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When talking about workplace culture, the terms diversity and inclusion are almost always discussed as a pair, as if they are two sides of the one coin. Have you noticed though, how diversity has become a catch-all term for everything related to not just diversity, but inclusion and equality too? We rarely consider inclusion on its own terms or discuss how it alone impacts business. If you were asked to explain what separates inclusion from diversity, would you really know?
So, What Exactly is Inclusion?
Diversity isn’t the same as inclusion. If diversity is the “what”, then inclusion is the “how.” In business, diversity focuses on the makeup of your workforce, including demographics such as gender, ethnicity, age, and sexual orientation.
Inclusion is all about creating a culture that welcomes and includes each employee and everything that they are a culture that enables your diversity to thrive.
Diversity is having a culture that values uniqueness: people of different backgrounds, cultures, genders, and races. Inclusion means inviting these diverse groups to take part in company life by focusing on how their contributions, presence, and perspectives are valued and integrated into your business.
If inclusion is the hand, then diversity is the glove. The two can’t really exist without the other. Diversity has to live and thrive somewhere, and an inclusive workplace is the best place to make it so.
It’s important start with inclusion though, rather that diversity. There is no point working on your diversity without first building a culture of inclusion. For example, hiring for diversity without first creating an inclusive environment sets you up for failure. Instead, foster a culture of inclusion first, before hiring for diversity.
The Impact Of Inclusion On Business.
There are many well-established studies that talk about how diversity makes for a better, more robust workplace. There are only a few studies that have looked specifically at inclusion, and the effect it can have on your business.
This is surprising because when you look at the results of the few inclusion surveys, the results are stark. For example, a recent Deloitte Australia study proved that more inclusive teams outperform their peers by 80% in team-based assessments.
That’s right, eighty percent.
Their survey found that when employees think their organisation is committed to diversity and they feel included, employees reported a lift in their ability to innovate, respond positively to customers and collaborate.
A different Deloitte USA study showed that when millennials work in an inclusive culture, they report above-average levels of engagement, empowerment, and authenticity. Don’t forget that by 2025 millennials are predicted to make up 75% of the workforce. Suddenly, the enabling power of inclusion starts to become clear.
If you’re looking for further proof, apply these same principles to businesses that pull inclusion right through their culture and into their products. Consider pop idol Rhianna. Famous for her music, but did you know 82% of this billionaire's wealth comes from her beauty brand Fenty Beauty? Rhianna positioned her whole product range around inclusion, with an ‘everyone is welcome here’ positioning. In fact, the health and beauty sectors have been some of the first to embed inclusion into their brand culture and products. Think of Dove’s Real Beauty campaign with their inclusive messages around body image and Sport England’s This Girl Can campaign around inclusion in sport and wellness.
It’s not surprising then that many businesses in the health sector have inclusion-centric cultures. Johnson and Johnson have focused heavily on creating inclusive workplaces. They created employee resource groups, mentoring programmes, and a ‘Diversity University’, a web platform that helps employees to understand the benefits of working collaboratively.
They have a Chief Diversity officer also who reports directly to the CEO and Chairman, and this is really the key point. This means that the J&J culture values diversity and inclusion from the top team all the way through the business. Not surprising then that they have been recognised for their work, being one of only two companies that have been on the Working Mother 100 Best list for the past 28 years.
How Do I Create A Culture Of Inclusion?
If you think about inclusion as a set of metrics you need to achieve, or a measurement at a single point in time, or even just a policy, then you are way off the mark. You are reducing inclusion to a process that’s disconnected from your culture, not a human experience that should be at the heart of it.
Strip away the jargon and the management theory for a moment and think about inclusion.
Really, it just requires the understanding of one simple fact:
Belonging is the basis of everything.
Think about your own experience. If you are working for an organisation and don’t feel appreciated, accepted, or don’t feel that there is a place for you, you will lack a sense of belonging.
Pretty soon you’ll be feeling miserable, and one of two things will happen. Most likely you’ll leave. But if you don’t leave, you’ll almost certainly ‘cloak’. Cloaking is where we adopt the language and behaviours or those around us, in order to fit in. For many women in male-dominated businesses, cloaking means becoming invisible entirely. Either way, It’s the opposite of authenticity and it’s exhausting for the employee who’s doing it.
Creating an inclusive culture is not particularly difficult, but it does require a mindful acknowledgment and focus. Here are a few of our tips for making your culture more inclusive:
1.Build inclusion into your business culture from the start.
The first and most critical step is to understand the inclusion is not an arm’s length concept or a bolt-on activity. Inclusion needs to be a fundamental part of your culture, one that is deeply embedded in your organisational culture from the very start.
2. Recognise Unconscious Bias.
Look at the representation from the bottom to the top of your business. Look at how many women there are. Now, consider ages, genders, and race. Is there an imbalance anywhere? If there is, then it’s likely that you have some unconscious bias at work. Unconscious bias means that people in your organisation may not be being included equally, because they may not be being seen equally. Most organisations have some form of unconditional bias in play. It’s important to accept the truth of it and build strategies to address it.
3. Build Leadership Capability.
A recent study by Gartner showed that only 31% of employees agree that their leaders promote an inclusive team environment. The same study showed that only 36% of diversity and inclusion leaders report that their organization has been effective at D&I initiatives.
These statistics are worrying because leadership is the lynchpin to creating inclusive cultures. Your top team needs to proactively create a safe team environment where all employees participate and bring their true self. Leaders should embrace the input of employees whose backgrounds or expertise differ, and foster collaboration among a range of staff. Facilitating constructive arguments, is a tricky but valuable skill, as are giving actionable feedback, and acting upon the advice of a range of employees.
