, which covers Jewish Beth Din courts, gives legal powers to a tribunal if all parties involved accept its authority. "


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Wacky margin layout across browsers
Hi everyone,
I am building a site which consists of two columns in CSS and Html. I am checking cross browser capadability with IE7 and Firefox. When I am coding may page then save it then open it with a browser it looks one way, then when I ftp my site up to my hosting server and check it on the web, it looks totally different. What is happening?
Also my margins are off between Firefox and IE any one know of a work around?
Thanks in advance for any help.
PS I you want to see what I am speaking of and my code the path is:
The code from my .css page is:
body {width: 850px; margin-top: 0; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;} .logo {float: left; right-padding: 15px; padding: 15px;} .link {border: 0;} #header {background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 0px;} #left {float: left; width: 100px; padding: 10px;} #right {float: right; width: 200px; padding: 5px;} #center {margin-right: 265px; margin-left; 265px; padding: 8px; border-right: #000000; text-align: center; background-color: #FFFFFF;} #footer {clear: both; text-align: center;} #footer2 {clear: both; background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 800px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 100px; text-align: center; padding: 5px;} #ctext {text-align: center;} .headingl1 {font-family: arial; font-color: #FFFFFF; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: #000099; border-color: red; padding: 2px;} #headpic {width: 844px; height: 180px; align: center;} .greet {font-size: large; font-weight: bold; color: red; text-align: center;} .greet1 {font-size: large; font-weight: bold; color: red; text-align: left;} .leftcolumn {float: left; width: 100px; margin-left: 0%; margin-right: 5%;} .middlecolumn {float: left; width: 1%; padding: 1px;} .middlecolumn2 {float: right; width: 1%; padding: 1px;} .heading1 {font-family: sans-serif; color: red; text-decoration: underline; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 12px;} #lisa {text-indent: 1in;} #lisa1 {text-indent: .50in; float:left;} .firstletter {color: #COCOCO; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;} .pheading {color: navy; font-size: large; font-weight:bold; border-bottom: 1px solid #000066;} #menu { float: right; text-align: center; } #menu div { display: block; width: 70px; float: left; border-left: 1px solid black; } #menu a:link, a:visited, a:active {text-decoration: none; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; } #menu a:hover {color: #ff0000; } .bold {font-weight: bold; font-size: medium; text-indent: 1in;} .indent {text-indent: 1in;} #navcontainer a {color: #000066; display: block; padding: 3px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000066;} #navcontainer a:visited {text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;} #navcontainer a:hover {background-color: #000066; color: #ffffff;}
Re: Wacky margin layout across browsers
well... as for the looking different from a server rather than on your computer is mostlikely an image or a link to a file that is not on your computer causing it to look a little different. you can use the <base tag in the header to set the base of the page if it is that important.
anyway as for it looking different from IE7 to Firefox... well i cant see what you mean... the only difference i saw was the text in the middle is just a hair bigger/smaller between the two and the padding between the two are off by just a fraction.
other than that the site looks great!... if there is somthing else just do a print screen and show us what you get.
Re: Wacky margin layout across browsers
Also, the mistake that I always make when developing is forgetting to refresh properly - cached pages always give me a headache.
Always double check by closing all browser windows and reopening them before a final viewing - and use CTRL-F5 not F5 to refresh on IE (dunno if that's the same in Firefox)
Re: Wacky margin layout across browsers
Actually there is a really really cool plugin for firefox for web developers... i use it all the time called "Web Developer"
here is a link:
anyway the reason i like it so much is because you can turn off caching, images, javascript, cookies, redirects, meta redirects, exc...
it also gives alot of thins like...
Add Cookie, View Cookies, Disable Images, View Responce Headers, Display window size, Resize window (to check for different screen res'es...
and my personal favorite... "View Generated Source"
if you are a javascript scripter... it can be very frustrating trying to figure out what source it is createing... this displays all html including the javascript created html.
it is way worth it!
Re: Wacky margin layout across browsers
One thing that can really make a huge difference in layout appearance accross different browsers is Padding. IE and Geicko browsers handle them completely different by placing padding outside borders and the other browsers placing padding inside borders.
Avoid using padding and use margins alone whenever possible and set padding to zero where you do not need it as some browsers automatically add padding to certain tags if padding is not defined.


