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What is a thesis statement?
tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion.
is a road map for the paper; it tells the reader what to expect from the rest of the paper.
directly answers the question asked of you. A thesis is an interpretation of a question or subject, not the subject itself. The subject, or topic, of an essay might be World War II or Moby Dick; a thesis must then offer a way to understand the war or the novel.
makes a claim that others might dispute.
is usually a single sentence somewhere in your first paragraph that presents your argument to the reader. The rest of the paper, the body of the essay, gathers and organizes evidence that will persuade the reader of the logic of your interpretation.
Attributes of a good thesis:
Your thesis statement should be specific—it should cover only what you will discuss in your paper and should be supported with specific evidence.
The thesis statement usually appears at the end of the first paragraph of a paper.
It should be contestable, proposing an arguable point with which people could reasonably disagree.
A strong thesis is provocative; it takes a stand and justifies the discussion you will present.
It tackles a subject that could be adequately covered in the format of the project assigned.
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This has been a year of firsts for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. First, they designed a wedding dress. Now, the design duo is making their Vine debut — and, it's as awkward as we hoped.
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At the 2010 Paris Motor Show, Exagon Motors introduced the new Furtive-eGT electic sports car. Unlike most of the small, boutique-style automakers with all-electric or hybrid sports/luxury cars that have gone bankrupt, Exagon is moving forward with plans on unveiling the production model at the 2012 Paris Motor Show.
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Learning how to potty train a German Shepherd puppy does not have to be stressful or worrisome but it does take time and persistence.
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Your German Shepherd puppy will need to 'go potty' first thing in the morning, after eating, when waking up from a nap and usually after playing.
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Rewarding your puppy each time she gets it right will encourage her to keep doing the right thing.
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I use a mixture to avoid my pup from becoming too attached to treats.
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If your puppy has an accident inside don't punish her.
So no raised voice or shouting. Punishment will cause negative feelings towards natural body functions. She might even find sneaky places inside to use as her toilet, which you want to avoid at all costs.
- If you catch her in the act the trick is to interrupt her 'flow' by saying the word 'outside' (or any word you like). Just keep in consistent.
- Then pick her up and take her to where you want her to go.
#9. Pee Pads or Paper are NOT helpful
Although you can easily teach your German Shepherd puppy to use pee pads or paper, it only complicates potty training.
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Rather go for gold and get your pup conditioned to using their toilet outside!
#10. Make Peace with Lack of Sleep (for a while)
You will need to sacrifice some sleep for a while. We can't expect our pups to 'keep it in' for longer than they can. If accidents are happening at night, you should take your pup out more often.
Accidents will happen, but the more your pup has potty accidents in her personal space, the more comfortable she'll become doing it. You really want to avoid this at all costs.
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Access to new spaces depends on whether your pup is performing well with potty training. If she's having accidents around the house, allowing her more access is setting her and yourself up for failure.
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In general, with training, if a puppy makes a mistake it's an opportunity to learn. But with potty training you really want to avoid giving your puppy the opportunity to eliminate inside.
You can find out exactly how to do this inside The Flawless Potty Training Guide.
#12. Common Mistakes You Should Avoid
There are some common mistakes that could make potty training your German Shepherd puppy go less smoothly than you intend. Watch out for these little things…
- Feeding your pup too many different foods in a given day.
- Overfeeding or allowing free feeding and watering.
- Feeding too close to bedtime.
- Feeding salty foods like processed meats.
- Feeding too many treats in one go.
- Expecting your GSD pup to know instinctively how to let you know she needs to go on a potty run.
- Leaving your pup alone for too long, which will force her to eliminate inside.
- Not teaching your puppy a specific cue so she'll understand she's here to take care of 'business' not for play.
- Allowing access to lovely, soft absorbent rugs – which are very comfortable to pee on.
- Not being around when your pup does eliminate outside. You are responsible for teaching her that you like what she just did. You must be there to reward her.
- Not cleaning accidents with appropriate cleaners like Icky Poo.
Potty training should not be stressful, it is a time of bonding. Your pup is learning house rules to ensure happy co-existence of you and pup for a long time to come.
She's also learning to trust you, an important foundation for further training.
The key take aways here are:
- Work with nature and build on the conditioning your puppy has already begun to learn from mom.
- Be consistent and rely on your pups natural context bound nature. Teach her where her toilet is. She'll learn fast and make the connection.
- Rely on your German Shepherd pup's predictable digestive tract and bladder by setting a routine.
- Reward your pup when she gets it right. This will encourage her to do it again and again.
- Remember that a mistake is a learning opportunity for your German Shepherd puppy. So stay positive and relaxed.
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June Leota Bingham McCracken, 86, died peacefully at home Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, surrounded by family and friends. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel with Dr. Randy Cotton, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Olive Memorial Park.The family will receive friends from 5:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.She was born to E.I. and Lily Tate on June 25, 1925, in Loop, Texas. June was a long time resident of Big Spring and was a homemaker, raising six children. She was a Baptist and a member of Trinity Baptist Church. June enjoyed sewing, crocheting, quilting and arts and crafts, but truly enjoyed riding in the car around town sightseeing and watching people.June is survived by three sons and daughters-in-law, Loyd and Judy Bingham, Steve and Debi Bingham and Cecil and Carolyn Bingham, all of Big Spring. She also leaves behind 13 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Rose Hand of New Mexico and Lucy Grimes of Oklahoma.She was preceded in death by two daughters, Jo Ann Bingham and Frances A. Bingham; one son, Billy R. Bingham; and her husbands, Joe William Bingham and Byron McCracken.The family would like to thank family, friends, Scenic Mountain Medical Center staff and the staff at Home Hospice for all the love, support and prayers.The family suggests memorials be made to Home Hospice, 111 E. Seventh St., Suite A, Big Spring, Texas 79720.Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.comPaid obituary


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QI Group Executive Chairman Vijay Eswaran was once interviewed by Entrepreneur to talk about how he started in his line of work and what most excites him about the future. One thing he mentioned in this interview was QI University, a university that QI Group has founded in partnership with the Malaysian government, and they're working on a plan for a complete green campus at the new QI City location. Learn more about Vijay Eswaran: https://hk.linkedin.com/in/eswaranvijay
This green campus would use a variety of non-fossil fuel energy sources such as solar panels, windmills and other platforms that would power the housing and transportation. The new QI City would also have shopping outlets, parks and all the fun features you would find in a regular municipality.
