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Indian Steel Industry produces about 75 Million MT of steel per year and looking to double that output within this decade. This article has been written for Steel Tech and focuses on management challenges facing Indian Steel Industry in the area of developing and enhancing its 'Human Capital'.
Part 1: Human Capital not just employees
The challenges facing the steel sector for achieving its targets are many. Rainy's law of management says that, 'A situation or trend is likely to remain the same unless acted upon by some innovation or management initiative'. Thus if we want different results we need to do things differently. The question then arises, what needs to be done differently?
All Organisational systems function based on three elements fused together as one. They are Hardware, Software and 'Humanware'.
The hardware includes the land, buildings, machinery and equipment etc. The software comprises the design of technical and management processes, the standards, and the operating procedures. Last but not the least is humanware, this essentially the people, their capabilities, skills, knowledge and attitudes etc. This is what we call as human capital and will address in this article. Human capital as it is the key transforming agent for the hardware and software.
Most organisations employ experts who help procure and set up the hardware. The capital expenditure represents the major part of the budget of setting up of any manufacturing venture. Action for improvement in Organisational performance by investing in hardware is almost always extremely expensive. Sometimes investments are essential, but this route should be the last choice of management.
The software comprising manufacturing and management process design and systems often receive insufficient attention, and are often parceled out /outsourced to various ERP software providers. This approach is accepted for want of a better approach. This aspect is not touched upon in this article. Often managements remain clueless on what they can do to get improvements using this route.
Traditionally owners and managements of organisations have been wary if not downright fearful of employees, particularly the workmen and their unions. Engagement is therefore kept to a minimum and a blend of carrot and stick is used to control employees.
Experiences of working with organisations large and tiny, experiencing both success and failure, I have learnt that most organisations do realize not more than 10% to 40% of their people's potential.
An analysis of almost all successful organisations clearly show that those organisations that have managed their human resources well stand head and shoulders over their contemporaries in almost all measures of performance. This is not magic it is simply good leadership and management. Almost everyone knows this, yet most organisations are unable to put this into practice.
It is proclaimed by wise leaders and repeated by the majority of owners and managers, that people are the greatest asset an organisation has. Yet employees are rarely treated as assets.
To make the organisation's human resources highly effective, there are many approaches that lie between two extreme positions,
1.Make people completely inconsequential
2.Make individuals and teams the greatest asset that the organisation possesses
The first approach works well in sweatshops where the work is so rudimentary that skill is of no consequence. This approach also works well when the work process design has resulted in deskilling of the tasks involved. Here the work is scientifically broken down into such small discrete steps that almost no knowledge or application of mind is needed except to use their body mechanically almost devoid of a brain or soul for accomplishing a task.
The second approach deploys the employee as both an individual and as part of teams to accomplish tasks and achieve missions while continuously improving and responding in a dynamic situation.
In early industrialization periods when people came to work in factories they had little or no formal education and majority of them were illiterate. Any work they found that would help address their poverty was a blessing.
Formal education was not considered necessary and these peasants who came from agrarian backgrounds were treated no more than human form of 'beast of burden'. Some form of education was begun a little later which focused on three simple objectives.
• To make workers obedient so that they learn to unquestioningly take orders from their masters/bosses.
• To tell time and so be punctual
• To count so that they could record what quantity of units they had produced
Subsequently two more rudimentary learning objectives were added,
• Ability to read instructions and notices
• To learn to write so that they could sign off on documents to make them official.
This formed the basis of the education system then and even now. Though now it is a little more sophisticated. Yet 36% of India remains completely illiterate and a further 22% are semi literate
The education is tilted towards regimentation and not to awakening and development of the students.
Illiteracy and backbreaking work without dignity often leads to a ticking time bomb. All it needs is someone to exploit the situation for genuine good or for political and financial gain. Surprisingly high literacy levels with little or no focus on outputs as in many government departments and monopolistic companies both in the public and private sectors also tend to be highly unionized. Both are driven by fear. The exploited worker fears further exploitation on the back of anger and injustice. The underworked employee fears that he will lose his cushy position and privileges when he is discovered to being unproductive or is frankly quite useless and therefore redundant. This second group also involves to a large extent staff and officer levels in organisations.
Most organisations are fearful of unions because they often become mobs. Mobs can be violent, unpredictable, and usually resort to blackmail. To be fair to most workmen and many trade unions, they have no choice other than to go on strike to draw management's attention to their genuine demands. Unfortunately starting with genuine issues and concerns the leadership of unions often falls into the hands of men who have only their own interest rather than those of the workers.
Middle and junior levels of management are often unfairly tasked with delivering superior results while coping with a hostile atmosphere. They are trapped between militant and uncooperative workers on one hand, and a demanding, aggressive and unsupportive top management and owners on the other hand. The result is they simply stop trying and performance on productivity; quality and costs all take a hit.
This need not be the way.
The first thing to realise is that when you hire hands, the whole person comes along with the hands. People work not only for a living but also for a feeling of purpose in their existence. Giving employees lots of money and rights but with no purpose, is just as bad as giving people too little money or no rights.
When employees are considered to be unavoidable and a source of problems, management tries to control them. When employees are considered as an asset, management seeks to liberate and nurture them. Management works actively to enhance the value of their assets or what we can term as 'Human Capital'.
Reading articles like this one and attending courses or recruiting hotshot human resources manager etc. will not likely to make the situation any better, unless there is a basic respect for people. A holistic approach emanating from good and able people is necessary to build great organisations.
Like all other important initiatives the policy starts at the top. The owners, the leadership and top management must genuinely have the well being of their stakeholders at heart and as the most important criteria on their organisation's agenda. Good leadership is based on trust, openness, justice, cooperation and collaboration that form the basis of achieving great results.
Bad leadership is based on achieving results through use of fear, manipulation, injustice, and exploitation of people leading to bitterness and anger, which often erupts into conflict or in abandonment.
Being good does not mean being naive. All human relationships are based on a power hierarchy. If leaders are too kind without demanding performance, the workers will hijack the organisation's management and soon run it into the ground.
Leaders should treat their people within an organisation as their family. Everyone is cared for and continuously developed and each individual is required to do his or her duty. All families also have their ups and downs, but where there is caring and dignity, disagreements are quickly resolved which work in favour of the well being of both employees and organisation. What is good for the organisation has to be good for the shareholders.
Investment in people always delivers the biggest bang for the buck with greatest advantage for the money invested. The problem is that like all human relationships it needs time to bloom.
People say that times have changed; now people want only money. This is not entirely true. Employees chase money alone as long as they are in want. First management should give and then wait for the fruits of progress, justice and dignity to bear fruit.
Good leaders build human capital bad leaders cannot, but what is 'Human Capital'?
Every employee brings to his or her organisation a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes, or what we can call as 'ASK' in short.
Most organisations never map the employees ASK. They also never map the ASK requirement of a task, or a work position. It is essential that ASK of employees and the task are matched as best as possible not only for current tasks but also for future tasks. This forms the basis of training in the Humanware of knowledge and skills.
I am often asked to help train people to change their attitude. Attitudes is the most challenging of the ASK elements. It cannot be taught, indoctrinated or inculcated. It can only be nourished to flower or oppressed into negativity.
