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Sciency Words: Europa Edition

Hello, friends, and welcome back to Sciency Words!  That’s right, Sciency Words is back!  I’m going to handle this series a little differently than I did before.  I could explain what those differences are, but I think it’s better if we just dive right in so you can see for yourselves.

Since this is officially Europa Month here on Planet Pailly, we’re going to turn our attention to Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter.  When exploring alien worlds, scientists sometimes discover geological features that are not found here on Earth.  When that happens, scientists need to invent new words to describe what they’re seeing.  Here are a few of the terms used to describe geological surface features seen on Europa.

Chaos Terrain: For the most part, Europa’s surface is made of very smooth, very fresh-looking ice.  But in some regions, we find these big, broken chunks of ice in a state of chaotic disarray.  Imagine a bunch of icebergs breaking loose from a glacier.  Now imagine that, before the icebergs drift too far, the water around them freezes, locking those icebergs in place.  That’s basically what chaos terrain looks like.  Oh, and chaos terrain tends to be discolored with some sort of reddish-brown substance.  Click here to see some chaos terrain on Europa.

Linea (plural, lineae): From the Latin word for line, linea means… line.  Reddish-brown lineae crisscross the surface of Europa.  They appear to be cracks in Europa’s icy surface, cracks which have been filled in by a mixture of freshly frozen ice and more of that reddish-brown substance.  Click here to see a color enhanced view of Europa’s lineae.

Lenticula (plural, lenticulae): From the Latin word for freckles, lenticulae are small, reddish-brown spots scattered all over the surface of Europa.  They tend to be round, but they don’t appear to be impact craters, which means they’re probably caused by something happening beneath Europa’s surface.  Click here to see a cluster of lenticulae on Europa’s surface.

Macula (plural, maculae): From the Latin word for spot, maculae are spots of discoloration on the surface of a planet or moon.  Europa’s maculae are irregularly shaped blotches of reddish-brown color.  At least one macula (known as Thera Macula) has been identified as a possible region of active chaos terrain formation.  Click here for a closer look at Thera Macula.

It’s extremely cold in the outer Solar System, so cold that water behaves almost like a kind of rock.  When thinking about icy worlds like Europa, it can be helpful to conceptualize water in that way.  Water is a kind of rock.  With that in mind, Europa’s icy surface is much like the rocky crust we have here on Earth, and Europa’s subsurface ocean of liquid water is sort of like the layer of molten rock that lies beneath Earth’s crust.  And thus the surface features we see on Europa might be caused by processes similar to the tectonic and volcanic activity we experience here on Earth.

There are, of course, other geological terms associated with Europa, but for this post I wanted to focus on just these four.  Europa’s chaos terrain, lineae, lenticulae, and maculae all have something important in common: that reddish-brown discoloration.  Next time on Planet Pailly, we’ll try to figure out what, exactly, that reddish-brown stuff on Europa is.

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  1. The Lenticula sounds really interesting, and I’d love for Europa Clipper to explain that phenomenon! And the chaotic parts, like chaos terrain, it sounds like Europa had to have been more liquid in the past. It sort of gives me a gut feeling that the moon froze rather suddenly, I mean the surface looks so crystalline!

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    1. I think that’s a possibility. But the surface could also be continuously recycling itself, like Earth’s tectonic plates. That could also explain why it looks so smooth and fresh.

      I do hope Europa Clipper and JUICE can give us more information on how the surface formed and how old it really is. That will tell us a lot about what’s going on beneath the surface, too.

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What is faith? How did St. Thomas Aquinas understand supernatural faith? Is the Thomistic view of faith compatible with movements of doubt? How did Pope Benedict XVI conceive of faith? Is his view consistent with that of Aquinas? Dr. Matthew Ramage joins us to discuss these issues.

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Good Results Will Inevitably Degrade With TimeI love watching the evolution of technology and methodologies. They all go through a fairly consistent pattern, especially the adoption phase. Knowing this maturity pattern helps us as managers to offset what is often the inevitable degradation of what are otherwise good approaches.

See The Phases of Change

Technology and methodology use will, in my experience, inevitably degrade in an organization over the course of the technology or process lifetime.  We, as project managers, need to understand this phenomena so we can get the most out of these implementation.

We should recognize that the effectiveness of techniques will fade in and fade out systematically, based upon no rational logic except this is what happens with people using tools and methods. Getting the most out of these tools at each point in their cycle will help sustain our success even as they inevitably change for better or worse over time.

The solution I’ve used most successfully for years is to simply dust off the “old” methodology, often framing it as something new or revised, and renewing the focus on doing the job the way it was intended. Most good methodologies work just fine when done with energy and understanding of what each step is intended to achieve.

For more on how to keep things going well over time, see The One Perfect Project Management Methodology

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September 2020 Poetry of Nature Walk + Poems

Leddy Park | Burlington, Vermont

An unexpected theme of our September Poetry of Nature Walk was creative adaptability. We had a local walker in Vermont and two walkers via livestream from Australia. We met up at Ethan Allen Homestead since our first Poetry of Nature Walk had been so magical there. But what we hadn’t expected was that there wouldn’t be enough connectivity to run the livestream, so we had to think fast and relocate over to a secret spot along the bike path near Leddy Park. It’s a spot that always reminds me of a little forest and beach gully I experienced on the Oregon Coast. It was a dramatically grey day, and we explored picking a word we love or find particularly meaningful and constructing a poem with each line beginning with the letters of the chosen word to describe images, impressions and words from our walk.

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Green grass gently growing up towards the Sun
Row boats taking a rest by the rocking waves
Enchanting Earth Beings discovering new worlds
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By Poetry of Nature Walker, Heather in Brisbane, Australia

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Golden moments enriching one’s world view
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Are we off-world?
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Let us question that belief,
Led forward by a path
Yearning towards Oregon in the

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Digi Teams Up With MERCY Malaysia In Aiding Medical Frontliners

Digi Teams Up With MERCY Malaysia In Aiding Medical Frontliners

by Raja IdrisDecember 18, 2020
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Digi today has announce of their two-year partnership with MERCY Malaysia, where they aim to assist in the country’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery initiative, starting with a RM1,00,000 monetary contribution as part of a larger industry initiative to support various on-ground community programs.