Vijay Eswaran was born to a government worker and school teacher in Malaysia and learned quite a bit about spiritualism and generosity. It was his father who he admired the most, and when he later went into business he started the Vijayratnam Foundation in his honor.
Vijay Eswaran graduated from the London School of Economics with a B.S. in socioeconomics, and then completed graduate school with an MBA at Southern Illinois University. He was a consultant for several IT-based companies for a few years after graduating, and then he turned his interest to multilevel marketing and direct selling.
In 1998 Vijay Eswaran moved back to Malaysia and formed a team of businessmen who started what would become a major direct selling enterprise. He named the company QI Group Ltd. and placed its headquarters in Hong Kong.
QI Group sells household products, cosmetics supplies, and health products primarily through QNet and its independent resellers. But it's also the parent company of QI Asset Management and QI University at Perak. Eswaran has also led philanthropy through QI Group's RYTHM Foundation and the Vijayratnam Foundation.
Eswaran has given a lot of speeches and lectures on business and spiritualism. He believes spiritualism and practicing listening and dieting rituals can help people in the workplace become more focused and have better morale.
His bestselling book is "In The Sphere Of Silence" published in 2005. He's also been featured in the 2011 Forbes Asia Heroes of Philanthropy list, and is the recipient of the New Global Indian award.


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A very good, very little known disc. Some of Rock's greats: Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, Donald Fagen, Phoebe Snow, and Eddie & David Brigati, with special guest, Charles Brown. Recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York, in March of 1991.
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Partying Down With Donald Fagen & Friends
Alan Caylow | USA | 07/10/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"After he released his 1982 debut solo album, "The Nightfly," Steely Dan's Donald Fagen found himself with a case of writer's block, and he took an extended break from the music business, apart from contributing music to the 1988 Michael J. Fox movie, "Bright Lights Big City" (which Fagen still found very difficult to do), and writing the occasional column for the popular movie magazine, Premiere. But come 1991, and Donald *finally* decided to ease himself back into his music career once more, and what better way to do it then to get together with some big-name friends and put on a concert just for fun. "The New York Rock And Soul Revue: Live At The Beacon" captures Fagen live in concert with other greats like Boz Scaggs, Phoebe Snow, Michael McDonald, Charles Brown, and Eddie & David Brigati of the Rascals, performing some of the classic oldies that inspired all of them to become musicians in the first place, as well as some of their original songs, too. In other words, as Fagen says in the liner notes, "the music we'd like to hear at a good party." And the "New York Rock And Soul Revue" is a damn good party, indeed. Donald & friends play this music with great fire, making for a truly rollicking good time. Standout tracks include McDonald & Snow's duet on "Knock On Wood," Snow's dynamic performances of "Shakey Ground" and "At Last," Donald's classy takes on "Green Flower Street" and Steely Dan's "Chained Lightning," Boz Scaggs' smooth rendering of "Drowning In The Sea Of Love," McDonald's cool cover of his hit with the Doobie Brothers, "Minute By Minute," and, of course, the Steely Dan classic, "Pretzel Logic," with Fagen dueting brilliantly with McDonald for a rousing finale. Not long after this concert was performed, Donald Fagen was finally inspired to record his second solo album, 1993's "Kamakiriad," AND to hit the road with his Steely Dan chum Walter Becker for a pair of reunion Steely Dan tours, culminating at last into the Dan's long-awaited reunion album, 2000's Grammy-winning "Two Against Nature." But, very thankfully, this magnificent live album was the spark for all of that. "The New York Rock And Soul Revue: Live At The Beacon" is a wonderful, must-own CD for any fan of Donald Fagen & friends. Put it on, and enjoy the party!"
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"This CD is one of those rare albums you can listen to 100 times and it's always great. The live performances are some of the best from each of these solid performers, but Boz Skaggs absolutely grooves with 'Drowning in the Sea of Love.' Michael McDonald sings 'Lonely Teardrops' like it was made for him instead of Clyde McPhadder. Donald Fagan shines in both vocals and keyboards, but Pretzel Logic is just awesome, especially with McDonald asking, "Where'd you get those shoes?" One of my Island Albums, for sure, and I bet it will be one of yours."


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Dione Lucas
Dione Lucas (10 October 1909 – 18 December 1971)[1] (pronounced DEE-OH-NEE) was an English chef,[2] and the first female graduate of Le Cordon Bleu.
Lucas was fundamental in establishing an extension of the famous Paris culinary school in London in the 1930s. In 1931 she and Rosemary Hume set up a cookery school in London as they had both trained in Paris. They had a flat in Chelsea and they would reputedly serve their students' creations to passing trade at chairs and tables on the pavement. Lucas is thought to have helped Hume create her first cookery book, as Hume's spelling was known to be poor.[3]
Lucas worked as a hotel chef in Hamburg before World War II and later claimed that Adolf Hitler often dined there and had a taste for stuffed squab.[4] She later opened a Cordon Bleu restaurant and a cooking school in New York. She also ran the Egg Basket restaurant by Bloomingdale's in New York. One of the earliest television cook-show hosts, Lucas's To The Queen's Taste was broadcast on CBS in 1948-1949 from the restaurant.[5] She had another show in the 1950s.
Dione Lucas was the first woman featured in a cooking show on television on WPIX-11 in New York.[6] In one of her New York restaurants, The Gingerman, Lucas helped to introduce the omelette to the American palate. She can be seen as a predecessor and influence to Julia Child. Dione Lucas authored several cookbooks on French cuisine.