Positive attitudes are like the ether, it simply radiates positivity, and creates a healthy environment.
Back to leadership.
True leadership lives by a value system or a code of ethics and beliefs. These are cast in steel and do not change. They enshrine noble virtues of equity, justice, respect, brotherhood, and commitment. This has to be articulated by the organisation's leadership and put into action.
Any person no matter how senior or powerful who does not believe in the beliefs and values laid down by the leadership must part ways with the organisation.
Once employees learn and experience that the organisation's value framework is robust and universal, they begin to respect the organisation and the leadership.
Most organisations fearing workmen and unions and the rigid and outdated labour laws, employ contract workers. Poorly trained and with low commitment levels they now comprise the majority of the workforce in even organized sector of industry. Such workers cannot deliver high quality, high productivity outputs over any reasonable length of time. Managements appear to be failing to see the value of investing skill and knowledge training in a contract worker (an outsider) and thus have no choice but to live with low productivity and poor quality, in addition to poor safety etc.
Managements may continue to use the contract worker but must train them as they would a regular employee and pay a premium to the contract worker to ensure retention on the job.
When Henry Ford historically quadrupled the wages of his workers one morning, it was not because he loved the workers. He was employing 50,000 employees to do the work of 10,000 employees so as to improve attendance and job retention.
The increased wages helped for quite a while, then the workers tried to start a union. Henry Ford was incensed and had to hire goons who would beat up and sometimes even kill unionized or politically active workers who were classified by Ford as 'trouble makers'.
So bad had the condition of the Ford Motor Company become that the American government contemplated taking it over to get rid of Henry Ford and keep the war effort on track. The company almost went bankrupt and was turned around only after the exit of Henry Ford and the entry of his grandson, who introduced modern management and sound Human Capital policies.
Indian steel industry has one of the lowest labour costs for producing steel in the world, simply because of low labour wages, and not because of high labour productivity. India has one of the lowest labour productivity amongst major steel producing nations.
Imagine over the next decade if labour productivity was quadrupled in terms of MT per employee and net labour costs doubled what will be the impact? Both owners and employees would gain handsomely. What if the skill and knowledge levels of the workmen are improved significantly then Indian steel industry can truly become world leaders.
Part 2: Motivated employees deliver more than twice of ordinary employees.
As mentioned earlier in this article most employees in Indian manufacturing deliver no more than 10%to 40% of their normal capacity. Employees can be motivated by two extremes, an extra reward or what might be called an incentive for crossing an upper threshold or a punishment for performance dropping below a certain minimum level.
High output driven by incentives is often unsustainable, plus leads to all sorts of problems of bad quality, production of unwanted products, generation of dead stocks, corruption by way of fudging of records, etc. In addition people cannot work at 125% of their capacity all the time over a period of time.
Between the two extremes of reward and punishment in a broad band lie employee's normal outputs, called 'Employee Discretionary Potential' or EDP in short. It is found that well motivated employees work nearer to the upper end of their EDP levels. The employees deliver higher productivity and workmanship, produce higher quality products and services and continuously improve as individuals and as teams.
Case Example on winning hearts and minds
Founded in I968 by two brothers, Manoman Engineering* was a company manufacturing steel fabrication components. Hardworking and passionate they braved many odds and challenges to build their small-scale unit.
Combative by nature their technical and commercial success was remarkable. However their trading background did not so easily adapt to industrial behaviour and dealing with militant unions. Hence their success was marred by frequent labour problems and strikes that resulted in the factory remaining nonoperational for an average of 4 months in a year.
Exhausted after 13 years of continuous hard work, the leadership was passed on to their sons in the year 1981. The sales turnover was Rs 80 lacs in that year.
The thing about entrepreneurial families is that they live and breathe business. The sons, during their childhood had spent most of their holidays and weekends at the factory and office. They took to business like ducks take to water.
The youngsters took up their responsibilities with great zest. Soon production and turnover started increasing rapidly. Then towards the end of the year there was a huge and violent conflict between the management and the workers, which lasted nearly 17 months.
The management broke the strike by bringing outside workers and the union won the case in the labour court.
In a rare and unprecedented move the workers union representatives convinced workers that conflict was undesirable reached out and offered its cooperation to repair relations and rebuild the organisation. Dignified in victory, the union demonstrated that they wanted a fair and equitable relationship.
Chastened by the experience the management learnt many lessons and the workmen and their union began a new chapter of cooperation.
For the next 20 years there was not a single man-day lost due to strikes or lockouts or any form of industrial strife.
The company by 1997 had achieved a turnover of Rs 640 Cr, and was characterized by the following features.
· It was the number one or two suppliers in all its market segments.
· It was the preferred supplier for most of its customers.
· The best performing company in its industry with above average growth rates in turnover and profitability.
· The highest paymaster in the industry and yet having the lowest employee costs.
· The quality of products and services of the company were considered to be either very good or excellent. The defect rate was a fraction of the industry average.
· The time taken by the company to introduce new products and services was a third of the time taken by the industry average.
The employees considered the organisation as their own and were intoxicated with the feeling that they were part of history, in building a great company and institution.
The phenomenal growth was achieved by amongst other initiatives, the unleashing of the latent energy and capacity and following many of the suggestions made in the above article.
Manoman Engineering became a sick unit after the recession period from 1994 to 1999 because of is aggressive expansion had resulted in it facing a severe liquidity crisis. Even when the operations were suspended the 5,400 employees all left the organisation with no ill feelings, protests or litigation. They expressed just sadness that the management had not been able to maintain the world-class company that they had together built.
This article is not meant to provide a magic mantra to address employee performance concerns. Nor do I seek to show the reader a way to resolve problems, in fact it would be fair to say that the probability of problems arising is greatly reduced.
If people are treated as commodities they will treat the organisation as an entity to be ruthlessly and shamelessly exploited. However if organisations want to become world-class they will have to shift from human resources management to Human capital development and enhancement.
Good human capital focus alone is not a substitute for a sound strategy, good planning and excellent execution. However it will result in comparatively significant superior outputs as compared to the competition.
Many people rush to implement EDP enhancement plans and are too quickly disillusioned.
The greatest barrier in management - employee relationship and cooperation is the credibility of management. They feel managements cannot be trusted.
Just because management has changed its approach does not mean people will lap it up. Unfortunately perception lasts longer than fact. It will take a long while before employees will believe in the 'new' management. There is no choice but to invest in your human capital.
The philosophy in action of the management of the environment (political, social, and preserving of our green heritage) is not discussed in this article.
The author Gurvinder Singh is, CEO of Ampav Education and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
*Manoman Engineering is an adopted name for a real life case study. This has become necessary because owners and management have requested that we do not share confidential information or disclose their names.


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Earl Sweatshirt and a whole lot of people on Twitter came for Post Malone after he made comments suggesting that modern Hip Hop is without any emotional depth.
"If you're looking for lyrics, if you're looking to cry, if you're looking to think about life, don't listen to hip-hop," Post told a Polish newspaper. "There's great hip-hop songs where they talk about life and they spit that real shit, but right now, there's not a lot of people talking about real shit."
