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Congratulations Dundas Real McCoy's on your 2014 Allan Cup Victory! The entire week was full of energy from the volunteers, organizers and teams. I had a great time shooting for Hamilton Scores "The voice of the #HamOnt amateur sport community". All my photographs from the event can be viewed at www.Presentitphoto.com (Direct Link-2014 Allan Cup) Please enjoy my favourite picks from the tournament.
Last year I posted about the Real McCoy's because they sponsored the newly added Atom Select team. Since adopted by the DMHA they were known as the Dundas Jr. Real McCoy's. Being part of a small community it is nice to have the boys mentored by an amazing group of local hockey players. The McCoy's sponsored the boys who were in hockey limbo and gave time to run a very special practice. Read More: They Sure Are the Real McCoy | Hockey Links
On a personal note, my little guy tried out for rep that year and didn't make it. The coach of the Atom Selects was a former Real McCoy's player giving his time to share the love of the game. A wonderful parent network and commitment to the team led to lifetime experiences for our boys. These moments add growth to our children and deepens the ambition to be better hockey players. In my sons case, he wanted to try out for the rep team again. Once again he didn't make it. In light of some events he was asked to join the team. He had a great hockey year and the team building experiences are unforgettable. Now that hockey tryouts are around the corner, he has come to play. The Allan Cup Championship game has momentum that is inspiring to a young athlete. Mentorship is not only a one time moment, it is an ongoing connection and relationship.
The feedback from the 2014 Allan Cup by community members give a sense of loyalty and pride. I am pleased to present this video from the Championship day!
It was an extremely busy week. Just coming out of the OBA's in Windsor my computer hard drive failed. Creative Technologies in Burlington has worked hard to get me up and running. I hope to have a newly revised machine by the end of the week. Now among all that my daughter caught that awful hacking cold and was off school all week, my son had multiple sports-lessons and his birthday celebrations, I was shooting tons of hockey, my colleague from the Syracuse Crunch was in town to shoot the Bulldogs and I was hosting Easter Dinner. Needless to say I stopped to smell the roses in the beautiful flower bouquet from by sweetheart. Ahhhhhhhhh got it all done though!
Photo Above: Transway Bantam Girls Emotional Celebration Reclaiming their Provincial title at the OBA's
As I wind down from hockey season, I will be processing the last of the images and putting together a portfolio specific to hockey. Dave Black, SI photographer said my football is strong, but where is all the hockey? If I'm from Canada I should have more hockey in my portfolio. Well ya gotta listen and do when someone like Dave gives you advice. OH and I am very excited...no wait jumpy excited to meet with Dave Sandford-NHL photographer to gain some valuable photographic advice. It's kinda funny because I first met Dave Sandford back in 1997 at an event I was running. Yesterday when I was going through some photos I found this one one of a future NHL'r from the Whitby area. Jason Ward played in the OLA Celebrity Lacrosse Challenge. Here he is with NHL greats (L-R backrow: Adam Foot, Gary Roberts, Jason Ward, Joe Nieuwendyk, Colin Patterson. L-R Front Row: Darren Pang, Doug Gilmore, Brendan Shanahan, Stan Johnathan) all played lacrosse to improve their hockey skills.
At the time I was the Marketing Director for the OLA. I was just starting out as a photographer back then on film and we hired a professional photographer for the event to take the team shots. Such a small world to come full circle, live in a small town, support our local team and find a photo with some history. Photo: Real McCoy, Jason Ward (1997) and NHL Celebrities
The Hamilton Bulldogs (1) finished their season with a loss to the Syracuse Crunch (3) on April 20th, 2014 at FirstOntario Centre. Shout Out: Thank you Brandon Taylor, Hamilton Bulldogs photographer for sharing the glass and strobes all season. From beginning to end, it was so much fun to work with you.
Photo: Hamilton Bulldog, Mike Blunden fires one off at the Syracuse in the final game of the season. View Photos Here: http://presentitphoto.com/hamilton_bulldogs
One last shout out...THANK YOU DMHA for the feedback on the 2013- 2014 Yearbook. The positive response and the enjoyment the membership has shared has been overwhelming. It is always a lot of work for all the volunteers and community to gather and submit the images and content, but they did an amazing job! Amy Yanover, DMHA Sponsorship bent over backwards to keep the deadlines and we accomplished amazing things together as a team. It is a true pleasure to design and include my own photographs for the Dundas hockey community to enjoy for a lifetime. "The yearbooks are great...very glossy, colourful and professional! Thank you!"..."Awesome yearbook cover!"..."The yearbook is awesome and a great keepsake for our family..."Best Yearbook EVER!!!"...
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Sunnyside of Dudwick Farm, Ellon, AB41 8EH
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A 57 ha (140 ac) farm property near Ellon. Includes new build bungalow, original farmhouse, farmbuildings and Cairnhill steading. For sale as a whole or in two lots.
The original farmhouse at Sunnyside of Dudwick is a traditional one and a half storey stone and slate dwelling with a single storey extension on the east elevation. The farmhouse requires refurbishment and upgrading throughout. The accommodation comprises:
Ground Floor: Kitchen, Bathroom, Living Room, Sitting Room, Bedroom 1, Milkhouse/Store
First Floor: Bedroom 2, Bedroom 3, Boxroom
The range of traditional and semi-modern farm buildings at Sunnyside of Dudwick provide general storage and livestock accommodation. The buildings, together with approximate external measurements include:
Dutch Barn - 19.5m x 9.5m
General Purpose Shed - 13m x 7.5m
General Purpose Shed/Workshop - 13.5m x 8m
Cattle Courts - 26m x 19m
Storage Shed - 7m x 6.5m
Cairnhill Steading and Former Farmhouse
Lot 1 includes Cairnhill steading and derelict farmhouse which is situated to the north of Sunnyside of Dudwick steading and accessed by an internal farm track. The traditional stone buildings are not currently in useable condition however there is a steel portal frame Dutch barn/general purpose shed which is presently utilised for farming operations. Cairnhill may provide development opportunities subject to obtaining the appropriate planning consents.
The farmland included with Lot 1 comprises 56.79Ha (140.33 acres) or thereby of IACS registered land, as per the attached farm plan. According to the Macaulay Institute for Soil Research (now The James Hutton Institute), the land is predominantly classified as grade 3(2) with small areas of grade 4(1) land to the north west. The farm lies at an altitude of between 130m and 175m above sea level. The fields are currently all in grass. Woodland strips are also included.
BPS Entitlements are not included in sale price but available by separate negotiation. All BPS Region 1 land and LFA(SD).
Sunnyside of Dudwick Bungalow
Completed in 2018, this new build dwelllinghouse provides spacious family accommodation over one level. The 3 bed property has been finished to a high standard and benefits from picturesque and far reaching views over surrounding countryside.
The internal layout and room sizes are shown on the attached plan but in summary comprises: Kitchen/Dining Room, Lounge, Utility, Office, Bathroom with separate shower, Master Bedroom, Bedroom 2, Bedroom 3, W.C.
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Sunnyside of Dudwick Farm is conveniently located around 6 miles north of Ellon and in close proximity to the A90 trunk road which, together with the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route, allows access to the north, west and south of Aberdeen. The farm occupies an attractive elevated position with fine views over the surrounding Aberdeenshire countryside. The town of Ellon provides a wide range of facilities and services including shops, supermarkets, restaurants, community centre and golf course. Primary education is available at Arnage Primary School (4 miles) with secondary education provided at Ellon Academy Community Campus (8.5 miles).
Recreational opportunities nearby include the Formartine and Buchan Way which is designated as one of Scotland’s Great Trails and is a popular route with walkers and cyclists. Haddo House & Country Park and Aden Country Park are both within a 30 minute drive and provide walking paths, attractions and events throughout the year.
The City of Aberdeen (22 miles) can be reached in less than 45 minutes by car (rush hour excepted) and provides all the facilities befitting the acknowledged capital of the North Sea Oil Industry with theatre, two universities and shopping facilities far surpassing most other cities of its size. In addition, Aberdeen has a mainline railway station providing inter-city and sleeper services to the south and also an airport operating regular flights to London and other UK cities, as well as overseas destinations.
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Front Porch Punditry » News » News you can Use » Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals
#1 | Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Fri Mar 21, 2014 2:01 am
Former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who resigned from the network earlier this month, has wasted no time in her pursuit of the truth with the launch of her new website.
The website, featuring the tagline “Untouchable Subjects. Fearless Reporting,” is designed to educate visitors about her past reporting on stories relating to the Fast and Furious scandal, Benghazi, Healthcare.gov and other topics she has covered during her career at CBS. It isn’t clear, however, whether or not she will be adding new material to the site.
Attkisson, who received Accuracy in Media’s Reed Irvine Award for Investigative Journalism in 2012 to honor her “outstanding contributions to journalism,” often swam against the mainstream media tide. Now that she has been freed from her network shackles, she is sure to be an even larger thorn in the side of the Obama administration.
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/freed...obama-scandals/
Website: http://sharylattkisson.com/home.html
#2 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:26 am
Thanks for the post. Her web site looks like it willl be an interesting source of information.
#3 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:02 am
Location: Second Circle of Hell
If she wants to get the traffic up on her new site, she needs to post some selfies of her with Kim Kardashian and cute cat pics. Low Info eats that crap up....
Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun.
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This is great. Thanks for the post!
#5 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:33 am
Sharyl Attkisson: Always a ‘Chummy Relationship’ Between Reporters and WH
Former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson appeared on Friday with Philadelphia-based radio host Chris Stigall where she was asked about a story that exploded on Thursday involving an accusation from a local CBS reporter who alleged that White House correspondents often submit their questions to White House Press Sec. Jay Carney in advance. The White House press corps strongly objected to this allegation, and the reporter who made this claim later walked it back.
Attkisson said that, while she did not think this was a matter of collusion between journalists and political spokespeople for some nefarious purpose, there is some form of coordination between them. Attkisson added that there is a “chummy” relationship between reporters and political spokespeople that has been a feature of Washington D.C. that predates the Obama administration.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if sometimes there is that sort of level of cooperation with some questions that want to be asked,” Attkisson said, while noting that she had not attended a press briefing in the Obama White House. She continued, for example, that press secretaries may have questions submitted in advance and the reporter will be informed that the White House would prefer that question be raised during a press briefing so that it can be printed in a variety of news outlets.
I wouldn’t be shocked if there wasn’t sometimes more coordination,” Attkisson continued. “I don’t think it’s everybody every day. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s not. But I think people would be surprised at the level of cooperation reporters have in general with politicians.”
“It’s almost as if, I don’t know, we’re all in the same sort of club and we’re supposed to protect each other a little bit,” she added. “There is a lot of this chummy relationship, and not just under the Obama administration. There’s been that under all of them.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sharyl-at...porters-and-wh/
Somehow I am a tad skeptical there has been as high a level of chumminess under Republican Presidents as under Democrat, especially Obama.
#6 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 10:18 am
Whaddya mean, remember how chummy Sam Donaldson and Dan Rather were with President Nixon?
#7 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 12:10 pm
Quote: truthkeeper wrote in post #6
Interesting. I had not heard of that, but considering Nixon gifted up with the EPA and price controls it sounds plausible.
#8 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:50 pm
Rufus T Firefly
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Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #7
Don't wanna speak for Truthkeeper here, but there may have been a tad bit of sarcasm there . . .
#9 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:54 pm (Last edited: Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:54 pm)
On what alternate planet did this happen on?
#10 | RE: Freed from CBS, Sharyl Attkisson Launches Website Exposing Obama Scandals Sat Mar 22, 2014 1:56 pm
Thanks, Frank. I vaguely remembered that, but not the specifics.
Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #8
Ooooohhhhhh. I see. Well then....
It will be interesting to see if Attkisson really is a whiste-blower who shines a light on the cockroaches of the Left. People blowing whistles on statist shenanigans are far fewer in number than those who tell tales on right-wing ones. And bad things DO seem to happen to them.
