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Is English still necessary for effective media engagement?

Last month, a group of elite sportswomen gathered in Delhi for an unusual meeting. It wasn't game strategy or training or future competition on the agenda; but a stakeholder of a different kind: the media.

India’s National Women Field Hockey team undergoing media training

The current phase of economic liberalisation, the rise of start-up culture and of course the advent of social media means that old PR essential, media training, has undergone change. The new star of today could be a start-up, a sportsperson or a film star. Not necessarily from metro cities.

 PR consultancy WordsWork has worked extensively with highly talented India sportspersons, helping them navigate the media landscape. Recently, WordsWork sat down with the Indian  National Women Field Hockey team to help them handle the media:

Neha Mathur Rastogi, founder, WordsWork Media says media training needs to keep pace with how media is being consumer and that, “Digital plays a big role and how a spokesperson behaves in the digital space is as important as in a face to face interview. Interviews are also more conversational and less formal so we need to incorporate this in training techniques. Media training also needs to take specialisation into account. We media train athletes at WordsWork which is very different from when we do trainings for CEOs or even embassies.”

Neha elaborates, “ When we train athletes they represent their own personal journey and struggles — we are not trying to represent a company but ourselves. Athletes need to be made confident to be able to share their stories with pride.Many times the reality is more harsh than what we also see in movies like ‘Chak De’ and ‘Dangal’ and  these girls are shy and unsure of themselves. The media training helps them represent themselves better with media .  In the long term this has a direct impact on even their commercial success with endorsements, for example.”

The Indian National Women Field Hockey Team in conversation with sports editor, Digvijay Singh Deo, Wion TV

The media training with WordsWork included a journalist interaction, which helped during this FB live story with ‘The Quint,' immediate proof of how digital media has changed ‘media interactions’:

Does English language matter in dealing with media?

One big change, which reflects the strengthening of expression in regional terms, is that not speaking fluent English is not the barrier it used to be for national media coverage.

The divide between people who could speak  English and therefore be featured better in the English language media, often considered the more influential national press, and these who don't is shrinking rapidly. Even as news consumption patterns change, and stars from non metro cities emerge, the ability to converse in English with English language press is increasingly less important.

Neha shares that, “ Media is more impressed with an effective message than effective language skills. Many of the spokespeople we work with prefer Hindi and the journalists naturally adjust their questions to the preferred language. We encourage clients to speak in a language which they are confident with.”

Angshupriya Danda, communications director, XXVII Inc while admitting that, “Fluency in English definitely gives an upper hand," adds that at the same time, “ it is not a priority. Entrepreneur and startup owners come from all walks of life and therefore their language or nature of language doesn't really matter. Expressing in the correct manner and saying the right thing, in whatever language maybe, is what really matters. Editors, reporters and journalists are much more understanding and respectful nowadays, mostly they do not discriminate  on the basis of language. And those who do, they should understand the other side as well, otherwise they might just miss out on their next important story.”

One of the big reasons this flexibility is happening is, of course, digital. Ramakrishna Prayag, senior communications professional, says that, “ Due to the onset of digital media, regional languages have become very important. As firms seek out customers in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, speaking the local language is more essential than speaking English. This becomes more important when it comes to product  PR and recruitment drives on campuses. Today, if I do a media training, I have to include journalists from, say an ‘Eenadu' or a ‘Dainik Jagran.”

Prayag also says that media training are no longer one to one for CEOs only. The focus on CEOs for media training is reducing as organisational structures become flatter.

Message distribution impacting media training

Honey Singh who is, CEO,  at PR and content marketing firm, #ARM Worldwide, points out that message distribution has resulted in a change in media training, “ Today, a company spokesperson needs familiarisation with digital forums and platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn.  Earlier, the top priority for any spokesperson was to reach and influence the journalists and media houses to convey their message. With more engagement of masses on digital platforms, the approach of spokespeople has also evolved. Integration of digital platforms, listing prominent bloggers, influencers and indulging in social media marketing across platforms has become an essential strategy for business growth and to reach out to your target audience.”

This also means that spokespersons have to spend more time in training than before. Madhuri Sen, co-founder, Ace Brand Strategist says, “ At one time, a media training workshop including mock-ups, scoring and actionable recommendations for improvement for four to six spokespersons could be effectively covered in a day. Now it takes a minimum of two full days, with half a day of theory and the rest for practice exercises and mock-ups, for the same size group. Some prefer to spread this over a week or two of half day sessions when it’s difficult to find two full days that all spokespersons are available.”


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Hyperbaric Oxygen (HBO) in sports has become more prevalent in today’s collegiate and professional realm. Mild HBO therapy provides a highly effective way to increase the volume of oxygen in the blood and thus increase the many beneficial effects that oxygen has on the body. It allows the body to get the oxygen it needs to create ATP for energy and flush out the lactic acid that causes muscle fatigue. The elevated oxygen levels help athletes increase performance and recover more quickly after a workout. Increased oxygen delivery to the brain facilitates brain function, and enhances an athlete’s ability to make split-second decisions that could be a difference in the outcome of a game.

A sports injury can be especially devastating for an athlete. Often, athletes re-injure themselves or make their conditions worse by attempting to return to full activity before their bodies have healed completely. Athletes sidelined because of injury can lose their standing in national rankings, or their place on a team. Because elite athletes have so much at stake, many have turned to mild hyperbaric oxygen therapy to speed recovery.

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Health education and RSE guidance — the outstanding, the good and the ‘requires improvement’

Firstly, a reminder of some very good news: from 2020 every pupil in England will be guaranteed a PSHE education that covers health education and relationships education (in all primary schools) / relationships and sex education (in all secondary schools). These are major steps from Damian Hinds et al at the DfE towards what parents, pupils and educators are crying out for — an education that fully prepares every child for life’s challenges and opportunities.

Of course it’s hugely disappointing that economic wellbeing and careers education is not yet mandatory for all, but schools should continue to prioritise this vital strand of PSHE until we win that battle too.

Meanwhile, draft statutory guidance on what to cover in the health education and relationships (and sex) education strands of PSHE is out for consultation until 7 November. There’s much to welcome, but also areas of concern.

We’ll be submitting a detailed response of our own but wanted to write broadly here about what we think is outstanding, good or ‘requires improvement’ in this draft guidance. We encourage anyone involved in education to contribute as it’s vital to get this right for children and young people.

There seems to be a clear and welcome intention to ensure all schools have license to treat PSHE as they would any other curriculum subject. We can’t see a school meeting the new health education and RSE requirements without having a planned PSHE programme in place.

