Making Sense of the Far-right March on the US Capitol

February 9, 2021

The storming of the US Capitol on January 6^th, 2021 by an angry far-right mob was an exigent distraction of historic proportions. Indeed, it may be an augur of what is to come. Even so, a president with neo-fascist white supremacist sentiments and an angry far-right mob are necessary but insufficient conditions for fascism. The road to fascism requires fascists who want complete control of all the organs of the system, the presence of an existential communist threat, and uncontrolled disorder in the streets. That said, it would be a mistake if this distraction causes us to overlook that above all the real enemy of working people is the ruling elite mob, not unmoored far-right mobs. The storming of the US Capitol is a visible sign of the system in crisis.

It is a rare occurrence when the US Capitol is stomped. Least by a neo-fascist and white supremacist (some of whom were armed) mob supported by the president himself. The president used demagogy to stir up and convince these people that the election was stolen. Incited, they came prepared to even kill to take back their country.

The mob stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in favor of President Trump. The attempted coup failed. It failed because the time for fascism had not arrived in the US-not yet.

The images of the Capitol in the aftermath of the riot had all the hallmarks of chaos. The rioters failed to overturn the election results, as well as to siege power from the US government. The relatively easy access into and exit out of the Capitol building suggests that there may have been other inside collaborators with the mob, in addition to the president. When it was over, five people had died in the mayhem including two Capitol police, one by suicide. So far, a small number of those who participated in the riot have been arrested. Possibly, one unintended consequence of the rampage is splintering and restructuring of the Republican (Trump’s base could form a new party) and Democratic (liberal base could form a new party) parties.

Also, the riot creates an opening for the state to install new oppressive measures and laws. Predictably, these measures will place further restrictions on workers’ rights. For example, social media’s restrictions on Trump’s antics to what they perceive as dangerous, may be used selectively to restrict freedom of speech. As the economic, COVID-19, and environmental crises continue, mob activities and other forms of resistance could intensify. Globally and in the U.S.A., far-right gangs have been growing in membership. Unquestionably, they must be resisted and vigorously put down wherever they appear.

Before Mr. Trump became president, there was already a whole host of problems, which have gotten worse. Food insecurity was on the rise. Wages were stagnant. Wealth disparity between the rich and the rest was widening. Medical care was not accessible to large swaths of the population. There was a shortage of affordable housing. There was an increase in racist attacks. Concerns about global warming had risen to a level of urgency. Then COVID-19 sent the economy into a tailspin. It is likely that many of those who participated in the riot have experienced or are experiencing some of these insecurities.

As these conditions become worse, people will become desperate and angry. It is not surprising that an exemplar of the oligarchy and a demagogic insider like Mr. Trump comes along and presents himself as an outsider who will solve all these problems. But neither Trump or the Republican party nor Biden or the Democratic party can or will fix these problems. And the far-right will continue to have appeal.

Before and since the mob’s march on the Capitol, fascism has been mentioned countless times. This compels me to say a few words about fascism. Fascism is the most extreme form of capitalism. It is an alliance between the government and corporate interests who finance, orchestrate, and put in motion uncontrolled “mass gangs” that come from the middle class, working class and poor. Its leaders use lies and innuendos and resort to methods of divisiveness and civil war to purge and annihilate first and foremost militant workers and communists. Then, they call for peace. After which fascists are given complete control of all state institutions, including education, the police, the prisons, the military, the courts, the press, social media, and religious institutions.

Fascism is invoked when the ruling elite believes there is an existential communist threat, and the normal tools of oppression (police, military, judiciary) are unable to restore order. The mob that recently stormed the US Capitol was not socialists and communists. The riot was brought under control within a few hours. To the extent that there are communist organizations in this country, they are disparate and atomized. Evidenced by the defeat of Trump, there is no consensus to install fascism in the US by the ruling elite-at least not right now. Make no mistake though that at the first sign of any existential threat, the ruling elite from business and finance and their political agents, the Republicans and Democrats, will not hesitate to organize and orchestrate far-right fascist mobs to crush legitimate dissent-this would not be the first time. The working class needs a working-class political party, worker-controlled unions, and other worker organizations that are completely disconnected from the establishment to advocate in its interest.

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About the Author

Anthony A. Gabb, Ph.D. is a retired Professor of economics. He has taught economics for 40 years, 32 of which was at St. John’s University, New York. His most recent work includes “Can the Fascist Germ Rise to Epidemic Levels in the USA Today?” and “Financial Oligarchy Feudal Aristocracy”. He has published and delivered dozens of papers, a book chapter, and a book review, interviewed by The New York Times, Corriere della Sera, and has appeared on Channel 1 New York.

Britain’s Top Firms Failing Black Leaders

February 9, 2021

Green Park’s Annual Business Leaders Index Records no Black Chairs, CEOs or CFOs at FTSE 100 Companies for first time in six years.