I could have missed that. OTH I could see the MSM cheering the price controls and EPA, then throwing Nixon under the bus for Watergate. After all Juan McAmnesty who puts an R after his name and twists himself into a pretzel 'reaching across the aisle' is quite the fair haired child, the 'maverick' R, to the MSM.
Quote: Rufus T Firefly wrote in post #12
On a side note:
When you get to be my age, they do seem to come around faster and faster
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But if you are serious about cutting the cord, you might want to invest in less-expensive, dedicated solution called a dongle. Smart TVs are great, but technology updates so quickly that it doesn't take long before the "smart" functionality becomes a bit antiquated and you probably don't want to switch out your TV every few years. Dongles include:
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Hulu is more than just a place to find some streaming originals and a lot of day-after-air shows. Last year it launched a live TV service—and it quickly became the PCMag Editors' Choice in this arena. Yeah, you pay more, but for that $39.99 you get access to the entire Hulu library we discussed above, plus lots of cable channels, including many local affiliates that stream live (depending on your location).
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Doing a truly honest inventory of which channels you can live without can reduce the pain of paying your cable bill each month. Did you know that you don't need anything more than basic cable in order to subscribe to pay channels like Starz and per-per-view events? The FCC requires cable companies to allow you to buy these premium channels without having to subscribe to higher tiers of service. So if your must-see show is on, say, HBO, maybe you can forego a fancier, more expensive plan and simply buy the channel on top of basic cable. Furthermore, expect various service charges to infect your bill. For example, you may pay a service charge for HD programming with your service provider. Also, you may face standard installation fees and activation fees. However, there are some providers that waive both standard installation and activation fees. With all this being said, these particular service charges may be subject to change.
Consumers are inundated with inaccurate information when it comes to cutting the cord. To be clear, cord cutting is not subscribing to a lot of different streaming services that would end up costing you nearly as much as the TV service that you already have. And cord cutting is not subscribing to a contractual TV service that happens to be delivered over the Internet instead of Cable or Satellite. Cord cutting means no contracts and paying only for what you want.
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The question of "when does it make sense?" can easily be rephrased as "how much money can I save?" and one of the biggest factors will be the price difference between combined internet and TV service or just internet. These are also the options that vary the most widely based on where you live, and the availability of promotions or contracts that can keep prices down for a short time.
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“Women simply aren’t funny!” says cheese company promoting cheesy jokes for Red Nose Day
Chalking another victory for the ‘confirm an existing stereotype’ PR tactic, The Sun recently declared men to be the most rib-tickling of genders:
Men really are funnier than women say 98 per cent of new poll
MEN really are funnier than women according to a new survey – which also confirmed Billy Connolly as the nation’s favourite comedian.
An overwhelming 98 per cent of the nation think men are better at telling jokes.
The hugely one-sided outcome may surprise some given the recent upsurge in the popularity of comediennes such as Miranda Hart, Sarah Millican and Jo Brand.
Source: The Sun, 21 February 2013
While this poll soemwhat debunks itself in announcing the king of comedy to be a 70 year old Scotsman whose heydays were 30 years ago, it’s worth highlighting that the panel of comedy experts who decreed that a penis instantly bestows upon its owner the gift of comedy were quizzed by… cheese company Babybel:
Katherine Flannery, of Mini Babybel, said: “As a nation, we’re well-known for our sense of humour. With the success of Miranda Hart and Sarah Millican, we were surprised to see just 2 per cent of Brits believe women to be funnier than men.”
That’s the same Babybel who are prominently trading off their support for Red Nose Day, with their website proudly challenging readers:
Tell us a cheesy joke and you could be on TV!
Here’s one for you: did you hear the one about the cheese company who thought selling outdated sexual stereotypes was a good way to support charity?
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I Worked For Free As A Young Politician, Osinbajo Tells APC Youth Aspirants
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Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has recounted how he worked tirelessly and for free when he newly joined politics years ago.
According to Laolu Akande, the vice-president’s spokesman, Osinbajo said this while addressing young aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja.
He urged them to embrace commitment to the party and be ready to make sacrifices.
Narrating his younger days in politics, while speaking to the youth on Wednesday night, Osinbajo said he worked for years without getting any appointment.
He said: “As a young person, I belonged to several pressure groups. I graduated at the age of 21. And when I graduated, I began to participate in various pressure groups, human rights organisations, anti-corruption, civil society groups of every kind.
“When political parties started forming, we could not aspire, but we remained involved. My first involvement in government was when I was appointed as Attorney-General in Lagos State.”
Osinbajo who served as the Attorney General of Lagos state during Bola Tinubu’s tenure, said the position was his first major appointment.
Osinbajo said: “For seven years — after serving as Lagos Attorney-General — I was part of the party. I did not have a board appointment or anything, but I kept working for the party.
“I kept working for the party as a lawyer. Most of those cases, we were not paid a dime. But we went from place to place.
“Sometimes, we didn’t even have a place to stay when we went to court the next morning. So, there is a measure of paying the price, it depends on how serious or committed we are to some of the things we say we are committed to.
“We are in a place where we are the ones who can make the difference; nothing is going to change overnight, but we can make efforts to change the process.
“We can do a lot more, but it depends on our commitment. I like the idea of young people getting a quota in the party structure to run for office on some level, such as the state Houses of Assembly,” he added.
He advised the young aspirants to invest in building the party, contribute the the development of their community and the nation as a whole.
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Fold and fly
March 2, 2009 Poornima Dasharathi
It was good to see flights take-off once again at the old HAL airport last Sunday. Only, the planes that had a smooth takeoff and landing were made of paper. And the pilots were college students dressed casually in jeans and T-shirts.
Redbull Paperwings contest underway (pic:PD)
Red Bull, the energy drink maker, had organized a paper plane flying contest for college students in India for the first time, as part of a worldwide contest, held first in 2006. The qualifying rounds that were conducted in five major cities – New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai, over January-February, attracted around 150 participants.
Forty-five participants who had qualified from the city level rounds in three categories, ‘Longest Distance’, ‘Longest Airtime’ and ‘Aerobatics’ had made it to the national finals on 1st March. The grand attraction – winners in each category would get a free ride on a real plane to participate in the Red Bull Paper Wings World Championships to be held at Hangar 7, Salzburg Airport, Austria.
Redbull Paperwings participants from St. Josephs college (pic:PD)
The area in front of the erstwhile Kaveri Crafts shop inside the HAL airport was the practice arena for the contestants. The place was littered with paper planes of all shapes and sizes. Though it looked like the boys were having fun, the underlying pressure of winning the event could be seen on their faces.
Abhi, a young IITian from Chennai gave a broad smile and showed me how to make a paper plane. Clean shaven and dressed in a dark striped shirt and light coloured trousers, he looked just like a techie. He had entered the qualifying rounds when he got to know of this contest ‘by chance’ through his friend. Now, here he was in the finals, practising for the longest distance category.
The long hall, previously the over-crowded check-in area for domestic flights at HAL airport, was used as the venue for the finals. Each participant was cheered and the Bangalore-based participants naturally had the highest support. The event had its share of glamour as young women from the local colleges cheered for their ‘guy’ to win.
Have you ever tried throwing a paper plane at home? Chances are it wouldn’t have gone too far. That’s probably because you are not Karan Shah, a bespectacled, studious looking Poddar College student from Mumbai. His plane flew an amazing 29.25 meters, winning the ‘Longest Distance’ prize comfortably.
There were paper gliders on show, too. With wide wings and blunted edges, these gliders could stay airborne for longer. Ryan Gibbs from St. Joseph’s, Bangalore, who won the ‘Longest Airtime’ prize – his plane spent 7.16 seconds before landing – explained that this design was used by other participants worldwide. The world record in this category is 27.6 seconds. Gibbs has a long way to go if he has to win the World Championship in Austria.
The third category, aerobatics, provided the best entertainment. Not only were the planes very creative, the participants put up a colourful show. While one participant came in a multi-colour costume and a bushy wig, another came in a Formula One racing suit complete with a helmet. Creativity in outfit and plane design were important criteria to win this category. This category also attracted the sole girl participant in the entire event.
Winners of the Redbull Paperwings contest, India finals (pic: Poornima Dasharathi)
Bipin Chinappa, a student from of CMR Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore was the most creative. Wearing a cardboard prop shaped like a plane, he strode in and flew his planes. He justified his costume with irrefutable logic – “I believe any pilot should be in a plane to fly a plane”.
As the judges announced the scores, Chinappa’s face broke into a huge grin. He was the crowd’s favourite and everybody was sure he would win; until Shailesh from VSM Aerospace stepped in and equalled his score taking the contest to a tie-breaker.
Unfortunately for Chinappa, his cardboard plane prop gave way. However, his paper planes put up a much better performance, and in the end it was his planes’ better flying power that won him the ticket to Austria. Chinappa’s relieved smile said it all.
There was a sizeable crowd, comprising mostly of college students. There were a few Red Bull representatives who stood at the entrance and distributed much-needed energy drinks to all. There was also some fantastic acrobatics by Pranjal and group, an amateur college dance troupe that entertained the spectators during the breaks.
The three finalists who won the Austria trip were cheered and envied by others. “The feeling has not yet sunk in” said a tired Gibbs after the photo shoots, “and obviously I’ll have to practice harder for the next event”. But for the day he was the hero as his friends planned to celebrate his win in style.
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Poornima is our correspondent for Heritage & Features. She also runs a heritage and culture themed travel outfit called Unhurried.
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Rohini Mascarenhas says:
Yeah!!! your probably missed one of the most happening evnts of the quarter:):)…
It was a great event,awesome set up and a brilliant atmosphere. The most appropriate way to spend a sunday afternoon to tell you the truth… Im sure everyone who was there will agree.
Anyhow, its time for the finalists from India to really put themselves to the test. The world final is happening on the 1st and 2nd of May and they are going to be flown down to Hangar 7 in Austria to face the best of the best from over 85 countries. Its a great experience and good exposure for all of them. THey have been busy practising and getting prepared for thr Finals and will be representing India in the event.
Wishing them all the luck they need for the Finals.
Poornima Dasharathi says:
Glad you liked it. The whole ambience was fun.. college days where flying a paper plane in the class is an offence, these college guys were actually licensed to fly a paper plane and won prizes:)
Deepa Mohan says:
I didn’t know about this event at all, or I would have been there…just when I felt I had missed something, I saw your article! Thank you, Poornima.
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by Zachary Ho - Aug 1, 2018
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Perodua established its National Technical Skill Contest in 1997 and has since been using it as a platform to help its after-sales personnel improve their knowledge, standards and skill. This is particularly helpful in 2018 as Perodua is forecasting a record 2.14 million service intakes this year.
The Perodua National Technical Skill Contest puts service advisors, foremen, mechanics, and for the first time this year, Body & Paint service advisors, through a series of tough customer-related scenarios.
This year’s contest was among the largest Perodua has ever conducted, with more than 2,000 after-sales staff across the country, from dealers as well as branches, taking part in the preliminary round in February.
“Participants are judged on how correctly, thoroughly, quickly and efficiently they solve the issues given, and not just from a technical perspective – they also have to demonstrate a strong focus on the all-important Customer Satisfaction,” said Perodua Sales Sdn Bhd Managing Director Dato’ Dr Zahari Husin.
The national finals was held recently (19 July) and saw mechanics Nur Adilin Mohd Yusuf (KK1 branch) and Muhd Izuan Kamarul Baharin (Nagoya Automobile), foremen Jamaluddin Ja’asa (Seremban branch) and Felix Chee Tuin (Posh Auto), service advisors Noor Faziha Md Anas (Ipoh2 branch) and Siti Fatimah Abu Samah (Roda Juara), as well as Body & Paint service advisor Arthur James (KK1 branch) emerge as winners.