"Whenever I want to cry, whenever I want to sit down and have a nice cry, I'll listen to some Bob Dylan," he continued. "Or whenever I'm trying to have a good time and stay in a positive mood, I listen to hip-hop. Because it's fun. I think hip-hop is important because it brings people together in a beautiful, happy way."
Post's initial response to criticism like this was to lash out.
"If you're looking for lyrics, if you're looking to cry, if you're looking to think about life, don't listen to hip hop"— Quitter Fredette (@HaroldBingo) November 20, 2017
spoken like a true vulture who only saw rap as a means of making money off a culture they do not understand on a fundamental level https://t.co/5IygmMmKGT
However, he offered a more nuanced defense last night.
from posty. love ya. pic.twitter.com/L7rfHFkgjL— Beerbongs & Bentleys (@PostMalone) November 23, 2017
"Who am I to tell you don't listen to this. And whenever you wanna feel something don't listen to this. Or who am I to tell you that you should feel a certain way when listening to something," he said. "What I was saying was when I wanna sit down and cry I listen to Bob Dylan and his guitar just like everyone else."
"I love Hip Hop. I make Hip Hop. I want to take this genre and stretch it so far that people who may not listen to it, listen to it," he continued.
What do you think of Post's clarification?

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I'll be the first to admit that the concept of day-night Test cricket when it was first announced did not sit overly comfortably with me. As anyone who has read most of my work would know, I am against changing too much to do with the game of Test cricket. I think is it fine as it is and feel that tampering with it too much will destroy the fabric of the game. However we live in an ever-changing world where people are pressed for time and spending five days at the cricket is now a near-impossible task. Something had to be done to ensure that cricket could be played in better time slots.
After being overseas this time last year for the first instalment of the "Pink Test", this was my first real opportunity to get a gauge as to whether the concept is just a gimmick or something that could really help secure the future of the longer form of the game.
Watching from afar last year and by all reports, the pitch was very green and the game was over within three days. You could argue that there is plenty of regular Test cricket being played that is lasting just as long if not shorter than that. Hobart anyone? This year though, Adelaide Oval's pitch curator Damian Hough got it right, leaving just the right amount of grass on the pitch which provided something for both the batsman and bowler. You could not have asked for more really.
It is clear that batting at night does appear to be a harder task than doing it during the day, but it offers a new dimension to the game, while at the same time not taking away from the tactics that have long been a part of Test cricket. Bolder declarations, greater thinking ahead, clever bowling strategies and different innovations to reduce the amount of time a side has to face the pink ball at night are creating more intrigue in the contest and are encouraging the spectacle to move at a better pace. Some more research and trials need to be carried out to see if the visibility of the ball can be increased further, which will only enhance the product more.
In terms of location, Adelaide is probably the ideal spot. You could not really play one in Perth given it would finish in the early hours of the morning in the eastern states, which is not great as a television product and it is hard to see the Boxing Day or New Year Test being converted at this stage. Hobart or Canberra would require a sponsorship from a thermal company in order to keep warm during a night session, while the jury is still out on Brisbane for now. In a typical Australian summer of cricket, a single day-night Test match is probably the right number. Perhaps it moves to two matches during a summer where crowd numbers are likely to be low because of the opponent, but that will play itself out over time. In the best of three or even best of five series, Adelaide should be the second Test of the summer. That way, there is no chance that it will be a dead rubber as we saw this year. An early December time slot is also ideal as it moves it away from any other major events. 60% of general admission ticket sales last year were from people from interstate. Eventually this novelty factor will fade away and this number will decrease slightly, so it has to be appealing for locals as well. That is a small concern at this stage.
Cricket Australia's James Sutherland and SACA's Keith Bradshaw have both said in recent days that an Ashes day-night Test is their preference for 2017. Bradshaw thinks that the Adelaide Oval will sell out for four days if that was the case. There is the argument that the game would sell out even if it was a regular Test match, but given the success of the first two day-night encounters, surely an Ashes one has to be trialled at least.
Twenty20 cricket is a gimmicky product and one that to me has a limited life span. Day-night Test cricket does not have that feel as the true fundamental rules and ideas of the game are still in place. It is simply being played in a different time slot, with different breaks in play and an increase in tactics and ideas for teams to think about. It is simple as that really.
Day-night Test cricket looks to be a part of the future rather than the future. It should never be played instead of regular Test cricket, but should be used as a complimentary product to enhance the game of Test cricket. Television networks like it, fans like it and it even seems players are beginning to get on board, with stand-in South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis giving the concept his stamp of approval following the conclusion of the third Test. This is important as several players had raised doubts, even after the initial Test last year as to whether the concept should be pursued. With a bit more time, some more tinkering and the right scheduling, there is no reason why the idea of day-night Test cricket cannot enhance cricket around the world. Watch this space.


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When you agreed to head up a committee for your favorite charity, you probably commended yourself for "stepping up". The finances were in a shambles, the outreach programs were comatose, committee membership had dwindled down to 5… and you volunteered to serve. Now that's stepping up!
But very quickly, some of the realities of nonprofit leadership have started to set in. Things aren't getting "fixed" as fast as you'd planned. Everything is taking more time and energy than you ever imaged and you are starting to wonder whether, rather than stepping up, you have slipped up in getting involved at all. Why are you doing this, anyway?
Oh sure, it's important to provide more shelters for abandoned pets and abused children. Of course we have to keep pushing for the cure for cancer. But wouldn't be easier to just give money?
Well, easier, maybe. But you would be missing out on some important rewards for yourself. Obviously, volunteering is a great way to network, increase your professional exposure and fatten up your resume. But your personal investment in volunteer leadership also offers two less obvious yet powerful returns: talent development and value fulfillment.
We each have things we know how to do well, talents that we don't get to use in our day jobs. I may have strong skills in event planning, graphic design or promotion but my current career in insurance underwriting just doesn't let me use them. And like some many other things, if we don't use our skills we lose our skills. Stepping up for leadership in areas that need these abilities helps me to keep them alive, develop them and possibly strengthen them enough to consider a career change at some point down the road.
Along the same line, some of my most treasured values simply may not get much play in my day-to-day work. I may really enjoy opportunities for individual achievement, total responsibility for a project, yet find myself working in a huge matrix team setting. Conversely, I may treasure collegiality, close relationships developed as a result of joint work activity. Yet I may find myself traveling solo as an independent consultant. Through volunteer leadership, I can step up for assignments that fulfill values not sustained in my every day work, thus balancing my sense of well-being and making my every day work more palatable.
So, why step up? Step up to feel good using your talents and fulfilling your values as well as serving your community. Then, even when the agency printer chews up your newsletter and a typhoon blows through the day of your walkathon, you'll hang in. And you'll know why.


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My non-biased verdict of winners:
For the best smartphone category, the rankings should be:
1. Nokia Lumia 920
2. Samsung Galaxy Note 2
3. Apple iPhone 5
4. Samsung Galaxy S III
5. HTC Droid DNA
For the best tablet:
1. Apple iPad with retina display
2. Apple iPad Mini
3. Asus Transformer Infinity
4. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
5. Google Nexus 7
Lumia 920. Please remember that its a fight of smartphones and not OS. Nokia wins it hands down.
