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July 10, Colombo: The Chinese government has become the top most aid provider to Sri Lanka this year with a total aid commitment of US$ 759.8 million during the period of January to end of April 2011, according to a recently released report by the Finance and Planning Ministry.
The mid-year Fiscal Position Report-2011released by the Finance and Planning Ministry lists China as the top lender surpassing Japan. Japan has committed.
China has committed nearly 55% of the total aid to the Sri Lankan government while Japan came second with nearly 30%. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB) committed US$ 413.2 million multilateral aid.
All of China's aid is for the rehabilitation and improvement of road networks in Sri Lanka. A majority of US$ 500 million is for the improvement and rehabilitation of Priority Roads. Another US$ 138.2 is for the construction of the Southern Expressway from Pinnaduwa to Godagama in the South.
Lenders and donor agencies to Sri Lanka have made a total commitment of US$ 1.385 billion from January till end April 2011. Project loans amounted to US$ 1.361 billion while grants have only amounted to US$ 24.4 million.
China's influence on Sri Lanka has raised concerns in the United States. A recently released US Congressional report has said that China, seeking to gain influence in the Indian Ocean, has increased its aid to Sri Lanka dramatically since 2005.
"In the view of some analysts and observers, China is seeking to gain influence with the Sri Lankan government as part of a 'string of pearls' naval strategy to develop port access in the northern reaches of the Indian Ocean," the report by bi-partisan and Congressional Research Service has reportedly said.
The Finance Ministry's mid-year report states that the government now has an un]disbursed balance of foreign financing of US$ 8.6 billion available with a time period of 2- 5 years for project implementation.
A major portion of the un-disbursed funds, US$ 3.1 billion is for Roads and Transport while US$ 1.09 billion is for Power and Energy. Among other major sectors that un-disbursed funds are earmarked include, Water Supply and Sanitation – US$ 922 million, Agriculture, Fisheries, Irrigation and Land – US$ 722 million, Ports – US$ 388 million and Rehabilitation of Conflict Affected Areas – US$ 338 million.


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How to Nail a Maximalist Outfit without Going Overboard
Designer Sandra Weil never met a print she didn't love.
Take one look at Peruvian designer Sandra Weil's closet, and you'll think you walked straight into a vibrant, kaleidoscopic dream. While we roamed through her Mexico City-based home (brimming with lush greenery and posters in almost every corner), we were lucky enough to dig through her equally remarkable closet. In addition to her own glamorous contemporary designs, Weil has an impressive lineup of ESCADA, Chloé, and CHANEL pieces, proving to us just how bold, feminine style is truly done. For Weil's favorite style tips, shop these 16 pieces below!
A military-style jacket can lend just about any outfit a sophisticated edge, so even if you drape it over your shoulders in a Monday morning rush, you'll still look like you curated a perfect outfit the night before. In fact, a tousled bedhead look makes the tailored ensemble even better, giving you that nonchalant French girl aesthetic we're always dying to achieve. For Weil's balance of sleek and spirited, you'll want to check out these five military-style pieces.
Move over, dainty gold jewelry. Weil's array of statement jewels have us investing in the chunkiest of pendants. Add some rust-colored bangles, tasseled necklaces, and geometric gems to your accessory arsenal to emulate Weil's lively, youthful style. Another valuable lesson we learned from raiding Weil's jewelry box: Make statement jewelry your first priority when getting dressed for a showstopping look.
Weil's personal style definitely mirrors her luxury line: feminine, contemporary, with a Latin flair. There's no shortage of personality in Weil's pieces, and her collection of bold patterns and bright hues will have even the most stubborn minimalists adding some color to their closets. From butterfly printed button-downs to bright red slippers adorned with pom-poms, Weil's got you covered.
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The hosts must win to keep their playoffs hopes alive while the Blues also need the three points for their own reasons.
ATK gear up to welcome debutants Bengaluru FC at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata on Saturday in the Indian Super League (ISL). The defending champions have lost all of their previous three encounters, which includes two at home. With chances of maintaining their 100 percent record of making the playoffs looking bleak, nothing other than a win against the formidable Blues would help their cause.
The host's interim head coach Ashley Westwood, while addressing the media during the pre-match press conference, mentioned that making the playoffs is still a possibility though extremely difficult. "It is mathematically possible," he inferred. "If we win five games and draw one or win all six games, I am sure we will be very close. So, there is motivation. But, we have to be very professional. We have to keep playing and keep getting points. We have a duty towards the fans and the club. I am sure we will be firing all cylinders and looking to get all three points."
The 41-year-old had previously coached Bengaluru FC in the I-League, and when asked of his opinions about facing his former club, he replied, "I have been around football long enough to play against former sides, as a player or a coach or a manager. So, for me, it's just another game of football, one that we will try and look to win."
ATK are at a lowly eighth in the league table, but Westwood shrugged off any questions regarding pressure. "I think football requires a little bit of pressure," he remarked. "You need to win for your fans and for the team. So, I think there is pressure in every game. I don't think there is any difference as regards to where you are in the league. Everybody wants to win a game of football."
Having said that, he went on to acknowledge the threat their opponents of the night posed. "They are a good side," he stated. "They are at the top for a reason. They have good foreign and Indian players who have scored a high number of goals. They also score a lot of goals from set-pieces and we have to be aware of that."
The Englishman also highlighted the factors that had ATK faltering throughout the season. "There are many reasons; seven out of our first ten games were away and we had quite a few injuries," he explained. "All the foreigners who had been in the side got injured. So, we really have never been a settled side where you can more or less pick the same team, week in and week out. When you look at the Bengaluru side, it has been very settled."
Before concluding, he updated on star striker Robbie Keane's injury. "Keane has been training," Westwood informed. "He got some training done in the past few days and is starting to pick his load up. So, we will have to assess where he is with his fitness, but we would not like to make any wrong decisions. He is a key player of the squad. I'm sure he'll be fine."
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Albert Roca, head coach of the league debutants, addressed the media prior to the clash at Kolkata. Referring to the unpredictability of outcomes in the league, the Spaniard said that he expected a tough competition from a struggling ATK side. "Only a few days ago we were in Delhi, and we lost the game," he said. "But it's good we got the three points in the next two games. So, there is nothing called an easy game. ATK still have some possibility to make the semifinals and I'm sure they will fight for the win to show that they can be there. So, we have to be alert. It would be a hard game."
Bengaluru won the I-League in their debut season and have a strong chance of repeating a similar feat in the Hero ISL. Roca, however, pointed out that the two competitions were different, as was his team set-up post the pre-season draft. "The I-League and ISL are different competitions," he inferred. "Maybe the ISL is tougher than the I-League, which we played last year. As you know, there was a draft where we lost some of our important players. But everybody had the intention to make a good team. I am happy with the squad I have now."