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Rajasthan Part 2
I had tried very hard to book a flight from Jaisalmer to Jaipur. There is an airport, a former military one, and I have seen pictures of the finished terminal. However, despite lots of comments about ‘opening soon’ dating from 2012, it still isn’t. So, we faced our longest drive of the trip. Long enough we had to break it into two with a stop in Nimaaz and it would still be an 8-hour trek just to get there. Although it didn’t take long to leave the desert, the villages along the way had that same forlorn look; families living on the side of the road, cows and goats and dogs. I had been keeping a road kill count and got to three dead cows, five dead dogs, a goat and a lamb. Then, we saw our first dead guy and it wasn’t funny anymore. We think he was punted off his scooter by one of the big trucks and lay in a crumpled heap on the roadside surrounded by about 20 people. He was the first but wouldn’t be the last.
We hit Nimaaz at dusk and promptly got lost. With instructions via mobile phone we finally made it to our hotel (The Lakshman Sagar) an hour later in the dark. Tonight, we were splitting up as the 5-star tented hotel only had one room for Hubert and Nicole. We were a bit nervous about that but we were in for a pleasant surprise. This small property with 8 bungalows is a former hunting lodge. The trek to your room up and down rocky trails by flashlight is daunting but the charming stone and mud hut we found was very cool with a large bedroom, living room with fireplace, a nice big terrace with plunge pool overlooking a small lake and Australian Shiraz in the fridge. We were invited to have cocktails at a large fire pit in front of the main building where we met an American who was doing a bit of a tour following his brothers wedding in Delhi. Dinner was lovely and sleep came quickly in the total silence except for a roaring fire they started for us.
Good thing we slept as we were up for the nature walk at 7:30. Equipped with hand-whittled walking sticks we walked the cliffs around the lake following a herd of antelope that were just below us. Then, we descended the hill and walked through a field to have our ‘Field Breakfast’. The lodge arranges for a local farmers wife and daughters to cook a traditional breakfast outside that’s served on a white tablecloth with white cloth covered couches. No idea all of what we ate but there was fresh buttermilk that Ellen churned (a bit), various breads with yoghurt and ghee. It was really different, very good and the farmer’s kids were charming providing me with the best picture of the entire trip. Great place. Not 5-star but so glad we got to see it and experience a little bit of real life.
Lakshman Sagar
Field breakfast
Farmer's kids
On the road again. This time another six hours to Jaipur with a stop in Pushkar. A little town famous for its camel fair and auction that brings 50,000 camels to dress up and sell in November. Pretty good turnout given there are only 14,000 people living in Pushkar. The town also has one of the few Brahmin temples (locals say it is the only one but there are four more in India). Legend has it, Lord Brahma shed a tear on the death of his wife and one of the tears created a pond. That rather large pond now has 52 ‘ghats’, bathing places for the worshippers who arrive at the rate of 6,000 a day. We go to the temple and I take a pass as it requires removing shoes for the 10th time and a half block walk through the cow crap filled street to the temple. By the look on the faces of my compatriots when they returned, I made a good call. Nicole threw her socks out of the window of the van.
So much for Pushkar. We speed along to Jaipur. The capital of Rajasthan this city feels different. Perhaps because it was the first planned city in India, divided into seven sectors separated by broad boulevards 34 meters wide. We arrive at the Oberoi Rajvillas, a 32 acre property complete with its own restored 280 year old temple and a Rajasthani mansion that now serves as its spa. The drive from Pushkar was less than 5 hours and we settle into our tented villa, dinner and an early night.
The next morning we head out to The Amber Fort, the most spectacular we’ve seen so far; especially with the added attraction of an elephant ride to the top. They use 100 female elephants for the steep uphill trek and you sit sideways having stepped into the ‘ howdah’ from an elevated platform. We are told to pay the ‘mahout’ (the person who steers the elephant) a 50 rupees tip. I give him 100 and he complains. He wants 200 or he won’t let us off. For some reason I feel I’m being gouged for the extra $1.50 and I refuse. It takes the cops to move him along for our exit.
The fort, built in 1592 is fabulous. The Hall of Mirrors has inlaid pieces of mirrored glass by the thousands. It is said; the light of one candle reflecting from all the glass can light the huge room. The museum is excellent and while everyone is in the bookshop I pet a cobra outside. Yes, one of India’s million remaining snake charmers has set up shop on the exit ramp. While their craft was banned in 1972 due to cruelty to the cobras, these remaining ones formed a union and continue today although largely as snake removal specialists. This particular snake has had its venom glands removed that shows by the indentations behind the eyes, some have their mouths sewn shut or their fangs plugged with wax or broken off. Still, it is quite a rush to see it rising from the basket and spreading its hood.
We are liking Jaipur. It is known as the ‘Pink City’ as the buildings were all tinted rose pink after an experiment with different colors to cut down the suns glare for a visit by the Prince of Wales in 1876. Next up we head for the ‘Palace of the Winds’, an extraordinary 5 story façade built in 1799 with 953 lattice covered windows to allow the royal ladies to view the street unseen. But, it is a façade with only small rooms and access corridors behind it. The lattice is designed in such a way as to create a ‘venturi’ effect cooling the small interiors. Traffic in this area is horrible and getting out for a closer look is impossible on this day. We missed the small museum inside.
Jaipur is known for its shopping. Nicole remembers a place from a previous visit and we wind up seeing everything Jaipur has to offer under one roof. First we are shown block printing; hand made blocks, five or more in succession, dipped in different colored dyes and applied perfectly to cloth in layers. Then, a woman weaving carpet on a loom followed by a man torching the back of a carpet with a gas flame to remove all the bits. We are taken upstairs and shown fabulous carpets; some that take a year to make. One was a gorgeous 8 by 12 blue grey and he was asking $3,000 USD. Unsure of our sizing needs we pass and it was a mistake. In the courtyard dozens of workers are assembling, staining, distressing furniture while others are hand carving elephants the size of a small car. The hand block printing guy calls me over on the way out and gave me the little elephant he created for us. A place where you could spend hours. We did.
We had a final dinner with Hubert and Nicole in the Oberoi’s Indian restaurant as they were heading off to see tigers in Ranthanbore and we were going on to Agra. The restaurant staff took us into the open kitchen where we were shown how to make their wonderful ‘Naan’ bread by slapping it on the walls of a Tandoori oven. In the morning we saw our friends off and Ellen went to meet her sandalwood bead supplier in town. Getting to his factory was an adventure in its own right but successful in the end. The government tightly controls endangered sandalwood releasing from its own warehouse stock annually. Big business. Most go into the large and elaborate carvings, the scraps made into beads. This one guy buys 60 tons of it a year.
On to Agra and the Taj Mahal. Jaipur to Agra is one of our shorter trips and Ellen and I are alone with Mr. Singh now as Hubert and Nicole have another car. We are staying at another Oberoi, the Amarvillas, which is directly in front and 600 meters from the Taj we are told. It’s not. It would be more like 1,200 meters, if you could even see it through the smoke and fog. While the grounds here look lovely this is not the most impressive of the Oberois we have stayed at. It feels older and more than a bit tired. Our guide advises us that the fog and smoke could burn off the next day by around noon and to see Agra Fort and the Baby Taj first. Turned out to be good advice as in the morning we couldn’t see 100 feet. It is winter in Rajasthan and, in the morning, people light hundreds of small fires on the street for warmth and cooking. Mixed with the fog it hangs like a blanket over the city.
Oberoi Agra
Agra Fort is enormous. Its 70-foot tall red sandstone walls date from Akbars rule in 1558 but there was a fort on this spot since the 11th century. Shaped like a bow or a crescent, it once had 500 buildings within its walls but most were destroyed by Shah Jahan, Akbar’s grandson, for his more preferred white marble. Now, only 30 red stone buildings remain. This place has an amazing history but it will always be best known as the prison where Shaw Jahan’s son kept him for the last 8 years of his life. Everyday he could stare at the Taj Mahal downriver where his beloved wife Mumtaz was entombed before joining her in 1666 when he died at age 74.
Finally we arrive at the Taj Mahal. Built by Shaw Jahan in 1632 as a memorial for his wife Mumtaz who had died giving birth to their 14th child.
The Taj was built from white marble dragged by elephants from quarries 400 KM’s away. It took 20,000 workers 12 years to build and created much discontent as Shaw Jahan diverted food from locals to his craftsmen. It is nothing less than spectacular but it is when you get up close that you are completely overwhelmed. Time to speak of ‘Pietra Dura’. At the Taj and other palaces it is the art of carving out intricate patterns in marble and filling them perfectly with inlays of precious and semi precious stones. The entire face of the Taj is covered in it. It appears seamless with no rough edges or grout showing. Practiced in Italy from the early 17th century and dating back to Roman times it was adapted by Indian artisans and is still a major industry in Agra today.
The Taj is without question one of the most beautiful structures in the world, full of mystery and rife with optical illusions created by its Persian architect. The four minarets lean slightly outward in order that views from a distance keep them perfectly straight. It also ensures that in an earthquake the minarets would fall outward v/s on to the Taj itself. Then, there is the enduring love story of Shaw Jahan and Mumtaz who met at ages 14 and 15, lived a fantastic life that ended sadly until they were joined again and remain forever in the crypt below the Taj floor.
And then, we are done. The 200 KM’s back to Delhi are on a new superhighway, almost empty due to the heavy tolls. Now the trip takes less than three hours versus the 7 hours on the old road. Just as our driver is telling us this we come upon a horrific accident, a shock as we have seen almost no cars or trucks. It seems a few hours ago 7 big trucks and 3 cars barreled into a wall of fog leaving a field of carnage; dumped loads, crushed cars and smashed trucks. From the look of it, many fatalities and for the next few miles we saw flattened cars being dragged to the next exit by tractors. Road kill count went way up we think.
And that is India, more particularly Rajasthan. Shocking poverty, endless piles of garbage, filthy streets, thousands of wandering cows and crumbling infrastructure all covered in the grime of life. Then, there are the gorgeous Oberois, the unforgettable Umaid Palace, the incredible forts and, finally, the sheer beauty and elegance of the Taj Mahal. And, in the end, Hubert and Nicole saw their tiger. Just one but the biggest and oldest in the park walking slowly right beside their open truck. Damn, sorry we missed that.
Rajasthan. You won’t like all of it but you have to see it. It is spectacular.
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I asked recent MFA grad, Tom Hatcher, about his translations of Romanian poetry. Tom began his translation work in David Keplinger’s seminar on translation when he was introduced to the Romanian poet, Claudiu Komartin. Tom’s translations of Komartin’s work have been published in Poetry International and Pleiades. You can read some of Tom’s work here.
How did you connect with your poet? What initially drew you to his work?
I was quite lucky. Early in the semester David Keplinger invited a guest speaker, the Turkish poet Yaprak Oz. My colleague Nancy Kidder translated Yaprak’s work the year prior. I’ll never forget that day when David asked Yaprak to recommend poets we might translate. She wrote down Claudiu Komartin on the chalkboard, underlined it, and said, “He is genius.” My sister-in-law is Romanian, so I took this as a sign! I found Claudiu on Facebook that night and shortly after he sent me a PDF of his third book, Cobalt. As I scrolled through the book, I was blown away by his attention to detail and by the amount of variations in form.
As you were crafting these translations, were you communicating with Komartin and seeking his input? How collaborative was this process?
David Keplinger had us write three variations of each poem—a literal, formal, and connotative—which we then workshopped. I sent Claudiu copies of my translations only after the workshop and subsequent revision process. After reviewing my translations, Claudiu sent me some notes over Facebook Messenger and we had an incredible three-hour conversation as we sent ideas back and forth. Shortly after, I sent the poems out.
Did David Keplinger’s Seminar on Translation help you develop a specific theory on translation? What about the course helped guide you as you worked with Komartin’s poetry?
David Keplinger’s Seminar on Translation was not at all what I expected. I initially thought we would be studying the grammars of other languages, but instead we took a more heuristic approach. David showed us new ways of deconstructing language. We read excellent examples of translation. Above all, David taught me the joy of alternate word choice. He would have us try to translate idiomatic expressions—the untranslatable—and I loved the exercise of finding words that fit the puzzle. Ultimately I learned that there can never be a perfect translation, so it provides a forgiving place to experiment with language.
