There are many benefits of graduating from high school early. You may be ready to dive into college or perhaps start working full-time. If you’re looking into other ways to graduate from high school, be sure that you’re ready to leave the freedom of being a high school student. After all, jumping into college or adult life adds a new layer of challenge and responsibility.
Consider Good Reasons to Graduate High School Early There are some good reasons to graduate from high school early. If you’re planning to pursue a career that requires extensive education, it may be helpful to move on to college courses more quickly. For example, becoming a physician can take twelve additional years of schooling and experience. Beginning college early will help you move into your career more expeditiously. Similarly, if you aren’t enjoying high school and are ready to move on to a full-time job, leaving high school may be the right choice for you. Meet With a Counselor The first step to an early exit strategy is to meet with a high school counselor. Ask about how many credits you need to finish high school and discuss the reasons that you want to graduate early. If you’re planning to go to college, ensure that you know how you’ll satisfy the core classes that are required for college admission. You can also use the meeting to ask your counselor about other ways to get credits toward your high school diploma. Test to Finish High School Early Think about trying to test out of classes to finish high school early. If you have a high aptitude for a particular subject, you may be able to test out of a subject and apply the credits toward graduation. For example, if Spanish is your first language or you went to a Spanish Immersion school, take a test and you may be able to earn some of your credits without taking the class. Similarly, if you’re an exceptional student in math or English, you may be able to satisfy classes by demonstrating your proficiency on a test. Take Summer Classes Be productive in the summer, and you can satisfy some of your high school course requirements. Check out summer school options to take care of some of your credits. If you’re high school doesn’t offer the classes that you need, you may be able to take classes at a nearby district. Some schools will offer physical education credit for classes or sports that you pursue on your own time. If you pay for private lessons or participate in a club sport during the summer, you may be able to satisfy some of your credit requirements. Check Out Post-Secondary Option CoursesPost-secondary education option (PSEO) courses can help you gain extra credits and get a head start on college. PSEO classes are usually free for high school students and offer flexibility in scheduling. You may be able to take your regular high school schedule and add in a PSEO class at night or online to earn credits toward graduation. Since PSEO classes may be more rigorous, it’s important to ensure that you can handle the extra load, before enrolling. Enroll in Online High SchoolThere are other ways to get a high school diploma. If traditional face-to-face high school is not for you, look into online high school options. Some online schools offer classes year round. If you’re a go-getter, you can accelerate your graduation date by studying at your own pace. Your school counselor can help you look into online options. You’ll still need to satisfy some classes, like physical education, in a creative way.
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This is a very timely guest essay by Bruce Gottlieb, a somatic therapist and up-close-and-personal observer of far too many ski and cycling crashes.1 This year's recently completed Tour de France in which there were a number of repeated crashes by the same cyclists made me revisit some ideas i've been thinking about for some time. When we train physically we are getting our bodies strong so they will perform as desired when the time comes. When we practice, we are better prepared. I remember being at a bicycle camp of two Olympic medalists and they had us practice bumping into one another on the right side, on the left side, and using my front wheel to bump the rear wheel of the bike in front of me and then having my rear wheel hit by the person behind me. We also practiced falling on grass. This practice prepared my body to proprioceptively feel and respond to what I call sub-optimal events. Then, when they would happen in real time, not only was the sensation familiar so I wouldn’t have a startled response, I even had the ability to have a positive corrective response. I call this “appropriately reactive” instead of “overly reactive” which has potential to cause one of those sub-optimal/over-reactive responses. Training for those sub-optimal moments is essential preparation because life and racing do not always cooperate with our best-laid plans. How many people do you know who had multiple car accidents, especially of the same variety? People who have been rear-ended in a car frequently have had this experience more than once. I worked with one gentleman who had four roll over accidents, and how about that one friend who always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I suspect you can also see yourself somewhere in the “repeat” accident arena. When I worked with ski racers, I was amazed by my observations of what happened when they fell in practice. Around 80% of those who fell would fall again somewhere between the gate above or the gate below the previous fall. I became curious about this observation because it seemed to be more than random chance coincidences that so many different people shared the same basic experience. As a point of reference, professional bike racers who fall during a stage race have the propensity to fall again during the same race, sometimes during the same stage. Both the ski racer and bicycle racer also shared the same post-fall behavior; they would jump back up on their feet almost immediately and try to move on with what they were doing before the fall. I asked myself, were these ski racers and bike racers falling due to psychological reasons, and were drivers in involved in repeat accidents repeating similar patterns for psychological reasons, or was there something physiological happening, or perhaps both? If you study any form of somatic therapy you know when our body suffers a trauma it is highly likely we will have some kind of physiological constriction of muscle and fascia. Our amygdala will have an “automatic” response to a similar trigger and set off the autonomic nervous system (ANS) into a self-protective response. Will this reaction be a conscious response and an unconscious response, a psychological issue and a physiological issue, a psychological response that produces an automatic inhibition, or a physiological response that sets the ANS in motion to produce a physiological autonomic self-protective response? When our body becomes constricted due to a trauma, we need to help it restore its natural flowing rhythm. Specifically, when we fall several things happen in our bodies, and for professional athletes this is typically amplified because on top of the normal response, they lose trust in their body’s ability to perform as it has and as it needs to intuitively. Professional athletes do not want to think about what their bodies need to do. Rather they need to trust their bodies to intuitively do what their muscles have been trained to do. When they fall, however, they introduce the ANS into the mix and this can disrupt the previous “physiological flow.” Let’s analyze what happens when we fall. We typically go through the following sequence. 1. a loss of orientation to gravity due to the surprised quickness of what made us fall 2. loss of balance 3. rapid failed attempts to re-orient 4. tension and bracing in the body 5. preparation for impact 6. shame, fear terror (depending) 7. impact 8. disorientation 9. injury assessment 10. the brain lags behind the event that happened in a nano-second, and the body already has stored the trigger and what it believes to be a good self-protective response. In some cases due to the shame and/or embarrassment of falling or due to being a professional athlete and needing to stay in the game, or whatever the reason, most, if not all of people, tend to jump up, declare they’re OK, and keep going as if nothing happened. This is a beautiful demonstration of psychological resilience that will help keep them in the game.However we need more than our psychological resilience to maintain race performance perfection. After we fall each of the above 10 items needs to be restored in our body so it will be in synch with our minds and with our resilience. It’s not as simple as mind over matter, because in this case, what happened to our body matters, and our body can and will develop its own response system. In this article I will not go into detail about how to restore each of the above lost pieces, but rather I give an example of the importance of restoring the body’s natural abilities. Returning to ski racers on practice runs, I describe the steps I had each racer take after a fall, and the difference it made to the percentage of those who crashed on the next training run. Special thanks to Psychology Today for be our guest contributor writer In the closing moments of Tuesday night’s SmackDown LIVE, improperly secured lighting equipment nearly crushed Roman Reigns, and although an investigation determined that the near-catastrophe was caused by forklift driver error, speculation abounds that someone was specifically targeting The Big Dog.