We especially welcome references to “a planned programme of lessons” delivered in a “carefully sequenced way” [p7] and that “a strong curriculum will build on the knowledge pupils have previously acquired” [p33] whilst “schools should have the same high expectations of the quality of pupils’ work” as for other curriculum areas. We welcome the clear message that these areas should be properly “resourced, staffed and timetabled” [p12] with a dedicated “subject lead” [p31], not just replaced by a series of visiting speakers [p14] or isolated interventions. At the same time external providers can play an important role in enhancing planned provision with specialist knowledge and it is good to see this reflected in the guidance [p14], though it is vital that schools choose wisely (see our member guidance on ‘selecting and working with visitors and speakers’).

All of this should encourage the many schools offering regular, high quality PSHE to keep up the good work and help others to follow suit.

Mandatory health education is bad news for anyone who doesn’t like children and young people.

For everyone else it’s great news — there are aspects of the physical and mental health guidance that will improve healthy behaviours and save lives.

This includes physical health topics such as sleep, first aid, cancer education and diet, and aspects of mental health including positive emotional and mental wellbeing, learning when (and how) to get help and tackling stigma. Importantly, it outlines the link between physical and mental health, and how one can impact on the other. The breadth is impressive.

The Chief Medical Officer and various Medical Royal Colleges have long championed PSHE’s preventative power in supporting public health outcomes. Mandatory health education will help to solidify this role and ensure equality of access for all.

There are however issues that we’ll go into in greater detail in our submission. They include a focus on relaying information rather than also fostering the skills, strategies and attributes that make this information useful (we also explore this below).

Another area of concern is the suggestion that issues like eating disorders and extreme weight loss are specialised areas requiring ‘qualified support or advice’ [footnote p29], without providing guidance on how to seek such support or recognising that teachers should be given the skills to teach about these issues themselves.

PSHE education should be rich in knowledge so that pupils have the facts they need to hand. It’s important to know for instance the name of a drug, its likely effects and the legal consequences of possessing it.

Yet knowledge alone won’t help a young person offered a pill at a party when their friends have already popped theirs. The guidance says pupils should be taught “the information” to make good decisions [p24] but is information enough to turn these decisions into action? After all, if knowledge alone was enough to affect behaviour there wouldn’t be a doctor in the country who smoked, drank or ate jam doughnuts.

PSHE is not only about making good decisions, it’s about being able to act on them. To be effective it must be grounded in an understanding of what enables us to act in real life situations, and this includes knowledge, but also skills and personal qualities.

This isn’t a plug for skills over knowledge, nor vice versa (we love them both, why should we have to choose?!). Rather, it’s about recognising that when it comes to acting on critical decisions in our lives there is a natural interplay between knowledge, skills and attributes. PSHE is effective when it develops all three and this should be far better reflected in the guidance.

There is so much crossover between health education, RSE and economic wellbeing that the Department for Education once folded them into a unified subject — PSHE education. Clever move.

That’s why references to health, RSE and relationships education as ‘new subjects’ in the guidance creates confusion and false separations that don’t make educational sense and won’t make sense to schools. Real life is messy and doesn’t have such clear boundaries.

The same goes for any idea that economic wellbeing can just be covered in Citizenship or Maths without regard for the personal aspects that impact on relationships and health, only covered in PSHE. Family debt issues could for instance have a big impact on relationships and health (mental and physical). Or what about online gambling? Ostensibly an economic wellbeing issue — so not covered by this mandatory guidance — it involves the same skills and attributes as other areas of PSHE, including understanding and managing risk and peer influence, self-regulation, and critical thinking.

The draft guidance actually helps prove this point, with puberty referenced in health education guidance but not RSE; drugs and alcohol mentioned in health but without their potential influence on relationships; bullying referenced in both the health and relationships guidance; and so on. So it’s all a bit of a muddle and the only glue that hangs it all together coherently remains PSHE education.

And with 85% of schools already teaching PSHE that covers health and relationships, the new requirements should be seen as a ‘levelling up’ of PSHE standards across all schools.

So we’d encourage the majority of schools doing a good job to ignore the false distinctions — if your PSHE ain’t broke, don’t fix it — or if you’re unsure and need help to improve your PSHE, come to us.

This separation is most problematic when it comes to attempting to unscramble relationships from sex.

While the guidance for secondary schools suggests no need “to artificially separate sex education and relationships education” [p9], this is precisely what happens with the single focus on making ‘relationships education’ mandatory at primary level.

While we understand the practical realities of getting this final guidance passed through Parliament, there are real concerns about children’s safeguarding that should take precedence over squeamishness about an age-appropriate understanding of sex and our bodies.

Lucy Emmerson, Director of the Sex Education Forum neatly outlines some of the issues in her recent School’s Week article For example, although the guidance suggests primary pupils should have ‘the vocabulary and confidence to report concerns or abuse’, there’s no spelling out of what this vocabulary (e.g. correct terms for genitalia) should be. Without this knowledge it is very difficult to ensure primary pupils know “that each person’s body belongs to them, and the differences between appropriate and inappropriate or unsafe . . . contact” [p17].

It’s also too late to begin covering FGM at secondary, and even then the guidance is non-committal, suggesting schools may “want to address the physical and emotional damage caused” [p21] by FGM at that stage.

And though the guidance rightly says that “the onset of menstruation can be confusing or even alarming for girls if they are not prepared” [p28], it doesn’t include any reference at all to menstruation in primary despite children as young as 8 experiencing it.

The suggestion that LGBT issues should be ‘integral’ is welcome and absolutely vital, but advice and guidance needs strengthening and rewording, particularly at primary level. We would refer you to Stonewall’s response which covers a number of key issues, including that:

  • there should be specific references to families with LGBT parents [p15], and to prejudice-based bullying, including homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying.
  • schools must ensure teaching is LGBT-inclusive, rather than only 'recommending' that they do [paragraph 33, p12].
  • that respecting the religious ethos of a school [p10] doesn't mean certain topics need to be avoided or watered down.
  • Stonewall also ask that the section on RSE policies [p8,9,10] should require schools to make specific reference to their legal duties under the Equality Act to eliminate discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.

In a few places the framing and language are particularly problematic. For example, as Lucy from the Sex Education Forum again illustrates in her article, the repeated mention of “virtues” or character attributes such as self-sacrifice, forgiveness and self-control have “never featured in the research evidence on effective RSE” despite this suggestion in the guidance [p20].

Lucy is also rightly concerned “about the message it would give children to teach that relationships are about self-sacrifice, rather than about equality and enjoyment”.

