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Lloyd's List Business Briefing: Oslo
Topic video - Who and what is driving the digital agenda?
"We are not an industry that necessarily relishes in being a first mover, largely because there is no first mover advantage in shipping." said Richard Meade.
Is the shipping industry too conservative to invest in new technology, or are the competitive advantages that digitalisation offers too attractive to miss? Understand the realities behind the media hype surrounding smart shipping and digitalisation with our panels of experts from the shipping industry and beyond, who offer their opinions and practical advice on the digital agenda.
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Video transcript
We have a fantastic afternoon lined up for you today. I'm very grateful that some of the biggest brains in the business have accepted our invitation to talk about opportunities and threats in the shipping industry.
We talk about modernise or sink, we talk about digitise or die, or we even say things like big data is for us like sex is for teenagers, are you thinking? So, everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so I think this is also one of the articles recently published in Lloyd's List, it's a good way to describe digitalisation in shipping.
It's interesting because we talk about digitisation in the broader sense of the term but obviously these things do not exist in isolation, the decision to invest in technology one way or another does not happen without understanding and having a view on where the markets are going, it doesn't exist without having a view on where the regulatory future of the industry lies, so these decisions are not being taken in isolation and we can't really view digitalisation as a single decision, but it does feel like we are in the midst of some fairly fundamental change, on a market level, on a technology level, and it feels like we are shifting towards something that is perhaps greater than the sum of these individual conversations and I think it's certainly something I take from each of these comments.
The thing that I find perhaps perplexing and worrying is the fact that shipping is such a conservative industry. I've accused it in the past in editorials of being an industry of laggards, regulatory laggards, technical laggards, we are not an industry that necessarily relishes in being a first mover, largely because there is no first mover advantage in shipping. Why would you invest a huge amount of money in technology or changing what you do if your competitor is not going to do the same? And that has always been an issue, it's been an issue with safety, it's been an issue with technology and that is the way that shipping works, we like a level playing field and if the markets aren't equal we will do whatever we can to make sure that we are competing at the same level.
Knut, let's come back to you, you have a good overview I think of your customers making demands of you in terms of what they ask for, they are clearly asking you to guide them on a lot of the investment, what's the feedback from the customers? Are they willing to take a risk? Are they willing to be the first movers? What is the partners' sentiment here?
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So, naturally this depends a lot on which segment you operate in because there are quite big differences depending on which segment you are in but I would say that from the conversations that I'm having with a lot of the top executives in shipping companies and yards and manufacturers is that they see a lot of potential in say the broad term of digitalisation and my impression is that these days everyone is looking for a competitive advantage and many see that moving ahead, say inside the field of digitalisation might give them a competitive advantage in an otherwise very competitive environment.
There are those that are advancing this quite a lot and there are others that would say like to hold back and wait and see as many do also when it comes to regulatory compliance but I think this is the nature of such a broad industry where you have so many different philosophies and so many different strategies, but what I really feel a lot of traction on is there is no discussion about connectivity increasing, and connectivity is say the platform, the foundation for what we are talking about. And the flipside of connectivity is naturally cyber security and these two issues are fundamental for progressing on that journey of digitalisation, and that I think everyone is well aware of and very much takes active steps towards.
Well aware of, but the word that I heard you use repeatedly earlier today was trust, and this is a question of trust, this is a question of compelling people to believe in the fact that if they do enter into this conversation they do enter into data sharing and transparency, and this cuts across everything we're talking about from Blockchain onwards, transparency and trust is the fundamental bedrock of what we're talking about, can you rely on the data? Can you trust that your data is going to be secure and you're not going to give away an advantage to your competitor? Is that possible? I mean your Veracity system I'm sure is wonderful but it is very similar to my mind to a lot of other class societies offering a similar thing, is there really that trust in the industry right now? Is there a common direction where people aren't just going to be sitting there thinking I'll wait to see which comes out as the dominant technology here?
Trust is a demanding topic. Trust is something that needs to be earned and I think trust is not given by anyone to anyone else so this is something that needs to be earned, and what we are say building up on the Veracity platform is a lot of experience with the pilots that we are running and let me use this metaphor that if you go a few centuries back in time people kept money in their mattresses, they didn't trust to keep it anywhere else. I would say that that money can be much better leveraged if you put it to work, and that is the same with data, if you are sitting on your own data. If you are sitting on your own data and not really making use of it you are not leveraging the potential of that data and that is where we have to have say trust in how we relate to the data, how we share the data and who controls the data and that is a steppingstone that we need to make. A lot of owners are too concerned about the ownership to really put the data to use and I think that is a key issue.
Ari, Blockchain, amongst other things, we're talking about trust here, we're talking about technology and data doing things that we otherwise wouldn't have been prepared to get involved in, you're a believer in this but is trust there?
Let me comment on this, I'd like to comment about the fundamental changes in the industry, but I also agree to your points. What I think is we're actually talking about two different things here and the blockchain element plays back into that. We're seeing fundamental change in the business model and a likely disruption to the concept of shipping. Take something like additive manufacturing that has the power to take out significant portions of what's being shipped. In our own industry as a RORO carrier of course we see that the automotive industry is going through a pretty massive disruption which requires us to think quite far ahead to what might happen given that the vessels that we operate will be with us for 30 / 35 years, there's quite a lot of change that could happen in this scope, and that changes the business model.
A lot of the digitalisation talk, however, is on a very local level on the vessel, it's about the connectivity, getting the data out, but when you put that in your context it feels a little bit like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, because it's a pretty significant change, which is why I'm using Blockchain as an example of something that we as an industry needs to focus on to improve our own position. I think the worry is not really that we will beat each other to death, it's rather that someone else comes in and steals our business model and all the technology, a fundamental demographic shift or something that completely screws up our game, we will in the meantime of course be competitive to each other and push profits down and make life miserable as shipping always does and we will need the cost reductions that this offers.
But I think in terms to offer the platform that the industry could do and then jointly go forward I see Blockchain as one way of creating the tapestry of trust and bringing transaction costs down, sharing benefits between all of us in the industry, it's not really about competitive advantage but we have to work together to create the strongest foundation possible given that we will be hit in the face with some serious changes and that's why I'm; I think there are different levels of discussion here.
