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4. Vulnerable: At this level, your leadership becomes interactive with others. Your influence is put to the test. Are you open, empathic, rational, effective? Beyond being judged, your interactions create a living dynamic. Great teams need tremendous competence here. And emotional intelligence is crucial.
5. Consequential: At this level, you've presumably succeeded with some decision responsibility. If not, you aren't at this level, though you may think otherwise. I call these people Special Forces, as they have full awareness of their impact on the lives of everyone, and they respect it.
Did you know that 81 percent of shoppers say that posts from their friends on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook directly impacted their purchasing decisions?
Moreover, 30 percent of social media shoppers respond better to brand offers when they have been reposted by a friend, and almost two-in-five moms (38 percent) are more likely to purchase from brands they “Like” on Facebook than other women.
Social media has revolutionised many industries, and it’s greatest impact has perhaps been on the world of online commerce. There’s still room for improvement, however, with competitive pricing, the ability to purchase online and delivery speed cited as the most important factors that determine a customer’s decision to purchase, with advice received via social media sites impacting just 18 percent of transactions.
Wright Plastic Products Co. is investing more than $3 million to expand its St. Clair facility and create 19 new jobs.
A $3.3 million expansion project is in the works for Wright Plastic Products Co. LLC to add 14,400 square feet and 19 jobs to its St. Clair facility, the Sheridan-based company announced Thursday.
The Michigan Economic Development Corp. approved a $160,000 performance-based grant for the manufacturer. The city is giving $143,000 in tax breaks for the project.
The expansion, beginning within the next week and expected to be completed by the end of October, will bring the plant to 38,400 square feet and 34 employees, President Robert Luce said.
Wright Plastic manufactures plastic injection molding and custom plastic parts for automotive, recreational and marine vehicles, and consumer markets.
The St. Clair site beat out a competing facility in Tennessee. The city tax abatement will help offset overall costs for the expansion, the news release said.
"Over the past eight years Wright Plastic Products Company has grown very rapidly, adding a facility in Tennessee, expanding our plant in St. Clair, Mich., and adding numerous horizontal, rotary and 2 shot injection molding machines," President Robert Luce said in a statement. "That growth continues, requiring a further expansion of our St. Clair plant and numerous additional 2 shot machines in both our St. Clair and Sheridan, Mich., plants."
Wright Plastic designed the facility's expansion. Port Huron-based Boddy Construction Co. Inc. is the contractor.
Last year, Wright Plastic reported $28.8 million in revenue. The company expects to $34 million in revenue this year with more growth next year, Luce said.
The Kerala government on October 2 said that having separate queues for female devotees flocking to the Sabarimala Temple was “impractical”. In a recent judgment the Supreme Court has cleared the way for women to visit the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala, but the state government seems to have stopped short of rolling out the red carpet for them.
A high level committee led by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s administration to discuss various arrangements to be made for women entering the temple came to this conclusion.
Surendran claimed that separate queues for women could result in women being separated from their families, which was not advisable.
Nevertheless the government is planning to set up enhanced facilities for women devotees, including separate washrooms and bathing areas to ensure that women devotees are not inconvenienced.
Given the expected rise in the number of devotee count, the government plans to stretch darshan timings and increase days of worship. Digital booking facilities are also likely to be introduced this year for more efficient crowd controlling.
Following the verdict which removes the age old ban on women between ages 10 and 50 entering the temple to worship Lord Ayyappa, several Hindu groups, the royal family of Pandalam and state BJP decided to launch public protests.
Syracuse, N.Y. — April 28, Workers Memorial Day, commemorates workers killed, injured or made ill at their jobs. That day, Antonio Salinas chalked the outline of a fallen person on the pavement in downtown Syracuse. Salinas, a dairy farm worker from Mexico, was seriously hurt on a forklift last October at the Central New York business where he worked and lived. No longer able to do his job, he was evicted by the farm owner who denied the injury was related to his work.
Workers Center of Central New York demonstrates in Syracuse, April 28.
Dorothy Wigmore, with the Occupational Health Clinical Centers of SUNY Upstate Medical Center, has highlighted sobering facts about workplace injuries and deaths: Though headlines dramatize fatalities among police, sanitation workers, like Tilghman, die at twice the rate as cops and almost seven times the rate of firefighters. The top 20 low-wage U.S. jobs — mostly held by women — have 77 percent of reported job-linked injuries and illness. Over half of serious work injuries are not even reported.
Health and safety are where bosses often cut corners first. Estimates on injury numbers run low because only immediate “lost time” injuries are counted, but not others like repetitive-stress injuries to factory workers or illnesses like cancer caused by workplace toxins.