In fact, such terminology sends a worrying message in this context. How can ‘self-sacrifice’ be a recommended response to an abusive relationship? Or could ‘forgiveness’ without question get in the way of disclosing abuse to others?

And though we’re certainly no anarchists at the PSHE Association, the reference to showing ‘due respect’ to “those in positions of authority” [p17, 22] rings alarm bells if that’s suggesting those in authority can never be wrong or have ill intent. We’d encourage a healthy respect for authority where it’s warranted, but the critical thinking skills cited elsewhere in the guidance [p17, 29] are important to establishing where this is the case.

When it comes to parental withdrawal from sex education, the ‘right to be excused’ makes frequent appearances. This concerns the facts of life, not jury service. Yet the terminology suggests something potentially unpleasant that can be avoided with parental intervention.

The consultation form asks a question on financial education but only at post-16 given that the government haven’t yet committed to making this aspect of PSHE statutory for key stages 1-4.

We do strongly recommend that financial education should be statutory for post 16 students, though such learning cannot begin at the age of 16. The foundations of economic wellbeing must be laid in key stages 1 and 2 and built upon through key stages 3 and 4, in the same way as for any aspect of health education or RSE. A comprehensive and relevant programme of PSHE education should then continue to be provided in key stage 5, that revisits and reinforces earlier learning.

We do not however agree that ‘the maths and citizenship curricula ensure pupils up to 16 can be taught the building blocks of financial education’. These subjects may effectively teach the personal finance content prescribed in the national curriculum, but the personal aspects of financial literacy and careers are only delivered through PSHE. Economic wellbeing is also inextricably linked with mental wellbeing, and relationships, so should always be delivered within a broader PSHE programme that addresses these areas and the relationship between them.

We therefore agree that there is indeed a gap in relation to financial education and economic wellbeing, but that this is not limited to post 16, and it is a gap that only PSHE education can fill. In the absence of statutory commitment to the economic aspect of PSHE, a stronger emphasis from DfE on the value of including aspects of economic education in PSHE is therefore necessary to help improve overall provision.

Though we’ve not been able to cover everything here we hope it provides a useful overview of what we see as some of the main points, both positive and negative. We will go into greater detail in our submission, and raise some additional broad points of concern, including the need for greater emphasis on inclusion for all pupils with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) throughout the guidance.

It’s certainly a big step forward in bringing guidance up to speed to suit the modern age. There are however features and omissions that look back rather than forward and don’t reflect the realities of young people’s lives in modern Britain. These must be addressed to ensure children and young people are equipped for the challenges and opportunities of today, and tomorrow.

The guidance is only one part of the picture of course, and the success of these measures will depend on all of the dedicated professionals and schools charged with putting it in place. Schools and teachers need support and training to deliver this material safely and effectively. We will continue to make the case to government that resources allocated to getting schools ready not only support initial implementation but ongoing development — this is key in such a fast-moving area of the curriculum.

We will also continue to develop our support for members to meet these new requirements. This includes our range of resources (such as our planning toolkits and guidance on writing RSE and PSHE policies) and our suite of training days, including training on preparing for statutory relationships education and the statutory relationships and sex education aspects of PSHE.

In the meantime, we would strongly encourage any of you working in this area to respond to the consultation in your own words. The form is long, and you may not have something to say for each question, but your experience will give you invaluable insight into what young people need from PSHE education and how it can work best for schools.

Once responses have been reviewed, the guidance will be updated and debated in Parliament, with a view to it being available for schools from next year and mandatory from September 2020.

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  • anon

    Really helpful and reassuring to read this article. Will pass it onto our Head. Thank you for keeping your members up to date in a factual and sympathetic way.

    Sep 25, 2018
  • anon

    This is an excellent start - thank-you!

    My concern is that the DfE have asked for responses to one set of questions, but that professionals and experts in the field should not be restricted to those questions, and that we should also comment on:

    1) Given that many girls start their periods in KS2, why include menstruation in the section on physical health and mental well-being for secondary school pupils? This needs to be taught in the primary curriculum, for both boys and girls, as part of the changing adolescent body.

    2) Would it help primary schools to have clearer guidance about the naming of body parts that children should learn from Year 2 or 3, certainly at the start of KS2, partly to link with NC Science but principally to support safeguarding.

    3) What additional recommendations would you like to see about the contribution from local Public Health / School Nursing would you like to see to help inform the curriculum and possibly to provide CPD?

    4) Finally and perhaps most importantly Does your school currently have adequate resources, support and training to be able to implement the Guidance? Should DfE make additional funding available to support CPD?

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Sometimes the Truth Is Not Good Enough

For leaders, sincerity and transparency are no longer key to building trust.

Posted Feb 12, 2019

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One could say that President Donald Trump is authentically false rather than falsely authentic. That would explain the strange appeal of Trump’s off-the-cuff rawness, and why his base doesn’t seem to bother about his, to put it mildly, loose relationship to the truth. Salena Zito observes in The Atlantic: “The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” There is apparently a difference between truthfulness and authenticity.

As for truth, these are interesting times. On the one hand, we’re experiencing its renaissance. Investigative journalism is having a field day in the wake of presidential lies, fake news, and algorithmic manipulation, and subscriptions for the New York Times and Washington Post are soaring. Likewise, transparency, honesty, and authenticity are widely heralded as the hallmarks of leaders in the digital age who want to restore the eroding trust in the political class and business. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the writer Anand Giridharadas, who, each in their own way, have called out ugly truths and stirred up a debate about social inequality and higher taxes for the wealthy, are examples of the new heroes of the left. And even the often maligned Jeff Bezos earned much acclaim of late for choosing truth over personal benefit when he opted to publish alleged extortion and blackmailing attempts by the National Enquirer even at risk of exposing, well, himself. We respect those who call a spade a spade.

On the other hand, the concept of truth is being seriously tested. Social media and the empowerment of the amateur have fragmented it. What some welcome as the logical democratization of a pluralist society, others lament as the atomization of public discourse. More than ever before we face myriad truths, with myriad platforms to express and promote them. In addition, AI technologies now enable deep fake audio or video that can hack or hijack entire identities (a technology with such grave potential that even the Pentagon is joining the race).

We are human because we lie

Despite all the talk about algorithmic manipulation, it is important to remember that truth remains an inherently human domain. We are human because we lie. In fact, one study claims that in 25 percent of all social interactions, we don’t tell the truth. Psychologist Robert Feldman once found that the majority of people lie at least once in every casual conversation. And Trump produces an average of 8.3 lies a day. We have to accept that truth is always subjective. Paradoxically, we may only protect and preserve it if we accept that one singular objective truth does not exist.

