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1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of Mydin
In the year 1918 marks the year Mydin was found by one Mr. Gulam Husen Jamal who was the father of Mr. Mydin. Mr. Gulam was managing his shop until ward world 11 which saw the end of Mr. Gulam's shop in Penang which was burnt down by fire incidents and left them with nothing. In 1957 Mydin out of a strong determination and his ability to persist in life pushed forward and with the help of his immediate son in the year 1979 and 1989 respectively continue the trade his father started and his first shop selling toys and general merchandise with his own sweat he continued the trade of wholesaling, the business skyrocketed to different branches in the land of Malaysian. Today Mydin is now one of the largest discount retailers in the whole Malaysians with over 17 Mydin supermarket and wholesalers emporium's centers located across the country and also among the competing supermarket with Tesco, Carrefour and others. 1.2 Mydin vision
Mydin is the world leading distributor of competitive Halal goods and service.
1.3 Mission
The mission of Mydin is to target the overall leading in the local wholesale and retail supermarket by his constant provision of service to his customers, provision of best valuable for money and assortment of goods and services through Excellency. Also they aim to encourage more Malaysians to open different outlet with their own proven success formula. 1.4 Product
Mydin has so many products such as Softline for apparel, together with home furnishing and muslimin. They also specialize in hardline (do-it –yourself), household, electronics including all stationary and general merchandise, all types of gifts and Deco, sports, toys and games. Fresh; ready to eat and fresh produce of meat and poultry equally, all kinds of vege and fruits, chilled and frozen Grocery: different kinds of food and health including beauty material.
1.5 Mydin objectives
The following are the objectives of Mydin Company
To provide its products at the right time and at the right price to the right customer while ensuring excellent service. Secondly, achieve marketing speed, and overall efficiency of operations. And supply chain management, from the suppliers to the logistics and warehouse, to Mydin's ground staff and to the management team, Thirdly to achieve efficiency and productivity which are important factors for timely and accurate decision making. Fourthly With so many strong competitors in the local retail outlets, one cannot afford to be tardy to differentiate itself, Mydin aim at redefining the value it brings to its customers Lastly to maintain it brand name which signifies convenience, quality and value for money through it looks into Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to achieve these goals. 1.6 Organizational of Mydin structure
2.0 External and Internal Analysis
2.1 SWOT Analysis
Based on the studies of Gorener A., Toker K., and Ulucay K., they mentioned that with SWOT analysis the regulated arrangement technique for estimating the internal and external environment of the business as well as analyze both environments in order to achieve systematic approach and support for decisions.
Low price strategy
Mydin is famous designed for getting local and overseas goods with the reasonable pricing supplying into Malaysia. "Why pay more? Buy at wholesale price" and this is one of the advertisement slogan of Mydin as well as Mydin had already set their pricing strategy in a low price strategy to compete with the existing competitors (Danny Y., 2011).
Government`s support
According to the Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, he mentioned that the government will inject RM386 million to make sure that the prices of needed goods and products in Sabah and Sarawak are sold at lower prices through the opening of 57 KR1M stores (Shukry A, 2012).
Customer Loyalty
The low pricing strategies not merely attract the new customers, but it helps also the Mydin to build a strong customer loyalty for their hypermarket, as their slogan, "Why pay more? Buy at wholesale price"
Less Space and the Layout of Shop
The limited space of Mydin causes a decline in numbers of customers. These customers will feel not comfortable enough while shop with a place where too crowded.
Customer Services
It is a provision of service to customers before and after purchases and it is significantly important for goods and services business, like Mydin. The weak customer services of Mydin could not satisfy the customers and it will ruin the reputation of Mydin and lead the consumers flee to competitors like TESCO and GIANT.
Online Market
In this era of internet technology widespread, the users of the internet are increasing very rapidly. So if Mydin can follow this trend and caught these opportunities to explore online market successfully, Mydin will definitely obtain a benefit from this online market.
International Expansion
It is well known that their vision from Mydin for this short term to become the world's top supplier of competitive "Halal" products. Therefore, the Muslim countries, like Indonesia are the great market for the Mydin to explore as it has a large number of populations.
Intense Competition
In Malaysia hypermarket industry, there are variety choices for customers such as Mydin, Tesco, Giant, Carrefour, and Econsave. It goes without saying that it is an intense competition for the industry and it will lead the Mydin lose market share when the competitors offer a better promotion or privilege.
Substitute product
The customers could satisfy their needs or wants in mini mart, grocery shop, wet market, or convenience store instead of the Mydin.
2.2 PESTEL Analysis
Based on the PESTEL structure it delivers a complete list of external effects on the potential achievement to every single strategy or either could lead to failure. It is where standpoints for the factors from Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Environmental as well as Legal (Ivory, 2005). In this research is where based on observation on Mydin, this analysis can actually help to avoid the unwanted outcomes to their future plans like expands of the branches in overseas countries with the situations and regulations that need further consideration.
Politic highlights to the role of governments involved, as Mydin is deciding for expanding their branches in Indonesia, therefore the management team involved required to have more research on the government restriction with the trading and how the security control of the country is.
Economic factors are refers to the macro-economic factors in the foreign country such as the exchange rates, the inflation rate and differential economic growth rates around the world (Ukessays, nd). These are important factors as will directly influence to Mydin Profit where involves of cost of gain or loss with the exchange rates. As rising inflation rates mean rising prices for goods and services, the CEO needs to know the forecast of inflation rate because consumers would tighten their spending as goods become more expensive. Besides, it also means retailers have to bear a
higher expenditure.
Social influences the employment patterns of the country and behaviors of the consumers. The employment patterns simply mean that the numbers working hours, working days, employment benefits and other factors where Mydin need to have better study before decide the locations to expand their branches (Slideshare, 2012). Besides, having updated and accurate information about consumers buying patterns and behavior helps to have a clear direction of where the future consumption trends are heading to in order to know how to satisfy customer's needs and desire. On food taste or packaging that will bring effects on the sales volume.
The factor of technology referring to improvements in both internet retailing and trading (Ivory, 2005). There is a study that to the grocery business implemented to the advance technology is able to benefit Mydin to decrease expenditures but improve on efficiency. It is in strengthening their customer service, improving operations and retain pace with the competitors. Therefore, this is where the early twenty-first century operators in the industry.
Environmental it is more concerned to eco-friendly viewpoints with main concern to the 'green' issues, like the occurrence of pollution and local waste issues (Slideshare, 2012). It can be one of the company strategy for advertising their product with go green issue or recyclable of products which will benefit their local surroundings.
Legal holds governmental restrictions or modifications, it is where the well-being and security legislation with the Mydin's mergers and acquisitions (Antonio, 2010). This aspect plays the important role especially with food and beverage products that are illegal for consumers to consume due to the religion issue. Therefore, it helps the CEO to understand well about the company marketing plan and thus can make a better decision.
It is important for Mydin to understand and survey of how these factors are fluctuating currently and changes in future. Therefore, it is required of the management to generate of solutions that would be likely to bring benefits or failure to the organizations. For instance, Mydin is to be expected to implement of advance technology changing. Therefore, usually generates of PESTEL analysis but it is actually without the offering of the forecast to the changing in the environment.


