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Check Raising in Live Poker
Check raising is one of the most basic moves in all of poker. You can check raise for value, as a bluff, and even some hands in between. In live play, a check raise carries a lot more weight than it does online. You aren't going to encounter nearly as many bluff check raises and you are going to be forced to implement and use them in different ways.
The types of opponents that you'll typically face in a live environment just don't cater towards profitability with this move unless your goal is to extract value. There are many different ways that you can both use check raises yourself and read into what this play might mean from others. The premise of this article is twofold in that it aims to explore both sides of the fence in an effort to best analyze the play as a whole.
As a player, you are probably most used to check raising when you have a big hand. Since you are trying to get paid off as best as possible, this move is efficient since it's able to quickly build pots. The real trouble with check raising in live play is usually found when it's done by your opponents. Even though you know that a check raise usually means strength, it can be very easy to trick yourself into thinking that a player is bluffing or making a move.
The reason for this train of thought is simple: the pot is now more substantial and I now want to win it more than ever before. If you allow yourself to get caught up in this type of thinking, it won't be long before you are paying off big value check raises and getting burned. How you pick apart a check raise will determine how successful you are in playing against them.
Your Check Raises
How and when you make check raises is totally up to you. While you'll be forced to react and adjust based on what other players are doing when they make this move, you don't need to put yourself in this spot unless you want. You should understand that, at least in live poker, a check raise should be used as an instrument for extracting value more than anything else. There may be some rare situations where it could have some use as a bluff, but they are going to be quite infrequent.
Pre-flop is the absolute worst time to check raise unless you are playing against very incompetent players who are dying for action. In just about any other circumstance, a pre-flop check raise is going to be very obvious as an attempt to build a pot. Why would you check raise pre-flop with a decent hand or a bad hand? It doesn't make sense with a decent hand and it's wasting money with a bad hand. Your plan should be to open and/or continue the action with big hands pre-flop, not to make the situation way more difficult than it needs to be.
Post-flop is when you'll be able to get a little bit more creative with your check raises. Again, however, you should be using this play to build big pots when you have a strong hand more than anything else. The first thing that you should remember is that players are much more likely to call a flop check raise than they are to call one on the turn.
The problem with a flop check raise is that you are going to get a lot of check backs on the turn (unless you lead out) and folds when you do decide to lead the turn. This is the reason why checking the turn tends to be more valuable if you are able to get to this stage. Of course, you need to analyze and look at each hand independently of the ones before and after. You might be able to play a set slower on a safe board than you would on one that was full of draws. These are the types of considerations that you'll need to keep in mind at all times.
The reason that check raises as bluffs don't work is very simple: live poker players tend to hate folding. You could be in the most optimal spot in the world for a check bluff raise, but if the other player won't fold king high, making a great play means very little. It cannot be emphasized enough that you should shy away from check raising for any reason other than value betting. Now, if you have found a particular opponent who you feel is outside of this demographic and is indeed capable of folding, it's a different story altogether, but just remember that these types of players are far and few between in live poker.
Opponent Check Raises
Just as you need to be aware of how to properly make a check raise yourself, you should also understand what a check raise is likely to mean from an opponent. As is the case with your own plays, a check raise from another player is most likely to mean a big hand. This is much truer in live poker than it is online. Players don't normally have the courage or even the skill required to make gutsy check raises in the majority of poker rooms, but of course they are often times justified because they fail all too often.
The worst thing that you can do when facing a check raise is to talk yourself into making what you know is a bad call. This is perhaps most prevalent among players who find themselves in a tough spot on the river. They have called the flop, called the turn, and now they bet the river only to be check raised. Yes, they know that they are likely behind now, but so much money has already been invested. At a certain point it's better to cut your losses than it is to chase after a slim chance at winning. Sometimes it will still be correct to call a check raise even if you are likely beat, but the odds need to be in place. Don't call a bet out of pure desperation.
The easiest way to look at check raises is to consider what your opponent likely wants. If a player check raises on the river, they should know that there's a good chance of you calling. With that in mind, they probably aren't bluffing. By contrast, most players know that flop and even turn check raises are prone to forcing folds. Knowing this, there's an increased chance that this player is weak. While piecing a story together is imperative, you still need to be sure that you have a very solid read before you call a check raise down. Unless you have a super strong hand, you are going to be beat more often than not.
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Irrational change is good for strategy
Stagnant… stagnant never changes.
If I were to play you in a game of naughts and crosses, and I always played the same moves over and over again. If I never changed my strategy or way of thinking, how easy would it be for you to beat me? How easy would it be for you to take advantage of me? It is a very simple example, but conveys the point quite effectively.
Now in business, if I were to always make the same play or respond in the same way to any action my competitor makes… is that really strategy? Game theory tries to make sense of the actions we might take in the future. It gets very interesting when you start to look at what is rational vs. what actually happens. We are not rational thinkers, no matter how much we think we are. How would you divide your treasure if you were a pirate, abiding by pirate laws?
Similar to being stagnant, if we were completely rational it would also be easy to determine the strategy of our competitors, as is the case with the pirates. However, where is the fun in that and would we have something like strategy as a concept if this were the case.
For strategy to work effectively we should be irrational, maybe it would be better to phrase that as rationally irrational. What makes a good strategy is that it constantly adapts to the changing climate. Next time you want stability or are trying to get an edge over your competitors by trying to get stability… think of what you are opening yourself up to. Operational management likes to have clean cut procedures that can be repeated, sure a good strategy should be repeatable to be a winner… but there needs to be an element of irrational change for it to not become predictable. Baring a good strategy… the corporate make-up should be such that it is difficult to replicate and thus becomes the firm's edge.