How has translating affected your writing practice? Do you find there is a difference in your work because you’ve done these translations?
Translation helped me understand my motives for writing. I found that the creative energy I exerted in translation was much different than in my own writing. Because I didn’t need a muse to get started, I was able to develop new approaches to writing. And because I didn’t have a creative axe to grind, I could focus entirely on the language. It reinvented my revision practice in my own writing. It showed me I could write without worrying about having everything figured out.
What were the greatest challenges in translating Komartin’s work? Does Romanian present unique language challenges that cannot be precisely replicated in English?
Being a Romantic language, Romanian translates rather smoothly, besides the vague gender pronoun “it.” Komartin’s poetry toes an interesting line between traditional and modern. While his poems are contemporary and filled with references to technology, they sometimes include archaic gestures. For instance, in the yet-to-be-published “Simple Poem,” Komartin mentions two women burying leaves, which is a Romanian ritual that demonstrates shame. Of course, we have no such tradition here in America, so I had to come up with a way of demonstrating this. I chose “burying leaves, burying someone’s shame,” which is about one of many great options Claudiu’s voice afforded me.
In “Preparations”— an incredibly stunning poem, that I love—the speaker addresses a woman who claims “that she does not understand and does not wish to understand something from my poems.” While I’m also deeply moved by some of the subsequent language in the poem (in particular, “turning the skin of a young turkey inside out”) these opening lines stick with me as they seem to fly in the face of the goal of a translation, an act that opens up a poem to new audiences so that they can comprehend what was originally indecipherable to them. What drew you to this poem, and did you think at all about what it might mean to translate a poem that contends with, at least in my interpretation, the idea that words and poetry may prove meaningless and “baffling?”
Claudiu Komartin loves to write about writing. He often writes about his own creative process and his frustrations with writing in a humble way. I find this meta approach to be one of his most charming qualities—he does not pretend to be anyone but himself. This poem feels like it was written after a particularly disheartening poetry workshop.
What formal elements in “something essential about dreams” did you want to preserve in your translation? In a way, the poem reads as a sort of sleepless stream of consciousness, and feels almost dream-like. Did this poem have a similar appearance in Romanian?
I’m glad it gives you that feeling—that certainly was Komartin’s intention. This was the poem that most struck me from Cobalt. I love the way the dual medial caesuras pass by each other like stalactites and stalagmites in a cave of words. I did my best to replicate the original, which was arranged by a graphic designer. That version has more crisp white space. The limitations of using Word made formatting this poem one of my greatest challenges during translation.
Were there elements of these poems that felt “untranslatable?” Did you have any particular difficulty in crafting some of these poems most memorable and beautifully unique lines?—I’m thinking specifically of “insect with a nanny soul” in “(I want to believe you)” and “You and I were two knives thrust in the grass together,” in “Together 1000 W.”
Those lines are the literal translations! My translation workshop wanted me to re-think “an insect with a nanny soul” and, believe me, I thought about it for quite a while. But David championed the line, and I just fell in love with the sheer weirdness of it. That’s when I knew it was as close to perfect as a translation can get.
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Vince Granata is a staff editor at Café MFA and a third-year candidate in American University’s Creative Writing MFA program.
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ConAgra Considering Move to Chicago: Omaha Employees Worried
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner offered tax incentives to the giant food company ConAgra earlier this year to entice them away from Omaha, Nebraska and set up shop in Chicago.
According to the Chicago Tribune these tax incentives corresponds with other reports that the owner of popular food brands such as Swiss Miss, Chef Boyardee and Slim Jim is getting closer to making the move to Chicago. The Tribune reports that ConAgra is considering renting a space in downtown Chicago’s Merchandise Mart which can hold upwards of 1,000 employees.
It is not known what Rauner’s incentives to ConAgra exactly were, and his offered was complicated by the fact that he later gave the order to halt similar tax incentives. The Tribune’s source said that the Governor still plans to honor his original offer.
Meanwhile, back in Omaha, where ConAgra has been located for almost 100 years, since 1922, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is quilting together his own proposal with incentives to keep ConAgra at home despite the fact that his proposal is said to go beyond what the government can legally do.
According to the Omaha-World Herald the governor said:
“We are not restricting this to what is on the books. We are willing to work with them in whatever way necessary to help them be competitive in their industry.”
However the report was not enough to keep ConAgra employees from worrying. In another story from the World Herald it was reported that ConAgra CEO Sean Connolly warned that job cuts are coming, and that some ConAgra employees have even listed their homes for sale.
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US government shut down for the second time this year
By : Brain Carroll
Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked a vote on a bipartisan budget agreement that raises spending caps for two years and funds the government through March 23, 2018.
The bill now moves to the House. The reason I’m here tonight is to put people on the spot.
McConnell and Schumer figured they’d get that agreement.
Congress again failed to carry out its most basic duty Thursday, shutting down the USA government after a Republican senator single-handedly held up a key vote in the chamber. But it would be costly and highlight a basic shift in Republican thinking.
The deal raises spending caps on discretionary spending by almost $300 billion over two years.
Trump’s tweets came after Republican Sen.
“Now we have Republicans hand in hand with Democrats offering us trillion-dollar deficits”, he said. “The deficit is going to increase significantly within the next few years because we haven’t done a balanced budget, we’ve just done CRs [continuing resolutions]”. Really who is to blame? Both parties now can claim credit for fully funding the military.
Then it’s on to the House, where voting is expected to be held some time between 4 AM and 6 AM ET.
The rebellion that simmered among Republicans and Democrats over the bipartisan budget agreement boiled over when dogged Senator Rand Paul refused to allow the Senate to act expeditiously to pass the spending measure.
Final passage of the bill would remove some uncertainty from USA financial markets at a turbulent time. The S&P 500 slumped 3.8 per cent. When you control the executive, the legislative, the judiciary, the majority of state houses in this country, basically everything that happens is on your shoulders, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and these shutdowns have been incredibly ugly and they show that Republicans are completely unwilling not only to work with one another, but to ever reach across the aisle and say, “Hey, Democrats”.
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget “is now preparing for a lapse in appropriations”, an OMB official said on condition of anonymity, calling on lawmakers to get the measure to Trump’s desk “without delay”.
Pelosi planned to vote against the bill.
The immigration debate drove the shutdown last month, as Democrats pushed McConnell to agree to prioritize the issue, but it had not been part of more recent budget negotiations, despite Trump’s nudging. Conservatives objected to how much money it spends, and Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, voted against it since it excludes a deal on immigration. Trump announced that program, which protects immigrants from deportation, will end on March 5.
But passage in the House was not assured amid opposition from some Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
“I think this has been a very useful debate”, Mr Paul said shortly before the vote.
But Pelosi said Ryan’s words fell short, accusing him of not having “the courage to lift the shadow of fear from the lives of” Dreamers who face the prospect of deportation.
As a fallback, Flake said he’ll propose extending young immigrants’ protections for three years and providing three years’ worth of border money. Democrats have balked at those terms.
Trump echoed those concerns but said that in order to secure Democratic votes for the package, more spending “on things we do not like or want” was necessary.
Pelosi’s support for the budget deal will be vital because Ryan will nearly certainly not be able to pass spending increases over objections from his conservative flank, including the Freedom Caucus, without relying on Democratic votes. Caucus chairman Mark Meadows called it “eye-popping and eyebrow-raising”.
Trump signs United States spending bill ending government shutdown
Trump signs US budget bill to end government shutdown
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Save The River Appoints Executive Director
August 24th, 2018 | Posted by Margaret Hummel
Save The River announced today that John Peach has been appointed to serve as the executive director and Upper St. Lawrence Riverkeeper. Peach had been serving as the interim executive director since mid-June while a search committee received applications from potential candidates. Peach previously served on Save The River’s board of directors for nearly two decades.
“John was the obvious and overwhelming first choice as the new executive director. His years of experience in not-for-profits along with his love of our River made him an easy selection,” said Jeff Garnsey, president of Save The River’s board of directors. “John brings with him the energy to guide our organization as well as hands-on experience to make the tough decisions required by the position.”
“My passion is that Save The River remains strong in our work to protect the Upper St. Lawrence River through advocacy, education, and research,” said Peach. “Now that Plan 2014 has been approved and is in operation, it will allow Save The River to focus on key river issues such as plastics in the River and water column, the very real threat of aquatic invasive species including Asian Carp, pollution from river municipalities, residential sewages, and agriculture run-off, and the threat of diversion of our precious fresh water. Save The River’s In the Schools and On the Water programs placed 950 students and 37 educators out on the River this year for hands-on scientific education. Our Common Tern restoration program in conjunction with Thousand Islands Land Trust (TILT) saw a record-breaking number of Tern chicks banded. Our Beach Watch water quality analysis of six swimming sites is now its twentieth year, and our shoalmarkers continue to guide River boaters safely around many of the area’s most treacherous shoals.”
John joined Save The River’s board in 2000 and has served in several key roles including as president from 2004-2007, on the executive committee, and most recently as treasurer leading the finance committee. He is an active volunteer in Save The River’s Common Tern Monitoring program and shoal marking program and will continue his work in these programs while serving as executive director. Prior to his retirement several years ago, Peach worked as an international business consultant in fields including arts, oceanographic research, environmental, and pharmaceuticals. He and his wife Pat call Huckleberry Island near Ivy Lea home for a significant portion of the year; their children and grandchildren represent the fifth and sixth generations of family living in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River region.
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Save The River Remembers Ken Deedy
Save The River remembers Ken Deedy, Board of Directors Emeriti
Ken Deedy served on the Board of Directors from the mid-80s to 90s, a pivotal time in Save The River’s history as the organization developed dynamic programs engaging River residents and established a stable financial foundation with a permanent home in Clayton. Ken was an earnest and enthusiastic member of Save The River, someone who saw the big picture and was full of ideas for synergistic collaboration.
“I was very fortunate to come to know Ken over the last twenty years. He was one of the most intense individuals I’ve ever met when speaking about protecting our beloved Thousand Islands. Always generous with his time and money, he was usually in the lead on any project that benefited The River,” said John Peach, Executive Director of Save The River. “So it was no surprise to us when we learned that one of Ken’s final acts of generosity was to create the ‘Kenneth Deedy Environmental Internship Fund’ to benefit the work of Save The River, Thousand Islands Land Trust, and Minna Anthony Common Nature Center and ensure that these organizations continue to work together for the common good of The River.”
The Board and staff of Save The River are humbled and inspired by the example set by Ken in his work to protect the St. Lawrence River.
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By Chris in Science Publishing
For seven years, Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado, maintained a blacklist of open-access Journals, which according to his criteria were questionable and untrustworthy. This list was mostly meant as a resource to warn the research community about predatory journals that would charge fees but did not provide appropriate publishing services, such …
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Fundamental research: how much is it worth?