Organizer Nikeeta Slade at the WC-CNY is particularly concerned about Mexican, Guatemalan and Honduran migrant workers, who are often reluctant to report safety violations for fear they will be forced to leave the country.
TOKYO (March 20, 2019) -- Dental and orthodontic specialists from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as the Japan Self-Defense Forces, recently learned about currently pressing topics in their field and shared best practices during the 65th Tri-Service Dental Symposium.
The event, held March 12 through 14 at the New Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, featured keynote speakers from both the United States and Japan, exhibits on the latest dental tools and equipment, and was a chance for those in attendance to earn continuing education credits.
Col. Ryan Wong, commander of U.S. Army Dental Activity Japan at Camp Zama, Japan, helped coordinate the event and said he wanted this year's lectures to cover topics that military dentists might not necessarily encounter on a regular basis.
"Nowadays we have to operate in oftentimes a very ambiguous operating environment," said Wong. "We have to have a creative thought process. This year, I invited speakers to be able to provide lecture topics [that would] just stimulate their minds."
The opening keynote speaker was Dr. Philippe Hujoel, an epidemiologist and professor at the University of Washington. Hujoel's three presentations dealt chiefly on the topic of understanding and utilizing the principles of evidence-based medicine, a practice wherein doctors optimize their decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from substantial research. Hujoel demonstrated this concept with a common example in the world of dentistry.
"If a patient is suffering from dental cavities a lot, it is key, from an evidence-based perspective, to first and foremost focus on sugar, because that's the prime reason that people get dental cavities," said Hujoel. "You want to make sure that, as a good dentist, you provide good information to a patient that will actually be able to help him or her to control the disease."
The focus on evidence-based medicine was an ideal way to open the symposium, said Air Force Col. Song Rhim, commander of the 374th Dental Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan.
"There are many different fields in dentistry, and it's good to see how all those different specialties come together to find a common goal, which to cure a disease and also to prevent [it]," said Rhim.
While the symposium is an opportunity to keep up to date on the latest issues and topics facing the dentistry field, Navy Cmdr. Thomas Berchtold, who also attended last year's event, said it also beneficial as a way for those in the military dental community to be able to network and share compare best practices across the services.
"I'm an orthodontist, so last year I was able to meet the orthodontists at Camp Zama," said Berchtold, the associate director of dental services at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. "We were able to share ideas and we continued a collegial relationship where we share treatment techniques."
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Maj. Gen. Ryo Tsunoda, the newly appointed director of the Dental Corps and Oral Surgery Department at the JSDF Central Hospital, agreed, saying Japan's participation in the symposium would help to improve to quality of service JSDF dentists and orthodontists provide.
"This is a great opportunity for our Dental Corps to expand the knowledge and ideas on how to take care of [their] patients, as well as the methods of providing medical care, to include maintaining good health," said Tsunoda. "This would certainly contribute to the further development of the JGSDF."
Ultimately, Wong said, he hopes the symposium serves to create an ongoing dialogue among his peers--one that allows both the U.S. and Japanese military medical communities to work more closely together.
"I want [this event] to create a chance for all the dental professionals from the U.S. Armed Forces and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to start talking and get a better understanding of each other," said Wong. "This way, we can further continue our bilateral relationship and partnership and collaboration."
A good gesture from the Dubliner.
A mother has expressed her gratitude to Conor McGregor after the UFC star donated €10,000 to her sick son.
Grainne McCullough shared a screenshot of the donation on Thursday, thanking McGregor for his generous contribution.
Her five-year-old son Bru had sepsis last year and is now unable to walk or eat. She had set up the page to raise money so that she can seek private care for Bru.
"Hi everyone, this is my last idea for my son as I've spent the last year trying to get him proper medical care from the HSE, he has an NG [Nasogastric intubation] tube in his nose since last September," Grainne wrote on the GoFundMe page.
"I keep being fobbed off with excuses for delay in putting in a peg, he has seen no dietician, we are desperate at this stage, we are looking for money for my son Bryan to get private care and the help he deserves. He had sepsis last year and is now unable to walk or eat I feel so bad for him."
While the donation says anonymous on the public page, McCullough received a notification saying the donation had come from the UFC star.
Whatever you may think about his behaviour, this is a great gesture from the Dubliner who is just over a week away from one of the biggest fights of his career.
If you want to donate, you can check out the GoFundMe page here.
GOVERNMENT will only legalise production of industrial cannabis and will put in place regulations to control its production, President Mnangagwa has said.
He was speaking during a question and answer session at the sixth annual Agribusiness Conference held at the Exhibition Park on Wednesday. President Mnangagwa said Government was working on separating medicinal cannabis from ordinary cannabis, which is popularly known as mbanje.