Absolutely, and what I'm trying to get to is distinguishing between technology that simply improves efficiency on a vessel level, technology that allows fleet level efficiency and technology that allows organisational change structurally across the industry and I think that is the pallet within which we're working but, Christopher, is all this drive for efficiency really rearranging the deckchairs the Titanic?
I think that the impact is real and I think that what we are about to see, you mentioned 3D printing and robotics, you didn't mention robotics but you could easily have done that, and artificial intelligence robotic, 3D printing, we are basically about to see that manufacturing are relocating, not just to the next cheap labour economy but also close to the consumers whether that is in North America, Europe or Japan, basically to say that we are rearranging the whole container industry, where in the future we will expect to see much more regional trades and much fewer intra-regional trades and this will significantly change energy demand, demand for electricity, diesel and all the links feeding into the supply chain of driving an economy, so this is quite significant what we are looking into.
And in regions like for example western Europe, North America, Japan where we have aging consumers this is good news because then we can maintain GDP growth a little bit longer even though we have fewer hands, but there's awful news for all emerging markets where we have population growth and we basically need to create millions of jobs each month just to stabilise the unemployment weight. So, for example India this is difficult news.
Can I just offer a quick comment to that? I think the bad news is really that we have to do everything at the same time, we can't not optimise the vessels, we can't not leverage all the data that's there, we can't not look at the fleet and try and do the best thing we can in terms of getting the most juice out of the lemon, we can't not look at the supply chain as an area of information sharing and transactions that digitalisation obviously influences, but likewise I think we cannot; that does not suffice, we also have to think as an industry way further down what might come and that really is supported by that outlook, and we have a little bit of a tendency to stick the head in the ground and think that it will be the same as it's always been, and that's the question, is it really different this time? There are some indications saying that well maybe it actually is.
Thorston, from your perspective, what we're really talking about here is efficiency on the supply chain but we're talking about transparency that actually allows that to happen and as I said at the beginning, digitalisation is really a means to an end in many ways and your interest in the ends, how can I get a more efficient supply chain? How do I get transparency in terms of what it is I am dealing with? Do you think the industry is actually changing or are we just talking about it right now?
It's constantly changing, so maybe starting with the different perspective, our company is one hundred and twenty five years old and still in business and some seventy five years ago, the computer was invented and since then, we use the computer and innovation is happening and is used and that's the way it's going and the last big hype I remember was in the late nineties about supply chain management and now, twenty years later, we are one of the leading companies in supply chain management but the main vision we have been talking about there is still not realised and what I see changing now is technology, as I said, is always coming but it's not happening enough, there's sometimes a big step you are making.
When a big step is happening, it needs somehow a wake up and this wake up in the past was always done by consultant, mainly by consultant and by media. So, what is changing now is, instead of consultants and media picking up, what I see is that CB2B.com companies are hyping here and they are hyping much more and this is probably what is concerning us not so much and we have been looking into this latest development. We see in most companies and people working, not coming from the industry but seeing it's a big market so let's go in and make some big money in there and then they are investors, even more far away from our industry and believing stories and hearing stories within an hour and then decide if they invest or not.
Because this is all happening now then replicated in all medias, it's now time to back to reality and yes, we are digitalising and you said earlier, in the first panel, maybe this industry is not good in doing this, I think we are much better but we are not good at marketing and telling about it. We consider ourselves already very digital and when I see our interaction, for example, with carriers, it's nowadays by ninety five percent completely electronic.
Then, coming to block chain, that is, for me, the next level of EDI, what we do today and there is a lot of opportunities which we are focusing now on to even upgrade again and again and again to make things better.
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Yes, Blithering Bunny is back, and he's… me.
Most of you won't know what I'm talking about, but there may be a few old-timers who remember my original blog from the early-mid 2000s. Those were the days when the blogosphere was ruled by old whatshisname, and whatchamacallit, and doohickey something-or-other. (Actually, in those days the big UK political blogs were Tim Worstall and Samizdata, and they're still the kings.)
At that time Tim Newman was someone who only commented on other people's blogs, Guido didn't exist, there was such a thing as good and decent left-wing bloggers (like the sadly-departed Norm Geras), and blogs looked like they were the future, until Twitter showed up.
Ah yes, Twitter. It has become abundantly clear that Twitter is no friend of free expression, and nor are most of the other social media sites. Outsourcing our blogging energies to platforms run by our enemies was a mistake. In my opinion we need to get the blogosphere going again, and to that end I will be resurrecting one of the features I used to run at Blithering Bunny, which is a fairly regular round-up of good blog posts from the previous few days, known as the 'Pink Bits'.


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Pac-12 announces tennis players of the week
SAN FRANCISCO - OREGON junior Kevin Farin and CALIFORNIA sophomore Maegan Manasse were named the Pac-12 Men's and Women's Tennis Players of the Week for the first weeks of the 2014-15 season, the Conference office announced today.
Farin (Etterbeek, Belgium) posted two victories at the No. 1 position to lead Oregon to wins over Seattle and Loyola Marymount. He began the season by defeating Will Topp of Seattle, 6-4, 6-2, where UO swept the Redhawks, 7-0. On Jan. 18, Farin bested Charles Boyce of Loyola Marymount, 6-2, 6-2, as Oregon bested LMU, 6-1. The junior also teamed up with Jayson Amos for two doubles victories, also at the No. 1 spot. The duo is 3-0 in doubles play so far this year.
Manasse (Redondo Beach, Calif.), the fifth-ranked singles player in the nation, won both the singles and doubles titles at the Cal Winter Invitational. In singles play, she capped off her tournament with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 win over No. 32 Danielle Flores of Saint Mary's on Sunday. Manasse also beat a ranked opponent in No. 47 Sophie Watts of Fresno State, and had a win over Cal Poly's Emily Gibbens. In doubles, Manasse and teammate Denise Starr – ranked fourth nationally – posted three victories all by a score of 6-3 to win the doubles title.
Farin's honor is the second weekly accolade of his career after earning player of the week in 2014. It marks Oregon's fifth men's player of the week selection all-time. Manasse earns her first-career weekly honor, and the 25th women's player of the week selection all-time for California.
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Clint Eastwood curbs his enthusiasm over 80th birthday
Hollywoodnews.com: Go ahead, punk, wish him a Happy Birthday.