He further added, "The squad is getting better and I would love them to be at the same level till the end of the season, so that we can achieve the first objective of being in the top-four. We just have to keep working as we are doing. Let's see if we are able to win tomorrow and get closer to our objective."
The 55-year-old then explained the importance of striking the right balance, something he believes his team is yet to find. "It is important to score goals, but it is also important to keep a balance," Roca said. "A clean sheet is something a team always wants because it gets you closer to winning a game. But I have to find a right balance. We have not won three games in a row in the entire season, so it means that we have to push more and work. And the mentality also has to be high, as we are close to the end of the season."
"But we have not found that balance," he continued. "We have played some good games, but we have also played some very bad games. So, we have not been consistent and the team is working on that. Tomorrow's game is a challenge for us to prove that we can win three games in a row."
Before concluding, Bengaluru's gaffer updated the media on the injury concerns in his team. "We have injuries," he revealed. "Unfortunately, Braulio (Nobrega) had an injury a few days ago and is probably out of the competition. Then, Dimas (Delgado) is coming from an injury. Tomorrow, he will probably be on the bench. We are not sure about using him as he is an important player for us. We will decide tonight."


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THERE'S a reason to hop off the beaten track of big shows during London Fashion Week - for those newer - or even established - names on the schedule that know what works for them and how to show it off within the right parameters. <a href="http://www.vogue.co.uk/brand/danielle-romeril">Danielle Romeril, the Royal College of Art-trained designer is one of them.
In the two years since her label launched, she's quickly managed to carve herself a niche for clothes you want to wear but with them comes a sense of fun. You feel like you always sort of know what you're going to get from her, but not completely. That's a good thing. And anyone who's bought and worn her pieces knows they invite many a compliment, striking the right balance of interest and wearability. "They're clothes I'd like to wear," she pointed out this afternoon of her collection: a series of re-appropriated garments that took inspiration from photographer Jackie Nickerson's African farmers documentary series and two specific pictures by Viviane Sassen, which had a paradise mentality.
Aside from her layered dresses and separates, the eye couldn't help but be drawn to the feet: a collaboration with Kickers of fringed mules. Very cool.
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When Britain went to war in 1914 many reasons were advanced for the tremendous step. The Primary cause of the War, or course, was the invasion of Belgium, whose integrity and independence we had been pledged to defend since the Belgian kingdom had come into existence. Of the tens of the thousands, the hundreds of thousands who stormed the doors of the recruiting stations in those early days of war twenty-five years ago, the great majority had left their homes and jobs because of their resolve to avenge the violation of an innocent little people by the Prussian bully.
Another reason was Anglo-German rivalry in the field of commerce and in the sphere of world politics. This rivalry was something more than a clash of interest; rather it was a conflict of principle. Even at the beginning of the War it was realised that Britain was fighting for Democracy against Autocracy in general and Prussian imperialistic militarism in particular. "We are fighting Germany," wrote HG Wells in the first number of The War illustrated published on August 22, 1914. "But we are fighting without any hatred of the German people. We do not intend to destroy either their freedom or their unity. But we have to destroy an evil system of government and the mental and material corruption that has got hold of the German imagination and taken possession of German Life…..And also we have to learn from the failure of that victory to avoid a vindictive triumph."
"Prussian Militarism," continued Mr WElls, "is an intolerable nuisance in the earth. Ever since the crushing of the French in 1871 the evil thing has grown and cast it's spreading shadow over Europe…..But now at last we shake ourselves free and turn upon this boasting wickedness to rid the world of it. And "Gott, Gott so perpetually invoked – Gott indeed must be very tired of it."
If the world was tired of it in 1914, it was still more tired of it in 1918, after a struggle in which all the resources of the greatest nations had been exhausted in an orgy of destruction and, more appalling still, the blood of millions of the best and bravest had been poured out on the battlefield. When the "cease-fire" sounded on that Armistice Day in 1918, there was a little carefree jubilation, practically nothing of the nature of triumphing over a vanquished foe. In every nation there was one thought uppermost in the minds of the people – the thought that they were at least awaking from a nightmare of unrelieved horror. In all countries, too, it was said, and said with hard determination, that this evil thing which has come upon the world must and should be exorcised now and for evermore.
Was Prussianism Smashed?
And on the face of it, it seemed indeed that Prussian militarism had not only been defeated, but has been completely smashed. Kaiserism and all that it stood for was kicked into the gutter by the German troops and populous as they realised the bitterness of defeat and ensured the humiliations of the Peace. They had entered the war with the most confident hopes of glory and easy conquest; when it was ended theirs was a country through which stalked relentlessly the spectres of famine and revolution. Even the victorious powers were in little better plight. They had won – but at what a price!
So it was that in 1919 men of good will everywhere strove to build a new world from which the spirit of militarism and all those vileness which are best expressed by the world "prussianism" had been completely banished – and for ever. Gradually Europe and the world settled down from the strain and loss of the great war. The material losses were largely repaired, though alas, the gaps in the generations could never be filled. In Germany there were signs of the firm foundation of a new order – an order of true liberalism, of toleration, and enlightened peace-loving and peace-ensuring democracy.
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Purchase only costumes, wigs and props labeled flame-resistant or flame-retardant. When creating a costume, choose material that won't easily ignite if it comes in contact with heat or flame. Avoid billowing or long trailing features.
Dried flowers, cornstalks and crepe paper are highly flammable. Keep these and other decorations well away from all open flames and heat sources, including light bulbs, heaters, etc.
Use extreme caution when decorating with candles, and supervise children at all times when candles are lit. When lighting candles inside Jack-O-Lanterns, use long, fireplace-style matches and be sure to place lit pumpkins well away from all combustible items. Pumpkins can also be illuminated with small, inexpensive flashlights.
Remember to keep exits clear of decorations, ensuring nothing blocks escape routes.
Use flashlights as alternatives to candles or torch lights when decorating walkways and yards. They are much safer for trick-or-treaters, whose costumes may brush against the lighting.
Instruct children to stay away from open flames or other heat sources. Be sure children know how to stop, drop, and roll in the event their clothing catches fire. (Stop immediately, drop to the ground, covering your face with your hands, and roll over and over to extinguish flames.)
Instruct children who are attending parties at others' homes to locate the exits and plan how they would get out in an emergency.
Provide children with lightweight flashlights to carry for lighting or as part of their costume.