I phone doesn't even stand a chance it's nowhere close not doesn't even make in the top 10 winners would be Samsung s3 or HTC butterfly and ya by the way people who own apple get a life
AnonD-1082, 04 Feb 2013The Lumia 920 will surely win this by a blow-out. It's just way better on everything compared ... moreLol fake story.. I find nothing much impressive on lumia 920.. You are just a fan boy.. Comparing it with note 2?? that's a lol.. It can't be compared even with iPhone 5..
what does smartphone mean if not features rich and good specs? the phone with best specs and best apps/features should win. if not for the apps/features, specs they wouldn't be smartphones nokia in my opinion low specs, not many apps/features, iphone decent specs, overpriced, lots of apps but poor features, note 2 best specs very rich in features and apps. ladyes and gentleman you have your winner. It is clearly the best and i don't even own a s3 or a note 2. you have to be closed minded to not see this. it's funny how some people think nokia actually has a chance, this also goes for iphone. the people that will judge this are not where they are because they are sheep minded zombies. they understands the concept of a smartphone and you will see it's gonna be s3 or note 2 or at least htc.
s3 will win.
2013 Winner will be New Upcoming samsung galaxy S4. For year 2012, the winner was Samsung galaxy s3.
AnonD-27765, 04 Feb 2013How do they determine the winner? By user votes? The iPhone 5 will sure win this if so. It is fact that there is more Android fans on websites (not so much in real life using the phones) but the fandroid warriors will be strong and I expect all androids to win.
MC: and the winner for the crappiest phone goes to *drumroll* Iphone5. Congratulations
Tim Cook: You , bought this, are such a loser
-apple hater here p.s. :)
AnonD-80553, 04 Feb 2013And S3 offered nothing new over the Optimus 4X or One X. Just a much more dimly lit pentile di... more well lets see, htc one X did not have removable battery, no microSD slot and only had 1 option of 32gb internal memory...optimus 4X on the other hand had only 1 option of 16gb of internal memory and the sd card is limited to 64gb only....
Now S3 had all these options, romavable battery, microSD slot up to 64gb, optional internal memory of 16,32 or 64gb. S3 also had a better camera and battery life compared to HTC ONE X, i havnt really check with optimus 4X.
NOw in the features side, htc or LG brought nothing new, where as S3 brought in features such as smart stay, pop up play, s-voice, call blocker etc.
In short, S3 had all the basic needs people want?
Wp can not win without the hoards of features. I have a wp but it is far far behind Android and iPhone in terms of features
They can not build lightweight fine thin wp, it has the old specifications and are not HD
I just dont care which device is the winner, NOTE2 has already won my heart.
This is how it works for iPhone5, Lumia, Moto or any other brand,it actually reminds me about an ad between AUDI,BMW and Subaru. Check the link below to know
I guess NOTE2 users feel the same way.
One of the biggest contender is Sony xperia Z
it gives best camera, fantastic built quality quad core processor and latest design as wel as fantastic user interface with the best screen and the famous bravia engine.


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It may not be the experience of many. But I have felt the difficulty of feeding a child, especially feeding breakfast. It is like moving a mountain to many of the parents. We have to make the children eat properly in order to keep them healthy.
Eating breakfast is an hectic task for a child and for the feeding parent. I have seen many parents struggling with their children in feeding them meals. To my knowledge making them eat breakfast has been the most difficult one.
It is estimated that nearly 40 percent of children do not eat proper breakfast in the morning. Parents need not despair for this attitude. If you take some effort in the beginning and make it a regular routine, children will learn to eat properly. Here are some tips to give your child a quick and healthy start in eating.
Importance of eating breakfast
Children should not miss their breakfast. Studies say that children who eat breakfast are better learners and a healthy breakfast promotes their attention and keeps them focused in their studies. A healthy breakfast provides a good start to metabolism, reduces a number of health problems and limits the urge for going for snacks.
Easy tips to make your child eat breakfast
1) Be prepared with a breakfast menu. Prepare a list of items containing protein and carbohydrate foods. Protein keeps the child satisfied and carbohydrate gives the needed energy. Involve the child also in preparing the list, even while you shop things. Pair one of each and have them ready to give the child. This can avoid your last minute tension.
2) In addition to the simple-to-prepare items, you can have also a supply of healthy grab-go which children like much. This can make it easy in the hectic mornings.
3) Breakfast foods, suggested by the child, can be prepared on the previous night itself. Convince them to avoid junk food items.
4) If the child does not feel like eating in the morning, make him drink a glass of milk or an instant drink with some fruit.
5) Early waking up and doing engaging children in some morning activities which they like may help their stomachs prepared for eating something. Encourage them with some game like points and make them eat in a good mood. Losing temper on both sides will not help them eat.
6) Highly sugared foods will spoil their health and eating habits. Lightly sweetened cereals or cent percent whole grains can be encouraged. More fresh fruits will provide sweetness and nutrition.
7) Some children may not like lactose drinks. Lactose -intolerant children may be substituted with soy milk or cow milk.
Eating healthy breakfast is very important for maintaining healthy weight and overall health maintenance. Make children enjoy a good breakfast and begin a healthy day.
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This past Thursday (Aug. 28) was R's birthday, his first as a father. Since he had to work, we just had a nice celebration at home. It also marked 1 year since Eli entered the orphanage in Kolomna. We hate that he had to spend 8 months there before we were able to bring him home. We are so thankful to God that he is no longer there, and that he is safely home with us.
We have been home for 4 months now (as of Aug. 22), and he continues to adjust. Some of my favorite moments are when he laughs (he has an amazing laugh) and when he puts his head on my chest for a snuggle. He'll only do that for a few seconds at a time, but he is initiating it, and that is so huge. We love our precious boy so much!
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His influence was still on display Saturday, thanks to one of his Penn State University colleagues in the opening round of the 27th edition of the tournament at Beaver Creek Country Club.
Jim Markovitz, a 22-year-old from Pittsburgh, fired a 4-under-par 68 to take the first round on a day in which five players shot subpar rounds.
Alex Hoffman, from Middletown, Md. who will be a freshman at the University of Memphis beginning Aug. 24 and Chris Baloga, of Towson, Md., were one shot behind at 69. Chuck Thatcher, of Boonsboro, was 2-under with a 70, followed by Bill Calhoun at 1-under 71.
"I talked to (Bricker) Friday night after a practice round here and got some tips," said Markovitz, who highlighted his round with an eagle-3 on the par-5 15th hole. He also had four birdies as he capped his round with a back-nine 33.


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In my early to mid-30's I dated dirt-bag boy. I could think of another "d"-bag to call him but I'm being nice. He was a year younger than I was and just a crab-ass, old fart. Very negative attitude about people in general. "Everyone's only out for themselves, "why be nice to anyone, they just want to screw you over", "people are ass-holes, deal with it", "no one ever does anything nice for anyone unless they have an angle in it to serve themselves". You get the picture, bitch, bitch, bitch, negative, negative, negative. Hindsight is always best and all I can think of is that I just must not have liked myself very much at that point in my life.