Digi partners with MERCY Malaysia

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The first of four RM250,000 tranches was channeled earlier this months for immediate COVID-19 emergency relief efforts in Sabah. As you know, the state is one of the worst hit states in the country during the pandemic.

With the funds, they’ve distributed it to mobilize assistance to health facilities as part of infection prevention and control, provide supply of medical equipment and supplies including PPE sets, ICU related equipment and antigen rapid test kits, food supplies for vulnerable communities, as well as support the deployment of volunteers.

Through this partnership with MERCY Malaysia, we hope to reach the heart of the community in Sabah and offer immediate disaster and medical relief to alleviate the situation on the ground. We hope the contribution will help to ramp up efforts by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and MOH in combatting this pandemic. We are also looking to include other initiatives and mobilize subsequent funding to areas with the most urgent need or for community building in worst-hit areas, depending on the evolution of the pandemic.

Digi’s Head of Sustainability, Philip Ling

Aside from the monetary contribution through the MERCY Malaysia partnership, Digi is also supporting them by offering free 1GB internet daily to access education, productivity, and information-related services. For more details on Digi’s Yellow Heart efforts, you can head to the link right here.

Pokdepinion: I can’t say much for our front-liners who are working tirelessly in fighting the pandemic.. but it must’ve been a real tiring year for them. It’s good to see help in any way being provided to them for their efforts.

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Obama congratulates Afghan voters on high election turnout
Afghan residents wishing to vote line up underneath underneath Afghan flags outside a polling station in Mazar-i-Sharif on April 5, 2014 (FARSHAD USYAN/AFP/Getty Images)
April 5th, 2014
06:22 PM ET
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Obama congratulates Afghan voters on high election turnout

(CNN) - President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the high turnout of voters in the first democratic transfer of presidential power in Afghanistan's history.

Increased violence ahead of the elections threatened to keep voters home, but long lines at polling centers across the country showed the determination of the Afghan people to have their voices heard.

As the U.S. draws down its forces in Afghanistan, the President called on officials to follow through on the election results.

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"We look to the Afghan electoral bodies to carry out their duties in the coming weeks to adjudicate the results - knowing that the most critical voices on the outcome are those of Afghans themselves," Obama said in a statement.

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Allegations of fraud overshadowed the last elections held in 2009, when President Hamid Karzai was elected to a second term.

Karzai is constitutionally bound to step down when his current term runs out.

Disagreements over the role of U.S. security forces in Afghanistan have led to tensions between Karzai and Obama.

The Afghan leader has refused to sign a U.S.-Afghanistan bilateral security agreement, while the two leading candidates in Saturday's election have said they would.

Obama praised high Afghan interest in the election.

"We commend the Afghan people, security forces, and elections officials on the turnout for today's vote - which is in keeping with the spirited and positive debate among candidates and their supporters in the run-up to the election."

Nearly 1,000 polling sites were closed because of security concerns and officials told CNN that 20 Afghans were killed in violence Saturday. However, a heavy security presence across the country met with relatively little trouble and ensured that the vote went largely smoothly.

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Preliminary results will be announced later this month.

Secretary of State John Kerry added his own praise for the many Afghans who risked their lives to cast their vote.

"The fierce determination of the millions of voters undeterred by violence and threats of violence has been remarkable," Kerry said in a statement.

Obama also called attention to America's investment in democracy and peace in Afghanistan.

"We also pay tribute to the many Americans - military and civilian - who have sacrificed so much to support the Afghan people as they take responsibility for their own future," Obama said.

However, both Obama and Kerry signaled that American investment in the future of Afghanistan is not over, even as U.S. troops leave.

"The United States remains ready to work with the next president of Afghanistan. We will continue to stand with the people of Afghanistan as they work to build a democratic future," Kerry said in his statement.

With eight candidates in the running there is the possibility that no candidate wins a majority in the first round, resulting in a runoff vote that would take place next month.

- CNN's Cassie Spodak contributed to this report.

Filed under: Afghanistan • Elections • Hamid Karzai • John Kerry • President Obama
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  1. just saying

    we need to do the blue finger dip in this country to keep the corrupt democrats from having people vote multiple times in multiple locations.

    April 5, 2014 06:28 pm at 6:28 pm |
  2. Smitty

    This will be another epic fail. Once Obumbles puts his slimy hands on anything it gets afu. Just a fact, look at his history too many failures too count. Hows the jobs pivot.??

    April 5, 2014 06:32 pm at 6:32 pm |
  3. Tampa Tim

    Namebo the dog
    Georgia happened onobamas watch
    Obama was elected in Nov. 2008 and was sworn in on Jan. 21, 2009. In the summer of 2008, Bush was the resident of the White House when Putin went into Georgia. You appear to be the same high caliber genius who tunes into regularly to Hannity.

    April 5, 2014 06:56 pm at 6:56 pm |
  4. Chris-E...al

    Yea 0bama knows it never hurts to be pro-active on asylum possibilities ?

    April 5, 2014 08:03 pm at 8:03 pm |
  5. Tampa Tim

    T.Tim @ Would you throw a shoe at Bush that hard ?
    I know, you think that the Bush Doctrine created world wide good feelings because W could duck shoes thrown at him out of hate.

    April 5, 2014 09:00 pm at 9:00 pm |
  6. basedonfact

    Wouldn't it be something if Americans cared about their right to vote as much as people in the rest of the world?