Clint Eastwood is turning 80 on Monday; however, he really doesn't want to make a big deal out of his birthday. He's just fine with a glass of wine with his wife Dina, 44. No need to bring him a cake or gifts.
"Once you get in the 70s, several things happen," Eastwood tells U.K.'s The Sun.
"One is, you stop celebrating birthdays. I've forbidden my wife. I said, 'Please, no birthday things.' I don't need to pretend to open a gift and say, 'This is just what I wanted.'
However, cable network TCM is making a big deal out of Eastwood's birthday and running nine films on Memorial Day Monday.
Film critic and Eastwood friend, Richard Schickel, remarks "He's approaching 80 but he's remained so productive. Most filmmakers are finished by that age."
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Since 1983 she's been a five-time Chief Customer Officer, has Coached 15,000 global executives on how to earn admirable growth by improving lives, she has delivered 1,500 keynotes, and has authored four international best-selling books on Customer Experience.
Webinar: What we covered
As customers, we want our lives to be improved. We want to be honored, taken care of and shown dignity and respect and therefore our customers want the same.
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- Be the person I raised you to be – Are you honoring the dignity of employees' lives so they can honor the dignity of customers' lives?
- Don't make me feed you soap – Are you getting rid of those things that are complicated that make customers' lives difficult?
- Put others before yourself – When you design or build or launch or create something, is your focus on your customers or on your business? What do you start with first?
- Take the high road – Do you establish a balanced relationship with your customers where both sides feel like they are in a united relationship? Don't hold all the cards and keep a balance.
Jeanne points out how these 4 behaviors have become the standard for most of us with regards to how we act in our lives. We strive to apply the lessons we learned as kids to the way that we behave at work. As both employees and customers, we gravitate to companies who create environments that encourage and celebrate these behaviors.
Be the person I raised you to be
As a manager or business owner one should always enable people to bring the best version of themselves to work. To help them achieve this, it's important that businesses entrust their people, develop them and enable them to take action.
This approach is absolutely critical to building a spirited and engaged employee relationship.
Before we move on to a case study ask yourself – "Would you leave your mom in the middle of a hospital hallway and forget her there?"
Jeanne points out how many of the processes that we create to be efficient for ourselves sometimes don't wire in the humanity, the dignity or the feelings of the customer who has to go through them.
"It's very important to wire care into our operating processes. As we're enabling people to do their work, enable them to be Care Givers." – Jeanne Bliss
Case Study
In 2007 Toby Cosgrove, CEO of Cleveland clinic brought all his employees together and told them – "Patients come to us for high quality care – but they don't like us very much"
So, what did they do?
- They decided to create a simple rule which was the 'No passing rule'. This meant that nobody could walk past a call light without going in. Overnight everyone's job became that of a 'Care Giver'.
- They put the title of 'Care Giver' on everybody's cards
- They identified the disconnect in how doctors cared for people and changed it so the approach is personal and connected. They did this by connecting the silos and 'rounding' or taking care of the customer, an approach that takes into consideration the entire family.
Don't make me wash your mouth with Soap!
As business we inadvertently put our customers through some inconveniences we don't necessarily realize. From waiting, lack of communication and not knowing your customer's journey with our business e.g what their last purchase was or with whom they spoke with last.
Jeanne breaks it down for us by asking "Would you ask your mom to keep re-introducing herself to you?"
Around the world, many businesses require customers to remember who they spoke with last and what they purchased, which tends to create value erosion as customers aren't known and honored for who we are.
Case Study
Stitch Fix is a company that is (as Jeanne puts it) a Netflix for clothes. You give your info and preferences and a few weeks later they send you a curated box of clothes. Their approach involves getting to know you first and then curating clothes to support your life.
The folks at 'Stitch Fix' have built a 'You know me engine'.
Here's how it works:
- Ask and learn from customers
- They ask you to send over your Pinterest pins
- They use AI by looking at other people with similar likes and preferences and curate items that you would gravitate towards
- Adding humanity to the mix. They have stylists who listen and have conversations with their customers.
While other clothing businesses were losing money, Stich Fix saw unprecedented growth.
Put Others Before yourself
This particular characteristic is about honoring how you've built what you've built from your customer's point of view. You need to remember to start with customer goals in order to achieve your own.
Once again, ask yourself – "Would you turn down your mother's warranty claim only 3 days out of warranty?"
What would prevent this from happening is understanding the moments in your customer's life when they're going to need you a little a bit.
Jeanne tells us that enabling our front line and people with the knowledge of how and when to make exceptions is key. It's about proactively developing things and gestures your people can do to help customers in difficult situations.
Case Study
Alaska Airlines developed a "We trust you toolkit" for all their employees. They have identified the few things that may happen to someone while flying and identified these vulnerable moments people may find themselves in.
Every single person from the Baggage handler to the people on the phone to the people working at the check-in desk all have access to a mobile app with a series of options that they choose to take for their customers based on the situation.
Alaska Airlines' CEO encourages ALL employees to act and help the customer without asking for permission. It's all about acting in that moment, taking a decision, and empowering your employees to be able to help customers.
Alaska Airlines encourages their employees to connect with customers and act, by stepping up and delivering value.
Alaska Airlines has been identified by many as the #1 domestic airline.
Take the High Road
The companies that grow and earn the most admiration do so because their leaders create industry practices that end up defining their industries.
Case Study
Lemonade Insurance is a disrupter in the insurance industry. They did a few things to build a foundation of trust.
- They charge a transparent 20% fee.
- They pay majority of their claims in 5 minutes.
- They ask you of causes close to you and give any money left over to these causes.
Lemonade's model is built on trust. If you're honorable and trust Lemonade, they will trust you and trust you're putting in the right claim. They don't have any forms to fill out, instead they have a mobile app: you look into the camera and do an honesty pledge.
This honesty helps deliver back to the organization as trust given is trust received. Lemonade trusts the claim you've put in is correct and pays anything that may be left over to a cause that's close to you.
In closing, Jeanne pointed out that our responsibility is simple: it is to improve lives. She went on to list four questions we should all ask ourselves moving forward
- Are you developing your people and enabling your people to be the best they can be?
- When you're re-thinking and building how your customer navigates your business, are you making it as easy as you can?
- Are you making this process the easiest you can? Is your focus your customer's goals or your own business goals?