One Sunday night in January circa '95 I had $52 . I had to go to the grocery store. I didn't work again until Tuesday night so I needed enough food for the kids and I for Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday. I also had to pay Samantha's $25 fee for Daisy Girl Scouts on Monday. Dirt-bag boy was over and so came with the kids and I to the grocery store. Half way through the grocery store I realized that I was going to have to spend all $52 dollars to get what was needed. When I got home I'd call Rob and see if he could spot me the $25 for the Daisys or I'd have to put that off another week. We got to the register and it was totaled up and I think it actually came to a little more than $52 dollars so as I was reaching for my wallet I was also scanning everything to see what could be put back. Dirt-bag boy never had any money, he wouldn't have been able to lend me a cent that I had gone over. Very quickly I had to quit looking at the food to put my full attention into finding my wallet because it just wasn't making an appearance. Emptied my purse, checked my pockets, ran back to the car, looked in the snow….nothing, no wallet, no $52 dollars.
If you've read my story on meeting Erwin Hensch and my visible reaction to that maybe you will understand that I had a very visible reaction to my wallet being gone as well. No wallet means no food, not an option…I have children! The manager took me up to the office and asked me questions such as "did you leave your purse in the cart and then leave the cart at any time?" Well yes I did and yes I did but it would have only been for 20 seconds and no one was around. Well that was the end of it for him. My wallet was stolen, nothing could be done. Really? In 20 seconds when no one else is around? It was gone, that was a sure thing but I wasn't convinced it was stolen. However, the manager was positive it was so that was that and I was pretty much dismissed. Right, and of course dirt-bag boy is there doing the whole "see? I told ya, people are ass-holes, they only care about themselves, you'll never see that again and this should teach you…blah, blah, blah" . Too stunned to listen, tuned him out. Was already trying to come up w/a way to maybe get a babysitter for Monday and seeing if I could pick up a shift….borrow from Rob…the kids have got to eat….
We are now leaving the grocery store. I'm still lost in my head trying to come up with an alternative and the cashier stopped me and said "hey, take your groceries". Tears came to my eyes as I informed her that I couldn't, I hadn't paid for them. She told me not to worry, it's taken care of, just take them. What? What? I don't get it. "It's taken care of" she repeated "these are your groceries".
Driving home I was still lost in my head trying to figure out everything that had just happened. Dirt-bag boy was still blah, blah, blahing and I was still just tuning him out. The only thing I could think of was that the store manager felt sorry for me and wrote it off. What didn't make sense in that scenario was that the guy just wasn't very nice or personable. So anyway, I didn't get what happened or why so I drove home. Once home, the kids and I were putting the groceries away when the security buzzer for our apartment buzzed. I pressed the intercom and asked who was there, they asked me if I was Jacqueline Austin. That's never good because no one calls me Jacqueline except my parents and that's only occasionally. This is me having hung out w/dirt-bag boy for too long. I hadn't done anything illegal, although I probably didn't have car insurance, anyway I looked out the window to see if it was a squad car. Okay, no squad car, yep, I'm me…"we found your wallet" was all I heard before I was flying down 32 stairs to open the door myself instead of buzzing them in. What stood before me when I whipped that door open was a couple my parents age. I hugged them so tightly and then did that again and let them know that I would have loved to have given them a reward but that I had to pay the grocery store explaining that they had given me my groceries since they thought my wallet was stolen. I love them! Apparently they had picked it out of the snow between the parking lot and the store. I got their names but of course these many years later I don't remember. I can still see their faces, that's more important to me :o)
I walked back up the 32 stairs and called the grocery store to let them know that my wallet hadn't been stolen and that I can come back and pay for my groceries. Of course dirt-bag boy is having convulsions. Why in hell would I do that when I could have my groceries and my $52 dollars? Well, dirt-bag, apparently your parents didn't raise you correctly. My parent's raised me to do the right thing. I called the grocery store and they asked me what I was talking about. I reminded them that I was the one who lost my wallet, the one w/the 3 kids in tow and couldn't pay for my groceries and they had sent me home with the groceries anyway. They put someone else on the phone and I repeated my story and that person informed me that they hadn't picked up the tab, an anonymous shopper had paid for them. Wait, what? Tell me that again….
Apparently when I have a visible reaction to something, it's VERY visible. Somebody at the store had caught on to what I was going through and paid for my groceries. Dirt-bag boy's jaw dropped and I sent him home for the evening.
This is still amazing to me and this is what makes me still believe in people. Poor single mom w/3 kids and 2 random acts of kindness in one night. I probably went to bed that night with a smile AND a smirk on my face. People are amazing and take that dirt-bag.


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A DEVICE designed by Scottish students to measure the amount of time people spend on their phones in pubs has won a design award in China.
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Their device, called the Sociometer, has the look of a seismograph and records the bandwidth data being used by phones on graph paper.
Tiernan Haugh, Jamie Spratt and Campbell Scanlan, are currently studying at the university's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD). They were inspired by the 120-year-old Speedwell Bar to capture this social phenomenon.
Haugh, a digital-interaction design student, said: "People talk about how younger generations are becoming more content spending time on their phones than indulging in conversation, so we wanted to design something to measure that."


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The verdict is in. Rep. Charles Rangel has been found guilty of 11 counts of House ethics violations. Much more than corruption charges, Congressman Rangel has been building an unsavory resume for decades.
- Admirer of Fidel Castro and Communist Cuba
- Commonly levies baseless charges of racism for political advantage
- Helped to author the largest tax increase in American history
There's really so much to Mr. Rangel…
Born in Harlem, New York in June 1930, Charles Rangel is a Democratic congressman who represents the 15th Congressional District of New York, located in upper Manhattan. He has served in the House of Representatives since 1971.
Rangel, who is black, has a long history of levying charges of racism against his political and ideological adversaries. For example, when the Republican-led Congress pushed for tax relief in 1994, Rangel denounced the plan as a form of modern-day racism. "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore," he raged. "[Instead,] they say, 'Let's cut taxes.'"
Similarly, when Republicans sought to reform a bloated and abused welfare system through budget cuts, Rangel remonstrated that the planned reforms were beneath even the standards of Nazi Germany: "Hitler wasn't even talking about doing these things," he insisted.
Racism is likewise Rangel's chosen explanation for the disproportionate number of blacks arrested for breaking drug laws, which he has condemned as "racist."
In 2001, while campaigning for Democratic mayoral candidate Fernando Ferrer in New York, Rangel suggested that racism would be to blame were the Hispanic Ferrer to lose to his white rivals in the party primary. Speaking before a Democratic audience, Rangel asked, "How do you feel our hurt when you go to apply for a job and you see three whites there and you know before the interview that you're not going to get it?"
When President George W. Bush announced a plan to partially privatize Social Security, Rangel charged that Republicans were seeking to shortchange "African American workers" by providing them with reduced benefits "based on their race."
Following the much-criticized federal response to Hurricane Katrina, a powerful storm that ravaged the Gulf coast in August 2005, Rangel attributed the delayed response to anti-black sentiment within the federal government: "If you're black in this country, and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience — it's a death sentence."


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Just an ordinary delivery boy…from 1934!
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A woman who was knocked down by a hit-and-run vehicle on the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos on Saturday, January 27, 2018 has not been identified by any of her relatives.