- "The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living."
- "I do not mean to spoil your appetite for stuffed squab, but you might be interested to know that it was a great favorite with Mr. Hitler, who dined at the hotel often. Let us not hold that against a fine recipe though."
- The Cordon Bleu Cook Book (1947)
- The Dione Lucas Book of French Cooking (1947)
- The Dione Lucas Meat and Poultry Cook Book (1955, with Anne Roe Robbins)
- The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook (1964)
- The Dione Lucas Book of Natural French Cooking (1977, with Marion & Felipe Alba)
- Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook (1982 with Darlene Geis)
- To The Queen's Taste
- The Dione Lucas Cooking Show
External links[edit]
- Papers of Dione Lucas, ca.1930-1995. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
- ^ Good cooking / by Dione Lucas - National Library of Australia
- ^ Cooking for the Camera Time Monday, May. 30, 1955
- ^ Sue Shephard (30 November 2010). The Surprising Life of Constance Spry. Pan Macmillan. pp. 94–96. ISBN 978-0-330-53610-3.
- ^ Dione Lucas (1964). The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook. p. 89.
- ^ Collins, Kathleen (2012). "A Kitchen of One's Own: The Paradox of Dione Lucas". Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. 27 (2): 1–23. doi:10.1215/02705346-1597195.
- ^ Dione Lucas - Cook Books
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Scientists from Agriculture Victoria have made a world-first scientific discovery that could have various applications in pasture and crop agriculture and positive implications for Australia's multi-billion dollar livestock industries.
The breakthrough event is the first documented example of a gene being 'horizontally' transferred from a fungal endophyte to a flowering plant.
Fungal endophytes are organisms that live between living plant cells and can help plants to develop better resistance to pests and environmental stresses.
This work looked at the interaction between a particular fungal endophyte and perennial ryegrass – a flowering plant which is the low-cost home-grown feed stock that drives Australia's clean and green $13.7 billion dairy industry and is a major contributor to the industry's competitive advantage.
Agriculture Victoria's Research Leader of Molecular Genetics, Professor John Forster, who is a co-author of the paper describing the work, explained that the discovery points to an "evolutionary puzzle," which has now been decoded through the hard work and genetic sleuthing of a team of scientists at AgriBio, the Centre for AgriBioscience in Melbourne.
"Horizontal gene transfer is not in itself uncommon – for example, between bacterial and land plants – but this is the first ever documented event of horizontal gene transfer from a fungus to a flowering plant," he said.
"The scientific significance is in the rarity of the event, since flowering plants have been interacting with fungi for millions of years."
It was important to establish that this was a true occurrence of horizontal gene transfer.
Using genetic mapping techniques, the team determined that the complete gene of the endophyte was present in the perennial ryegrass plant's genome. Its presence, therefore, could not be explained by contamination of the sample.
The team also examined the genomes of groups of grasses that are closely related to perennial ryegrass to see which of them contained the gene. Using this approach, they were able to show that the gene appears to have been horizontally transferred into a single common ancestor between nine and 13 million years ago.
"This is a narrow window in evolutionary terms, and really quite recent," Prof. Forster said.
Further work will be undertaken to establish if this is a positive adaptation by certain grass species that has been retained over many generations.
The knowledge will be used to breed better forage grasses to strengthen Australian agriculture.
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Measuring Motor Speed
The command to the Hummingbird gear motor sets the speed of the motor using a number from 0 to 100. We developed this project to demonstrate how this number controls the voltage supplied to the motor as well as how the rotations per minute of the motor.
This project uses a gear motor, a light sensor, Scratch, and an inexpensive multimeter. Scratch is used to run the motor at a given command level (20, 30, 40, etc.) for 60 s. A strip of cardboard is attached to the motor. Each rotation of the motor causes the strip of cardboard to pass over the light sensor. The Scratch program detects this movement as a change in the light sensor reading. Specifically, the Scratch program counts the number of times that a light sensor reading is below the threshold and the previous reading was above the threshold. This is displayed on the screen as the variable counts. This project could be simplified by having students simply count the number of rotations of the motor in one minute.
A multimeter is used to measure the voltage supplied to the motor. To accomplish this, we inserted two extra wires into the gear motor ports and used alligator clips to attach these wires to the multimeter. At low motor commands (20-30), the voltage reading may appear to vary between a lower value and a higher value. If this happens, the higher value should be recorded.
Students can record the voltage and motor speed corresponding to a variety of motor commands. They can then create a scatterplot showing the relationship between voltage and motor speed. Similar plots could be used to investigate the relationship between motor commands and voltage or speed.
Students could also extend this project to consider negative motor commands. Negative motor commands will result in negative voltages (if the connection to the multimeter remains the same). An example of a graph with negative voltages is shown below. In this graph, all rotations are taken to be positive. Students could also consider the direction of rotation. For example, clockwise rotations could be considered positive and counterclockwise rotations negative. This would results in a linear graph.
This project is presented as a demonstration, but students need not be told to conduct exactly this experiment. Rather, they could be shown how to measure voltage and challenged to design an experiment to measure the relationships among voltage, motor commands, and motor speed.
Technical Notes
The motor is actually controlled using pulses of voltage (pulse-width modulation), but the multimeter averages these pulses into a fairly constant voltage reading. However, we believe that these pulses caused the oscillation in the voltage values that we observed at low motor speeds. Students may also notice that voltages near 0 (for example, 10 or -10) do not cause the motor to move. This is because the power to the motor is not enough to overcome the friction of the motor.


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The film Into Great Silence is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks high in a remote corner of the French Alps.
It came about 17 years after the director first requested permission to make it.
At the monastery, only the candles break the darkness.
It is the middle of the night and in the icy cold of their stone cloister, the monks sit in their thick habits reciting Gregorian verse.
"I think they simply do it because they choose to... become close to God," says the film's director Philip Groening.
"It's a very simple concept, the concept is God himself, is pure happiness, the closer you move to that, the happier you are."