- Do you take the high road in your policies and fine print? Do a trust audit across your organization to do the right thing for your customers and your employees.
So as you're doing all of this and building your business, one thing that will help steer your decisions and actions is the question: Would you do that to your mother?


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For management groups that are looking to elevate their Agile practice to a higher level and adopt the behaviors of true Agile organization. Many development teams already practice Agile in different shapes, but not many elevate it to become a true nimble organization. In this workshop we will focus on how to adopt Agile Leadership principlesLearn More
For your program and project managers, an effective and concrete workshop focuses on how to make wins in projects using Agile project management principles. The focus will be the difference between Agile development and Agile project management. What does Agile project management mean, what are the benefits and wins, and how to practice itLearn More
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An end/beginning of year management workshop that invites management team members to pause for a short while, process their highs and lows of last year, and form team resolutions for the coming year. This is a very well known Agile meeting that encourages continuous improvement, and a great chance for management teams to experience it as well.Learn More


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Grand Opening Of LIFEhouse and Redeemed
Thursday July 11, 2019 was a historic moment in our ministry. It was a moment long awaited; as we were finally able to celebrate the Grand Opening of LIFEhouse and Redeemed at our new location! I can't even begin to describe how proud we are to have the honor and privilege to serve families in and around Tift County. We hope you will join us as we celebrate a tremendous milestone and continue to build this ministry of serving others with our endeavor to help families build strong , healthy & happy lives and families!


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"I am the man responsible for who I am. When I look in the mirror each day, I stare my creator in the eyes. I am responsible for what I have and will become, I am accountable for what I will or will not accomplish. I believe in myself, I bow to no man and my only critic of any consequence has walked every mile of this journey in my size thirteens. " - G. Diesel
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Lake Stevens Library - Directions & Bus Routes
Driving DirectionsI-5 Northbound or Southbound:
- Take the Highway 2 exit towards Monroe and Wenatchee (exit 194).
- Take Highway 2 until the Highway 204 exit, the left exit at the end of the trestle, towards Lake Stevens.
- Follow Highway 204 up the hill to the intersection with Highway 9, the third traffic light. Turn left onto Highway 9.
- Take the first right (the next light) onto Lundeen Parkway.
- Follow Lundeen Parkway straight through two roundabouts.
- After the second roundabout the road becomes Lake View Drive and then 20th St NE and goes through residential areas.
- Follow 20th St NE until the intersection with Main Street (the second 4-way stop). Turn right.
- The library is about 2 blocks down on the right, across from Jay's Market.
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About This Episode
Forgiving others is always hard to do when you are still feeling hurt. It takes courage to decide to forgive someone. Forgiving someone shows strength of character, not weakness. Tune in for insights on how to make decisions when judgements may be clouded by anger.


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Prayers Service and Valentine Talk Show
February 15, 2019 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
1 John 4:16
Love comes in many languages but the most beautiful of all is God's love. On this lovely day, let's celebrate God's love with our beloved ones. We cordially invite parents of Secondary and High School students to attend this talk show that will be held right after prayers service for National Exam


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Are These 5 Myths about Emotions Holding You Back?
We are emotional beings. As complex patterns of internal reactions to external stimuli, emotions are what helped the human species survive. Emotions direct our actions and determine our well-being and health.
Whether we are aware of our emotions or not, whether we talk about emotions or not, and whether we recognize their vital importance or not, emotions are an integral part of our lives and have a powerful effect on us. What kind of effect? That all depends on how we manage any given emotion.
False assumptions and lack of skills to regulate emotions often get in the way of effectively dealing with them. Although inter-related, challenging false assumptions is a crucial first step of emotion regulation training. Here are five common myths about emotions (derived from Dialectical Behavior Therapy) you'll want to challenge:
Myth #1: There is a right way to feel in every situation
If anything is certain, it's that there's always more than one way to view a situation. Everyone experiences life with a different frame of reference, which results in different emotions and reactions. Thinking in terms of right or wrong (e.g. "I shouldn't be feeling sad now") can increase the intensity of the emotion at hand, or set off other emotions too, such as shame and guilt. Hence, what's important is not what the emotion we experience is, but how we respond to the way we feel.
Myth #2: There are good and bad emotions
Emotions are not good or bad, right or wrong. They just are. We need emotions for survival. Rather than getting rid of unwanted emotions, what we need to do is to learn how to regulate them.
Judging emotions as "bad" makes painful emotions even more painful. Thinking of emotions in terms of good or bad can also lead to suppressing the "bad" ones. Suppressing emotions has been linked to elevated stress, cognitive status difficulties, panic attacks, a weakened immune system, and other symptoms such as headaches or pain in different parts of the body where no physical cause can be found.
Myth #3: Negative emotions are destructive
Negative emotions are only destructive when not managed properly. For instance, anger functions to protect us from assault or loss of important people, things or goals — it is an emotion that arises to make us focus on self-defense and control. Only when anger comes out towards other people in an aggressive form or when it leads us to make bad, impulsive decisions is it destructive.
On the other hand, sadness pulls us into ourselves in order for us to figure out how to respond to the loss of someone or something important, to goals lost or not attained. It makes us focus on what we value and our goals our life. Only when sadness leads to depression or when it gets in the way of meeting our responsibilities is it destructive.
Again, all of our emotions serve us in a way. It is impossible to avoid negative emotions; regulating and learning how to cope with them is the key.
Myth #4: I cannot handle/control my emotions
Emotions can be hard to change. However, the biggest barrier to regulating your emotions is the belief that you are not able to do so.
Regulating emotions takes time and work, but it comes down to:
- Identifying what emotions you are experiencing
- Understanding where these emotions are coming from
- Changing the way we think about the situation that provoked a certain emotion
- Acting opposite to the emotion's action urge
Here's an example:
- I feel angry.
- This is because my boss snapped at me today. As a result, I thought that I am not competent at work or that this is what my boss thinks about me.
- However, taking a step back, I need to acknowledge that this is the conclusion I drew and that there might be a different perspective. My boss might have had a bad day himself and his irritation may reflect his own mental state. Or, even if that's not the case, his being mad at me does not imply that he thinks I am bad at my job. It could also be that I myself don't feel confident with my performance and this makes me take things personally or feel judged easily.