This should not excuse liars and demagogues, but it might help us realize that their moral failure does not so much manifest itself in their bending the truth, but to what end they are bending it. The ultimate Orwellian dystopia is not a world where we’re lied to by the government, but one where we’re no longer allowed to lie. China’s social credit system gives us a clue as to what such data-driven surveillance society might look like. Lying can be an act of freedom, of dissent and dissidence. Lying is what artists do: they rebel against the world as it is and come up with a different one. Entrepreneurs do the same.

Clearly, our society can ill-afford a culture of lying as the new normal. At the same time, a society that insists on one singular truth and does not allow space for some kind of alternative reality is not desirable either. As we increasingly tend to look to data as the sole source and evidence of truth, it’s good to remind ourselves that the truth is too precious to be reduced to something precise.

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Truth is like the sea: it can’t be owned

The movie director Orson Welles knows a thing or two about this. With his 1938 radio program, War of the Worlds, he caught off guard a panicked public that did not realize that the alien invasion the broadcast described was actually a work of fiction. In 1941, shortly after Welles had risen to fame with Citizen Kane, he was asked by the US government to travel to Brazil and produce a documentary, titled It’s All True, as a public diplomacy initiative during wartime.

In her beautifully crafted novel of the same title, the author Carmen Stephan zooms in on one of the episodes in the movie — “Four Men on a Raft” — which was supposed to tell the true story of four impoverished fishermen who sailed from Fortaleza to Rio de Janeiro, then Brazil’s capital, in the open sea to present in person their grievances to President Getúlio Vargas. Their 61-day long boat ride-turned-campaign garnered national attention, and they eventually arrived as heroes in Rio. The president met with them and promised to improve the living conditions of their peers. For his movie rendition of the voyage, Welles asked the four fishermen to play themselves. But tragedy struck, and the leader of the four, a man nicknamed Jacaré, drowned during the filming. It’s All True remained unfinished.

In her book, Stephan focuses on the relationship between Welles and Jacaré, and how their fates intersected. We have forgotten the truth, she writes, because we have forgotten what binds us together and instead divided it into compartments of disparate knowledge. Welles failed the very moment he wanted to merely re-enact the truth instead of bringing it to life as fiction.

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The work of artist Constance Hockaday charts similar territory. She stages boat rides and waterfront performances to connect us back to the water, which she views as essential to transcend the regime of the market society. Her projects include a “Boatel,” a floating hotel and arts space in New York; a peep-show-on-a-boat in the San Francisco bay that highlighted the loss of spaces for the city’s queer community; and the installation “All These Darlings and Now Us” that was described by the New York Times as a powerful “commentary on the forces of technification and gentrification roiling San Francisco.” The truth, for her, is like the sea: it can’t be owned.

We need new fictions to beat the algorithms

What does all this mean for leaders?

First, managers should give up the popular belief that radical transparency is the panacea for trustworthiness. The Australian trust researcher Rachel Botsman points out that more transparency does not equal more trust: “Transparency cultures and relationship are low-trust relationships. If we need transparency, we’ve given up on trust.” One could also argue that when everything happens in glaring sunlight, there is no responsibility, no secrets, no bad ideas. Democracy may die in the dark. Innovation, however, dies in radical transparency.

Second, if the truth is like water, all that leaders can do is dip their toes into it. Being honest is not enough, they must be exceptional storytellers, too. For most people, true is what feels true. Authentic leaders don’t always have to tell the truth. They don’t have to be transparent either. Rather, their authenticity emanates from the fact that they embody their own personal truth and by doing so manage to connect the rest of us with a more profound universal one.

Finally, Mark Zuckerberg may assure us that better AI is the most effective remedy for fake news. But we will not win against algorithms with better algorithms—we will only beat them by telling the better stories. To paraphrase the communication theorist and psychologist Paul Watzlawick: We cannot not manipulate. But we must learn to manipulate more effectively than the algorithmic manipulators.

Especially in times like these, we not only need facts, we need new fictions (in the milder marketing jargon also called "narratives"). They give us hope. Hope is not a strategy, the adage goes. Not true. For leaders, hope is their biggest asset. Because people trust those who give them the most of it.


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Does Your Flirting Style Work for You?

Researchers tested the 5 most common approaches. One was the clear winner.

Posted May 27, 2015

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How good are you at flirting? Can you catch a person’s eye and use the moment to generate his or her interest? Do you have friends who flirt with ease and clear success, but struggle yourself to say the right thing?

Maybe it’s a matter of flirting competence. In a recent experimental study, researchers put different flirting styles to the test and examined their perceived appropriateness and effectiveness (Weber, Goodboy, & Cayanus, 2010). Their results offer some intriguing ideas about how those looking for love might best approach the social challenge of flirting.

To begin, the researchers identified five common flirting styles:

  1. Direct introductions – a simple approach of self-introduction.
  2. Direct compliments – stating something favorable about someone.
  3. Humor attempts – using wit or other funny means to induce laughter.
  4. Cute-flippant lines – clichés or “cute” pickup lines.
  5. Third-party introduction – being introduced by someone else.

These styles offer different approaches to the challenge of flirting. Which of the above have you attempted? Has it ever worked for you? What about your friends' styles? How effective are they are securing someone's attention?

In order to test the effectiveness of these styles, the researchers created videos depicting each style and had about 300 men and 300 women view the videos and provide evaluations. (Note: They focused only on heterosexual romantic scenarios in which men approached the women.)

What works?

The results showcased a clear winner: Third-party Introductions. Think about it: if you’re introduced to someone through a friend, there is a type of sponsorship at work. The trustworthiness and positive associations you have for your friend are extended (at least initially) to the unknown stranger. This creates an advantage for that person (and maybe for you as well) because you hold favorable expectations that may make for a more positive overall meeting. The reverse might also be true: If you’re not too keen on your friend's matchmaking instincts, you might assume the person you’re being introduced to is similarly annoying, quirky, etc.

Coming in second—and the most successful one-on-one approach—was Direct introductions. Forget the game-playing: Just go up to someone and say "Hello" to strike up a conversation. Such an approach was revealed in the study as highly effective.

What should you avoid?

You might avoid trying to use humor as a starting point, especially if doing so isn’t a natural and authentic representation of who you really are. Such attempts are often viewed as ineffective, though it might depend on whether the perceiver views the humorous effort as actually humorous. In other words, if you’re not really funny, your humor (and your attempt to flirt) will likely fall flat.

Weber, K., Goodboy, A. K., & Cayanus, J. L. (2010). Flirting competence: An experimental study on appropriate and effective opening lines. Communication Research Reports, 27(2), 184-191.