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Back to school basics
As the summer holidays come to a close, it is time for parents to turn their attention to getting the kids and themselves ready for heading back to school. This doesn't mean taking away all of the joy of school holidays – no routines, no lunch boxes, no uniforms! But it does mean taking small actions across the remaining days to ensure a calm and chaos free return to school.
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The key to organised school mornings start the night before. At night you can get through tasks much more quickly and with less stress than in the morning when you have little ones around. There are a number of simple things you can do at night to make the mornings run smoother and now is a great time to establish a routine and share the workload amongst family members. Tasks like:
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One of the beautiful elements of summer holidays is the ability to go off routine and have more flexibility with what the kids do when. As the end of school holidays approach, it is a good idea to start getting kids into bed progressively earlier and eventually have them off to bed at their regular school night time before school starts.
To get the kids to go to sleep earlier at night, it may require waking the kids in the morning earlier. Left to their own devices they may be sleeping in well past the time they would need to be up by to get ready for school which, makes it harder for them to get off to sleep at their school bed time. So it isn't such a shock to the system, gradually waking them earlier can really help prevent grumpy and tired children on the first few days back to school for the year.
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Kids can grow at a rapid rate so it is important to try on all school clothing essentials well before they start back at school to make sure they fit. It is also important to do an audit to make sure all the pieces needed are in the house (eg hats!) and are in good condition. I have spent a number of evenings late in the school holidays darning socks and sewing buttons back on!
5. Lunch box audit
Much like socks that disappear in the wash, containers easily disappear through out the year from lunch boxes. Gather all the items you use to make the kids' lunch boxes including drink bottles and ensure that you have enough of everything. There are so many great containers, wraps and pockets you can use now to make lunch boxes waste free. Take the opportunity to stock up in the back to school sales if you don't have enough.
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Most importantly take time out of each remaining day to play, read, dance or just be with the kids. Life tends to speed up once school term starts, so take advantage of having them at home while you can.
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Firstly, I will start off today with my hair care routines, focusing on what products I use in my hair, how I care for my hair, what I do to it in terms of colouring and so on...
Other posts on this series will be,
- Skin Care
- Face
- Tanning
- Nails
So without further ado lets get started!
About my hair
Style & Length:
Naturally my hair is very wavey with a slight curl it in, it is also naturally quite thick, more so than usual as I am growing my layers out. It's natural length as of now is some inches past my collar bone. My natural hair colour is also a level 7, although I started colouring my hair at about 12/13 and I've not had my natural colour since then!
I have my hair in lots & lots of different styles now, straight mainly or curled, braids...all sorts!
My hair colour now is platinum blonde. It took a while to get it back to this colour as I had it a very dark brown, nearly black colour at the start of 2012. I did this process gradually with foil highlights of bleach and an all over high lift colour. Now, I only have the high lift colour on my roots and sometimes on the ends as they tend to get a little darker. I'm not 100% sure what the colour is as I go to the salon however! I do know that it uses 9% developer and when it develops the colour goes purple. I once heard her say to the assistant 9.12 when asking for the colour to be mixed so I'm guessing the colour number is 12? I also wear 18" extensions on a regular basis to make my hair longer.
Care Routine
I use salon products on my hair to keep it healthy and not leaving it dry and damaged.
I really like Wella products as on the bottle they show an intensive rating on how much they repair your hair on a scale of 1-4, one being a little repairing and 4 intensive repair.
For shampoo I use Wella SP Repair Shampoo which makes my hair really soft even after using the shampoo, it lavers up really quickly and smells nice too!
Being a blonde a silver shampoo (also called purple shampoo) is a must! It gets rid of any yellow brassy tones in the hair, because purple on the colour chart is opposite to yellow. For this purpose I use the Wella SP Silver Shampoo or the Provoke Touch Silver Shampoo although I don't have a photo of these because I've ran out. Although I don't use this sort of shampoo every wash because it can leave your hair purple after a lot of uses and also can be quite drying! So I only use it when I see my hair is getting a little on the brassy side.
For conditioner I use the Wella SP Repair Conditioner you don't have to leave this on long only for 30 seconds or so and when you wash it out your hair is sooooo soft and silky I love this conditioner so much! You also don't need to use a lot of it, otherwise your hair will go kind of lank and greasy because of too much product.
I also use a hair mask from time to time when my hair gets a little damaged or dry looking from colouring, heat etc etc the one I use is Wella SP Repair Mask which intensively repairs damaged hair. This product for me is a holy grail product, it really works it's beautiful and leaves your hair feeling like silk! You leave it on for 5 minutes before rinsing out and then wow! It smells lovely too! I've nearly ran out again though I have a little left but I'm trying to save it, before re-purchasing it again (which will be for the 3rd time!). I hope they never ever ever discontinue this product!
I know that salon products are expensive but they seriously are worth the money, it's definelty quality over quantity! Also some of these products I have got at half price as at my salon they have a card scheme and with your 3rd appointment you get half price off retail (excluding GHDs) also for Christmas I got a shampoo set:
Blow Drying:
For blow drying my hair I use a mix of products, both salon products and drugstore products.
I start off by towel drying my hair, I'll also leaved my hair wrapped up in a towel turban for quite some while to let It dry abit naturally first before using heat. My hair honestly takes hours to dry! It's insane!
When I do get to using the hairdryer I use the Mark Hill RAW Hairdryer which I got years ago from Boots. I first start off by using a hair oil...
