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Rays of Hope for these Divisive Times:

FACTORS REQUIRED TO MAKE YOUR VOICE AN ASSET AS A MUSICIAN Your voice can only become an asset when you have learned how to place value on it. placing value on your voice actually demands discipline in the sense that you must constantly condition yourself on things you must do and the ones you shouldn’t. Below is a list of such conditions: Try not to overuse your voice You must learn to know when to let your voice rest by mastering your body system. To some people singing when they are stressed can cause them to lose their voice whereas some can sing in such condition and they are not affected. Consider using a microphone when appropriate to avoid straining your voice through actions such as screaming or whispering. Drink up to 8-10 glasses of clean water on a daily basis Water nourishes your mucus and lubricates your vocal cords just like oil lubricates a car engine. Thick mucous such as the one that can be gotten from some caffeinated drink tends to dehydrate the vocal cords thus causing friction and trauma to it. This implies that more water, less friction, thus reducing any form of trauma and granting a singer a better voice. Engage in regular warm-up Just like athletes engage in warm-ups before the main race begins the same thing Is recommended for musicians. The essence of vocal warm-ups for musicians is to loosen their voice thus causing easy circulation of blood. Abstain from smoking There’s an inscription on the packet of cigarettes that states that smokers are liable to die young but it is surprising to know that despite this clear warning individuals still smoke as if their survival depends on it. Aside from the health risk associated with smoking, there are also musical consequences attributed to it as well such as swollen vocal cords, difficulty in breathing, and so on. The human voice must be consciously improved and maintained before the maximum benefits embedded in it such as music deals, Gigs, album promotion, endorsement, and so on can be attained reason we stated earlier is that the voice is an asset. Thank you for reading #Opportunityloud.com

🎉So that’s it! This afternoon I joined colleagues and 20 other support staff, managers, operations staff from providers across the UK in the final of 4 prototype training sessions delivered by Tricia Nicoll sharing her much needed review of how the UK provides social care support, practices, language, the snapshot images needing a rethink, life enriching experiences or ticking a box? All it offers - or should offer. ❓We talked through the last of four tests ‘would it strengthen and support a persons connections and relationships?’ 🤔The discussion was lovely and views differed across some aspects of being friendly support staff or friends, the phrase ‘professional boundaries’ was viewed from polar extremes which was interesting. 🤔Makes one think about the support concept differences between resident supporting staff and the role of a PA. 💡Opening the thought channels and discussion is key - talking ideas through with your teams, your staff, your organisation and perhaps reflect on where some changes are possible or necessary. ⏰Time for change in social care ‘norms’ on so many levels, it all starts with that first ‘test’ and frank, open discussions. 👏🏼Thank you for inviting Active Prospects UK to join so many support providers across the UK to these sessions, trialing and shaping the training and an important chance to encourage change. https://lnkd.in/g-i4U8VG

Did you see this post about the new Weare Bus Monitor?  There is an incredible story behind him stepping into this role, one you would never know started with me, and ONE simple gesture.  Here is a snippet from the post I wrote in June 2021, but started in September of 2019. It is a sweet story that changed the days and now the lives of others.   Stop for a minute and think about this one gesture. He waves at everyone he sees, as he now sits in a lawn chair in his yard. It’s not me he is making smile, he is sharing that with everyone that passes him by. This is what struck me this morning; how a simple gesture from someone else, a stranger actually, can have an enormous impact on so many.   Each of us has this opportunity, and if we recognize the impact of our actions, which may not be immediately seen or felt, then we have the power to change so much. It doesn't have to be a grand gesture to change somebody's life, it also doesn't have to be a big production. It's the everyday little things that you do that can have the greatest impact on somebody else. Here is the post from The Weare News Outlet https://lnkd.in/eUHe9yMU We are starting a new year of school, and there will be opportunities to smile and say hi, the other person may not reciprocate - but stay the course - you don't know the impact(s) you may have! Here is the link to my post to learn the story behind this incredible human who changed my life! https://lnkd.in/eX4rYkTH #peersnotfears #teenleadership #leavealegacy #legacy #schoolbusmonitor #communityheros #smileandwave #sayhi