"We want to separate industrial cannabis from the ordinary cannabis (mbanje) and we have put it in legislation that is being championed by the Ministry of Health and Child Care," he said.
"Wherever in the world where it has been allowed, there are strongest conditions for it to be grown. Under our Statutory Instrument we are regulating how it should be grown. It must have maximum security. That is why the security sector should be involved."
President Mnangagwa said production of cannabis required capital outlays; it must be done scientifically. Most of it is done under green houses, where it is in open space it must be protected." Cannabis (mbanje) can be used for food, fuel, oil, animal feed, bedding paper, textiles and cosmetics, among others.
"You must get a licence for you to satisfy the requirements we made," said President Mnangagwa. "For now it is a security restricted area."
The legalisation was announced by Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa in a Government Gazette under Statutory Instrument 62 of 2018 (Dangerous Drugs - Production of Cannabis for Medicinal and Scientific Use Regulations).
Producers of mbanje will be licensed by the Minister. Some farmers bemoaned the high charges for the production licences. They said the crop will end up being produced by corporates. The licence costs $50 000.
Preah Sisowath High School is the premiere public high school in Phnom Penh. It recently instituted a New Generation School (NGS). The NGS is now 3 years old.
It has already benefitted learning outcomes for Cambodian students. We spoke to Vice Principal Sam Kamsann via email to learn more about the NGS, and about how students at New Generation School manage the transition to secondary education.
By using better accreditation systems to ensure effective learning with a high level of good governance, transparency, accountability and participation, all students are given greater chances of academic success.
With the institution of new technology, many students initially needed supplemental classes. NGS provided these extra classes free of charge. This has helped to modernize the equity learning environment, and also ensured that no child is left behind.
The transitional difficulties at NGS are evidenced in student adjustment to new methodology, a change to critical thinking, an increase in teaching and learning hours, and a change in students’ individual mind set.
All of this can present an intimidating front to a new student. At first sight the students may feel a bit weird, these are new, subject specific classrooms. There are even differences in the layout of the student seating in these classrooms. These are world class facilities however, and students quickly adjust to their new surrounds.
Some students would even prefer to stay at school after hours, as they soon feel free to study or relax and take advantage of benefits such as the new library, the free wifi, and a new study room for students to work in.
There is strong competition to join the ranks of students at NGS. An entrance exam is required; it consists of Mathematics, Khmer literature, Science, as well as critical thinking.
The benefits once students are enrolled are multiple. The high standard of teaching, the integrated methods (Problem Based Learning, Brain Based Learning, creativity based learning and professional learning communities), the chance to participate in national and international competitions, are all big draw cards. But the outcomes of entrepreneurship, creativity, critical thinking, multi-culture knowledge, are all worth the effort, as they will be of value as student’s progress.
NGS likes to stay ahead of any possible transitional student issues by encouraging students to maintain transparency and accountability, to commit to achieving their goals, and to do so by maintaining a fair and equal approach.
A very important factor in a smooth transition is maintaining an open line of communication with students, parents and teachers. Parents play a vital role in a student’s education. Parent teacher conferences and the use of social media mean that these communicative lines are always open.
NGS gave us some golden rules to adhere to when choosing your secondary school. Remember that you cannot compromise on quality, whether it is facilities, teachers, curriculums, or location.
Secondly knowledge is not given away, you must earn it. For students, they must be aware that secondary school is academically demanding, but if they put in the work, there is no limit to the outcome that they may achieve in later life.
Last but not least, try to have fun learning, this is a time of physical and mental growth and should be enjoyed.
Tropical Storm Florence is dumping near-record amounts of rain in parts of the Carolinas, causing catastrophic flooding that, apart from the damage to homes and businesses, poses serious health hazards to residents.
Muddy, opaque floodwaters can hide large or sharp objects dislodged during a storm that can lead to injury, "anything from a fracture to a major laceration," said ABC News' chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton. The water may also contain snakes or other wildlife, human waste from overwhelmed sewage lines or chemicals leached or spilled from flooded sites.
Ashton, who was on the ground in Texas after Hurricane Harvey last year, said the floodwater dangers she witnessed included drowning, electrocutions from downed power lines, and infection.
"When you talk about what is in that water -- human waste, raw sewage, toxic chemicals, oil, gasoline, potentially wildlife, snakes, alligators -- then there's the possibility for anyone with an open cut or scrape on their body for an entry, portal of entry for bacteria to get in there," Ashton said on "GMA" Friday.
Volunteers from all over North Carolina help rescue residents and their pets from their flooded homes during Hurricane Florence, Sept. 14, 2018 in New Bern, N.C.
Stagnant water is a paradise for bacteria, and any open wounds give bacteria a way in to the body. That can lead to anything from a simple soft-tissue infection to a much more severe infection. People with a weak immune system are most vulnerable.