My favourite one is Wella SP Luxe Oil I have tried many other brands; Moccroan Oil which I found did nothing, Macadamia Oil which again did nothing, and Kerastate Oil which I did love but I got it free when I worked in a hair salon and well I won't let myself pay that much for the full bottle, but it is a lovely oil! My hair really does soak up the oil though so I use about 3-4 pumps on my hair when damp because 1-2 as recommended just doesn't work on my hair.
After the oil I will use a heat protector I'm currently using Tony & Guy Prep Heat Protection Mist which I got from boots. If I don't use that then I'll use Aussie Miracle Hair Insurance Leave in Conditioner.
Then if my hair is really in need of repair I'll use Aveda Damage Remedy which again I'm nearly running out of although I've had it now 2 years or more! So now I am just using it sparingly.
If I get really dry and spilt ends and my hair is snapping off, which it used to do a lot but now not so much as I've had it trimed and I also think it's due to this product Redken Extreme Anti-Snap which I'll just use on the ends, but I hardly need to ever use it anymore.
Using heated tools:
I use GHD Straightners as they are the best ones around, again with the quality and not quantity. I've had mine for gosh maybe 7 years! ...now I feel old...
When straightening my hair I always use heat protector the Tony & Guy one mentioned above and in conjunction with that I use the Wella SP hair oil both before and after straightening! Also, sometimes I will use some hairspray but only on my fringe, but it's a very rare occasion but if I do use hairspray I use the Wella SP Perfect Hold Hairspray which actually came in the Christmas gift I mentioned earlier however I forgot to photo it! Oops!


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Iliad_Keys, did you get standard or premium Mayday Chimera sleeves?
Iliad_Keys, did you get standard or premium Mayday Chimera sleeves?
Hi All,
Does anyone have any experience with these Swan Panasia (60x90mm) card sleeves for Summoner Wars? Do you have pictures? Did you go Thin or Thick sized?
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I'm deciding between these Swan sleeves, Mayday Chimera, or waiting for mysterious official PlaidHat sleeves (announced almost 1.5 years ago).
As a =long= time Magic player, and Warlord player, and World of Warcraft player, I'd say there's nothing better than sleeves. You will love them the first time someone spills a coke on the table. Been there and had that happen. Make sure that your deck looks different. More than one person with the same backs can =really= screw things up. Been there and had that happen. I sleeve =everything= CCG that leaves my house. I carry a few strange extras that the Friendly Local Game Store might run a sale or even a clearance on. I'd be willing to help people that want info on sleeves.
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What is wrong with the PHG ones? I can see they seel some right? so I guess they should be perfect... right?
how many are required to sleeve the whole collection? I am just lazy to count all the cards
Hi , does anyone know where i can find Swan panasia sleeves at a europe e-shop or maybe a real shop in munich germany?
I used yugioh sized (japanese Size) sleeves. I strongly recommend to use exactly 34 per Deck and use different colours/motives per Deck. This way Deck Bildung is extremely easy and less mistakes do happen


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Cytomegalovirus Test are of two types. These tests are Cytomegalovirus (CMV) IgM Test, and Cytomegalovirus Test. These two Cytomegalovirus (CMV) rapid test are set on the law of gold immune Chromatography Assay and GICA in abbreviation. They use the antibody antigen reaction in detecting the Cytomegalovirus (CMV) IgG and IgM antibodies in human plasma or serum specimen correspondingly. These Cytomegalovirus Test are called IVD CMV test, and the analyze principle are easy.
When a person is exposed to Cytomegalovirus, his immune system is activated and speedily makes antibodies to struggle with the virus. These antibodies are a special type of proteins designed to assault and demolish foreign material that is Cytomegalovirus in this case.
Cytomegalovirus test combines the serum of a person with a thing to which Cytomegalovirus antibodies attach. This antibody antigen complex is calculated, and the quantity of real antibody is determined. If it is positive for antibodies, this serum is tittered or diluted. This test is repeated until and unless the serum diluted grants a positive result. The last dilution of the serum is titer reported, if it gives a result in positive.
If Cytomegalovirus Test is positive for Cytomegalovirus antibodies, it indicates that a person is infected with CMV, either in the past or presently. After a person get infected with CMV, the virus stays dormant or inactive inside the infected body for the life time. The Cytomegalovirus is a member of herpes family of viruses.
These viruses have a special character of being dormant inside the infected body for the life time. However, CMV later on causes infection if the immunity system of a person is weak or protection from antibody weakens. Reactivations of these latent or hidden infections are very common and usually take place without symptoms.
Patients with organ transplant and weakened immune system, including patients with AIDS, are helpless to CMV infection from a number of routes. It included the infection from transfused blood or donated organ, from another patient, or from re-activated a former infection. Before the transplantation, both the donor and the recipient are normally tested for antibody. A recipient without Cytomegalovirus Test should not take an organ from a giver with CMV. Infection of CMV can be related with organ rejection. It can cause sickness such as hepatitis, pneumonia, or death. Likewise, blood is normally checked for infected CMV antibodies.
The CMV infected antibody monitoring test requires five ml of blood. It consumes hardly few minutes for the collection of the blood sample.
Bruising or discomfort may take place at the site of puncture. A person may also feel faint or dizzy. Pressure to the site of puncture reduces bruising. Warmness to the site relieves discomfort.
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The result will show negative if an individual has a former exposure to CMV infection.