- What do I want to do right now? How would I be acting if I was not angry? Pushing myself to act (both mentally and behaviorally) as if the incident didn't take place, will very soon calm me down.
Myth #5: It is inauthentic to try to change my emotions
Emotion regulation is for decreasing emotional suffering, not for changing who you are. Emotions are temporary states anyway; by no means do they define who you are. Changing doesn't mean suppressing the emotion or parts of yourself. You want to manage the emotions that are too painful to bear, the emotions that are not effective in helping you lead the life you want, and the ones that are standing in your way — not allowing you to achieve your goals.
Taking the example of sadness, you may want to regulate your sadness after a breakup or divorce since an evaluation at work or a project deadline is approaching. Additionally, when your sadness gets in the way and doesn't allow you to meet your caregiving responsibilities or disrupts your self-care routine, regulating it should be a priority.
Having said that, it is important that you try to change the emotions you want to change and not the emotions other people want you to change. Trying to control your sadness, for instance, because your friends believe that you shouldn't be sad about the relationship ending, since it was not worth it anyway, would be neither authentic nor successful.
Michael, R. (2018). Are These 5 Myths about Emotions Holding You Back?. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 30, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/are-these-5-myths-about-emotions-holding-you-back/
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 8 Jul 2018
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Google recently started rolling out the Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update to some of its Nexus devices, and now another Nexus device has received the update, the Google Nexus 4.
The Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update brings a range of new features to the Google Nexus 4, as well as a number of bug fixes, which include new notifications for application downloads that now show the percentage remaining as well as the download time.
The Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update should be available as an over the air update for your Google Nexus 4, you can check to see if the update is available for your handset from the setting menu.
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'Light Music' – what is it? The line between what we today refer to as light music and classical music is a difficult one to draw, and the music we will be featuring this week crosses it back and forth all the time.
'Light Music' – also known as 'mood music' or 'concert music' – is very much a British phenomenon, referring to a popular and tuneful style of orchestral music that had its origins in the seaside bands of the 19th and early 20th century. The style peaked around the middle of the 20th century and then fell from favour: on the one hand eclipsed by rock 'n' roll (many of its exponents by this time were the leaders of the Big Bands whose doom arrived during this period), but on the other continuing in hidden guise, in the form of 'library music' – music recorded for use in films, radio and later television – right up into the 1960s.
Light Music composers might at once have written for the British film-makers of the 1940s, the BBC Light Programme after the war, and perhaps for the emerging British independent television companies who required themes to open and close a day whose broadcasting hours were limited by statute. And at the same time, their work might be found in production studios on discs from the Chappell, deWolfe and KPM music libraries, unavailable to the public but often used for newsreel voiceovers, radio programme themes and, later, as music to play while British television was showing the Test Card outside broadcasting hours.
Light Music is characterised by a predominance of melody – generally memorable melody – which is one reason why it is a perfect companion to broadcasting, providing themes and even incidental music to drama, documentary, news and current affairs, and game shows. Often, people can recall the themes that punctuated their lives many, many decades ago.
Last week we featured music from the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, which was very well received, and we will be hearing more from them this week. In addition we will be hearing a good deal from composer/arranger/conductor Mr Gavin Sutherland, one of the primary exponents of light music and related material in Britain. More or less single-handedly (along with Brian Kay on BBC Radio 3) he has brought British light music back from the grave and renewed our appreciation of a range of composers such as Richard Addinsell, William Alwyn, Eric Coates, Robert Farnon, Charles Williams, J Malcolm, Ronald Binge and many others. In addition to strict 'Light Music' we will be featuring material from the same composers in different veins, such as film scores; and lighter 'miniatures' by more familiar names.
If you would like to read more about some of the composers featured in this series, please visit the Index of British Light Music Composers.
From the Library is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life; this week's programmes from Monday to Thursday inclusive feature music from the library of Elrik Merlin.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world. Listen to the program now at http://music.radioriel.org, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.


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PHOTO: Head of regime delegation in Geneva talks, UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja'afari, talks to reporters on Sunday
- Opposition-Rebel Bloc Establishes Women's Committee
- Video: Intense Russian and Regime Airstrikes Southwest of Damascus
- Video: Jabhat al-Nusra Propaganda Challenges Russian Airstrikes
- Rebels: We Are Outnumbered by Pro-Assad Foreign Militia North of Aleppo
- Saudi FM: We Will Step Up Military Aid to Rebels If Talks Fail
- 20,000 Refugees Stranded Near Jordanian Border
- Video: Russian Bombing Forces Aleppo Province Hospital to Close
- Picture: Double Bombing Kills 60 in Damascus
The Assad regime's delegation at talks in Geneva on Syria drew a firm line against any significant discussions on Sunday, labeling the opposition-rebel bloc as "terrorists".
The regime's lead negotiator, UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja'afari, said Damascus will not accept preconditions for negotiations.
The opposition-rebel High Negotiation Committee, which held its first discussion with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura on Sunday, has said that "proximity talks" with the regime can only follow a commitment to ceasefires, detainee releases from regime prisons, and access to humanitarian aid for besieged areas.
However, Ja'afari maintained:
We don't deal with terrorists. There are foreign powers endorsing foreign agendas, aiming at making political pressure on the Syrian government by using terrorism as a political weapon.
The Ambassador did say that he would discuss the ceasefires, detainee releases, and humanitarian corridors; however, these could only be part of the talks and could not be agreed before them.
The Assad regime's ally Iran backed up Ja'afari's line. Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told UN envoy de Mistura, "Precautions must be taken so that the terrorists do not enter the talks and take advantage of them under a new guise."
Opposition: "Very Positive Talks" with UN Envoy
The opposition-rebel bloc said later on Sunday that the initial discussions with de Mistura were "very positive" on "humanitarian issues".
The HNC met for several hours to discuss the outcome, announcing that its lead negotiator — Mohammad Alloush of the rebel faction Jaish al-Islam — would arrive in Geneva on Monday.
De Mistura's office said he would meet the regime delegation today at 1100 local time (1000 GMT) and the HNC at 1700 (1600 GMT).
HNC spokesman Salem al-Meslet told reporters, "We wish to see food reaching people who are starving to death, to the women and children. we want women released from regime prisons and the criminal bombardment from Russia to end."