Repetitive lives
He first requested to film in the remote monastery of Grande Chartreuse 17 years ago. When he finally got in, he found a regimented world that is largely unchanged since the founding of the Carthusian Order 10 centuries ago.
The monks have avowed almost total silence, interrupted only by what one of them called "the terror of the bell".
"Once you accept the fact that when the bell rings - you just don't think about it - you just get up and go and do whatever that bell requires you to do, then, every moment that you have is a pretty permanently present moment," he says.
"You don't have to sort of plan, like 'What do I do in two years?... Where do I want my career to be in 15 years?' And the absence of language makes something - the moment itself becomes very, very strong."
The film tracks the infinitely repeated routines of the monastery. In one scene, a monk bathed in shadow delivers lunch through hatches in the cell doors.
Cinema hit
The cameraman then goes inside where the monks sleep on straw beds, with only a tin stove for heating. Outside, the snow-swept scenery of the French Alps provides a majestic backdrop.
Groening lived here for several months to make the film.
"When I left the monastery, I was thinking about what exactly had I lived through and it was realising that I had had the privilege of living with a community of people who live practically without any fears," he said.
"They have the feeling that death is just a transition, they have the feeling that if something goes wrong, then it's OK because it's something that God wanted and this is something that changed me."
The Carthusians are the strictest Christian order and this three-hour, almost totally silent film about them, was not expected to be a hit. But it is playing to packed cinemas, fascinating audiences with the unique glimpse of a contemplative life, unknown beyond the monastery walls.


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Shelagh Turner
Shelagh Turner is in her early 30's. As a nun and midwife she had a fresh, uncomplicated approach to her work and connected well with Jenny and her other younger colleagues.
In Season Two, Sister Bernadette questioned her chosen vocation. After recovering from TB, she made the intrepid decision to leave the order of St Raymond Nonnatus in order to marry Dr Turner. In Season Three, Shelagh continues to work in a part time capacity at the Mother and Baby Clinic as well as enjoy family life with Dr. Turner and Timothy.
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Tell us about entering the Sixties.
Although it's set back over 50 years ago, the themes and the issues that people face in the Sixties still affect people today. We learn from looking back and shine a light on how we live today.
In what way has your character grown and developed since you started?
It's been an amazing character to play. She starts off as the young nun on the team, then there was that moment she took off her wimple, and looked at herself in the mirror, and from then you knew there was more to her than being a nun. Series three was definitely a transitional series for her, everything she knew had changed. But now she comes back full circle, she's Sister Bernadette again but with all the other things that she'd hoped and wished for, being in love and having a family. She was able to serve others again, which is a huge part of who she is. The ability to be that person again but with so much more in her life was lovely.
If you had to play somebody else's part, who would you play?
I think the beauty of Call the Midwife is every single character is so well drawn, we all love playing our own roles, I can't imagine anybody playing any other role. However, it would be nice to wear what Trixie wears!
What has it been like seeing Max/Timothy grow up on set?
Even as a youngster Max was always very mature. He's just wonderful to work with, a fantastic actor and lovely to be around. A total joy.
What is it like filming with Alice who plays Angela?
She's only two years old but the penny dropped for her in a recent scene and she suddenly understood how filming works. She was sitting there and she knew she had to be quiet. The clapperboard came in and she shouted, 'I did it! I did it!' It was very cute.
What impact has Call the Midwife had that you're most proud of?
I had the privilege of visiting the opening of the Greenwich Birth Centre and met so many amazing midwives. I turned up feeling a bit unqualified to do such a thing but I received such a great reaction. Midwives watch the show and love the show. They feel as though people have more respect and love for them, because the program has put a spotlight on what they do. I'm very proud of that.
What makes Call the Midwife so globally successful?
I think the reason Call the Midwife has done so well in so many different countries is because of the universal themes it portrays. The program isn't just nostalgic, it can make us look at how we live our lives today, whether that's through the differences or similarities we see on screen. It doesn't matter where you live, you can still relate to so many aspects of the show.
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Attendance and punctuality are fundamental to a young person's ability to benefit fully from the opportunities provided in our school. There is a clear link between good attendance and academic achievement as well as enabling the development of social, emotional and personal skills. Our school employs an "Attend to Achieve - 96%" strategy to ensure pupils' attendance at The Dearne ALC is at least in line with national figures
Having excellent attendance is crucial for a pupil to make progress and achieve. There is a positive correlation between high attendance and high attainment. At The Dearne ALC we actively encourage attendance to be excellent. A pupil must have 96% attendance or above to receive any rewards or access a trip or excursion. If a pupil is to achieve their potential, they must attend school every day. We have a very clear policy around what is expected in terms of attendance and the school has seen a significant improvement in its whole school attendance and our 96% 'Attend to Achieve' strategy has been shared with different schools from Barnsley and Rotherham as a model of good practice.
For pupils and families who don't meet our high standards of attendance we regularly track and monitor their attendance.
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In this tour de force of psychological suspense, bestselling author Lisa Black draws from her experience as a forensic investigator to create fascinating characters, including a woman in a lifelong relationship with death. Her latest case is an unidentified female in her early teens, discovered in a local cemetery. More shocking than the girl's injuries - for Maggie at least - is the fact that no one has reported her missing. She and the detectives assigned to the case (including her cop ex-husband) are determined to follow every lead, run down every scrap of evidence. But the monster they seek is watching every move, closer to them than they could possibly imagine.
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Reprintas at 13 February 2010
Anand Satyanand, Governor-General
At Wellington this 4th day of February 2008
Present:The Right Hon Helen Clark presiding in Council
Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations 2008: expired and deemed to be revoked, on 13 February 2010, by regulation 3.
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Pursuant to section 7A(6) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the recommendation of the Minister for Biosecurity and on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
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2 Commencement
3 Expiry
4 Eradication actions, exemptions, and southern Kaipara harbour area defined
5 Continuation of exemption
These regulations are the Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations 2008.
