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It's important to practise good feminine hygiene and look after your intimate area like you would the rest of your body. Feminine hygiene will help to boost your overall health as a woman too, by keeping your genitals clean you can help to prevent infection and discomfort.
Feminine Hygiene Products
Personal care products are an essential part of your hygiene routine especially during your menstrual cycle. During your period you may feel like you need to wash or freshen up more regularly to avoid any bad odours or discomfort. However bear in mind that your vagina self-cleans itself in order to keep the natural; pH balance in check. The natural oils and discharge that you secrete all help to keep the pH balance in your genitals as it should be and free of infection.
What sanitary products are best for me?
Taking care of your intimate area during your period starts with the sanitary products you use and how often you change them. It's essential that you stay protected each month, whether you're on your heavier flow days until the very last days of your period.
Sanitary products include:
- Tampons – Easily inserted inside your vagina, tampons absorb your flow during your period. A string is attached to the end making them easy to remove from your vagina when it is time to change them or you have finished your period.
- Sanitary pads, towels and liners – Coming in a variety of absorbencies, lengths and designs, sanitary pads sit inside your underwear and are attached with an adhesive back and wings. They absorb your menstrual flow once it leaves your body and are disposable after use.
- Menstrual cups - Made from flexible silicone the cup sits inside your vagina. It catches your menstrual flow and holds it until you are ready to remove the cup. These cups are a reusable option that can be washed after use and safely stored when you're not on your period.
Tampon vs pads
You might be wondering which sanitary product would be better suited to you, should you use tampons or pads or perhaps a menstrual cup is the ideal solution for you.
There is no right or wrong way to have a period or use sanitary products. It all depends on what feels more comfortable to you and which you find easier to use. For example, tampons can take a little bit of practise to insert correctly and remove smoothly, whereas pads might also need some adjusting in your underwear to find the perfect position.
Many women who are active and enjoy swimming find that tampons are the best option for them, as they absorb your period flow before it leaves your body. As long as you have used a tampon with an absorbency that is suited to your flow it will not leak as you move. Whether you use pads or tampons, it is important to change them regularly and find the right products to suit the heaviness of your flow. This is especially important with tampons as leaving them in for too long can lead to infection, such as toxic shock syndrome.
What is feminine hygiene wash?
Your vagina is a self-cleaning organ that regulates its own pH balance and levels of healthy bacteria. However throughout your menstrual cycle or day to day life you might feel like your vagina needs a little freshen up in order to avoid odours or discomfort. If you want to use feminine hygiene washes, wipes, powders or sprays, look out for products which have no scent and are hypoallergenic. This will help your vaginal pH balance to remain in its normal healthy state and avoid any irritation.
Every woman is different and therefore every period is different – every length, flow and cycle. However a heavy period tends to be classed as heavy if you have to change your tampon or sanitary towel every two hours, or if you need to use these to sanitary products together. Find out more about the causes of heavy periods here.
It's completely normal for your menstrual cycle to vary from month to month, however if you have had unprotected sex you might be pregnant. Find out about other causes of late periods here.
Period pains and cramps are one of the symptoms of periods; however there are ways that you can manage these pains. From taking painkillers to exercising, there are ways that you can make your periods more manageable.
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, November 20th through Sunday, November 26th.
Crepe & Spoon Grand Opening
What: Food & Drink
When: Monday, November 20th at 5:00 p.m.
Where: Crepe & Spoon
Come celebrate the opening of Crepe & Spoon, a new purveyor of everything that you need—ice cream and crepes—from the minds of two locals. Expect fun and strange ice cream and crepe combinations and a raffle for vegan meat from the Herbivorous Butcher.
Board Game Night at Tamarack Tap Room
What: Gaming
When: Monday, November 20th at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Tamarack Tap Room
The Tamarack Tap Room, in partnership with the Gaming Goat, presents a weekly Monday-evening meetup for board games and beer—meet new gamer friends and enjoy a brew. As with most public board-game events, feel free to bring your favorite games to share, as well as a positive, respectful attitude for other people's favorites.
GPS Figure Drawing Salon
What: Arts, Educational
When: Monday, November 20th at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
The Geek Partnership Society's Arts Initiative hosts a figure-drawing salon at the Waterbury Building on the third Monday of each month. For a $5 fee, attendees can participate in a three-hour drawing session that "will include short, medium, and long poses, which allow artists to engage with the subject in varying ways" and that "will use a combination of nude and costumed models to support and foster fantasy and science-fiction art." The goal of hosting this event is to "cultivate a community of artists to share ideas, support each other, and create."