HNC member Basma Kodmani added, "We do not trust the regime but we are waiting for something to happen any minute."
US Secretary of State John Kerry appeared to extend another hand to the opposition-rebel bloc, which debated for several days before agreeing to go to Geneva, by emphasizing the issue of aid in a video statement:
People are dying, children are suffering — not as a result of an accident of war, but as the consequence of an intentional tactic: "Surrender or Starve". And that tactic is directly contrary to the law of war.
Let me be clear. The Syrian regime has a fundamental responsibility, all the parties to the conflict have a duty to facilitate humanitarian access to populations in need.
Opposition-Rebel Bloc Establishes Women's Committee
The opposition-rebel High Negotiations Committee has announced a Women's Consultative Committee.
The HNC cited its pursuit of "actual and active representation for all components of the Syrian society" as "the cornerstone of the successful political transition in Syria", and said "empowering and enhancing women's presence in the political process and their participation in decision-making shall have positive results on the negotating process and the future of the Syrian State".
Video: Intense Russian and Regime Airstrikes Southwest of Damascus
Russian and regime air forces have continued intensive bombing of Darayya and Moadamiya, southwest of Damascus, as the Syrian military tries to advance on the ground:
Scores of attacks have been carried out on Sunday and Monday. Yesterday almost 100 people in Moadamiya were treated for suffocation because of gases from the bombardment.
Video: Jabhat al-Nusra Propaganda Challenges Russian Airstrikes
A propaganda video from the jihadists of Jabhat al-Nusra challenges the Russian bombing campaign since September 30:
Rebels: We Are Outnumbered by Pro-Assad Foreign Militia North of Aleppo
Rebels are warning that they are outnumbered by pro-Assad foreign militia north and northwest of Aleppo city.
Pro-rebel activists says Iranian-led Iraqi militia are being airlifted with several flights per day from regime airbases and supported by intense Russian airstrikes.
Iraqi Shiite Bader militia takes part in the attack in northern Aleppo today pic.twitter.com/wakebipUn7
— Abdurahman Harkoush (@Abduhark) February 1, 2016
The activists acknowledge that, despite heavy losses, the regime offensive has captured the villages of Duwayr al-Zeitoun and Tel Jibbin (see map). Pro-regime outlets are hailing an effort to relieve the long-maintained rebel siege of the enclaves of Nubl and al-Zahraa.
Rebel videos from near the frontline:
Saudi FM: We Will Step Up Military Aid to Rebels If Talks Fail
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has indicated that Riyadh will increase military assistance to Syria's rebels if there is no advance in political talks in Geneva.
Speaking after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Çavuşoğlu on Sunday, Jubeir said the Saudi will "continue to support the opposition militarily if talks fail".
Çavuşoğlu said, "We asked the opposition that they can put their conditions to start the negotiations and continue the negotiations. They can leave anytime if they are not implemented."
20,000 Refugees Stranded Near Jordanian Border
The number of Syrian refugees stranded near Jordan's border has risen to 20,000 as they wait for permission to enter, according to the head of the UN refugee agency in Amman.
Andrew Harper said 4,000 to 5,000 people are arriving in the remote desert area every month.
In recent months, Jordan has permitted only several dozen refugees to enter each day. Authorities have cited security concerns, saying many Syrians come from areas controlled by the Islamic State and need to undergo strict vetting.
International aid officials say the UN-run Azraq refugee camp is still more than half empty and could house thousands of newcomers.
More than 600,000 Syrians are registered refugees in Jordan, but Jordanian official Qasem al-Zoubi said on Sunday 1.265 million Syrians live in the kingdom, which has a population of 9.5 million.
Russian Bombing Forces Aleppo Province Hospital to Close
The pro-opposition Orient News reports on the closure of the main hospital in Anadan in Aleppo Province, following Russian bombing:
Since it began attacks on September 30, Russia's air force has damaged hospitals and field clinics throughout northwest Syria.
Syria Feature: Russia — The Hospitals We Attacked Don't Exist
Picture: Double Bombing Kills 60 in Damascus
Aftermath of Sunday's double bombing in southern Damascus on Sunday that killed 60 people:
The car bomb, followed by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive belt, was near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a revered site for Shia Muslims. The Islamic State reportedly claimed responsibility.
Meanwhile, regime warplanes and helicopters dropped scores of barrel bombs on the besieged Damascus suburb of Moadamiyah. Activists said 97 people were treated for suffocation, with doctors saying they had not seen so many cases since the regime's chemical attacks near Damascus that killed more than 1,400 people in August 2013.


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Allure Wilderly Bride
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Kick-Off Summer at Dream Hollywood | Thursday, May 2 – Sunday, May 5
The highly anticipated return of the rooftop is finally here! Join us all weekend long as we kickoff an unforgettable summer at The Highlight Room. DJs like Nick Ferrer and Edski will be rotating throughout Thursday and Friday night, with Bobby French taking over the venue on Saturday. To top it off, we'll be hosting a Cinco de Mayo celebration with sounds by DJ Vice. Soak in the sun and the festivities with a mariachi band, taco stand, and good vibes all day.
Cinco de Derby / Cinco de Mayo | Friday, May 3 – Sunday, May 5
With Cinco de Mayo and the Kentucky Derby falling on the same weekend this year, we decided to take the two occasions and fuse them together for one blowout celebration. Join us for a party up at PHD Rooftop Lounge from 2 – 6 p.m.—you can snag last-minute tickets here.
Can't make it? We'll be hosting a pop-up all weekend long in the lobby with tacos and tequila from Bodega Negra, starting Friday, May 3 from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. and continuing on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5 from 12 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Dream Beach Launch | Thursday, May 30
It's summer, which means one thing—pool season! We'll be launching our summer poolside activations with a huge party and new menu items, DJ sets, and pop-ups will be rotating through. Stayed tuned for more updates, special announcements, and giveaways by following Dream Beach on Instagram.
Aperitivo Tuesdays Launch Party | Tuesday, May 21
They're back and better than ever! We're kicking off our newest edition of Aperitivo Tuesdays at PHD Terrace at Dream Midtown with new cocktails, Italian bites, and brand new décor. While we can't spill too much right now, let's just say the roof will be transformed into the summery, Instagrammable moment of your dreams. Oh, and there will be a special guest…
Laura Kay Illustrations Pop-Up | Tuesday, May 21
And that special guest is fashion illustrator Laura Kay of Diary Sketches! She'll be joining us on the rooftop to capture your Aperitivo Tuesday moment and let the party live on forever. Swing by her table from 5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. that evening and she'll create a custom portrait just for you.