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Michigan Medical Marijuana Licensees Must Obtain Business Insurance
If you are interested in obtaining one of Michigan's five commercial Medical Marijuana licenses, then as part of the application process you will need to demonstrate that you have the financial ability to obtain and maintain adequate premises liability and casualty insurance for its proposed marihuana facility. See MCL § 333.27402(2)(e). What is "adequate" is not otherwise defined by statute, though it may be set for the administrative rules when they are promulgated later this year.
LARA and the Michigan Medical Marijuana Board have the right to set rules when necessary that are related to the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. Some examples of appropriate rules include setting appropriate standards for marijuana facilities and their equipment. In addition, they can establish minimum insurance levels that licensees must meet.
Also, the Medical Marijuana Act specifically requires that you obtain insurance to reimburse someone for bodily injury suffered because of the manufacture, distribution, transportation, or sale of adulterated marijuana or adulterated marijuana-infused product. The insurance must be for at least one hundred thousand ($100,000.00) dollars. However, since obtaining insurance can be difficult considering marijuana remains a "schedule 1" drug, the proof of financial responsibility may be in the form of cash or unencumbered securities or a constant value bond. You are not allowed to cancel your insurance as required unless you give 30 days' notice to the department, and provide a reasonable and acceptable substitute. See MCL § 333.27408 Proof of financial responsibility.
In the meanwhile, if you are interested in applying for a Michigan Medical Marijuana license, then you may want to review an interesting article that appeared recently in the Michigan Bar Journal. The title of the article Packing Their Parachutes; Advising Clients about Business Insurance Coverages. On page three this is a useful list of the various kinds of business insurance available. Some the areas listed that are particularly applicable to the medical marijuana business include:
General Liability Insurance
- Contractual liability coverage limitations exist.
- Additional insureds not included.
- Broad form notice of occurrence not included.
- Employee benefits legal liability not included.
- Personal and advertising injury exclusions.
- Aggregates per location or project not negotiated.
- No waiver of subrogation negotiated with insurer.
- Designated premises limitations limit coverage.
Crime Insurance
- Third-party employee dishonesty coverage not included in crime policy.
- No cyber extortion coverage included.
- No social engineering coverage included for phishing-type claims.
- Inadequate coverage for claims expenses to prove loss.
This referenced Bar Journal article is not specifically designed to assist anyone in the medical marijuana business, and if you are interested in obtaining a license, then you should consider working with a knowledgeable lawyer and insurance adviser who together can help you design a package of insurance coverages that will protect you and your assets as you begin to grow your business.


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How to Lead and Manage a Remote Team
Ten2Two has been active in the remote working sector since 2007, when remote leadership was used in relatively few situations and by a minority of companies.
Today, thanks to the pandemic, all managers are now faced with the challenges of remote leadership.
Some have been thrown in at the deep end with little or no experience or support, others have loved it and seen enormous benefits both for their team and their company and many just can't wait to get back to "normal", whatever that now is.
What is remote leadership?
There are lots of different business leadership models and styles ranging from the traditional authoritative, knowledgeable figure to the more collaborative and engaging approach that focuses on the empowerment of individuals and teams. They all have a common element: the ability to build and drive a team to perform and reach a common strategic goal in line with the company's vision and values. Remote leadership is no different.
What do good leaders do?
Leaders engage, motivate, empower, coach, communicate, feedback, empathise, influence, collaborate, inspire and get results.
Most importantly, they build trust by connecting with people's minds through a common objective, empathising with people's hearts by understanding their motives and developing people's competencies through individual and team performance and results.
How is remote leadership different to in-office leadership?
The thing to remember about remote leadership is that the fundamentals of leadership are the same whether you are in the office or leading remotely. It's just that the location that has changed and good management can make all the difference and allow you and your team to reap the benefits of remote working.
There are 5 areas where we think managers should focus on when leading remotely: trust, communication, engagement, empathy and recruitment.
1. Trust your remote team
Leaders still need to continue to lead and get results at a distance. However, common feedback for leaders from successful home and agile workers is to avoid micro-management. So you really need to trust your team to deliver against their objectives. Discuss and set expectations and ground rules. This includes things like hours, availability, how to communicate, how they will set their boundaries and how you will respect their boundaries.
Remember if you trust your team they will continue to perform, but they don't necessarily need to be present at a desk in an office to perform. As a remote leader, one of the essential things to remember is performance over presence, outcomes over inputs. Deborah O'Sullivan, Managing Director at Ten2Two says in an article on presenteeism:
Presenteeism assumes that the hours of work are more important than the output and productivity of an employee. And that simply isn't the case. We know that organisations that focus on the quality of the work rather than the number of hours a person is sat at their desks find that they can retain valuable talent, boost employee engagement and improve staff morale overall. And that leads to a better workplace altogether.
The lack of face-to-face supervision can be a challenge for both leaders and employees. Leaders may think their team will work less or be less productive, but in our Ten2Two experience, we often find the contrary with remote teams. Employees who work from home or remotely often are very happy employees as they have a better work life balance and spend less time commuting. Many companies actually see an increase in productivity as employees take less coffee breaks, chat less with colleagues and take shorter lunch breaks.
2. Change how you communicate
Good leaders need to communicate by ensuring continued flow of information and sharing of knowledge to encourage new ideas and thinking. To make this happen remotely, new tools and tech become more important and remote leaders need to set the example by getting on board with the tech. The unexpected shift to remote work increases the pressure on leaders to ensure their teams stay aligned, are connected and get the job done.
Email is not enough and you may, like many, have to learn how to Zoom, Skype, Webex, Google Meet or Hang out. There are also useful shared chat apps and tools that help remote teams collaborate, share documents and stay productive like Slack and Microsoft Teams that also allow for video meetings.
Whatever tools you choose, if you are leading remotely for the first time and in a crisis situation like what we are experiencing with the Coronavirus pandemic, you really need to over communicate in the early stages by checking in (not checking up!) regularly with individuals and your team.
You probably already have 1:1's with your team members but these become even more important, so make sure these are scheduled and protect them in your diary. Call or video call your team member and specifically discuss their environment and how are they getting on. Is their current set up working for them? Do they need more tech support and tools?
It's also important to continue to have team meetings. Schedule regular virtual team meetings which are a great opportunity for people to meet face to face and team virtual coffees offer the social interaction that many may be missing. It's also an opportunity to share mutual knowledge among your remote team.
And, most importantly, be available. We found from the research that what's most important is that when a team member needs their manager, they don't want to have to wait a couple of days to discuss something. So do get back to your team member as soon as you can and show that you are supportive and in touch with your team's needs.
3. Change how you engage
You can no longer follow the "In search of Excellence" 1982 Managing by walking around MBWA strategy, but you can start the 2020 Managing by Webcam (MBW) strategy. The principles are the same – be visible, approachable, listen and engage.
That informal chat by the coffee machine, that quick "Hello, how are you?" or "Thank you" and "Well done on that great idea!" as you casually walk around the office can be replaced by impromptu or daily "check-in chats" (not check-up chats), messages or video calls with individuals and the team. You want to avoid "out of sight, out of mind" creeping into your team.