Board Games at Black Dog Cafe
What: Gaming, Community
When: Monday, November 20th at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Black Dog Cafe
Enjoy a night of games and beers with with this event hosted by the Saint Paul Board Game Group. The main event of the night will be open gaming, running from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m., but fun will be had all night. Bring some of your own favorites or try out games that others have brought while being considerate of other people's games.
What: Movies
When: Monday, November 20th and Tuesday November 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Trylon Cinema
Enjoy a classic work of Soviet science fiction with Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, a film about an orbital station around a distant planet and the way that the past haunts the psychologist who travels there. Tickets are $8, and you can find other screenings at the Trylon here.
Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus
What: Theater & Comedy
When: Monday, November 20th, Friday, November 24th, and Saturday, November 25th at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, November 26th at 2:30 p.m.
Where: The Historic Mounds Theatre
Gothic horror meets Green T Productions' signature physical style in this adaptation of Mary Shelley's groundbreaking science-fiction novel. Green T is an organization that "inspires, expands horizons and challenges assumptions with creative physical performance that straddles the boundaries of music, dance and theatre." Tickets are $22 with a variety of discounts available.
Café Scientifique
What: Educational, Science & Technology
When: Tuesday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl
Café Scientifique, presented by the Bell Museum of Natural History, is "a happy hour exchange of ideas about science, environment, and popular culture, featuring experts from a variety of fields on diverse and often provocative topics." This month's theme is "Invisible Architects: Mycorrhizal Fungi," which looks at the world of invisible fungi and possible secrets to combating climate change. This event is based on the work of Jeremiah Henning, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Minnesota. Tickets are $5 to $12 online or at the door.
GPS Open Meeting
What: Community
When: Tuesday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
The Geek Partnership Society, which is a volunteer-run geek community organization, hosts quarterly meetings. Come to this meeting if you want to have a voice and help steer this community in the long run; this meeting counts towards voting eligibility for GPS. There is a social hour prior to the meeting, starting at 6:00 p.m. (Consider bringing a new or gently used book or toy to donate to the Twin Cities Geek Holiday Drive! There is a donation box available at GPS.)
Tea and Meeples: Board Games
What: Food & Drink, Meetup, Gaming
When: Tuesday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: 7512 Pillsbury Ave. South, Richfield
Enjoy a night of community and tea with Tea and Meeples, a weekly gathering of friendly geeks at "Panda Castle" in Richfield. This week's theme is board games, so be ready to chase your tea and company with some gaming.
YogaQuest Continues: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
What: Sports & Fitness
When: Tuesday, November 21st at 7:00 p.m.
Where: YQdio
Come and experience YogaQuest, a blend of yoga and fanfiction storytelling led by certified yoga instructors. Experience a yoga workout experience and a story at the same time. This week's theme is Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, so get your ocarina and your N64 ready. This event costs $15.
Hip Hop Nutcracker
What: Theater & Comedy, Music
When: Tuesday, November 21st at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, November 22nd at 7:30 p.m.
Where: State Theatre
Come see the holiday classic The Nutcracker come alive with a modern spin. This blend of classical ballet and hip-hop features the work of guest MC Kurtis Blow, one of the founding fathers of hip-hop, and transplants the original tale to Brooklyn in the 1980s. Tickets start at $28.50, with discounts available for students and educators. Learn more about the Hip Hop Nutcracker here.
The Illusionists Present The Magic of Adam Trent
What: Comedy & Theater
When: Tuesday, November 21st and Wednesday, November 22nd at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, November 24th at 2:00 p.m. and
7:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 25th at 2:00 p.m.
Where: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Brighten up your increasingly cold and dark November with a night of illusions from Adam Trent, the breakout magician from stage show The Illusionists. Tickets start at $44 for standing-room-only tickets, and this promises to be a 90-minute spectacle of amazing illusions, comedy, and magic for the whole family.
Wibbly Wobbly Wednesday
What: Trivia
When: Wednesday, November 22nd at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Driftwood Char Bar
Join your fellow Whovians and trivia fanatics at the Driftwood Char Bar on Wednesday night for Minnesota's only regular Doctor Who trivia night, brought to you by the creators of TC Trek Trivia. This is an all-ages event with no cover, so expect seats to go quickly.
Catching Fire Yoga
What: Sports & Fitness, Books
When: Thursday, November 23rd at 5:30 p.m.
Where: YQdio
Catching Fire Yoga is a new class about radical self-acceptance and love based on the messages put forth in The Hunger Games. This new yoga class is open to all body types and experience levels and costs $15. Mats and props will be available.