Mother's Day Brunch at Stateside Kitchen | Sunday, May 12
Take mom out for a special afternoon and an unforgettable meal at Nashville's hottest new hotel. Stateside Kitchen will be serving up a special meal from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., where all mothers will receive a rose and complimentary glass of champagne upon arrival.
Iroquois Steeplechase | Saturday, May 11
Nashville's equivalent of The Kentucky Derby, this festive day brings in more than 25,000 spectators from around the world to celebrate the pageantry and energy of horseracing. You can expect big hats and mint juleps to reign supreme as fans take to the race track to cheer on their hopeful horse.
Cinco de Mayo Party | Sunday, May 5
Nothing says Cinco de Mayo like tacos and tequila, so we're hosting our big celebration at Dream South Beach's own Naked Taco. Fiesta like there's no tomorrow with doors opening at 7 a.m. Join us early or stroll in once you catch some Z's—we'll be going until the night's end. Regardless, you won't want to miss the DJs, dancers, mini luchadores, free swag, drink specials, and of course, all the tequila your heart could desire.
Air & Sea Show + The Musical Explosion | Saturday, May 25 – Sunday, May 26
Falling on Memorial Day Weekend, the Air & Sea Show is a two-day event on Miami Beach that will showcase and salute all five branches of the United States military with jet flyovers and stunts, extreme water sports, and more. Dubbed "The Musical Explosion," the weekend's concert will feature well-known artists, all while jets fly overhead. Expect fireworks, sand sculpting, lumberjack shows, a motocross exhibition, and a kids fun zone (so you can bring the whole family!). The event is free and open to the public.


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PHARR — Topgolf is coming here very soon, according to information filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Construction on the three-story entertainment facility is expected to begin in November and be completed by September 2018, according to the filing.
The $10 million dollar project includes a 55,000-square-foot building plus a roughly four-acre driving range and a three-acre parking lot. It will be located across the street from Costco Wholesale at 1901 W. Interstate 2.
The facility, which specializes in golf and offers a variety of other games and entertainment, is being designed by Aria Group Architects, according the the state agency.


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Power and Utilities
This webinar builds upon the Asset Reliability framework defined in the first webinar to delve deeper into the area of Continuous Online Monitoring. Moving from time-based maintenance to condition-based maintenance is now broadly accepted as best practice for maximizing reliability and optimizing costs. The foundation for condition-based maintenance is condition monitoring, and in this webinar the speaker will present a four-stage maturity model for Continuous Online Monitoring.


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The 2015 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show was just recorded and the first photos of the stunning supermodels in dazzling high heels are already out.
So let's take a few moments and check them out. As with any Victoria's Secret fashion show, this year was no exception and the daring outfits and high heels were on with full force. There were quite a few outfits shown, but we chose the ones we liked the most.
You will also get so see quite a few familiar faces. Even some of the special guests and performers during the fashion show were getting on the fun as you will see for sure. So let's begin (in no particular order as always).


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To Be A Cloud
I'd like to be a cloud
Formless – unexpected
I'd like to drink the clouds
Sudden and clear
I'd like to feel like clouds
Pure weightless and needed
Come and go and disappear
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Way up there above
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Adding insult to injury, check out the advertising in the latter film: his image is absent, supplanted by actresses Dakota Fanning as the titular Effie and producer/actress Emma Thompson as her kindly and sympathetic friend, Lady Eastlake...
It's as if the once-celebrated Ruskin (1819-1920), the most influential critic and art historian of his day, unequalled master of prose, skilled draughtsman, prominent social thinker, educator and philanthropist, and champion of J.M.W. Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite painters has been rudely erased from the public record. How ironic, therefore, it is that the most celebrated image we have of him was a full-length portrait painting executed in 1853 by the very man who later married Effie and had eight children by her.
All we can glean today, apparently, in the first instance, is that his support of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelite movement was a corrupt and opportunistic posture; and, in the second, that he was an impotent monster who subjected his young wife, Effie Gray, to six years of a loveless marriage, leaving her a virgin before the marriage was annulled on grounds their sexual union was never consummated.
Far be it for me to defend Ruskin on these particular issues. On that score, much controversy remains as to what exactly happened on the Ruskins' wedding night and subsequent weeks and months. Was Ruskin impotent at all; or, as biographer Wolfgang Kemp wonders, was he privately appalled at what he felt were the "base" realities of a woman's menstruation and body hair; or was he going to inordinate extremes to avoid the risk of pregnancy? The most carefully balanced and fair-minded assessment of the situation can be found in Suzanne Facence Cooper's admirable novel-length study, Effie (2010), the nominal basis for the film. More questions surround the circumstances of the marital split: Was Ruskin taken by surprise when Effie sued for an annulment, as this new film proposes? Or did Ruskin himself stage-manage the split by none-too-subtly throwing Effie into the embrace of his Pre-Raphaelite friends, hoping to avoid personal embarrassment and sue for divorce on grounds of her adultery, as in the BBC series, DESPERATE ROMANTICS. (The fact remains that at the annulment she was indeed pronounced a virgin.)
What's hard to understand on all counts is how a person of Ruskin's humanitarian efforts, critical stature, and worldly sophistication—yes, sophistication—could have been either so confused or so stupid or so cruel as to find himself in such a wretched society scandal.
Meantime, I wonder at my own naiveté in suggesting that Ruskin should be remembered for other things. Examine his strange and troubled childhood, which transpired under the sternly manipulative and possessive control of his parents. Consider: If his gaze at women and marriage was wary and sometimes averted, his regard for Nature was unflinching. He launched an important aesthetic charge in demanding that the artist of the day get his head out of the clouds and cultivate "an attentive gaze [that] would reveal in every object the most varied facets and subtle gradations of motion and form. To perceive this was a science in itself, a science prior to aesthetics and to any kind of theoretical exercise. " As a teacher at Oxford he tried to integrate practical and theoretical art studies. He was a champion of the working class and preached a "gospel of labor"; as a privileged person of independent wealth, he demanded direct social action from those high on the social hierarchy; and single-handedly he wrote a monthly newspaper for more than a decade addressed to the "Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" (which became his book, Fors Clavigera). And almost alone among his contemporaries he sounded the alarm at the imminent neglect and destruction of the world's architecture and art treasures by the mechanical push of the Industrial Revolution. His book The Stones of Venice, was a "desperate last-ditch effort to defend and preserve the past against the destructive tide of the present."