Follow our top Ten2Two tips on engaging through remote leadership:
- Continue to boost morale by sharing best work practices amongst the team and highlighting things that are working well.
- Show virtual gratitude by saying "thank you" online and continue to reward and celebrate performance.
- Find new ways to encourage employee commitment to the values and mission of the company. You need to have a clear sense of long-term direction, even in the face of short-term uncertainty.
- Encourage your remote team to "disengage" at the end of the working day to protect their work-life balance (and yours!).
- Ask questions and listen to the answers. It sounds obvious but take a personalised approach. Some team members will be very good at this and won't need very much management but others might need a bit of a push to keep motivated and feel supported.
- Remember to be aware of remote politics and give visibility to team members at the right time. Don't forget to talk about the individual's personal development and career progression.
- Keep a team chart close to hand just as a reminder to make sure you touch base with all the people in your team who are managing this change.
4. Change how you show empathy
Leaders are good at listening to what people are saying and observing what people are doing. The best leaders also take into account what their team are thinking and feeling:
What are your team worried about?
Are they feeling psychologically and emotionally detached from their place of work and their co-workers?
Are they feeling isolated or having cabin fever by being in just one place where they live and work?
Remember that many or all of your team may be new to this way of working remotely. You obviously want to retain them, make sure they continue to have a sense of "belonging" to the company and help them have a positive experience of change. If you're affected by the change too, do share your feelings. That will encourage sharing of feelings across your team and everyone will feel there is an open culture for people to feel listened to.
Understand the Change Curve
The Kubler Ross Change Curve can be an interesting tool to show the phases an individual may go through when facing a significant change of some kind. It was introduced in the 1960's by a psychiatrist studying the grief process and has subsequently been adopted as a management tool to understand behaviour during change.
The thing that's important about the change curve is to recognise that some people get stuck. They can often get stuck at the front end of the curve – shock, denial, frustration – or oscillate between moving through the curve and back to the beginning. So as a manager it's really important that you try to recognise where your individual team members might be on the change curve, how they are feeling, so that you can coach in the correct way.
Understand your Team Personalities
Take time to understand the personality of your team members. If you haven't already, propose that the team take a personality assessment like Myers Brigs or Firo-B. and you can encourage them to share this with you which again may help you understand some of their challenges. A recent Harvard Business Review article talked about for example how extravert remote workers may suffer more from social isolation than introverts.
You and your team are learning a new skill so you need to make allowances for that. Give feedback to your team and get feedback on yourself from your team so you can understand each other better.
5. Change how you recruit and grow your team
Remember in the current situation, recruitment may take longer than usual. Ten2Two can help you in the remote recruitment process by giving you access to our unique membership database of experienced professionals and managers who are ready to work remotely on a part time or flexible basis.
If you need help about interviewing candidates online, read our tips on interviewing job candidates by video or watch our 50-second video on video interviewing your next employee.
If you've already recruited a new team member who has joined you remotely, you may find some useful tips here on how to introduce a new employee.
If you'd like to talk to Ten2Two about your remote working or recruitment needs, call us now on 01442 503727 or send us a quick email. We would love to know your thoughts on remote leadership and how you see the situation evolving in the future.
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Challah for Hunger, Dance Marathon team up to provide treats for dancers
March 4, 2015
It's no secret that 30 hours of dancing will burn a lot of calories, and Challah for Hunger will once again do its part to keep dancers nourished.
CFH, a Hillel student group that bakes flavored challah each week and raises awareness for social justice causes, will be providing 175 loaves of bread for the Dance Marathon dancers, a tradition benefiting both sides of the collaboration.
Julia Rudansky, current Hillel president and former CFH president, said CFH strives to provide more than just delicious bread to the community. Philanthropy and giving back is a large part of the CFH mission, aligning well with DM's goals, she said.
"It's a combination of wanting to support students and DM as a whole, but it also aligns with Challah for Hunger's mission of serving the community and supporting great causes," Rudansky said.
The Weinberg senior said many members of Hillel are active in DM, making the partnership even more worthwhile and personal for CFH.
"We have a few exec members participating, as well as other student groups members," Rudansky said. "We definitely have a lot of people involved in it."
Current CFH president and Weinberg junior Rachel Hirsch said partnering with organizations on campus, such as DM in the winter and Alpha Epsilon Pi's Dog Days philanthropy event in the spring, helps introduce people to CFH.
"Our donation gives us exposure at DM to people who have never heard of us," Hirsch said. "Doing things like that in and out of the Jewish community brings awareness to our causes and help us connect with more students."
Lauren Goldstein, incoming CFH Vice President of Marketing, is participating in DM this year and has wanted to since before she came to NU.
"When I was writing my early decision application essay, I wanted to include something about extracurricular activities I wanted to get involved in," the Communication freshman said. "I knew coming in I wanted to participate (in DM)."
Baking is a stress relief for her, which is why she got involved with CFH, she said, and it has become staple in her weekly schedule. The collaboration has made Goldstein more excited about each event.
"It's a really nice thing that Challah for Hunger is doing for the community, and I think it is an effective marketing technique to spread the word about Challah for Hunger on campus," she said.
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|CV: Curriculum Vitae from Carlos Serrano Cinca, professor in Accounting and Finance at the University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Gutierrez-Nieto, B; Fuertes-Callén, Y.; and Serrano Cinca, C. (2008): "Internet reporting in microfinance institutions", Online Information Review, Ed Emerald, Vol. 32, No 3, pp 415-436
Purpose This paper researches how and why Microfinance Institutions' (MFIs) disclose financial and social information on the Internet. The legitimacy theory provides the theoretical framework.
Design/methodology/approach An empirical study analyze factors influencing MFIs to publish financial and social information on the Internet. The model is tested by means of regression analysis. The sample contains publicly available data of 273 MFIs' websites.
Findings The paper finds that MFIs' Internet presence overall is scarce and argues for greater levels of disclosure. It is found that large MFIs with a high degree of Internet public exposure disclose greater amounts of information on their Web sites than smaller MFIs with a low degree of public exposure. It is found that for-profit MFIs disclose more financial information on their Web sites, while NGOs reveal more social information.
Practical implications -MFIs should be proud to tell the world what they are doing. MFI managers need to remember that transparency increases funds from donors. Donors are mostly based in developed countries, so the Internet plays a key role in disclosure and attracting potential donors. Thus, managers are encouraged to increase MFIs disclosure levels-especially on the Internet.
Originality/value Academic research is still scarce regarding the factors that influence MFIs' Internet disclosure. This is an important area of study because full disclosure offers enormous benefits. Because MFIs have a social mission, they legitimate in the eyes of their donors by disclosing social information. Because they are also financial institutions, they have to show that they use efficiently the funds they receive.
Disclosure, Internet Financial Reporting, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Microcredit, Social Performance.
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This course has been updated! We now recommend you take the Complete Intro to React, v8 course.
Transcript from the "PropTypes" Lesson
>> Brian Holt: So, let's go do our PropTypes now. So notice we're getting this, npn run dev. We're getting a linter error that says, hey, you don't have PropTypes. That's something that standard react enforces. So, let's actually go talk about what those are.
>> Brian Holt: So.