Geek Slink Belly Dance
What: Sports & Fitness
When: Thursday, November 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
Where: YQdio
Geek Slink is a bellydance class intended to be a welcoming and safe space to focus on fun, fusion, and fitness. Classes are open to any level of experience, body type, and gender. Classes are $15 for walk-ins, or $60 for a five-class punch card. Free trial classes are available.
Weekly Comics Chat
What: Meetup, Comics
When: Thursday, November 23rd at 7:00 p.m.
Where: Kitty Cat Klub
The Girls-Only Comic Club hosts a Weekly Comics Chat on Thursday nights at the Kitty Cat Klub, where there will be "Coffee! Comics! Waffles! Talking!" Additional information about this event is posted on the Girls Only Comic Club's Facebook group. Individuals interested in attending are encouraged to join.
Friday Night Magic
What: Gaming, Meetup
When: Friday, November 24th at 6:00 p.m.
Where: Mischief Toy Store
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul invites you to experience some Magic with them this Friday night. Entry is $5; all players will receive prizes. This weekly event is limited to 24 players and typically lasts until about 9:00 p.m. All skill levels are welcome
Tsuinishi Anime Club
What: Movies
When: Friday, November 24th at 8:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at Waterbury Center
Anime Twin Cities has joined forces with the Geek Partnership Society "to bring a little bit of fun to you on the second and fourth Fridays of each month with this cosponsored anime club." The group will show various anime movies and series
Vilifikation Tennis Sees Red
What: Theater & Comedy
When: Friday, November 24th at 10:00 p.m.
Where: Bryant-Lake Bowl
Vilifikation Tennis (known to decadent capitalists as Vilification Tennis) brings back fuzzy memories of the proletariat smashing the bourgeoisie with an iron fist in this "offensive look back at the Cold War." Enjoy a night of comedy and misremembered Soviet kitsch for $15, or $12 in advance.
Brickmania Toyworks: A LEGO Fan Expo
What: Family, Community
When: Saturday, November 25th starting at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday, November 26th starting at 12:00 p.m.
Where: Brickmania Toyworks
Brickmania Toyworks will be hosting a LEGO expo at their warehouse in Northeast Minneapolis. This is your chance to see some of the best and most exciting LEGO works on display, including works from Brickmania themselves and the Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club, Twin Cities LEGO Train Club, TwinLUG, Jesse's Brick Galaxy, and a Guinness World Record–holding Largest K'Nex Ball from Austin Granger. Don't miss out on your chance to see Northeast's own Nye's done up in LEGO! Tickets are $8 and are timed entry. (Consider bringing a new or gently used book or toy to donate to the Twin Cities Geek Holiday Drive! There will be a donation box available at Brickmania Toyworks on all Fan Expo dates.)
Tea Journey with Black Tea
What: Food & Drink, Educational
When: Saturday, November 25th at 11:30 a.m.
Where: Bingley's Teas
Tea crosses cultural and geographical divides, and Bingley's Teas invites you to take in black teas from Nepal and Sri Lanka to China and Japan, learning about the history and process behind a variety of types and the impact on flavor. Seats are $20 for this limited-size class, and reservations are required in advance; calling (612) 845-1707 to claim yours.
Disney's The Little Mermaid in Concert
What: Movies, Music, Family
When: Saturday, November 25th and Sunday, November 26th at 2:00 p.m.
Where: Orchestra Hall
The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing the soundtrack live to accompany The Little Mermaid, a Disney classic from 1989 that marked the beginning of the "Disney Renaissance" and the return to the studio's status as an animation powerhouse. Follow a young mermaid named Ariel through her undersea adventures. Tickets start at $27.50.
Transvestite Soup Presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show
What: Film, Theater & Comedy
When: Saturday, November 25th at 11:59 p.m.
Where: Uptown Theatre
At 11:55 p.m. on the last Saturday of every month, the Uptown Theatre screens The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the "longest running midnight movie of all time." Transvestite Soup is the Twin Cities' shadow cast for the showings, performing for your pleasure as part of the cult classic's well-established tradition.
Shieldmaiden Sunday
What: Gaming, Meetup
When: Sunday, November 26th at 12:00 p.m.
Where: The Source Comics and Games
Shieldmaiden Sundays are a dedicated space for female nerds and geeks at Source. This is a recurring weekly event providing a space for women to play games, chat about comics, cosplay, or just enjoy the company of other geeks.
Kaiju Buffet
What: Movies, Food & Drink
When: Sunday, November 26th at 12:00 p.m.
Where: Parkway Theater
Dig into monstrous portions at Pepito's Mexican Buffet as you watch your favorite kaiju (giant monsters) wreak havoc onscreen in this family-friendly event. The giant monster movie is a mystery and will not be revealed until you are in for the buffet. The movie screening itself will be at 1:00 p.m.; the earlier start time reflects the buffet. The ticket (including food) is $8.