By David in Science funding, Science Publishing
Certain scientific leaders believe that funding for science should be allocated, not based on the relative ‘trendiness’ or ‘impact’ of projects, but rather according to the acumen — either potential or proven — of the practitioners. One champion of this ethos is the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a certain Prof. Helmut Schwarz, …
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By Chris in Science policy, Science Publishing
Hardly any topic in scientific publishing generates as much attention, debate and frequent outbursts as the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), calculated by Thomson Reuters. Long recognized for it’s inherently flawed nature in determining the quality of individual research articles or contributions (and performance) of individual scientists, it is unfortunately still frequently used as a means …
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I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting before I left my flat this Saturday to join fellow scientists and science-fans on the March for Science in London. Demonstrations against Brexit and the Women’s March earlier this year were still on my mind, I guess, and probably contributed to my anticipation of large crowds. When …
EU influence on UK science
By Chris in At the bench, Science communication, Science funding, Science policy
There are many reasons why academics are dreading the possibility of a Brexit: the loss of EU science funding is one of them, access to highly qualified lab personnel another. Euroskeptics keep insisting that we invest more than we get out. But how much does the UK actually contribute to EU research programmes – and …
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Cell reprogramming: a new era
By Chris in Stem cells
I recently had the opportunity to produce an article about cell identity & reprogramming together with the Eurostemcell team, Thomas Graf and Austin Smith. Our body contains several hundred different types of specialised cells. Each cell has very specific features that enable it to do its job. Yet every cell in your body contains the same genes …
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The science of getting drunk
By Chris in Neuroscience
At the end of last year the media was full of articles about Professor David Nutt’s proposal to develop a drug that mimics the effect of alcohol without creating a hangover. Not surprisingly, this caused major discussions. Besides the legal concerns of replacing alcohol with another psychoactive drug, his suggestion came attached to a call for funding which was seen as …
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Patient consultation rate and clinical and NHS outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis of English primary care data from 2.7 million patients in 238 practices
Sarah Lay-Flurrie1Email author,
Edouard Mathieu1,
Clare Bankhead1,
Brian D. Nicholson1,
Rafael Perera-Salazar1,
Tim Holt1,
F. D. Richard Hobbs1Email authorView ORCID ID profile,
Chris Salisbury2 and
on behalf of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Received: 14 November 2018
Published: 6 April 2019
Primary care workload is high and increasing in the United Kingdom. We sought to examine the association between rates of primary care consultation and outcomes in England.
Cross sectional observational study of routine electronic health care records in 283 practices from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink from April 2013 to March 2014. Outcomes included mortality rate, hospital admission rate, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) performance and patient satisfaction. Relationships between consultation rates (with a general practitioner (GP) or nurse) and outcomes were investigated using negative binomial and ordinal logistic regression models.
Rates of GP and nurse consultation (per patient person-year) were not associated with mortality or hospital admission rates: mortality incidence rate ratio (IRR) per unit change in GP/ nurse consultation rate = 1.01, 95% CI [0.98 to 1.04]/ 0.97, 95% CI [0.93 to 1.02]; hospital admission IRR per unit change in GP/ nurse consultation rate = 1.02, 95% CI [0.99 to 1.04]/ 0.98, 95% CI [0.94 to 1.032]. Higher rates of nurse but not GP consultation were associated with higher QOF achievement: OR = 1.91, 95% CI [1.39 to 2.62] per unit change in nurse consultation rate vs. OR = 1.04, 95% CI [0.87 to 1.24] per unit change in GP consultation rate. The association between the rates of GP/ nurse consultations and patient satisfaction was mixed.
There are few associations between primary care consultation rates and outcomes. Previously identified demographic and staffing factors, rather than practice workload, appear to have the strongest relationships with mortality, admissions, performance and satisfaction. Studies with more detailed patient-level data would be required to explore these findings further.
Primary care workload in England increased by 16% between 2007 and 2014, [1] and similar large increases have been observed in secondary care [2]. The relationship between greater demand on primary care, or improved access, to primary care and outcomes such as secondary care use, mortality, satisfaction and quality of care is unclear.
Higher consultation rates might imply improved access to care with greater health care provision which could be associated with improvements in these outcomes. For example, patients in practices which provide more consultations might be less likely to use hospital services, owing to the fact that they do not experience difficulties accessing primary care. Alternatively, an increased consultation rate might indicate inadequate clinical triage and excessive practice workload. This might lead to a reduction in quality of care, worse patient outcomes and greater use of secondary health care resources. Such potential relationships are important for health service planning but are poorly understood.
Previous research has examined the association between continuity of care and hospital admissions, [3] but has largely been conducted at the patient level and has focussed on the route of admission [4, 5] or admission for specific conditions [6]. Similar research examining access to primary care and mortality has also been conducted at the patient level, [7] or in specific patients groups, [8] outside of the United Kingdom setting [9, 10]. Studies of quality of care have focussed on staffing levels, [11] which may fail to capture variation in time spent consulting rather than administrative tasks. Finally, studies of practice factors associated with patient satisfaction have not assessed consultation rates explicitly, but used data regarding patient experience of making an appointment, or list size and staff headcounts as proxies [12, 13].
We therefore explore the association between clinical and service outcomes (mortality, hospital admission rates, quality of care, and patient satisfaction) and consultation rates in primary care, at the general practice level.
Consultation and patient demographic data were obtained from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), a research database of anonymised UK patient records [14]. English practices consenting to CPRD’s data linkage scheme were included in the study if they contributed data covering any part of the study period (1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014), and were defined as “up-to-standard” (CPRD definition of continuous high quality data recording fit for use in research).
CPRD data were linked to patient-level death registration data from the Office for National Statistics, inpatient Hospital Episodes Statistics data and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) deprivation data. These datasets were further linked to practice-level data on staffing, [15] rurality, [16] patient satisfaction and quality of care. Patient satisfaction data were drawn from the General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS) [17]. Quality of care data were drawn from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which is a financial incentive scheme that resources practices for performing certain evidence-based tasks in patients with chronic conditions [18, 19]. Patient level data was provided directly by CPRD and practice level data was downloaded from NHS digital (formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre). The protocol for this study was approved by the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (ISAC protocol number 15_120R).
Consultations in CPRD represent distinct openings of the clinical record, coded according to the type of contact, using 51 separate codes. These were grouped into the following consultation types: face-to-face surgery consultations, telephone contacts, home visits, administrative, and other. Equivalently, staff roles are coded using 67 separate codes, which we grouped into general practitioner (GP), nurse, other clinicians, and administrative roles [1]. This analysis was restricted to face-to-face, telephone or visit consultations with a GP or nurse. Patient level data for consultation, mortality and hospital admission rates were aggregated at the practice level (total number of GP/ nurse consultations, deaths and admissions). Data on age, gender and deprivation were also aggregated (percentage of patients who were female, percentage of patients aged over 64 and percentage of patients in the most deprived quintile of IMD). Continuous data on staffing, rurality, QOF performance and patient satisfaction data were grouped (e.g. into deciles) prior to linkage with patient-level data. This was a requirement of the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) to CPRD, to limit the possibility of identifying individual CPRD practices.
Negative binomial regression models were used to examine the association between consultation rate and mortality/ hospital admission rates, with GP and nurse consultation rates examined separately. To account for patients and practices that only contributed data for part of the study period, the number of deaths/ admissions was modelled as the outcome variable with an offset term/ explanatory variable for the total patient person years of observation. Ordinal logistic regression models were used to examine the association between consultation rate and overall QOF performance score (decile, highest decile indicates best performance) and seven separate domains of patient satisfaction (decile, highest decile indicates greatest satisfaction, see Table 1).
Domains of patient satisfaction from the GP Patient Survey
Patient satisfaction domain
Able to get an appointment to see or speak to someone (% of patients responding “Yes”)
Convenience of appointment (% of patients responding “Convenient”)
How long until actually saw or spoke to GP / nurse (% of patients responding “Same or next day”)
Is GP surgery currently open at times that are convenient (% of patients responding “Yes”)
Ease of getting through to someone at GP surgery on the phone (% of patients responding “Easy”)
Frequency of seeing preferred GP (% of patients responding “Always” or “Almost always”)
Recommending GP surgery to someone (% of patients responding “Yes”)
The following variables were included in all models, without selection: GP/nurse consultation rate (number of face-to-face, visit and telephone consultations with a GP/ nurse per patient person year), percentage of patients who were female, percentage of patients aged over 64, percentage of patients in the most deprived quintile of IMD, number of full-time equivalent (FTE) GPs/ nurses per 1000 patients, practice rurality (urban vs. rural) and practice training status (practice contains at least one trainee GP vs. none). List size was also included in the models for QOF performance and patient satisfaction, but not in the models for mortality/ admission rates due to collinearity with the person-years of observation offset term. Finally, the GPPS response rate was included in all models for patient satisfaction. For all models, complete case analysis was carried out. Factors were assessed for statistical significance at the 5% level.
In total, 316 English practices were eligible for inclusion in our study. There were missing data on the number of FTE GPs in two practices and on the number of FTE nurses in 31 practices, hence we analysed data from 283 practices (90%). Characteristics of these 283 practices are presented in Table 2 and according to tertile of consultation rate for GPs and nurses in Additional file 1 : Tables S1 and S2 respectively. The distribution of practices in each decile of QOF performance and GPPS domain are given in the online supplement (Additional file 1: Table S3).
Practice characteristics (N = 283)
Mean (SD)/ N (%)
GP consultation rate (per patient person-year)
Nurse consultation rate (per patient person-year)
FTE GPs per 1000 patients
FTE Nurses per 1000 patients
Percentage of patients in most deprived quintile of IMD
Percentage of patients female
50.7 (1.50)
Percentage of patients over 64 years old
Number of deaths in 2013
Number of hospital admissions in 2013
List size
Patient person years of follow-up in 2013
Training practice (yes)
Urban practice (yes)
Consultation rate, mortality and hospital admissions
Rate of consultation (per patient person-year) with a GP or nurse was not associated with mortality rate (incidence rate ratio (IRR) for GPs = 1.01, 95% CI [0.98 to 1.04]; IRR for nurses = 0.97, 95% CI [0.93 to 1.02]; Table 3). Factors associated with higher mortality rate were as follows: urban location (compared to rural), higher percentage of female patients, higher percentage of patients over 64, higher percentage of patients in the most deprived quintile, and a higher number of FTE GPs per 1000 patients (Table 3).
Association between practice characteristics and mortality or hospital admission rate (adjusted results from negative binomial regression modelling)
Percentage of patients aged over 64
Percentage of patients who are female
Number of FTE doctors per 1000 patients
Number of FTE nurses per 1000 patients
Urban location (compared to rural)
Training practice (yes compared to no)
Rate of consultation (per patient person-year) with a GP or nurse was not associated with hospital admission rate (incidence rate ratio (IRR) for GPs = 1.02, 95% CI [0.99 to 1.04]; IRR for nurses = 0.98, 95% CI [0.94 to 1.03]; Table 3). Factors associated with higher hospital admission rate were as follows: urban location (compared to rural), higher percentage of patients over 64 and higher percentage of patients in the most deprived quintile (Table 3).
Consultation rate and quality of care assessed by QOF performance
The rate of nurse consultations was strongly associated with being in a higher achieving decile of QOF performance. An increase of one nurse consultation per patient year was associated with a 91% increase in odds of being in a higher achieving decile of QOF performance (OR = 1.91, 95% CI [1.39 to 2.62]). The only other factor associated with higher QOF performance was having a higher percentage of patients aged 64 years or over. Rate of GP consultation (per patient person-year) was not associated with being in a higher achieving decile QOF performance (OR = 1.04, 95% CI [0.87 to 1.24], Table 4).
Association between practice characteristics and decile of QOF achievement (adjusted results from ordinal logistic regression modelling)
List size (per 1000 patients)
Consultation rate and patient satisfaction
Rate of nurse consultation (per patient person-year) was not associated with any of the patient satisfaction domains studied (Additional file 1, Tables S2 and S3). Rate of GP consultation was associated with being in a higher achieving decile of the following patient satisfaction domains: the proportion of people who would recommend their GP surgery to someone (OR = 1.45, 95% CI [1.19 to 1.77]); the proportion of patients able to see or speak to someone on the same or next day (OR = 1.31, 95% CI [1.06 to 1.60]); and the proportion of people who think the surgery is open at convenient times (OR = 1.44, 95% CI [1.17 to 1.78]). In five of the seven domains of satisfaction studied, practices with larger list sizes were more likely to have lower patient satisfaction (Additional file 1: Tables S4 and S5). Other practice characteristics had less consistent associations with each of the measures of satisfaction (Additional file 1: Tables S4 and S5).
We have found that rates of GP and nurse consultation are not associated with mortality or hospital admission rates at the practice level. Higher rates of nurse consultation are associated with higher QOF achievement, and higher rates of GP consultation are associated with measures of patient satisfaction with respect to access. Other factors which have previously been observed to relate to these outcomes, such as age, deprivation and urban location, were more influential than practice workload.
