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Essex Senior League: Eaia Embalo double inspires Sporting Bengal United to away success at Barkingside
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Essex Senior League: Barkingside 1 Sporting Bengal United 2
Eaia Embalo's brace helped Sporting Bengal United come from a goal down to defeat local rivals Barkingside 2-1 in the Essex Senior League last night and equal their best ever points tally in the division.
It looked like Side would take a big step towards safety when they took a first-half lead, but Michael Walther's men couldn't build on it and are still in trouble.
Bengal began the brighter of the two teams and nearly went in front on two occasions before Barkingside opened the scoring.
Roddy Lemba dribbled into the area and although he appeared to lose the ball, he was able to get a shot off and fire home inside 15 minutes.
Imrul Gazi's team nearly conceded another soon after, but Ataaib Khan denied Lemba on this occasion and then the Mile End Stadium club ramped up the pressure.
Embalo and Ashaan Siddik created numerous opportunities, however it remained 1-0 at half time.
Bengal continued to push for an equaliser and former Barkingside attacker Steve Carvell went close, but it took until midway through the second half for the visitors to eventually level.
A quick break and mistake at the back from Side handed Embalo the chance to lob home goalkeeper Mikel Breckenridge and he duly delivered.
Both teams were desperate for the three points now and Barkingside were left to rue a missed opportunity when Khan spilled a cross, but they couldn't force the ball home and it came back to haunt them.
Breckenridge saved a free kick from Bengal captain Freddy Tandon, but Embalo was on hand to tap home the rebound and secure an important win for the visitors.
Gazi's men have now equalled their best-ever points total in the Essex Senior League and they still have two games left.
Bengal remain 13th in the table on 46 points, while Barkingside are 16th with 38 and only four points ahead of the bottom four.
Next up for the Mile End Stadium outfit is a tough encounter at home to promotion-chasers Redbridge.
Meanwhile, Side will seek a response when they face landlords Ilford at Cricklefield Stadium on Saturday.
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Adams, C. A., Blumenthal, A., Fernández-Juricic, E., Bayne, E., & St. Clair, C. C. (2019). Effect of anthropogenic light on bird movement, habitat selection, and distribution: a systematic map protocol. Environ Evid, 8(S1), 13.
Abstract: Anthropogenic light is known or suspected to exert profound effects on many taxa, including birds. Documentation of bird aggregation around artificial light at night, as well as observations of bird reactions to strobe lights and lasers, suggests that light may both attract and repel birds, although this assumption has yet to be tested. These effects may cause immediate changes to bird movement, habitat selection and settlement, and ultimately alter bird distribution at large spatial scales. Global increases in the extent of anthropogenic light contribute to interest by wildlife managers and the public in managing light to reduce harm to birds, but there are no evidence syntheses of the multiple ways light affects birds to guide this effort. Existing reviews usually emphasize either bird aggregation or deterrence and do so for a specific context, such as aggregation at communication towers and deterrence from airports. We outline a protocol for a systematic map that collects and organizes evidence from the many contexts in which anthropogenic light is reported to affect bird movement, habitat selection, or distribution. Our map will provide an objective synthesis of the evidence that identifies subtopics that may support systematic review and knowledge gaps that could direct future research questions. These products will substantially advance an understanding of both patterns and processes associated with the responses of birds to anthropogenic light.
Keywords: Animals; BirdsDepartment of Biological Science, University of Alberta, CW 405, Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada
|Agarwal, N., Srivastava, S., Malik, S., Rani, S., & Kumar, V. (2015). Altered light conditions during spring: Effects on timing of migration and reproduction in migratory redheaded bunting (Emberiza bruniceps). Biological Rhythm Research, 46(5), 647–657.
Agbaria, S., Haim, A., Fares, F., & Zubidat, A. E. (2019). Epigenetic modification in 4T1 mouse breast cancer model by artificial light at night and melatonin – the role of DNA-methyltransferase. Chronobiol Int, 36(5), 629–643.
Abstract: Currently, one of the most disputed hypotheses regarding breast cancer (BC) development is exposure to short wavelength artificial light at night (ALAN) as multiple studies suggest a possible link between them. This link is suggested to be mediated by nocturnal melatonin suppression that plays an integral role in circadian regulations including cell division. The objective of the research was to evaluate effects of 1 x 30 min/midnight ALAN (134 micro Wcm(-2), 460 nm) with or without nocturnal melatonin supplement on tumor development and epigenetic responses in 4T1 tumor-bearing BALB/c mice. Mice were monitored for body mass (Wb) and tumor volume for 3 weeks and thereafter urine samples were collected at regular intervals for determining daily rhythms of 6-sulfatoxymelatonin (6-SMT). Finally, mice were sacrificed and the tumor, lungs, liver, and spleen were excised for analyzing the total activity of DNA methyltransferases (DNMT) and global DNA methylation (GDM) levels. Mice exposed to ALAN significantly reduced 6-SMT levels and increased Wb, tumor volume, and lung metastasis compared with controls. These effects were diminished by melatonin. The DNMT activity and GDM levels showed tissue-specific response. The enzymatic activity and GDM levels were lower in tumor and liver and higher in spleen and lungs under ALAN compared with controls. Our results suggest that ALAN disrupts the melatonin rhythm and potentially leading to increased BC burden by affecting DNMT activity and GDM levels. These data may also be applicable to early detection and management of BC by monitoring melatonin and GDM levels as early biomarker of ALAN circadian disruption.
Alaasam, V. J., Duncan, R., Casagrande, S., Davies, S., Sidher, A., Seymoure, B., et al. (2018). Light at night disrupts nocturnal rest and elevates glucocorticoids at cool color temperatures. J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol, 329(8-9), 465–472.
Abstract: Nighttime light pollution is quickly becoming a pervasive, global concern. Since the invention and proliferation of light-emitting diodes (LED), it has become common for consumers to select from a range of color temperatures of light with varying spectra. Yet, the biological impacts of these different spectra on organisms remain unclear. We tested if nighttime illumination of LEDs, at two commercially available color temperatures (3000 and 5000 K) and at ecologically relevant illumination levels affected body condition, food intake, locomotor activity, and glucocorticoid levels in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). We found that individuals exposed to 5000 K light had higher rates of nighttime activity (peaking after 1 week of treatment) compared to 3000 K light and controls (no nighttime light). Birds in the 5000 K treatment group also had increased corticosterone levels from pretreatment levels compared to 3000 K and control groups but no changes in body condition or food intake. Individuals that were active during the night did not consequently decrease daytime activity. This study adds to the growing evidence that the spectrum of artificial light at night is important, and we advocate the use of nighttime lighting with warmer color temperatures of 3000 K instead of 5000 K to decrease energetic costs for avian taxa.
Alabia, I., Dehara, M., Saitoh, S. - I., & Hirawake, T. (2016). Seasonal Habitat Patterns of Japanese Common Squid (Todarodes Pacificus) Inferred from Satellite-Based Species Distribution Models. Remote Sensing, 8(11), 921.
Abstract: The understanding of the spatio-temporal distributions of the species habitat in the marine environment is central to effectual resource management and conservation. Here, we examined the potential habitat distributions of Japanese common squid (Todarodes pacificus) in the Sea of Japan during a four-year period. The seasonal patterns of preferential habitat were inferred from species distribution models, built using squid occurrences detected from night-time visible images and remotely-sensed environmental factors. The predicted squid habitat (i.e., areas with high habitat suitability) revealed strong seasonal variability, characterized by a reduction of potential habitat, confined off of the southern part of the basin during the winterâspring period (DecemberâMay). Apparent expansion of preferential habitat occurred during summerâautumn months (JuneâNovember), concurrent with the formation of highly suitable habitat patches in certain regions of the Sea of Japan. These habitat distribution patterns were in response to changes in oceanographic conditions and synchronous with seasonal migration of squid. Moreover, the most important variables regulating the spatio-temporal patterns of suitable habitat were sea surface temperature, depth, sea surface height anomaly, and eddy kinetic energy. These variables could affect the habitat distributions through their impacts on growth and survival of squid, local nutrient transport, and the availability of favorable spawning and feeding grounds.