Gender Jam: Spa Day
What: Meetup, Community
When: Sunday, November 26th at 12:30 p.m.
Where: The Exchange Minneapolis
Gender Jam, a meetup group for trans, gender-nonconforming, questioning, and intersex youth, will be enjoying a spa day this week. Enjoy facial masks, manicures and pedicures, fun hairstyles, and makeup fun. As always, bring your permission slip if you are under 18.
Trivia Against Humanity
What: Trivia
When: Sunday, November 26th at 8:00 p.m.
Where: Can Can Wonderland
This regular event at Can Can Wonderland represents the convergence of two geeky favorites: high concept min-golf/carnival fun and absurd trivia. The event is hosted by Sam Spadino and Sidney Oxborough.
So, which of these events will you be attending? What events would you like to see featured in the future? Let us know in the comments section below or contact us via email. And don't forget to add your events to the Twin Cities Geek Community Calendar!


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Other Treasures > A watercolor study of a branch of pussy willow by Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna
The watercolor on card depicts a branch of pussy willow next to a partially visible green Easter egg, apparently unsigned. Dimensions: 4 1/8 x 1 5/8 in. (10.4 x 4.1 cm).
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna (1875-1960)
Prince Andrei Alexandrovich (1897-1981)
Prince Andrew Andreevich (b. 1923)
In Russia and much of Eastern Europe, Palm Sunday is called Pussy Willow Sunday (Вербное воскресенье in Russia and Вербна or квітна неділя in Ukraine) because churchgoers carry these branches in a procession recalling Christ's entry into Jerusalem when palms were scattered before Him. Palms were not easily found in northern regions and the pussy willow–which becomes barren in winter only to spring to life with buds each spring–became the preferred plant. This card was obviously one of the many hand-painted Easter greetings Grand Duchess Xenia (or Ksenia, as she spelled it) painted for her closest relations.
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Classic John Hughes films are marked by nostalgic high school romance.
"Sierra Burgess is a Loser" enters the genre with a technological twist.
The film, released on Netflix on Sept. 7, follows the titular character as she begins catfishing quarterback Jamey, who believes he is texting a popular cheerleader named Veronica. As their relationship progresses, Sierra must fight her insecurities to find her way in a competitive and shallow high school environment. Screenwriter Lindsey Beer, a former UCLA Extension student, said the film is a modern retelling of "Cyrano de Bergerac," a 19th-century play written by Edmond Rostand. Beer's rendition focuses on modern technology's impact on high school relationships. In her adaptation, Beer said she aimed to twist the classic romantic comedy by tearing down stereotypes – especially those for female characters – often found in the genre.
"I was just so sick of seeing movies about toxic girls. It makes girls seem like they're shallow and vapid," Beer said. "I also just think, in general, the most popular girl in school and the least popular girl in school in a way have so much in common – they're outliers on the bell curve."
Though the film begins by setting up many familiar tropes – mean cheerleaders, desirable quarterbacks and nerdy outcasts – Beer said she aimed to turn the tropes on their head by creating bonds between characters who are usually pitted against each other. Both girls are under pressure despite stereotypically being from different worlds: Sierra to live up to academic standards, and Veronica to live up to social expectations. As the girls team up to continue their ruse, Beer said they find liberation through their commonalities, setting aside any potential jealousy.
Actress Shannon Purser, who portrays Sierra, said that in allowing the two characters to bond the film avoids the pitfall of pitting women against each other. Once they begin to understand each other, Sierra and Veronica realize they have only judged each other on appearance, Purser said.
Jamey, the male lead portrayed by Noah Centineo, also subverts typical rom-com tropes. Centineo said his character diverges from the typical high school quarterback character. Instead of hiding behind a hard external shell, Jamey is more in touch with his emotions and hangs out with others who aren't considered popular. The character reflects a change in what is viewed as desirable in films, Centineo said.
"I think the times, the culture, our society are evolving. I think that we do want more conscious, more mindful, more loving, supportive, emotionally intelligent males as partners and as lovers," Centineo said. "This film is a great representation of that."
The female friendship, as well as Sierra's more unconventional traits, modernize the genre, said director Ian Samuels. Though Sierra comes across as confident and self-assured at the beginning of the movie, Purser said she must grapple with her insecurities when her relationship with Jamey causes her to reconsider her preconceived notions of herself. Though the film does delve into self-doubt based on appearance, having a plus-size rom-com protagonist is of significance to Purser, who said she finds the lack of representation in that area disappointing.