If that’s the case, who could have been responsible? Might it have been Samoa Joe, who brawled with Reigns on Raw when their “Samoan Summit” to squash their beef ended before it started? What about Drew McIntyre, whose personal issues with Reigns are far from over after a series of brutal encounters? Could “The Best in the World” Shane McMahon have had a hand in orchestrating a deliberate plot to put Reigns on the shelf … or worse? Or was this simply an accident caused by human error on the part of the forklift operator, whose identity has not been revealed? For more details on Roman Reign's Accidents on last week SmackDown LIVE please visit WWE.com At the core of every successful, fulfilling, lasting relationship is trust. Lost trust rips marriages apart. No company succeeds when team members don’t trust each other. Building trust takes time, yet it can be lost in the blink of an eye, and when trust is lost, it’s difficult, sometimes impossible, to regain.
Historically, society’s institutional trust was conveyed from the top, exemplified by the American motto, “In God We Trust.” People trusted their religious and government institutions and leaders. However, according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, just one-third of Americans currently trust their government “to do the right thing.” Since the turn of the century, as the internet has redefined how we live, learn, and behave, who and what we trust has changed dramatically. Rather than blindly placing our trust in traditional authority figures, we now look to our peers and like-minded individuals. Sadly, we don’t trust each other much either. Edelman found that over the last 20 years, Americans have less confidence in each other, and 29 percent say they don’t trust their neighbors or fellow citizens. I believe the erosion of trust in society has serious implications for public health and well-being, because science is also based on trust: trust, but verify. When society loses trust in medicine, this imperils the health of every individual. As a physician, I must trust the science that informs my clinical recommendations, that researchers are ethical, and the data they produce is accurate. My patients must trust that I keep up-to-date by reading the latest research, and most importantly, that their well-being is at the core of every recommendation I make. Over the last 50 years, trust in physicians has dropped dramatically. In 1966, 74% of Americans had “great confidence” in the medical profession, but by 2012, this number dropped to just 34%. Citizens don’t trust the healthcare system and they lack confidence regarding whether their personal well-being is the most important driver of medical decisions. The best example of society’s eroded trust in medicine is the persistence and power of the anti-vaccination movement. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, anti-vaxxers continue to propagate completely discredited research, encouraging frightened parents to forgo vaccinating their children. Vaccinations are one of the most important life-saving measures ever developed, yet we now have a resurgence of nearly eradicated, deadly diseases, putting the lives of those too young to be vaccinated, and the immunocompromised, in peril. Despite my 20 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist, I’ve had to spar with my own family members regarding their inaccurate medical beliefs, which were based on their faith in “Dr. Google.” My patients are routinely terrified by sensational news headlines based on a few cherry-picked lines from a scientific article. A 2019 headline, “ADHD treatments double the risk of psychosis,” was based on a paper that showed the risk increased from 0.1% to 0.2%. While indeed the risk doubled, that meant that out of every 1,000 people treated with stimulant medication, two people experienced psychosis, which the authors stipulated could have been associated with illicit drug use. Considering the benefits of well-treated ADHD, most clinicians and patients agree that the risk-benefit analysis overwhelmingly favors treatment, yet that scary headline is enough to cause anyone to consider discontinuing treatment. How do we turn the tide and start to rebuild trust in medicine? Patient-centered care: Each patient must be treated as an individual and every treatment decision must be based on their individual needs. Physicians must be sensitive to their patient’s unique social, cultural, economic, and familial circumstances. Patients might not remember exactly what you said or what you did, but they will definitely remember how you made them feel. Physicians who fail to treat patients with kindness and compassion, and those who don’t practice with integrity, don’t just poison their relationship with that patient, they tarnish and dishonor our profession. Physician, heal thyself: Sometimes physicians lose compassion for patients because of burnout, which is at epidemic levels. National surveys evaluating doctors and trainees have found prevalence rates greater than 50%. Along with emotional exhaustion and a low sense of accomplishment, burnout builds cynicism, which may be directed towards patients. Overcoming burnout isn’t easy, especially since research shows that physician-focused interventions, such as increasing exercise, are not nearly as effective as institutional changes. Such changes require motivated, visionary leadership. -Ms Diane McIntosh MD, FRCPC- Any person suffering from depression will tell you that they are in pain. Every day in my work as a psychiatrist I see patients in such agony. For some it is physical: An elderly Russian immigrant complains of a stabbing in his chest. A young Latina feels mysterious burning in her back. A dentist complains of constant roiling in his belly. For others, like a mother of two I recently saw, depression’s pain is a feeling of disconnection from others, a haunting alienation from all life’s pleasures.
As William Styron put in his classic book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, “The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.” As a psychiatrist, this connection has long baffled me: Is it metaphorical or real? Practitioners can theorize endlessly about such possibilities. Researchers, if fortunate, can collect data. Such was the case for our group at Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. Over the past several years, we completed two clinical trials of antidepressant medications combined with repeated MRI brain imaging for people with chronic depression. These studies compared antidepressants (the serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors duloxetine in one study and desvenlafaxine in the other study) with placebo treatment over several months and obtained brain scans before and after treatment. Over the course of these two studies, we obtained more than 200 scans, and for the past several years we have been busy analyzing abnormalities related to the state of depression, and changes caused by treatment. Our team began looking at measures of resting-state activity in the scans—that is, spontaneous activity of the brain when the patient lies in the MRI scanner, with her eyes shut, and lets her mind wander. The brain’s resting state is a fascinating one, because when the brain is 'at rest' there are characteristic patterns of activity. Analyzing the brain at rest reveals patterns of coordinated nerve cell activity—and these show how various brain centers are connected to one another. Resting-state MRI scans, therefore, can show ‘functional networks’ in the brain. Suffice it to say, we were all surprised by the findings. The brain network that showed changes with antidepressant medicine—but not with placebo—involved the pain network. The pain network has been identified when studying people's responses to physical pain, and consists of a series of connections from the cortex to lower-brain centers, the ‘thalamo-cortico-periaqueductal network.’ This network is central to processing pain, but it has never been previously connected to depression. Antidepressant treatment with both medications (whether desvenlafaxine or duloxetine) decreased the activity of this network, suggesting that the alleviation of mental pain follows similar paths to what is seen with physical pain. In comparison, treatment with placebo had no effect on pain network activity. Not only that, but the more the symptoms of depression improved, the more the network’s activity decreased--suggesting that activity of those pathways is finely tuned to the severity of depression. Network College is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Harley Race passed away today at the age of 76 due to lung cancer.