Have grown-ups make sure your costume is fire-safe (there should be a flame-resistant or flame-retardant label on store bought costumes, wigs and props (such as magic wands, hats, and tails...).
Costumes shouldn't have baggy sleeves or billowing capes, they could easily catch on fire if you brush against a candle or jack-o-lantern.
Be on the look out and stay away from open flames (like candles and jack-o-lanterns).
If your clothes catch fire, make sure to stop, drop, and roll over and over to put the fire out. It's always a good idea to practice!
Make your costume nice and bright so drivers can see you -- use retro reflective tape (when light hits the tape it bounces back), use a glow stick or carry a flashlight.
Follow the rules of the road. When crossing the street, stop at the curb or edge of the road. Look left, then right, then left again for moving cars before crossing. Kids 10 years old and younger should cross the street with a grown-up.
Make sure a grown-up goes with you when trick-or-treating.
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Raiding an apartment where they believed a fugitive from Florida was hiding, three Mount Vernon police officers stole $10,000 from a gym bag filled with cash last week and the incident was captured on videotape, Federal prosecutors said today.
The officers, including the department's chief of detectives, left the apartment unaware that they were the victims of an elaborate F.B.I. sting operation. But today, all three were arrested on Federal corruption charges, including stealing Federal funds. They each face a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, if convicted.
Mary Jo White, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said a Federal investigation began about a year ago after authorities received reports of corruption among the 176 members of the Mount Vernon Police Department, including the three suspects. She refused to provide details of the allegations or the number of officers being investigated.
But she added at a news conference here this afternoon, "We did not see a pattern of pervasive corruption in the Mount Vernon Police Department." The Fugitive
In the sting operation, Federal agents concocted a story of a fugitive who was staying in an apartment in Mount Vernon, where the agents planted a gym bag filled with more than $31,000 in cash. The Mount Vernon officers raided the apartment on May 6, acting on a tip from Florida authorities working with Federal agents.
The Mount Vernon Police Commissioner, Clyde A. Isley, said the arrests of the three suspects -- two detectives with the department's Major Case Squad and their supervisor -- would result in a review of all pending cases in which the men were involved. He said he did not reassign the men after learning of the corruption allegations because he did not want to jeopardize the Federal investigation.
"This information was shared by myself and the F.B.I. and no one else in the Mount Vernon Police Department," Mr. Isley said of the Federal investigation.
"It is truly a sad day for the City of Mount Vernon," he added. "I am saddened by the fact that three of my most senior police officers were arrested today."
The charges capped the third large-scale corruption scandal in recent weeks to hit the region's law-enforcement agencies. In April, 14 police officers were arrested in New York City's 30th Precinct on charges of taking bribes or shaking down drug dealers. Then, a week later, 10 guards at the Westchester County Jail were charged with smuggling food, vodka, cash and what they thought was cocaine to prisoners in exchange for bribes and other gifts.
The two detectives -- James A. Garcia, 46, of the Bronx and Frank Lauria, 44, of Yonkers -- were arrested today at the department's headquarters at 2 North Roosevelt Square. Lieut. Robert A. Astorino, 53, the department's chief of detectives for the last 10 years, was arrested at his home in Yonkers.
Detective Lauria and Lieutenant Astorino were arraigned before United States Magistrate Judge Mark D. Fox and released on $25,000 bonds. Detective Garcia will be arraigned Wednesday morning. 'I'm Proud of My Father'
Although neither officer entered a plea today, their lawyers told reporters that their clients were innocent. And Lieutenant Astorino's son, Robert, 27, a Town Council member in Mount Pleasant, said of his father: "The only thing I'll say is, he's been accused. He hasn't been found guilty of anything."
He added, "I'm proud of my father. For 30 years he's been a distinguished member of the Mount Vernon Police Department."
The three suspects are longtime members of the department. Lieutenant Astorino joined the force in 1963, Detective Garcia joined in 1973, and Detective Lauria in 1988.
Sgt. Vincent Manzione, the president of the the Mount Vernon Police Benevolent Association, expressed "shock" over the allegations and described the men as officers who were "beyond reproach."
But he added, "We don't condone corruption in any way shape or form. We put our faith in the Federal Government and the court system to investigate this matter."
The sting that snared the officers was created with the assistance of law-enforcement officials hundreds of miles away. At the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the sheriff's department in Hillsboro County, Fla., contacted the Mount Vernon police with a bogus story: that they were searching for a robbery suspect named Victor Osman, whom they said was living in the Mount Vernon area.
They even created a fictitious criminal history of drug possession, purchase and sale for the man.
Meanwhile, Federal agents had rented an apartment at 30 East Fourth Street in Mount Vernon and planted a blue gym bag containing $31,846 in the bedroom closet. By the time the three officers arrived with a search warrant on May 6, Federal investigators were monitoring the apartment with a video camera from across the street.
During the raid, Detective Garcia was observed holding the gym bag and then leaving the bedroom with cash that he stuffed into his vest, Federal authorities said. Then, he handed cash to Lieutenant Astorino, who in turn placed it in his jacket pocket, they said.
Later, Detective Lauria called the authorities in Florida and said that from $20,000 to $30,000 in cash had been seized in the raid. However, in that same conversation, he changed the figure, saying that only $10,000 to $15,000 was recovered.
Then, he filed a police report claiming that $21,137 in cash was recovered during the raid.
William Y. Doran, Special Agent in Charge at the Criminal Divison of the FBI in New York City, said the tactics used in the sting operation -- that is, using other law-enforcement officials in other jurisdictions -- are not common. But noting that the subjects of the sting were officers versed in criminal investigations, he added, "We try to be as creative as we can in these scenarios."


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Do You Feel Guilty About Having Too Much (or Not Enough) Money?
"Money makes the world go 'round," says the song from CABARET made famous by Liza Minnelli. Liza had an easy time with MONEY, MONEY but for most of us money is a tricky subject.
Money and Family Values
Like so many things we encounter in our daily lives, we develop many of our attitudes about money in relationship to our families of origin. One family may have valued "saving for a rainy day," while another may have valued experience over financial security and spent money on adventures and vacations. For some, money was tight, but no one went without; for others, money was plentiful, yet there were still restrictions.
When Your Money Values and Your Family Money Values Collide
What happens when we make more money than our parents did? What happens when we make less? Or we view money differently than our parents did when they were younger? Although this may not seem to be a psychological problem, it may cause a good deal of anguish. When the adult children of one kind of family find themselves in different financial situations than their parents, tension may ensue. Often, many of these feelings are out of awareness, but nonetheless can manifest in myriad ways, all of which can threaten the family bond and cause individual emotional suffering.