These regulations come into force on 12 February 2008.
These regulations, unless sooner revoked, continue in force until the close of 12 February 2010, and then expire and are deemed to be revoked.
In these regulations,—
eradication actions means actions taken in accordance with Part 6 of the Biosecurity Act 1993 in an attempt to eradicate Aedes camptorhynchus from the southern Kaipara harbour area
exemption means the exemption that—
(a) was granted under section 7A(1) of the Biosecurity Act 1993 to commence on 16 December 2007; and
(b) expired on 11 February 2008; and
(c) exempted eradication actions from the provisions of Part 3 of the Resource Management Act 1991
southern Kaipara harbour area includes the areas of the southern Kaipara harbour from South Head, around the coastal margin areas of the harbour, as far as Tapora.
The exemption is continued.
Diane Morcom,Clerk of the Executive Council.
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 7 February 2008.
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)
This is a reprint of the Biosecurity (Resource Management Act Exemption) Regulations 2008. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the regulations as at 13 February 2010, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.
Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that have yet to come into force or that contain relevant transitional or savings provisions are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order.
Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.
This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.
A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.
Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.
A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.
In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:
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•position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)
•format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
•format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as "the 1st day of January 1999" is now expressed as "1 January 1999")
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In an election that made history in Somerset County, 38 percent of registered voters went to the polls to give their opinions on who should lead the county.
Somerset County elections director Tina Pritts said that 38 percent is a pretty good turnout.
"It seemed like it went pretty good," Pritts said. "We had some minor glitches, nothing major."
Casselman Borough was the first precinct to return results to the office. Paint Township No. 1 was the last, at 9:53 p.m.
First results were released shortly after 9:15 p.m. Final, unofficial results were released shortly after 11 p.m.
"We had the memory cards finished at 10:15 p.m.," Pritts said. "It took a little bit longer to scan in the absentee ballots. The holdup was the absentee ballots."
The news of election night was the election of Somerset County's first female district attorney. Democrat Lisa Lazzari-Strasiser beat incumbent Republican Jerry Spangler.
Somerset County Republican Party Chairman Bruce Hottle said he was disappointed to see Spangler lose. He expected the vote to be closer than it was. Lazzari-Strasiser received 57 percent of the vote.
"I knew it was going to be a tough race and I thought the vote would be much closer than it was," Hottle said. "Jerry was the first DA to serve as long as he did. Most are two terms regardless of how well they did in the job. The longer you go in an office like that the more detractors you have from prosecuting cases over the years and some cases you didn't prosecute."
Hottle said voters typically look for a change in the county if an incumbent has served for about 20 years.
"That was the theme of her campaign: 'It's time,'" he said. "It worked out to be successful for her."
Somerset County Democratic Party Chairman Jim Shepley said the party is ecstatic about Lazzari-Strasiser's win.
"After some of the negative campaigning we're really happy about that," he said. "Lisa carried herself really well."
Democrats also kept control of the county commissioners office when incumbents John Vatavuk and Pamela Tokar-Ickes were re-elected.
"I think people are voting for individuals. They're looking at each individual and what they have to offer," he said. "I want to thank the voters of Somerset County for voting with their conscience."
Hottle said the Republican Party was able to keep several of the row offices that were up for election.
"I wish all the candidates well in their new positions," he said.
The results are unofficial until they are certified by the computation board. Pritts said the board will begin to meet Monday and should be finished in about a week.
As the dust settles on the local election the focus will quickly move to state and federal races. Because 2012 is a presidential election year, Pennsylvania's primary will be moved to April instead of May. Candidates will begin circulating petitions in mid-January.
"I think the re-apportionment should all be completed by the end of the year so they know where to circulate nomination petitions," Hottle said. "Our primary focus will be on the 2012 elections."


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I don't normally do things I don't want to. In fact, I try as hard as possible to not do things I don't want to. I never really studied for exams after the point where I thought I would pass them, I never attended class if I didn't feel like, I didn't wear full pants when I didn't feel like, I woke up when I felt like, and I slept when I wanted to for most of my life. All these people who tell you that you have to work hard to get what you want, and that if you torture yourself now you'll have it easy in the end, I think they've all lost their minds. And I'm more sure about this now than I ever was. I've seen 30 year olds with bellies the size of pregnant women who sit at their desks for over 9 hours a day and live what you would all call the ideal life and I know that they haven't known the pleasure that I would get when I made a song or wrote a short story or probably even a damn blog post for even a day in their lives.
I'm happy being happy. I believe in indulgence. And this is mostly why I know I can't work a 9 hour a day job. No matter how good the work is, no matter what the benefits are. I can't work in that environment, I think it's absolutely inhibitory to any kind of productivity. Why would anyone be driven to work at a place where they care more about how much time you spend doing what you do rather than what you do? I don't want to go to work tomorrow. And I, being the person I know myself to be, would not go to work tomorrow. I know that even if I do go to work tomorrow, I won't accomplish much there. There, where the clocks on the wall watch you work, with the air-conditioning and the artificial lighting and the artificial personalities and stale humour and well, I could go on.
I haven't seen the sunset in weeks! I would understand why you wouldn't think this is a big deal, but honestly, try it. Sunsets just have a way of making my mind work. I heard that in early Mayan civilisations they would have a particular time of day when everyone would stop whatever they were doing and watch the sun set. I don't know how reliable this information is, but it makes sense. We tend to overlook these things living our busy lives in these big cities. I live about a kilometer from the sea and yet I hardly ever go to the beach anymore. Here, I actually found a research that links decreased exposure to sunlight with cognitive impairment among depressed individuals.