About Harley Race WWE Career Highlights Harley Race captured the NWA World Heavyweight Championship eight times. To this day, only a handful of Superstars can claim to have won more World Heavyweight Championships than Race. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Race was the National Wrestling Alliance’s most dominant champion, winning the sport's oldest World Heavyweight Championship from the likes of Dory Funk Jr., Giant Baba, Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair. The tough-as-nails Race was so universally respected that WWE, despite having seceded from the NWA and having its own World Heavyweight Champion, chose to recognize Race's title status as well. As a result, Race was the first NWA Champion to engage in title unification matchups against WWE Champions like "Superstar" Billy Graham and Bob Backlund. In what seemed unthinkable at the time, Race, one of the NWA’s most influential figures of all time, joined WWE in 1986 during the company's national expansion. After winning the King of the Ring tournament, Race was the first to don regal robes and a crown. “King” Harley Race was managed by Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and was introduced to a new generation of fans. Race battled all of WWE’s top heroes and pinned Junkyard Dog at WrestleMania III in front of a record-setting attendance of 93,000 fans. Network College extends its condolences to Race's Family, Friends and Fans If someone keeps nicking that sought-after spot right outside your house, or parking on or across your driveway, these are your rights.
IT'S a familiar problem - you come home from a long day at work, only to find that there's nowhere to park in the street. Are you entitled to the parking space outside your house? Your neighbours might give you a preference over the parking spot right outside your house, but is it a legal entitlement? We're afraid it's bad news for those of us who live in town centres, where parking is often at a premium. The police are keen to remind people that it's not 'your right' to park in front of your house - unless you have a designated parking space. Provided your street isn't governed by residents' parking permits, any member of the public can park there - as long as they are complying with restrictions and not causing obstructions. Is it illegal to park across someone's driveway? If someone is blocking your driveway, or their wheel is over the dropped kerb, they are committing a parking offence. There are two types of dropped kerbs: those for pedestrians, especially those with buggies or in wheelchairs, and those for drivers to access driveways. Vehicles parked across dropped kerbs can be ticketed, even if they're not fully blocking it. But parking very close to a dropped kerb or directly opposite it isn't illegal, even if it restricts access. Is it illegal for someone to park on your driveway? A strange legal loophole means anyone can park on your driveway - and there's not much you can do about it. There have been a number of cases in the UK where homeowners have been stuck with a stranger's car on their driveway, only to be told neither police nor local authorities have the power to move it. In the instance of a stranger parking on your driveway, an issue arises when the line between criminal and civil law is blurred. If a car is parked on a public road and it's blocking your driveway, local authorities certainly have the power to issue a fine. But once the car moves onto your drive, it's technically on private property - and local councils have no jurisdiction. Councils are required to remove abandoned cars from both public and private property, but if the motor in question is taxed, insured, has a valid MOT and isn't in a dangerous condition, they are unlikely to touch it on private land. Police will acknowledge the car is technically trespassing, but they will classify it as a civil offence, dropping it far down their priority list and meaning you would need an eviction notice from the courts. This articles was taken from The Sun News Article website - Mr Alex Stewart - College Officer If you’re unsure about what you’d like to do when you finish school, and are wondering if university is for you, you’re not alone. Just remember that uni isn’t only for the brightest students or for those with a specific career path in mind. Uni is for anyone who’s committed to reaching their full potential and wants to acquire the skills and experience to achieve their goals.
Keep your options open by taking the time to understand how the university application process works, how institutions use the ATAR to select students, non-ATAR pathways to tertiary study, and the many levels of financial support available to you. And if you don’t know where to start when it comes to investigating the types of courses you might be interested in, try our brand new Course Compass tool. It’s quick and easy! UNI OPENS DAYS 2019 Curtin University Sunday, 21 July 2019 - 10 am to 4 pm Edith Cowan University Joondalup campus - Sunday, 28 July 2019 - 10 am to 3 pm Mt Lawley campus and WAAPA - Sunday, 11 August 2019 - 10 am to 3 pm South West campus - Sunday, 25 August 2019 - 11 am to 2 pm Murdoch University Murdoch campus - Sunday, 28 July 2019 - 10 am to 4 pm -Ms Alison Doyle - Career Coordinator & VET To download the full white paper that is part of Corwin Australia Educator Series, click here.
Despite almost all facets of our lives being redefined by the advances of the 21st Century, our education system is still firmly anchored to an era of steam engines and morse code. Instead of being equipped to function in an unpredictable job market that experts concur will be shaped by automation, students are still largely being taught the “three Rs”—reading, writing, and arithmetic. They are taught this by teachers trapped on their own treadmill. Burdened with expectations to comply with overly prescriptive and crammed curriculum, timetables, and testing regimes, teachers are reduced to functioning more as administrators relying on practices designed for an analogue world that will soon no longer exist. If we are to address this problem with the urgency it deserves, one of the most effective ways to create immediate change would be to train teachers for the digitally disrupted world. Since students will have to perform the functions machines aren’t able to do better, there needs to be an emphasis on critical thinking over memorisation. The ability to analyse situations and create solutions will be more valuable than recitation of correct answers. That means we need to empower teachers to focus on how, not what, students should be learning. The 3 Es: Experience, Emotion, and Evidence The best way to approach this shift is moving away from the “three Rs” to what we think of as the “three Es”: experience, emotion, and evidence. This involves solving real problems that matter in a feedback rich environment. Students then build their cognitive skills to become innovators who can identify and create answers to problems that are currently unknown. By embracing the upside of uncertainty, we’ll be keeping pace with the changes we’re seeing in critical industry sectors. Based on our research, only 8-15 per cent of Australia’s 280,000 teachers currently teach the way we now need them to. The other 85 per cent are still working under 20th Century assumptions, underpinned by the teacher lecturing students as the arbiter of all knowledge, and in turn grading them on their ability to repeat what was lectured. Unfortunately, even among the few who are equipped with cutting edge teaching techniques, few of Australia’s 9,500 schools enable these new practices. Without acceptance, without social validation that these new methods are embraced, they will never be implemented by those who can teach them – and teachers will have little incentive to do anything more than they do now. In this new role, teachers become facilitators, empowering children to take control. By challenging students with real-world problems, those that require lateral thinking and collaboration to find innovative solutions, students feel a sense of responsibility, of ownership over their education. As teachers guide the process, with intervention limited to continuous feedback or guiding ‘nudges’, students become immersed and true learning takes over. Importantly, this model works best when the problems aren’t from a textbook. When the problems are real, students realise that what they’re doing matters. Bringing education into the 21st Century is therefore not solely the problem of the education sector, but a concern that requires the support of all industries and communities. The classrooms of today need to move to boardrooms, laboratories, data centres, and the outdoors, where students learn how to solve problems in an environment more dynamic and fluid than a textbook will ever be. It’s not a far-fetched idea, it’s imperative if our schools are going to be able to properly educate our children for a rapidly changing world. Students, led by their teacher-facilitators, would not only learn how to problem solve, they would learn to work in a team, to communicate, to be leaders. They would learn the soft skills that are increasingly necessary in the modern world. Critics might question whether this kind of system takes responsibility away from the teacher. It doesn’t. Rather, it changes what this responsibility is. Considering how the world we live in is changing, we do not know what challenges our children will need to face tomorrow. In the face of the unknown, we need a new kind of teacher, with the confidence and experience to teach our children not what to think, but how to think. 21st Century skills are 12 abilities that today’s students need to succeed in their careers during the Information Age. 21st Century skills are:
They’re essential in the age of the Internet. On this page, we’ll take a look at what’s included in 21st Century skills, how they help students, and why they’re so important. Want a quick graphic reference about 21st Century skills?