The victim, who has been receiving treatment at the Lagos State Accident and Emergency Centre at the Old Toll Gate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, was said to have been rescued by officials of the Lagos State Ambulance Service at about 1pm at the Adeniji end of the bridge.A source in the hospital told PUNCH Metro that the victim, who had remained unconscious since she was brought to the centre, had not been identified.
The source noted that her relatives might not know her whereabouts and might have been looking for her.When our correspondent entered the medical centre, the woman, who appeared to be in her mid-20s, had bruises all over her body, including her scalp.She also had a ring on her ring finger, which suggested that she was either engaged or married.
PUNCH Metro observed that the victim screamed occasionally, as she writhed in pain on the hospital bed.
The source noted that the victim was trying to cross from one side of the bridge to the other when she was hit.
"She has been unconscious and she has not been able to talk. So, till now we don't know her name, age or have any information that we can use to trace her relatives because nothing was found on her," she said.
When asked what the complications could be, the source said even though her medical history was unknown, brain injuries could not be ruled out.
"We have yet to ascertain what is happening, but with the bruises on her scalp, she could have suffered some brain injuries, and the pain centre is located in the brain.
"We hope the relatives would show up because she doesn't look like a destitute; she looks normal," she added.
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I want to be wiped clean like a an old computer being prepped for recommission.
I haven't thought this through entirely so inconveniences like no longer having my children, or all the other benefits of my life are not burdening my desire to start over right now.
Right now, in the moment, I think, Hell Yes! Sign me up for the soft reboot. Turn me back to factory settings and upload the glitch-free software everyone is raving about.
No more history of sexual abuse, alcoholic mother, aloof and absent father, no more mediocrity, and settling, and seeing the bright side or the silver lining.
No more marrying the wrong guy; not knowing my own heart. No getting pregnant again too soon; pretending other plans had not started to take root.
No more keeping my mouth shut when people are rude and uncaring or just plain stupid.
This time no shoes that pinch, bras with cables and agendas, or underwear that chafes my butthole.
No more waiting for IT to happen. No more sitting around hoping the world sees I am great, or funny, or pretty enough to be valued. No more being bored or uninspired.
I want the fancy apps with this reboot. The Unicorn 3.4 update with the creativity and powerful magic utilities that sync seamlessly with my phone and my soul.


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5152 Spliced Surprise Major
14 methods: 448 each Ashtead, Belfast, Bristol, Cassiobury, Cornwall, Glasgow, Lessness, London and Superlative and 224 each Cambridge, Lincolnshire, Pudsey, Rutland and Yorkshire, with 160 changes of method and all the work of every method for every bell.
1 Beth Sinclair
2 Michael F Schulte
3 Quilla Roth
4 Edward J Futcher
5 John S Danaher
6 Donald F Morrison
7 Timothy J Barnes (C)
8 Maurice W Southworth
Most methods: 2, 5.
Most major methods: 3.
Most major methods by a North American band.
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WWSET have teamed up with the Karima Foundation, to provide aerobic and circuit sessions for ladies.
Due to religious customs and beliefs, many Asian women and girls are unable to access local opportunities, and with such a huge demand WWSET were only happy to help.
Sessions will be a mixture of Aerobic and Circuit based activities, targeted at getting anyone of any age and ability, up and active! Swapping between circuits and aerobics the women are always kept entertained and are working different areas of the body.
Sessions take place in term time every Thursday at Castlefield Community centre.
There is an optional weight and measurements element at the start so ladies can keep track if that is their motivation.


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Dr. David Rolls
Dr. David Rolls graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1995 on a scholarship from the RAAF. After working as a junior doctor at Frankston Hospital for 2 years he spent 4 years in the RAAF as a medical officer and was posted to Canberra and then Sydney. In 2000 he was deployed to East Timor for 4 months as part to the United Nations mission (UNTAET). After discharging from the RAAF David returned to live and work on the Mornington Peninsula. He maintains a strong interest in sports medicine especially motor sport medicine, and is involved in both national and international level motor sport events at various racetracks in Victoria as a trackside doctor. He is a licensed Chief Medical Officer with the FIM and was Deputy CMO at the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island in 2006.
Special Interests
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With the relative ease of access to birds in our populated environs, this category enjoyed a bumper number of entries. Gardens, walkways, rooftops, parks, feeder trays and even signposts were fair game for our enterprising entrants in this competition category in an attempt to grab a pic to match the topic. The competitive spirit was fierce and it was a group of well constructed, sharply focused images that made the final group for this category.
I screened this group of images based on how closely they visually related to the topic, and how our photographers brought this interaction to their image. Unfortunately, many of the images put forward were ambiguous to the topic, and whilst very good images, they did not tie strongly enough to the topic. There were, however, some clever and also poignant compositions; ones that gave me a laugh and others a disappointing shake of the head because of what the image captured.
This image has, to my mind absolutely nailed the brief, and then some. Unfortunately it also brings with it some unpleasant home truths about our lack of respect for our environment. In showing us a bird in an urban environment, resting in a stormwater culvert, this image has also given us an insight into what is occurring in these drainage waterways, and the impact that humans are having on our environment and our wildlife. The soft muted colours in this image, the dried patina of mud and dirt, indicates that the detritus is not new, and the muted colours combine sensitively with the colour of the bird. But the red eye is literally the jewel in the crown. Compositionally creative, with the bird not the largest or most prominent object in the image. Congratulations on your vision.
Highly Commended: Black-shouldered Kite - Georgina Steytler (Image ID 27548)
A wonderful depiction of an "aerial" assault (sorry!). It's not the usual bird that you might expect to find sitting atop your television antenna. Particularly a bird whose habitat is more inclined to be grasslands, farmlands or other areas that harbour mobile rodents. The aggressive demeanour of the facing bird in seeing off the other is just wonderful, especially the bird's red eye and fully outstretched wings. I'll not see these in my cityscape but I'm very keen to see them in yours! Great shot.
Highly Commended: Jacky Winter - Tim Van Leeuwin (Image ID 27591)
A poignant reminder that our wildlife is also suffering from a lack of readily available water. In particular the little bush birds, who are easy prey down by the larger rivers where they have to run the gauntlet in raptor territory. Sitting here in "suburbia", you get the sense that he is waiting and hoping for a dribble of water. I personally am usually partial to strong colour in my images, but I really like this subdued colour palette. It's smooth, and it transitions around the image very tastefully in grey and tan. The sharp focus of all the elements are in stark contrast to the non-distracting background, which delivers laser focus 100% on the bird and tap.
Commended: Satin Bowerbird - Glenn Pure (Image ID 27485)
A judicious crop, with no loss of resolution and crispness/sharpness in the feathers. The blue eye is a strong draw, and with the lolly wrapper and yellow feather in its beak it's obvious that the city refuse is a ready source of pretty collectables for its bower. Nice job cropping and leading the image in from one side whilst the subject diminishes in size past the centre.