Bob, a 53-year-old man originally from Georgia, is a CEO of a multi-national company. From the outside, Bob has it all: spouse, six-figure salary, home, freedom to purchase what he pleases–all the external trappings of success. Yet Bob feels restless, anxious and convinced that his very secure position is always on the line. This anxiety became very intense recently when Jim, Bob's 82-year-old dad, came to visit from Atlanta. It would be the first time that Bob's father had come north to see his son Bob was losing sleep anticipating the visit, unsure how his dad would react to seeing how much Bob had acquired. "He never was too ambitious himself," Bob said wistfully, "he was content just getting by. I've made so much more of my life than he did."
The visit itself went without incident, but a week later Bob was wracked with more anxiety. "The last thing he said to me, "'I really love your new house and I'm really proud of you,' that made feel so weird." "Weird how?" I asked. "I don't know…. guilty, I think. Guilty that I had it and he never did."
It's not that Bob feels that his dad begrudges him his success; in fact, Bob admitted he would have had an easier time if Jim had belittled him or become dismissive. In a real way, Bob not only left Atlanta behind, but found a new identity through his wealth and ambition that distances him from his father. The pain of that separation causes Bob to feel unsure about his career and his professional choices.
By contrast, Lily, 32, and her husband Matt , 30, moved from a Philadelphia suburb to an inexpensive apartment on the outskirts of the Bronx to pursue a "creative career path." Both gave up more lucrative full time jobs that were, in Lily's words, "soulless" in order to have the freedom to create music projects, visual art pieces and interactive theatre. They transformed their living room into a recording and video studio as well as an atelier. Lily says she is only happy when she is creating art, and she and Matt are committed to their joint pursuit. They have made it clear to their parents and siblings that they have no interest in "saving for some damn house" or having children or pursuing the kind of conventional lives that are satisfying to their families. Despite this declaration, Lily's parents, well-off home owners and management executives, continue to ask when she and Mat will be finding "real jobs."
Lily struggles most just after she succeeds in creating art that gets noticed. At first she is elated, then becomes defensive, angry, sad and withdrawn. Recently, Lily and Matt produced a music video that got favorable reviews. Initially Lily was excited, but shortly after she became distracted while telling me about it. When I inquired about her change of demeanor, she responded, " I don't feel like I can own my successes. I don't feel legitimate." Lily feels like such a stranger in her family because she is the only member who has chosen to forego material security for artistic fulfillment. "I know they're happy for me, but….I can't always trust it."
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Economic success has a lot of meaning for many families. When we deviate from our family's values and/or expectations, it can be painful and distressing. If this distress is significantly interfering with your life, it may be time to seek out a therapist to help you come to terms with these feelings.


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When I first saw a model of an atom, it reminded me of our solar system. It seems logical that the designer of the universe would use a similar design to create the parts that make up all other things. It is amazing that our human bodies have these different atoms. However, as amazing as these individual atoms are, they really cannot compare to the finished product. The human body is truly remarkable. Just think about all of the organs of the human body and how they work together to keep the body alive and functioning. The designer of the human body did a wonderful job.
I would like to watch a potter create something out of clay using the potters wheel. As the wheel turns the potter deftly molds the clay into the desired shape. The potter knows the clay inside and outside of the creation on the wheel. When the potter is satisfied with the creation of his hands, then the creation is fired in a kiln. The results of the potters work can last for centuries and be admired and used by many people. I wonder how long it would take for the raw clay to evolve into the same kind of product.
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During the month of December Soldans allowed SOS Animal Rescue to set up a Giving Tree in their store. The Giving Tree was a program similar to the sharing tree program in Midland, however, the focus was on dogs and cats in need.
The program was a huge success and we would like to thank everyone who donated items. We received much needed cat and dog food, kitty litter, food bowls, treats, and gift certificates to Soldans and Vet Med. We are very grateful to the generous donors for these items and we especially want to thank Soldans for allowing us to set the tree up in their store.
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We resided in the Bullock Creek School District for more than 25 years. We taught in the Bullock Creek Schools for a combined total of 43 years. Larry served on the board of education for the district. We remember well the districts costly "outsourcing" of custodial supervisory services and supplies in the 1980s. There was a cost to get started with the company; all supplies and equipment had to be purchased from the company (many were judged by workers to be substandard); the price was very high to get out of the contract; and then the district had to replace all of the equipment it was forced to sell when the company came in. Beyond this dollar cost, the company decided who would fill its position in the district as well as when that employee would be changed for another. The position was not ever filled by a local community member.
Almost never is there a net dollar savings to a school district when its own custodial employees are replaced by janitors employed by a for-profit cleaning company. For-profit companies give a high pressure sales pitch and show spreadsheets with columns and columns of numbers to demonstrate cost savings. However, over time the true net figures are usually losses, not savings. Often those losses are great. The money spent does not benefit the community. It pays for minimum wage jobs and profits for owners or stockholders.
Regrettably, the losses for boards of education in local school districts always go well beyond dollars in the districts budget:
1. Administrators hired by the board to oversee the operation of the schools are not the supervisors of the people supposed to care for the districts buildings and grounds.
2. Persons who have keys and/or access to district buildings (with all of their contents) and who operate expensive pieces of district equipment are not district employees.
3. Jobs in the local community that provided wages to support a family with benefits like vacation and a pension become minimum wage jobs without benefits for the sole purpose of making a profit for owners or stockholders.
4. Many times the pride taken by a school custodian in keeping his/her community school looking its best simply disappears. Cleaning crews or minimum wage employees come and go on a whim. Pride and ownership for ones local school building and grounds are simply lost.
For these reasons and others too numerous to mention, we strongly urge the boards of education of both the Bullock Creek and Midland school districts to keep their custodial workers as district employees. Our public schools are not manufacturing plants. They are important long term assets of each community for the purpose of educating our children and youth.
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VIGO COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - Of the many students who walk the halls of Indiana's high schools, one in five have seriously considered attempting suicide.
That's according to data from The Indiana Youth Institute.
"We definitely are losing students," said Rick Stevens, Assistant Director of Student Services for the Vigo County School Corporation.
Statistics point to an alarming trend that Vigo County Schools say they are trying to stay ahead of.
Monday night, school board leaders approved the first of three readings for its Suicide Prevention Policy. This comes after lawmakers enacted a statewide policy to promote suicide prevention and awareness, which is effective for all school corporations July 1.
Also known as House Enrolled Act 1430, the new mandate requires all Indiana teachers, grades 5-12, to go through two hours worth of suicide prevention training. The training must be completed every three school years and can be done face-to-face, electronically or by another approved method.
Stevens said they'll also be required to appoint a district supervisor to oversee the training, as well as a point person in each school.