Listening is a much-underrated skill set in the business, particularly so for leaders. Work on active listening, not just for the big and noisy feedback, but tune in to the nuance too. You might find gold in the whisperings.
4. Drive Inclusion Through Employees Experience.
The sense of belonging and well being your employees have directly correlates to how happy they are at work and therefore how much they are prepared to show up and deliver for you and the business.
In recent years, the term Employee Experience has developed, which encompass everything your employees think, feel, and believe in their employment. It’s more than staff engagement, it’s about how your workplace impacts their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Building an employee’s experience with inclusion at the heart of it, is a great way to drive the beginnings of a strong and long-lasting, organisational culture.
Starting The Journey To Inclusion
If you are ready to put the inclusion into your diversity and inclusion, we’ve got a great plan of action. Following these guidelines will set you up for success.
1.Assess Your Culture
The first step to prepare for the future is to do an assessment of your organisational culture. An assessment will help you understand the strength and weaknesses of your current culture help you identify what you want to keep and what you need to ditch and set a benchmark for where you are and where you want to be.
2.Develop Your Employee’s Experience
A culture of diversity, inclusion, and well-being needs to be an integrated component of your culture and not a standalone. It has to become a part of every organisation, a ‘must have’ not a ‘like to have’. Employee wellbeing, both mental and physical, are a priority focus for employees right now. Giving employees the tools and resources to do their job, providing clear and mutually agreed performance expectations, and creating an environment that brings out the best in everyone is key.
3.Invest in Leadership training
To create a culture of inclusion requires next-generation leadership. Next-generation leadership is where leaders understand that they need to embrace intelligence, collaboration, and adaptability to deliver strategic innovation which will solve genuine problems, add real value to customers, and drive growth.
Along the way, leaders must be prepared to sweep aside traditional boundaries, in their place promoting innovative methodologies including collaboration, empowerment, and flatter, more interwoven and interactive structures.
How Culture Consultancy Can Help
Culture Consultancy offer everything from ED&I strategies through to front line staff training, as well as technology and tools, so you integrate your ED&I proposition into your culture, enabling you to harness the talent (current or future) of your people and fuel your organisations’ success.
- Determine what prevents a company from being equitable.
- Explain the importance of storytelling.
- Construct how an interview process should work that would enable you to hire diverse talent.
- Describe the purpose of listening to employees.
- Determine the factors for choosing DIBs role models in a company.
Assessing Your Culture.
Using the Culture Consultancy Organisation Culture AssessmentTM will allow you to understand the way things are currently done and identify what is supporting your strategy and growth as well as highlighting potential internal misalignment or culture blockers that are impacting business performance.
The assessment can be completed by the whole company or just within a division, department, or large team.
There are many ways in which the insight from the Culture Consultancy Organisation Culture AssessmentTM can be used, including:
* Identifying existing attributes which are helping performance, and those which are hindering.
* Assessing how well the organisation is aligned for delivering against your strategy or transformation (new or existing).
* Identifying immediate untapped performance improvement opportunities.
* Understanding variances across the organisation so you can focus attention on the right areas in order to gain full cultural alignment.
* Demonstrating progress to stakeholders, including shareholders, regulators, the media.
* Identifying mismatches with 3rd party providers which may be impacting your service and/or commercials.
* Providing a baseline measurement for future alignment or change, hence providing you with an ongoing tool for guiding the required culture.
Developing Your New Culture
Once you’ve assessed your culture, you need to design the one you want, keeping the good things and weeding out the less helpful attributes. Culture Consultancy can help with our tailored approach.
Our 3-stage methodology consists of:
We gain a full understanding of your current culture- what makes you tick. We highlight what’s working well and you should therefore keep and build on, as well as uncovering the attributes that are holding back performance or will prevent your strategy from being realised. We also identify untapped existing performance potential.
We design the culture that will effectively mobilise your people to execute on your strategy or business transformation. For some companies it’s about growth, innovation, digital and customer experience, for others it’s about employee experience, wellbeing, diversity, and inclusion. Whatever the desired focus, we help you design the right Purpose, Vision, Values, Behaviours, and Working Practices to get the results you want.
In order to make the new design ‘stick’, you need to fully embed it. We do this using our 4Es Human Change Principles™ of Educate, Engage, Empower and Enable, which uses a combination of effective internal communications, behavioural change techniques, organisational design, and talent management tactics to develop and implement a roadmap that will fully embed the culture in an agile but robust way.
We can also provide overall culture programme leadership, support, and challenge to both assure delivery to time, cost, and quality and to provide input on specific re-designs e.g., behaviours frameworks, internal communications, process changes.
To talk to us about any of our culture tools and systems to help you create a culture of inclusion, get in touch.


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This column comes to you from Cali, Colombia, host of the 2013 World Games.
Our home away from home here in Cali is quite fascinating. It is a city with so many facets and staging the World Games here is such a pleasure.
The opening ceremony was really quite something to witness. The people of Cali came out in their thousands and packed the stadium. It was a sight to remember and all the teams received a huge roar as they entered the stadium.
Full stadia is what athletes and coaches live for and even before they got onto the playing grounds, they felt welcomed and accepted.
The World Games is a stage that we should occupy in bigger numbers in the future. The non-Olympic sports codes in our country can do well if we begin to pay more attention to these kinds of games.
It is not easy to qualify if you do compete regularly, but some of our sporting codes like squash, korfbal and karate should hold their own against the best in the world.