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Does Pain Change the Brain?

Chronic pain changes the brain, but these changes are reversible.

Posted May 28, 2011

When we are in pain, it's hard to think about anything else. The pain takes over; we turn inward. Daily tasks such as getting dressed or making dinner take a great deal more effort. It's hard to stay focused and proceed from one step to the next.

What happens then to someone with chronic pain? Does the continual presence of pain change the brain both physiological and anatomically?  If so, are these changes reversible? A recent article in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that the answer to both of these questions may be yes.

In this study, eighteen adult patients with chronic low back pain were studied. The investigators performed functional MRIs on the patients before and six months after they received treatment for their pain. During this same period, brain scans were also taken from sixteen healthy, control participants. The investigators found several areas of the cerebral cortex that were thinner in patients than in controls, including a region in the frontal cortex called the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). This area may play a role both in pain modulation and in the performance of attention-demanding, cognitive tasks.

During the brain scans, participants performed a cognitive task which consisted of distinguishing a visual target from other characters. Although patients and controls performed the task equally well, the patients showed more activation of several brain regions including the DLPFC. Since pain is an attention -demanding process, the patients may have had to exert extra effort to stay focused on the task, and this effort may have been reflected in increased brain activity.

After treatment (spinal surgery or joint block), the majority of patients experienced pain relief. Strikingly, the thickness of the DLPFC increased in every patients who reported an improvement in his or her pain, while the DLPFC did not show an increase in thickness in two out of the three patients who did not respond to treatment. Patients whose pain had subsided also activated the DPLFC to a smaller extent when performing the cognitive task. Indeed, activation of this area now resembled that of control subjects.

When an individual recovers from chronic pain, it's not only the body that recovers. The brain recovers too.

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If you are looking for something cosy and practical with plenty of natural light, then this home is perfect. Situated in the much sort after Rossmoyne High School zone and in a quiet cul-de-sac; you can’t ask for more.

Perfect for a first home buyer or someone looking to downsize. The kitchen is fresh and functional with a gas hotplate and breakfast bench and overlooks the meals area and family room. A split system air-conditioner keeps the whole area cool in summer and warm in winter. The bedrooms have built in robes, ceiling fans and carpet in good condition. The bathroom is fresh and modern with a second toilet for convenience. The internal laundry is generous and has a separate toilet.

Out the back is a fabulous all seasons patio area with mesh blinds and ceiling fans, retained gardens and a stunning Zen space.

All this and the property has also been freshly painted throughout.
Please note: The sellers would be happy to rent back for up to twelve months if this suits the lucky buyer.

Additional features and benefits:

– Ceiling Fans throughout the home
– Retained Gardens
– Garden Shed
– Rossmoyne High School Zone
– Walking distance to Bateman Primary School, Piney Lakes Reserve, Park-lands and the Bull Creek Station
– Close proximity to Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch University, Parry Ave shops, Garden City Shopping Centre, Kwinana Freeway Access and Corpus Christi College

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New wetlands play part in water treatment

Treated water from the Maleny Sewage Treatment Plant in Queensland has begun flowing into newly created wetlands, just in time for World Wetlands Day.

The water began flowing as part of the commissioning process of Unitywater’s $18 million upgrade of the Maleny Sewage Treatment Plant that incorporates the newly constructed wetlands as part of the treatment process.

A sophisticated membrane bioreactor at the plant is now providing greatly improved filtration of Maleny’s treated effluent before it is pumped through 1500 metres of purple pipeline to water the wetland.

Simon Taylor, Executive Manager, Infrastructure Planning and Capital Delivery at Unitywater, said wetlands naturally reduce nutrient levels and improve water quality, making them an environmentally sustainable and cost efficient way to further treat wastewater.

“Wetland vegetation and soils act as Earth’s kidneys, filtering out nutrients, pollutants and sediments from water passing through,” he said.

“By integrating wetlands into the sewage treatment process, we are improving treatment standards while creating natural habitats for flora and fauna to benefit the environment and community.”

Unitywater’s role in the Maleny Community Precinct includes working with the local community to plant an irrigated forest uphill from the new wetlands, further enhancing the precinct’s biodiversity and public amenity.

The utility is also incorporating wetlands as a natural treatment system at its sewage treatment plants in Cooroy and Coolum.

“Unitywater is committed to improving efficiency and environmental sustainability of our operations to keep costs as low as possible for our customers,” Mr Taylor said. “World Wetlands Day is a great time to celebrate the achievements of these projects, which show green engineering at its best.”

World Wetlands Day is celebrated annually on 2 February and recognises the important role wetlands play in our environment.

The Maleny Community Precinct is expected to open to the public when the forest becomes established.

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The Casket Lottery

The Casket Lottery, who reunited earlier this year to play two shows with Small Brown Bike, have announced plans for a new full-length. The band will start recording this weekend at Blacklodge with longtime producer Ed Rose.

The Midwest emo act last released the Smoke and Mirrors EP in 2004. Their last full-length was 2002's Survival Is for Cowards.

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Purchase Students to Dance in BAM’s Next Wave Festival

Renowned Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti will showcase Purchase students in his staging of Jerome Robbins’ Watermill at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Students focus intently as renowned choreographer Luca Veggetti instructs them to move as slowly, yet naturally, as possible. They carry large reeds, wave them, drop them, and additional students bundle them—each movement precise and protracted.

Student dancers in the studio with choreographer Luca Veggetti

Veggetti is directing and reimagining Jerome Robbins’ Watermill during the Next Wave Festival at the internationally acclaimed Brooklyn Academy of Music in October. Watermill premiered in 1972, performed by the New York City Ballet and has rarely been staged since. Described as daring and controversial at the time, the dreamlike piece, based on Japanese Noh theatre, explores the nature of time and perception. (Visit BAM or see below for performance dates and details.)

Veggetti contacted Conservatory of Dance Director Nelly van Bommel, expressing interest in working with Purchase students.

“Of course I was interested,” says van Bommel. “It’s such a great opportunity for our students to learn and experience this rarely performed Robbins’ masterwork.”

Veggetti has worked with Purchase in the past. He was a guest artist in residence in 2009–10 and has worked with alumni over the years. He believed Watermill would be a good fit for Purchase students.

“Apart from its male protagonist, Watermill needs a cast of young dancers, they embody an image of the world while projecting in the space elements of his inner life. There is something beautiful and powerful in the diversity, humbleness and dedication that these students incarnate,” he says.