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Another round of NFL owners meetings has begun with the Giants' John Mara criticizing Odell Beckham Jr.
Asked about his controversial star wide receiver Tuesday in New York, Mara said: "I wish he would create the headlines by his play on the field as opposed to what he says and what he does off the field. I think he needs to do a little more playing and a little less talking."
Beckham broke his months long string of model teammate behavior earlier this month when in an ESPN interview he voiced his frustration about the organization and the offense, some of the comments coming across as shots at Eli Manning. The remarks reportedly resulted in the team fining Beckham.
Mara's comments are particularly surprising considering the Giants just signed Beckham to a five-year, $90 million contract extension less than two months ago.
They are also reminiscent of remarks Mara made about Beckham when NFL owners met in Orlando, Florida, in March, when the Giants co-owner said, "I'm tired of answering questions about Odell's behavior and what the latest incident is."
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That meeting happened shortly after a video went viral showing Beckham in bed with an aspiring French model who had a credit card and a plate with lines of a white substance on it. Mara also previously expressed his frustration about Beckham's dog-peeing touchdown celebration last season.
The three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver also had another sideline tantrum during Thursday night's blowout loss to the Eagles, marching to the locker room before the end of the first half and slamming his head into a giant cooling fan during a second-half fit.
The Giants are 1-5 this season. Beckham has caught 45 passes for 506 yards with one touchdown.
Mara also defended Manning on Tuesday.
"We still believe in him, but everybody needs to do their jobs in order for us to be successful, and right now that's not happening," he said. "I know he's the punching bag right now, but a lot of guys need to play better when you're 1-5."


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WASHINGTON - Reigning US Open champion Marin Cilic and 2014 US Open runner-up Kei Nishikori advanced to the quarter-finals of the ATP and WTA Washington Open with straight-set triumphs Thursday.
Japanese second seed Nishikori, the highest-ranked player in the field after Britain's Andy Murray crashed out in his opening match, never faced a break point in dispatching Argentina's Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-4, after 92 minutes.
"I'm very confident and I'm feeling really good," Nishikori said.
Croatian third seed Cilic, who faced a possible rematch with Nishikori in the semi-finals, outfought 32nd-ranked American Sam Querrey 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/3) at the US Open hardcourt warm-up event.
"I'm pretty confident about my game," Cilic said. "I'm 30 percent better at this moment than last year." French fourth seed Richard Gasquet, coming off a Wimbledon semi-final run, was upset by 37th-ranked American Jack Sock 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 after two hours and 33 minutes.
"It took me a while to get into a rhythm," Sock said. "I knew if I stayed close and kept fighting I would have a chance." Women's top seed Ekaterina Makarova of Russia also reached the last eight, defeating Britain's Naomi Broady 6-4, 7-6 (7/2). She next plays Romanian sixth seed Irina-Camelia Begu.
Nishikori, who seeks his third title of the year after Memphis and Barcelona and the 10th of his career, silenced speculation in Japan he might be becoming a father, saying, "I hope one day, but not yet." Fifth-ranked Nishikori broke Mayer for a 4-3 edge and held twice more to take the first set in 59 minutes, then broke again in the penultimate game of the match when the South American netted a forehand volley after having saved two other break points.
"He was returning well. That's why I could only break him twice," Nishikori said.
The 25-year-old Asian number one will next face Australia's Sam Groth, who fired 20 aces to defeat Spanish seventh seed Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 6-4 in 59 minutes.
"I'm going to have to serve well, make him feel uncomfortable. I'm going to have to attack the net and move well," Groth said. "I'm going to play my style. I have nothing to lose." The two have never played, although Groth - ranked a career-best 62nd - will get some pointers thanks to a shared coach with Nishikori's second-round victim, Aussie James Duckworth, and Nishikori has seen the ball smasher in action.
"Never easy to play big servers," Nishikori said. "But I'm returning well. I'll concentrate on serving well and try to take advantage of my small chances."
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Cilic improved to 4-0 all-time against Querrey, their prior matchup a 2012 Wimbledon epic third-rounder Cilic won 17-15 in the fifth set. Cilic rolled to a 6-1 edge in each tie-breaker to win.
"In the tie-breakers, I was very focused to put all the returns in and be as focused as possible to make him play as many strokes as possible," Cilic said. "The results came out with two comfortable tie-breakers but if one or two things go wrong it could have been pretty tight." Blocking Cilic's path to his second semi-final of the year is Alexander Zverev, who rallied past Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. The 18-year-old German became the youngest Washington men's quarter-finalist since a 17-year-old Andy Roddick in 2000 by eliminating the 2012 Washington winner.
Next up for Sock is 55th-ranked countryman Steve Johnson, who dumped Bulgarian sixth seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-3, 1-6, 6-3.


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Mindfulness and Collective Intelligence –
Building cultures of collaboration
Many organisations have done a great deal to help teams function well. Most of this has been around the WHAT – roles, processes, tasks, tools. This has led to many organisations having team competence. Nonetheless, everyone still experiences many dysfunctional teams. Most of the problem now is in the HOW – how teams interact with each other on a human level.
While many acknowledge the dysfunction, they are blind to their own role in this – how constant distraction, interruptions and lack of presence lead to a team atmosphere that lacks emotional safety and engagement. Mindfulness in teams can profoundly shift this – simply through noticing and acknowledging this deep level of humanity that exists in our interactions and which affects outcomes.
Addressing this with simple rituals and habits leads to a pronounced shift in the collective intelligence of teams.
By Liane Stephan and Chris Tamdjidi (Kalapa Leadership Academy GmbH)
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In most organisations, no one solves problems by themselves anymore. Most of what people do, in fact 99,5% of most people's experience in large organisations is one of collaboration.
While many are still stuck in a paradigm of looking at individual KPIs, most of the studies on this topic conclude that knowledge worker productivity should be assessed on the team level, because:
"Knowledge work is not an individual task, but usually performed in collaboration with others on complex tasks that they cannot perform alone."
"Team productivity is not simply the sum of individual productivity."
"Changes in productivity of an individual knowledge worker may not affect the productivity of other knowledge workers." (sources see at the end of this page)
So, if value is generated at the team level, it is important to look at how a team functions. In the last 20 years, we have learned a tremendous amount about managing projects, getting stuff done, and designing effective processes for teams. At the same time, many teams do not work effectively, and they know it. Increasingly, the problem is not a lack of good team roles and definition – increasingly the gap is somewhere else.
There have been a number of waves of research into team performance – and most of them have come up with the same conclusions. It is not the composition of the team, or the functional experience of the team members that makes a difference – but rather how teams members interact with one another.
In our more and more volatile, uncertain and disruptive world we need diverse perspectives to solve problems. Teams that only focus on individual knowledge and do not bring the wisdom of the team together are less able to respond in an agile manner, to drive innovation and as a result are less productive.
Mindfulness plays a key role in cultivating collective intelligence in teams.
What drives team collaboration and increases performance?
It is useful to look in a little more detail at some of this research. Initial research by Edgar Schein was followed on by work from Amy Edmundson – yielding strong evidence that emotional or psychological safety was one of the key determinants of whether a team was able to deal with uncertainty and learn and perform well.
A paper in Harvard Business Review by Druskat and Wolff laid out the importance of consciously addressing this:
"No one would dispute the importance of making teams work more effectively. But most research about how to do so has focused on identifying the task processes that distinguish the most successful teams—that is, specifying the need for cooperation, participation, commitment to goals, and so forth. The assumption seems to be that, once identified, these processes can simply be imitated by other teams, with similar effect. It's not true."
"Group emotional intelligence isn't a question of dealing with a necessary evil—catching emotions as they bubble up and promptly suppressing them. Far from it. It's about bringing emotions deliberately to the surface and understanding how they affect the team's work. It's also about behaving in ways that build relationships both inside and outside the team and that strengthen the team's ability to face challenges."
More recently, there have been two major re-examinations of this. In his article "The New Science of Building Great Teams", based on a detailed analysis of actually measured team interaction, Sandy Pentland stated: "we have discovered the best type of team members are democratic with their time - communicating with everyone equally and making sure all team members get a chance to contribute. They listen as much as or more than they talk and are usually very engaged with whomever they're listening to."