Abnormal results:
The occurrence of antibody means an individual has been CMV infected. It may be currently or in the past. The occurrence of IgM antibodies shows a current or recent infection of CMV. A recent infection in a person with HIV is confirmed through other test like viral culture.


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Olajumoke's pulsating story of dropping out of school so her younger siblings could continue their education, to hawking bread in Lagos in 2011, to starting her own hairdressing salon which later failed, to sleeping in the bakery in Lagos with her daughter and about 40 other women, to waking up at 5am everyday to pray. Read the interview after the break
Flashing a warm grin as she exchanged pleasantries with guest after guest as they made their way into the modest hotel in Yaba, an ever bubbling suburb in the heart of Nigeria's commercial powerhouse – Lagos – last Wednesday evening, her bright complexion and lanky frame still stood her out even from the slightly dark corner where she and her 16-month-old daughter, Precious, were seated. Donning a black tank top, a pair of fitted denim jeans on top of a black pimsole sneaker to match, you would be forgiven if you thought her smashing looks that evening was always the norm.
But shockingly, it has not always been this good for 27-year-old Jumoke Orisaguna. About one week earlier, she was hawking freshly-baked bread across the streets of Sabo, Yaba and environs in almost tattered dresses and worn-out slippers. Every day since she made the long journey from her native Ire, an agrarian community in Osun State, to Lagos with her little daughter in January 2016 in search of a new life, she had worked at least nine hours a day, many times under the ferocious and scotching afternoon sun that sweeps across the city, to earn a decent living.
The second child in a family of four children born to a poor farmer and a mother who sold vegetables to provide extra income barely enough to sustain the home, Jumoke knew the meaning of hardship even as a little girl. The loss of her elder brother, the first child of the family, meant that she had to provide direction for her three remaining siblings and also play a significant role in helping to bring food to the table. While many her age savoured the experiences of early puberty, Jumoke, by virtue of her humble background, had to grow up fast – and into an adult, too. For her, there was almost no childhood.
"While the other girls would run around to play in the stream and engage in all sorts of games, I was either selling vegetables for my mother or helping my father on his farm because it was from these two areas that our daily bread came," the young mother of two recalls with nostalgia during a rare encounter with our correspondent earlier in the week. "The opportunity for running around like the other girls wasn't just there," she added.
With two wives and four children to feed, it became increasingly tough for the poor farmer to support the education of his children. As a result, Jumoke had to drop out of school after completing her primary education. Even though she knew if she must realise her childhood dream of becoming a renowned lawyer in the future she had to study further, the love for her younger siblings meant she had to sign up to a hairdressing training for them to also have a chance of becoming something big through education.
"I had to choose between me continuing my education and my other siblings sitting back at home," the 27-year-old revealed. "It was a huge sacrifice I had to make for them to also have a chance of becoming great in life through education. I always feel sad each time I see my childhood friends who are educated and have become successful professionals today. If I had someone to sponsor me, of course I wouldn't have ended up as a hairdresser or even ever had to hawk bread. I still nurse the pains till this moment.
"But instead of idling away at home or just selling vegetables for my mother and helping my father on his farm, I decided to learn hairdressing and make a meaning out of my life," she said.
And for the next three years, Jumoke horned her skills in one of the best hairdressing salons in the community, hoping to hit it big by the time she would become her own boss. By 2013 she had successfully completed the rigorous training and had rented and equipped a shop with the help of family members and the little amount she had managed to save during her first stint in Lagos hawking bread in 2011 for six months. But every hope of instant success soon fizzled into frustration and utmost disappointment. The reality on ground was a distant contrast to the result she had long envisaged.
"Things became tougher after I opened the salon," she cuts in. "You know since Ire is a town whose economic activities largely depend on the presence of the students of the Federal Polytechnic in the community, sales get very bad when they are not on campus.
"So, money wasn't coming at such and even to feed or send our eldest daughter to school became a big problem for me and my husband. That was why I decided to come back to Lagos to give bread hawking a trial again in January this year. I felt it was the best option for now rather than just sit and idle away in Ire," she said.
Luckily for the young woman, that decision has today turned out to be the wisest step she ever took. On the evening of February 2 while hawking her bread as usual, she crashed into something big – something that would change her life forever and write her name in gold. Celebrity photographer – TY Bello – was conducting a street shoot for Nigerian-born British singer, Tinie Tempah, on one of the streets dotting Yaba that evening when suddenly, from nowhere, Jumoke, with the heavy 'baggage' on her head, harmlessly sauntered into the scene. For her, it was another evening to service her many clients in the area especially at a nearby mechanic workshop where a handful of customers were already waiting for her.
"I only wanted to walk through the scene to take bread to my customers at the mechanic workshop around the place the shoot was taking place. I never had the intention of appearing in the photograph. It was while I made my way that the camera captured me," she revealed.


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5 Reasons It's Not Too Late to Start a Career in Technology
If you're exploring new education or professional opportunities, the technology sector may have caught your eye as a potential career. But deciding to switch your career direction and go back to school for a technology-related degree can be scary, especially if you feel you might be too late to make this career switch.
Here are 5 reasons it's not too late to go back for your degree and break into this fast-growing field.
1. Technology Provides a Wide Range of Opportunities
Even if your current field of work is not highly related to technology, there are often many ways to apply the skills you already have to a career in information technology. If you pursue a degree in programming, and your present background is in marketing, you could find a job with a company that creates marketing software. If you currently work in a people-oriented role, you may have many opportunities in software and technology sales. Getting an education in technology may help increase the variety of work you can find and being experienced could give you a leg up.