I would suggest that we identify the codes that we can prepare for the next edition of the Games. The ÔÇ£geesÔÇØ amongst the athletes here is encouraging and all show appreciation for the efforts of South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.
There are countries here that are in their private clothes and marching past must have some embarrassment to themselves and their countries.
Not so for our team that looked ever so elegant.
On my way to Cali I was in Italy to check out our new training camp facilities and this is a project that really excites me. Myself and Ezera Tshabangu (GM: High Performance) were in Gemona del Fruili, not far from Venice.
The government of the Gemona region are very keen on entering into an agreement with SASCOC and expand that to a national level. We at SASCOC are committed to sending at least 35 athletes to prepare for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, along with support staff from High Performance and a Chief Medical Officer and coaches. To this effect we’ll have a test run of between five and seven days in October. Top track and field manager Peet van Zyl was on hand to introduce us to all the relevant authorities.
The joy of having a base in Gemona is that there are top notch training facilities all within 40min of the base, including swimming pools (25 and 50m), boxing, weightlifting, trap shooting, target shooting, canoeing, rowing, triathlon and judo.
We made it very clear that we are not standing in line for hand-outs from anyone… this must be a partnership and we want to establish a national training centre back home which we will make accessible to the Italian athletes.

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MACON -- Desire, discipline, and dedication. Those are the things Noxubee County High School football coach Tyrone Shorter is looking for from his players as the program enters the second part of its 2012 season. So far, the Tigers have put those three things to use.
Gary Harris wasn't sure how his players were going to respond. Following a loss to Washington School in its opening game of the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools Class AAA North State tournament, the Heritage Academy fast-pitch softball coach challenged his players by telling them they were so close to getting to the overall state tournament. All Heritage Academy needed to do was find a way to regroup and defeat Jackson Academy and win one more game.
Things keep getting better for the Heritage Academy fast-pitch softball team.
Kendrick Conner didn't have time to be scared.
STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State University freshman kicker Devon Bell knew he would feel pressure. Bell also realized part of the challenge of being MSU's kicker was how he responded to missing kicks in a sold-out Davis Wade Stadium.
WEST POINT -- Freddie Reed and Ed Brown wanted to make a statement. After 24 minutes, the West Point High School football team's defense was less than satisfied with its effort Friday night against Lake Cormorant.
STARKVILLE -- Katie Lenz and the No. 23 University of Tennessee women's soccer team wanted to make something out of their weekend.
STARKVILLE -- "Embarrassing" That was the word Mississippi State University football coach Dan Mullen used during his halftime interview session.
STARKVILLE -- Mississippi State University offensive coordinator Les Koenning should've recognized some of the talent on the field wearing red, white, and blue Saturday evening.
TUPELO -- Columbus High School junior quarterback Trace Lee likes to spread the ball around to as many receivers as possible. However, senior wide receiver Dalon Moore has an advantage on most plays.
JACKSON -- Starkville High School coach Jamie Mitchell quickly felt sorry for his opponent standing on the opposite sideline Friday night. The Yellow Jackets third-year coach realized early on Lanier High was going to be overmatched in every phase of the game, so he did the best he could to lessen the blow in a 48-0 victory at Newell Field.
Sometimes in a tight ballgame a coach will dig deep into the playbook and pull out some trick plays. That's what Saltillo High School football coach Pat Byrd did Friday night against New Hope. With the game tied at the start of the fourth quarter, the Tigers converted a pair of trick plays for touchdowns to turn a close game into a 42-22 victory.
JACKSON -- Heritage Academy football coach Barrett Donahoe believes his team is finally turning the corner.
STARKVILLE -- Against the top team in the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools, the Starkville Academy football team had to play a flawless game.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- It never existed for University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban. The imaginary "it" is the media-generated buzz the Crimson Tide were on a three-game shutout streak. Imaginary or not, it ended Saturday in Bryant Denny Stadium when the Florida Atlantic University Owls scored seven points in the fourth quarter.
NEW ORLEANS -- Chief Brown's diving interception in the end zone in the final minutes set off exuberant celebrations on the Mississippi sideline, even though the Rebels had led by more than three touchdowns since the first quarter.
WEST POINT -- On a night when things just didn't seem to want to go right, the West Point High School football team turned to a well-known staple.
While no one at West Lowndes High School's Tiger Field was holding a piece of white fencing embossed with a capital 'D', defense was the key Friday night in the Panthers' 14-0 victory against the East Oktibbeha Titans.
ABERDEEN -- Like most football coaches, Aberdeen's Mark Bray expects to win every game on his schedule.
MACON -- For the Noxubee County High School football team, there is no such thing as time off.
1. Stallings plays key roles on two sides for Tigers HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
3. West Point will try to keep doing what it does HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
4. Anagnost wants MSU to build on progress COLLEGE SPORTS

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is getting into the ghost kitchen game with the launch of a new delivery-only restaurant in Santa Monica, California.
The Goop Kitchen, which opened on March 8, is led by chef Kim Floresca, who worked at restaurants including Per Se, El Bulli, and The Restaurant at Meadowood. The menu includes bowls, salads, lettuce wraps, soups, and desserts. The dishes are all gluten-free and tout vegan options, sustainable growing practices, and an in-house “Goop Certified Clean” label (a.k.a. no processed sugars, processed foods, gluten, soy, dairy, peanuts, or preservatives). Prices are on par with other fast-casual bowl restaurants like Sweetgreen; GP’s — and again, that’s Gwyneth Paltrow‘s — Cobb is $11.95, while a spring salmon bowl will set you back about $16. Not exactly cheap, but we were expecting far steeper prices from the brand that, in a recent gift guide, suggested a $38,000 mattress and a $2,000K Ouija board that’s probably not even haunted.