"There's a vast majority of women in real life who are over a size 12, yet we rarely see them on TV, and I just think that's a disservice to women in general," Purser said. "I'm very glad to be a part of that movement in redefining what is beautiful and whose story gets to be told in the media."
Though he aimed to stay away from many contemporary references harkening back to the nostalgic feel of John Hughes films, Samuels said he also wanted to reveal how technology impacts relationships. Major plot points revolve around the use of cell phones and display the thought put into such interactions, like censoring oneself when texting or curating one's Instagram. However, technology still establishes a connection, as seen through the progression of Sierra and Jamey's relationship, Samuels said.
"I'm interested in capturing the intimacy of communicating through phones and how emotional that can be," Samuels said. "The anxiety of waiting for a text, or trying to think of something to respond, or just the magic of talking to someone on the phone for hours and what that feels like."
The instant availability of texting and calling allows Sierra and Jamey to build an intimate relationship despite the false pretenses, Centineo said. In integrating technology into the modernization of a classic story, Beer said she aimed to explore how it impacts present-day relationships. She said the film presents a double-edged sword: technology as both a means of connection and a mask for people to hide behind. Though it allows the two characters to quickly bond, Beer said it also forces Sierra to consider her own appearance in comparison to her peers.
"It's a challenge because you want to be realistic about how the world treats women who are plus-sized, which isn't always kindly. Especially in high school when kids can be mean and superficial and say dumb things," Beer said. "No matter what you look like, the truth is it's hard to be a teenage girl."


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Comment on Yuendumu writes new chapter on the beginnings of contemporary Western Desert art by Brett Galt-Smith.
I visited the Men's Museum in 89-90 or thereabouts. Old Pat Forster and I did a bush trip. It was an eye-opener for Pat. Dinny Nolan was our host at the Museum and very proud to take us into the room with the ground painting. I'd forgotten about this special trip that Pat and I did until I read Kieran's article. For those who knew Pat Forster but had no idea how he ended up living in Alice Springs, his wife had passed away and I suggested he come up to Alice for a break. We went out bush, including to Yuendumu and Papunya, and Pat fell in love with the colour and landscape. I got a call from Pat as soon as he'd landed back at Melbourne Airport (hadn't even collected his bags) and he said he'd decided to sell up and move to the Alice. Now, as we know, his ashes rest under a tree at Olive Pink Reserve. Thanks for a great story Kieran and let's try not to deconstruct the story or the intent behind the establishment of the Museum but just enjoy its revitalisation and the stories it evokes.
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I'm not hearing any mention whatsoever of the gallery outside the NT.
I truly hope it attracts many visitors, but it troubles me that it has no national profile, yet so many hopes are riding on it.
Alice is talking to itself about the gallery, and now it's time to start talking to the rest of the country if it's to be truly national.
Yaye's Café at Araluen to close tomorrow
The Strehlow Research Centre used to bring some 40,000 tourists a year to the Araluen Precinct and received multiple NT and Australian tourism awards in the early to mid 90s.
Coach companies AAT-Kings and Australia Pacific Tours regularly brought coachloads of tourists.
Unfortunately the commitment to marketing, and ultimately the compromised product of the Strehlow exhibition being swamped by the natural history of the Museum of Central Australia killed the numbers.
It's not the reason Yaye's has closed of course, but it serves to show that if the right product is developed and supported with good marketing on the precinct, the visitors will come.


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There is an old saying or proverb often used at the start of a New Year which says 'May you live in interesting times' and when it comes to business and culture, these are certainly interesting times to say the least. It takes a very brave person to predict what is going to happen next month let alone next year. The traditional systems and processes we relied upon historically are now in disarray and there is a genuine need for businesses in this country to step up their game and to become true leaders in society again.
For businesses and entrepreneurs to raise their game, this is no longer just about 'giving back' to society but about being a 'good business' too. After all, the emerging generations are quite rightly raising the bar of what is expected from business and also from their leadership teams.
These are by no means easy times. One only has to glance at the younger generation today and it is clear to see that they do not have the same easy-going approach to life and business that many of the previous generations of entrepreneurs were able to enjoy.
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That said there is a genuine desire for strong communities and culture again in the workplace but many of the 'old pillars' of society are no longer there to fly the flag. For instance, the 'old-school' bank manager no longer exists. The GP no longer makes home visits. The role of the solicitor has also changed. Many of the traditional pillars of society no longer possess the relational and engagement skills of old. Even worse, these roles have become far more transactional and colder in essence. The result is of course that there is now less trust in banks, doctors and also the law – to name a few.