But here's the thing, I probably will go to work tomorrow and I probably will sit there in office all day and do nothing productive. Just accept money for some time of my life. Who was the idiot who said "time is money?" He ought to be locked in solitary confinement and be paid in millions for it. And yes, I can think of buying myself a new guitar or an iTouch or a Wii, or even a fucking PS3 with a hi-def TV. If I wait a bit longer I'll have enough to buy a car, not that I want a car, I'm just saying. I can go to Blue Frog and not be that bothered by how much they charge for entry or for alcohol inside. But I think I'm lucky enough to know that I don't want any of that as much as I want the freedom to be able to do what I want and when I want. I wouldn't mind having a 2GB mp3 player and traveling by buses and trains and living as stingily as I did in college.
I had decided that I would stay here until I figured stuff out and until I had enough money to do whatever else I might want to do after this. But I've had enough money for a while now, and I don't know what I want to do for the rest of my life but I'm pretty sure that there's no one thing I could do for the rest of my life. I know what I don't want to do for the rest of my life and that, I'm sure that I'm sure about by now. (No, I didn't type that twice by mistake, notice the comma.) So why haven't I left yet? Well, because when I told them I wanted to leave my generous employers said that I would get to work with them in New York for two to three months in a complicated arrangement that means I have to stay with them till somewhere around November this year. And though this is a very sweet deal there's a part of me that's hoping that this won't work out, hoping that all managers are indeed the rotten bastards I would like to believe they are and that they pull out of this deal at the last minute just so that I can show them the finger and go on and live the rest of my life being me.
But despite all this, I will go to work tomorrow. Do something that I wouldn't normally do. Do something that's not me, and watch time pass by as I grow a little more estranged from myself. I will show them the finger someday, before the end of this year, and that I'm sure of. And if you can relate to any of what I said then I suggest that one day you sit alone and watch the sun set and think about it. Because I think that watching the sunset is more important than any of this.


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Iowa State University's Vikram Dalal has worked nearly four decades to improve the performance of solar cells. His goal is to boost efficiency without raising costs. Photo by Bob Elbert.
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AMES, Iowa -- In Vikram Dalal's 37 years of researching solar technology, the efficiency of thin film solar cells for homes and buildings has improved from 1 percent to about 7 percent.
Dalal, the Thomas M. Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and director of the university's Microelectronics Research Center, is hoping his latest multidisciplinary research project could boost that efficiency to about 10 percent.
That would mean better solar cell technology that could be patented and licensed by Iowa State, a competitive edge for an Ames-based company collaborating on the project and clean, green energy for all of us.
The three-year research project is supported by a $1.69 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund, a state program to support energy innovation and independence. The project supports the work of Dalal and six other Iowa State faculty members plus eight graduate students. The Iowa Energy Center is also supporting some of Dalal's solar research and he expects that work to contribute to the power fund project.
"We are very excited about this project," said Dalal. "We want to help Iowa become a major producer of solar products that can be sold all over the world. That's what I want do to. I want to help Iowa companies become world-class producers of solar technology."
The project has three primary goals:
Working with Dalal on the project are Rana Biswas, an adjunct research associate professor of physics and astronomy; Sumit Chaudhary, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Malika Jeffries-EL, an assistant professor of chemistry; Jaeyoun Kim, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Joseph Shinar, professor and chair of physics and astronomy; and Ruth Shinar, an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering.
The researchers are collaborating with PowerFilm Inc. of Ames and Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho.
The project includes work in the maturing field of thin film silicon-based photovoltaic technology. And it includes work in the emerging field of organic semiconductors.
Dalal said Iowa State has hired the people and is developing the expertise to make it a leader in the research and development of the new technology.
"Looking 20 years out it's very clear that organic semiconductors will be a major player in photovoltaic technology," he said. "The technology is in its infancy. And if we don't nurture a technology in its infancy, how do we grow a mature technology? I'm hoping Iowa State can become a leader in this field and help make a smooth transition from our current technology."
That current technology has been a booming business. The Solar Energy Industries Association based in Washington, D.C., reported that the photovoltaic market in the United States grew by more than 48 percent in 2007 and U.S. solar manufacturing grew by 74 percent in 2007. The U.S. currently ranks fourth in the world for installed solar power (behind Germany, Japan and Spain). Solarbuzz, an international solar energy research and consulting company based in San Francisco, reports the photovoltaic industry generated $17.2 billion in global revenues in 2007.
Dalal is hoping the research at Iowa State can contribute to the continued growth of solar energy, making it a major energy option for the future.
"Our whole objective is to achieve greater solar efficiency without sacrificing cost," he said. "We want to do this better and cheaper. Only then can solar penetrate the large-scale utility market."
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Vikram Dalal and a team of Iowa State University researchers are trying to improve thin film solar cells. A $1.69 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund is allowing the researchers to look for efficiencies in new materials, new structures and organic semiconductors.
"We are very excited about this project. We want to help Iowa become a major producer of solar products that can be sold all over the world. That's what I want do to. I want to help Iowa companies become world-class producers of solar technology."
Vikram Dalal, the Thomas M. Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and director of the university's Microelectronics Research Center


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The Hollywood Reporter just posted to Twitter this photo of a frail but smiling Dennis Hopper, who arrived in person for the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, even though he's currently battling terminal prostate cancer and an ex-wife (according to his lawyer, he was too weak to participate in hearings for his divorce trial). He's even making a speech, apparently! How can it be that the 73-year-old legend was without a star until now? Beats the hell out of us. Congratulations, Dennis.
Ailing Actor Dennis Hopper Arrives to Receive Star on Walk of Fame [KTLA]


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The adventures of an East Coast girl in the wild, wild West, knitting and writing her heart out.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Knit Bloggers, Unite!
Stitch and Bitch
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Stitch and Bitch
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Chant it with me, sisters and brothers. Learn more here.
I propose that any knit bloggers who think this whole case stinks like last month's garbage start every blog entry for the next week with the forbidden words, just like Scout: Stitch and Bitch.
If you want to see what Stitching and Bitching is all about, visit Scout and Carole to see pictures of eight of us casting on for Jaywalker at the same time, and two of us paying tribute to Johnny Cash. We walk the line, baby, but not if you're getting our yarn in a knot!