>> Brian Holt: What we're going to say here is we're going to say, const a { string } = React.PropTypes and then we're gonna use that here above render on prop types.
[00:00:37] So an easy thing to get caught up on capital P PropTypes here, lowercase p propTypes here.
>> Brian Holt: I'll explain why momentarily.
>> Brian Holt: So here you're basically gonna say here are things I expect to get from my parent.
>> Brian Holt: And that's really all you're saying here. So, I expect to get a show object from my parent.
[00:01:04] So I'm gonna say, show. I need shape here as well. So, shape.
>> Brian Holt: And I expect to get a shape. Shape is just a word for object.
>> Brian Holt: And I expect to get the poster, which is a string. I expect to get the title, which is a string.
[00:01:27] I expect to get the year, which is also a string and I expect to get the description which as you may guess is a string.
>> Speaker 2: Aren't we in the wrong component?
>> Brian Holt: We are. Thank you.
>> Speaker 2: No problem.
>> Brian Holt: Sorry, we need to go to ShowCard. This is what happens when you teach a class too long.
[00:01:52] So cut that, we'll just rewrite that. Go into ShowCard above render put your PropTypes and we're gonna say, const { shape, string } = React.PropTypes, PropTypes.
>> Brian Holt: So, show is an object. That has a poster, a title, a year and a description in it.
>> Brian Holt: Now, why this is cool?
[00:02:33] his is cool for several reasons. First and foremost, I would think the best reason to do PropTypes, so I guess I should preface this. This is totally optional. React does not need PropTypes to run, it's totally fine without them. Why PropTypes are a good thing in my opinion is anyone that comes to look at ShowCard later, instantly knows the contract for this component.
[00:02:58] That if they wanna go include ShowCard somewhere else, it's like cool. All I have to give it is the show that has these properties in it and done, that's it. We can even go so far as to say like .isRequired and now it's going to error. Well, it's not gonna error.
[00:03:14] It's gonna warn, if it's not there.
>> Speaker 2: Two questions. Marcus is asking, since we now have flow support via Babel, isn't it much simpler to use instead of PropTypes?
>> Brian Holt: Yes. Well, I'm not gonna assert that type checking is any sort of simple. I will assert that it's probably better.
[00:03:34] I will allude to it briefly tomorrow, but I purposely did not use Flow or TypeScript for this workshop.
>> Speaker 2: Next question, this is back at the question about, hang on, it's.
>> Speaker 2: About using ShowCard and calling that DOM component smart component thing. The question is, it's more about, should we have Showcard inside search or use props children on search and past ShowCard?
>> Brian Holt: Is props.children.
>> Speaker 2: Not better.
>> Brian Holt: No, not particularly. Yeah.
>> Speaker 2: I'll ask them to actually post a side by side example.
>> Brian Holt: Sure. No, I'm having a hard time picturing that. So, couple of questions that typically come up with PropTypes. Specifically in Netflix, we have a bit of code that actually strips away PropTypes from its ship mount production, just so nothing's going down the wire.
[00:04:42] Typically, it's small. Nothing size that you're only cutting out like couple a hundred bytes, which is not a big deal. So, these are fine to send down the wire. And also when you're in production, React does not check PropTypes. So it's only in development, it actually check PropTypes.
[00:05:01] So these are actually fine to leave in, you can leave them in always. If you're interested in cutting out every single byte that you can, you can get something in your build step that will remove them. That's fine too. Only that up to your discussion. That's not necessary React specific thing, but I think they are a good thing personally.
[00:05:20] And just like our friend said, once you start using Flow or TypeScript, you don't need a prototypes at all, because it's gonna do way more than ProtoTypes ever would. So I believe at Facebook, they don't use prop types at all, because they have Flow everywhere.
>> Brian Holt: But there's object, array, array of, string, Boolean number.
[00:05:49] There's a bunch of different PropTypes that it can check for and like I said, there is like is required if you want it to warn when it's not there. Let's just take a look at what that actually might look like. So if I put like bool in here and I say, posters is a bool and then I save and I refresh.
[00:06:15] We're gonna get a failed PropType. It's gonna say, hey, you told me you expected this and I actually got this. It's just a really nice way to say, okay, this is why this is going wrong. Does that make sense? So, there's no performance or anything in here. This is just purely for documentation and some weak type checking for you.
[00:06:41] So, there was a good question. It was like what shape was? I don't know if we got that on camera, but I'm just gonna say that again. Shape is an object, but specifically what shape is used for is an object that you're going to describe the shape of it.
[00:06:55] That's why it's called the shape. You can actually say, object and then just instead of all this stuff, you just say, object and it's just a generic object. It doesn't actually care what's gonna come into it, it's just object. If you're getting an object and you don't know what it's going to look like, this is how you're going to declare that.
[00:07:17] But if you know what it looks like, don't be lazy. Please declare everything in it, that's what shape is for. It's the same thing with array. You can just say this is going to be in array of stuff, but it's better if you know what to taught the array of those options for me to use array of.
[00:07:32] It's like this is an array of string, this is an array of shape of law and you can kind of go all the way down it. So yes, that's useful.
>> Speaker 3: Is that before typescript, or is typescript influence by that or the other way around?
>> Brian Holt: I think its a chicken and egg value.
[00:07:53] Pascal, I think is the answer to that question. That's the answer to all typing things, I think. I don't know, to be honest.
>> Brian Holt: I'm pretty sure TypeScript came first.
>> Speaker 2: Can you nest shape in shape?
>> Brian Holt: Yes. Yep, it goes as deep as you want to.


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The tour begins
The moment has come, and we are finally about to start our epic Go to Brau Beviale Tour 2012, taking us from Nuremberg to Ekaterinburg Naturally, things don't go exactly to plan. There's a slight hitch which makes us a day late. What has happened?
After all the meticulous planning, the ferry company calls to tell me that the ferry we are booked on has some mechanical problems so we can't depart on the Monday as planned. At the last minute we are re-booked on another ferry, departing from another port, causing a day's delay. But how did we get to this point? Let's turn the clock back for a moment.
The last few weeks have been a constant panic to get things organised, whilst trying desperately to keep up with all the office paperwork. As with the previous tour to Azerbaijan, we are constantly rushing to get everything ready in time for departure, wondering at the same time whether we have forgotten half the things we are supposed to have done. Finally the day arrives, and it's time to go, ready or not.
This time there are three teams on the tour, each responsible for a particular stretch:
Team 1 consists of my colleague Rolf and Felix Popp who take the role of driver and photographer and, last but not least, me, Kay Krüger.
Team 2 is made up of our editor Michael Maruschke. Joining him will be photographer Christian Buck.
Finally, Team 3 features our editors Alexander Büchler and Waldemar Schmitke.