Why is this relevant? Because there is now an undeniable shift amongst the younger community who want to see a return to some of the more old-fashioned business values that we once held dear. Concepts such as trust, honour, integrity, loyalty and people being supportive of each other have somehow become long-lost nostalgic traits that many of us want to see returned to the workplace.
Business leaders and entrepreneurs must now look to fill this gap. Our challenge is that although we believe that businesses can be centrally involved in how communities come together, (which is of course good business as a company working proactively with its community will also be returned in loyal and good custom), we continue to cloud that belief with questions such as: is this measureable? What is the ROI?
A quest for the truth about 'ROI'?
One has to question whether we are indeed missing the point here? Surely the very best ROI comes from those worthy and traditional values such as strong relationships, stable image/brand, trust and belief (common values most entrepreneurs live by). These are the elements that deliver business success that is long term and sustainable.
One of the most obvious explanations of the need for change is to look at the emerging talent, the younger generations of entrepreneurs and would-be leaders. So many companies are asking: Where are the young leaders of tomorrow?
There appears to be a real lack of new leadership breaking through. This is half true, but talent is talent and the real debate is how we nurture that talent. The younger generation came through a different route altogether. When the baby boomers of the 1980s were at school, the emphasis was on the primary objective: to leave as a rounded person – and hopefully with good exam results having contributed well in sport and life generally. Few of those students (the aspiring entrepreneurs) were 'A grade' students.
A greater fear of failure is impacting leadership today
Since the advent of league tables, education has all been about exam results and achieving A-grades, followed by a set path with usually involves going to university and leaving with a degree and a corresponding debt that averages at around £46,000.
This has undoubtedly changed the psychology of the young and there is now a greater fear of failure for potential leaders and entrepreneurs and far more stress, and tension to deal with. How is this even remotely close to being a good foundation for the younger emerging talent?
The baby boom generation grew up in a period of harder economic tensions for sure, especially with the recessions of the 1970s, but they were able to adapt to life in a more carefree manner as a result. Those that went to university in the late 1970s and early 1980s enjoyed the benefit of university grants and life was more forgiving of failure – because failure usually breeds success.
A tribal vibe
The result was arguably, one of the strongest generations of business people in this country. The Thatcher revolution of the 1980s did free up entrepreneurs and created the Yuppie movement – which was high achieving but arguably, rather selfish. But subsequently leaders emerged and wealth was created.
Today we face a very different scenario. One in four are reportedly suffering from stress or mental illness. Only one in five employees are reported to trust their leadership and nearly half of them (47%) are looking for new jobs.
In theory by 2021, 40% of the workforce will be freelance and have joined the gig economy. However, the truth is, most people are tribal, we want to belong to a team, culture or company and wouldn't necessarily choose to become freelance. So the question begs, are companies pushing talent away and forcing them into the gig economy as a result? Somewhere along the line have we lost our way?
Interestingly, the Victorians introduced team sport into their leading schools to teach the young men of that time about leadership and team work. As a result rugby, cricket and football spread across the world – a simple but yet effective concept. Perhaps schools today should look at ways to get back to basics in terms of teaching team spirit and nurturing leadership skills?
Making a difference 'beyond our business'
Overall, there needs to be less emphasis on textbooks and A-grades and more focus on real life. Real life is far more exciting in action but requires some old-fashioned pillars so that talent is encouraged to take more risk, to fail and then pick itself up again.
The traditional principles that brought people together and created strong cultures, teams and environments must be welcomed back into the fold again. This is where business and entrepreneurs can be strong. Most of us believe in teams, people and culture and business can lead the change that is desired by the younger talent today.
Businesses and entrepreneurs have to walk the walk, raise the bar, set the example and encourage people to challenge themselves, meet new people and build friendships. Ultimately, good business today is about making a difference beyond just 'our business'.
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A recent inquiry has found that 5 of the 6 private prisons that CA contracts out to failed to provide adequate medical care for inmates in 2016.
The audit findings include patients not being seen in a timely manner, patients not receiving their medications as required, and failing to properly dispose of used needles. In several facilities, nurses didn't refer patients to a physician. In some instances, nurses didn't confirm the identity of an individual before administering medications.
This is problematic, folks. Follow the layers: The Supreme Court mandated CA to reduce prison overcrowding in order to provide better healthcare to inmates. CA responded by shipping non-violent, non-serious, and non-sexual offenders to county jails to alleviate overcrowding, but these facilities don't have expansive medical units because they are designed for temporary housing. One of CA's other responses was to rely more on private prisons to warehouse inmates, facilities which — you guessed it — fail to provide adequate healthcare. Ostensibly CA is committed to providing healthcare to inmates, but empirical trends paint a different picture.