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Hi Beverly, Thanks so much for visiting my blog! Good luck with your Jaywalkers. That project looks like a lot of fun. I should participate in a knit-a-long. I've never done that. Good luck with your MFA too...I did that degree (in poetry) about four years ago. It's a lot of work, but rewarding.
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Missy Elliot has admitted that she still thinks about Aaliyah "every day".
Talking with MTV News on the ninth anniversary of the late singer's death, Elliot revealed that she would pay tribute to her friend and former collaborator by continuing with her daily routine.
"I plan to spend my day the same as any other day," she said.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of [Aaliyah] or watch a video or play her music. I miss her every day."
She also reflected upon the first time she met with the 'Try Again' star.
"When me and [Timbaland] first went to work with her, we were so nervous. She was such a big star, and I was scared she was gonna be some diva, sipping on tea, with people fixing her hair and nails, and she would say, 'What is this music you got? It's wack!'" she recalled.
"But when we walked in the studio, her smile made the whole room glow! She was like 'Heyyyyy!' and gave us big hugs and made us feel like we were her cousins from down South. She was a very sweet spirit! Never seen her angry as long as I've known her, and in this business, that's unheard of!"
Elliot went on to describe Alliyah as "an inspiration" to younger artists who have followed in her footsteps.


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Tis the season to reflect on the magic of the holidays, it's the time to be with family and good friends, and to be a little extra indulgent... like spicing up the coffee with a dash of Bailey's Irish Cream. With the nights longer, we like to sit by the fire more than ever (dogs and puppies included). There is a richness in just slowing down, eating good food, and being close together by the warmth of a wood stove.
Tis the season to celebrate with our traditions, each of us in our own way. We put up a tree, give a few gifts to each other, and the children get stockings filled with goodies and small gifts on Christmas morning. Our tree is cut from home or we go to a tree farm, this year we have a Blue Spruce tree, and the needles bring the smell of Christmas to our home. I like colored lights on our tree, and decorations made from the kids at school over the years, we also have glass balls, candy canes, and wooden ornaments.
Tis the season to gather greens from around our property to bring inside and decorate with. Just being outside gives me time to reflect on the true reason for the season... Celebrating the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ. I've been thanking Him extra this year for His many blessings. He has taught us about walking in faith, sometimes not knowing how our needs would be met, but somehow He always provided a way, and gave us the strength and health to work hard. For this reason I reflect upon Him more than ever over the holiday season, and say thank you. I hope Christmas is special for you and your family and that your wishes come true... Tis the season for miracles, only believe!


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Apgar gives Rensselaer Greeks high marks for community relationsalways a challenge when Greek chapters maintain houses in residential neighborhoods. Most chapters have developed very good relations with their neighbors over the years, he says. When misunderstandings arise, its usually very few of the chapters that are involved some have yearly meetings with their neighbors so that they know who the new officers are. Fraternities have raked lawns, helped manage property, cleaned out basements, assisted with spring cleaning and, especially this past winter, shoveled snow. Those are the underlying things that they rarely get attention for, says Apgar.
Rensselaers Interfraternity Council took neighborhood involvement a step further in February when its members unanimously approved a resolution to improve the relationship of Rensselaers fraternities with the neighborhoods surrounding campus. The Resolution on Community Relations calls for better interaction and communication with neighbors and reaffirms the Greeks dedication to community service and philanthropy in the City of Troy. We want more of a proactive approach on our part, IFC President Jeff Andritz told the Polytechnic after the vote.
Dean of Students Mark Smith praises the action. Passing this resolution is definitely a positive move for Rensselaers fraternities and for the community as well. It just reinforces the wish of both groups to peacefully co-exist and make living in Troy a pleasant experience.
The resolution had a more controversial beginning. A City of Troy noise ordinance passed last August created a buzz among Greek students who were worried that they would be targeted by police. When two fraternity chapter presidents were cited by Troy police in the fall for violations of the ordinance, student unhappiness over the citys actions led to an unprecedented open dialogue among all the parties involvedlocal neighborhood associations, Troy City Council, the mayors office, the Troy Police, Rensselaer Cabinet, Office of Student Life, student government, the Interfraternity Council, and the Panhellenic Association, among others.
This open channel of communication did more for communiversity than anything Ive seen in a while; it extended an olive branch to the neighbors, says John Muller 03, who was IFC president at the time. It said We understand your point of view, and wee going to change our ways. Rensselaers Greeks emerged from this process resolved to take responsibility for their actions and create better relations with neighbors and the city. I am very proud of the direction that our fraternities and sororities are going, Muller says. We have been faced with a challenge, and we have risen to meet it.
Now that the resolution is on the books, Greeks are taking action to put it into practice. In late April, the Interfraternity Council launched the first Greek Community Cleanup Day in neighborhoods surrounding the campus. About 120 Greek students spent a Sunday cleaning up the 12th Street approach to make the stairs more usable and clearing brush and trash from Prospect Park. The council partnered with Rensselaer Public Safety, the Troy Community Police Department, the mayor of Troy, and Sodhexo food service to organize what the council hopes to be an annual event.
While Greeks are taking the initiative to spearhead such projects, thinking of themselves as members of the greater community can be a change, says Roger Grice, Ph.D. 87, clinical associate professor of technical communication and adviser to Lambda Chi Alpha. If you compare what happened back when I was an undergraduate in the 60s, Greeks didnt really care about the neighbors, says Grice. But thats not the way it is today; we need to give back to where we live.
Grice encourages Greeks to get involved in communiversity events, as well as their own philanthropy initiatives. Greeks have also worked with members of the community to clean up the local parks, build houses, and work at soup kitchens, says Grice. Its important that [Greeks] know they are part of the neighborhood, too.
Grice says this strong commitment to community service keeps him involved with the chapter. Im always impressed by the level of maturity in the Greek community now, he says. Were not just here to have fun, but were here to do good things and have fun. Rensselaer students tend to be very responsible, and thats apparent in our Greek life.