The plan is as follows: Team 1 will be taking the stretch from Nuremberg to Ekaterinburg, at which point Team 2 will take over. If all goes according to plan, we will hand over the reins to Team 2 on July 19. Provided we get there on time The journey to Ekaterinburg will take us a few thousand kilometres through some of Russia's most fascinating regions, and, even more exciting, will also include some in-depth PET interviews
But back to the present. My first appointment is at precisely 1 o'clock: a meeting with our supporters at the Nuremberg Fair to run through some details with them. Loading up the Editourmobil at the company HQ in Heidelberg takes a little longer than expected and there are delays on the motorway this morning due to roadworks which takes up valuable time. It's supposed to be summer, but it's not very summery, and that causes a few problems with clothes selection, so we have to cope with the cold one minute and the next minute we are stripping off layers. Nonetheless, the sun is shining. We are a little late for our appointment with Mrs. McNally and Ms. Brandes-Reinel, but we were looking forward to a little tour of the Fair offices and in particular a visit to the canteen, since we had had no time for breakfast after all the morning panics. Suitably fed and watered, we had a photocall at the entrance to the Fair, where our departure for Russia was to be recorded for posterity. The moment reminds me vividly of our first tour, where we only met up with the photographer on our free days.
In no time at all, the photos are all wrapped up, and after bidding farewell to Mrs. McNally and Ms. Brandes-Reinel, the next job is to fill up the Editourmobil with fuel and water. At around 4 o'clock, we are finally underway and on the road to Lübeck, where our ferry to St. Petersburg awaits. Not wishing to cover too much ground on the first day, Rolf and I have agreed to call a halt for the night in Leipzig. We have to keep in the forefront of our minds that we are covering a huge distance, and although the Editourmobil is very comfortable, it is not a racing car. So each stage of the journey takes just that little bit more time.
We arrive in Leipzig at 8.30. Two friends of mine happen to live here, so after a quick telephone call, we decide to meet up that evening at the "Sol y Mar" restaurant (appropriate name). Topic number one is, of course – how could it be anything else – the tour. It was to be a long and convivial evening. Later that night, back at the Editourmobil, too tired to talk, and no time (and no energy) to sort out all the bits and pieces piled up in the interior of the vehicle. Boxes, suitcases, bags, all strewn over the unmade beds. It's almost 3 in the morning before I finally get off to sleep …..


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[Updated] There are at least four Sikh camps running or about to take off from now till the year end in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.
The largest among them, the Annual Gurmat Parchaar Samelan organised by Sikh Naujawan Sabha Malaysia (SNSM), will begin on Sunday (Dec 14). See earlier report here.
Across the straits, Singapore's Bahadur Bachey five-day camp stars today (Dec 10). Organised by Sikh Sewaks Singapore, it caters for youth aged between 4-16 years.
In Australia, a six-day Annual Family Gurmat Camp 2014, organised by Melbourne-based Sikh Sewaks Australia (SCA), will begin on Dec 21 at Knyeton, Victoria.
The fourth camp, which will conclude tomorrow (Dec 11), is taking place at the cool hills of Cameron Highlands in the Malaysian state of Pahang. The Simran Group Samelan, led by lawyer-parcharak Kulvinder Singh (aka Kemey Verji) and running for the 10th year, began on Dec 5. (For updates, see Facebook handle 'Simran Group Samelan – Cameron Highland').
The camp in Cameron Highlands attracted some 280 participants and another 100 sewadars (volunteer camp facilitators).
The SNSM camp, which will the 51st annual camp by the Sikh youth organisation, is its largest annual youth camp welcoming Sikh youth not only from Malaysia but also from overseas.
This year's camp will be held at the quaint town of Bentong, Pahang, about 80 km northeast of Kuala Lumpur.
The week long signature events for SNSM, first started in 1963, is held during the year-end Malaysian school holidays.
SNSM Jathedar and Samelan 2014 organising chairman Pavandeep Singh said this year's edition is expected to receive 800 participants from the host country as well those from Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.
On top of that, some 200 sewadars (volunteers) from throughout the country will also be on the grounds to help in the smooth running of the event.


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As you may have heard, it's Equal Pay Day in the U.K. today. We observed equal pay day here in the United States back in April, on the day on which women have statistically earned the same amount men did the year before; the Brits, however, observe it on November 9, which is the day on which women effectively begin working for free until the end of the year. Social media has a lot to say about the matter, of course, but I would argue that this one tweet sums up the universal pay gap struggle, no matter what your nationality is. Launched into the Twitterverse by Labor Party politician Yvette Cooper, MP for Normanton, Pontefract, Castleford, and Knottingley, it states simply, "45yrs after Equal Pay Act disgraceful 14% pay gap still exists. Women effectively working for free from today until Jan. #EqualPayDay."
It puts me in mind of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's response to a question asking why he filled his cabinet with 50 percent women and 50 percent men: "Because it's 2015." I'm also reminded of a now-well-known quote from Joss Whedon about why he keeps writing strong women characters: "Because you're still asking me that question." It's 2015, Cooper points out, and yet somehow, gender equality — in terms of wages, and in so many other arenas — still doesn't exist.
As you might expect, there's a lot of pushback against Equal Pay Day, too. Looking around the Twittersphere, the most common reaction to those highlighting the gender wage gap seems to be, "There is no pay gap! It's a myth! Equal pay already exists because these laws made it so!" It's true that equal pay legislation exists in a wide number of countries; most of the countries currently in the European Union, for example, put such legislation into place in the years and decades following the Second World War, and in the United States, the Equal Pay Act of 1963 abolished wage disparity based on gender.
But this is where the problem arises: Yes, the legislation is in place — and yet the numbers show that it doesn't really seem to matter. Despite all these pieces of legislation, there's still a disparity between the wages earned by men and those earned by women in a huge number of industries and in many different countries.
A few examples:
As Bustle's Josephine B. Yurcaba recently pointed out, a study found in 2014 that women at law firms make less on the whole than their male counterparts, even if they have more experience or work more hours; in the U.K., a 2013 study found that female graduates earn less than men with the same degree; a study released on November 8, 2015 (that's yesterday, in case you're keeping track) found that not only does cardiology pay less for women than it does for men, but moreover, the field is so unwelcoming for women that the job characteristics change depending on what your gender is; and, of course, there is the oft-cited statistic from the AAUW, which says that in 2014, white women made just 79 percent of what white men made — a figure that worsens dramatically for women of color.
This is just a handful of the studies documenting the existence of the pay gap, by the way — there's plenty more where that came from.
(Also, that's a phenomenal piece in The Independent there; I highly suggest clicking through and reading it.)
So why? Why, despite the fact that there are actually laws in place that make it illegal for employers to discriminate based on gender, does the pay gap persist? This is conjecture on my part, but I suspect that it's because of the insidious nature of sexism. It's not necessarily that people are going, "Hmmm, this man and this woman do the same job, but here's an idea! Let's pay the woman less, simply because she is a woman"; it's likely something that's happening unconsciously. Sexism isn't always overt (which also goes for countless other forms of discrimination), and sometimes, it's when it's not hostile that it's at its worst. "Benevolent sexism," first coined in 1996 by psychologists Peter lick and Susan Fiske, manifests as "a paternalistic attitude towards women that idealizes them affectionately" — and according to a study published in 2011, men often don't recognize it when they see it. The pay gap, I suspect, has a lot to do with that blind spot.
There's a lot of this "not recognizing it when you see it" going around all over the place, too — not only with sexism, but also with racism, sizeism, abelism, and pretty much every other type of discrimination you can think of. It's in the microaggressions marginalized groups face daily; it's in the "I'm appreciating your culture!" excuse for cultural appropriation; and it's in the pay gap — which also isn't solely an issue of gender, as many others on Twitter have pointed out today.