Google also set out to re-examine what drives team performance, focusing on such issues as IQ or functional experience. After a data intensive analysis of the performance of 170 teams they came to the following conclusion: "We were dead wrong," the company said "the best teams respect one another's emotions and are mindful that all members should contribute to the conversation equally. It has less to do with who is in a team, and more with how a team's members interact with one another."
As Google found out in their study emotional safety is a prerequisite of teams to collaborate in an efficient way.
The interesting question is - if this has been obvious to the world of research and in fact to most people in the business world for 30+ years - why it is still such a problem to establish emotional safety in groups? In our eyes there are a number of hurdles that hinder emotional safety and thus have an impact on the quality of collaboration.
We misunderstand our emotions
First and foremost, there is still a deep misunderstanding of what emotions are. The general attitude, that we experience in our training, is that emotions are somehow irrational, difficult, and to be avoided, and have no real place in a logical, professional working world. From this point of view, they are either something to be suppressed – or something to be managed away. But actually, in their most simple form, emotions are simply patterned changes in the body in response to particular triggers. They have evolved to ensure our physical, emotional and social survival. So fundamentally, emotions transport information – which we need to listen to. Emotions in groups transport information as to what is important for a healthy emotional and social collaboration – so actually, rather than being suppressed or avoided, they serve as the indicator for how we can actually create a healthy collaborative culture.
We are stressed and mindless
Another endemic reason as to why this topic is so elusive is that people are simply stressed – and thus have a very narrow focus, and are indeed mindless, not noticing the obvious. In one company we have worked with, when quizzed, senior managers said that emotional distress, unnecessary conflicts, friction and unhappiness were eating up 30+% of the capacities of their teams. When asked how long this has been going on for, they said 18 months. When asked when was the first time they talked about this the answer was – today! If this company of engineers had identified a process or technical problem that was costing that much capacity, they would have solved it in weeks. But at some level, despite seeing this, the background stress and pressure were so high, that there was actually no real time to address this and talk about this. In a way they were blind to this glaring issue.
This lack of noticing is often exacerbated with the fragmentation that people experience in meetings – half the people are mentally checked out, or checking their messages on their devices. In a meeting they simply do not notice how their fragmented and inattentive behaviour actually contributes both to a lack of task focus, and to emotional safety. It is hard to feel emotionally safe with a senior person who is not listening, or who is having a conversation on the side, while we are making a presentation that we've spend weeks on.
We experience a lack of skills in emotional regulation
And finally, many people are actually poor at naming, accepting and working with their emotions. In exceptional situations (very positive or very negative) emotions are dealt with, but beyond that there is no real appreciation or ability to actually work with emotions. This is no-one`s fault – we simply have not learned it.
It is somewhat as if a group of individuals are watching Barcelona play football. Everyone has some understanding of the game, and how the game should be played – but they simply lack the skills to do this themselves. Working with emotions is somewhat akin to a process of becoming literate in a language – at first we only have words for the most basic emotions. As we become literate, we can begin to name and experience 100s of emotions, and pick them up directly.
How can we benefit from emotional intelligence?
Anchoring practices of emotional intelligence in teams
So, while many companies, managers and teams spend a lot of time defining roles, responsibilities, goals and processes of teams, they simply spend no time discussing and developing the processes of emotional safety in teams. This is a serious omission – anchoring such practices is just as important as defining roles, tasks etc.
Once we acknowledge that we have to anchor habits of emotional intelligence in teams, it is worth thinking about how to do it. Mindfulness plays a central role here.
Mindfulness and the intelligence of emotions
Mindfulness is a practice of noticing and experiencing what is going on inside of us and around us. Many people think mindfulness is just a practice of relaxation, but this is a misunderstanding. When we practise mindfulness, we are learning to not only rest our attention on the breath – and thus indeed relax – but also consciously direct our attention and cultivate self-awareness – in particular, in the form of body awareness. This leads to a heightened body awareness – and since emotions take place primarily in the body (and not in the head), a heightened ability to notice, become aware of and regulate emotions.
We also heighten our empathy through mindfulness practice – feeling what others feel and thus being able to understand their experience.
When we begin to notice our emotions, and those of others, through our heightened mindfulness, the point is not to manage them or to make them go away. The point is actually to be curious about them and learn to accept them. What is the emotion telling me? Emotions always contain intelligence – they are algorithms from our evolutionary history and they provide us with valuable information. Take some examples:
- Irritation before lunchtime – many notice that people get more irritable when they are hungry. Evolutionary history has taught us that making complex decisions takes energy – and we take worse decisions when we do not have the energy we need. So, irritation is a sensible response to continued demand for complex thinking when we our energy level is low. The point is not to supress the irritation – but to notice it – and take a break!
- Resentment at unfairness – humans survived in clans. Clan-based society was very egalitarian in many (but not all) ways – simply because everyone needed to play their part to ensure survival. In reverse, this also meant that if not everyone was taken care of, so that they could play their part in ensuring our survival, the chances of the survival of a group would decline. So, when a team leader is being unfair to someone, our emotional instincts know that this will cause withdrawal of that one person, and heightened emotional uncertainty among the others – meaning they will also not give fully. This will lead to a suboptimal outcome. So again, the emotion of resentment at unfair treatment – or even the anger someone else feels when they see someone being treated unfairly – has a good evolutionary basis
All emotions contain such intelligence – even if this might not be obvious on first sight. But fundamentally learning to accept and be curious about emotions leads to a tremendous emotional literacy. And it is also interesting to know that since the job of the emotion is to be noticed (if the information the emotion contains is not noticed, then it has not fulfilled its purpose), research has shown that the ability to precisely label the emotion (and notice the precise body changes associated with it) actually immediately reduces its intensity.
This is true for individuals – as well as groups. Just saying – hey, seems like we are hungry – immediately makes everyone drop their irritation and notice their hunger. This is why a leader can create a lot of emotional safety, just by naming emotions in the team and allowing them to be.
Mindfulness is a crucial component in noticing and working with emotions – both among individuals as well as among teams.
It is easy to see this if we consider the absence of mindfulness. Imagine your company decided emotional safety was crucial, and made a poster about this for every meeting room. Would this change anything?
No, because stuck in their emotional states, without actually noticing it, no one would be actually able to change their behaviour. And even if everyone went through training on the importance of emotional safety – there is a high likelihood of everyone forgetting immediately.
So how can we overcome this? Our brain is neuroplastic – it does respond to repeated practice. And it's repeated practice which anchors this ability in ourselves and in our teams. It´s like learning to walk or to play the piano. The repetition creates new pathways in our brain, which become easier to travel along after a while.
Anchoring habits in teams
Having understood how important emotional safety is (and turn-taking, social cohesion, etc), and knowing how difficult it is for people to change their habits, the first step could be to consciously anchor habits of mindfulness in teams.
Why habits of mindfulness? Because they are simple behaviours that teams can adopt, which in their nature bring out aspects of mindfulness – attentional focus, positive outlook, emotional awareness and integration.
Habits of attention and focus – The starting point has to be to establish habits of attention. This is the basis for individual mindfulness – learning to manage our attention- , and is also the basis for mindfulness of a team. If we look at the working day of many people, a great deal of time is spent in meetings with people repeating themselves, not being aware of what others have just said, or not really listening when people are speaking. Many people are on their devices, or arrive late. As a team it is important to cultivate skills of listening – really hearing someone's perspective, as well as also hearing what is behind the words, what is the motivation? Establishing specific habits around devices, attention, side conversations etc. can be very helpful too.
Habits of Care and positivity – teams don't function well just because the right people are together and the right topics are on the agenda. Team work has become so interconnected, and also complex, that the human engagement, joy and learning of team members is a central aspect of success. When people feel trust, efficacy and appreciation they engage and give – when they do not, they hold off, and divert their energies to other things. So demonstrating care in team work can be very important to improving the sense of bonding and community. In today's world we often focus on the urgent and the negative – meaning that our experience is coloured by this. So it is also helpful to consciously shift to the positive as a team – noticing what has gone well, achievements, and appreciating each other.