"We want the community to be aware, we want parents to be aware that this is really a real situation," Stevens said.
The state mandate is in addition to what Vigo County Schools have already been doing to provide mental health services and resources to students.
Stevens said within the last three years, they've hired 16 school counselors. They've also hired 4 new ones for the high schools, along with 20 behavioral interventionists. That's because the resource supply meets a growing demand.
"This year, we're almost pressing 250 referrals for suicide ideation," said Stevens.
The referrals do not stop at the school corporation.
The Hamilton Center in Terre Haute is one of the agencies that's part of the protocol plan for Vigo County Schools.
News 10 spoke with leaders at The Hamilton Center to find out more about the alarming trend that they're seeing, plus how they play a vital role to combat it.
Part two of this story will air on Wednesday night on News 10.
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German supermarket chain giant Aldi has announced its plans to get even bigger. Reuters reports that the firm will spend a projected $5 billion this year to increase and improve its presence within the U.S. Of this investment, $3.4 billion would go toward expansion, with plans to increase their locations across the U.S. from 1,600 to 2,000 before 2019 and to 2,500 by 2022. The remaining $1.6 billion of this hefty sum will be dedicated toward renovating already existing Aldi locations.
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Imagine waking up one morning and finding from early morning until late at night you are being stalked, not by just one person, but by multiple people. They are there at your entries and exits. They are there at intersections when you are on the road. They use noise from power equipment or beeping or siren sounds, to disturb your sleep, when you go to pick up your mail, or throw out the garbage, or go for a walk. They use dogs that jump out of car windows or run up at you when you are walking in a park to intimidate. They take away your privacy and any semblance of normal life you had before. What would you do? You probably would try to find out what was going on. That's what I did and this book is the result. It is the result of my research over the almost four years I have been an organized gang stalking target. In the book I help you to understand what organized gang stalking is. I show you the dark side of America and the recommendations that would change it.
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By Wu Hong
Anyone who knows him would agree that Qiu is a sentimental and passionate artist. His earlier works make frequent use of the horse image, which, of course, is presented through personification. We are aware that horses are closely related to the development of human civilization, so that the culture revolving around horses is also a reflection of humans themselves. Horse remains one of the main motifs of this exhibition.
When he invited me to be this exhibition's curator, Qiu had almost ended the 19-meter-long huge painting, which gave me a strong visual impact as well as the sensation that it implied a different way of thinking from his previous works. The artist later told me about the other works he was going to exhibit and I could gradually grasp the theme that went through all the pieces. Thinking about his two other solo exhibitions—the first one was "Besieged on All Sides" held at Shanghai Art Museum with me as the curator and the other was "The Previous and Present Life" curated by Lu Hong at Wenzhou Museum—I felt something deep inside like a silkworm stirring in its cocoon, which, from my point of view, is humans' struggle against the now material dominated society. But this time, the cocoon is to be broken.
When staying in the hotel, Qiu and I grabbed a piece of letter paper from the hotel and listed all the themes that were mentioned in his new art pieces, including spirit versus material, soul versus body, utopia versus dystopia, religion versus secularity, the transcendence of spirit and the degradation of body, just to name a few. At that point, the two of us found that all the themes pointed to one single motif: the way humans expressed their inner desires. Both the world we are living in and its patterns of civilization—they represent how the world expressed itself—are the ways for us to express desires. Then the word "heaven" came to our head, which we wrote down on the paper almost at the same time!
The driving force for the development of human civilization, or all the civilization patterns, is in essence the difference between people's understanding of "heaven", which, started from either a spiritual or a material perspective, is expressed and acted out. Yet what is behind the heaven stands the very best interpretation of inner desires. Pictures taken by Qiu at Wuming Buddhist College in Tibet's Ganzi demonstrates asceticism on the path to the spiritual heaven; in the spectacles of urban "heaven" in cities like Guangzhou and Shenzhen, on the other hand, we can sense the growth of humans' desire in pursuit of material wealth. Then "heaven", or how inner desires are expressed, has become a thread for us to develop the main theme of this exhibition. Somehow the unique structure did meet our requirement. Getting our hands on the floor plan, we immediately thought of mandala in Tibetan Buddhism, which is an abstraction of Buddhists' perception of the world's structure. To make it more convenient for its believers to understand, in Tibetan Buddhism a visual symbol is usually adopted to represent the spiritual existence of heaven. Mandala is exactly what they use to describe how the heaven is like. So we came up with this idea, could it be possible that we convert the architectural space in line with the spirit of mandala?
In the very process, we found that the space expanded in a symmetrical way, which bore symbolic relationship to the structure of human body. As both the limbs and head of a human unfold symmetrically along the spine, we can probably take the exhibition space as a representation of human body and try to build the logical connection between the two. What's more, the dualism being played within also responded to the conflicting concepts of spirit versus body, or metaphysics versus physics. Thus, based on the architectural feature of the second floor on Guangdong Museum of Art, we tried to make arrangements so that its unique quality in spacial expansion and psychological effect would respond respectively to the layout of mandala and the symbolic semantic conversion about the desires in human body.
The venue is basically symmetrical. Ascending from the stairs and entering the exhibition space, the audience would face a foyer, which used to be a dooryard but was later blocked and rebuilt. Behind it stretches a passage along which stand symmetrically four independent exhibition halls. There is still a last one that is irregularly shaped and affiliated to the venue. So our exhibition is to be presented in these five exhibition halls as well as the passage. The basic idea with which the exhibition is designed goes that it is not constrained to each hall's independence, separation or closeness. Rather, all the space on the second floor is considered as an integral whole. In this way, while walking in such a venue, the audience would become the dynamic elements of this spacial organism. So by making use of the physical quality of the museum, we try to have an intertextual relation built around the body between the audience and the space.
In dealing with the foyer, most exhibitions take it as the place to put up posters of introduction. However, if this practice is adopted here in our case, it would be difficult to demonstrate the organic integrity that we try to pursue. What's more, this particular foyer happens to be in the shape of hexahedron, which inspired us so that we have turned it into a prayer wheel. When the audience set their feet on the second floor, they would be faced at first with a visual spectacle, or a man-made passage that is to lead them to an unknown world, which, again, is created as well. Therefore, once the audience enter the exhibition space, they will placed in a context with symbolic psychological implications. As for the other five sides, we put the introduction about what is presented in each exhibition hall counter clockwise, thus while reading the words, the audience moves in a way resembling how the prayer wheel is turned. Beside, a strong symbolic meaning and psychological effect will also arise from such a ceremonial activity.