2. The Skills Keep Changing
A lot of people are afraid they're already behind when it comes to learning about software. One benefit of entering a tech-related field is that the skills and technologies keep changing. Although one programming language or technology may have been popular a few years ago, the newest students may be learning new or up-and-coming programs. That means everyone is continually learning and growing in this field. No matter when you decide to get on board, chances are you'll be learning alongside everyone else.
3. There Are Many Ways to Learn
If you have family, work, or other commitments, many technology-related degrees offer flexible learning options. Since many of the skills you need to learn can be taught remotely, many degree programs have very flexible schedules that allow you to learn and submit your work online. You could look for a hybrid program that allows you to study in person and online. Some programs are entirely done online as well.* This means that you can work and study from almost anywhere in the world, which gives you the flexibility to meet all of your other obligations.
4. There Are Many Ways to Work
For many of the same reasons you can study from anywhere, many technology employers allow their employees to work remotely or telecommute for part of the time. If you already have a lot on your plate, it's not too late to get started in this field. And in many cases it can be even more flexible than the field you came from, making it easier to dedicate time to family and other responsibilities.
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Pursuing a career in technology now is a great idea because the field continues to grow. For instance, the IT sector is projected to grow 12 percent in the years between 2014 and 2024. So, there is room for many more people to join the technology field.
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Day 3 - Bugs, Spiders and Sweeping
Today I worked with Mark (an arachnologist) and Nik (an entomologist). Once again we jumped on the helicopter and headed to our first site. The helicopter landed on a small rock space and Mark headed off to a patch of Melaleucas to search leaf litter for spiders and I stayed to help Nik search for true bugs (these have sucking mouth-parts) in the surrounding river area.
We used a couple of techniques – sweeping and beating vegetation. When you beat vegetation, you use a beating stick and a shorter net, which you hold under the vegetation while you beat it with a stick. Any organism in the vegetation falls in to the net. The small insects are collected in a pooter (a device used to collect insects), larger insects are collected in tubes or containers of various sizes and there is even a small 'pop-up tent' that is used for the larger insects such as dragonflies, praying mantis', etc. My job was the sweeping. This is where you use a net and you sweep it back and forth across grasses and other vegetation to collect insects. I had starter on my Learners with Matt yesterday, and today with the sweeping I did, Nik has handed my green "P's".
Time seemed to fly by and the helicopter was back to collect us and take us to the new site at Oomaloo Falls. This place was amazing; a deep pool that contained a large number of freshwater crocodiles, surrounded by incredible sandstone cliffs and stunning Boab trees. Surrounding the pool at the bottom were Pandanus palms and long grasses.
There were other groups there and they had found a spider down the cliffs where there was some water trickling down like a small waterfall. We scrambled down the cliff face and looked around under rocks and near the water. Mark turned over a rock and found a number of specimens of a beautiful Wolf Spider – although we don't know what type of wolf spider it is as it hasn't been seen by Mark before. I helped Nik catch dragonflies in a large net and did some more sweeping, beating and pootering, while the media (The Australian) interviewed various scientists and teachers.
Near the end of the day a burrow entrance of a Whistling spider (Australia's Tarantula) was found. Mark started to dig around the burrow to see if we could collect the spider. After over an hour of digging and carefully trying to coax the spider out of the burrow, Mark was unable to collect the spider as she went under a large rock that was part of her burrow. Disappointing however all part of scientific field work. Caught the helicopter home, then after dinner I helped Nik to sort and pin the insect catches of the day…then time for bed and a well-earned rest.


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In the wake of the seminal Brinker Restaurant Corp.v. Superior Court (2012) 53 Cal. 4th 1004, the Kirby case, a true jewel for the defense bar, has slipped by virtually unnoticed. This case, another gift from our local Supreme Court to the defense bar and to industry, has the potential to be just as deadly to actions for wage and hour violations as its more celebrated sibling. In short, the ruling in Kirby is that a Plaintiff who sues for meal and rest break violations under Labor Code Section 226.7 is not entitled to attorneys fees under any statute. The legislative purpose in awarding attorneys fees to a victorious Plaintiff suing for overtime is to make it economically viable to punish small violations that would uneconomical without the incentive of attorneys fees.
Labor Code Section 1194 expressly provides that a prevailing Plaintiff in an action for unpaid overtime is entitled to reasonable attorneys fees. Thus, a worker who has been ripped off for $2,000 in unpaid overtime may be able to persuade a lawyer to take his or her case, knowing that the fee award if Plaintiff wins will compensate him or her for the time expended, thereby deterring illegal behavior. One would logically think that the same statute would apply to unpaid meal and rest periods; violations that go hand in hand with overtime violations. The legislative principle is identical, the problem widespread, and the damages usually smaller than in an overtime case. The court labored hard in Kirby to find a reason why Section 1194 should not apply to meal and rest period violations. The reasoning is unsound and unpersuasive. The fact is, as Brinker illustrates very clearly, the California courts are legislating away compensation for meal and rest period violations.
This court though not only held fees unavailable under Labor Code Section 1194, it went further to deny fees to Plaintiff under any statute, including Labor Code Section 218.5. That section provides that in an action for unpaid wages except overtime, the prevailing party, be it Defendant or Plaintiff, may recover reasonable attorneys fees. Determined to shut off oxygen to suits for meal and break violations, the court held that each side bears their own fees, win, lose ,or draw. This is very bad news for the Plaintiff bar: attorneys will, we predict, only rarely take on a meal or break violation case. For now, such cases are effectively dead unless they are an adjunct to a case whose main focus is another legal theory.