Habits of emotional awareness – Emotions influence much of what goes on between us, and also significantly influences the effectiveness of teams. But we usually only deal with emotions when they come up, and try to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Instead it is important to have a process by which we regularly allow emotions to surface – to allow them to naturally be a part of what it means to work together, but also ensure that they do not dominate. Establishing habits such as a Check In or a Check Out, doing specific exercises to notice team emotions, and the emotional habits of the team can also be very helpful.
Habits of Integration – Good teamwork is dependent on the EQUAL engagement of all. A number of studies have shown that, interestingly enough, equality in turn-taking was a high predictor of the collective intelligence of teams. This is especially important in global teams where the different nationalities and cultures represented have very different viewpoints, which can help understand a problem better and develop a solution which is globally more robust. Often however such meetings are in asynchronous settings – with some people in a room, who usually dominate and one or two unfortunate team members at the end of a phone line or on a skype link, trying to follow what is going on. So consciously ensuring equality and integration of all can also anchor collective intelligence in a team.
Mindfulness in Teams
We have worked a great deal with anchoring mindfulness in teams. This is a process of both, individual mindfulness and anchoring habits of mindfulness in the teams. Naturally there are some challenges in this:
- Not everyone might be keen on mindfulness – and some even downright sceptical. So whereas in many situations, when people take part in a mindfulness programme they have explicitly chosen to be there, in a team mindfulness situation, not everyone has the same level of interest. Our experience is that emphasising the science, discussing the experience of people and encouraging participants to trust their own level of engagement with mindfulness always addresses this.
- Some teams, or especially team leaders, might really want to engage in a process of anchoring mindfulness in teams – but there are very pressing operative problems or simmering conflicts in the team. These need to be addressed – we cannot bypass these problems. When working with teams, mindfulness facilitators need to have sufficient skills of dealing with team processes.
"While there are challenges in implementing mindfulness, the effects can be very strong."
Anchoring habits in teams can have a long-term impact. An individual has varying amounts of discipline – which can fade. But once habits are anchored in teams, they tend to reinforce each other – and even deepen. We have taken measurements of team dynamics at t1 (the start of a training), at t2 (the end of a training) and at t3 (3 months after the end) and seen that there has not only been an improvement from t1 to t2, but also from t2 to t3.
Collective intelligence of teams
Woolley and collaborators developed a series of collective intelligence tests to assess the collective intelligence of teams. Just like an individual IQ test essentially serves as the predictor of someone's ability to solve a variety of problems in the future, so too a CI measure serves as the predictor of a team´s ability to solve problems. The research evidence has been continually strong, that this is very much driven by the social sensitivity of team members and equality of turn-taking. We have now used the tests developed by Woolley and others and used them with teams at t1 and t2 times, and seen a strong improvement in the ability of teams to solve problems.
Connecting as humans
Anchoring habits of mindfulness in teams brings out our deep humanity. This is not an obstacle to working in teams, but actually nourishes and strengthens us. It is important to place this at the centre of such work. Anchoring mindfulness in teams will not work if the sole aim is to instrumentalise it to make people work better or improve performance. This will be felt immediately. But if there is a genuine realisation that we simply work better if we take care of each ourselves and each other, and that modern work is deeply human, then anchoring such practices can really help a team connect, listen, care for each other, and flourish.
"The aim of Mindfulness is not to make people work better but to bring out our deep humanity. This strengthens collaboration"
What does the experience tell us?
We were asked by a major automotive company to conduct training for a number of core development teams. The teams were in a very challenging situation, under continual pressure to deliver results. This had led to an endemic atmosphere of lack of emotional safety and very high stress levels. They were very open to working on their resilience, and were also conscious of how much the stress was affecting them. In the training we focused on mindfulness, resilience and collective intelligence and the results were measured by tests which were developed by the MIT. The outcome – an almost 30% improvement in the team's ability to solve the complex problems in the collective intelligence tasks.
Final thoughts
From our point of view, the practice of mindfulness and the focus on emotional intelligence increase transparency and awareness of our strengths. Attention and focus are key to drive innovation and change. If we collaborate and put all our wisdom together we find better solutions and use the full power of our collective intelligence. To grow.
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Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups, Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff
Managing the risk of learning: Psychological safety in work teams Amy C. Edmondson
The New Science of Building Great Teams. Alex "Sandy" Pentland
Project Aristotle: ReWork with Google
Evidence for collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups
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When I looked closely at the numbers from Sunday's marathon, I was kind of blown away.
Yeah, for most of the race, I looked like this:
^George took these pictures in the first couple of miles of the marathon (before he went to do triathlon swim training in the ocean!).
Here's how the marathon went in chunks of miles (hope you like to see a bunch of mile splits):
Miles 1-5: 8:27, 8:19, 8:23, 8:19, 8:15. Did a great job not to go out too fast. I knew that I certainly didn't need to worry about being behind or anything… I'd just have to worry more if I was running anything below 8:10.
Miles 6-10: 8:13, 8:15, 8:14, 8:19, 8:18. Pretty good. I was going a teeny bit faster than necessary, but there was a very slight downhill in this part. I tried not to follow behind anyone, in case they sped up and I blindly followed.
Miles 11-15: 8:17, 8:17, 8:20, 8:12, 8:32. I was cruisin'. Didn't look at the time too much. Didn't freak out at certain times. It's all good, friendo. Keep chuggin' along.
Miles 16-20: Things got interesting. There were some nice rollers (but pretty gentle). It was also when we got to run along the ocean on the PCH. Just didn't try to speed up on the downhill. Even effort was my goal. 8:33, 8:18, 8:26, 8:30, 9:04.
Miles 21-23: One of the reasons why I had a feeling I wouldn't be PR-ing is because of what comes at the end… some formidable hills (compared to the flatness of the farmland of the beginning). I walked for two or three portions (around 20 seconds each?), but I tried to just keep the effort the same, and not gun it on the downhill. Also, by this portion, the quads were kinda sorta wrecked. 9:09, 8:40, 8:45.
Miles 24-26.2: In other marathons past, I would already have hit the wall and started having trouble maintaining a 9:45 pace… and this is on flat/downhill finishes. I would have at least one mile split that is in the double-digit… but I was smiling and enjoying the race. wEIRdsiES. Totally new to me to feel so great at the end. Also, there was a lady who took quite a tumble, and I ran over, stopped, helped her up, dusted off her shoulders/back, and made sure she was okay to run. Turns out that she is visually impaired and she's used to falling. Even still, I ran with her a bit before settling back into a good pace. 9:19, 8:44, 8:22, 6:58.
Offical time: 3:43:03 (about 20-something seconds more than what my Garmin read. Oh, well).
3rd in age division, 13th female overall.
Pause for a more serious note:
Numbers. Sometimes we can get caught up in it, or even forget what it's telling us.
When the news flashes a number of soldiers who were killed in combat, or statistics on injured soldiers, or numbers of soldiers returning home, we forget that there are faces and lives behind those numbers. Yesterday was Veterans' Day, and I appreciate those who are serving/have served this country. Not just as a civilian, but I have to remember that they are my brothers and my sisters.
To all who are serving/have served in the armed forces: Thank you. You are all heroes!
To all who have a close family member who is serving/has served in the military: You are heroes, too (I'm sure it's tough holdin' down the fort when a member of the family is serving far from home)!
Okay. Back to more meaningless things…
So what does the outcome of the race tell me? I need to trust in my training. If I know I need to run 8:15's to PR, then there's no need to try to bank some time in the beginning by running faster. Also, the couple of miles (especially in the beginning) that are a bit slower won't screw me over… what would be my undoing is if I go out too fast.
You hear it, you read it, and it's still hard to do it sometimes… "Don't go out too fast, blah blah blah." Well I finally listened to it, and I can see why it is so very true.
Then again, I wasn't in race mode. I just wanted to test out everything… fueling with gel about every five miles, taking in electrolyte drink at every station (except only water when taking in gel), and sticking in a certain range for the pace, never going below a certain pace (even if I felt awesome). It gives me confidence for next year when I try to go for a big PR and a BQ 🙂
So what's next?