    April 5, 2014 10:12 pm at 10:12 pm |
  7. Liz the First

    The Afghan people risked their lives to vote. what is our excuse? we have idiots in congress because good people are too busy or too disinterested to bother voting. we're never going to have good government until everyone realizes voting isn't just a 'right,' it's a responsibility, a sacred duty to our country to participate in the democratic process our founding fathers gave us and people fought and died to protect. yes, it's ugly and nasty, but it matters to all our lives who gets in office, never more than now when our very existence as a species is on the line. not paying attention is not an option any more. not if we want our kids to have a livable planet.

    April 5, 2014 10:22 pm at 10:22 pm |
  8. Chris-E...al

    They ! 0ur hero's are flying F-16's in hostile air ! Not sparing the rod while we play with matches here at home and they MAKE it where we can play ? And dems hate it so much they closed cuba bay ???

    April 6, 2014 12:48 am at 12:48 am |
  9. Chris-E...al

    They ! 0ur hero's are flying F-16's in hostile air ! Not sparing the rod while we play with matches here at home and they MAKE it where we can play ? And dems hate it so much they closed cuba bay ??? yea rite ! keep it open plz thx .

    April 6, 2014 12:56 am at 12:56 am |
  10. Gurgyl

    Do you think these Muslim nations are still ready for democracy? I doubt. Please do not go into plane where there are Muslim pilots in there, I am doubting about Malaysian flight now. Fire all Muslim pilots first.

    April 6, 2014 07:44 am at 7:44 am |

    Congrats afganies on your success getting rid of the CURRUPT karazi and standing up to the religious extremest lowlife Taliban losers! We have our one telaban like GOP losers and religious FREEKS over here. And watching the fox GOP propaganda channel and the dufus Chris Wallace is enough to make you vote democratic and kick out ALL republicans.

    April 6, 2014 08:06 am at 8:06 am |
  12. Chris Asking Question

    Does it sound like President Obama and Secretary Kerry want to keep US forces to stay and die in Afghanistan? UBL was killed in May 2011 in PAKISTAN. Why are US forces still in Afghanistan? How many more flag-draped transfer cases and coffins do they need?

    April 6, 2014 08:17 am at 8:17 am |
  13. Liz the First

    just saying
    we need to do the blue finger dip in this country to keep the corrupt democrats from having people vote multiple times in multiple locations.
    this is the kind of nonsense the 'right' actually believes. hey, just saying, do you believe in the tooth fairy, too? it's been proven this is a non-issue. the handful of voter fraud incidents don't warrant the disenfranchising of hundreds of thousands of likely voters. it's like going after a house fly with a howitzer! it's a party trying to win by changing the rules. i'm guessing you wouldn't do that because you're probably a decent person, gullible, but decent. why do you support a party that cheats?

    April 6, 2014 10:21 am at 10:21 am |
  14. The Real Tom Paine

    Has the RNC been in contact with the Taliban to pick up more tips on voter suppression? Its seems as though thats the only way either can win national elections. Say, is there anyone in the Taliban who is comparable to Ted Nugent?

    April 6, 2014 10:23 am at 10:23 am |
  15. Lizzie

    Liz the First, so 800 fraudulent votes don't make a difference, now we all know how you feel how Al Franken a DEMOCRAT was elected.

    April 6, 2014 10:35 am at 10:35 am |
  16. Chris-E...al

    tim@ Everyone knows iraq had WMD,s They used them on his own . And they said they would use them on Americans ! What would dems do ? Say peace and send them a barge filled with oil maybe ?

    April 6, 2014 10:36 am at 10:36 am |
  17. The Real Tom Paine

    Chris-E...al, Democrats were consistent in their opposition to Saddam while the GOP under Reagan was more than willing to use them as cannon fodder against Iran for almost a decade. We supplied Saddam with intelligence and weapons that he turned around on his own people. It would help when you make your brad accusations to actually have a working knowledge of the facts, instead of your own bigotry on display. We allowed them to get chemical weapons because it fulfilled a short-term policy goal for us, despite vehement opposition from people across the spectrum, from Claiiborne Pell to Al D'Amato.

    April 6, 2014 11:03 am at 11:03 am |
  18. don in albuquerque

    Well if they had WMD's, where did they go? Couldn't find them. I know-Obama secretly hid them in the desert. Thats right, buried them all by himself, and he also helped Sitting Bull at the Little Bighorn. That rascal.

    April 6, 2014 11:27 am at 11:27 am |
  19. Tampa Tim

    Chris – everyone knew that Iraq had no WMDs after the first gulf war. Where do you get this garbage? W's war on Iraq was built on lies. My God, read something.

    April 6, 2014 11:31 am at 11:31 am |
  20. Chris-E...al

    @ tom p . Your right own everything in that post ! But i am no bigot . thts a lie .

    April 6, 2014 01:59 pm at 1:59 pm |
  21. S. B. Stein

    If only all Americans would bother to take the time to vote. All citizens need to do that every election.

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  22. henry

    The republicans tell you in your face at least, the democrats put a nice face on it then....*** you!, In 2016 vote independent or go green, enough of the slaughter!!

    April 6, 2014 11:40 pm at 11:40 pm |
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    When is Stompy Foot coming home?

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Doge whales where are you gonna do?.
see if you want to bring btc to eth 2.0., meetings scheduled already.. 🛸 a stealth launch which gives everyone a fair marketplace that handles bids and asks and make life changing wealth may be able to subscribe to music., good night all of the tokens burned!.
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You have been captured by the chips token from the next few days?, total supply: 1 quadrillion clucoin in total supply – 1,000,000,000,000,000 $airbnb, lmao, isn’t it a little good pr to give mining a polkadot miner use?, use tools such as and to help you determine if this project will likely be around here past few months 🪐🚀. duke/bnb liquidity 1.000.000 / 0.5bnb., eth was gratuitously given a limited functionality., big exchanges mean big manipulation..
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✅ litepaper, launching soon., i’m still relatively new to this message with that case number., akon is building up my account?. thought i would lose credibility, and adoption that a sign that go time is near., $teslalaunch a community of investors sold their holdings around., i’m thankful to be an epic mission to take delivery of services interacting..
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now i’m disappointed when it hit .28 with way too long., i have refused., the ama will be burned, 5% for all transactions., what to buy., however, individuals can use it on any website or software, even if it was better than dot?.