“Driven by a core belief that clean, nutrient-dense, delicious food leads to greater well-being, Goop has covered countless detoxes and interviewed legions of experts on the food-to-happiness connection,” the company said in a statement, per Food & Wine. “Goop Kitchen’s mission is to accelerate the clean food movement by proving, just as Paltrow did years ago, that whole, unprocessed meals can be both satisfying and convenient, this time brought right to your door with just a few clicks.”
All in all, sounds very Goop-y.
Paltrow is the latest celebrity to join the ghost kitchen trend, following in the footsteps of fellow famous people such as Guy Fieri, YouTuber MrBeast, and rapper Tyga. Ghost kitchens, also known as virtual kitchens or delivery-only “concepts,” have become an increasingly popular restaurant model, particularly during the pandemic. It’s often easier and more cost-effective to spin up a virtual brand and service the delivery boom from industrial kitchens or existing restaurant kitchens than to open a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant with a dining room. That makes ghost kitchens attractive to celebrities with a brand image to hawk, independent chefs experimenting with pop-ups, and entrepreneurs looking for a scalable project with high earning potential.
It remains to be seen whether or not ghost kitchens will be the “future” of the restaurant industry, but there are sure to be more Goop Kitchens down the road. While the newly opened Santa Monica kitchen is currently the only location, the company promises “several Goop food concepts with new locations rolling out throughout the Los Angeles area in the next few months,” according to an Instagram post announcing the launch. This, of course, is in addition to Goop’s other business branches, which most recently extended into peddling snake oil to profit off the COVID-19 pandemic. Bon appétit, Los Angeles! Scrambled yoni eggs for all!


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It is hard to ignore the bigger picture since the political landscape is now so totally wrecked: the truth is time is running out, as Simon Kuper said in the Financial Times. But we all have to continue treading our little furrow because what’s the alternative? Of course some of us can write poetry, thereby showing that some good can come out of conflict. Thirteen-year-old Amineh Abou Kerech
arrived in England a year ago and her school, Oxford Spires, has obviously been absolutely superb a) at teaching her English b) helping her write poetry. Her ‘Lament for Syria’ has just won the Betjeman poetry prize. This is how the poem begins (the rest of it is here):
Syrian doves croon above my head
their call cries in my eyes.
I’m trying to design a country
that will go with my poetry
and not get in the way when I’m thinking,
where soldiers don’t walk over my face.
I’m trying to design a country
which will be worthy of me if I’m ever a poet
and make allowances if I burst into tears.
I’m trying to design a City
of Love, Peace, Concord and Virtue,
free of mess, war, wreckage and misery.
We shall be hearing more of Amineh. But very very sadly someone whom we shall not be hearing from again is Ben Whitrow. He died while in the middle of recording Jonathan Smith‘s two plays about Betjeman for Radio 4. Lydia and the Persephone girls had a very tiny part to play in this (apart from knowing and loving both Ben Whitrow and our author Jonathan Smith) because Lydia sometimes goes on holiday to a house near Trebetherick. The uncovering by the Victorians (they literally dug it out of the sand) of the church at Trebetherick, St Enodoc, would make a marvellous play or indeed novel we said to Jonathan over a cup of tea in Lamb’s Conduit Street. This did not work out but instead he wrote a two-part play about Betjeman to which we were much looking forward. But can anyone replace Ben Whitrow?
This Friday we are going to the premiere of the new film of Journey’s End by another of our authors, R C Sherriff; and are looking forward to seeing Goodbye Christopher Robin. We had considered reprinting A A Milne’s The Red House Mystery; but somehow couldn’t love it enough. It’s been reissued – beautifully – by The Folio Society; which has also reissued Edward Thomas’s poems with marvellous illustrations by David Gentleman.
On Friday at 11, at Sotheby’s, there is sale of Bauhaus artefacts. How nice it would be to able to the buy the electric kettle! But the estimate is £60,000, which is quite something for a kettle. Details here.
Next weekend an exhibition opens at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow of the work of May Morris. Her Honeysuckle wallpaper design dates from the early 1880s.
Finally, our opening hours have changed: we shall be open from 11-5 on Saturdays (instead of 12-5) and 12-4 on Sundays (which is new).
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Excellence in Music Education
As part of our holistic education that empowers students to find their passions, contributes to their wellbeing and inspires them for the future, Marsden has a firm commitment to and long-standing record of excellence in music education. From Primary school right through to Y13, students at Marsden have the opportunity to participate in an inclusive and encouraging environment led by talented specialist teachers.
All Primary students have weekly music lessons and can additionally take part in Junior Choir, Chapel Choir, school orchestra and a music club. Within their weekly lessons students explore and acquire skills and knowledge in the elements of music in a fun and stimulating way. At each year level there is also an instrumental focus including the ocarina for the juniors, the strings initiative to learn violin or cello in Years 3 and 4, recorder in Year 5 and ukulele in Year 6. The Music Club welcomes all to play and learn about percussion (Term 1); ukulele (Term 2) and playing as a recorder ensemble (Term 3 and 4).
At the end of every term we hold a Primary School service at St Mary’s where the Chapel Choir performs, and throughout the year we host concerts and Special Friends days where the different choirs, ensembles and solo musicians are able to perform in a supportive and welcoming environment. Additionally Primary students put on a production every other year in Term 3, rotating this with the wonderful Wellington Artsplash festival.