Berkeley half marathon in less than two weeks. That one will be for fun (translation: I'm bringing my camera with me). And then a 10K on Thanksgiving morning!
Besides that, even if I didn't race the 26.2, I still covered that much ground, so I will need to give my body a break. Respect the distance, yeah? I'll try to stick with elliptical-ing and cycling for a few days.
Do you have a GPS-timing watch to study every component of your race afterwards? (Yes. My Garmin FR 405 is my bff and I study the mile splits and everything to see what went right/wrong).
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Quote "It is not in the interest of OPEC producers to cut their production, whatever the price is. Whether it goes down to $20 a barrel...is irrelevant."I really don't understand that way of thinking. Is he saying that the non-OPEC producers won't cooperate with OPEC so there's no way to control supply and boost price?
"It is not in the interest of OPEC producers to cut their production, whatever the price is. Whether it goes down to $20 a barrel...is irrelevant."
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Ali al-Omair said OPEC did not need to cut production and would not hold an emergency meeting ahead of its next scheduled talks in June. "I don't think we need to cut. We gave a chance to others (and) they were not willing to do so," he said, referring to contacts with non-OPEC producers before OPEC's meeting in November in Vienna.There, OPEC kept its target output of 30 million barrels per day (bpd) unchanged, leaving the market to balance itself without the group's intervention. That stance was seen as a shift from a longstanding policy in which OPEC powerhouse Saudi Arabia has acted as a swing supplier.Asked about possible cooperation between members of OPEC, which include the world's lowest-cost producers, and non-member countries, Naimi replied: "The best thing for everybody is to let the most efficient producers produce".
He also said that OPEC's decision would ultimately help the world economy. "Current prices do not encourage investment in any form of energy, but they stimulate global economic growth, leading ultimately to an increase in global demand and a slowdown in the growth of supplies," he said.
If the Saudi goal is to create a new "OPEC" we could easily see higher oil prices in a few months.All the Saudis need to do is to convince most of the other producers to agree to limit production. They aren't likely to get 100% compliance but the countries least likely to cooperate can't supply even half of demand. Countries like Venezuela will likely prefer to sell some oil at a high price rather than to sell no oil at all.I suspect agreements won't be as public this time around.
...............So what do these facts mean for America? First, they make the fault-lines obvious. The old slogan "what's good for GM is good for America" now rings hollow. Capitalists seek not utility through consumption but more power through redistribution. And they achieve their goal not by raising investment and fueling growth, but by allowing unemployment to rise and jobs to become scarce. Clearly, we are not "all in the same boat." There is a distributional struggle for power, and this struggle is not a mere "sociological" issue. It is the center of our political economy, and we need a new theoretical framework to understand it.Second, macroeconomic policy, whether old or new, cannot offset the aggregate consequences of this distributional struggle. Not by a long shot. Till the late 1970s, the budget deficit was small, yet America boomed. And why? Because progressive taxation, transfer payments and social programs made the distribution of income less unequal. By the early 1980s, this relationship inverted. Although the budget deficit ballooned and interest rates fell, economic growth decelerated. New methods of upward redistribution have caused the share of the Top 1 percent to zoom, making stagnation the new norm.Third, and finally, Washington can no longer hide behind the bush. On the one hand, the concentration of America's income and assets, having been boosted by large post-crisis bailouts and massive quantitative easing, is now at record levels. On the other hand, long-term unemployment remains at post-war highs while job growth is at a standstill. Eventually, this situation will be reversed. The only question is whether it will be reversed through a new policy trajectory or through the calamity of systemic crisis.
Texans Discover Oil Grows on Olive Trees as Crude Dropshttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-29/texans-discover-oil-growing-on-olive-trees-as-crude-drop-deepens.html
The current difficulty is the cost of entry into the market and the regulatory hurdles that prevent a private supplier to avoid the necessary offsets of stranded costs due to utility expenses in the generation/distribution mix.
Oil traded near the lowest since 2009 amid speculation that U.S. crude inventories will stay at the highest for the time of year in at least three decades.West Texas Intermediate fell as much as 1.7 percent before erasing losses. U.S. stockpiles are projected to remain at 387.2 million barrels last week, the highest for the period in data going back to 1982, a Bloomberg News survey shows before government data tomorrow. U.S. oil drillers last week idled the most rigs since 2012, Baker Hughes Inc. said on its website yesterday.......
Oil took another hit Wednesday, sinking below $53 to a level last seen during the Great Recession. ..."If this doesn't hold, we could go back to price levels in late 2008 and early 2009 -- down in the $30s. There's no reason why it couldn't happen," said Darin Newsom, senior analyst at Telvent DTN.
One key difference between then and now is how much oil has grown as an asset class for investors.That could increase the chances of a downward spiral as investors panic and dump their holdings, said Tom Kloza, global head of energy analysis at the Oil Price Information Service.
Just how bad is it in Canada? Baker Hughes' latest rig count, released on Monday, shows that US drillers reduced their rigs that are drilling for oil by 37, to 1,499, while increasing gas rigs by 2 to 340. But in Canada, oil rigs plunged by half from 190 to 94; and gas rigs dropped by 19% from 201 to 162. The Canadians aren't dilly-dallying around. According to Civeo, tar-sands operators have been just as aggressive as drillers in cutting operating costs and capital expenditures.Going into 2015, Civeo has about 35% to 40% of its lodge rooms contracted in Canada, "down from over 75%" a year ago. That's down by about half!In an all-out effort to cut its operating costs, it has been slashing headcount, in its Canadian operations by 30% and in its US operations by 45%. It's closing facilities and is going after capital expenditures with a big axe, chopping them from $260-$280 million in 2014 to $75-$80 million for 2015. That would amount to a cut of about 70%!
Chevron quits Canadian Arctic!!http://www.businessinsider.com/r-chevron-cancels-canadian-arctic-drilling-as-oil-prices-slide-2014-12In 1986 oil was dropped to $10.00 to break the Soviets. Russia, with China's backing won't fail but the attempt may extend for a long time.Terry
Mr. Yager called predictions in October from the two main oilfield services industry associations, the Petroleum Services Association of Canada and the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors, of a 10% decline in oilfield activity in 2015 "hopelessly optimistic.""They were both predicated on $85 oil — as of today, we're 30-bucks-a-barrel short," Mr. Yager said of the forecasts. A sharp reduction in oilfield service activity is expected, Mr. Yager said, unless drilling, fracking, tubing and other companies can reduce their costs.
....OP: How do you see the shale landscape changing in the U.S. given the current oil price slump?Arthur Berman: We've read a lot of silly articles since oil prices started falling about how U.S. shale plays can break-even at whatever the latest, lowest price of oil happens to be. Doesn't anyone realize that the investment banks that do the research behind these articles have a vested interest in making people believe that the companies they've put billions of dollars into won't go broke because prices have fallen? This is total propaganda.....
....Continental Resources is the biggest player in the Bakken. Their free cash flow—cash from operating activities minus capital expenditures—was -$1.1 billion in the third- quarter of 2014. That means that they spent more than $1 billion more than they made. Their debt was 120% of equity. That means that if they sold everything they own, they couldn't pay off all their debt. That was at $93 oil prices.And they say that they will be fine at $60 oil prices? Are you kidding?..........U.S. refineries can't handle the light oil and condensate from the shale plays so it has to be blended with heavier imported crudes and exported as refined products. Domestic producers could make more money faster if they could just export the light oil without going to all of the trouble to blend and refine it.This, by the way, is the heart of the Keystone XL pipeline debate. We're not planning to use the oil domestically but will blend that heavy oil with condensate from shale plays, refine it and export petroleum products. Keystone is about feedstock......
...Many people think that the resurgence of U.S. oil production shows that Peak Oil was wrong. Peak oil doesn't mean that we are running out of oil. It simply means that once conventional oil production begins to decline, future supply will have to come from more difficult sources that will be more expensive or of lower quality or both. This means production from deep water, shale and heavy oil. It seems to me that Peak Oil predictions are right on track....