The judiciary seems to have taken on the role of protector of business. The economy may be playing a role, along with political pressure to make California a "business friendly" state…….like Texas. The fact is that at the end of the day it is the little guy who pays. We are determined to fight even harder for your rights through the legal and political process. If we at Ainley Law can help you, we will. You can count on it.


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An accomplished writer and highly respected voice in the renewal of the Christian contemplative and Wisdom tradition, Cynthia Bourgeault is the author of the following books:
NEW: The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
Cynthia Bourgeault claims that the salvation Jesus taught was in fact the perception of nonduality–and she's becoming famous for how she backs up this claim quite reasonably, relying on the Bible, church fathers, and especially the Christian contemplative tradition.The notion of nondual Christianity doesn't originate with her, of course, but she's prominent as one of the more articulate voices making people aware of it today. In this new book, she teaches the basics of Centering Prayer as a way to the perception of nonduality. It thus will go a bit deeper theoretically/theologically than the other numerous Centering Prayer books, while still serving as a basic introduction. And in the fascinating third part of the book, she analyzes the Christian mystical classic Cloud of Unknowing, to find in it a model for living with nondual consciousness.
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The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
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Why the MDGs are an Own Goal for Development
Posted by jembendell on September 19, 2010
This week the world's leaders meet in New York to discuss progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were agreed ten years ago as time-bound targets for achievable reductions in poverty. The spin masters of global policy have already been busy framing this milestone in the media. But aside from the spin, the reality is very different and poses significantly different implications for the future of cooperation for poverty reduction everywhere, North and South. Working on the real causes of poverty might not win a round of applause at a charity night, but is the only moral and practical answer to the evidence mounting up before us.
Commenting on progress on the MDGs in the New York Times on Saturday, the Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs wrote that "a great deal has been achieved" and how "cynicism has been replaced by hope, born of experience, commitment and breakthroughs."[1] He bases that on piecing together a few examples of success, mostly on communicable disease. It is relieving that the rates of infection of HIV/AIDS have declined in Africa, but it is wrong to imply this gets anywhere near meeting the MDG 6 on disease reduction, which includes halting its spread and achieving universal treatment.[2]
The United Nations now acknowledges that only two of the many targets might actually be met: cutting in half the number of people who lack safe drinking water and halving the number of people who live on $1.25 or less daily.[3] The first of these is not cause for celebration if we remember that much of this advance in clean water access comes from wells that are likely to run dry in the near future due to climate change and intensive agriculture. The second of these targets is largely meaningless, when one realises that China accounts for the majority of the increase, and thus exchange rates explain a significant part of the progress, while the cost of meeting basic needs have been increasing worldwide.
One of the goals is for universal primary education, yet according to research by the Global Campaign for Education, 48% of children in sub-Saharan Africa still do not complete primary education.[4] Another of the goals is halving world hunger. With global food prices peaking in the summer of 2008, and climbing rapidly again, over one billion people were undernourished in 2009, an all-time high.[5] 925 million people across the world are still classed as hungry.[6] A child dies every six seconds due to hunger related diseases. Despite this shocking daily disaster, the proportion of the world's hungry has gone down by only half a percentage point since 2000 – from 14 to 13.5 percent.[7]
As halving world hunger is the target, that would mean 14% having reduced to 11.6% by now. I make that 130,185,186 people who are hungry this very day, as living examples of us missing the target. It is a massive missing of a target that was not meant as a pie-in-sky ideal, such as ending poverty, but as a practical one of halving hunger. If this was a match, the goal is so far off, we are still trying to work the ball out of own penalty area. To move forward the poor need more than the cult of 'positive thinking' from people who want to keep the MDG show on the road so as to keep the focus on charity not real change, and receive more fame and funds for their projects as a result.
Poverty is an interconnected reality and challenge, and so even hitting the targets can still miss the point. The education commissioner of Nigeria's Kwara state has revealed that nearly 20,000 of the state's teachers were made to sit tests in English and Maths that were designed for 9- and 10-year-olds, but only 7 of the teachers reached the minimum attainment level.[8] As targets are usually about quantities of input, not qualitative outcomes, then situations like that in Nigeria can arise. In addition, a focus on just one issue can ignore the interconnected nature of poverty. For instance, some HIV antiretroviral medications require a minimum caloric intake to work. The government of Zambia has had trouble containing the spread of HIV after expanding the production and distribution of antiretrovirals; they realised the problem was that children were not eating enough.[9]
Likewise a focus on just one issue can lead to other important concerns being sidestepped or made worse. Amnesty International has found that a focus on meeting the MDGs has led to matters of accountability and rights being sidelined at times.[10]
The reason progress is so slow is known to many international development experts. They just don't share it much in press releases, as it doesn't help generate funding. The simplest and most important insight here is that, on a large scale, the poor are not helped by targeting them in particular. Instead, poverty is reduced by helping enterprises generate decent work that create not only the products and services but also the wages for people to buy them. Therefore the creation of decent work opportunities with fair wages is key to all poverty reduction and social development, no matter how the poverty is then manifested.[11]
The percentage of corporate revenues that are paid out as wages has been going down worldwide for decades.[12] This happens as a result of the balance of power between government, business and workforces shifting with economic globalisation. Consequently workers have less in their pockets to buy the products and services that generate the jobs, that employ the workers. To get out of this situation, workers in some countries have been going into debt, speculating on property, or releasing equity from their homes. It is a situation that has led to financial volatility and concerns about financial collapse. In other parts of the world, and for the poor, there is not the same escape through debt and mortgaging assets. Meanwhile their employers have continued to receive a small share of the revenues of the value chains they trade in, with the profits accruing to the top of the chain, such as the famous brands, retailers, related professional services and in turn the financial services sector. This squeezes the sum available to workers and entrepreneurs in poorer countries, as well as limiting the potential tax revenues of such countries. The percentage of corporate profits that are taxed has also been decreasing around the world, therefore meaning governments have less to invest in social services and promoting enterprise.