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When I was a kid (yeah, a long time ago in a galaxy far away), we used to "celebrate" halloween simply…a pillow case in hand, a fun costume and a night going trick or treat in the neighborhood. Nothing too bad about that! There would be pumpkins around and sometimes some sort of stereo "soundtrack" of "scarey" sounds but everyone knew what halloween was about – kids and candy and neighborhood fun. For something a bit more "diabolical", there was Devil's night (the night before Halloween) where the older kids in the neighborhood got a bit routy but it was still only a preclude, in fact THE only preclude, to halloween. Well, I just finished walking my dog around the my new neighborhood here in Boise and it was beginning to look alot like halloween ALREADY. It has been growing over the past years, but now people are decorating their homes, yards, and blocks like many of us remember doing for Christmas. In fact, this year it looks like we have more halloween decorations up already than we had for all of last Christmas. It kinda snuck up on me…the culture is "celebrating" death, horror, skulls, fear, etc. more than Christmas. I know it has to do with a bit of political correctness…I mean, you can't talk too much about Christmas in public schools, etc. without being seen as a religous bigot but evenso, what has filled the void? Halloween? Come on! It is hard to believe sometimes. Just when your mind starts to doubt whether there really are cataclysmic cultural shifts occurring in the 21st century, you look around and they smack you in the face. I tell you, I much prefer manger scenes and reindeer and snowmen to skulls, tomb stones, huge spiders and nooses hanging from trees…which are, by the way, what is being proudly displayed in my neighborhood on October 12th of all things. Dude!
One thought on "It's beginning to look alot like…Christmas? No, Halloween!"
Come on!
I love the symbolism of Halloween.
It's so cool.
Plus Halloween is a more honest Holiday that Christmas in so many ways because people are free to express worship for what they really worship.
We put a manger out in the front yard while cheating on our taxes.
We put a nice Santa Claus in the window but don't share our gifts with anyone.
We light candles but let no one see our light.
At Halloween we decorate our houses with the true symbols of our faith; witches because we do want to bend the elements in our favor, ghosts because we are becoming less human in our pursuit of selfishness, skulls because we are dead in our sins. I personally think that is more honest and I can deal with that.
But I am a little strange, at least my wife tells me so