Although Rensselaers Greek community is working toward the goal of being a national model of excellence, challenges remain. Spear believes that while Greeks have worked hard to be better neighbors, they still need to make a significant contribution to their local community.
In order to thrive in the future, the Greeks at Rensselaer must work with their neighbors to establish a comfortable living situation for both interested parties, says Spear. If the neighbors see that Greeks are making an effort to work with them and are actually interested in their concerns, we can actually be one community.
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Recently Wipro's Azim Premji and Infosys's Vishal Sikka made joint statements about the stresses and tough times that lie ahead in the Indian IT sector and how global factors have caused immense uncertainty. I agreed—for two years, in this blog, I have been making a case that greed, unsound economic decisions and self-fulfilling political pursuits by nations and central banks have pushed the world to the brink of dangerous unanticipated consequences and that the present prices of pretty much all asset classes are unsustainable.
Strategy is fashionable, it sounds great—but in reality it's meaningless. As Peter Drucker says, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast everyday."
But this piece is about strategy. I read this word so often that I am now quite fed up of it. Speak to an over-enthused student at a business school, and he wants to excel in strategy and make a career out of it, speak to a new CEO and she will talk of a 10 year strategy and vision and make the incumbent employees feel scummish for their lack of strategy and vision, speak to a consultant (highly paid youngster at probably the big four with all authority and no responsibility) and he will regurgitate so much on strategy through his 100-page presentation that the customer will really start cursing the historical past, when the consultant wasn't on board.
Well strategy is fashionable, it sounds great—but in reality it's meaningless. As Peter Drucker says, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast everyday."
Two hundred years ago, when nations orchestrated wars to take over other nations and land masses across the oceans, strategy made sense. A strategy once made could remain relevant for 50 years as letters and information could be sent/received over sea/horses at most twice a year. Officers of invading nations had orders to execute a decision and the same could be reviewed only after a few years. Results to judge successes or failures were possible—at best—over a decade.
Today all it takes is a tweet by Trump to make the price of a Fortune 100 company crash or a claim by Wikileaks to make Hillary lose a winning US presidential election or unfounded misinformation that encourages a nation to invade another and create global havoc that is likely to have a century-long ramification.
Now, a disclaimer: I don't know who Vishal Sikka is or what he stands for or what he brings to the table and I have nothing against him. He is just a case in point because I remember him as a non-promoter Indian who got the highest salary in India—about $7.4 million in 2015-16. And because I read enough newspapers to have formed an opinion about him.
Sikka's rhetoric of his vision became louder and the performance became quieter...
When Sikka joined Infosys somewhere in June 2014 as the first non-promoter CEO, he was the next big thing in India. He talked of strategy and he talked of vision and the world took notice. The stock price of Infosys soared and he became the poster boy. At the time of his joining, the annual revenue of Infosys was about US$6.9 billion and he talked of a six-year 2020 vision of US$20 billion in revenues— approximately US$2 billion increase in revenue each year. And he maybe got more as a bonus. Many of the rockstar executives who built Infosys over last two decades, allegedly quit out of frustration.
This reminds me of the despicable Jack Welch who made a fortune for himself but made the most ruthless organisation by firing 5-10% of workforce every year. As Simon Sinek says, companies that sacrifice their people for numbers rather than numbers for people aren't built to last.
So as time progressed Sikka's rhetoric of his vision became louder and the performance became quieter at about US$7.9 billion in FY 2016. He still maintained the force of his rhetoric. Stock price of course grossly underperformed.
The last Q3 FY17 results of Infosys are due on 13 January 2017 (oops that's a Friday) and Sikka already warns of tough times ahead and by the way all of it is the fault of Brexit and Trump.
And going by the HY (half year) run rate of FY17 Infosys will achieve about US$9.5 billion in annual sales. With three years to go for 2020—a 3+ billion USD per annum increase.
So, what's the point?
It's not Sikka's fault. He has no role to play. The multitude of global factors and externalities are so diverse that any CEO or alleged strategist who talks of a 10-year or a five-year strategy is only fooling himself or the board.
Having a strategy and promise for five-10 years can help you get a bonus—but fact is, all that matters is the next few quarters.
It's good to have a general aspiration (call it vision) for next five-10 years. Having a strategy and promise for that length of time can help you get a bonus—but fact is, all that matters is the next few quarters.
Companies are wasting too much time on vision and strategy, and not realising that merely a tweet, a simple geo-political externality or an event on which no one has control can change the dynamics of our aspirations and strategy overnight.
Boards must realise and encourage the following:
- Growth is important—and imperative. But don't put so much pressure on CEOs that they are forced to make specious commitments.
- Preserve cash. When a Brexit or a Trump may hit you no one knows. Cash is king and cash is the one that will help you survive in tough times.
- Leveraging created on the assumption of "future growth of present revenue run rates" (sounds almost as exotic as the CDOs of 2007, right?) is a sure shot recipe for disaster.
- The baniya style of business has stood the test of time for over 200 years, until Goldman arrived on the scene and changed the rules of the game. Live within your means and borrow what you can pay from present income—not future income.
- Every decision maker must have a skin in the game. Convert the decision-making executive's present bonus and compensation into future equity if you want the organisation to survive.
- Conservatism isn't a bane, it's a virtue. For fools are full of confidence and the wise are always in a state of doubt.
- Every present expense must pay for itself—strategic decisions taken in the present for the future, over which there is no control, are likely to be disastrous and not reflective of a sense of ownership or good leadership.
- Stop expecting month on month or quarter on quarter. Allow your CEOs to work in peace and keep a quiet watchful eye. Fire them if you don't like them but don't create noise and disturb them every single day.
- In an ever-connected highly efficient world, make a three-six-month strategy—if at all. Anything more than that is gas.
- Keep a watchful eye on people talking of 300 years of vision and balance sheets. Anyone reading this will probably be dead in less than 40 years and anyone talking of 300 years probably has no plan at all.
And lastly for god's sake—stop talking about strategy and start working on culture.