A strength of our analysis is the use of data from multiple different sources to describe practice characteristics and outcomes. Practices contributing data to the CPRD are known to be representative of the UK population, so our results can be considered generalizable.
A limitation of our analysis is the grouping of certain outcome variables (such as QOF performance) into deciles, which was a requirement of the ethical approval for this study. This may have limited our ability to distinguish between practices and detect weaker associations. We have also studied several outcomes, particularly with respect to patient satisfaction, so these findings should be interpreted with caution, although they have face validity. Further studies are required to confirm our findings.
In our analyses, we adjusted for the number of GPs/ nurses per 1000 patients and characteristics of the patient population. Hence a difference in consultation rates in our models can be considered to reflect a difference in the extent to which practices, with equivalent staffing capacity and equivalent patient demand, are meeting patient demand. Our finding that there is no relationship between consultation rates and mortality or hospitalisation may therefore be surprising. This may be due to a cancelling out of both positive and negative effects but it may also indicate that any unmet patient demand relates to acute, self-limiting conditions. Disentangling these effects would require different research designs and detailed information about appointment availability and presenting problem.
Conversely, it is also possible that consultation rate is an indicator of the number of appointment slots available (supply) rather than ability to meet demand. To explore this we did repeat our analyses, removing variables for the number of GPs/ nurses per 1000 patients from the models and hence allowing consultation rate to act as a proxy for supply. Results for all outcomes were similar, with no association between consultation rates and outcomes observed in most cases (data not shown). This indicates that regardless of whether general practice workload is viewed as a problem of demand or supply, it’s association with outcomes is mixed and limited when compared with demographic factors. It may also suggest that after accounting for these demographic factors, the availability of consultations is such that the chance of death or hospitalisation is consistent across England and the service provided is broadly equitable.
We summarized data and conducted our analysis at the practice level, rather than using multilevel modelling approaches using both patient and practice level data. This was in part due to computational difficulties of conducting multilevel modelling on such a larger number of observations (data from more than 2.7 million patients has been summarized at the practice level). Furthermore, we were primarily interested in examining the relationships between consultation, mortality and admission rates to inform practice management and health policy. Arguably, examining these relationships at the patient level would answer a different research question.
Comparisons with the literature
Our finding that practices with a higher number of FTE GPs per 1000 patients also have higher mortality rates may be surprising. One possible explanation is that practices employ more doctors in settings where the patient population has greater health needs. Although we adjusted for practice deprivation and patient age we did not have more sensitive measures of patient complexity or morbidity. Alternatively, a greater number of available GPs may have an adverse effect of reducing continuity of care which has been linked to mortality [7] and hospital admissions, [3] which may also explain our findings. Finally, it is possible that this is a chance finding because of the number of statistical tests undertaken, and it needs replication in further studies using different datasets.
We did not find an association between consultation rates and hospital admission rates. A 2013 study [5] found that practices providing more timely access to primary care had fewer self-referred emergency department visits. Although we were not able to measure when appointments took place in relation to time of initial contact and did not investigate route of admission, our results suggest that any effect of reduced primary care access on accident and emergency attendances does not propagate through to admissions.
Our findings build on a previous study examining quality of care and nurse staffing levels which found that a higher ratio of nurses per patient was associated with better performance in clinical indicators from the QOF [11]. In contrast, we found no associations between practice nurse staffing and any of the outcomes examined, with the exception of the relationship between nurse consultation rate (adjusted for the number of nurses per patient) and QOF performance. This may suggest that this relationship relies on nurses having good availability to conduct consultations, rather than performing administrative tasks.
Our finding that higher patient list size is associated with poorer patient satisfaction is consistent with a study from 1995 [13]. This suggests that despite numerous changes to the primary care system in the last 10 years, larger practices may inherently struggle to satisfy their patients.
Implications for research and practice
We have previously shown that general practice consultation rates have increased substantially in recent years, such that practices appear to be reaching saturation point [1]. This investigation, which was largely exploratory and hypothesis generating, explored whether there is an association between practice consultation rates and patient outcomes. The fact that few associations were observed between consultation rates and outcomes could be considered reassuring.
There have been many policy initiatives in recent years to improve access to GP consultations, for example through the extended hours access scheme [20] and through greater use of telephone consultations, [21] and these initiatives are likely to increase consultation rates. Our study suggests that providing more primary care consultations is not associated with improvements in any of the important patient outcomes that we studied. The implication is that policy should focus more on factors which are clearly associated with improved outcomes, such as supporting practices in deprived or urban areas or with elderly populations, more than focusing on appointment availability and consultation rate per se. Furthermore, practice size is inversely related to patient satisfaction, raising questions about the current policy to encourage larger practices or setting a challenge to bigger practices in how to maintain patient continuity with GPs.
This study demonstrates that greater provision of nurse consultations is associated with improvements in practice QOF performance. For long term conditions, where evidence is strong enough to determine clear treatment pathways as with QOF, our findings provide support for the policy of encouraging more nurses and allied health professionals into general practice, [22] particularly if they dedicate their time to direct patient care.
It might be argued that this study suggests that practices can work harder and offer more consultations while still maintaining good patient outcomes. This is reassuring for patients at a time of rapidly rising demand in primary care. However, this scenario may have negative consequences for health professionals themselves, with many GPs leaving practice early in part because they find it impossible to provide good care in the face of ever increasing demand [23]. With 40% of GPs in South West England reporting their intention to retire within 5 years, mainly citing workload and working conditions, [24] there can be no complacency over these reassuring data that workload increases have not yet been associated with worsening patient outcomes. The impact of initiatives announced by the NHS to boost GP numbers and improved terms await determination.
Using linked, routinely collected data from primary and secondary care in England, we have shown that rates of consultation with a GP or nurse are not associated with clinical outcomes at the general practice level. However, higher rates of consultation are associated with greater quality of care and measures of patient satisfaction. Our results can be viewed as reassuring, indicating that despite increasing pressure in general practice, this is not associated with negative patient outcomes. However, they also indicate that improved clinical outcomes may not be achieved by simply increasing the number of consultations offered in general practice. A more nuanced approach, taking into account the particular demographic challenges individual practices face and concerns of professionals regarding workload, may be warranted.
CPRD:
Clinical Practice Research Datalink
FTE:
Full-time equivalent
GP:
GPPS:
General Practice Patient Survey
IMD:
ISAC:
Independent Scientific Advisory Committee
QOF:
Quality and Outcomes Framework
This article is based on independent research commissioned and funded by the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (PR-ST-0215-10008: General practice workload and intensity: an analysis for NHS England from 2007 to 2014), and part-supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research and the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Department of Health, the NIHR, or the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. FDRH acknowledges his part-funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) School for Primary Care Research, the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLARHC) Oxford, the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and the NIHR Oxford Medtech and In-Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative (MIC). CS is partly supported by The National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West). The funders had no involvement in the design of the study or in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data or in writing the manuscript.
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Researchers should contact CPRD directly for access to equivalent data.
FDRH and CS conceived the research and FDRH gained funding. SLF and EM conducted the analyses and FDRH, CS, BDN, RPS, CB and TH contributed to interpretation of results. SLF drafted the paper which EM, FDRH, CS, BDN, RPS, CB and TH then edited. SLF and FDRH act as study guarantors. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.
Ethics approval for observational research using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink with approval from the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency was granted by a National Research Ethics Service committee (Trent MultiResearch Ethics Committee, Research Ethics Committee reference number 05/MRE04/87).
FDRH is a part-time GP at Bellevue Medical Centre, the Modality Partnership Birmingham. CS is a GP in Bristol. TH is a GP in London. All other authors declare no competing interests.
Additional file 1: Supplementary results. This file contains additional tables presenting results from the analyses which could not be included in the main manuscript. (DOCX 29 kb)
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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"Give a man a fish..." - or a digital comic!
Andrew Tan, Shaun Spalding
Columns, Manifesto
Boris the Spider-Man: Spider-Gwen #9
Big Two, Big Two Reviews, Marvel Comics
Jumping On: Horizon #1
Image, Indie, Jumping On
Keeping It Ghastly: Reptilia
IDW, Keeping It Ghastly, Keeping It Ghastly, Manga
Interview: Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander discuss Concrete Park
Classic Interview: Ramona Fradon - "The Goofier the Better"
Boom for 7/29/15: The Circle of Life
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Review: '101 Artists to Listen To Before You Die' by Ricardo Cavolo
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10 Shot – HS Football – Pomona at Ralston Valley
HS Football – Cross Town Rivalry
After a high scoring, close early game, everyone was expecting a great second game, and typically when it is Ralston Valley and Pomona, you are guaranteed a knock down drag out fight. It was sure to be a back and forth affair between the Panthers and Mustangs. That was, until the game started. Pomona did something I was not expecting, and that Ralston Valley had no answer for. While on offense, the Panthers ran 99% of their plays out of the wildcat formation. Pomona Panthers senior running Chris Marquez back took the snaps from center and with the exception of a couple pass attempts, he ran 32 times for 257 yards and three touchdowns against the stunned Mustangs. Ralston Valley had no answer for Marquez as he racked up an average of just over 8 yards a carry and broke for 52 yards on one run.
In the second half, the Mustangs found their offensive rhythm, but Pomona had built up too much of a lead for Ralston Valley to come back from. Pomona would hold on to win, 42-30 and move to 6-1 overall.
Here is my 10 Shot from the game.
October 11, 2013: Ralston Valley Mustangs senior quarterback Jacob Knipp (15) looks to pass the ball in the game against the Pomona Panthers on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior running back Chris Marquez (14) runs the ball from the wildcat formation in the game against the Ralston Valley Mustangs on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior wide receiver Lukas Russell (28) lowers his head as he prepares for a hit as he runs with the ball in the game against the Ralston Valley Mustangs on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior corner back Colin Pratt (24) knocks the ball out of the hands of Ralston Valley Mustangs senior John Miller (7) in the game at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada, CO on Friday night.
October 11, 2013: Ralston Valley Mustangs senior John Miller (7) runs down the field with the ball in the game against the Pomona Panthers at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada, CO on Friday night.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior running back Chris Marquez (14) runs away from a diving Ralston Valley Mustangs defender in the game on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior running back Chris Marquez (14) runs right at the Ralston Valley Mustangs defense in the game on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: After catching the ball, Ralston Valley Mustangs senior John Morales (3) turns to run down the sideline in the game against the Pomona Panthers at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada, CO on Friday night.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior running back Chris Marquez (14) speeds around a block in the game against the Ralston Valley Mustangs on Friday night at the North Area Athletic Complex.
October 11, 2013: Pomona Panthers senior corner back Colin Pratt (24) tackles Ralston Valley Mustangs senior John Miller (7) in the game at the North Area Athletic Complex in Arvada, CO on Friday night.
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Hot Dogs Out
Oak Lawn hot dog stand hosts final bun salute before closing
Fresh fast-casual cafe finds another Dallas-area lunch crowd to serve
Food Halls Are So Hot
Big-name Dallas chefs sign on with Plano's trendy new food hall
Food halls are where it's at. Photo courtesy of Legacy Hall
A booming new food hall in Plano has signed up a slew of high-profile restaurateurs that include some very big names in Dallas dining.
Legacy Hall is the food-hall concept from Jack Gibbons and Randy DeWitt of Front Burner Restaurants (Velvet Taco, Whiskey Cake, Mexican Sugar). It's going into Legacy West, a massive mixed-use project being developed at Dallas North Tollway and State Highway 121. When the hall opens in fall 2017, it will host approximately two dozen food vendors, a full-service restaurant, a brewery and beer garden, and a live music stage.
Gibbons and DeWitt have been recruiting what they feel are the best restaurants and chefs in North Texas.
"Our philosophy has been, 'Who makes the best [blank] in Dallas-Fort Worth?'" Gibbons says. "Whether we're talking about a chef or a restaurant group or a food truck, we think, 'This is the best in DFW.'"