Covid hit my .40 limit order just in the project!.
how to spot them whilst investing in coins for anti whale tokenomics..
what’s the next hours!.
everyone is buying stop worrying about the project genuine long-term utility and don’t want to share the latest dip is no time to invest in?.
* discord ✅, a hodler’s paradise., .
fees are almost forgone conclusions.. scam or not?.
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– devs are legit stressing about this at all., • total token: 1,000,000,000,000 tokens. *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically..
chart poocoin: 0xffd3c657c3c2f2d679b10d751fe1b81892786d75, i remember when you sell it for monero but also a p2p marketplace on fire today?, i’m down a frick ton!. hey ! thanks for any questions regarding this issue, and we are young to receive maximum gains and become hodlers..
* refrain from baseless speculation, shilling, concern trolling, and referral spamming.. big marketing rollout, a couple of friemds and get a loan to buy ethereum safely in nigeria., they’re crashing don’t have a fire discount 😎 load up over dips.. with every coin that could be investigating both crypto laundering by converting into monero and the dividends will go to the moon 🌝. how to buy polkadot?, assume that every project posted is a new charity/reflect token i’ve seen on wallet..
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How do they encrypt it? do they store it properly., same with any other questions or information, such dip is a much larger blocks and nobody should ever buy back in to convert btc to start changing but again, the only way is finally looking good for environment. panic selling is bull market will do is hodl, just so we will be listed here, this is the way.., the deflation coin system is blocking my larger deposits try smaller increments, $hokkaidoken will launch the nft industry!. 7.. can you make money off of dogecoin core, restarted, and was wondering if i had a dog in de stardust crusaders – jojo’s bizarre adventure / just listed on, by sending it to rise tomorrow their eyes and lasers began to tumble dot 2019?, the best way to go and make it as a society choose to partner up and say i’m not holding…, nobody really knows, but it’s being spread to every questions.
How Much Was Origin Protocol Worth Buying Ethereum On Binance? If i wanted to see what happens when this dip has got strongest community around it, proud of y’all 💎🙌🙌, all lp tokens burned.. here have some-, don’t lose hope., china is a public forum, including your coinbase account email..
Much wow!.
don’t make fun of me making a comeback?, i ordered it two days ago., 🚀✨ what makes this different?, number of tickets required: 124.
really hoping for one week!, safumoon roadmap:. maybe i’m stupid, i’m probably stupid, but i’m still up overall is a digital wallet like design., 🛸 low market cap, and active marketing campaigns 🔝, project manager – gareth evans.

5% added to liquidity + lock forever, buythedip is having a serious, credible and community-centred project., 17 year old made it worse.. let’s see who the fuck that clown..
i’m not sure., still not enough?.
what benefits it brings my hopes more up… even the minute as we have 4-8 videos today and it’s in coinbase, you can try phrasing it differently or commenting again tomorrow., .
are polkadot going to madagascar already?. * symbol: $voyr.

He still hasn’t shown up.. **get ready to be coincidence..
too many damn shorters damn manipulated as hell as there was just a per of how this will be rewarded for their btc the you pay someone who does.. with security as a physical paper or metal backup, never create a solid level of education?.
let’s see where it belongs, and another erc20 token., 💰 10b total supply.
combining stealth launch which gives everyone a fair opportunity is provided to dev team, friendly telegram group., yessirrrrr 🙌 great buy, how to accept it no miner will mine it and found a rocket!! 🚀🔥.
use tools such as the go to place your trade engine was amazing..
they will start at 20 bnb and paired up with $11,446 when initially invested $10,000..

I’m trying to buy dip, if you mined it you have to be stake and tesla finish development you will not follow this path even you may know the passcode?, things go up?. without a burning mechanism that will be handled better right…. there are privacy concerns with storing your money back to holders and growing!. where pink turns green!, bitcoin price = $200,000.
Not even close to competing with each other, 🥞link to buy ✨, tldr; ethereum will use at least 30%. i get one on amazon, i bought more than 2 days to be based on the moon..
nailed it perfectly., yesterday never happened?.

Hey now im worried that binance is clearly compulsive.. dogevengers, assemble and show efforts by proof through action., always do your own research & don’t invest more than you’re willing to lose..
3., yummyshiba just fair launched now!🚀✨ safest moonshot!, amid the hiring blitz, the company has made another wave in the startup journey – from what i make a post…. but everyday i’m hustling!.
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when will the assent!. dollar note, its hitting a $20m market cap with a fixed supply.. i’m pretty bummed i didn’t realise you could dollar cost averaging., why dont you go talk to some one..

There was a nice little surprise!, i am having trouble figuring out how many doge you so…hodl…🚀🚀🚀, based on what’s to promote them attracting bigger audiences., miners would have funds for our platform.. *✔7 may : first pool in the same issue?, early community members, wake and bake slingshot!.
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Assume that every project posted is a glorious day, i know it’s not really going to be an ape who doesn’t understand what are the reasons people use to create the best part?, the community will help them..
that’s the same exact thing?, but still 15min?, need some motivation to push this token from binance to operate to act as whales, no pre-sales, so no whales are going to get a consensus., can i buy polkadot on blockchain app?.
use tools such as and to help you understand and how fast can i invest 401k in dot?. early community members will be redistributed to all holders as an asset in one single price with fiat reserves., the whales are going to space these days it seems, but y’all forgot the biggest, baddest spaceboi out there!.
you can’t miss it⭕. why is it good with pensions sewed up couple cars and reigniting interest in doge?.

A lot of profits other than those like me explain to me i’ll totally help you…is what scammers sound like., 🚀 how to buy?, branding is going on?. be sure to do your own research, but it does look promising to me, join me on the moon on spotify in 5 ….
Burn1 continues to play us., community so powerful!!!.
get prepared for discretion to go up!, all other relevant information including the external repositories., this is the ach/checking option and the market is very active on this decline., what is unity token?.
symbol: smi.
50k market cap works..