Keep this infographic on-hand for any student of any age — even as young as middle school! The Three 21st Century Skill Categories Each 21st Century skill is broken into one of three categories:Each of these categories pertains to a specific part of the digital curriculum experience. Learning skills (the four C’s) teaches students about the mental processes required to adapt and improve upon a modern work environment. Literacy skills (IMT) focuses on how students can discern facts, publishing outlets, and the technology behind them. There’s a strong focus on determining trustworthy sources and factual information to separate it from the misinformation that floods the Internet. Life skills (FLIPS) take a look at intangible elements of a student’s everyday life. These intangibles focus on both personal and professional qualities. Altogether, these categories cover all 12 21st Century skills that contribute to a student’s future career. Let’s take a closer look at each category. -Mr John Anderson Smith- Blog Author & IT Specialist Today, the Senate Finance Committee holds hearings to markup its ambitious drug pricing overhaul package. This represents perhaps the clearest and more comprehensive drug pricing legislative package to date. Rather than detailing each provision of the package, which is likely to meaningfully change throughout the legislative process, it’s useful to take a step back and consider a framework for evaluating the economic fundamentals driving drug pricing policy.
Experts like to say drug pricing is complicated. In reality it’s not – the “secret” of drug pricing boils down to a simple question of which drugs society wants to say “no” to. There are no free lunches here. Depite the empty promises of both sides, Americans cannot have lower prices, access to all of the drugs that exist today, and the same rate of innovative investments in new prodcuts. We must make some grown up choices. The existing U.S. system refuses to truly say no to any pharmaceutical product regardless of its price. When insurers attempt to implement utilization management for expensive drugs, we castigate them with headlines about greedy executives and evil firms. By handcuffing insurers in this way, we guarantee high prices. On a more positive note, the profits generated by these high prices attract large amounts of investment in new drugs. Effectively, we currently prioritize the development of future drugs over universal access to existing drugs today. Our current system is one end of a continuum. We could also imagine a U.S drug market where we truly demanded lower priced drugs, perhaps via regulation. For existing drugs, manufacturers would ultimately cave to strong regulations (i.e. a take it or leave it offer for the entire U.S. market). After all, nearly any proposed price would be well below the marginal cost of production and therefore selling an existing drug, even at that lower price, would be the profit maximizing decision. Of course, such regulated prices would depress the likely returns for investments in developing new products which the weight of existing evidence shows will result in fewer products in the future. The magnitude of this decline depends on the amount profits decrease. More limited interventions in the market should limit the impact on investments in research and development but of course also have a small effect on prices and access. It quickly becomes clear that pharmaceutical pricing policy boils down to determining the optimal type of government intervention in the market. Ideally, we would be able to use an unfettered market to govern pharmaceutical purchases. After all, free markets have been the central organizing force across economies for generations because of their remarkable ability to aggregate the multitude of consumer preferences. The more diverse and complicated the set of preferences, the greater the role for markets because aggregating these preferences becomes an almost impossible task for a single central authority. It is hard to imagine a time before the Internet; before Google, YouTube and Netflix. Gen-Z can't wrap their heads around the fact we had to fax or send documents by snail mail to get them signed. Gen Z can't relate to having to go out to physical stores to buy Christmas presents, or that we couldn't see the other people on the other end of the phone when we called them (or that you couldn't call for "free," for that matter). They're growing up with Dropbox, Uber, Facebook, FaceTime, HelloSign and Amazon. Our kids experience a world where everything can be done online and orders are brought straight to our front door, often within the hour. They experience the world at a fast and practical rate - more or less free of waiting periods. This will affect them and their view of what the future can bring.
However, in the workplace, we'll see the introduction of a range of new hybrids and ways of working, not to mention a fundamental shift in what it means to have a so-called "job." The offices of Google, Facebook and a lot of new tech start-ups are set up to ensure that you never need to leave "your job." You can live your entire life on the premises. You can bring your dog to work, swim, exercise and eat free food cooked by some of the world's best chefs. You can get blood tests and haircuts on-site, invite your family for free dinners, take iPads, new phone batteries, chargers, laptops or mobile phones out of vending machines as if they were soft drinks; free of charge. You have everything you could possibly need, but why do they pamper their employees like that? The answer is simple: To recruit and retain the best talent. Some people and companies get borderline aggressive when someone mentions that in lots of jobs and industries, people will soon become redundant. It may be difficult to accept, but that doesn't change the fact that it will happen and we won't be able to keep hiding behind trade unions when work becomes borderless—and being borderless is the defining characteristic of digital work! Technology can and will automate many of the jobs in the current market. To some extent, most of us will be affected by the future within the next 3-5 years. Technology can and will help you make faster and better decisions, but you probably wouldn't leave the critical thinking to technology. Your future will depend on your ability to think—and on your common sense because computers don't have that. Realistically, we are headed straight for a digital talent drought, and experts predict that more than 30% of so-called "tech jobs" will be unfilled by 2020. What can we expect from our work life and collaboration in the future, when there will be not just five, but upwards of seven generations in the workforce? Researchers like Nick Bostrom estimate that computers and technology will be smarter than people by 2050. Only a minuscule number of jobs will remain that require human input. For humans to keep up, we have to figure out how to optimize not only our IQ (traditional intelligence) and EQ (emotional intelligence), but also our GQ (global intelligence) and DQ (digital intelligence). These four intelligences are the framework for your readiness in the future. When people think of television programs about Alaska, most will probably think of “The Deadliest Catch” or “Alaska State Troopers” or “Bering Sea Gold” or other similar reality shows. These programs portray the roughness, remoteness, dangers, and beauty of Alaska, and in some cases, they are pretty good reflections of reality. However, these reality shows also portray Alaska as very white, and this could not be further from reality.