Presented in the first hall on the left is a visual model about "heaven", which actually includes two separate pieces, one standing for "side A" and the other "side B" of the heaven. The former, titled "Heaven No.1", contains a 19-meter-long painting and a mute video. In the painting there is a group of biting vultures and a neighing horse, which symbolizes the spiritual relief achieved after physical sufferings. The mute video, on the other hand, is an edited collection of clips from TV news and movies, which not only reveals the disasters now occurring in the world but also suggests what are the potential misfortune to fall on us if we blindly continue the current pattern of civilization. In this case, the painting is not simply a painting and the video is certainly more than just a video. Rather, there is an intertextual relation between the two, combining them to become a new art piece. Such an installation made up of a painting and a video, as a matter of fact, has built a spacial field with special meaning. With the involvement of video, the description of celestial burial is turned into some kind of cultural symbol, which encourages the audience to reflect on the current state of human civilization. Then they will realize, all the disasters that have happened in the name of "redemption" are just projected by our inner desire.
Standing in opposition to this theme of "soul redemption" is another piece of installation tiled "Side B of Heaven". It has something to do with Qiu's brief working experience in his early days and presents a work shed commonly seen in the "world's mega factory" of Pearl River delta region. Numerous yet petty migrant workers have gathered in this area and worked to improve their material life. But while aspiring for a material heaven, at the same time they have to put up with great inner struggle and suffering. The anxiety, aspiration, contrariness and anger build up in their heart, forming an invisible darker side of "heaven" which exists in contrast to its visible affluence and glamour. In this way, the installation warns us of the dangers of promoting a GDP-driven pattern of economic development.
Exhibited in the second hall on the left is also a piece of installation named "Heaven No.2". It is made up of sound, video, smoke and physical entities. After entering the audience will see scattered visual images floating dreamily. The psychological experience is further intensified by the light smoke drifting on the site, to which a mysterious atmosphere is added by the sound of vultures tearing dead bodies apart. Passing the folding screen at the hall's entrance, audience would be exposed to a set of shiny weapons hanging at the center, which tell them that these are the very source of the brilliancy presented just now. It implies that to fulfill the desires which grow in our heart, heaven, or the end that is much chased after, becomes dominated by the means adopted, which create dark forces inside humans.
Paintings by Qiu are on display in both the halls on the right. Exhibited in the first one are mainly previous works that focus on horses. In this series, with a change in the context, we can see that "horse" is no longer an independent and symbolic vehicle of meaning. Instead, it has become an element of meaning embedded in the context itself. A group of yellow figures, which serve as the end of this series and the beginning of the next stage in Qiu's creation, continues the color used to paint the horses. However, their facial expressions are dull and inert, which might lead us to think, is it the quietness one experiences after struggles, neighing and feeling hopeless?
In the second hall we can see his latest series "Mountains and Rivers in Heaven" as well as "Bird of Paradise". The first one adopts the traditional composition in Chinese landscape painting, which, according the symbolic schema of "heaven" understood by Chinese traditional culture, use the artist language of oil painting and the grafting of materials and turn it into a scene that suggest such psychological implications as dangers and crisis. Is the burning "heaven" where fire erupts from the ground sending a prophecy about our culture or society? If so, who are the "birds of paradise" that walk through the heaven? Are they the savior or prophet? Next comes the exhibition space in the passage. It is the central axis of the whole building through which the audience has to pass. When passing it, the spacial framework also concerns time, turning the axis of space into an axis of time. It is along the passage that another piece of work created in 2012 unfolds, which represents Qiu's attitude towards the century prophecy about "2012". It has been circulated among the Mayans yet never has solid proof, so why is the prophecy still widely recognized in the world? Qiu is interested in how the "2012" doomsday prophecy was created and in what kind of psychological isomorphism it comes to be interpreted.
So he created "Diaries in Heaven" in tribute to 2012. From the first day of the year, the artist produced a painting everyday based on the news he was exposed to through cell phone, the most convenient media for us to receive information today. There is an APP named "News Headlines" which presents news quite differently. While other APPs would first edit the news in a chronological order, in other words, arrange it like the traditional media according to significance, "News Headlines" does not enforce the personal understanding or will of the editors on the users. Its editor does not decide what we would read first and second, which is instead determined by how much attention has been given by the readers. The pieces of news with the highest click rate tops the chart for us to read first. The message here is that in an age of "we media", what we see and would like to see everyday is constructed by ourselves. We are not the passive receivers of information, rather, we actively participate in building a general perception of the world. As for "2012", be it a global prophecy about disasters or a metaphor for the current pattern of civilization development, how on earth did it come into being? In fact, "2012" reflects no more than what we need deep inside, which needs to be projected on a more general level and targeted at a wider and bigger audience by the means of media. In this way, it came to be constructed in the whole world. Therefore, this piece of work seeks to explore the relationship between the "2012" as a cultural metaphor and our inner world through "visual diaries".
To stress that the news presented comes from "media transmission", the caption that accompanies the painting has been printed on the canvas in the way of screen printing. What's more, it is also stated which media organization the news comes from. So the work represents the general visual perception we have about last year, 2012. Such a perception is closely related to every individual's expectation for the world as well as his anger and disappointment with it.
At the end of the passage, after passing the axis of time filled with visual constructions, the audience would come to see an image of "guardian", which is a group of sculptures that presents a personified vulture dragging a horse. As both the vulture and horse has appeared in the works before, their coexistence in one single piece has a different semantic connotation. In the current pattern of civilization, the "utopia" prophecy, which is not only a theoretical hypothesis but has also been put into practice, can be represented in various ways. Despite the difference, there is a base for their coexistence: all of them are proposals to improve and save the real world. But if the salvation scheme of utopia ideals has in itself numerous problems as well, where exactly is the future for us?
The last exhibition space is the affiliated hall, in which two pieces of work are on display. One of them is an installation titled "A Handful of Water". The audience has been exposed to so many complicated art works at this stage that they should now be presented with a piece that is simple and clam. This work is a basin of water into which a fish has been put. A beam of light is projected onto the water so that when the fish swims and stirs the calm surface, a reflected image will appear and float on the wall. It is our hope that after a long series of complex visual experiences, the audience can look into their heart in a quiet space. The "handful of water" is itself pure and clean, just as the Sixth Patriarch Huineng has said, "there is nothing originally". Whether the world is restless or motionless, simple or complicated, is in fact the projection of our inner world.
Back to another visual work titled "The Delta Project". As a reversal of the previous works' semantic sequence, it returns to the scene of "spiritual city" in Wuming Buddhist College after presenting the materialism in Pearl River delta region. So the whole exhibition has a starting point with a religious connotation and eventually goes back to where it begins. It is not simply a return, but represents the ultimate questioning of human spirit that goes far beyond religious foreordination.