Commended: Olive-backed Sunbird - Simon Foale (Image ID 27637)
Nicely caught in the act of opportunistically harvesting nesting material from a backyard clothesline. We know how fast Sunbirds are and how they just won't stay still. The creamy green background tones show off the white strands of nylon rope nicely. And the upside down attitude adds delightfully to the "you've been sprung" demeanour. The wispy threads of stolen rope clearly show that our birds are using anything they can get their beaks on to use for nest building, and these city birds are adapting to what materials are at hand.
Commended: Gang-gang Cockatoo - Athena Georgiou (Image ID 27475)
A chance opportunity caught perfectly, and this is another image that lends itself to a range of different captions. The matching red of subject and sign is wonderful and this image obviously also meets the brief brilliantly.
With so many really good images to judge this time, and I was enjoying them so much, I've taken a little liberty and included something a bit different in the judging of this category, just this once. I have added a special award for this competition only, entitled the Spectacular Gallery Award, for a set of three images that I found very engaging for a variety of reasons, all from the same photographer. This photographer may or may not have immediately realized what was captured when taking these images, nor how much depth of feeling and engagement his images have; but to me they showed an ability and sensitivity from the image maker in how an image can often tell a story. Goodness knows we spend enough time waiting for our birds to come out to play, that we have the time to dream up a "What might happen next?" scenario. Create the pantomine image in your mind and sometimes it can come to pass. Sometimes the story is completely told in the image, sometimes it's an artistic account of a scene and sometimes it's a whimsical unfolding tale, yet to be determined. The Spectacular Gallery Award goes to Gary Dunnett, for these images:
The first of these images (Image ID 27655) made me laugh, and I enjoyed thinking of numerous captions that could be ascribed to it. The second image (Image ID 27653) I found breathtaking in its design and textural beauty; and the third (Image ID 27652) was a sensitive urban image that caused me to think more compassionately about a harsh bird that is widely disliked, but when placed in a softer visual context made me wonder if we are not overly tough on this creature and the purpose it serves. Drum roll, please!
If we are creating images that make others think, then we have achieved the highest accolade an artist can hope for. Well done, Gary.


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Central & North London Group, Tuesday, 20th Nov, 7-9 pm - ENERGETIC BOUNDARIES
Dear Therapists,
It is that time of year when we can look forward to cosy evenings. Do come and spent one of those evening with us on our next meeting.
DATE: Tuesday, 20th November 2012
TIME: 7 – 9 pm
VENUE: Lecture Room
Little Venice Sports Centre
10 Crompton Street
London W2 1ND
Tel: 020 7641 5111
(nearest tube station: Edgware Road
Buses: 6, 16, 98, 332, 414 – Orchardson Street Stop)
TOPIC: Energetic Boundaries
SPEAKER: Carolan Evans
How do we set them?
Do we need them?
What works for you?
Do some clients leave you feeling drained?
Do they leave feeling fabulous whilst you have a headache?
An interactive and practical session including some movement.
Bring questions and an open spirit of enquiry and exchange.
CAROLAN EVANS has tried and tested many form of hands-on bodywork, vibrational healing and shamanic practice in the past 30 years. Her work with indigenous healers in the Andes brought the concept of AYNI (reciprocity) and it is in the spirit of ayni that this evening is offered.
(PLEASE NOTE: There is a small contribution of £3 to cover the costs of room hire and refreshments)
Please RSVP by text, e-mail, or posting on this forum
With warmest regards,
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|Masako Asaga
Oct 25 2012 7:52PM
|I would like to attend the meeting on 20th Nov at Little Venice.
I really enjoyed last one.
Name : Masako Asaga - therapist of reflexology, aromatherapy, deep tissue, Indian head massage,
Swedish massage, Natural face lift massage
Regards & Thanks
M Asaga
|Suan-Lee Clynick
Oct 26 2012 9:34AM
|Hi Masako,
I hope you will enjoy the 20th Nov meeting as well. Thank you for letting me know you are attending.
Kind regards, Suan


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For the electronics design engineer, choosing the right T&M kit for the application or stage of product development is crucial.
With the myriad of options in the marketplace vying for the engineer's attention, plus the associated cost of buying the equipment, is time consuming and expensive. In addition, there's the restriction of limited access to 'touch and feel' the latest instruments and assess their suitability for the task. All in all this makes buying test and measurement equipment a considered purchase.
This free half-day seminar and workshop, created by the Electronics World team, will focus on the latest developments in the world of electronic test and measurement.
In addition to informing and educating, there will be live demonstrations of the latest instruments, plus a forum-style Q&A session and expert analysis, as well as hands-on tutorials.
Themes covered will include:
- LTE Testing
- Best practice
- Oscilloscopes
- Communications
- Signal generation
- Ask the expert advice
- Design considerations
- From Design to prototype
- RF and microwave test systems
- High speed real-time power measurement
- Waveforms measurement analogue and digital
Register for this free half-day seminar, and also guarantee priority access to the post event presentations.
We will be updating the agenda regularly, so please keep checking back for further updates.
Presentation: I need to measure power or efficiency. What should I use? An Oscilloscope, a Power Analyser or a Precision Power Scope?
Speaker: Clive Davis, BSc, MBA, Yokogawa
Many types of instrument can be used to measure power. This master class will help you to understand their differences and to identify the most suitable solution for your application or stage in development or testing.
Yokogawa has been developing measurement solutions for nearly 100 years, consistently finding new ways to give R&D teams the tools they need to gain the best insights from their measurement strategies. The company has pioneered accurate power measurement throughout its history, and is the market leader in digital power analysers.
Presentation: Cell site and network evolution
Speaker: Paul Gowans, Global Marketing Manager, LTE Test Solutions, JDSU
Wireless coverage and capacity with the need to access mobile apps from anywhere continues to drive the market. The traditional copper based macro cell site is evolving embracing the need to meet the ever increasing demands of the hungry handsets (and hungry watches!). Networks are now formed from a variety of Radio Access Networks (RANs): HetNets, DAS, Small Cells, WiFi and Macro. Fiber is becoming the dominant technology both in the Backhaul and now the Fronthaul countering some of the issues relating to Coaxial cables.
At the same time, LTE continues to expand with LTE Advanced (Carrier Aggregation), MIMO, LTE Broadcast (eMBMS) and now VoLTE.
So, what's needed to ensure the Contractors, Installers, NEMs and Operators have the tools and products to meet these ever growing turn-up and management demands to ensure a high QoE ? This cannot be left to chance and solutions must evolve to meet these needs.
Presentation: HD4096 Oscilloscope Technology
Speaker: Tony Minchell, Applications Engineer, Teledyne LeCroy
Presentation: Getting more from your capital equipment budgets
Using Cost of Ownership Analysis to identify your optimum acquisition strategy.
Speaker: Alasdair Cook, Account Manager UK, Electro Rent Europe
Professor, Dr, Dogan Ibrahim
MSc Automatic Control Engineering, University of Manchester
Technical Author
Clive Davis, BSc, MBA, Marketing Manager, Yokogawa Test and Measurement
Clive Davis studied Physics and Electronics at Brunel University. After a period as a development engineer in the field of non destructive testing, he joined the world of test and measurement in 1985 and has gained nearly 30 years of practical experience in helping engineers solve their measurement challenges. He has written numerous articles on measuring techniques and applications in the fields of power and waveform measurement.