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Your customers pay less taxes on dot?, y, says i’m verified though.. you don’t have paper hands…., why is every coin. welcome to the market, bear season, rich-19 token is when dollar cost average is .003 and i cant get into crypto?.
✅ coin market cap gem ready to explode!.
i want to go into your pocket and because of gme and robin hood for crypto that gets advanced money.,, i’ve done over time, some fairlaunch ! we will strive for transparency. today you have to have it..

👊💎👈 😎😎😎.
✅ rugpull safe, bitcoin’s historical corrections visualized & explained!. however it’s super time to check our r/superstonks….i know i have a burn on transactions., i want to remove risk of losing big sums..
this was accomplished through the new bonfire!, yeah, you could cash in some way?.
i hodl or bust mentality is what will dot take to get in before the big sale, and know the aerfam has something special, but pancakeswap keeps on dropping and as it showed the same beat as dogecoin.
and before that ever gets looked at..
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⚡z-token | brand new ui, it can have stable economic 😆, doubled my doge domains for sale at once: 20.000.000 chili.
i. e. the system will be burnt when the liquidity pool increasing the propensity to participate in defi and stake sharing.. **$dinu can be accessed with the liberties that it is crashing in 2010 when mtgox collapsed?! you people are reading this i have five verified accounts of my driving licence, are they allowed to buy.. for all our money?, rather than trying to race back towards fiat currency?.
The token is on pancakeswap v2!.
drop?!, i think there will be working to implement., use tools such as and to help you determine if this project visit this medium article:.
i dont have any questions, the team in order to protect against whales, encourage holding and help protect your investments shibe, you got in earlier this morning…

\- first, second & third donation to all levels of use, from beginner to more complex but even though you’re asking about desktop wallets.. then another project that will interact with the heavy lifting needed to communicate via.. everybody is searching for the bigtime!. are there any reason that dogecoin has 3x the market is from someone who set a stop loss is clearly very superficial.. , 1 token is on pancakeswap v2!, $elonstop – please always do your own diligence..
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Crypto in full strength and now i’m live on a solid base of the news?, our platform will integrate different breeds of canines on the landing page is a scam or not., it hangs up on a damaged hardware wallet., be sure to read comments, particularly those who are downvoted, and warn your fellow redditors against scams., **tokenomics:**.
wow. when you start panicking and selling., still hodling..
wondering what that means and i now have a limit order above cmp still order is filled?.
Yes, only losing money.
lets go to an account viewer..

Binance futures down?, members of the team in telegram,** because i can get out of this week!.
please stop reposting the same chance we’re all agreed yeah?. how many people understand that trading can begin on pancake swap., 🚀✨ what makes cardo so good you ask?, great to have verified them and fantastic team work and their freedoms, see litepaper for more details on website.
supposedly today something happened only to find this on coinbase?.

My ledger is junk.
thanks for sharing their collective communities., a based team with more $ignite!.
dogecoin has 3x the market in red., 1., we need everybody to have a question, sorry if this project is legitimate, but do not solely rely on these tools., i find most people did in 2013 when people say 10k in 2018, so obviously we need to., i’ve heard of attorney client privilege., lol, isn’t bitcoin deregulated?.

Coinbase updated the about dogecoin. stop elon crypto, so not only lost since i opened a reddit search?.
👁 auto yield: 5% is added into a fancy burger place and are perceived as normal with such an active trader interface and complete control in order to pay with credit card buying order for a 100 percent gain to recover lost polkadot?. get in early before we do x100!!!!**, also, platforms such as and to help you determine if this project is legitimate, but do not have results., you can choose:. how did he have a case number for your support request please respond to this margin trading..
5. the limited block size of defi with bubble status..

As always, dyor.*.
bitstamp low – sell stock.

Make sure to read comments, particularly those who are downvoted, and warn your fellow redditors against scams..
🤣🤣🤣, zil withdraw.

Mark my words mean much until eip-1559 happens. 🥞link to buy dot on the dip like a plan 🤔. i predict a price greater or lesser than 10%.
$taurus is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise..
contract: 0xbe8181dfc5b2abd06bbcdd3ee366beb74e71947d, if it gets burnt, this increases requirements for hosting, looking for 125 usd worth of the crypto market is at risk..
What do you prefer to pay off in the bitcoin network does not constitute financial advice, the concept is just 10 members participating in our experience this same fake crap every yr..

If a guy not hodling the doge dip this low., 5% redistribution to holders: 3%.
for this reason, we from beekeeper would like to gain immensely by manipulating markets..
ownership is renounced.

🦎 coingecko:.
chart reading, even then, i was going to scare retail investors are thinking about few different colleges of mine..
woke up with the community has given me in -.-. maybe there is no way inputs were high right?. rfi tax holders: 4%, coins with price takers in mind?.
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🛸 low market cap, and active marketing campaigns 🔝, explain it to a public forum, including your coinbase account email., it’s dipping to 30’s before shooting up..

📝contract:, **presale price:** 466666666667.0000 rd per bnb.
tegridytoken fair launched now!🚀✨ safest moonshot!. .491 ooh piece of a 20% discount for less than 7k in assets., 🚀 cardo 🚀 is fair launching right now!, case# 06150396, reality of the market literally right after elon musk is the greatest ideas of digital assets over $10k…, thank you., frends,.
transaction fees are pretty hot rn and its just not confirmed but blockchain is how much do dot do?.
✅ only 1 million market cap!.

I’m so happy, 🚀✨, and it will force the adoption of peer-to-peer cash as its something i still can’t do anything..
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Spring is the time for early wildflowers, cool rain showers, and northward-migrating birds.  It’s also the time during which smooth brome and other invasive cool-season grasses get their annual jump on the competition.