This feature gives us all the feels! https://lnkd.in/dkutnrJ2

I tell students all the time that they can go and intern in DC without the WSP. However, they will miss the community of students, alumni and friends. They will not benefit from the networks that we help them build or reflect on their experiences to deepen their learning. There is a foundation and intention to what we do, and this tells our story. #experientiallearning

https://lnkd.in/em6iNeAs The micro specifics of these kaleidoscopes do not necessarily interest me. Rather, more like the Occult amphitheatre that sustains an allegiance to avoidance of.... in the varying permutations of elision/de-foregrounding. Tacit agreements in the institutional firewall 'how do we get everyone in the room onto the one page' and when the dam breaks, how do we ratiocinate our collective responses in the preservation of our self-interests. Many communicative spheres and educative spheres-vital kinships between the Humanities and the Sciences often engage in forms of locutionary hijacking and they have the colonising ambit and orbit power to do so, to push and push into the long grass, having made the determination of societal compassion fatigue. These consilience arraignments are harmonious and indelibly intricate. I have been watching a couple of high powered universities in Ireland forge their affinities with the Asian Continent/Indian Sub-Continent/Singapore/South Asia/Philippines, Latin America; Canada/US/Australia and even join in to investigating themes of on-line grooming to exploit young children. The groups, the universities are conjoined with, some of whom under active criminal investigation (DPP etc) and even the censured religious orders, censured because of the egregious nature of the violations within the tacit educational moulding and shaping of attitudes and virtues. These orders, now working with the universities, were substantial violators and hindering the arts of young personhood under normative arrangements of first sovereignty. These are the same universities in their interlinkages of power, who talk the talk about trust and self-regulation a lot, so, perhaps they have learned how to be ambiguous and selectively ambivalent, consistent with the historical finding of 'avoidance' and 'invisibility'. These groups tend to be neoliberal and even right of centre restorative - an emphasis on market led metrics and individual rationality "Very few people doubt that it is a fundamental demand of justice that members of legal-political normative orders ought to have legal rights that define their basic standing as subjects of such an order. But when it comes to the concrete understanding of such rights, debates abound. What is the nature of these rights – are they an expression of the sovereign will of individuals, or are they based on important human interests? How should these rights be justified – do they have a particular moral ground, and if so, only one or many?" Professor Rainer Forst The Justification of Basic Rights: A Discourse-Theoretical View 2017 Normative Orders Working Paper 'The phenomena of power is noumena in nature 'to have and to exercise power means to be able - in different degrees - to influence, use, determine, occupy, or even seal off the space of reason(s) for others' Forst 2017 p, 41).

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I'm not a big fan of Dr. Sabine Hossenfelder. Though I have enjoyed, and laughed out loud, at some of her fun, informative and dryly humourous videos, she also puts out some under-researched science popularist rubbish from time to time that boils my blood. And I find theoretical physics to be a giant bore- and always have done. But this piece is different. Different, meaning much better and more honest. She explains why she left academia disillusioned, and became a YouTube science popularist instead. What she fails to mention is that much of what she encountered, which caused her very real trauma and suffering in her career, wasn't just the result of the institutionalized academic culture that she so clearly relates in this piece. The root cause is much deeper than that. The root cause is that we have, for many decades now, been cranking out far more STEM graduates than the market could possibly appropriately use, particularly at the PhD level. So much so, that at York University in Toronto, 75% of undergraduate teaching hours are taught by contract faculty- people who not only don't have tenure and who are paid a tiny fraction of what tenured faculty are paid, but who are also required to re-apply to teach the same courses they've been teaching for over a decade, every single year. We have a massive oversupply of STEM graduates in Canada in general terms, and of people with engineering educations in particular. And this problem no doubt continues to grow, every single year. If you doubt it, some evidence (based on labour market data) is provided in links in the comments. Anyway, here is Sabine's piece. It is well worth watching.