No matter what the issue, though, what I keep coming back to is the fact that it's 2015. And the fact that unequal pay, and marriage inequality, and countless other pieces of systemic discrimination are not only still happening today, but also willfully being ignored when they do, is — as Yvette Cooper put it — disgraceful.
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New season, new system. That's the main takeaway from Reading's 2-1 win over Gillingham on Saturday, which was intriguing less for the scoreline and performance, more for how the Royals set up.
Mark Bowen deployed a back three, two wing-backs, four central midfielders and a striker, which overall is hard to pin into a specific formation but for me is something like a 3-5-1-1. Here's how I'd try to visualise it, although a dynamic midfield meant those central four players rotated a fair amount:
As I discussed here, a key positive of this system is that it allows Reading to keep the ball much more easily. More passing options in central areas is a good thing. In his post-match comments explaining the switch to a back three, Bowen alluded to just that:
"This year, we'll be looking to play with a back three but I'm going to ask them to be a little bit more expansive. Within that framework, we've touched on elements of it in training and I saw some of those transfer into our game today which is important. We've got to be in control of our destiny in terms of possession - at times we did that last season and, when we did, we normally got results off the back of it."
When Reading were out of possession, they tried to win it back aggressively. That's naturally easier when you've got more bodies in midfield and at the back, but personnel is key here too. Looking through that team sheet, there's energy all over the pitch: particularly Rinomhota and Laurent in the middle, but also Richards and Yiadom out wide, and two defenders (McIntyre and Moore) with the proactivity to push out aggressively.
Put that all together and you can clearly identify the framework of a formation (whether it stays as a 3-5-1-1 or becomes more of a 3-5-2), a clear aim when Reading have the ball (keeping it and being "expansive") and a clear aim when Reading don't (winning it back quickly).
Bowen will inevitably adapt and change this set-up across the season and for specific opposition, and he did accept after the Gillingham game that Reading may use another set-up on some occasions. But it still looks like Reading will have their own way of playing to develop in the long term.
That clarity is refreshing, especially in contrast to what we saw last season. Plenty of fans, myself included, were frustrated later on in the campaign when Bowen seemed unwilling or unable to work on a playing style ahead of 2020/21 - despite Reading being out of the play-off picture. It felt like valuable preparation time had been wasted and Bowen didn't have a clear sense of how to take the team forward.
He deserves credit now though. Whether he always wanted to use a back three and for whatever reason didn't push it last season, or he's decided on that approach over the brief summer break, Reading are in a stronger position for it.
Despite the initial promise against Gillingham, this certainly isn't to say Reading's new set-up is a sure-fire winner. There are plenty of improvements to come, not to mention tests against much stronger opposition, starting with Tottenham Hotspur on Friday before West Ham United come to the Mad Stad the following Tuesday.
But it does still feel like Reading have an identifiable plan to work towards, which I couldn't say at the end of last season.


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Nice to see you here as well
i bought in Steam :)
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Play with Me Bro
The puzzles breaking the fourth wall: in some cases, we will have to move away or move closer to the PC screen to be able to read codes. From this point of view, Play With Me: Esacpe room stimulates the player to think in an alternative way, without forcing him to click everywhere. Step into the world inspired by the movie SAW.
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question – will you dare to Play with Me? Step into the world inspired by the movie SAW
An investigative journalist, Robert Hawk, together with his wife Sara disappears in mysterious circumstances. The police find only their wreck from the car crash. According to the suspicions of the investigation officers, a man called "Illusion", a serial killer about who Hawk has been writing investigative articles for a long time, may have something to do with their disappearance. Apparently, he was very close to discover his identity with the help of his friend, private detective Patrick Clark. Now, as a result of the accident, Hawk finds himself in the "Illusion" and he has to get through a maze of puzzles in order to survive.
See the dark world created by a sick mind and find out who is behind it. However, you will not be alone during this journey – you will be able to win the gratitude of the imprisoned and even get their help with a bit of manipulation and favors. How will you use them? Are you ready to sacrifice your friend to get away from the trap? Test your human nature during many moral choices and secondary quests which will lead you to tens of endings!
Get to a higher level of immersion and use real objects to outsmart the harasser. Blow into the microphone to blow out the candles, make a hand gesture to light the match, shake the box (what may be inside?), open the jar (watch out because the eyeballs may fall out!) or attack someone with a hammer! I hope you have a mirror within your reach… And that is only the beginning of the surprises!
Enter the world of a dangerous psychopath and slowly go mad thanks to such a realistic system of determining the mental state of your character used for the first time in a computer game! At the end, chill out with some additional activities – write your own diary in a virtual telephone, read text messages or play mobile games – all of these to avoid going crazy!
And remember that thanks to some random elements each encounter with the game will be different! When you feel the need for challenge, test your skills in additional modes, including the exceptional survival mode.
Game elements:
Keymailer (free key)
|Windows, macOS, Linux
|Release date
|Aug 28, 2019
|Puzzle, Adventure
|Made with
|2D, Escape Game, escape-the-room, Horror, Pixel Art, Point & Click, Singleplayer, Thriller
|Average session
|A few minutes
|Arabic, Belarusian, German, Greek Modern, English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified)
|Keyboard, Mouse, Gamepad (any)
|Homepage, Homepage, YouTube
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $1.94 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:
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Nice to see you here as well
i bought in Steam :)
it's a pity that there is no discount for this game 100%
When the remake of Play with Me comes out (which I am working on - see post on Steam), this version will be made available for free. The new version of Play with Me: Escape room (remake) will be combined/paired with Play with Me 2: On the Other Side...
for convenience, made a 100% discount on Christmas, and then I will ask you for an activation key on Steam
email me email@example.com and I'll give you the key
i wrote to your mail
thanks for the key
Hi Airem, I just purchased the game and I'm eager to play it, I noticed before playing that I would get a steam key with the purchase but when claiming it it says that there are no keys available, do you know if there will be more? Thanks!
Hello sullen693 Yes, I generate a new one (Valve must approve 1-3 days). I will check if I have any spare keys on the disk, then I will add them in a few hours. I'll let you know. Thank You.
Hi sullen693 check the keys :D
Thank you very much!
Hi! Airem, PWM is really amazing! : )...It's definitely the best indie game I've played about Saw. I love it...the scene, the music, the stories, and the design of puzzles, truly feeling like Saw. At last, thank you making it for us. It's really a wonderful gift for all Saw's fans. Keep going! Additionally, the steam key seems run out, after i bought it successfully, and go to email page to claim my steam key, it always shows "no keys available at this time". Hope you can chect it for me. Thanks a lot. : )
Hello, Thank You :D. There will be soon Play with Me 2 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368580/Play_with_Me_2_On_the_other_side/ . Also, I will create soon a Play with Me 2 page on itch.io.
In 1-4 days I will upload Steam keys on Itch.io (Valve needs to approve my request...). I'll let you know soon (I think that tomorrow...).