Highly trained teachers
Marsden also offers highly trained itinerant teachers in voice, piano, violin, clarinet, flute, saxophone, viola, basson, drums, ukulele, bassoon, tuba, oboe, cello and double bass for interested students of all ages.
Even more for Upper School
The Upper School offers even more groups for musically inclined students to avail themselves of including our all-comers choir Ad Summa, our Year 7-9 choir The Larks, the auditioned choir Altissime, Kapa Haka, school orchestra, handbells and many more ensembles. There is also an Upper School production every two years.
In their intermediate years all Year 7 and 8 students take two class lessons of music a week and Year 9s have one lesson per week. Year 7 focuses primarily on the Year 7 Band - everyone learns a new instrument, not something they already know. More experienced musicians help those newer to music and everyone has a chance to give it a go. “The experience of learning a new instrument gives students something that can take them places if they choose” says Marsden’s Head of Music Marian Campbell. “It allows them to be a part of creating something new and being a part of something big.” The Year 7’s also learn a new music coding program. The OSMO Jam program allows students to compose through coding musical patterns into the program to generate a multi-layered piece of music.
In Year 8 the students study music styles from around the world and also participate in the Jam programme where they learn through pop music to read and understand chords on the keyboard and guitar. Year 9’s focus is on Rock n Roll, Jazz and the Blues. For those girls wanting to continue their music study, Marsden has a strong NCEA programme in Years 10-13.
Opportunities to perform
All Marsden students bring their voices and musical talents to participate in the life of the school as music is such an important part of our school culture. Throughout the year the girls sing and perform at Old Girls' Day, House Music, Carol Service and Prizegiving. We also have Showcase concerts, the Swainson Memorial Music Competition and itinerant music recitals.


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RPMC Lasers provides a selection of 3mW lasers, including single emitter laser diodes, distributed feedback (DFB) laser diodes, laser diode modules, and HeNe lasers.
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The REP series includes tunable single-frequency (DFB-like) diode lasers and Fabry-Perot laser diodes in wavelengths from 1270nm thru 2350nm for communications, sensing and measurement applications.
The REP Series is specifically engineered for applications such as gas sensing, LIDAR, metrology, and optical communications. Multiple packaging options are available including the Fiber coupled 14-pin butterfly, TO39 (w/TEC), and TO56.
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The RWLP series of fiber coupled laser diodes are variable in both multimode and single mode configurations, with wavelengths from 405nm thru the IR. The highly reliable RWLP series is suitable for a variety of applications such as biological and analytical instrumentation.


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A couple of mates at work are entering this challenge so they've inspired me to do the same. My idea is to create a Honey I Shrunk The Kids / Arthur and the Invisibles style environment.
The main challenges I expect to face are:
- Using UDK. I'm familiar with unreal3 editor basics from the Scene from a movie challenge I did last year, but to push the boundaries in terms of style and engine features will be a challenge.
- Creating a whimsical environment for a miniature person. My background is in doing real world scale scenes and objects so this will be a fun challenge.
- Dialing back on high poly modeling. I tend to get caught up in this lately, but want to work on increasing my work speed and getting that sweet spot in terms of concept to polish without getting bogged down unnecessarily along the way.
Well, onto the concept:
I suck at drawing, so i started blocking out a scene in Max with some throw-away textures to give me a sense of scale, colour and lighting. This is a few hours work and doesn't represent anything more than a sketch.
And here's a mood board of sorts. I want to make one of the sections have more depth with some far background shenanigans going on. Ideas on this are welcome!
At the moment the depth of the scene is very shallow.

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Scientists discover water vapor on an exoplanet with a rocky core
There may even be rain and clouds on planet K2-18 b.
NASA's TESS spacecraft discovers its smallest exoplanet to date
It's smaller than Earth.
Researchers propose guiding large space telescopes with tiny satellites
In the future, they could be used to stabilize telescopes studying exoplanets.
The Kepler space telescope's end has finally come
It confirmed thousands of exoplanets in its over nine-year mission.
Researchers may have found the first signs of an exomoon
The Neptune-sized object is orbiting the star Kepler-1625.
NASA put Kepler back to sleep in hopes it will send data again
The spacecraft is struggling to point its telescope.
NASA apps take you to space with VR and selfies
Explore distant stars as if you were there... and take silly pictures.
NASA’s TESS spacecraft begins its search for exoplanets
It’s expected to spot over 1,600 exoplanets during its mission.
NASA put Kepler to sleep to preserve its remaining fuel
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A Request for Comments is in progress at Eurofighter Typhoon as to whether to include a paragraph comparing the radar cross-section of this aircraft to the Dassault Rafale. Please participate in the RFC if you are interested. Robert McClenon (talk) 13:57, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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Hello! There is a slow-motion edit war going on at the article Largest cities in Europe. The issue is how to count the population of Istanbul: whether to count the population of the entire city, or only the population on the European side of the city. Any input at Talk:Largest cities in Europe to help resolve this edit war or develop consensus would be appreciated. Bragging rights are involved, since Istanbul is the largest city in Europe counting both the European and Asian sides, and the second-largest counting only the European side. (Note that this page uses the population within city limits, not the metropolitan area.) I have full-protected the article for 24 hours hoping this can be resolved without anyone getting blocked. Thanks! --MelanieN (talk) 19:00, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
- This has now been converted into a Request for Comment. The question is, "In articles which rank European cities or countries in order by population or area, should the entire city or country be counted, or only the portion which is in Europe?" The discussion is at Talk:List of European cities by population. Any input would be appreciated. --MelanieN (talk) 15:22, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

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The Financial Times reported Thursday that Emirates has signed an initial agreement to buy 36 Airbus A380 aircraft, including 20 firm orders and the option for 16 more, in a deal valued at $16 billion.