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July 24, 2012
Moody's has lowered its outlook for triple A-rated Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg to negative from stable, in a move that highlights the dangers the core of the currency union faces from the eurozone debt crisis.
The rating agency said the outlook had changed because of both the increased likelihood of an exit by Greece from the single currency and the need for greater financial support for struggling eurozone countries from the strongest members of the bloc.
"Moody's now has negative outlooks on those triple A-rated euro area sovereigns whose balance sheets are expected to bear the main financial burden of support," it said.
Finland's triple A-rating was affirmed with a stable outlook given the country's "unique credit profile", leaving it as the sole exception among euro area sovereigns.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg prime minister who heads the group of eurozone finance ministers, attempted to calm the waters ahead of Tuesday's market opening, issuing a statement noting the Moody's warning also confirmed "the very strong rating" of Germany and its fellow eurozone triple-As.
"We reiterate our strong commitment to ensure the stability of the euro area as a whole," Mr Juncker said.
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Getting stuff done is good!
People are nudging me to do a blog post, so apparently it's getting late already. Only twenty minutes left 'til tomorrow, so I'd better hurry with this!
Today I learned what many have learnt before me: getting stuff done feels good. Got some stupid tasks out of the way today, and made pretty decent progress on a site I'm making for a friend's portfolio. Yay, go me!
Thing is, I've got a lot of stuff I still have to do. The HTML & CSS guide, other guides, secretproject [Library Edition], job stuff, friends stuff, and then not to mention the giganormous amount of books I still have to read for school. Shit's getting unruly.
What's also getting unruly is the amount of feels I have about things. So many things with so many feels, this is really sort of getting out of hand. But that's none of your business anyway, so don't mind me here rambling. Hurry along now.
Also I got one of my sisses (female equivalent of "bros", right?) into Homestuck a while back, and she's already obsession over it. She's tearing through all those pages at the speed of however fast a bullet train is, keeps cracking injokes, and basically starts puking now whenever she sees a bucket.
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Happen Inc's Anniversary | 15 Years of Making Things Happen
Happen, Inc. was founded in 1999. Many readers of The Northsider are familiar with our mission of bringing families together through creative experiences. But what many people don't know is that Happen's original business plan had the organization opening its first doors right in the heart of Northside more than 15 years ago. As the ideas and plans started to come together, we decided to interview parents to help shape our business plan. There was a lot of discussion about the best location to kick off our new non-profit. What we found is that back in 1999, many parents did not feel comfortable driving into Northside. Our goal was to be accessible to everyone, and we knew that it was going to be difficult to make this business successful, so we needed to find a space located in an area that was welcoming for families to travel to.
We found a space in Corryville on West Corry Street, which would become the first Happen location. It was at this space we started to develop the mission, vision, and programming that we still use today. After a year, we moved to larger space on Beechmont Avenue, and soon after started to develop outreach programs like Happen's Community Canvas Program and Happen's Let's Play with Clay. Happen then expanded the programs and the facility to include Happen's Toy Lab and Happen's in school programs.
When Happen was located in Corryville, and on the east side, we were involved in many different aspects of the community, much like we are here now in Northside. We were able to build out the space and create an environment that was fun and full of surprises. But the one thing that was missing was a real sense of community.
Because we were located in a retail strip mall, our front yard was a parking lot. There is nothing wrong with being in a retail environment, but given Happen's mission, a strip mall did not support the best way for us to reach families.
About eight years ago I started to see a real positive change in Northside. I saw more and more families moving and buying homes in Northside. So we raised enough funding to provide 52 weeks of programing and opened the Northside location. We had enough funding for one year in Northside and really didn't know if we would last much beyond the 12-month commitment. The space was a originally a pharmacy starting back in 1896, and the recent tenants before Happen were a pet supplies store and Pinnokkio's Hair Salon. I always give Tina, the owner of Pinnokkio's, the credit for all the hard work in saving and restoring the original ceiling, long before Happen started to work in the space. All of the woodwork and the marble floors are also original. Happen installed six chandeliers and velvet stage curtains that have helped to transform the space into a magical art studio for families.
But the biggest attribute to our space has been the families who have become our family at Happen. The number of parents and children has soared since we opened our doors in Northside. It's been wonderful to see children grow year after year, and know that the time they have spent with their family at Happen will be a memory that will last a lifetime.
We look forward to celebrating our 15th anniversary on March 8, which kicks off six months of Happen celebrations in Greater Cincinnati. We want to celebrate with past and new visitors, and especially with the residents of Northside, who every day have helped make Happen a success. I thank everyone who has helped Happen start and continue to provide award-winning educational programs to parents and children. We have grown to provide eight different programs in Greater Cincinnati that now also includes three Happen garden locations. Our Happen motto is "community is not just where you live,™ it's how you live with other peopIe." And I see that motto come to life every day by the families and individuals who live, work and serve in our community. It has been rewarding to take the time to look back, and know that where we are today is exactly where we wanted to be 15 years ago—Happen, Inc. located right in the heart of Northside.
Don't Miss Happen's 15th Birthday!
You are invited to Happen's 15th Anniversary Celebration Saturday March 8th, 2014 – 6:00 to 8:30pm
Celebrate the past and make the future Happen as we kick off six months of Happen celebrations.
We would like to thank Lisa Kagen for providing food from Picnic and Pantry's catering menu and market for our party goers to graze upon. We're very excited to have such a wonderful Northside business take part in our big celebration.
By Tommy Rueff, Writer
Tommy Rueff is Happen, Inc.'s founder and executive director