Great! Thanks. : D I will check it later. And please forgive me for asking that about the visions, is the itch vision same as the steam one? 'cause it seems different.
1) I have uploaded new keys.
2) "vision" You mean version? There is an older version on itch.io. I will update the PWM in 1-4 days, because it's a bit old version old builds (February 15th 2020, https://steamcommunity.com/app/725780/discussions/0/1692659135912463350/).
3) https://airem.itch.io/play-with-me-2-on-other-side
Thanks again. Yes! I mean the version (sorry for my mistake : D...), and I've received my steam key.
No problem :D. Itch.io version will be updated soon.
Thank you very much for the game. I just bought it. I've been playing it for an hour and a half and I've loved it. The criticism of the Spanish site doesn't do the game justice, so I usually don't pay much attention to those things. My experience has been very good, only that I got scared when I started the game in Windows 10 because it didn't run. I gave administrator permissions and compatibility with Windows 8. After a minute and a half I was able to play at ease. I was wondering if the soundtrack can only be obtained through Steam or if there is the possibility of acquiring it right here. Thanks again and success!
Hola, I will update the game soon because the itch.io version is old. I hope it will fix some problem. You can always get Steam version: https://itch.io/t/67604/how-to-get-a-steam-key-from-your-itchio-purchase I will soon update more keys.
About soundtrack: Please send email to me email@example.com. Thank You.
Hola! ;) Thank you very much for the Play With Me update on the itch.io platform. I have an account on Steam and I have the video game in my personal catalogue. But to be honest I try not to have many games on this platform. I'm a supporter of the DRM-Free philosophy. I use more platforms like itch.io, Gog, HumbleBundle, IndieGala precisely because I can get video games with DRM-Free. In fact I just added Play With Me to my Gog wish list in the hope that more people will join the request to bring their video game to Gog platform. I'd love to see your video game in Gog! About the soundtrack I will contact you at the email address you gave me during the course of this week. Thanks again to you, very kind and I will wait with a lot of emotion for the update in itch.io of the video game. See you soon and a hug!
Haha Thank You. I have your e-mail. Unfortunately I have a lot of work to do with my new game now :D... I'm happy to put games on GOG etc. (but it's hard: D). I like DRM-FREE too.
Thakn You.
Mac version is available
Update on the way. Sorry that so long. But I'm doing a big update that will also change sounds and music!
I've also added Steam keys. If you bought the game, click "Get Steam Key":
If you have problems with the game, send me a message!
it tells me there are no keys available when i try..
it tells me there aren't any keys available when I try to redeem the key
Hello and I have a bit of a problem accessing the game. I extracted the files and opened the pwm and this is what I see, the image below. Is this suppose to happen?
I will check in to 1-2 days. Can you send me an email email@example.com, we will be in touch. If it is not a problem. Okay? Thanks for message.
Alright, take your time if you're still checking. Also, it won't be a problem, I'll send an email to you as soon as I can!
I updates the engine for all platforms to newer version (Windows / Linux / Mac). Today I should upload files.
Maybe the butler (https://itch.io/docs/butler/) uploaded something wrong. I apologize for the delays, but Airem is a one-man studio. And I'm still working on 11 projects ... :D. If not, I will sned message to Itch for refunds.
At the moment, if you have Steam, I'll give you a Steam key (but send me e-mail or join to my discord.gg/Airem).
I will also upload files for Mac for Itch.
Game updated please check and let me know.
Glad to see this on Itch.io. I enjoyed the demo on Steam.
Thanks bro!!! If you have any problems with the game send message to me :D! Soon I'll update the game on itch.io for Linux from 1.38.52 to 1.38.53 (current on Steam).
Mac version soon :P


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The heads of MI5 and the FBI have used an unprecedented joint speech to warn that China is their biggest "game-changing challenge", with the UK doubling efforts to combat Chinese threats.
Christopher Wray, the director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Beijing is drawing lessons from Russia's war in Ukraine.
Talking about the Chinese threat to Taiwan, he said the Chinese government was looking for ways to protect its economy against any potential, future sanctions.
"We call that kind of behaviour a clue," Mr Wray said, sharing a platform with MI5 director-general Ken McCallum on a visit to the UK Security Service's headquarters in London.
Western allies used sweeping sanctions to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.
Despite Russia posing a significant threat, the two security chiefs chose to focus on the Chinese Communist Party and its covert operations against their countries, allies and the wider world.
They accused Beijing of a vast, enduring effort to steal Western advances in technology, research and other sectors as well as to use the West's democratic, media and legal systems to their own advantage.
"The most game-changing challenge we face comes from the Chinese Communist Party," Mr McCallum said, speaking to an audience of executives from technology companies and other officials invited to the joint talk at Thames House on Wednesday.
"It's covertly applying pressure across the globe. This might feel abstract. But it's real and it's pressing. We need to talk about it. We need to act."
Mr McCallum said MI5 had more than doubled what he described as his service's "previously constrained effort" against "Chinese activity of concern" since 2018 and is running seven times as many investigations.
"We plan to grow as much again, while also maintaining significant effort against Russian and Iranian covert threats," he said.
He added later that the doubling would take place in the next "handful of years".
Read more:
Xi and Putin agree to deepen ties during 'warm and friendly' phone call
Fate of Ukraine matters because 'China is watching'


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Counselling & Psychotherapy
How can counselling and psychotherapy help?
Counselling and psychotherapy are more familiarly known as the 'talking therapies'. Often the question is asked 'how can talking help?'. To this question I offer an invitation to enter a personal journey, alongside another, a journey of discovery through which to find yourself.
What is counselling and psychotherapy?
Overwhelmed with the impacts of bereavement, relationship difficulties, anger, depression or a combination of them all, life can at times become too much. Many of the difficulties we experience as adults had their beginnings in childhood. Counselling and psychotherapy can enable you to engage with your often complex emotional histories, where rejection, separation and bereavement have been revived through current adversity. The loss of a cherished idea of ourselves can sometimes be the precipitate to dysfunction and breakdown.
Sometimes we find that repeated patterns of behaviour create havoc in our relationships with families, partners or at work and we are at a loss as to how to understand what happens. Overwhelming feelings seem to overtake us. Understanding these feelings and the roots of our motivations, conscious and unconscious can serve to open the window to previously unrecognised potential and resources within ourselves.
Perhaps it is not so much a specific problem you are trying to address, maybe you feel you have lost your way or you want to pursue your personal development and growth. Counselling and psychotherapy can be a meaningful pilgrimage to find the essence of who you are. It takes emotional courage to engage in this work; what better way to invest in your life and your future than to plumb the depths of your being in the company of another who can support and safely witness your earliest and most vulnerable experiences to facilitate transformation and healing.
How I work:
I work from a Jungian, psychodynamic and or psychoanalytic perspective where your early experiences of growing up can be seen to be at work within the way that you relate to others inside and outside your immediate family and friends. These ways of relating will over time become present within the client/therapist relationship and where the familiar difficulties can be worked through to reach a new experience.
What I provide is a safe space within a professional setting for you to explore your world, inner and outer, to experience sorrow as well as joy, the strength for which can be found in the longing to live fully and the willingness to settle for nothing less.