As we noted late last year, Airbus introduced the A380 about a decade ago. It was intended to be the European aerospace company’s answer to rival Boeing’s popular 747.
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According to the New York Times, Airbus did not book any orders for the A380 last year. Instead, orders for two of the A380s were canceled. The poor performance for the aircraft overshadowed an otherwise decent year for the company.
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There are important criteria to consider: Does the person have enough donor hair to provide the locations that are thin or balding? What kind of hair loss does the person have?
Androgenetic hair loss (also known as male pattern baldness), triggered by high degree of the male hormone androgen, is normally the optimal type for this treatment.
The contributor hair ought to likewise not be in the process of miniaturization, which means on its method to falling out. Hair transplants can look totally all-natural — as long as you most likely to the appropriate surgeon.
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When you walk into our Hair Restoration Mount Freedom Center, you feel welcomed and right at home.
Hair transplant for men in Mount Freedom
What Can I Expect From Hair Transplantation?
Hair implants for men are just one of those points that most individuals are pretty clear on. They either hate them and assume they're not worth the money or they're privately type of curious concerning them. Since the first hair transplantation treatment ever before executed years ago, the technology and also strategies have actually progressed to a point that excellent hair transplant results, carried out with the most recent innovation and by experienced doctors, need to be undetected.
Today, hair transplantation is a fairly straightforward and also outpatient treatment. It takes a few hours to half a day to complete. Given your hair expands regarding ½ inch per month, you can anticipate to see some growth within a couple of months, as well as relatively complete development in a year*. Looking at the larger picture, a couple of months is absolutely nothing for a lifetime of hair!
The key to totally natural-looking hair remediation results is choosing the right medical professional. Many medical professionals can transplant hairs, however not all have the crucial mix of experience, technical and creative skills to yield the sort of undetectable results you desire. Even with today’s advanced hair transplant innovations, an unskilled medical professional or one that doesn’t technique hair repair solely can create less than preferable results.
Hair Transplant Surgery
Commonly described as hair connects for males, hair transplants are when hair is extracted from the back or sides of the head and also hair transplanted to the front or top, where there are indications of hair loss. As hair follicles at the side of the side of the head aren't normally impacted by male pattern baldness, they can remain to expand as well as conveniently produce even more hair in the baldness areas.
There are a couple of different men's hair transplant alternatives you can opt for, and over the years the success rate and also total appearance of them have improved significantly. However, something that's likely to remain continuous is getting what you spend for, as well as although some transplants can cost just £3,000, we're discussing someone taking grafts of skins here, so do not opt for spending plan surgical treatment.
Hair transplant for women in Mount Freedom
Although the public commonly considers hair transplant as a mainly male-targeted treatment, we on a regular basis perform hair transplants in females for a selection of reasons. About 30% of ladies over 30 years old experience hair thinning, so hair transplant is a very typical procedure that improves hair density and supplies a remedy for female hair loss. Hair transplant can additionally be carried out to recover the hairline in females who have either shed the frontal hairline as a result of an aging hair loss or simply were birthed with a very high hairline. Finally, in some scenarios hair transplant is the only option appropriate for women who have undertaken prior medical revitalize treatments like face lifting and/or eyebrow lifting and lack hair due to revealed scars in the temples, sideburns, behind the ears, or elsewhere.
The low-positioned (compared to guys) as well as rounded female hairline structures the female face as well as adds young people, beauty, and also feminineness to a female’s face.When restoring the female hairline, it is necessary not only to produce an appropriate shape but additionally to specifically recreate every one of the information of a female hairline. A female hairline might be rounder, more oval, rectangle-shaped (still with softened edges), or some intermediate between these shapes.
As mentioned, several women lose hair as well as have thinning hair as they age.Though female hair loss might be genetic, there are lots of clinical conditions that either preclude surgical treatment or make surgical treatment unnecessary or risky. Accordingly, prior to surgery is contemplated, it is very important to review a lady very thoroughly for possible need for additional clinical assessment. If the hair loss is unstable, for instance, the hair is being actively lost, then surgical treatment is not typically the right solution. An examination into the dermatologic and/or hormonal scenarios may be a good very first step in many cases.
Women will certainly practically never ever go totally bald like men, but they still can shed significant hair density with aging. Sometimes women do not shed as much hair as they actually undertake a thinning of the hair shaft itself. This procedure makes the hair look much thinner and the bald scalp a lot more noticeable despite the fact that the number of hair shafts may not be substantially reduced. At various other times, females undergo both a thinning of the hair shaft and a total reduction in the number of hair shafts. This mixed type of hair loss is one of the most typical situation as well as presents a greater difficulty for medical hair repair. The success of the result owes in large component to the density and density of the benefactor hair as well as various other factors like hair crinkle, color/contrast proportion of hair to scalp, etc. Consequently, hair medical therapies, are usually an important component to the total technique for helping a female with thin hair as well as sometimes may be the only viable option when medical hair transplant is baseless, hazardous, or otherwise not preferred.
Hair transplant on scar
A handful of males and females have scars in the scalp. This can be scars from an previous accident, scars from a previous surgery in the scalp, marks from a previous hair transplant surgical treatment or marks from a scarring hair loss trouble. Regardless of the source of scars, people visiting the office want to know:
Is it feasible to transplant hairs right into a mark to improve the appearance of the mark?
In several cases, the answer is "yes" as well as absolutely we've transplanted a wide range of marking problems. But the decision regarding whether a person is a great candidate for repairing a mark with a hair transplant depends on a number of aspects.