...Technology will not reduce the break-even price of oil. The cost of technology requires high oil prices. ..The price of oil will recover. ...Only a global economic collapse would permit low oil prices to persist for very long...
OP: How do you see the global energy mix changing in the coming decades? Have renewables made enough advances to properly compete with fossil fuels or is that still a long way off?Arthur Berman: The global energy mix will move increasingly to natural gas and more slowly to renewable energy. Global conventional oil production peaked in 2005-2008. U.S. shale gas production will peak in the next 5 to 7 years but Russia, Iran, Qatar and Turkmenistan have sufficient conventional gas reserves to supply Europe and Asia for several decades. Huge discoveries have been made in the greater Indian Ocean region—Madagascar, offshore India, the Northwest Shelf of Australia and Papua New Guinea. These will provide the world with natural gas for several more decades. Other large finds have been made in the eastern Mediterranean....
...Of course, natural gas and renewable energy go hand-in-hand. Since renewable energy—primarily solar and wind—are intermittent, natural gas backup or base-load is necessary. I think that extreme views on either side of the renewable energy issue will have to moderate. On the one hand, renewable advocates are unrealistic about how quickly and easily the world can get off of fossil fuels. On the other hand, fossil fuel advocates ignore the fact that government is already on board with renewables and that, despite the economic issues that they raise, renewables are going to move forward albeit at considerable cost.Time is rarely considered adequately. Renewable energy accounts for a little more than 2% of U.S. total energy consumption. No matter how much people want to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy, we cannot go from 2% to 20% or 30% in less than a decade no matter how aggressively we support or even mandate its use. In order to get to 50% or more of primary energy supply from renewable sources it will take decades....
I appreciate the urgency felt by those concerned with climate change. I think, however, that those who advocate a more-or-less immediate abandonment of fossil fuels fail to understand how a rapid transition might affect the quality of life and the global economy.
With crude prices down more than 50 percent from their 2014 peak, fields as far-flung as Kazakhstan and Australia are no longer worth pumping, said a team of Citigroup Inc. (C) analysts led by Alastair Syme. Companies on the hook for risky, high-cost projects that don't make sense in a $50-a-barrel market include international titans such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) and small wildcatters like Sanchez Energy Corp.
Exposing RiskThe oil-market rout is exposing projects dating as far back as 2009 that were either poorly executed or bad ideas to begin with, Syme's team said in a note to clients. Shell, Europe's largest energy producer, may have as much as 5 percent of its capital tied up in money-losing projects. For U.K.-based BG Group Plc (BG/), the figure could be as high as 8 percent, according to the Citi analysts.
But the recent slump in oil prices leaves Ecuador owing more and more crude to China, creating new pressure for the government to expand the drilling frontier in the Amazon.
West Texas Intermediate for February delivery dropped 98 cents, or 2 percent, to $49.06 a barrel at 10:06 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange after touching $48.47, the lowest since April 2009....U.S. crude inventories probably increased to 386.2 million barrels in the week ended Jan. 2.... Inventories of crude and gasoline were at their highest seasonal level since EIA weekly data started....Saudi Arabia, the biggest OPEC producer, will keep a "solid will" and maintain the nation's stability even with falling crude prices, King Abdullah said today in a speech read by his crown prince....Production may expand from fields in West Africa, Latin America, the U.S. and Canada in addition to increased supplies from Russia and Iraq, Morgan Stanley said yesterday in a report. Iran may boost overseas exports by about 500,000 barrels a day if international sanctions are lifted, the bank said.
Is Saudi Arabia attempting to kill US shale gas industry and delay breakthrough in electrical car/ electrical battery autonomy?
"We believe in the industry that there will be a fully autonomous vehicle, probably within the next five years," Mr. Fields said. "Unlike our luxury competitors, when we do come out with an autonomous vehicle, we want to make sure it is accessible and affordable to everyone."
Exxon provides the following energy distribution and anthropogenic CO2 emission estimates:http://www.energyglobal.com/downstream/refining/06012015/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-forecast-025/
Exxon expects global energy related CO2 emissions to increase by approximately 25% from 2010 to 2030 and then to decline approximately 5% to 2040.
At these rates global society will completely collapse by 2045 with billions of lives lost. We just felt too damned responsible.
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paragraphPLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM ...Over the last year we have worked very closely with a great deal of private landlords and investors in the Leamington and surrounding areas. What has become very apparent is that approx 82% of landlords do not regularly review their rents. The main reasons being 'I did not know I could review my rent', 'I did not know what the rental market was doing in terms of prices' and 'I have a great tenant - I dont see the point'.
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Yet Another Thing I Hate About Surrey
It's no secret that I am not a fan of Surrey. I hate suburbs and Surrey exemplifies pretty much everything I hate about suburbs1. Case in point: Surrey is NOT bike friendly2.
I decided to take my new bike3 for a spin last night. But where to go? I decided to check out Google Maps, which has a feature that indicates where there are bike lanes (in green). For example, check out this section of Surrey:
Immediately this raises the question:
How is anyone who lives in that big gap along 152nd Street supposed to get from 72nd Ave, where the 152 St bike lane ends to 64th Ave, where the next east-west bike line is? 152nd Street is a *very* busy street, not one you'd want to ride down without a bike lane.
I actually looked on the City of Surrey's website to see what I could find about bike lanes and found that they have a Cycling Plan that aims "to create a seamless bicycle network." I have to say that this is clearly in the "planning" stage, as the bike lanes appear to be pretty haphazard this point. Take this for another example:
Anyway, I decided to take some convoluted side streets to get to 64th Ave to try out the bike lane there. I wanted to see what it was like given that it is a potential way that I might want to bike to work. Well, 64th Avenue does have a bike lane, but I felt anything but safe while biking it in. It's a very busy street and has an *extremely* narrow bike lane. The lane is, in fact, barely wider than a manhole cover. I can say this confidentially because there are manhole covers in the bike lane – not really something you want to have to bike over, let me tell you! And you can't avoid them, because they take up virtually the whole bike lane – it's that narrow. And the car lanes seem like they are pretty narrow too, as many of the vehicles that drove by me were very close to – or even driving right on – the line between the car lane and the bike lane. Having an 18-wheeler truck whip down the street about 6 inches from your person does not make for a relaxing ride! To make things even worse, the bike line was full of rocks and various other debris, which made it a bit like an obstacle course. A very narrow obstacle course where, if you hit any of the obstacles, you will fall into traffic and be run over by an 18-wheeler truck doing 80 km/hr.
I was planning to ride to King George Boulevard (of Broken Dreams) and then try out its bike lane, but given that K.G.B.(of B.D.) is even busier than 64th Avenue, I decided that I'd stared death in the face enough for one day and just turned around and biked back down 64th Ave to go home4.
Along the way, I met another bicyclist, and when we were stopped at a red light, I asked her if she commuted on this street regularly (She had on a backpack and look like a commuter). "This is my first time ever!" she said. "Oh," I said, " I was going to ask you if if it gets less terrifying once you get used to it." She had a bit of a panicked look in her eye as she said, "Yeah, it's pretty scary, eh?" I have a very strong suspicion that this first time might just be her last.
Given how scary 64th Avenue was, I really can't imagine what would possess anyone to try the 56th Avenue (a.k.a. Highway 10) bike lane:
And while I'm ranting, what's the deal with all the kids not wearing bike helmets in my neighbourhood? Both yesterday and the day before when I went for my bike rides, there were *tonnes* of kids out riding around on their bikes – and I'm very much in favour of kids being active! – but not a single one of them was wearing a bike helmet! Bike helmets protect your *brains* people. Your brains! Also, if the zombie apocalypse happens while you are on your bike, it's an added layer for protection from a hungry zombie. Thus, bike helmets are win-win.