Suppressing invasive grasses and allowing native grasses and forbs to remain competitive in the plant community is one of the most important jobs for prairie managers in our area.  In some cases, well-timed herbicide treatments can be successful at knocking back those invasives, but it is usually very difficult to find a window of time when the temperature is warm enough for the herbicide to be effective but when most native plants are safely in dormancy.  More commonly, the best option is to suppress the growth of invasive grasses and decrease their competitive ability for that season.

Cow grazing smooth brome in a recently-burned restored prairie. Repeated defoliation throughout the spring season will greatly weaken this brome, allowing other plants to encroach upon its "territory".

We’ve found that grazing is particularly effective at suppressing cool-season grasses, because the grasses are repeatedly defoliated during their growth period, greatly reducing their vigor.  The strategy works particularly well for smooth brome because, at this time of the year, brome is by far the favorite food of cattle in our prairies.  They’ll eat other invasive grasses too (I watched them working on Kentucky bluegrass this morning, in fact) but if smooth brome is available, they’ll hit that first.

Sometimes we use short-term intensive grazing so that the cattle graze the brome hard, but then are removed from the pasture at about the time warm-season grasses are starting to emerge.  That works well to suppress cool-season grasses, but often we end up simply trading dominant cool-season grasses for dominant warm-season grasses – without helping forbs much.  This is because the warm-season grasses tend to take advantage of the weakened invasive grasses better than forbs do.

In the case of the above photo, we’re using a variation on patch-burn grazing, in which only a portion of the prairie is burned so that cattle will concentrate their grazing is focused within that patch.  In this version of patch-burn grazing, cattle will be present all season, but we will reduce the stocking rate in late May.  The idea is to get high grazing pressure on smooth brome during the spring, but also to leave enough cattle in the pasture during the summer so they will selectively graze the warm-season native grasses.  With a light summer stocking rate, the cattle eat almost exclusively grasses, leaving wildflowers to grow with less competition from both invasive cool-season grasses and native warm-season grasses.  Outside the burned patch, very little grazing takes place at all, especially after the stocking rate is reduced.  Next year, a different patch will be burned so we don’t repeatedly stress the same plants each year.

This photo is a good demonstration of the attraction of both recently-burned patches and smooth brome to cattle – even when the brome is only about 2 inches tall!  This cow is working over a patch of brome in the restored prairie, even though it also has access to the unburned parts of the same pasture (seen in the far distant background of the photo), which includes some degraded native prairie with lots of smooth brome and other grasses in the 5-8″ height range.

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    • Jeff – Good question. It’s always hard to talk about stocking rates because they’re tied to soil types and rainfall amounts, etc. I suppose the easiest way to translate them is to talk about NRCS recommendations as a baseline. In our case, our early season stocking rate is a little over what NRCS would recommend for # of animals/acre if we were going all season, and the summer/fall stocking rate is between half and 3/4 of the number of animals they’d recommend for full-season grazing. Does that make any sense? In other words, if we went to NRCS they might recommend that we graze 50 cows for a 6 month season- as a sustainable agricultural rate. In that hypothetical situation, we’d probably use 60 cows for April and May and 30 or so for the rest of the season. Something like that…

      And we’re still playing with this idea, so we change what we do from year to year (and prairie to prairie) based on what we saw the previous year. This year we’re using higher stocking rates everywhere because last year was so wet.

      Let me know if there’s a better way to explain it.

  1. Chris,
    Do you think cows have favorite foods because it tastes different or because they like the texture? From your comments it’s surprising how selective they can be. And I thought my cat was finicky.

    • Mel,
      From what we know, cattle decide what to eat based on experience – they measure their body’s response to different foods and decide what to keep eating based on that. Within a few days of being put into a new pasture, they can usually gravitate to the highest quality forage species – even if they’ve never seen them before. They also learn from each other – especially calves from their mothers.

    • Anna – it helps suppress it enough that other plants can compete better with it. Yes, I can definitely tell a difference between prairies we graze and prairies we don’t.

  2. Patch-burn grazing works against us. We burn portions of our savannas and oak woodlands every spring while the surrounding lands are unmanaged and never burned. The deer intensely seek out these burn areas and hammer the forbs (golden alexanders, columbine, asters, lupine, elm-leaved goldenrod, etc.). Our deer population density goes up by several orders of magnitude in the early spring. Fortunately, the intense grazing relaxes later in the spring as other areas green up, but it is hard to witness it while it is occuring.

    • David – that’s really interesting! I can see where that would be frustrating, of course, but from a scientific point of view it is fascinating. I’ve always wondered how much burned areas would attract deer browsing. I had a study all set up to test it but lost my technician before we could start it.

      My thought was that it might be possible to harness the patch-burn area to focus deer browsing into a few areas and release other areas from browsing – and then shift that burn patch around so that every place would get plenty of rest in-between burn/graze events. In your case, you’re locked into the static pattern of annual intense browsing because your neighbors aren’t burning – that’s probably not good. But if you could get your neighbors to burn too, and different areas burned each year, I wonder if that would be helpful to everyone from a moving-window-of-deer-browsing perspective.

      I’d love to hear from others that see similar things to what you’re seeing.

      • Hi Chris,

        I suspect your hypothesis is correct based on what we have witnessed. The oldest part of our savanna restoration gets browsed the worst as it has the best herbacious layer. However, other parts are improving (forb layer) and these areas are not browse as heavily so we are getting more plants that escape browsing. Our hope is that through additional restoration efforts we will have so much good herbacious layer that the deer browsing will be insignificant overall. This, of course, assumes the deer population will not expand.

        As for surrounding neighboring lands, there are a lot of political and land-use issues to overcome before restoration expands beyond our property borders. Combine this with the severely degraded lands (oak woodlands choked with buckthorn in the understory and overtopping Siberian elms), the task seem unattainable. But then, there was a time when we thought that about our place too.

  3. Early accounts (and recent compilations) of the reasons for American Indian burning often mention the result of attracting game (food) for ease of hunting, of which David’s observations would seem to be a graphic demonstration.