Enter “Molly of Denali,” a new PBS Kids series that is different from the rest – not just because it is the first-ever national children’s show that features Native Peoples – but also because it is not a reality show. Ironically, however, this animated program is arguably the most real of all the Alaska shows. One way “Molly of Denali” is very real is through its characters, as they seem to reflect the racial diversity of Alaska more accurately. And I am hyped. The lead character is Molly, a 10-year-old Alaska Native (Athabascan) girl who lives with her parents in the fictional town of Qyah. In their town, there are elders and other characters who represent the different Alaska Native groups. Then there’s the fact that the series was created by a team of mostly indigenous writers, producers, advisers, and actors. This reflects the reality that approximately 20 percent—or 1 out of 5—Alaskans are Native, the highest percentage of Native people in the country. In addition to Native representation, the show includes characters of other racial or ethnic backgrounds, as reflected by some of the main supporting characters like Molly’s two best friends: Trini is Black and Tooey is Alaska Native and Japanese. The racial diversity of the cast was intentional, according to the show’s creative producer Princess 'Daazhraii' Lucaj (Neets'aii Gwich'in), as they sought to accurately reflect Alaska’s Peoples: “Growing up in Alaska - I was a pretty transient kid going back and forth between no running water and running water places. In Anchorage we lived in Mt. View & Fairview and our neighbors were people from the Dominican Republic, Korea, and Mexico. In Fairbanks I had friends who were Filipino and from places like Guam. People don't realize what diversity we have in our state.” As a Filipino man who is married to an Athabascan woman, and as a father to three Filipino-Athabascan (or Filibascan) children, one of the many things that excite me about the show is that one of the characters is a girl named “Vera Malakas” who is of Filipino-Athabascan heritage. (Note: Malakas is the Tagalog word for “strong.” So the character’s name almost sounds like she is “Very Strong.”) This is a reflection of the long history of Filipinos in Alaska, going as far back as the 1700s, and the long history of relationships between Filipinos and Alaska Native Peoples. This is a reflection of the reality that many Alaska Native-Filipinos (Tlingipinos, Eskipinos, Indipinos, Filibascans, etc.) exist and go back several generations. Many of them experienced marginalization and invisibility because of their heritages, and so to now have an Alaska Native-Filipino character in such a high profile show is a validation of their long presence and history in Alaska, but also a hope for a better experience for future generations of Alaska Native-Filipinos. Finally, their existence and experiences will be seen, acknowledged, and validated. Another reason I am so hyped is because, as a psychological scientist, I know that a positive racial or ethnic identity is important for the well-being of children of color. Research has shown that children’s racial or ethnic identity begins to be shaped quite early in life – as early as age 3 or 4. Research also tells us that – in addition to what parents, immediate family, and one’s immediate community tells kids about their heritage – messages from the larger society also makes a difference in how kids feel about their racial or ethnic identity. One powerful way that we receive messages from the larger society is through media, and research tells us that when children see their race or ethnicity represented in media, their well-being is strengthened! However, the flip-side of that is also true; when children – particularly children of color – don’t see themselves in media, their well-being suffers. Best wishes E. J. R. David Ph.D. Associate professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage Many schools offer long vacations between semesters and around holidays. But returning to school after an extended break can leave you filled with dread and anxiety. You're only going back to school - why is it so hard? If this question is something you've asked yourself, or if you could use some advice getting back into study mode, these skills will soon beat back your post-holiday blues and make school a breeze.
Easing into Your Return to Routine Set goals for yourself. A few days before you go back to school, take a pen and paper and write a list of personal goals that you'd like to accomplish during the semester. These goals might be social, intellectual, or physical, but by having something to work toward, you can relieve some anxiety about starting up again. Some goals you might consider: Review your homework. Or, if you didn't have homework assigned over break, take some time to look over the last assignments you did in each class before leaving school. This will remind you of where you left off in class, and looking over homework can prevent you from forgetting to complete it.[2]
This might be a teacher of your favorite subject, or a teacher who sponsors a club to which you belong. Ask if you might join this teacher during lunch to tell him about your adventures over vacation, or if you could work on homework in his room after school.
There may be a field trip in a week or two, or maybe your science class has a cool experiment planned - whatever it might be, chances are you have something to look forward to when you return to school. By making a list of these things, you can replace any fear you have of going back with excitement to return. Take your time getting back into the rhythm of things. There's no getting around it, you'll need some time before it feels normal going to school again. Don't be hard on yourself. This process can take a week or two, but coach yourself through your negative thoughts by saying things like:
Readjust your sleep schedule, if necessary. Over the course of your vacation, you might have enjoyed sleeping in or staying up late. This might make it difficult getting back into your school routine. To reset your sleep schedule you should:
It's likely you'll still be adjusting back to your school routine when break is over, and pre-packing school supplies and choosing your outfit the night before can save you time and stress. Grogginess in the morning can cause you to take more time than you need to do these simple tasks, so ready your stuff before to make your first morning back as easy as possible.
Over three-million high school students are graduating this spring in the United States. Many of them will head to university in the fall. The transition from high school to college is a major one, and successful adjustment to college has lifelong implications.
College adjustment comes in different forms including adjustment to the academic workload of college, engaging in learning, and earning high grades. Successful adjustment also means experiencing a sense of belonging at college, making friends, and taking part in the social aspects of this time of life. Finally, students benefit from adjusting psychologically which means experiencing low levels of depression and loneliness and high levels of physical and mental well-being. Much of my recent research is focused on the role family members play during the transition to college. Maybe you are about to make this transition yourself or have children who are about to leave the nest. This list is for you. If you know someone who is making this transition or know parents shepherding their emerging adult kids through this time, please take a moment to share this collection of research-based tips with them.