- In my defence, I only reside in Surrey because I have the BEST. JOB. EVER. here. My plan is to stay here, with my affordable rent, until such time as my student loans are paid off, at which point I'll have *a lot* more money to rent a place and then I'll move back to Vancouver. You can call this my "exit strategy." [↩]
- Coincidentally, I was meeting with a colleague at her office the other day and she had a giant sign on her office door that said, "Surrey needs more bike lanes NOW!" (Apparently it had been part of some guerilla Public Health advocacy at a recent meeting she'd been at. I told her I completely agreed – and now that I've tried out the bike lanes, I have to say I agree doubly so! [↩]
- I'm sure I'll stop blogging about my new bike soon, if you'll just bear with me. I have the attention span of a carrot, so I'm sure something else shiny will capture my imagine soon enough [↩]
- Otherwise, I might have to start calling it King George Boulevard of Broken Bones [↩]


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I loved Mary Beth as Peter Florrick's mother Jackie on The Good Wife — she was such a deliciously smug busybody and occasionally well-meaning (but usually only if it benefited Peter) nag. I really think The Good Wife benefited so tremendously, almost more than the various Law & Order franchises, from its New York locale and the raft of marvelous theatre actors available to them for what were always juicy recurring parts. But whenever I think of Peil's voice, it's always the sound of her purring, "Jenni-fuuuuh," at Michelle Williams on Dawson's Creek. Remember when she delivered Joey's sister's baby? Good times. Grams was unflappable. And Mary Beth has been looking SENSATIONAL, so take my hand and let me share it with you.
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Movies can without a doubt bring us into the land of make believe but I find that you can learn things from the characters that people play. Audrey Hepburn acted in some wonderful films where her characters were inspiring, funny, complex, and ambitious.
Here are 6 things that I think you can learn from watching Audrey Hepburn films:
This is a film photo from My Fair Lady (1964). When Audrey's character Eliza makes an entrance in that dress she showed us that if you dress the part, act the part, and believe in the part then everyone around you will believe in it too.


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Bank of England's Governor Marc Carney is expected to say Thursday that Facebook's Libra project needs careful scrutiny by regulators.
According to the text of remarks by Mr. Carney, published in advance by the UK central bank, Mr. Carney will say, "Libra, if it achieves its ambitions, would be systemically important."
Facebook Tuesday announced its plans to launch Libra on the first half of 2020 as a secure, open-sourced, blockchain-based payment system that would be pegged by real underlying assets in order to stabilize the value of the cryptocurrency.
Libra is designed to be easily accessible by anyone with access to smartphone and financial transactions are expected to be as simple as sending a text from one person to another.
However, Facebook still hasn't recovered from its crisis involving Cambridge Analytica and lawmakers are still concerned about the social media giant's privacy and security issues.
Mr. Carney will be looking to see how Facebook will address all of its existing privacy concerns satisfactorily as well as how it will satisfy lawmakers on issues such as financial security, data protection, anti-money laundering and the implication of Libra on local currency markets.
Mr. Carney's prepared remarks further goes to say, "Unlike social media, for which standards and regulations are being debated well after it has been adopted by billions of users, the terms of engagement for innovations such as Libra must be adopted in advance of any launch."
One of the key concerns he is hoping to get addressed is whether Facebook's Libra (and other non-bank payment providers) should be allowed to hold accounts at the Central Bank, much like commercial banks. This would not only bring down consumer costs but also ensure financial stability by giving them access to central-bank reserves in times of financial stress. To this end, Bank of England is expected to initiate a public consultation.
That being said, with the use of cash aggressively shrinking throughout the world, including Europe, Mr. Carney is expected to approach Libra "with an open mind" as it very well may lower the cost of financial transactions (especially cross-border) and benefit millions of consumers.
Separately, Facebook is gearing up to face The US Senate Banking Committee on July 16th to go over its Libra plans and address any concerns lawmakers might have.
Pete is a huge cryptocurrency fan and loves to keep tab on how digital currency is transforming the world. A proud father to a son, he loves exploring nature in his downtime.


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Just to the north of South Africa lies a magical, largely undiscovered triangle of safari heaven – especially for the more seasoned safari goers.
It's all very doable in a two-week 'safari of a lifetime' itinerary: Mana Pools, Lake Kariba and Hwange in northern Zimbabwe, the breathtaking Victoria Falls on the Zambian/Zimbabwean border, and Chobe in northern Botswana.
And you'll be treated to an unbelievable range of game activities, from open vehicle game drives and guided bush walks (Zimbabwe has arguably the best walking guides), to boat cruises, mokoro rides, kayaking, fishing or just watching the endless parade of wild animals coming down to drink in front of your luxury safari lodge.
Mana Pools National Park
Best reached by plane, this untouched bit of African paradise with its legendary safari guides offers you fabulous canoe trails, walking safaris and game drives. The area is known for its large elephant and buffalo herds and its waterways are full of grunting hippos and snapping crocs.
At the exclusive Kanga Camp, with just six luxury tents, you can spend hour-upon-hour game watching in comfort from the spacious deck.
Lake Kariba
Known for its houseboats, fishing and swimming elephants, Kariba is pretty spectacular. Matusadona National Park, on its southern shore, is the only Big 5 park in Zimbabwe. It's an incredibly game-rich area with year-round water.
To the west lies Bumi Hills Safari Lodge, with vast views over the lake. You're spoilt for choice with activities: game drives, boat cruises, fishing the infamous 'tiger fish hotspot'. If you're wanting to swim, we highly recommend the lodge's beautiful infinity pool… the lake is teeming with crocs and hippos!
Hwange National Park
Hwange is famous for its elephants, with enormous and multiple herds. Many varieties of antelope as well as buffalo, zebra, giraffe, wild dogs and others also live here.
Somalisa Camp is perfectly positioned on a perennial pan in Hwange with a steady flow of game roaming the area around the water. From here, both game drives and guided walks are offered, giving you the best of both worlds.
Victoria Falls
The 'Smoke that Thunders' has to be seen and heard to be believed. The Zambezi River plummets over 100 metres down a sheer cliff into the canyon below.
Victoria Falls offers a smorgasbord of adventure and adrenaline activities: white water rafting, swimming in Devil's Pool at the lip of the falls, ziplining across the gorge, bungee jumping, flights over the Falls by microlight or helicopter, quad biking and so on.
Of course, there are many gentler pursuits for those looking to relax.
Victoria Falls itself has recently extended its closing hours from 6pm to 10pm, allowing for a host of new activities like a lunar rainbow tour, bush dinners next to the Falls and night drives within the Zambezi National Park.
Just 4 km from all this activity lies the lovely Victoria Falls Safari Lodge. Almost like a luxury tree house, it nestles amongst the indigenous bush. Most rooms, guest areas and decks face the waterhole. The sunset views are nothing short of spectacular!
Chobe National Park
An hour's drive west of Victoria Falls lies Chobe, one of Africa's iconic parks, a dream safari destination and a photographer's paradise. Famous for its huge elephant and lion populations and incredible birding, it offers the best water-based game viewing in the world.
Chobe's only permanent camp is Chobe Game Lodge, offering expansive views across the Caprivi floodplains. Excellent land and water-based activities are the daily fare.
Getting There
Daily flights connect from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and Livingstone in Zambia. From either, Chobe and Hwange are within easy driving distance and road transfers can be arranged. Lake Kariba, Matusadona and Mana Pools require a one-and-a-half-hour flight.
Roads are challenging at best, sometimes impassable in the rainy season.


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The Dame Kelly Holmes Trust has appointed Gail Scott-Spicer as its next chief executive.
Scott-Spicer was the chief executive of the Carers Trust, a charity for unpaid carers, between February 2015 and May 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile, and before that was director of marketing and communications at the Scout Association for six years.
She is also vice-chair of CharityComms, the membership body for charity communications professionals, and is deputy chair of the Money Advice Trust.
Scott-Spicer replaces interim chief executive Tracey Fletcher, who was appointed in June when Emma Atkins left after nine years in the role.
Scott-Spicer will take up her role at the trust on 4 September.
The trust was established by the 2004 double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes in 2008 and trains world-class athletes to deliver programmes to disadvantaged young people.
The trust's annual income has more than tripled in recent years, to £3.7m in 2016 from about £916,000 in 2012. The increase can be attributed largely to securing funding from Sport England to expand the trust's Get on Track programme.