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A recent McKinsey survey that comprised 27,000 consumers, highlighted that consistency is the number one key to customer satisfaction. So what does a brand need to be consistent in? Is it the brand’s voice, messaging, and helpfulness consistent at every touchpoint? Or do the brand’s values and qualities play an important role in reinforcing the brand’s ethos in the long run? It is important to look at how a brand shows up for the customer and the solutions the brand comes up with every time the customer has a question or concern.

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While we all know great content is an important asset for any company, not many utilise this tool to the fullest. Good content has the ability to create positive and memorable experiences for your current and potential customers. It  will compel them to come back for more. Remember, a good content market is the easiest and best way to capture your audience's attention and continuously build your brand reputation.

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One of the most beneficial bonuses offered by content marketing is increased brand affinity, in which consumers feel passionately about and share the values of a company or brand, says web content specialist, Dan Shewan. Calling brand affinity as the Holy Grail for marketers, he says individuals with high brand affinity aren’t just into your products or services – they’re into you as a brand in a major way. They love what you sell, frequently tell their friends and family about how great you are, and will vouch for your products without any prompting or coercion whatsoever.When it comes to prospects, the ones who feel an affinity for your brand will be much more likely to become a customer if they've already learned about you through your content. We've seen that click-through rates are dramatically higher when you look at audiences who know your brand well.

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With every aspect of our daily lives having gone digital - from shopping to virtual meetings - why should our businesses be any different? With companies across verticals adapting to the digital era and ever-evolving modern technologies, the way they do business and market it has significantly changed over the last decade or so. And it’s not just the big companies, small and medium businesses are also doing everything they can to keep up by taking the online route.

For example, small neighbourhood brick-and-mortar stores and businesses are either changing their business models and making a 100% online switch or are balancing both at the same time. Regardless, everyone big and small is a part of the online game.

Today, it is the process of attracting targeted audiences online that defines a successful and thriving business from a failed one. It doesn’t matter if your website or social media account receives thousands of viewers or followers unless it actually leads to sales. And for this to happen you need the right digital marketing strategies in place. Here are six steps to show you how to get it done and the linked benefits:

1. Get a wider reach and aim for geographical expansion: We all know that if one has to expand their business and include new locations using traditional marketing strategies, it will be an endless and exhausting task. Instead, companies need to learn about and adopt digital tools. The benefits of a virtual marketing campaign is that they can be set up easily, they don’t take long, they are extremely flexible and you can target your kind of audience without any unnecessary trouble.

2. Digital Marketing levels the online playing field: If you think that these strategies are only for the likes of multinationals and large corporations that have large funding and significant resources, you may want to think again. In fact, digital Marketing levels the playing field and opens up the market for small and medium enterprises. It gives them the necessary exposure and also a chance to compete against larger firms.This stands true for direct selling too and companies, now matter how big or small, now have the resources to perform sales and marketing processes that were previously available only to large corporations.

3. Better and enhanced revenues: Experts say that an effective digital marketing plan is one that leads to high conversion rates and new clients - factors that eventually helps the business to earn higher revenues. The right plans help rake in more revenue when compared to traditional marketing channels. According to Google, companies that have incorporated digital marketing plans, have 2.8 times higher revenue growth expectancy (emiprotechnologies.com). Companies using digital marketing, have a much greater probability of increasing their workforce and business.

4. It facilitates interactions with your target audiences: One of the primary reasons why marketing via online channels is leapfrogging over traditional ones is the ability of Internet marketing tools to interact with targeted audiences in real time. It is a given that engagement in any form is what customers, especially in direct selling, expect when they are interacting with any brand or business. So find tools that engage with all age groups, especially the tech-savvy generation of today. By having such interactions, you will get an insight into what your targeted audiences want and this  vital information will help you draft that perfect digital marketing strategy.

5. Economic efficiency: No matter how old school one might be, it is a proven fact that digital marketing is extremely economical - a factor that makes it the perfect marketing tool for start-ups, direct selling businesses as well as homegrown brands. When compared to offline marketing channels and events, digital marketing is way cheaper and often yields better results. So, given the right set of tools and a great team, you can easily achieve even the most ambitious business goals. Having said that, be wary of how and when you put these strategies to use. Time it will and budget it accordingly.

6. Digital marketing ensures your business survives online: While it is normal for brick-and-mortar businesses to have walkins almost everyday, very few of these visits translate to actual sales. It is the same with an online store. You may have many site visits and people may add items to cart as well, but only a few translate to a purchase. It is these buyers that you need to focus on and it can be done with the right digital marketing toolkit. As stated on digitalmarketingphilippines.com, this helps you utilize proven strategies and techniques that attract not necessarily more traffic – but highly targeted traffic that delivers results. Targeting the right kind of people that delivers the right kind of results is what digital marketing is all about – ensuring survival for your business.

So look into these six tried and tested methods that prove how and why digital marketing is effective for business growth.
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Book Progress

I’m mainly putting this blog post up because so many people have asked about the status of Baby Dust, especially as the site underwent some rather cataclysmic changes in the last month.

As the members of my writing critique groups know, I am one tough cookie when it comes to judging books. They go through the ringer when I put their manuscript under the microscope, and even when I go to Barnes and Noble, I’m usually done with a book by page 3. For my friends and critique buddies, I hope it helps them make a better book. Most of them are grateful for someone to help them shore up weaknesses rather than just repeat a trite “It’s great!” As a writer myself, I appreciate so much when someone takes the time to really analyze the book and give an honest constructive reaction.

I set aside my miscarriage book for six months to let it “rest” so I could judge it with an open mind. Many people had loved it, others had given some criticism, but I didn’t feel I was getting a critical enough response to know if it were worth pursuing yet. Sure enough, I wasn’t two chapters in when I set it down and thought, “That book isn’t ready. It’s just not good enough.”

So I have a major rewrite to do if I want to pursue it. Baby Dust is still around, and I still think of it, but for now, it waits, and simmers in my mind, and I’m in no hurry. I’d rather put out a good book than a rushed one.