Watermill is a theater piece that is enacted by dancers. Or, to paraphrase Antonin Artaud in his seminal essay about Balinese theater, it is a kind of superior play in which the actors are, above all, dancers,” he says.

 Student in the studio with choreographer Luca Veggetti

Veggetti kindly answered a few questions, below:

Q: What do you find most rewarding working with students, and Purchase students in particular?

LV: Working with students has become an essential component of my activity and career. Apart from the thrill of seeing the potential of young dancers, it is one of the most exciting ways for me to develop new ideas. In their extraordinary diversity, Purchase students embody a field of possibilities that is particularly interesting to me on a choreographic level.

Q: A 2010 New York Times article quoted you as saying of Purchase students, “They are fearless. They are not afraid of launching themselves into the work. They have a very fresh, direct and exciting approach to movement.” Do you still find that to be true?

LV: Watermill makes demands that are somehow different from the ones that pertained to the works I created for the Purchase students in the past, though yes, I still stand by those words.

Q: If so, do you find it’s something unique to Purchase students, or is it more broadly American students, or something else entirely?

LV: All dance students are unique. A young person that, motivated by the passion for movement, dedicates that many hours in the studio to search for the truth in every gesture, is not only extraordinary but also the most vital expression of man’s yearning for the absolute. This is of course true anywhere and at anytime, but dancers, and especially young ones, are also the reflection of the world they inhabit, and of the tensions they have to confront themselves with. In this respect there is here a sense of attack, of dynamism, of free and unfettered ideas that is maybe singular when confronted with the burden of a cultural baggage so present in other realities.

Luca Veggetti

  Performance Details

October 24—27, 2018
By Jerome Robbins
Re-imagined by Luca Veggetti
Music by Teiji Ito
Part of the 2018 Next Wave Festival
Visit BAM for tickets.

Wed, Oct 24 at 7:30pm
Thu, Oct 25 at 7:30pm
Fri, Oct 26 at 7:30pm
Sat, Oct 27 at 7:30pm
Run Time: 1 hr
Venue: BAM Fisher
All Tickets:  $25
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Then and Now: Watermill With Sharon Lehner, Joseph V. Melillo, and Luca Veggetti
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BAM Fisher Lower Lobby / Free
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Federal Conspiracy Against Rights Charges

US Federal law makes it a serious crime for a person to conspire with another to take certain actions against another person’s civil rights, as set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 241:

Federal Child Pornography Charges

Federal law imposes criminal penalties upon those convicted of certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography, as provided for by 18 U.S.C. § 2252A:

Federal Kidnapping Charges

The Federal crime of Kidnapping applies to kidnapping in the traditional sense, as well as parental kidnapping. It is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1201 as follows:

Federal Coercion and Enticement Charges

The Federal crimes of Coercion and Enticement relate to situations where a person is accused of causing another person to travel for or engage in prostitution or any other unlawful sexual activity. The penalties vary depending upon the age of the individual and other factors, as set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2422 as shown below:

Proffer Letters and Proffer Meetings in Federal Criminal Cases

Those who are suspected of involvement in a criminal act by Federal prosecutors will sometimes be offered a Proffer, which is a type of limited immunity from prosecution in exchange for cooperation.  Sometimes the Proffer is initiated by the prosecutors, and other times a person and their attorney will request a Proffer.  Handling a Proffer situation properly is of the highest importance, as it can greatly affect whether a person is prosecuted and the outcome of such a case.

Federal Drug (Marijuana, Cocaine, Heroine, and Methamphetamine) Charges

Federal law prohibits the manufacture, distribution, possession with intent, or dispensing of a variety of drugs that include marijuana, cocaine, heroine, and methamphetamine. The applicable Federal law is 21 U.S.C. § 841 and 21 U.S.C. § 960.  Those accused of Federal drug offenses should take the matter seriously and work with an experienced attorney to properly handle the case.

Federal Money Order Charges

A variety of unlawful actions concerning money orders and postal notes are criminalized by the Federal government in 18 U.S.C. 500, which provides as follows:

Federal Felon in Possession of Body Armor Charges

Those who have been convicted of certain felony offenses are prohibited by US Federal law from possessing body armor.  The applicable Federal law can be seen in 18 U.S.C. 931, which provides as follows:

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Oost Vlaanderen

These notes document the construction of a North American contraflow Taaka in East Flanders. Detailed are; black upper chamber oven, fire box liner, and transmission tunnel.

Terraced dwellings transmitting the local vernacular.

The stove will be built on the ground floor of this former horse butchers shop.
It will be situated against the tripple wythe brick wall, separating the house from that of the next door neighbour at right.

The stables and smoke house at the back of the shop.

High Duty. NF2 Format.

Refracol 8.

Reracol. Cast 550/10.

Ceramic Blanket:
Thermal Ceramics Superwool Plus.

Ceramic Felt:

Flue tile:
Refractory Clay 20 cm square inside dimension.

The core will be built upon an elevated concrete foundation, which will also act as an ash drop. The tripple wythe wall will form the rear facing of the stove. This location is far from ideal as there will be transfer of heat into the wall, and the uninsulated, unheated, neighbours garage on the other side. This location was chosen by the homeowner, in order to reduce the space that a free standing, centrally located stove would occupy.

2 layers of 13mm wool are taped to the brick wall as a thermal break.

The first 4 coures of the core and rear manifold walls. A supplementary underair channel is cut out from the front of the core to the ash drop.

The fifth course covers the under air intake path.
The skew cut edges are at the point where the 3.25 inch side channels meet the 5 inch side manifolds. The two skew cut bricks (one either side) which span the rear manifold are possibly the most difficult cuts in the core.

The fire box floor, with the grate in position. After the fourth course a third sheet of wool has been added to the two sheets already taped to the wall.
Note: More insulation would have been used had there been room to move the core foreward on the foundation slab.

The fire box walls are built from brick layed flat. Here the brick have been sawn dow to 4.5 inches wide, from 5 inches in order to preserve cores overall dimensions. Two strips of folded ceramic felt are placed in the corners, as expansion gaskets, before laying up the liner.

A strip of aluminium foil acts as a bond break, and allows HTC to be pushed down behind the splits at this point in the row. The felt gaskets in the corners cause there to be a slight void between the splits in the middle of the row, and the firebox wall. Troweling HTC onto the back of the split in the middle of the row will bridge this space between the split and the fire box wall, offering resistance to any pieces of wood that should hit the back of the liner.