Michael Kelly, chair of the trust, said in a statement: "We had some truly exceptional candidates shortlisted as part of a widespread selection process. However, Gail stood out for her passion and innovation, which will be crucial for us in terms of reaching our ambitious 2020 vision and goals."
Scott-Spicer added: "The trust's trained workforce of hundreds of world-class athletes is a phenomenal vehicle for change in young people and communities. It will be a real privilege to work with this high-performing group and continue to develop the support and training we offer them to benefit society through the trust's programmes."


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While Brabus is best known for turning the performance knob to 11 on various Mercedes-Benz models, the Business Lounge is very much focused on comfort, practicality and interconnectivity.
That said, the Brabus-modified Sprinter does feature 18-inch alloy wheels, side steps, wheel arch extensions, an aggressive front bumper treatment with LED driving lights, and twin exhaust pipes at the rear.
It's on the inside, however, where Brabus has expended most of its effort. In the main cabin there are two rows of business class-style seats trimmed in leather facing off against each other. Each of these four seats can be electrically reclined, and features three memory settings, heating, cooling, massaging, adjustable lumbar support, and a small monochrome touchscreen (below) to control it all.
All up, the Business Lounge can seat up to eight people: four in the business-class seats, two more in more regular seating near the rear barn doors, and two in the sealed off driver's cabin.
With its tall roof and high grade wooden floors, Brabus claims that even the tallest of passengers can get up and walk around when the van is stationary.
Conveniences include a refrigerator, coffee maker, power-retractable tables, eight USB 3.0 ports, three 220-volt power outlets and six dimmable reading lights. 2700 colour LEDs have been integrated into the ceiling headliner and these can be configured to play one of 12 animations, including starry night, fluffy white clouds moving across a blue sky, fireworks or something psychedelic.
A 42-inch high definition TV is built into the bulkhead that divides the driver's cabin from main passenger area. For the two passengers facing rearwards there's a 10-inch display (above) built into the console between those two seats.
The on-board media centre features hard-drive storage, a wireless keyboard and mouse at every seat, a Blu-ray player, PlayStation 4 game console, digital TV tuner and an Apple TV streamer. There's also a surround sound system with a 1200-watt amp, which might even make some business presentations seem interesting. Passengers' devices can be hooked up to the car's 4G LTE internet connection via the built-in Wi-Fi network.
The Business Lounge is not the first time Brabus has dabbled in vans, with the iBusiness 3D predating the Business Lounge by three years.
We're waiting to hear back from Brabus as to how much the Business Lounge will set buyers back, but each van is built to order.


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University Of Minnesota Press
Author: Chadwick Allen
Format: Softcover; 336 pgs.
What might be gained from reading Native literatures from global rather than exclusively local perspectives of Indigenous struggle? In Trans-Indigenous, Chadwick Allen proposes methodologies for a global Native literary studies based on focused comparisons of diverse texts, contexts, and traditions in order to foreground the richness of Indigenous self-representation and the complexity of Indigenous agency.
Through demonstrations of distinct forms of juxtaposition—across historical periods and geographical borders, across tribes and nations, across the Indigenous–settler binary, across genre and media—Allen reclaims aspects of the Indigenous archive from North America, Hawaii, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia that have been largely left out of the scholarly conversation. He engages systems of Indigenous aesthetics—such as the pictographic discourse of Plains Indian winter counts, the semiotics of Navajo weaving, and Maori carving traditions, as well as Indigenous technologies like large-scale North American earthworks and Polynesian ocean-voyaging waka—for the interpretation of contemporary Indigenous texts. The result is a provocative reorienting of the call for Native intellectual, artistic, and literary sovereignty that fully prioritizes the global Indigenous.


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On July 22nd, we wrote about British Airways' halt of its Cairo-bound flights. To remind you, British Airways took this decision for "security precaution" which Cairo Airport did not understand as it met all safety standards. The Egyptian aviation ministry was surprised and displeased by this decision as British Airways did not go to the Egyptian authorities before taking the decision. A executive at Egypt Air even stated that this decision was taking "without logical reason" escpecialy since all other airlines continued operating their flights to Egypt capital.
On July 25th, a spokewoman for BA said, "Following a thorough assessment of the security arrangements, we are pleased that our service to and from Cairo will resume from Friday July 26".
We do not any further detail concerning the halt and the reoperation of flights.


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When it comes to bonds, the relationship between prices and actual returns isn't quite as simple as that same relationship in the stock market.
Annual nominal bond returns can be positive or negative regardless of rising or falling prices. Over the past 37 years, bond prices have generally risen and each cyclical drop in prices — dubbed as a rising-rate environment — has been mistaken for the bottom.
This characteristic of bonds only confuses many retail investors, who may be approaching their bond investments in the wrong way, or for the wrong reason.
"Since rates are difficult to forecast and can be quite volatile over the short term, the best course is to keep reinvesting interest payments and resisting the temptation to sell when funds underperform," said Tim Utecht, chief investment officer at Life Planning Partners, Inc. In other words, trying to gain an edge in bond funds from price fluctuation is hard, because returns are driven by inflexible math.
Bonds aren't perpetual instruments like stocks. Bonds are issued with a set maturity and periodic interest payments. Market forces and central banks dictate what current interest rates should be, influencing prices of not only new issues, but existing ones as well. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
One way for investors to improve the chance of positive returns from bonds is to match their holding period with the duration of the bond or the bond fund. Duration is the time it takes for investors to recover their initial investment from the interest payments they collect. Because of interest payments, the duration of a bond is shorter than its maturity: the higher the interest payment or coupon, the shorter the duration and the longer the duration, the more sensitive the bond is to changes in interest rates.
Because of this, most bond funds "ladder up" their bonds, or buy bonds with different maturities, in which interest rates are reinvested in bonds with longer-dated maturities at current interest rates. This strategy gives exposure to the whole yield curve, while allowing investors customize their portfolio for income from cash flows.
Some bond fund managers use a "barbell" strategy, investing only in the long-dated and short-dated bonds. In a rising-rate environment, this strategy captures the best of both worlds, reinvesting in higher-yielding short-dated bonds. In a falling-rate environment, the long-dated bond prices make up for the shortfall in the lower yields. The barbell strategy is an actively managed portfolio and has higher costs associated with trading.
Read:Here's why the bull market in bonds is far from over
Keep in mind that while "it is true that actively managed bond funds generally outperform passive funds such as those indexed to Barclays Aggregate, that is because they take more risk by investing in high-yielding junk bonds and longer-dated maturities," Utecht said.
That all may be less relevant than the primary purpose of high-quality bond funds: to buffer stock-market volatility.
Investors, as much as they can, should ignore bond price fluctuations, agreed Philip McDonald, associate director of investments at Symmetry Partners, a Glastonbury, Conn.-based asset manager.
"Periodic dips below par is a temporary phenomenon. Investors should look at total return of their bond funds, which is the yield plus change in prices," McDonald said.
Read: Why investors shouldn't panic over falling bond prices
That's easier said than done since over the short term, bond funds can, and do, post negative total returns. In fact, Barclays Aggregate Index
For Utect, bond investors shouldn't obsess over stock comparisons. He said the best way to invest in bond funds is by focusing on what drives the returns in the long run: cost and tax efficiency.


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Michael, 44, lives with multiple sclerosis.
Because of his condition, Michael made the decision to live in an aged care facility in the hope that his wife and daughter could get on with their lives. But being separated from his family, coupled with a surrounding of people who were preparing for the end of their lives, proved too much. Michael was back home in only 3 weeks with his wife, Isabelle, as his carer.
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We want to change what the future looks like for people living with MS and other progressive neurological disease in Queensland by providing homes with appropriate care and support, when it's needed.
The MS Queensland Housing Solution is MS Queensland's bold plan to build new high need, independent living apartments across Queensland. Our goal is to help bridge the critical gap in the availability of specialist disability accommodation with quality support services. But we need your help.
The government alone is not able to address the shortage of specialist disability accommodation.
Disability housing providers in partnership with government, the private sector and the wider community will need to step up. This is why MS Queensland are 100% committed to our Housing Solution.
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