People walk through flooded Water Street as Hurricane Florence comes ashore in Wilmington, N.C., Sept. 14, 2018.
In addition, as Florence moves inland, environmental regulators are monitoring more than three dozen toxic waste sites in its path and scores of low-lying water- and sewage-treatment plants at risk of flooding.
EPA spokesman John Konkus said the agency is listening for any word of oil or hazardous substance spills, adding that federal on-scene coordinators and equipment stand ready to deploy if needed.
Sewage water can also easily mix with storm water, carrying bacteria that can cause short-lived gastrointestinal illness or worse.
Search and Rescue workers from New York rescue a man from flooding caused by Hurricane Florence in River Bend, N.C., Sept. 14, 2018.
Days after Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast in 2017, "GMA" asked Dr. Terry Gentry from Texas A&M University to collect and evaluate samples of the floodwater.
He found E. Coli levels more than 125 times higher than the EPA recommends for swimming and 15 times higher than the standard for wading. E. Coli infections can range from mild to severe.
North Carolina, with one of the largest pork industries in the country, is also at risk of contamination from the flooding of hog manure pits, coal ash dumps and other industrial sites.
Robert Simmons Jr. and his kitten "Survivor" are rescued from floodwaters after Hurricane Florence dumped several inches of rain in the area overnight, Sept. 14, 2018 in New Bern, N.C.
• After flooding, ensure your drinking water is sanitized and wash your hands thoroughly after contact with floodwaters. Disinfect objects that have come into contact with floodwater before offering them to children or toddlers.
• Try to avoid exposure with floodwaters for long periods of time to prevent physical injury. Wear waterproof boots if you have them.
• Keep any open wounds clean, dry, and covered if you must go through the water. Seek medical attention for any wounds that are not healing or are festering or making you feel ill.
Turris picked up an assist and two hits in Monday's 3-2 win over the Stars in Game 3. Turris has only two helpers in 12 games since being healthy scratched twice in March. It was a rough year in general for the center, who accumulated only 23 points in 55 games, his worst production since his first full campaign in 2008-09. Injuries accounted for some of his troubles, but he hasn't been good lately and can be avoided for postseason fantasy usage.
Turris (coach's decision) is expected to play Tuesday against the Maple Leafs, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports. Turris has struggled since returning from injury, as he only has four points in 16 games. That led to him getting benched for two contests, likely in an attempt to get him back on track heading into the playoffs. It remains to be seen where he draws back into the lineup should he return, though as Colton Sissons played well in Turris' absence.
Turris (coach's decision) remains out of the lineup for Saturday's game against the Sharks, Brooks Bratten of the Predators' official site reports. Turris has clearly landed in the doghouse, as Saturday marks the second straight game he will be sent to the press box. The veteran pivot has also seen his production fall off the table recently, with him tallying just four points since he returned from a lower-body injury Feb. 6. Turris' next chance to rejoin the lineup arrives Tuesday against the Maple Leafs.
Turris will sit as a healthy scratch for Thursday's game against the Kings, Adam Vingan of The Athletic reports. Turris hasn't been very productive lately, notching two assists in his last eight games while posting a minus-1 rating over that span, so coach Peter Laviolette is clearly trying to light a fire under the veteran forward by bumping him from the lineup. Turris will likely return to action Saturday against the Sharks.
Turris assisted on Filip Forsberg's equalizer in a 3-2 shootout win over the Wild on Sunday. Turris contributed three shots on goal in the contest. The center has struggled this season with 21 points in 43 games. Turris can still provide value via the man advantage, though, where he has six of his 21 points this year while skating on the top unit.
Turris shooting for the locker room, there.
LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — A 20-year-old man faces charges relating to the aftermath of a shooting that sent three people, including an alleged shooter, to the hospital Wednesday evening.
Derek Aguayo, of Lebanon, is charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence as well as drug charges after police executed a search warrant at a residence on Saturday. Police allege Aguayo removed a handgun from the scene in Lebanon, which occurred in the area of North 9th and Mifflin Streets — it has not been recovered.
Police claim 31-year-old Luis Guzman, of Allentown, possessed the now-missing firearm and shot toward the group, which injured two others. A warrant is out for his arrest — he has not been seen since his release from the hospital after the incident.
Guzman is charged with four counts of aggravated assault, one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied structure, recklessly endangering another person, firearms not to be carried without a license and discharging a firearm prohibited.
Ivonne Delarosa, 44, and Rahkim Edwards, 24, both of Lebanon, are recovering from their wounds.
Police continue to investigate this incident. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lebanon City Police Department at 717-272-2054 or Crime Stoppers at 717-270-9800.