Their first wave of names included Matthew McCallister (FT33), Andrew Chen (Monkey King Noodle Company), and Robert and Kaci Lyford (Patina Green). Now, they have a second round:
An Indian wrap concept by chef Gilbert Garza, owner of Suze, and Mark Brezinski, co-founder of Pei Wei and Bengal Coast
Shawarma from Yaser Khalaf, owner of Baboush and Medina
Gourmet from Misery Loves Company, owner of Proof + Pantry and Madrina
Inspired by concepts in Europe, food halls have become one of the hottest national dining trends. They bring together a collection of restaurateurs, each of whom does his or her own little stall. One has already been announced for Uptown Dallas. Restaurateurs and chefs get to expand their brand with a lower investment up front, and the food hall benefits from having multiple food options in one place.
"It's a way that people can get a wide variety of choices and also get to see the people in the stalls cooking," Gibbons says. "It creates a kind of food theater."
He and DeWitt have visited many of the well-known food halls, such as Eataly in New York and Foodhallen in Amsterdam.
"New York City is currently the epicenter of food halls. You hear about new ones opening every few months," Gibbons says. "Randy and I thought this would be such a great fit in Dallas."
Legacy Hall will be three stories, with about 55,000 square feet — the size of a large supermarket — dedicated to the food hall portion. There'll be vendors on the first floor, a fast-casual restaurant and terrace overlooking the music stage on the second floor, and a craft brewery on the third floor.
Legacy Hall will service not only residents of West Plano and Frisco but also the built-in clientele of Legacy West, with employees from Toyota, Chase, and Liberty Mutual. The complex will also be home to a Renaissance Hotel, a high-end shopping center, and 621 apartments.
For chefs and restaurateurs, food halls are a way to get their name out with less personal risk.
"Real estate is so competitive, it's a hard time to be in the restaurant business," Gibbons says. "This is like a fast-casual incubator. They come in, and we have it set up so that the chef or restaurateur gets to focus on making excellent food. The people we're bringing on, we truly believe are the best restaurateurs and chefs in the market, so it's a win-win for everybody."
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Marty Smith Returns To ESPN In Style
Wednesdays on NASCAR Now have sometimes been a little slow. The weekend highlights are now old, the next race is days away, and there is usually not a lot of news.
NASCAR Now's Lead Reporter Marty Smith returned from a recent vacation with some information that served to spice-up this Wednesday in a very big way. The Tony Stewart empire was beginning to shake, and Smith knew the reason why.
Since the Joe Gibbs move to Toyota, racing veterans have been wondering how Stewart was going to balance his long affiliation with GM and his new high-profile role with Toyota. Smith's news was that Stewart was trying to explore his options to get out of the Gibbs stable at the end of this season.
In the past, this type of story on NASCAR Now would have ended right there. This season, however, ESPN has committed to using all their NASCAR veterans to support this TV series and that is exactly what happened. It was Dale Jarrett who appeared next to speak directly to Smith's report and the Tony Stewart situation.
Jarrett's opinion carries a lot of weight, and he spoke about the fact that Stewart may have been approached by a Chevy team that perhaps put an ownership stake on the table. Jarrett's perspective was that Stewart was now in a different time in his racing career, and his priorities may have changed.
Without missing a beat, host Ryan Burr brought-in Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman with the Talladega Superspeedway looming. Newman continues to be a great interview for this program, and once again spoke about a wide variety of topics with candor and honesty.
The previews of Talladega began with Jarrett talking about the upcoming COT race. He mentioned the new surface and the drafting while calling the racing "intense." He pointed to a key to success being patience, something he mastered in his career. Having Jarrett preview this event was exactly the type of high-profile personality that is going to make viewers tune-in on what is normally a slow Wednesday.
Reporter Jamie Little stopped-by to review her win in the Toyota Celebrity Race in Long Beach, CA. After a brief recap, she moved on to handle the story of Kevin Harvick not racing in the Nationwide Series at Talladega at the request of Cup team owner Richard Childress.
Little also updated the status of Kyle Busch and his possible change in direction to focus on running the entire Nationwide Series. To add commentary to this issue, Burr then turned to Brad Daugherty.
Outside of the Monday one hour version of this show, Daugherty is struggling to find his role on the 2008 ESPN NASCAR team. With the addition of Dale Jarrett in the booth and the move of Rusty Wallace to the Infield Studio, Daugherty is overshadowed by experienced professionals everywhere he turns. Even the best efforts of Allen Bestwick are not enough to help Daugherty with his struggles.
On this show, Daugherty "guessed" that Kyle Busch will run the entire Nationwide Series schedule despite having absolutely no information on that topic. He offered an opinion that Harvick not running the Nationwide race at Talladega was not a problem. Again, no reason why. Finally, he talked in general terms about the Nationwide race and predicted the "big one" would happen and perhaps a young driver would win the race.
Why NASCAR Now continues to put Daugherty in this situation is any one's guess. Rather than let him prepare feature reports and use his owner experience to interact with the top personalities in the sport, he continues to be put on the spot for opinions that almost never turn-out to be accurate. This role damages his credibility when he appears on NASCAR Countdown and on the Monday "roundtable" shows. This season, Daugherty is the new Tim Cowlishaw.
Burr closed out the program by promoting a special one hour NASCAR Now show honoring Dale Earnhardt Sr. scheduled for next Tuesday. It was Dale Jarrett with a final comment who predicted it may well be Senior's son who is celebrating next week, and it may be with a Talladega win.
This program packed a lot of information and even some breaking news into thirty minutes. It was exactly the type of show that will make NASCAR fans think about tuning-in every Wednesday. Maybe Marty Smith should go on vacation more often.
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Ever wonder where the word mentor came from? Our word for “benevolent teacher”?
Did you ever notice how similar it is to the word for the super-elite brotherhood of mensa, our most cerebral leaders and think-tank experts?
Ever wonder why we use the exact same onset (first syllabic portion to identify the nature of the word) of “mentor” and “mensa” to also stand for “mental” or “insane”, “crazy” and “berserk”?
“Tor” from mentor means “tower” we would refer to as a tower of knowledge where the term higher education comes from today. In ancient times the tower could also be a hill or elevated area where the teacher could cast his words down to the pupils (such as “the sermon on the mount” in biblical times). Later a tor would become known as a “universe”-ity, or the highest possible tower from which to pass along wisdom. We get the words dicta”tor”, doc”tor” and tu”tor” from this exact same etymology. This comes from ancient Greek of course, as it is the oldest collection of word meanings we have available to us today.
Then we have “sa” from mensa from old Norse meaning to inform, explain, tell, or the same effective thrust as mentor and tutor, making them all synonyms.
REAL ETYMOLOGY
You may be interested to learn that the “old Norse” were the post-Rome “Tall Whites” (a now-“pure strain” of the Aquatic Ape-Reptilian/Centaur/Pleiadean “men” creation in E-Den.) These Nordic sea-faring people who hailed from ancient Phoenician descent were also known as “berserkers” who were anything but human and fought naked in the freezing snow and could kill 100 men apiece in battle that appeared to be possessed with inhuman strength, seemingly or literally “foaming at the mouth” who would be known as the “Saxons” who sacked, or plundered as a way of life, leaving nothing alive in their wake.
You can trace this lineage back to the steppes of the Mongol Khans where they interbreed with east Asians during that time of reformation in Khazaria, producing the yellow-skinned offshoot of this ultra-royal bloodline that was beyond blood thirsty in the day of Genghis the Khan). However, the “whites” wound up leaving the Khans behind, traveling higher north alone where they would become famous for the exact same barbarism of the Mongolian hoards.
In truth, these same people, long before their blood spilled over into the Asiatic Khazars, served in Rome as the special forces unit of the Roman army known as Centurions who had previously been the Olympian giants of Greece, explained in the newly revised volume 2 of decoding the hive, Spacetime Fabric.
The leadership of Greece, Etruria (old Italy) and Rome where most of our etymology dates back to were actually Babylonian Sumerians, the collective of over 50 different alien species who went on conquering lands throughout the world after the nuclear event of Erra that left Babylon in ruins for hundreds and even thousands of years. The most aggressive of which was the lineage of the Alpha Drakonians, or serpent people of old. Much later that strain would be known as Phoenicians referred to in ancient literature as “the ocean people” and “sea people” of the holy cities of Lebanon and Israel. But before that they were the Leviathans of Sumer-Ur. The Leviathans were the “Levites” who ruled over the chosen people of Babylon who later became known as the Israelites that would be ruled over by the Levant.
So what does “men” mean other than to indicate more than one male? You’ll see in a second that men doesn’t actually mean a group of male humans, but very specifically it is in reference to “mer-men” (maritime men) who would represent *modified Hu-mans* of the Angelic Human species that began in E-Den, the valley of the gods of Babylon where the giant Leviathan Enki began genetic experiments to develop his own walking talking hybrids. In that genetic cocktail was added DNA from Indigos that brought with them genius intellect, making the new species not just “man-like”, but also “god-like” as well as “even more Angel-like” (Indigos are Oraphim angelics, creators of the Angelic Hu-man).
The early versions of this new hybrid race were known as demigods who came from fallen angels.
“Sea people” comes from the fact that their previous dwelling place was the ocean and their physical appearance was that of mer“men”, as they were direct Chimera blood lineage to the aquatic apes known as the Jehovah Anunnaki, and descendants of Enki who also was known as Poseidon, Triton, Neptune and “the old man, and serpent of the sea”. This ancient history pre-dated the children of the Khan or King Enki’s blood being used to create the new “man-like sea-men” who carried the new holy grail serpent blood in their bodily fluids. It was the weapon that would be used to bioform the human evolution. You’ll see in volume 2 that mermen directly interbred long ago with Pleiadeans and Centaurs, so these three Sumerian species became entangled down through our more recent history:
Once they had been turned into air-breathing mammals who appeared humanesque and could interbreed with full-blooded humans they went on as simply “men”, dropping “mer” of SuMER-Ur. These are the Phoenicians who invented writing and spelling to begin with, their name being used as the basis across all modern communication as in phonics and phonetics and coined in photons (light) and phonons (fusion energy). They are the Light Bringers (which means reptilian semen).
This new species would be identified as “men”, NOT “man” and since they used the genetic markers of both Hu-mans and Oraphim to achieve their creation, it would specifically indicate *Anglo men. The word Anglo stands for Angels or more specifically *modified-Angels;
Wikipedia: Anglo;
“The word is derived from Anglia….. Anglia and England both mean land of the Angles, a Germanic people originating in the north German peninsula of Angeln, that is, the region of today’s Lower Saxony that joins the Jutland Peninsula.”
[Note the peninsula isn’t actually Angle, it is in fact Angel(n), n standing for the letter V which comes from the original Proto-Siniatic symbol for the “horned viper” or “nahas snake” attributed to the god of WATER known as Wawwu which is actually Mammu, Mammy, Mom and Mother, all of which are words for the hermaphrodite serpent who gave life to men; mother and father Enki.]
And to define the region where they hailed from before they spread out across the steppes and northern regions prior to being referred to as simply Nordics, Germans, Russians, Romans, or Romanians, they would have the identifying suffix of *Angels who Sac*. Hence Anglo Saxon.
Here is the true etymology of “men”. You can forget any other official explanation of the term, as it does not mean the plural of man:
Wiktionary: Men;
“Old Norse “mein”, from Proto-Germanic mainą (“to damage, hurt, injustice, sin”).”
This is why today any term beginning with men indicates inhuman berserkers who have taken up the leadership of wherever they travel. They are the ones who stand in the towers and synagogues (of Gog and Magog) and teach our peoples, the ones who cure our ills (not our ills, but the ills of men), the ones who dictate our laws and rules and bring us in as mentors and tutors of our education. Mentor does not mean benevolent, wise or educated, it means malevolent, clever and schooled in the Hermetic (son of Enki) ways of alchemical poisoning.
For a deeper look at this etymology and who it is we look to for knowledge, health and wisdom, see HIPPOCRATIC GENOCIDE, volume 2, decoding the hive.