At the fire box opening the liner is turned inwards to shield the door jamb of the facing. Both full brick and splits are needed to do this. The fire box is 46cm wide, and the door only 41cm wide, which would leave about 2.5cm of facing each side of the opening exposed to direct radiation from the fire, were the liner not turned inwards. (See article: Shielding of 410 x 410 mm loading door opening)

The liner is cut down to about 4mm lower than the fire box walls, to accommodate the felt expansion gasket.

Two sheets of 3mm ceramic felt are used to gasket the upper surfaces of the liner. This prevents the liner, which will expand sooner than the fire box walls behind it, lifting up the core above.

The cut outs in the fire box wall for the lintel. In order to create an even bed for the lintel to rest, liquid HTC is spread upon the upper surface of the brick, then covered with a sheet of aluminium foil, the lintel placed on top and slid from side to side rapidly while exerting downward pressure. This evens out the surface of the ground brick and provides perfect contact with the lower surface of the bar. The foil acts as a bond brake, allowing the lintel to slide without dragging the firebox walls.

The first course above the lintel. Here the NF2 format lays out well, though the extra length and width, cause hand and arm ache.

The second, and start of the third course above the lintel.

The third course above the lintel. Each course corbels approximately 3.5 inches.

The fourth course above the lintel.

The sixth course above the lintel. This course will be the ovens hearth.

The three courses of the ovens walls.

The ovens walls are turned in at the opening to protect the facing around the door.

The oven slab will be cast in refractory concrete. The mould is lined with water proof tape, and set up on a sheet of plastic, that has been glued to the wood below. All the inside corners, and the places at which the corrugated plastic meets the sides and bottom of the mould, are sealed with a bead of silicon.

The deformed oven slab. Placing a piece of this weight with the scaffolding and manpower available would be risky.

The piece was taken outside and sawn in half with a 7 inch grinder.

The two halves of the original piece are layed dry onto a gasket of ceramic felt. The two straight ends, ie not the saw cut surfaces, are joined, and parged along the outer surface of the joint. There is also a felt gasket between the oven slab and the side walls of the exit throat, making both slabs free floating. The load relieving lintel. is also gasketed with felt, and only contacts the oven slab below for 5 inches at each end.

The curve of the oven slab, follows exactly the curve of the oven door. Along with the hight of the oven walls this will ensure that the facing around the opening is completely shielded. (Except the surface of the door jambs)

The completed core.

View of the fire box ceiling, and the oven slabs, through the throat.

The two caping slabs which were cast at the same time as the oven slabs are left outside beneath wet sheets.

The start of the left side channel.

The completed left side channel.

The start of the transmission tunnel at the right manifold.

The tunnel is butt joined and not tied into the channel wall.
A plastic coated electrical cable, which ran beneath the bench and up the wall to an outlet socket, was removed. The cable will be re-routed down the wall i.e. not lying below or behind the tunnel.

The second course of shiners have been cut down from 5 to 4 inches in order to keep the bench top low.

The inside dimensions. of the tunnel are 9 x 8 inches, with the base of the chimney at 8 x 8 inches.

The skew cut shiners for the fire box floor are layed dry. Note the free space left for expansion at the end of the row.

Splits are placed in the slots below the angle bar lintel.

Two brick are cut as over air deflectors. These too are layed dry, and will be pushed out slightly, to contact the back of the facing.

View inside the upper chamber. Before the capping slabs are lifted into position, a gasket of wool will be layed on the upper surfaces of the core and side channel walls. The throat is 5 inches wide, and the side channels 3.25 wide.

The finished core. The brick facing will be layed by the home owner.

The first 6 feet of chimney will be in refractory clay tile faced in brick. This will allow the installation of a guillotine damper, and provide thermal retention at the bottom of the chimney. The rest of the flue to the roof will be in 8 inch round insulated steel chimney.

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Right from the first day of our beginning, we had an aim to deliver the exceptional services at affordable rates to our clients. Today, a client that hires us for a power wash service, planting service, shrubs removal service, fencing their yards, leaf cleaning up services, drywall hanging or any other services like that, experience the quality workmanship at competitive rates. And this is the reason why we have managed to lead the industry as the most trusted home improvement service providers.

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Saturday, 5 March 2016

UPDATE: 'Mockingjay - Part 2' Blu-ray Easter Egg Revealed - 3 New Deleted Scenes From The Film

(part of the Easter Egg on the Mockingjay - Part 1 Blu-ray)

UPDATE: We have confirmed with the Phillipines home media distributor that the deleted scenes are indeed from Mockingjay Part 2 and not the previous films! Still no word from Lionsgate themselves on this.

Since the special features for the Mockingjay - Part 2 home media release have been announced, we were concerned about the, for the first time since the first film, lack of deleted scenes from the final film. Director Francis Lawrence mentioned in interviews that while the film didn't have many actual deleted scenes compared to the other films, there are a couple of moments that didn't make the final cut, such as a video call between Katniss and Haymitch and an anticipated moment of Katniss killing a civilian woman in the Capitol that was seen during the Paris shoot.

Also traditionally, starting from the first film, Lionsgate always put hidden extras, usually known as Easter Eggs, in the Blu-ray releases for the films. For the first film it was a hint at the reveal of the existence of District 13, for Catching Fire it was a faux-propo featuring the destruction of District 12's The Hob, for Mockingjay - Part 1, alongside the varying main menus featuring the full versions of Katniss' "You Burn With Us" propo and President Snow's rebel address, it was Katniss' failed "We End This Hunger For Justice" propo.

Which brings us to today's news - the Philippine distributor of the franchise on home media, C-Interactive Digital Entertainment, has revealed today with their announcement of the film's release in the Philippines (which includes a 2-disc DVD edition with the BTS documentary and the Target bonus features), that the Easter Egg on the Mockingjay - Part 2 Blu-ray (not DVD) releases worldwide features 3 deleted scenes!

It is unknown at this time whether these deleted scenes are actually from the final film, but we are curently looking into confirming if they are. We won't be surprised if they indeed are, and it would definitely be a nice way for Lionsgate and the filmmakers to give back to the fans and include these deleted scenes, even if the scenes themselves were not 'complete' or not numerous enough to go on the main bonus features.

Stay tuned as we keep our ear to the ground to find out more about this.

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Get Ready for Your GroupWise Migration to Exchange 2016 and Office 365

Exchange 2016 is here, and we’ll see more cumulative updates throughout 2016 that will deliver some of the features missing from the RTM software delivered in October 2015. With each of the previous major releases — Exchange 2007, 2010 and 2013 — we’ve seen a big wave of migration activity, and much of the activity is from organizations on non-Microsoft platforms such as Novell GroupWise. Most organizations look at each release as the green light to evaluate their existing environment and seriously consider their upgrade or migration plans for Exchange 2016 or even Office 365

We expect the same type of GroupWise migration activity with 2016 on the way. Therefore, we've launched new versions of Migrator for GroupWise and Coexistence Manager for GroupWise that include Exchange Server 2016 support.