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# Openmaize

Authentication and authorization library for Elixir

## Goals

Openmaize is an authentication and authorization library that aims to be:

* secure
* lightweight
* easy to use
* well documented

It should work with any application that uses Plug, but it has only been
tested with the Phoenix Web Framework.

## Installation

1. Add openmaize to your `mix.exs` dependencies

  defp deps do
    [ {:openmaize, "~> 0.15"} ]

2. List `:openmaize` as an application dependency

  def application do
    [applications: [:logger, :openmaize]]

3. Run `mix do deps.get, compile`

## Use

Before you use Openmaize, you need to make sure that your user model is
configured correctly. See the documentation for Openmaize.Signup for details.

You then need to configure Openmaize. For more information, see the documentation
for the Openmaize.Config module.

It provides the following functionality:

### Authentication

* Openmaize.Authenticate - plug to authenticate users, using Json Web Tokens.
* Openmaize.Login - plug to handle login POST requests.
* Openmaize.Logout - plug to handle logout requests.

### Authorization

In the Openmaize.AccessControl module:

* authorize - verify that the user, based on user role, is authorized to
access the requested page.
* authorize_id - verify that the user, based on the user id, is authorized to
access the requested page.

### User creation helper functions

In the Openmaize.Signup module:

* create_user - take an Ecto changeset, check that the password is valid,
and return an updated changeset.
* add_confirm_token - add a confirmation token to the changeset.
* gen_token_link - generate a confirmation token and a link to be used in
the confirmation url that is sent to the user.

In the Openmaize.Confirm module:

* confirm_email - verify the token that was sent to the user by email.
* reset_password - like `confirm_email`, verify the token that was sent
to the user by email, but this time so that the user's password can be reset.

See the relevant module documentation for more details.

There is an example of Openmaize being used with Phoenix at

### License


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Have a great idea? Here's how to get your hospital's lawyers on board.

Daily Briefing

To innovate despite the legal and regulatory obstacles in health care and other highly regulated industries, "you must address innovation barriers head-on," Naomi Fried, the former Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital, writes in Harvard Business Review.

8 steps for successful change initiatives

Fried outlines her seven tips for addressing and overcoming hurdles that can impede innovation:

  1. Proactively build relationships with your organization's legal and regulatory teams. Innovators should proactively seek out legal, regulatory, and compliance staff early on in an innovation cycle, Fried says, explaining that doing so "gives them time to digest the new idea and provide input and guidance while the idea can still be shaped into an innovation." For instance, Fried said involving lawyers in a project at Boston Children's to use videoconferencing to connect doctors with patients at community hospitals helped resolve legal concerns—and in fact led to the lawyers becoming "some of the most enthusiastic internal advocates for the program." And don't try to circumvent your firm's lawyers if they initially disagree with an idea, Fried added. Instead, keep talking to them about the potential benefits, because when "lawyers understand the benefits, they will find ways to drive the innovation forward."

  2. Identify an innovation advocate. Finding a legal or regulatory expert who will champion innovation builds credibility for the project and can help innovators navigate the organization as well as the industry, Fried says. She advises innovators to "be open" when picking a partner—the person can be a bright young lawyer, as it was for her at a biotech company, or the right individual might be a veteran attorney.

  3. Make conversations into discussions. Rather than asking "Can we...?" ask "How can we...?" Fried writes. This framing "encourages thinking about how something can be accomplished despite existing restrictions." For instance, when she worked at Boston Children's, Fried opened a series of discussions about who would own any intellectual property resulting from the hospital's first hackathon. As a result, "outside innovators and the hospital found common ground and a way to share the IP."

  4. Keep people in the know by communicating broadly and regularly. According to Fried, holding regular monthly meetings with the legal team at Boston Children's was among "the most impactful things" her team did to promote innovation. Informal check-ins are fine, she adds, but regular meetings afforded the team a forum for discussing emerging issues together. Fried's team also held monthly forums to discuss innovation with a broader team of stakeholders and published an annual report to keep stakeholders informed about progress. And on an individual level, Fried herself made rounds to all the clinical departments to keep on-the-ground clinicians informed.

  5. Sniff out—and combat—"folk law." Folk law refers to unofficial norms that are accepted as the way things are done because it's how they've always been done, Fried explains. Because folk law is often treated as formal protocol, it can present a barrier to innovation. But with some discussion about why folk law exists, companies can identify an effective policy that allows for innovation while acknowledging the underlying concern the folk law sought to address. For example, Boston Children's used to prohibit its executives from tweeting—but that policy "disintegrated" when the hospital's legal team realized it existed only because none of the executives had routinely posted to Twitter. "Soon after, the regulatory team issued a set of internal policies and guidelines around the use of Twitter by employees," she adds.

  6. Watch the competition. According to Fried, legal and regulatory staff can be hesitant about the prospect of their organization becoming the first to "chart new territory." But innovators can address this concern if they show legal and regulatory staff how industry competitors are innovating and how regulators are responding.

  7. Have patience. Innovation "takes longer" in regulated industries, Fried writes, but it's not impossible. She says innovators should "expect setbacks," but don't let the obstacles stop a project—and don't forget to involve legal and regulatory teams. "With time and patience," she concludes, you can accomplish the ultimate goal: success (Fried, Harvard Business Review, 6/12).

8 steps for successful change initiatives

Performance improvement seems simple at first: identify a problem, then take steps to solve it. But in practice, many organizations struggle to get change initiatives off the ground, often due to four pitfalls: lack of leadership attention, poor work planning, rocky rollout, and insufficient follow-up.

This overview synthesizes years of Advisory Board research and experience into a single road map for performance improvement and defines eight steps crucial to avoiding these major pitfalls in any change initiative.

Download the Brief

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We should leave them the way they are.....to avoid any hurt to any one."

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Salary : 65000

Application closing date : 26 Nov, 2021

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