The key to achieving development is the promotion of enterprise, with the ability of entrepreneurs in lower income countries to receive a larger share of income from their value chains, the ability of their workers to receive a larger share of the generated revenues, and the ability of governments to generate taxes and use them efficiently and accountably. Some within the international development community have been making this analysis clear, but they are drowned out by those who seek to keep the focus on a simpler message of charity, positivity, and coming together for another push towards meeting targets with new donations, often to their own organisations. The alternative would be to work on matters of economic governance and challenge existing power relations in societies and economies – not such an easy sell to large donors, or individual supporters watching the latest disaster appeal on TV. Deluded and self-serving people in the development profession prefer to see the people who criticise the MDGs as negative or cynical, and so dismiss the reality of the situation they describe. As a result, as I found in a study for the UN last year, the funding of economic justice campaigning is limited, and so the relationships with between Western NGOs and civil society in the global South are not often sufficient for them to have a legitimate and effective voice in policy making.[13]
Many of the issues the MDGs focus on are the symptoms and not the causes of poverty. The cause of poverty is generally a lack of decent work in a thriving enterprise economy governed by an state that is held accountable for its regulation and provision of services. A superficial focus on the symptoms not causes of poverty has been promoted in recent years by the new billionaire philanthropists, engaged in charismatic charity. Huge donors like Bill Gates focus mostly on the surface of problems, as that is what is visible. The visibility of a public problem is important as it makes it more understandable to people without insight into how problems arise, and visible problems can be explained in ways that generate public support and congratulation. The experts that the non expert philanthropists rely on are those who have made themselves acceptable to elites in the business and government, thereby perpetuating a superficial agenda. "Take the huge investments in global health, micro-credit and environmental services that Bill Gates and others are making," says Michael Edwards who has authored a book on the topic. "The available evidence from these investments so far suggests that it is perfectly possible to use the market to extend access to useful goods and services, but far harder to have any substantial impact on social transformation. The reason is pretty obvious: systemic change involves social movements, politics and the state, which these experiments generally ignore." He laments that the rise of the "philanthrocapitalists" is undermining the power of independent civil society to frame and act on systemic causes of social problems.[14]
As we look back on the last 10 years of action and inaction on international development it is now clear that the MDGs have scored an own goal for the development community by keeping systemic issues off the agenda. At best the MDGs acted as a defence mechanism in difficult times, maintaining interest in poverty when the international community became engulfed in the anti-terrorism agenda and the related US-led wars.
As I witness business, UN, governments and NGOs coming together this week to call for a another push to meet the MDGs, I am left wondering what will help unravel this great delusion. Where will the movement to embrace a serious sustainable development agenda come from? Will we have to wait another 5 years for a more honest stock take? Five years is a lot of 6 seconds. Over 26 million more children will have died from hunger and related illnesses.
In my last book I described the emergence of a movement mentality within people in the corporate responsibility, social enterprise and responsible investment space, where professionals are pushing forward transformative agendas from within their commercial organisations.[15] Yet I wonder whether the contradictions between short term profit and long term value generation may mean that an authentic development agenda will be difficult to place at the heart of corporate strategy. In reflecting on this I recall that 15 years ago a BP executive said that if Greenpeace did not exist he would have had to invent it. Chris Marsden was explaining about how he needed the external spotlight to make his case from within the company. We could debate whether it was an effective spotlight, given the BP record, but at least there was some pressure. It seems we need a development NGO that can apply pressure like Greenpeace has done on the environment, and encourage investors and companies to engage seriously with development issues. In the early Noughties the 'anti-globalisation' movement applied pressure to governments and international organisations without there being one central organisation, but its visibility has waned in recent years as the usefulness of street protest was questioned and attention moved to celebrity events like Live 8 and Live Earth. There seems to be a gap in the NGO market for a direct action development group, and so perhaps a financier could invent one. I hear of some friends of friends with a half a million from their banker bonuses now wondering what the meaning of their life really is.
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14 Responses to "Why the MDGs are an Own Goal for Development"
September 19, 2010 at 12:10 pm
As MDGs become the flavor of the month, I am reminded of when I first heard about them – sitting in a little office in a small town of Kenya, the MDG poster was stuck on the wall behind my colleague, faded and slightly ripped on one edge. In our discussion of poverty reduction and what was going on with the community, the MDGs were never mentioned. It was only later, when I asked what they were, that my colleague laughed, and said, that's something the global community thinks is important. I asked what he thought. He shrugged. You've gotta know how to get funding, he said with a small smile. No one ever asked us.
So I agree with your basic sentiments The basic way the MDGs were created made them inherently useless and they do indeed look at symptoms not causes. Indeed, IDS and CAFOD have done some excellent work recently looking at some of the problems -and of what might be possible post-MDGs, http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/sumner_et_al_mdg_2015_panel.pdf and http://www.ids.ac.uk/go/idspublication/the-mdgs-and-beyond
and there is some agreement with many of your points. They also point out that having something, even if its more about symptoms than core issues, for people to rally around has been very useful for the international community, even if it has largely failed.