I tend to work long term, at once a week frequency leading to greater frequency if needed; shorter term work can be offered where it is appropriate. My Jungian training gives importance to dreams, imagery and spirituality. These details and others can be discussed more fully at the initial appointment.
- Initial session: £65 with no obligation beyond the first appointment
- Psychotherapy/Counselling: £55 per 50 minute session
- Individual supervision: £55 per 50 minute session
- Some lower fees may be available for those on very low income.


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Brentwood and Uttlesford have both recorded Covid-19 infection rates below 400 per every 100,000 people.
Just last month, Essex found itself at the epicentre of the coronavirus crisis as rates soared across the south east of England.
However, the past few weeks have shown some promise as every local authority recorded reducing rates.
Last month, areas such as Thurrock and Basildon were witnessing infection rates hitting well over 1000 per 100,000 people.
Now, two Essex local authorities that saw the infection rate drop below 400.
This includes Brentwood, which was previously named the worst affected area in England just a few weeks ago.
Brentwood, Essex, had an infection rate of 344.1 cases per 100,000 in the week up to January 19.
This is a steady decrease from the previous week, where Brentwood recorded 576.5 cases per 100,000.
Uttlesford also has a current infection rate of 374.7 cases per 100,000 in the same seven days - considerably lower than some of the other areas in the county.
Check the latest Covid-19 stats in your area of Essex using our interactive widget below:
On the other end of the spectrum, Tendring has the highest infection rate with 742.4 after recording 1,088 cases in the seven days up to January 19.
Here are the latest infection rates in Essex.
The data comes from the Government's interactive map and looks at the infection rates in the seven days up to January 19.
Total cases 370
Rolling rate 423.5
Castle Point
Total cases 559
Rolling rate 618.5
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Total cases 300
Rolling rate 462.1
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Rolling rate 475.4
Total cases 265
Rolling rate 344.1
Epping Forest
Total cases 605
Rolling rate 459.4
Total cases 631
Rolling rate 724.7
Total cases 342
Rolling rate 374.7
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I have a 2001 F150 with 69000 miles. Davis County,UT uses the computer to test emissions if the computer is working without faults you pass. My Evap System and Catalyst are showing not ready, not a fault but not reset--therefore I automatically fail. Any ideas? I disconnected the positive lead to the battery to reset the computer and will run on gas because this seems to have something to do with it. Any ideas on how many miles it should take to reset or why I should be hving this problem?
No announcement yet.
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Re: 2001 Ford F150 Computer not resetting
Go or call Autozone on 500 West there. See if they can reset the computer. They will read codes for free and give you a print out. However, when I took mine there, I don't believe their reader can read the CNG problems. At least it couldn't read mine.
My manual says it takes an OBDII scan tool to reset the codes. It also says the system will reset itself after three drive cycles of not detecting the faults.
Also, it says not to disconnect the battery to try to clear codes as the system will lose the operating parameters it "learns" and will have to relearn them through more drive cycles.
My son tried to reset his codes taking the cable off overnight with no benefit.
Good Luck
Kaysville, Ut
Re: 2001 Ford F150 Computer not resetting
I took my 2001 to Autozone to read codes that came up a few days ago. The guy there said he couldn't clear codes. (He probably could but may not have known how)
My son's neighbor works for Checker and told him how to have them clear codes or how to use their OBD II scanner to clear it. He had to show the guy how when he had Checker read his. On their scanner, there is a button on the top left with a symbol over it that looks like a paralleogram (SP?). It's actually a picture of an eraser for pencil. He said later it passed inspection at a quicky emission place. I asked if I could borrow theirs for a second and it cleared my code, also. You hook it up, turn key to accessory, push button, then push it again. You may have to hold it a few seconds.
Good Luck,
Re: 2001 Ford F150 Computer not resetting
Just a follow up:
I went through the drive cycles. As stated before this was not an issue of codes but an issue of system not ready. I drove the car at 55 mph for 20+ miles on gasoline with 1/2 to 3/4 tank of gasoline as perscribed by the ford website. It worked Evap system was ready and catylst was a go passed with flying colors. Thanks Max!
Re: 2001 Ford F150 Computer not resetting
That's great!
I took mine to Davis County and even though I had cleared the code, the system said not ready, also. From reading about it, it needs to go through three drive cycles including about twenty minutes of highway plus other driving. I will drive mine to work in SLC from Kaysville a few times to see if it resets.


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The SAT Reading section can be intimidating. You've got sixty-five minutes to read and answer questions for five passages, so you've only got about thirteen minutes per passage. If you're psyching yourself out and repeatedly second-guessing yourself, you'll very quickly run out of time and energy. Here's how to gain confidence on the SAT Reading Section without sacrificing any points.
1. Read for Fun
One way to make the SAT Reading section less daunting is to get rack up some hours reading for much lower stakes. First, pick a book that you think you'll have fun with (I recommend Artemis by Andy Weir; it's about a Moon heist) and then, read it. Open the book every day, and just read a little bit of it. What you want to prioritize is consistency. If you open the book every day, and read at least a sentence, you'll be finished with it before you know it. This will also make the SAT Reading seem a little more manageable, and build your confidence with every book you've finished.
Reading a book you're interested in will build a lot of the important SAT Reading skills you need, like reading speed and comprehension.
2. Take Notes
The SAT Reading passages are notoriously dense. After reading each paragraph, take a moment to take some notes and check if you understand what's going on so far. Making sure you understand what you are reading while you're reading it will prevent you from furiously looking back over the passage on every other question. Come at the questions feeling prepared, and the confidence will follow.
3. Pre-Answer the Questions
Before even looking at the answer choices, take a moment to try and answer the question like it was a free-answer question. This will help you understand what the question is asking you. This is especially helpful on vocabulary questions. Sometimes, you will see your answer written out as an answer choice, and that does wonders for your confidence.
4. Eliminate Answer Choices
If there's something in the answer choice that makes you say "nope" draw a line through the words that make you dismiss it.
Do not be afraid to eliminate every answer choice if none of them are good enough for you. Then, you can look through the parts you crossed out, and see if you misread something, or, if they're all terrible answers, if one is slightly more worthy than the others.
5. Practice, Practice, Practice
The key here is slow, but consistent. The earlier you start, the better. If you can put at least an hour a week into practicing the SAT Reading, you'll end up racking up completed tests quickly. Focus on the process and learning what you can about the test. Get a feel for the test's patterns.
6. Be Zen And Move On
The biggest key to maintaining your confidence on the SAT Reading is learning to move on from questions. Sometimes, you'll run into questions where you can't decide between two answers. At this point, make a mark by the question (so you can come back to it if you have time), choose an answer, and move on with the test. You will get a higher score by accepting this potential loss and moving on, than by spending your precious time and energy flickering back and forth between answers. Make your mark, make your peace, and keep going. Focus on the questions in front of you, and let thoughts of any past questions pass by you. You don't need to spend energy trying to stop the thoughts, just don't interact with them. Shrug, and move on. Accept what comes, and you will build confidence.
That's all! Now go forth and finish that SAT Reading with confidence! You can do this! If you want more SAT and ACT prep advice sure to join our mailing list for a free 27-item checklist and 30-day free SAT email course.