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DARK ESSENCE RECORDS will host a club night during the INFERNO METAL FESTIVAL NORWAY featuring SEVEN IMPALE, SLEGEST, ALFAHANNE and AIRBAG.
Join us!
DATE: April 16th 2014
VENUE: Blå, Oslo, Norway
Time Band
20:20 Seven Impale
21:25 Slegest
22:30 Alfahanne
23:45 Airbag
Age limit: 20 years
Doors: from 20:00
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First Merchants Corporation (NASDAQ:FRME) and CFS Bancorp (NASDAQ: CITZ) are getting married!
On Monday, the two bank holding companies -- which own, respectively, First Merchants Bank and Citizens Financial Bank -- announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby CFS will merge into First Merchants. Pursuant to the agreement, First Merchants will "pay" CFS shareholders 0.65 shares of First Merchants for each CFS share that they own. This transaction should take place sometime in Q4.
At the conclusion of the merger, CFS and Citizens will disappear, leaving only First Merchants Bank and its parent remaining. Integration of the two banks should be completed during Q1 2014. At that time, First Merchants Bank will have combined assets of $5.4 billion, making it the second largest financial holding company headquartered in Indiana. The bank will have nearly 100 branches in Indiana, plus branches in a handful of counties in Ohio and Illinois.
The parties value the deal at approximately $115 million, based on First Merchants' closing price at the end of last week.
First Merchants shares closed 1.9% lower on the news Monday, at $15.83. Citizens, in contrast, being the party bought at the premium, saw its shares rise 8.8% to close at $10.03.


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Ohhhh Surviving, it really sounds the same. I'm so sorry you had to go through that false return. As I've said on another thread, I have friends in RL who've experienced the same. He had an OW for about 3 years. Lived with her and her son, while he totally abandoned his wife and 2 kids. He came home, was there for about 2 months and left again to live with the OW. 3 months later he had an awakening and went home to his family. He has been home for 3 years now and they are reconciled and happy. He told me, that the first time he went home he was awake, but not totally. He went home more for his family than for himself. In hindsight he says that the journey was not finished yet. He had to go back to finish it. But he can't for the life of him understand why he felt that way. He says he was a totally different man then. That his thinking was different. The last time he came back home, he did it because HE wanted it for himself. His feelings for his wife returned totally. A week before that final return he had said to his wife, that he would never return because the OW was the love of his life and he wanted to grow old with her. He keeps saying: awake is awake and there was no other option than returning home.
Stay strong, girl!
By the way ... why is my post in pink? Does anyone know? :o
Ehhhhh ... HELP! I tried to post an update, but got this message:
I swear I've not used bad language of any kind.


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Read her book you say? Here's how.
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–William Hodes, Professor of Law Emeritus, Indiana University, and coauthor, The Law of Lawyering
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An American security guard has been suspended from work at the US embassy in London after publishing a blog criticising the president-elect, Barack Obama.
The decision to remove him was taken following "mutual" agreement between his UK employer and US diplomats, an embassy spokesman told theguardian.com.
The controversial comments appeared on a website run by the security guard, who reportedly heads security teams patrolling the heavily fortified building in Mayfair, central London.
One of the comments, which has now been removed, reads: "… ideals that are the very cornerstone of American liberty and democracy could very well become an ephemeral memory of American history under the socialist leadership of the incumbent Barrack Obama.
"… The real question of concern, now that Obama is the president-elect, is what promises have Obama's camp given in return to these socialist, communist, fascist and terrorist supporting nations and special interest groups? Such accolades and endorsements do not come easy in this nuclear age."
The US embassy spokesman said: " [The security guard] is no longer working at any US government facilities pending an investigation."
Asked whether diplomats had requested his transfer, the spokesman said: "It was a mutual decision between the embassy and the company [Pedus Services, that employs him]."
Pedus Service, based in Newport, south Wales, is contracted to protect the embassy. Martin West, the general manager, said the firm was carrying out an investigation and that Hubbard had been suspended from work.
"We work very closely with our partners at the US embassy and we will continue to work through this while the investigation is carried out," he added.
The guard's website offers personal protection training using guns and knives, and claims to have taught members of the US Marines and the Metropolitan police.


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Love Bomb, described as a rock concert within a play, takes place in Fort St. John where a mother desperately searches for her missing daughter.
Experts note that stress plays a large factor in students lives as soon as they enter campus and are required to adjust to a whole new reality incredibly different from high school.
Following the story of the 1988 classic starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, the adaptation seeks to tell the story of a high school run by three popular and gorgeous girls — the Heathers — who are at the top of the social hierarchy.
Tognetti has created a photography project detailing the vulnerabilities and obstacles that individuals face on a daily basis. Her powerful project became very popular among UBC students and the general public.
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John Friend
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Team Member Since: 2017
What is your Plumbing specialty?
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The family atmosphere.
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