But your emphasis on enterprise strikes me as simplistic, and assumes a particular thrust of development. Is it just about jobs? Do you mean livelihoods as well as jobs? that doesn't sound like it gives potential for alternative types of development – sounds like big corporations moving in with half-way decent wages (which would be better than the current wage structure) and not about ownership. Though I do agree that more watchdogs need to turn their eyes on corps and development – but that only works if enough people care. orgs like CorporateWatch are struggling at the moment.
September 19, 2010 at 1:36 pm
This is good, and one of the best things of yours I've read.
There is a tension in what you write between the promotion of 'enterprise' and the other structural (i.e. governance) reforms you point to, however. Most people, like Sachs, believe that the enterprise you seek is a result of the FDI that MDGs and the philanthrocapitalists aim to engineer.
As for the movement, I think again there is a tension – or rather a lacuna – in what you write about NGOs, and gaps in markets, and so forth. You come from a 'movement' which believes in lobbying, and 'engagement', of a sometimes-confrontational (marching) and sometimes placatory (reports) approach. Indeed, you work in the governance world also that receives and deals with such, e.g. the UN.
But the problem here is the erosion of the historical concepts of good governance, i.e. institutions that per se have an insight into the problems facing their peoples, and indeed are run and led by the 'change agents'. The problem with what you write, and a vast amount of the stuff that seems to go on in your sphere, is the lack of old-school political intent. The movements you speak are post-political, but in a way that is self-defeating. If you want to change society, but you don't want to 'take power', you'll run out of energy, and resources, and legitimacy in the end.
The reason why Chomsky, Michael Moore, and eventually people like Naomi Klein, don't give a fuck about CSR and 'movements' is because, unless the want to create policy and take power, they are trying to reinvent the wheel of human social progress. CSR and non-politicised reform movements suck ass, and are easy to deflect towards infighting and depletion and illegitimacy. I mean this in the empirical sense of losers, with appalling records, like Jeff Sachs having 'legitimacy' because he has 'mandates' on his side.
Nowadays, the goal of movements is scaring a marauding horse and rider down a certain alternative track. No-one thinks, what would it be to dislodge this rider, and get into the saddle? Chomsky and such believe in regime change, and that seems a long haul.
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February 5, 2011 at 11:17 pm
The MDG effort is one that makes the UN seem to be useful beyond its abilities to actually do anything. The charade of last September proved that those who are involved in talking, but not practiced in the act of doing move backwards, not forwards. Jeff Sachs, a smart and concerned university professor is much too much a part of the system to see beyond it. He makes far too much money to divest himself from it and he makes his funders and supporters feel as if they are part of the solution, not actually a part of the problem.
Certainly there is a need to deal with the root causes of things…but there is also a need to use bandaids in the short term so that people have an opportunity to get on their feet and participate in that process. The answers for all of this rest, in one way or another, in carrying out the mandates enscribed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If we addressed each one of the human rights spelled out we would address the root problems facing us in development, security, peace, the environment, equality and more. The problem is that too many of us neither know or truly care about human rights (all of them) to begin the grueling process of addressing them. In addition too many NGOs (like business and government) protect our respective silos at the cost of doing what is right for the people they were designed to serve. Tear down the silo walls and we can begin the process to address the problems we face.
February 6, 2011 at 5:08 am
Thanks Robert. I agree that the silos are a problem. This is the key loss of the growth of NGOs in the past decades – that citizens who could dedicate their professional lives to public goals end up with a career in the NGO sector where they are encouraged to focus on a single issue and simplify it for donors. Huge efforts go into trying to get NGO management to accept cross cutting issues, root causes, and the need to work on those. Or to consider the values from which the NGOs mandate comes from and how those values suggest a broader approach. But the logics of the institution i.e. funding, branding, niche, technocratic specialisms, etc, mean that such efforts are swimming against the stream. Thus we see progressives in NGOs creating networks of NGOs to work on deeper issues. e.g. CORE, PWYP, TJN. However, my UN study on those networks shows how marginal they are to the participant NGOs. (google "Noble Networks"). Given its moderate criticisms, that study was not that well received by the NGO staff themselves, but the implication of the study is that senior NGO management and boards need to support their organisatiosn to do much more on root causes of problems. The other problem with the single issue focus is that when the NGOs club together for massive campaigns like MPH, then we see policy proposals becoming a wish list stitched together from different single issue agendas, and they dont get to the root causes of problems. Perhaps the rise of peer to peer networks of concerned citizens will provide new means for advocacy, activism and lobbying on root causes. However, that will require some more conscious support from donors to help support and inform such emergent networks. I dont buy the naive idea that such networks are simply the sum of the views of the crowd – the crowd's view is shaped by organised nodes.
February 6, 2011 at 3:41 pm
Jem, I am not sure if any organizational structures themselves are strong enough to break the bonds of self preservation. The NGO structure is one, like business and government that works to save itself. I have seen nonprofits, working towards the same goal, spend a good deal of time working against each other rather than work together. They won't share research, dollars or ideas, making the efforts more costly and the benefits few and far between. What we see now in Egypt and in other parts of the world might help break down some silos and barriers, but as we say with the crisis in Haiti or even in New Orleans, the silos and organizational structures are harder to change than the crisis needs to be solved. Who knows how long ago cancer could have been cured, poverty eradicated and obesity be put to rest? As long as the organizations work to save themselves at all costs we will not likely see the world we want and until we change the way we operate that day will never come.
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