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- — Nick Cutter in the Series 1 recaps.
Series 1 of Primeval is the first series of the original British Primeval television programme. Series 1 focuses primarily on Nick Cutter's team's mission to predict and control the Anomalies and learn why they are happening, and on Cutter's search for answers about the disappearance of his wife Helen.
Eight years after his wife Helen disappeared, evolutionary zoologist Professor Nick Cutter - along with his friend Stephen Hart, his geeky student Connor Temple, zookeeper Abby Maitland, Special Forces leader Captain Tom Ryan, and government officials James Lester and Claudia Brown - discovers that mysterious rifts in time and space called Anomalies are allowing creature from across Earth's history to run rampant in the present; and the group subsequently become a Home Office research team tasked with predicting the Anomalies and containing the creatures which come through them, and learning more about the Anomalies and why they are happening.
However, Cutter secretly has an agenda of his own about the Anomaly operation: as the team investigate the Anomalies, Cutter begins to find more clues that imply his long-missing wife Helen is alive and living in the past on the other sides of the Anomalies. The rest of the team eventually learn of this, and that Helen is indeed alive and in the past, but she has been greatly changed by her time there and her study into the Anomalies, and the team are uncertain which side she is on. Eventually, Helen seemingly allies with the team to find and contain a future Anomaly located the past and to combat a deadly predator from the future which is on a killing spree in the present; but while Nick and Helen are searching in the past for the future Anomaly, Nick discovers that Helen only wanted to find the Anomaly and see the future, and after Captain Ryan is killed, Nick returns to the present. However, there, Cutter finds that Claudia Brown has been erased from the timeline while he and Helen were in the past.
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|Adrian Hodges
|Cilla Ware
|10 February 2007
|A sighting of a large predator leads scientist Nick Cutter and his team to the Forest of Dean - the same forest his wife disappeared into eight years ago. While searching, they find other strange beasts and a rip in time leading to the Late Permian Period.
|Adrian Hodges
|Cilla Ware
|17 February 2007
|When a giant spider attacks in the London Underground, Cutter's team decends into the maze of tunnels to investigate. However, there are more than spiders lurking in the darkness and soon the team comes face to face with an even more ferocious creature.
|Adrian Hodges
|Cilla Ware
|24 February 2007
|An ancient, vicious sea monster attacks a lifegaurd but when the anomaly disappears and reopens several miles away in a reservoir, Cutter realises the key to the Anomalies may lie with his long-lost wife. He must travel through time in a desperate attempt to find her and bring her back to the present.
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Bev Doyle
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|3 March 2007
|Helen is captured and interrogated by the Home Office. Elesewhere, a flock of Dodos come through an Anomaly bringing a deadly Parasite with them. Connor's friends steal one, leading to Tom becoming infected and Cutter and the team must find him before they have a pandemic on their hands.
|Chris Lang
|Jamie Payne
|10 March 2007
|A golfer is apparently killed by a Pteranodon and the team argues over whether to kill it or send it back to the past. When Connor and Abby trek into the forest to find Rex, they quickly learn that the Pteranodon did not come alone.
|Adrian Hodges
|Jamie Payne
|17 March 2007
|Helen returns and informs the team of a highly evolved predator from the Future is attacking people in the present, and even worse, breeding. To find the Future Anomaly, Helen and Cutter travel back into the past, but their journey through time causes unexpected and radical changes to the present.
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Main cast and characters
- Douglas Henshall as Nick Cutter
- James Murray as Stephen Hart
- Andrew-Lee Potts as Connor Temple
- Hannah Spearritt as Abby Maitland
- Lucy Brown as Claudia Brown
- Juliet Aubrey as Helen Cutter
- Ben Miller as James Lester
- Mark Wakeling as Tom Ryan
- Jake Curran as Tom
- James Bradshaw as Duncan
Guest cast and characters
- John Voce as Tim Parker
- Jack Montgomery as Ben Trent
- Mike Goodenough as Dave Greene
- Gail Kemp as Mary Trent
- Jane Cameron as Teacher
- Stephanie Street as Dr. Lewis
- Pascale Burgess as Jane Dexter
- Abigail Aston as Diane Johnson
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- Aled Pugh as Plumber
- Billy Carter as Doctor
- Manjeet Mann as Mrs. Davis
- Amaar Sardharwalla as Davis' boy
- Ike Hamilton as Andy
- Mat Curtis as Jeff
- Adam G. Goodwin as Home Office medic
Primeval Series 1 received largely positive reception and acclaim, with critics praising the special effects, the deepening and compelling plots and storylines and the solid character development.