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Title: Business cultures. (cover story) Authors: Hofstede, Geert Source
Business cultures. (cover story)
Hofstede, Geert
UNESCO Courier; Apr94, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p12, 5p, 1 chart, 3 color, 1 bw
*CORPORATE culture
Examines national cultures along five dimensions: power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. Culture's many elements may be classified in four categories: symbols, heroes, rituals and values. Definitions for each; Organizational cultures within a given country; Six independent dimensions; Where employee values are developed; Why this is so.
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BUSINESS CULTURES
Every organization has its symbols, rituals and heroes
MANAGEMENT means getting things done through (other) people. This is true the world over. In order to achieve this, one has to know what needs to be done and one has to know the people involved. Understanding people means understanding their background, from which their present and future behaviour can be predicted.
Their background has provided them with a certain culture, the word culture being used in the sense of "the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another". The "category of people" may be a nation, a region or an ethnic group, women or men (gender culture), old or young (age group and generation culture), a social class, a profession or occupation (occupational culture), a type of business, a work organization or part of it (organizational culture), or even a family.
Culture is composed of many elements, which may be classified in four categories: symbols, heroes, rituals and values.
Symbols are words, objects and gestures which derive their meaning from convention. At the level of national cultures, symbols include the entire area of language. At the level of organizational culture, symbols include abbreviations, slang, modes of address, dress codes and status symbols, all recognized by insiders only.
Heroes are real or imaginary people, dead or alive, who serve as models for behaviour within a culture. Selection processes are often based on hero models of 'the ideal employee" or "the ideal manager". Founders of organizations sometimes become mythical heroes later on, and incredible deeds are ascribed to them.
Rituals are collective activities that are technically superfluous but, within a particular culture, socially essential. In organizations they include not only celebrations but also many formal activities defended on apparently rational grounds: meetings, the writing of memos, and planning systems, plus the informal ways in which formal activities are performed: who can afford to be late for what meeting, who speaks to whom, and so on.
Values represent the deepest level of a culture. They arc broad feelings, often unconscious and not open to discussion, about what is good and what is bad, clean or dirty, beautiful or ugly, rational or irrational, normal or abnormal, natural or paradoxical, decent or indecent. These feelings are present in the majority of the members of the culture, or at least In those persons who occupy pivotal positions.
Nationality (and gender as well) is an involuntary attribute; we are born within a family within a nation, and are subject to the mental programming of its culture from birth. Here we acquire most of our basic values. Occupational choice is partly voluntary (dependent on the society and family); it leads to choice of schools, and at school we are socialized to the values and the practices of our chosen occupation.
When we enter a work environment, we are usually young or not-so-young adults, with most of our values firmly entrenched, but we will become socialized to the practices of our new work environment. National cultures, therefore, differ mostly at the level of basic values, while occupational and, even more, organizational cultures differ more superficially (in their symbols, heroes and rituals).
National culture differences
Results from a number of research projects have led me to classify national cultures along five dimensions. The first four were found by comparing the values of employees and managers in fifty-three different national subsidiaries of the IBM Corporation. They have been labelled:
Power distance, or the degree of inequality among people which the population of a country considers as normal: from relatively equal to extremely unequal.
Individualism, or the degree to which people in a country have learned to act as individuals rather than as members of cohesive groups: from collectivist to individualist.
Masculinity, or the degree to which 'masculine" values like assertiveness, performance, success and competition prevail over "feminine values like the quality of life, maintaining warm personal relationships, service, caring, and solidarity: from tender to tough.
Uncertainty avoidance, or the degree to which people in a country prefer structured over unstructured situations: from relatively flexible to extremely rigid.
The table on page 14 lists for twenty-five out of the fifty-three countries studied the scores for these dimensions (the table also contains a fifth dimension that will be explained later). All scores are relative: the scales have been chosen so that the distance between the lowest and highest scoring country on each dimension is about 100 points.
The table shows that European countries vary widely on all four dimensions. Power distances are large in France and Portugal; collectivism prevails over individualism in Portugal and Greece; Austria and Italy are very masculine, while Sweden and the Netherlands are very feminine; Belgium at-id France are uncertainty avoiding, while Denmark and the United Kingdom easily accept uncertainty
All these differences affect ways of management in these countries. Large power distances favour centralization, while small power distances favour decentralization. Collectivism favours group rewards and family enterprises, while individualism favours easy job-hopping and individual rewards. Masculinity favours competition and survival of the fittest while femininity favours solidarity and sympathy for the weak. Uncertainty avoidance favours strict rules and principles, while its opposite favours opportunism and tolerance of deviant behaviour.
The fifth dimension.
In subsequent research, a fifth dimension of national culture differences has been found. Professor Michael H. Bond of the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied value differences among students in twenty-three different countries using a questionnaire originally designed in the Chinese language by Chinese scholars. Analysis of the data produced four dimensions, three of them very similar to three of the IBM dimensions (all except uncertainty avoidance), the fourth entirely new and very meaningful.
This fifth dimension was called "long-term orientation" (LTO) as against "short-term orientation". Values positively rated in LTO arc thrift and perseverance; values negatively related are respect for tradition, and fulfilling social expectations, "keeping up with the Joneses".
The last column in the table lists the LTO scores by country, this time based on the data collected by Bond. The highest scores on the fifth dimension are all found in East Asian countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan. As these are also the countries with the world's fastest rates of economic growth in the past twenty-five years, we can say that long-term orientation is strongly related to recent economic growth.
Not only values and practices, but even theories are products of culturally determined socialization. This has far-reaching consequences for management training in a multicultural organization. Not only our techniques but even the categories in which we think may be unfit fori different environment.
Research data on differences in organizational cultures within a given country were collected in 1985 and 1986 in twenty work organizations or parts of organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands. The units studied varied from a tov company to two municipal police forces.
Analysis of the data showed large differences between units in symbols, heroes and rituals (we labelled the three together "practices"), but only modest differences in values. Different organizations within the same countries can maintain very different practices on the basis of fairly similar employee values.
Six independent dimensions made it possible to describe the larger part of the variety in organizational practices:
Process-oriented as opposed to results oriented units, the former being dominated by technical and bureaucratic routines, the latter by a concern for outcomes. This dimension was associated with the degree of homogeneity of the unit's culture: in results-oriented units, everybody perceived their practices in about the same way; in process-oriented units, there were vast differences in perception within the unit. We consider the homogeneity of a culture as a measure of its "strength"; strong cultures are more results-oriented than weak ones, and vice versa.
Job-oriented as opposed to employee-oriented units. job-oriented cultures assume responsibility for the employees' job performance only, and nothing more; employee-oriented cultures assume a broader responsibility for their members' well-being. A unit's position on this dimension seems to be largely the result of historical factors, such as the philosophy of its founder(s) and the presence or absence in its recent history of economic crises with collective layoffs.
Professional as opposed to parochial units. In the former, the (usually highly educated) members identify primarily with their profession; in the latter, the members derive their identity from the organization for which they work.
Open systems as opposed to closed systems. This dimension refers to the style of internal and external communication, and to the case with which outsiders and newcomers are admitted.
Tight internal control as opposed to loose internal control. This dimension deals with the degree of formality and punctuality within the organization. It is partly a function of the unit' technology: banks and pharmaceutical companies can be expected to show tight control research laboratories and advertising agencies loose control; but even with the same technology, units still differ on this dimension.
A pragmatic as opposed to a normative way of dealing with the environment, in particular with customers. Service units should be found towards the pragmatic (flexible) side, units involved in the application of legal rules towards the normative (rigid) side, but reality does not always correspond to this pattern.
According to this research, what a person has to learn when (s)he joins a work organization is mainly a matter of practices. Employee values have been developed in the family and the school; they play a role in the selection and self-selection process for the job. The work place can only change people's values to a limited extent. In the popular literature, organization cultures are often presented as a matter of values. The confusion arises because this literature does not distinguish between the values of the founders and leaders and those of the bulk of employees.
Founders and leaders, on the basis of their values, create the symbols, the heroes and the rituals that constitute the daily practices of the organization's members. However, members only to a limited extent have to adapt their personal values to the organization's needs. A work organization, as a rule, is not a "total institution" like a prison or mental hospital. Organizational cultures according to our data reside at a more superficial level of mental programming than the things learned previously in the family and at school. In spite of their more superficial nature, organizational cultures are still hard to change because they have developed into collective habits. Changing them is a top management task that should be based on a strategy and a cost-benefit analysis. Here again there is no single formula for success.
All statements in this article should be seen as only "statistically" true: they are common trends, but individuals may differ from them. Within each country there is a wide range of individuals, and this fact too should be taken into account in order to manage successfully. However, an insight into cultural differences will prevent us from attributing to an individual's personality forms of behaviour which are normal in his or her country, and from trying to apply supposedly universal success formulas to people who are riot universal.
The information contained in this chart is presented in the following order: Country; Power distance: INDEX (PDI); Power distance: RANK; Individualism: INDEX (IDV); Individualism: RANK; Masculinity; INDEX (MAS); MAsculinity: RANK; Uncertainty avoidance: INDEX (UAI); Uncertailty avoidance: RANK; Long term orientation: INDEX (LTO); Long term orientation: RANK.
Austria; 11; 53; 55; 18; 79; 2; 70; 24-25; --; --.
Belgium; 65; 20; 75; 8; 54; 22; 94; 5-6; --; --.
Brazil; 69; 14; 38; 26-27; 49; 27; 76; 21-22; 65; 5.
Denmark; 18; 51; 74; 9; 16; 50; 23; 51; --; --.
Finland; 33; 46; 63; 17; 26; 47; 59; 31-32; --; --.
France; 68; 15-16; 71; 10-11; 43; 35-36; 86; 10-15; --; --.
Germany; 35; 42-44; 67; 15; 66; 9-10; 65; 29; 31; 11-12
Greece; 60; 27-28; 35; 30; 57; 18-19; 11; 21; --; --.
Hong Kong; 68; 15-16; 25; 37; 57; 18-19; 29; 49-50; 96; 1
India; 77; 10-11; 48; 21; 56; 20-21; 40; 45; 61; 6
Ireland; 28; 49; 70; 12; 68; 7-8; 35; 47-48; --; --.
Israel; 13; 52; 54; 19; 47; 29; 81; 19; --; --.
Italy; 50; 34; 76; 7; 70; 4-5; 75; 23; --; --.
Japan; 54; 33; 46; 22-23; 95; 1; 92; 7; 80; 3.
Mexico; 81; 5-6; 30; 32; 69; 6; 82; 18; --; --.
Netherlands; 38; 40; 80; 4-5; 14; 51; 53; 35; 44; 9.
Norway; 31; 47-48; 69; 13; 8; 52; 50; 38; --; --.
Portugal; 63; 24-25; 27; 33-35; 31; 45; 104; 2; --; --.
Spain; 57; 31; 51; 20; 42; 37-38; 86; 10-15; --; --.
Sweden; 31; 47-48; 71; 10-11; 5; 52; 29; 49-50; 33; 10
Switzerland; 34; 45; 68; 14; 70; 4-5; 58; 33; --; --.
Taiwan; 58; 29-30; 17; 44; 45; 32-33; 69; 26; 87; 2.
Turkey; 66; 18-19; 37; 28; 45; 31-33; 85; 16-17; --; --.
United Kingdom; 35; 42-44; 89; 3; 66; 9-10; 35; 47-48; 25; 15-16.
U.S.A.; 40; 38; 91; 1; 62; 15; 46; 43; 29; 14.
PHOTO: An office building in Tokyo.
PHOTO: "Founders of organizations sometimes become mythical heroes later on and incredible deeds are ascribed to them!' Above, head of Zeus (plaster cast, anonymous).
PHOTO: "Individualism favours easy job-hopping and individual rewards."
PHOTO: "Employee values have been developed in the family and the school.... The workplace can only change people's values to a limited extent."
By Geert Hofstede
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