Yes, none of the above makes for the sort of blood-and-thunder gothic thriller, or perversely compelling character study the movies prefer. Admittedly, if any more Ruskinian movies are to come, there are other personal irregularities on erotically pathetic display in Ruskin's unfortunate relationships with other child-women, before and after the affair with Effie Gray. He joins his countrymen William Hazlitt, James M. Barrie, and Lewis Carroll in that regard. We can only turn away, in dismay, or, at the least, a measure of compassion.
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an nypost writer' post
TLC is more hard on cabbies than it really should have been and we actually want to make a union to get rid some of the abuse we have been facing.
for example
We are business entity and run our own so we can not have any kind of facilities any employee would have but as a business we can not chose which credit card transaction provider to chose from. every business pay 2.5% we pay 5%, a full double. for every 100 dollars we loose 5 dollars. you do the math. its TLC fogh.rced cabbie to tell you "sir my credit card unit is broke." its a double standard with no health or benefits while you do have.
TLC is no where to be found when other car services pick up passengers from street. they steal our bread and butter while we cant do anything about it. for example we are forced to charge you $45 for JFK. you wana know how much a black car charges for JFK? 80 bucks. how about laguardia? $60. in the real world that forces and yes I said forces cabbie to compete in any way possible to just get enough, keep in mind no health care/benefits.
in TLC courts they dont listen to you. they just assume you are criminal. innocent until proven guilty is not the case with a cabbie. he is judged as soon as he gets his license. they only believe to the passenger no matter what. your words never weigh. in nypd you cant complain about a car accident just a little over after a week but in TLC you can complain against a driver even after a year, driver has to break a day and come to the court. and even if he some how gets lucky enough to be found not guilty he still lost his day. I would like it to be forced TLC through a union to make the complainer pay for the driver for that day so there are no more false accusation against drivers just because you didnt know the law and TLC system.
Now the cell phone ban. ok a taxi driver is dangerous while on phone to his passenger if he is in an accident? what about the other ppls on phone? oh they are not carrying passenger. ok but still they can hit somebody? right? if yes then shouldnt be they banned too? why just a group of ppls? a cabbie is as much hazard to public while on phone as much as private drivers on phone. ban them too and lets all enjoy the safer world. wait is that you on phone? you cant wait a minute to get on phone and yes most of the time we have to honk at you because you were on phone and didnt care about walk or dont walk signal.
an alliance is not enough we need a union.
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Our New Year's Resolutions for 2019
Year 2019 is almost here and we decided to make four New Year's resolutions:
Even less plastic. More stairs. Lots of good books. Many interesting events.
Our four New Year's resolutions for 2019
1. We will use even less plastic
Finnish tap water is among the highest quality in the world. We don't have water bottles in our minibars. Instead we have beautiful Finnish design glasses by Iittala and a soda maker if you prefer sparkling. We don't use plastic straws or bags either.
We have also ditched the tiny bottles of shampoo and conditioner, and we love our big bottles of L:A Bruket!
We will continue to find new ways of using even less plastic in 2019.
2. We will climb the stairs
We believe that wellbeing is reached little by little through small, repeated achievements.
That's why we encourage our guests and ourselves to climb the stairs daily - and that is why we made our staircase so captivating you'll wish there were more floors to explore!
In 2019 we will take care of the guests and ourselves' holistic wellbeing by creating more opportunities for small, repeated achievements.
2. We will nourish the culture of reading
We will continue to respect our history and nourish the culture of reading.
Did you know that in 1871, the printing house of the Finnish Literature Society moved to the corner of Lönnrotinkatu and Yrjönkatu, the address of today's Hotel St. George? The first Finnish newspaper, Suometar, was printed here.
You can find thousands of books at St. George. In each of the 153 rooms, in Wintergarden Restaurant & Bar, in St. George Bakery and even in our St. George Care -spa.
We will continue having monthly book clubs and creating many cozy reading corners for you.
4. We will bring even more life to Helsinki
We have organized park yogas, book clubs, art clubs, DJ nights and many other events. And we promise to keep on doing that as we want to enrich the lives of the local community - as well as be a reason to come to Helsinki!
Considering Helsinki and Hotel St. George was listed on The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019 -list by Travel + Leisure, we're on the right track!
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Happy New Year 2019 from the staff of Hotel St. George, Helsinki!


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Construction jobs are rising and so are the opportunities for newcomers. Since the population around the world is skyrocketing at the moment, it's only right that the construction industry is seeing a boom in employees and projects.
On the one hand, you have a need to build more homes for starting young families, and on the other, you have a desire to build more commercial buildings for more jobs.
Ultimately the economy is set to only go one way, and that's in the 'getting bigger' direction.
Thus the demand for professionals in the industry is only set to go the same way also.
Maybe you want to change career or you're trying to get into this field because you have followed it since you become a professional.
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Modern courses have online portals also that you can access at any time to learn when you want to develop a career in construction. They have information and written texts that inform you on how to build a certain type of project. It's a class environment when you are learning so others will be in the same position as you are.
You can help each other out, and form friendships that could lead to professional relationships.
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There are Earthmoving courses that allow you to learn how to use the best in practice machines in the industry. They have personalized professional services so the course can be molded to your needs. In the end, if you should pass you will receive a license which means you can now apply for that kind of role.
Earthmovers are a big part of any construction business. They're the ones that essentially start off a project by moving and digging up the soil so the builders can lay the foundations. The certified staff is experienced in bobcats, front ends, rollers, backhoes, and of course excavator tickets.
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You have dreams of taking your amazing beer recipes out of the kitchen and into a commercial brewery operation, for everyone in your proverbial backyard to share. Or maybe you took that leap a while back and have been brewing a few BBLs a year. Now you feel ready to upscale to a regional model and find even more appreciative craft beer customers through distribution.
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