Kind regards Peter Smith College Principal A recent article in EducationNext by Kathryn Baron titled “Serving the math whiz kids” resurfaced a longstanding debate about whether bright kids will succeed even if not challenged enough.
Jon Star says: “We’re obligated to do a good job for both” [referring to both students performing below standard and to whiz kids] but also that “high-achieving kids are going to succeed even if they’re not challenged enough.” I think Jon Star is saying we should help all kids, but that we should probably help those performing below standard more because they need it more. In response, Jonathan Plucker says “the data don’t bear out the notion that bright kids will take care of themselves…the goal should be that every student continues to grow.” See this Twitter thread, where Jonathan greatly expands on his comment and discusses the broader context and additional research and makes a strong case for why gifted kids need to be challenged. I understand where Jonathan is coming from because it is true that many neglected gifted kids from disadvantaged backgrounds are not developing their talent to their full potential. I have written extensively on this topic and even interviewed Jonathan and Scott J. Peters about their book on Excellence Gaps in Education. However, I want to examine some evidence that might support the idea that bright kids are likely to succeed even if not challenged enough, because understanding where an argument is incorrect doesn’t just require rebutting it with other evidence or perspectives, it also requires understanding whether the initial statement is reasonably supported, and to what extent. Intelligence or giftedness is a key variable in helping talented kids from disadvantaged backgrounds improve their social mobility. A large body of work by Brent Roberts and colleagues “discovered that intelligence was crucial to helping students who came from disadvantaged backgrounds to catch up to their more advantaged peers.” See my interview with Brent here about this large body of research evidence. Gifted or intelligent kids end up as healthy adults in midlife. This is the finding of a large body of research longitudinally investigating how intelligence assessed when young predicts later-life health and aging. See this article reviewing work by Ian Deary and colleagues. Gifted individuals, overall, end up as psychologically well-adjusted. A century of research on gifted kids shows that these kids end up academically and occupationally successful, as indicated by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth led by Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski. This does not mean that gifted kids will not also grow with challenge (they will) or that an important group of whiz kids from disadvantaged backgrounds do not need our help (they do, like all other kids, but especially in comparison to advantaged gifted kids). Overall, it is important to acknowledge that gifted kids from all backgrounds do have a head start in life. They are, after all, “gifted.” However, that does not mean we should neglect them or that they could not be much more successful if we helped them. The debate among U.S. education scholars seems to be about which groups of kids have a larger head start than others within the gifted population (poverty can derail whiz kids too), and whether gifted kids as a whole will be “okay” relative to kids who are much more severely academically challenged from the start (those with lower academic ability). As Chester Finn recently argued, gifted education faces “clear and present” problems. Based on a representative survey of the U.S. public by The Institute of Educational Advancement, Finn concludes about gifted education that “there’s widespread complacency about the enterprise in its present form.” For more information about their free fitness class, visit their website by click here or you also can view their Timetable on a PDF version by click here
Want to skim through the paper while drinking your Starbucks coffee? You'll have to bring your own -- or read one on a phone app.
The sight of tables strewn with yesterday's news at the Seattle coffee chain is a thing of the past as well. Starbucks chain will quit selling The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Gannett papers like USA Today in more than 8,600 U.S. stores in September, citing "changing customer behavior." Starbucks has sold The Times since 2000 and other papers since 2010. Indeed, the smells and smears of newsprint are in decline. While some papers are adding digital subscribers , newspaper weekday circulation has declined by more than half since its peak in the mid-'80s. The Times says it is "disappointed" and the Journal confirmed that Starbucks is stopping print sales. Gannett did not immediately respond to questions. This isn't the first time Starbucks has decided old media is too passe for its cafes. Remember CDs? Sales of those ended in 2015. No word yet if Starbucks is going to start selling records, which are trendy again. The New York Post first reported Starbucks' decision to drop newspaper sales.
Australians are increasingly worried by the threat of home burglary and the subsequent emotional and financial impact of a break-in.The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates that in the twelve months prior to its Crime Victimisation Survey 2009-10, 254,500 households were the victims of at least one break-in to their home, garage or shed and 203,700 households were victims of an attempted break-in.
The ABS reported that break-ins were down slightly on the previous year (in NSW and WA) or stable (in the other States). The survey found that in 10 per cent of the break-ins, the burglar was confronted by the householder and property was damaged in almost half (48 per cent) of incidents. Add to these findings US research that suggests that it takes an average of four months to recover from the stress of a break-in and it's clear there can be more to deal with than just replacing the stolen items. With a few straightforward steps gleaned from police experience around the country, however, you can help protect your home and belongings from thieves. 1. All locked up Police suggest many opportunistic thieves take advantage of unlocked homes. Even if you are going out for a short time, lock-up your house and windows. Locksmiths can provide advice on appropriate door and window locks, and key all the windows to a single key. Also, ask your electricity supplier about locks for your power supply to prevent tampering, and keep your car locked. Police in Bundaberg, Queensland, for instance, have reported a case of a garage door opener stolen from a car, later used to burgle the owner's property. 2. Don't provide cover Deter theives from targeting your house by ensuring a clear line of sight from the street. Cut back trees and bushes that obscure your front door, look into installing movement sensor lights and report broken street lights straight away. Police also suggest making sure your house number is visible for the fastest response if you need to call for help. 3. Upgrade your defences A high number of victims (60 per cent) in the ABS research cited a door or window had been damaged or tampered with in attempted break-ins, so it pays to invest in strengthening these defences. A solid core door with a deadlock, for example, is harder to force, grilles and shutters prevent burglars from breaking in through windows, and a peep hole or lockable security screen can help keep burglars out. 4. Monitor all targets Garages and garden sheds are often targets for burglars who can then use your tools or ladders to gain access to the main house (police even report wheelie bins used to smash windows). An automatic light, for instance, fitted to the shed or garage can be a useful deterrent, along with keyed locks. 5. Security doesn't take a holidayAsk friends to collect your mail and to stop junk mail from building up in your letterbox while you're away from home. A neighbour parking in your driveway can also help signal the house is not unoccupied. Other measures could include internal lights or a radio set on timers and organising for someone to mow your lawn. 6. Guard your keysMost people know not to hide keys somewhere about the house but are you also aware that lending your keys to tradespeople and acquaintances can pose a risk? Keys are easily copied and can provide burglars with fast, no-fuss access to your belongings. 7. Store valuables in a safeAccording to the ABS Crime Victimisation Survey 2009-10, money and jewellery are most often stolen in break-ins. Installing a small safe in your home is a relatively low cost way to protect those items. 8. Don't advertise valuablesBreak up packaging for expensive new gear before tucking it into the bin or recycling. Also, take a look at your house from the outside. With most thieves looking for cash, even a wallet or iPod left on your hall table can make your home a target. Speaking of valuables, police advise making an inventory of your belongings to have at hand in case of a break-in. Mark your property using an engraver or ultra-violet markers and take photos of precious, one-of-a-kind possessions. 9. Install an alarm or deter thieves with a dogAdd another layer of defence to your home with an alarm system. A barking dog can also provide effective security for your home. Even installing a "Beware of the dog" sign can make thieves pause before targeting your home. Life after high school doesn't end. In fact, life begins once there's no more lockers, gym class, or teachers nagging you about homework. Once you become an adult, it is up to you to care about the decisions that you make to further your life goals. In terms of choosing the right career, it is important to consider the multiple education paths that you could explore, such as college, community college or trade school, or the military. You should begin planning for what's next by your junior year of high school.