About the exhibition
Dates: 6 Sep – 7 Oct 2013
Venue: Gallery 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Second Floor, Guangdong Museum of Art
Curator: Wu Hong
Academic Host: Yang Xiaoyan
Exhibition Organizer: Jiang Cui
Host: Guangdong Museum of Art
Opening Hours: 9:00-17:00 (Tue-Sun)
Tel: 020-87351468
Add: 38 Yanyu lu, Ersha dao, Yuexiu qu, Guangzhou
Courtesy of the artist and Guangdong Museum of Art, for further information please visit www.gdmoa.org.


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Last week I was invited to publish an equity crowdfunded Monotasking article for Chinese startup GitBook. Funders got exclusive pre-reading and then an invitation to a live chat with the author (me). Below is a transcript of the live chat.
Staffan Nöteberg: 让生活和工作都更高效的单核工作法
作者/分享人:Chat 实录
Is Monotasking superior to Pomodoro technique and other time management techniques? What are its advantages over other techniques?
Monotasking is different than other time management techniques. Here are three examples:
- Monotasking makes it easier for us to focus on what to do right now. Research shows that it's stressful, energy consuming, and disturbing to have a great many open tasks. By cutting down on our potential tasks to do, it's easier to focus on the current task.
- Since the Short List is not time bound—like a plan for today or this week—it better reflects the priorities we have right now. Our priorities are ever changing and our plan must visualize that.
- Monotasking is easier to get started with than most other time management techniques and it doesn't require the same amount of process work. It's the same support, but less demanding.
大胖(《番茄工作法图解》译者):Some keyword translation: Monotasking 单核工作法; Short List 快捷清单; Grass Catcher List 集草器清单。
According to your article, does it mean we need to have two lists? One long list including all tasks we need to finish, and a Short List with 5 top priority tasks to be finished today? Can you give some examples of Short Lists?
First, I want to say that the Short List isn't a plan for today. It's the maximum five most important tasks right now. We don't know if they'll be completed today or if they will require more time. Tasks may also be added and removed during the day, as long as we don't break the rule of maximum five.
The question about two lists is very relevant. Where should I put new ideas which doesn't qualify for the Short List right now?
The Monotasking book (but not the GitChat article) describes the practice of a Grass Catcher List. It's where you put new ideas—big and small—that you might want to do in the future. This list is not prioritized and it's not limited. Once a week you review the Grass Catcher List. This is called Weeding. You drop all tasks except maximum five. These five become your new Grass Catcher List.
Some ideas need time to be re-assessed. They might seem terrific when we discover them, but after a week we're pretty sure they'll never reach our Short List anyway. Then it's good that we have the recurring Weeding event to get them off our backlog.
About the item's on the list: They should be small and actionable. A rough estimate say 10 minutes to 2 hours. Bigger tasks than that need to be broken down in smaller tasks. For example: write synopsis for new article, contact potential customer, write business letter. For a software developer: fix a bug.
I heard that your new book Monotasking has been inspired by your trip to China. What did you find in China has inspired you to create such a book? And can we say that Monotasking is especially designed for Chinese people?
It was a great trip to China in October 2015. For one month, I toured big cities, explaining time management techniques. During this trip, I visited offices and met many clever persons. They told me about their everyday problems of focusing and prioritizing. It surely inspired me to take the time to write the Monotasking book. And I'm happy that this book will be published in Chinese before any other language.
However, in my experience, office workers and students around the world struggle with the same type of prioritizing and focusing problems. So, I hope Monotasking will help many people in different countries.
Do you have some suggestions on customizing Monotasking to different people's special circumstances? Are there any successful cases?
All people are unique and we also have our unique context. No process fits everybody like a hand in a glove. My advice, though, is to start with Monotasking as it is described in the book. After some weeks you know best if you want to tweak it. Don't be afraid to make small experiments and then evaluate after two weeks if you want to standardize the new way of working.
Monotasking seems to work in many ways. But what if you are required to multitask by your boss, clients, etc.? Does monotasking a little bit oversimplify the real-world challenges?
You might have many customers or a manager that want you to do many things. However, it's not possible for our brain to pay attention to more than one thing at a time. It's our duty then to prioritize what's most important right now and start with that one.
However, we shouldn't focus for too long on a task. At least once an hour, we must ask ourselves: "What's the best use of my time right now?"
So, even if you create more than one result. You can't create them simultaneously. Our brains are constrained.
大胖:So you may process multi-task during the day. but only one mono-task in 25-55 minutes. it's not about say "no" to everything, is about say "yes" to something – one top thing.
So,you mean we should have a rest every one hour?
Not necessary. We can choose between 1) to continue with the current task, 2) to change to another task, or 3) take a break (rest). The moment of choosing is called Panorama.
Do you have suggestions on how to alert oneself about the one hour cycle, we often get lost when things keep us busy.
When I work with my computer, I have a notification every half hour (9.00, 9.30, 10.00, 10.30 etc.) It's a crontab job showing an alert that says "Panorama Cue." Then I look at my tasks and prioritize.
I agree that it's easy to forget to set an alarm and also to take a break. Without break, the velocity goes down.
大胖:Mr. Staffan uses Linux. 🙂 And for me, I set a series of iPhone alerts: 8:30-9:00-9:30-10:00…. on workday morning i will switch on them all. then dive into my first task.
Well, do you mean that we should work like a mono-core CPU, using some kind of algorithm to work on only one task at a time so as to create an ILLUSION of multitasking to the rest of the world?
Not a round-robin algorithm. 1) Chose the most important and set the alarm to next half hour. 2) When the clock rings, you ask yourself which one is most important now. Priorities might have changed.
I think a major problem with prioritizing is that there are too many candidate tasks that you won't do anyway. If you can make a good decision to remove these tasks (and tell it to the stakeholders) then it's quite easy to prioritize just using intuition.
Do you have suggestions for the alert on the move?
Then I would do the same thing with my smartphone. I tiny and short signal, that you notice.
Do you have suggestions for small and big interruptions? The interruptions may appear now and then, and you need to pause and talk to other people to decide the magnitude of it.
There are two techniques described in the Monotasking book: Volunteer Hour and Casual Visitor. They are too long to write here. But I found that they are useful to managers and project leaders who often get interrupted, since they have much information to share.
I want to use my smartphone to set an alarm when Monotasking, but what if other information keeps coming in and I don't want to mute it in case of emergency?