You can check out what's new in each release below.

What’s New in Migrator for GroupWise 4.6

  • Exchange 2016 support: Full support is provided for Exchange Server 2016 as a migration target.
  • MAPI over HTTP support: Complete support for MAPI over HTTP in Outlook for end users running SSDM and administrators running the bulk tool.
  • Expanded fax provisioning: Directory Exporter and AD Object Merge now capture and migrate all three fax fields from a GroupWise personal contact:
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6 May 2018

Massive year for Indian Ink

From Standing Room Only, 12:45 pm on 6 May 2018

A world premiere, a national tour of another show, and shooting starting on a film version of acclaimed play Krishnan's Dairy - it's a massive year for one of the country's most successful theatre companies, Indian Ink. An American theatre company has commissioned  Indian Ink to create a show -  vaudevillian extravaganza where death row inmates pay homage to the inventor of the electric chair. Welcome to the Murder House is the latest and ninth production from the Indian Ink Stable, that started with Krishnan's Dairy more than 15 years ago.

Lynn Freeman is joined by Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis, the company founders, collaborators and firm friends.

Welcome to the Murder House is their most ambitious production yet. It's also their first commission by an overseas company: Orange-county based South Coast Repertory Theatre. It opens 26th of May at Te Auaha in Wellington.


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16 Oct 2013

At least 13 killed as typhoon hits Japan

7:19 pm on 16 October 2013

At least 13 people have been killed as Typhoon Wipha churns past Tokyo, causing landslides that swallowed houses on a Japanese island.

About 30 more people are unaccounted for on Wednesday after five houses were destroyed or swept away by landslides and floods on Oshima island, 120km south of the Japanese capital.

Officials say a further three people are missing in the greater Tokyo area, the ABC reports.

Police and fire-fighters have not been able to get to many areas but the bodies of two of those who died were discovered in a swollen river, while another was pulled from a crushed house.

Further north, the operator of the battered Fukushima nuclear plant is releasing rain water trapped inside its barrages, but says its radiation reading is within safety limits.


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If you’re farming with animals, you’re likely to be dealing with large volumes of animal waste. And considering how often animals graze, it’s mandatory to have an effective manure management plan in place to distribute this waste in areas where it’s needed most. You might think it’s easier to dump it elsewhere, but with the right knowledge, you could use it as valuable nutrients for your crops and soil.

If you leave the manure untouched, it can pollute your environment and have a negative impact on your animals, the community and your workers’ health. Farmers are encouraged to collect any manure lying around, load it onto their fertiliser spreader and strategically spread the material onto your farmlands. Depending on the size of your farm and the amount of fertiliser needed to be distributed, you will need to have a precision tool in place to assist you in accurately spreading your manure on targeted areas.

The main manure management approaches used are known as on-pasture management, composting and stockpiling for storage or removal purposes. Each technique has its own benefits, therefore it is recommended that farmers choose a variety of techniques to help yield positive results.

Here are three ways to utilise your livestock’s manure effectively:

On-pasture management

This is commonly used for organic farming as the raw manure does not get tested. In fact, it’s a very simple, natural process as the waste material is collected and distributed without adding any further chemicals or minerals to remove any weeds or pests to improve a particular issue. Bear in mind that large amounts of waste in one area will not benefit the soil or plants grown below, so make sure that the manure you collect is evenly spread across an area if you want to see positive results.

This low-cost approach does not require heavy farm implements or materials to manoeuvre aside from a fertiliser spreader to assist you in the moving process. On-pasture manure management is ideal when you make use of rotational grazing with your livestock, as it gives your soil an opportunity to absorb the necessary vitamins and minerals, namely phosphates, nitrogen and potassium. If manure is monitored and you choose to use your animal’s waste as a tool to help restore your pasture, you will help the land to return to its original state before grazing took place. Make sure it’s evenly spread for the best results.

Composting management

This approach requires you to treat existing animal manure by actively adding in any minerals or nutrients that are missing in raw animal manure. The purpose of this approach is to balance out the manure in such a way that the compost applied to a specific area can easily break down the organic matter available without burning or killing any important soil or plant nutrients which are needed for your pasture’s health.

It is also recommended that you use compost for a particular reason. For example, if you have experienced a lack of minerals in your soil or you’re experiencing an influx of weeds. This will then help to reduce those concerns while treating the area. Before you begin placing your compost down, it’s important to till your area with the correct farm tillage equipment to prepare your soil. It’s also important to note that composting works best with fresh manure, so try and monitor your animals and when you see a slight buildup of manure, be sure to remove it immediately and proceed with your composting procedure.

Stockpiling management

Stockpiling can be used for your own storage purposes, for instance, to use when needed, or it can be collected to sell to other farms in the area. This process is popular for farmers which only use fertiliser over the summer months and halt farming operations over the winter. However, if you choose to store your animal waste, keep it in a dry area where it cannot become contaminated. Have a clear plan on when you choose to use your stored manure as it can lose effectiveness over long periods of time.


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What causes Gingivitis?

Gums actually attached to the teeth at a lower point than the gum edges that we see. This forms a small space called sulcus. Food and plaque can get trapped in this space and cause a gum infection called GINGIVITIS.

Left unchecked gingivitis can cause the gums to get separated from the teeth. This can cause injury to the soft tissue and bone supporting the teeth. The tooth may become loose and unstable. If the infection progresses, it leads to PERIODONTITIS. If untreated you may ultimately loose your teeth.

How do we treat you?

During your visit to us, your gums will be probed with a small instrument. It measures any pockets around your teeth. A normal depth is 1 to 3 mm. X Ray is taken to check the bone loss.

Oral Prophylaxis (scaling):

In mild cases all the soft deposits will be removed from accessible area of the teeth and the teeth polished and treated with fluorides.

In some cases the tartar and bacterial deposits are removed from the root surfaces and gingival pockets.

Flap Surgery:

A surgical procedure is carried out to clean away plaque, deposits that are under the gum within periodontal pockets and on the root surfaces at the furcation (where the roots diverge). These area are inaccessible to brush and floss and inflammation will persist in these sites as long as bacteria are allowed to colonise them.

Under local anaesthesia the gum is lifted away and root surface is cleaned under direct vision to ensure that all bacteria are removed. Sometimes it is possible to treat bone loss with bone grafts. At the end of the procedure, the gums are sutured back into place around the teeth.