The hair follicle hair transplant on the mark tissue is harder than implanting on typical cells due to the fact that the mark is accompanied by bad blood flow and also rigidity of tissue. The patients with burnt scar accomplished much more favorable outcome than did others. Incision marks are much deeper than melted scars, as well as their success prices are poor. We ought to advise the individuals that hair roots hair transplant on the scar may need second or much more operations for the visually much better result.
Hair transplant near me
Hair Restoration focuses on hair substitute and also reconstruction procedures using medical as well as non-surgical solutions. Our group are committed to adeptly as well as permanently solving the problem of men and women enduring hair loss. We are devoted to a program of enlightening, certifying and also monitoring our team to ensure that we can guarantee our patients that they are receiving hair reconstruction of the best. We have been able to do this and keep our rates economical and fair. You rate to visit the remainder of this website and also learn more regarding that we are, what we can do for you, our treatments, as well as our individuals.
Our hair restoration offices are located in Mount Freedom, NJ
How Much Does A Hair Transplant Cost?
Today, hair restoration in Mount Freedom is more accessible than ever, thanks to modern technological advancements driven.
We urge potential customers ahead in for a complimentary hair and scalp evaluation. During your appointment we’ll discuss your hair remediation goals and examine our therapy options. Hair repair normally varies from $7,500 – $15,000 depending on exact requirement (although may be higher for more substantial procedure sizes).
By choosing our center, you can count on getting a treatment that is custom-tailored to your needs. And, you can be assured that you’re receiving a cost which is competitive with various other quality hair reconstruction medical professionals in this market. The specific cost of your hair remediation is established by your specific needs, including:
- Hair Loss
- Remaining Donor Hair
- Hair Characteristics
- Desired Results
Your client consultant will help to custom-made tailor a hair remediation plan that fits your requirements, along with your budget plan. To timetable your free appointment please contact us!
Hair transplant side effects in Mount Freedom, NJ
Hair transplants are a significantly usual selection for those dealing with thinning and receding hair, however there can be adverse effects that come from this intrusive procedure.
The side-effects of hair transplants vary from client to individual. Some might experience fairly hassle-free transplant treatments, whereas others experience one or a combination of the adhering to side-effects.
# A typical side-effect of numerous sorts of surgical procedure, post-surgical edema is essentially the build-up of fluid that causes swelling following surgical treatment. Generally, the post-surgical edema discolors given a small amount of time advertisement draining pipes of the fluid as well as is not a side-effect that will cause issues for the client moving forward, assuming the right actions are taken to remedy the problem.
# A 2014 research discovered that 1.37 percent of respondents reported hefty bleeding throughout the treatment. This hemorrhaging is very unusual as a hair transplant side-effect and is often triggered as a result of lack of experience or a mistake on the part of the specialist.
# Sterile folliculitis is additionally a common side-effect of the hair transplant procedure.
# Typically characterized as a type of breakout or scarring in the transplanted area, it can make the transplant feel very unpleasant, causing itchiness in addition to altering cosmetic appearance.
# According to the International Journal of Trichology study, sterilized folliculitis influenced 23.29 percent of clients.
# Hair Thinning - In numerous instances, the area used to recover hairs for the transplant will also be affected by the treatment. Hair thinning in such locations is common, which may cause worry for individuals that are wary of losing hair in one area of the body just to solution hair loss in one more. However, most of instances, this thinning in the hair removal area lasts for a brief period of time prior to the all-natural density of hair growth resumes.
# Essentially an extra severe version of Sterile Folliculitis, Lichen Planopilaris (LLP) is an inflammatory hair condition that leads to too much scar cells creating in the transplanted location.
# Itchiness - As the hair transplant treatment entails developing little injuries in the scalp in order to implant hair, scabbing will take place throughout hundreds, or potentially thousands, of hair follicles.
# Numbness - Approximately 10 percent of people will certainly experience pins and needles in the results of hair transplant surgical procedure.
This can last for a variety of weeks adhering to the surgery yet it is usually a momentary side-effect that discolors over time as the body gets used to the transplant.
# Hiccups - Hiccups are a less common side-effect found in roughly 4 percent of hair transplant clients.
# Cysts - Typically appearing in the recipient area complying with considerable transplant task, cysts can differ in dimension and will usually be purple in shade. Happily, these cysts are usually benign and will vanish after 2 or 3 weeks.

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Thread: What do you take with you?
06-24-2008, 09:59 AM #1
What do you take with you?
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I am taking off to Lake Powell, AZ for our anual houseboating trip this week and was wondering what you guys take with you on big trips... I mean more mechanical things in case your boat takes a dump. I have all of my tools packed up already... but should I be taking an extra set of plugs? Oil (if so how much)? What else (besides a ton of beer!)???
I will be there for about 10 days and will be pretty far out on the lake... no way to get to a shop... so what do I need?
06-24-2008, 10:04 AM #2
beer covers it...... maybe the wife? but bring the girl friend
06-24-2008, 10:11 AM #3
06-24-2008, 01:20 PM #4
xtra fuses & JB Weld. Make sure all your nuts & clamps are tight before you leave. A little lock-tite wouldn't hurt. They have a way of vibrating loose & dropping out.
06-24-2008, 04:30 PM #5
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#1 tool to take with you on any seadoo is something to pinch off the hose going to the exhaust pipe so you can be towed without drowning your motor.
I also highly recommend a spark plug wrench and the addition of a second battery whether you are running an AMP or not, cause these things dont have a pull cord.