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|Nick Cutter • Stephen Hart • Connor Temple • Abby Maitland • Claudia Brown • Helen Cutter • James Lester • Tom Ryan • Tom • Duncan
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|Series 1 Main Cast
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Market days on the site every third Sunday of the month add a festive air to a days outing, with many stall holders displaying their goods and craft.
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Satya Nadella said that his advice that women shouldn't ask for a raise was "just plain wrong."
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About a week after telling the audience of a women in technology conference that they shouldn't ask for a raise, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologized for his remarks in an internal company memo obtained by GeekWire on Thursday. He also laid out concrete steps the company will take to increase diversity.
At the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Nadella was asked what women who feel they are underpaid should do. "It's not really about asking for a raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will give you the right raise," he said. He also suggested that he would rather trust and give responsibility to those who don't ask.
In the memo, referring to those remarks, he wrote, "One of the answers I gave at the conference was generic advice that was just plain wrong. I apologize." He went on to explain that he had been given the advice not to ask for a raise from mentors and followed it in his own career, but "my advice underestimated exclusion and bias — conscious and unconscious — that can hold people back."
He noted three areas that the company will focus on in improving diversity, "starting immediately." The first is to ensure that employees are paid equally for equal work, although he noted that the human resources department found that last year, women at the company who had the same title and level made 99.7 percent of what men did. "But this obscures an important point: We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work," he noted.
The second focus will be to hire more diverse employees at all levels by increasing diversity among the senior ranks and intensifying its efforts at colleges and in other hiring. The company recently released its diversity numbers and men make up more than 70 percent of employees and white people make up more than 60 percent. Increasing diversity will now be one of the goals that senior leadership will be evaluated on.
And the third initiative will be to conduct mandatory diversity training and a focus on how performance feedback, the selection of new hires, pay and performance decisions, and other steps are made.
On the progress toward these goals, he said, "I'll report back to you in future all employee Q&A sessions starting in November."
While the pay gap may be small at Microsoft, women in computer and math occupations make $278 less than men weekly at the median. Women with degrees in science and engineering who work in STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — make $15,900 less than men each year.
Beyond being undervalued, women are also still rare in these fields. They hold 41 percent of the degrees but fill just over a quarter of technology jobs. Microsoft's diversity numbers don't look great, but neither do those of a handful of big tech firms that also recently released their diversity data, none of whom had more than a quarter female workforce.
And the few women there rarely make it into leadership. Fifty-five percent of American technology companies have zero women in leadership — a higher share than companies elsewhere on the globe — and at the top ten Silicon Valley firms, just 17 percent of executives and top managers are women. Half of the country's tech companies don't have any women on their boards.
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Restauranteurs that took over Adelaide's fading Hampshire Hotel have quickly been accused of salacious behaviour in the branding of their re-worked and re-named Asian-fusion pub Hotel Longtime, and its Ping Pong Club Room.
Alex Fahey and his Vietnamese wife Tin Chu, are the operators behind the successful Vietnamese Laundry street food diner in the CBD.
The pair took on the dilapidated Hampshire nearly a year ago, and set about fitting out a bold new concept for the downtown Adelaide venue.
It now features a front bar called the Ping Pong Club Room – a "gentleman's club" decked in deep blues and dark timber, adorned with black and white images of celebrities playing table tennis – a central dining space, with pink panels, greys, rose gold and velvet, and the back room, with DJ deck and a part-time dance floor.
The new menu is Asian with a Western twist, based in the belief that pub food in Adelaide needed a shake-up. It was created by Chu, who is still cooking at the Laundry, and local chef Miles Davies.
"It's all a bit of fun," Fahey told The Advertiser.
But open less than a week, despite a positive response in patronage a social media furore has emerged about the Hotel's theming, and even a Change.org campaign begun to change the name, garnering hundreds of signatures.
Critics suggest the Hotel's name emanates from a line in Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket, where a Vietnamese prostitute tells US soldiers "me so horny … me love you long time". And the Ping Pong Club is a reference to Thai strip shows.
Social media has seen comments suggesting 'cultural exploitation' and 'Asian fetishism', while the Hotel's own Facebook page brings context with "gotta say it's amazing" [Naomi] and "I'd love to check this out" [Melissa]. But also "great name, lol" [Pablo].
Fahey states he has not seen the film and that the name is meant to suggest patrons will 'stay for a long time'.
Chu told Adelaide Now "There is nothing in our name which is in any way intended to insult or offend women. If anyone has felt that, then we humbly apologise — but again, it was never our intention."
Whether potentially naïve coincidence or brilliant use of the publicity machine, the couple don't plan on changing the name and Longtime is fast accumulating Likes, Followers and most importantly, patrons.


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