Currently he is the Marketing Manager for Yokogawa Test and Measurement for Europe and Africa, based in the Netherlands.
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Tony Minchell, Applications Engineer, Teledyne LeCroy
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Students with Snead State Community College's Presidential Scholars program learned more about what it means to be a team as they recently participated in an annual retreat.
The group left recently for Berry College to participate in the BOLD team-building ropes. The Presidential Scholars are mentored by Snead State President Dr. Robert Exley and led by Director of Campus Engagement Brittany Goble.
"Many of the Presidential Scholars do not know each other prior to the retreat each year, but they leave the retreat understanding more of how to work with people with different personalities, different strengths and different backgrounds. They come together as a team, but what they learn are leadership skills that will stay with them the rest of their lives," said Ms. Goble.
Snead State began its Presidential Scholars program in 2009 as a leadership development opportunity for incoming students who demonstrated excellence with their academics. The Presidential Scholars represent Snead State at a variety of events, including donor recognitions and alumni functions. The students participate in two signature activities each year – the completion of the ropes course at Berry College and participation in a one credit hour seminar course (Leadership and Democracy) requiring a trip to Washington DC.
The group also completes a minimum of 20 hours of community service per student each year, but the students typically participate in 40 or more hours of community service per student. To qualify for the program, applicants must achieve a minimum 25 ACT score and a 3.75 GPA. Qualified students are selected to the program following an application and interview process.


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Goodwill and good timing
Dell displayed deft timing on its financing initiatives, underpinned in no small measure by investors with an eye for a bargain.
Dell wowed the market with a blockbuster debt financing for its US$67bn acquisition of data storage company EMC this year – but its success was never a sure thing and some doubted the banks could pull it off just weeks before it cleared.
"It's a big event for the Street," one banker told IFR when the US$49.5bn debt commitment was signed in October 2015. "The fact that banks have shown up for Dell shows that they have balance sheet."
Indeed, the prior weeks had been rocky in the capital markets and by the time Dell launched the first bit of the financing – a US$10bn pro rata loan – four months later, markets were feeling a whole lot worse.
Market volatility fanned fears about whether a company rated junk could win over investors with such a large and complex debt package that included loans, secured investment-grade bonds and a high-yield offering.
The long-term prospects for both the personal computer and data storage businesses were a concern of the buyside.
The early stages of the financing were tough. A commitment deadline on the US$10bn loan was pushed back in February due to a slow order book in turbulent markets.
More strife in the high-yield market in March as computer storage company Western Digital hit roadblocks on its junk bond offering in March also unnerved the underwriters: Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets.
Western had to price its Double B bonds 500bp more than similarly rated debt, encountering difficulties even though the high-yield market had been on the rebound – and Dell's financing was on a much vaster scale.
But come May, things were looking a bit brighter and the linchpin to the whole financing – a blockbuster US$20bn investment-grade bond – meant bankers could breathe a sigh of relief.
The trade was structured to please – and please it did, amassing more than US$88bn of investor orders. It was also upsized from US$16bn – taking significant risk off the table for Dell and its banks.
The offering was secured by various forms of collateral: equity interest in Dell and its subsidiaries, property and inter-company notes, among other things.
That allowed the company to lock in investment-grade ratings, keep down funding costs and strengthen the appeal of what ended up as the fourth largest US dollar corporate bond ever printed. Final pricing levels were about 50bp–75bp tighter than IPTs.
Bankers said the deal lengthened Dell's maturity profile at an overall financing cost they put at just 5.50%, and with access to the high-grade market, Dell should find it easier to manage its more than US$50bn debt stack in the years ahead.
"There's no other place a company can get 30-year debt than in the investment-grade market," one banker close to the deal said. "Not in the loan market or high-yield."
Faith in veterans
The success of that deal paved the way for the investment-grade term loan and junk bond sale. The upsized high-grade bond lowered the size of the term loan, and after asset sales, Dell also had to raise less debt overall – just over US$41bn.
Banks launched the US$5bn term loan – the biggest in seven months – just days after the high-grade issue. As deal-starved investors clamoured for a piece of the debt, the banks were able to cut pricing to 325bp over Libor from 350bp–375bp and tightened the discount to 99.50 from 99.
The junk bond followed soon after – and if Dell had been hoping goodwill would help win over investors, its bet paid off.
Since its management buyout in 2013, the company had delivered on its promise to cut down debt – giving investors more faith that the company well achieve its new goal of getting back to investment-grade in the next 12–18 months.
"Dell has built goodwill with significant debt reductions," said one portfolio manager.
"It is a veteran issuer in the leveraged finance markets that has demonstrated an ability to evolve as the business environment for its products changes."
Dell sold the riskiest and lowest rated portion of the financing in June. It raised US$3.25bn through a Double B rated bond, evenly split between a five-year non-call two that priced at a yield of 5.875% and an eight-year non-call three that cleared at 7.125% – tightening pricing on both tranches by 37.5bp from price talk of 6.25% and 7.50%.
But even at those levels, the deal ended up offering a sizeable pick-up to Dell's investment-grade bonds.
The five-year ended up offering more than 200bp over the company's high-grade 2021s. An even bigger pick-up of over 230bp was offered at the longer end of the curve, where the high-grade 2023s were trading at a yield of around 4.80%.
"I think it's one of the better stories in high-yield," one junk bond investor told IFR. "Management has a lot of credibility and has done a great job in paying down debt."
Thanks to a rally in junk bonds of late, the absolute yield offered by Dell was well below what bankers and investors had anticipated a couple of months ago.
"Back in April, people were expecting the bond deal to come in the 10%–12% range," said the investor. "It indicates how much the market has healed since then."
Spreads on Double B rated bonds had compressed by 213bp since their February 11 wides when the junk bond was launched, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Master index.
Meanwhile, the strong performance in the secondary by Dell's high-grade bonds helped build momentum for the new deal.
"That was a big clearing event for the market," said another investor. "It priced with a new issue concession and performed well. It set the table for the high-yield bond."
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|12 Jun 2012
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
It may also come without a warranty.
OEM drives typically only have a 30 day exchange for replacement, after that the OEM itself is supposed to warranty the drive to the customer.
With drives and CPUs, the consumer kit may come with screws and coolers and brackets but it also generally comes with a multi year warranty to and that's /really/ what the cost difference is paying for.
Of course like most things, if you bought 10 drives with warranty you would end up paying for two complete extra drives with with VERY much less than a 20% chance of a failure. So in the end it's never worth it. But if the drive does die, your SOL, toss it and buy another.
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Also be aware that a number of people have ongoing issues with poor 4K-64 performance (including me) with this SSD
low 4K-64Thrd with AS SSD - Crucial Community
This problem has not been resolved.
If I was buying another SSD I'd be looking at alternatives even if they cost a little more.
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Thanks guy/gals for info given to me.....
So I went to order the Crucial M4 today, but before I did I checked my email and found a 24 hour deal ad from Newegg... So now this puppy is on it way ...
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128B/WW 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD):
And I got it for $89.99!!
Quick-Draw Deals: $59.99 Panasonic ES-RF41-Q Wet/Dry Shaver, $89.99 Samsung 128GB SSD:
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