06-25-2008, 09:11 AM #6
Great idea for towing... when we motor the house boat out we tow the boats for a couple of hours. So this tool... I looked for something at Pep Boys and they didn't have anything... could I just use a vise-grip with a couple blocks of wood or rubber wedged in between so I don't damage the hose? And which hose am I pinching?
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Classic hip-hop artist, Harlem native Rob Base rocks Fest-a-Ville show at Waterfront Park
Classic hip-hop artist and Harlem native Rob Base took to the Fest-a-Ville stage on Tuesday evening in front of a welcoming crowd at Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville.
Base has been performing for more than 30 years and is known for hits, "It Takes Two," "Get on the Dance Floor" and "Joy and Pain." During his set Tuesday night he asked the crowd if they liked old-school hip-hop, to which the answer was a resounding "Yes!" and from there, it was on.
Many in attendance danced and sang along as Base and DJ Capone played many classic hip-hop hits like "The Humpty Dance" from the Digital Underground, "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe and "In Da Club" from 50 Cent.


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From the steps of the Roman Pantheon temple, a group of tourists watched the most peculiar street performer, a young man doing the Carlton as the Foals hit “My Number” played from his back pocket.
While his performance garnered no applause or tip money, IU senior Jordan Cain was satisfied, having just shot a short clip for his in-the-works study abroad film. Cain studied in Austria, but during spring break traveled to Italy and Spain as well.
After compiling his five-month trip into four minutes of GoPro action, Cain won the Institute for the International Education of Students 2016 Film Festival on Wednesday — standing out from a record number of entries and a growing trend of student study abroad movies.
“You always see people who go abroad put on Facebook like 3,000 or 4,000 pictures, and you know when that happens, people don’t actually go through and look at them,” Cain said. “Instead, I decided to make a video, and so I made this blueprint.”
A music education major, Cain first drafted eight-bar segments, each dedicated to either a dance sequence, walking shot or short clip of Cain and his friends enjoying their European surroundings. He next formatted each eight-bar count to fit the video’s score, which he calculated to include a precise total of 48 dancing, 25 walking and 31 activity clips.
After five months of filming and one long night of iMovie editing, Cain posted the video to various social media accounts and said he was surprised by the positive reactions it received.
“I’m in Kilroy’s suddenly with random people coming up to me, asking, ‘Are you from the video?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, you saw it?’” Cain said. “I was really confused because it’s never been like that for me. I’m just a normal person.”
Videos as a shareable commodity especially lend themselves to study abroad programs because plenty of students want to see what the experience is like, said Thomas DeCarlo, communications coordinator at the Office of Overseas Study.
“These videos are like being in another culture, and for students who are considering to study abroad, they get that glimpse of experiencing a culture through the eyes of someone who is traveling and studying,” DeCarlo said. “Any unique experience we can share like that is a good thing.”
Junior Rachel Brown shared her own GoPro rendition of a summer spent biking, camel riding and bungee jumping through Australia.
“I was really interested in documenting my entire study abroad experience because you look back on three months and wonder where all the time went, but making a video really concisely puts everything in perspective,” Brown said.
As much as he enjoyed sharing the video with others, Cain said he also wanted to create something that would serve as a personal reminder of his travels.
“Video is always something you can look back at,” he said. “Even when I got home, when I started to miss being abroad, I would just look at the video and remember what I did and think about how amazing it all was.”
Now focusing on his final year in Bloomington, Cain said he plans to film his future trips because of the positivity surrounding his last video.
“I didn’t know how to make or edit a movie or even dance, but that’s the whole point — doing something I’m not necessarily good at, but that’s so much fun,” he said. “It’s expressing myself in a way that made me content and being able to share that with other people.”


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The battle to save San Francisco's community college may finally be resolved as a private panel on Wednesday announced new rules that could allow the troubled institution to retain accreditation.
Under the proposed policy, the City College of San Francisco would be able to apply to restore its accreditation, make a case that it has made substantial improvements and, after an evaluation, be allowed up to an additional two years to fully comply with standards, according to a statement from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
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June 12, 12:24 p.m.: An earlier version of this post stated that a December review by federal officials identified a number of problems at the City College of San Francisco campus. The review found problems at the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which is responsible for accrediting the college.
The Novato-based panel has come under intense pressure from community leaders, college administrators, faculty, students and lawmakers to grant the 80,000-student school a reprieve from a July 31 deadline.
Officials at City College, the state's largest single education institution, said they were still reviewing the proposed policy change.
The new action is poised to end a year of acrimony that saw the college's enrollment plummet, as students feared the institution would lose federal and state funding and, ultimately, close.
The commission, meanwhile, argued that it must move forward with the termination, citing federal requirements that colleges be given no more than two years to comply with standards or lose accreditation. This came despite an opinion from a senior education official concluding that it had authority to extend accreditation for good cause.
The panel moved last year to revoke accreditation as of July, citing long-running financial and governance problems, including failing to track the academic progress of many students, not providing sufficient student support services and failing to maintain adequate reserves.
The commission, part of the Western Assn. of Schools and Colleges, is one of seven private regional accrediting groups recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. The California commission is made up of college faculty, administrators and members of the public.
The July termination was on hold, pending the outcome of a lawsuit filed by San Francisco's city attorney questioning the panel's political motives and procedures. The trial is scheduled to start in October.
And in a December review, federal officials identified a number of problems at the commission, which need to be corrected within a year. These include ensuring that its standards and policies are widely accepted, demonstrating that faculty are represented on its evaluation teams, and providing schools with more clearly written reports on whether they meet standards.

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