While Monotasking, you should try to mute almost all computer and smartphone notifications (also visual). You can check them with pull, instead of others pushing them on you. How many times a day do I need to check my email? Remove auto download and make schedule for when to check it.
Then there's message types that are both infrequent and important. We must arrange our tools so that these messages notify us immediately.
And to put notifications on mute seems ok to developers, but some jobs may require quick response. Many managers respond to emails, phones, texts very quickly, and bosses like that.
True. And then we need to arrange our IT tools so that notifications that are important and infrequent catches our attention.
大胖:Maybe you can negotiate your Volunteer Hours with your colleague and clients. For me i am touchable at 10:00-12:00 every work day.
And, do you have any tools to recommend which could sync tasks between different devices? Or just paper pen?
For the Short List, pen and paper most often is enough—it's about what you do right now.
For the Grass Catcher List, something simple online. A text document you can access from computer and phone might be enough.
So you always take a pen and a piece of paper with you?
Since the Short List is for what's most important right now, I only need the pen and paper when I sit at my desk and work. Ideas I discover at other places first goes into my Grass Catcher List.
How long will it take for you to arrange the short-list per day?
The Short List is continues. In the morning it's almost the same as when I left the office yesterday. Then I add and remove tasks during the day.
Remove if it's completed or some new task that is more important came up. Add if I discover something small, actionable that is one of the five most important right now.
What if you've finished 3 tasks, and you want to add new items and the paper's full? Copy the unfinished two to a new piece?
Yes. All tasks on the current Short List should be visible at the same time. So, on the same page.
I used to use moleskin notebook, which is expensive. It would be good if you could recommend something practical.
Moleskine are nice but their beauty doesn't really add any value to the practice of a Short List. Any piece of paper is sufficient.
What should I do if I cannot focus on my task during the Monotasking session?
Best: Take a walk!
If it doesn't help, 70s author Alan Lakein suggests the Swiss cheese method. Pick a small subtask of your current task and invest a small chunk of time in it. It doesn't have to be the most important subtask. These small tasks are like the holes in a Swiss cheese. With enough holes, the cheese will either disappear (the whole task is completed) or else you'll get the knowledge necessary to make the task interesting.
But taking walks removes blockers and it oxygenates our brains. We get new ideas of how to solve things.
Build-Measure-Learn is also a great technique. Do something small that you can show to others and get feedback. It can be as little as a mind map.
It is mentioned "Even though it is easy to start with, it relies on scientific research." What kind of scientific research?
There are more than 200 references in the Monotasking book. Many of these are to academic papers. Some are neuroscience, some psychology. The book is easy to read, even though it uses stories from scientific experiments. The story about Paris, Eyfel and landmarks for example comes from a scientific experiment.
How to keep focus on the tasks when the TDL are full of 5 long-term tasks? usually I cannot tell which to be done first and most of time I am thinking about which to do first. Finally, many even most are unfinished ones. This makes me embarrassed.
The Short List have small and actionable tasks, roughly estimated to 10 minutes to 2 hours. Long term goals should be on the Grass Catcher List. Try to break out subtasks from these long term goals and put them on the Short List.
If it's hard to chose, it probably doesn't even matter. They have the same importance. However, we must be transparent with our priorities. Showing them to all stakeholders. We'll only be embarrassed if we hide the prioritization we've done.
Are there any way to teach how to cut long-term goals to short ones?
Yes there are. One way is to focus on feedback. What can I do to get feedback early?
Getting early feedback helps us to solve the right problem, to understand what the stakeholder really need.
So, instead of splitting in phase 1, phase 2, phase 23 etc. upfront, I do something that give me feedback, and then I pull a new subtask. Every new little piece of knowledge makes it easier to do the best split.
Well, I have tried to read more than 2 books at the same time just as do tasks. cut them to short-term tasks. everyday read for about 10-30 minutes per book. but after a month, I will feel that all the books are read but not understand clearer rather than read a book for even 2 months. But what the problem is that focus on a book for a long time is also a hard nut to crack.
I describe a method in the book called 'Selective Reading'. It's about reading top-down, instead of serial. Serial: read pages in order 1,2,3,4,5 etc. Top-down: First, read the table of contents carefully. Continue by reading the summaries of the three most interesting chapters. etc.
There are techniques called speed reading. They helps us read faster. But, as you say, we don't understand faster.


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five positives..
- Yesterday. Had a lovely day yesterday, a friend asked me along to a little playgroup in the morning, I nearly didn't make it as Violet fell asleep half an hour before we were due to go and I was going to let her sleep but then at 5 minutes before it started she was up as if she knew! Was a nice little group and Violet seemed to enjoy it! Then the afternoon was cups of tea afternoon with two more friends who'd had birthdays at the end of May so I made a cake to go with our cuppas! It was a practice run for a cake I've been asked to do for an engagement party in a few weeks and I was chuffed it turned out ok! Yesterday was also my parents' 32nd wedding anniversary so we were over there for dinner along with my brother and his family and my cousin Nick and his family. Been a while since I caught up with Nick which is ridiculous as we only live a few doors from each other!
- The cake! This is the cake I mentioned! I followed this tutorial. I just used the colours I happened to have in the cupboard but I think they turned out well!
- Day trip! This morning we decided to take Millie to use her train pass for the first time. She's been super excited about having a photo railcard and couldn't wait to use it! Xander wanted a sleep over at Grandma's last night so it was just us and the girls. We jumped on a train to Brum, had a look at the next trains leaving there and Milton Keynes seemed a good option. We'd not been there shopping before and there was a Virgin Pendolino heading there. Millie loved it! She'd taken her notebook and a pen and was writing details down on the way, but the notebook was tiny so we treated her to a new one and on the way back she wrote about her journey again, expanding it with shopping details too! She's growing up so quickly.
- BBQ. A couple of our friends popped over and had some good old burgers and sausages this evening. Was a lovely evening of chatting, cake and ice-cream eating and Wii/Xbox playing!
- Mess! Yesterday I changed Violet's nappy then popped upstairs to rinse her nappy, when I came downstairs I was greeted with a Sudocrem covered Violet! She'd managed to get the lid of and had it smeared round her mouth and legs and all over her hand which she'd put down on the rug!! Had to laugh! And be glad she hadn't made it over to the television!! Then today I was in the kitchen and Webby walked into the living room and shouted me to come over… I'd left Violet's nappy off to she could get some air on her bottom (she's a got a bit of nappy rash at the moment) and she'd pooed on the rug and was eating it!! Eek! Don't think she'd eaten much, not exactly the tastiest stuff is it!! But she had got it over her feet and hands, not to mention squished into the rug! Again, had to chuckle!! Pointless trying to wipe it off so it was into the shower with her!