1. Take a career assessment test in which you answer a series of questions designed to analyze your strengths and weaknesses. These tests also consider different personality types for each individual. While career tests should not be your main source of decision making, you can use them as a tool to help you decide what career might match your interests. 2. Think about your interests and hobbies. If you enjoy science, you may want to apply to college and pursue a career in engineering or marine biology. Write a list of possible careers that match your interests and your capabilities. If you find you are happiest when you work with others, jot down that you are a team player. In that case, you may want to consider jobs that involve people interaction instead of careers like computer programming or writing, which require more alone time. Speak to an adult you trust about your ideas and be willing to receive feedback. 3. Research the careers that you are considering. Write a profile for each, including job description, salary, educational requirements and job outlook. Realistically look at each profile and picture yourself performing the job duties. However, you have to consider all factors. For example, you may be able to picture yourself wearing scrubs and performing open heart surgery, but if you hate biology and can't imagine investing years in medical school, then it may not be a good idea to pursue medicine. 4.Narrow your options and look for a career with growth opportunities. While it is important to pick a career that will stimulate your mind, it is also important to be practical about the job market. If you decide that you want to go to college, you will need to pick a career that enables you to make a living after you graduate. 5. Jump into the first step of realizing your career dreams. If you have decided that you would like to pursue a career that requires higher education, do your research on applying to the college or program, including qualifications, application deadlines, tuition fees and length of study. If you have decided on a career that does not require higher education, start looking for ways to enter the field and gain experience. Speak to someone who already has your dream job. This person can provide a better picture of the pros and cons of the profession. References (2)Resources (1)About the Author John Anderson Smith joined us on 3 June 2019. He comes to us from an News agency company & He also has the skills of Computing, Communication with other and another thing. If you’re interested in a career in the Hospitality industry but you’re not sure what jobs you could apply for when you graduate, here are a few ideas that we think you may like. Hospitality is a broad industry with so many exciting avenues to pursue.
Hotel Operations Manager The staff who work in various operational departments within a hotel, resort or lodge are key to ensuring that every aspect of hotel operations happens, every day, on time and within budget. They manage staff, budgets, processes and more. They essentially are responsible for running the day-to-day decision making of the department they are working in. They could be Managers, Supervisors or line staff, depending on the size of the property. Here are some examples of operational departments you could work in, supervise or manage:
Essentially, an event planner is the person you turn to for assistance with organising, conceptualising, planning and executing an event on your behalf. Event planners often come up with creative concepts for décor, space and food; help to secure good prices with vendors or suppliers of furniture, flowers, music, lighting and so on; put together a workable budget for the event, co-ordinating the planning of all aspects of the function from guest invites to paying the DJ or suppliers and finally, they oversee all processes from legal to financial and just about everything in-between. So really, it’s a very busy, detail oriented job that requires a great deal of patience and a jolly good sense of humour. Chef or Culinary guru Line cooks or Commis are required to know and understand food safety rules and regulations and may work their way up the kitchen brigade. They are required to know basic cooking styles and techniques and are taught how to prepare meals for a restaurant. The Sous Chef answers to the Executive Chef but will also manage other members of the kitchen staff and is in charge when the Executive Chef is unavailable or on leave. As assistant to the Executive Chef, the Sous Chef is responsible for: Menu design; Cooking different cuisines (food types); Overseeing the kitchen team; Ensuring cleanliness and order in the kitchen; Management of food resources and inventory to ensure sufficient supplies; Management of suppliers to ensure quality standards are maintained. Read more here. Training and DevelopmentIf you have a love for sharing your skills with other individuals, training may be a perfect avenue for you to pursue. Hotel trainers need to be experts in the fields in which they train staff, so a solid hospitality qualification backed up with consistent updates on new developments and trends within that sector is vital. Trainers often train staff on site which means they are required to travel to various hotels to carry out training requirements. Trainers may also have to write their own training materials and may be assessed from time to time for standards and quality assurance. ConciergeA Concierge (translated from the French word meaning ‘Keeper of the Keys’) is the person who ‘gets everything done’ when you’re staying at a hotel. He/she is the person who gets you into a restaurant when it’s full, or books your transfers when you’ve forgotten, and so much more. Concierges are very versatile – they can carry out a number of job roles, ensuring that guests have an amazing ‘overall’ experience. Marketing, sales and mediaMarketing is one of the cornerstones of any business and helps not only to improve brand awareness, but gain market share and ultimately increase profits. Having a natural sales ability is essential to securing a role in this fast-paced division of the industry. Sales individuals should be able to communicate well with people at all levels, have a strong network of contacts and be able to ‘close a deal’. Marketing requires an understanding of different markets, different marketing mediums, budgets and how they all work together for increased profit and market share. Food & Beverage or Catering ManagerA food and beverage supervisor or manager plans, organises, and manages the food and beverage supply for a hospitality venue such as a hotel or restaurant. They plan types and quantities of food and drinks needed during a particular timeframe, make sure the goods are ordered, delivered, and paid for, that the items are correctly used, and that the hotel or restaurant makes a profit from its food and beverage services. The same principles apply for catering companies who often deliver food services off-site. SommelierThe word Sommelier comes from French origins and has come to mean one that carries supplies. So the first role of the Sommelier is to transport/carry the wine. In modern day dining, the Sommelier needs to have a system in the cellar in which he knows and understands exactly where each wine is kept, rotated, stored and when it will be available. Another important role of the Sommelier is to pair the fine wines with the foods listed on the menu. A Sommelier works with the senior kitchen staff to find suitable wines to pair with various menu items. The Sommelier’s role is not always to educate the guest (most guests don’t want to be educated) but to guide the guest on their wine selection. Part of this is done when the Sommelier creates an outstanding wine list, and the other part is created when the guest is present and available to discuss wine choices with. Financial or accounting rolesAccounts staff in the hotel industry keep a record of money out, money in and record all of these transactions on spreadsheets. Discrepancies need to be investigated, corrected and reported as to why they happened. They may also handle payroll, debtors, creditors and financial reporting. A Financial Manager is a hotel’s head honcho when it comes to money. He or she plans how to spend it, save it, and increase it. The Financial Manager basically controls the finances of the hotel or hospitality property. Tour GuideA tour guide is an individual who takes groups of people or individuals to and from tourist attractions, explaining the culture, history and heritage of the site and providing as much information as possible to the guests as well as fielding questions. Tourist sites can include historical, cultural, culinary or religious sites as well as landmarks or ‘experiences’ that tourists seek out. If you have any questions or you would like to know more about job opportunities you can explore in the hospitality industry, get in touch with us below. KEEPING PLANT THIEVES AT BAYHave you ever experienced plants being stolen from your garden? It’s more common than you might think. A study in Britain showed that, on average, one home in seven has something stolen from the garden every year. I’ve been a victim of plant theft myself, in fact many times.
My Unplanned Self-Serve Garden The worst situation was at my previous residence: a ground-floor apartment in a low-income district neighborhood where buildings were chockablock and there was very little greenery. I was luckier than most in that the admittedly ramshackle building at least had a postage stamp lawn in the front and a somewhat larger one out back, plus it was next to a churchyard where I was able to borrow even more space. The “front yard” became a flower garden. And along the garage, on the church’s property, I struggled mightily to remove 80 years of junk and weeds and grow a vegetable garden. What I wasn’t thinking was that both were in full public view and thus visible to any potential plant thieves. They hit the flower garden first and most heavily. They seemed to assume that I had put in a self-serve floral buffet and would walk off with bouquets of blooms. That wasn’t so bad, as I was growing mostly annuals and most will rebloom when you cut them back. But sometimes they’d simply rip out the entire plant, snap the flowers off, and toss the plant to the ground, killing it. I think very few people in the neighborhood had ever gardened and as a result, they didn’t seem to recognize the edible plants in the vegetable garden as something useful—after all, carrot and beet leaves don’t look like much!—and usually left them alone. Except for the tomatoes. Whoever was doing the stealing began collecting those as they turned red. I soon learned to harvest my tomatoes before they fully matured to beat the thieves at their game … but that meant I was not harvesting tomatoes at their tastiest. The back yard should have been a haven, as it had a fence around it, but it was still in full public view, only feet from a popular footpath through the churchyard. Thieves did leave my in-ground plantings (bulbs, perennials, shrubs, etc.) totally alone, but would often walk off with any pots of new plants I had not yet planted. (I learned to store them out-of-sight in the garage until I had time to do so.) They’d also snatch houseplants I’d put outdoors for the summer, pots and all. And not the ordinary ones, like spider plants and philodendrons, but collectors items: orchids, bromeliads, cacti, succulents, etc. I always felt that the houseplant thief was not linked to the others and must have been a plant collector. I used to scout windowsills in the neighborhood, looking for my lost plants, but I never did find them. Personal Perspectives point of view for Plant Thief Experience Stories My mother-in-law experienced plant theft a few years ago. She was standing at her kitchen window looking out at the lovely flowering bulbs in her front yard when a car pulled up. A man jumped out with a pair of clippers, swiftly clipped her flowers, and drove away. It happened in just seconds, as my mother-in-law gazed speechlessly at her now-bald bulbs. I kid you not. It was an obviously premeditated drive-by flower robbery! From the stories of people who have had their plants stolen, I’ve garnered a few tips that will help you to prevent plant theft. (See also: Disguise Your Stuff to Prevent Car Break-ins) 1. Use Big Heavy Planters To prevent people from stealing potted plants, pot and all, go for big, heavy planters that aren’t easy to move. While heavy planters won’t necessarily prevent a determined criminal from taking your plants, they can be a deterrent to the casual thief. Better yet, chain or bolt the planter to the ground. That way, even if thieves dig up your plants, at least you won’t lose that expensive planter! 2. Choose Flowers Wisely Apartment Therapy had this great tip — don’t plant those rare bulbs in plain view in your front yard. Actually, don’t plant any expensive flowers where thieves might see them and be tempted. In the front yard, stick to low-growing flowers that are pretty but aren’t tall enough for cut flower arrangements. 3. Harvest Your Fruit A fruit tree loaded with ripe fruit is very tempting to people who pass by. My husband’s grandparents had an entire tree stripped of ripe grapefruit. Somehow the thieves had managed to pick every single grapefruit, several hundred pounds' worth, and cart it off without being noticed. Harvesting ripe fruit in a timely fashion shows potential thieves that you care about your fruit tree and are keeping an eye on it. 4. Chain Plants Down If you’re in the process of putting in some landscaping, and your neighborhood is known for plant thieves, consider weaving chain or cable through the roots of your trees as you plant them, and then connecting them either to other trees or to something immovable. Determined thieves might bring cutters, but chaining your plants down might discourage them a bit. 5. Get It on Tape Catch thieves on tape — or at least fake it. Placing a fake security camera near your plants (but high up where thieves can’t reach) can be an effective deterrent. Alternatively, place a nanny-cam in your front window. Some people have also installed motion-sensor lights to good effect. Putting a few deterrents around your home can make your plants less appealing to thieves, who may then choose to look elsewhere for their loot. 6. Keep Ornaments Out of Sight Flowers and plants are not the only targets for thieves. If you have a pretty dish, unique ornaments, lanterns, or candles sitting around on your front patio, you can be sure that these small items are tempting to unscrupulous pilferers. Keep them inside the house until you are ready to use them. 7. Put a Lock on Your Gate If your backyard is fenced in, you might want to consider installing a lock on your gate to protect not only your backyard plants, but also your patio set and barbecue. Believe it or not, people have had plants stolen right off their back patios. Have you ever had plants stolen? What tips would you recommend to prevent plant theft? This stories was written by a writer Camilla Cheung from Wise Bread For weeks, Aleister Black has been begging for someone on SmackDown LIVE to knock on his door and pick a fight with him. Finally, someone answered the call two weeks ago, and this Tuesday night, the WWE Universe will discover just who it was.
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