Despite years of public commitments from government and business to increase ethnic diversity at leadership levels, the number of Black individuals at the top of Britain’s biggest companies has fallen to zero.

Research compiled by executive recruitment and diversity consultancy agency Green Park and released today in conjunction with the UK’s first ever Race Equality Week, reveal that for the first time in six years, there are no Black Chairs, CEOs or CFOs, in the FTSE100.

The early findings from the Green Park Business Leaders Index 2021 reveal that while the numbers of most other minority ethnic groups in these top positions have increased by a small amount since its first report in 2014, the number of Black leaders at FTSE 100 companies has stalled and then dropped to zero*. As a result, only ten of 297 (3.4%) leaders in the Top 3 roles have ethnic minority backgrounds, the same proportion as when Green Park began their FTSE analysis in 2014.

At FTSE100 board and executive committee level, the percentage of Black Executive Directors and Non-Executive Directors (1.1%) has also fallen since Green Park’s first report in 2014 (1.3%). This compares unfavourably with increased percentages for other minority ethnic board members (Muslim, Hindu and Sikh, and Chinese and East Asian) across the same period.

The prospects for future increases in Black representation at the highest levels of British business also look slim, with numbers in the leadership pipeline decreasing over the past year from 1.4% to 0.9%. This drop in the pipeline is reflected across ethnic minority groups more widely, with ethnic minority representation falling over the past year from 10.7% to 9%.

Trevor Phillips, Chair of Green Park, said: “These figures put some flesh on the bone of last year’s protests. We know there is no shortage of qualified candidates to fill these roles if companies are willing to look. Yet the snowy peaks of British business remain stubbornly white. We cannot go back to business as usual. It is time that shareholders, consumers and employees start questioning whether Black Lives Matter is just rhetoric rather than reality. That is why we have put our backing behind Race Equality Week. Corporate leaders need to stop telling us how much they care and do something to show us that Black lives really do matter.”

The figures released today are an early insight into the findings of the Green Park Business Leaders Index 2021, an analysis of the gender and ethnocultural diversity of FTSE leadership. They are being released to mark the UK’s first ever Race Equality Week, with hundreds of organisations and individuals uniting in activity to tackle the challenges faced by ethnic minorities in the workplace.

Co-founded by Green Park following the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020 and disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on ethnic minority communities, the Race Equality Week movement and slogan – ‘Let’s not go back to normal’ – are further validated by today’s findings.

Green Park is calling for organisations to act now to tackle issues facing race equality, not only because it is the fair and moral thing to do, but because the success of British business post Brexit relies on it.

As part of the organisation’s contribution to Race Equality Week, Green Park is proposing to tackle a crucial issue for many candidates for senior positions – the belief that they may be recruited as “diversity window-dressing” – but excluded from key decisions such as major appointments or acquisitions being taken by a leadership team which is all male or all-white. The company’s board has instructed that under the “Green Park Rule” any spending decision above 1% of turnover must be made by a diverse group; if this is not possible, the fact should always be reported to the board and noted in the company’s annual report.

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About the Green Park Business Leaders Index

This research examines the backgrounds of 6,172 individuals in total and covers the leadership of the UK’s largest quoted companies, the FTSE 100 as of December 2020. The findings split senior leaders into three tiers of seniority: Top 3 (Chair, CEO and CFO); Top 20 (Board, and Executive Committee, including Top 3); Pipeline 40 (Senior leaders who report into the Top 20).

Data is cross analysed using several sources, many of which are publicly available including annual reports, London Stock Exchange listing information, company websites and LinkedIn. In the case of the executive level employees considered in this report, virtually all names are published on the relevant organisation’s website or annual report. Observed gender and ethnicity are then cross analysed with the output of a unique program Origins, designed by Professor Richard Webber; lead developer of consumer classification systems Mosaic and Acorn. Origins uses a database of 1.2 billion individual records globally, with 2.5 million family names and 0.8 million personal names, to generate algorithms that can associate individual names to key protected characteristics, namely gender, and ethnic or national (ethnocultural) origins.

About Green Park

Green Park is an award-winning consultancy that offers Executive Search, Interim Management, Board Advisory, Diversity & Inclusion and Managed Service People Solutions across the private, public and third sectors. Championing diversity and inclusion, Green Park is changing the face of leadership by helping organisations think differently about talent in the UK’s top boardrooms. Our aim is to help organisations to attract, identify, develop and retain trusted, inclusive, authentic and, most of all, highly effective leaders from different backgrounds to leverage the power of collective difference. In 2018, Green Park placed a new diverse leader on a board every 14 days!

A Deeper Insight Into Database Management Systems – What Is Indexing?

February 9, 2021

A modern database management system has a technique for the data structure that helps you retrieve data records from any system file. This technique is known as indexing. The index generally is a table with two columns. You will find a copy of the candidate or primary key in its first column. In contrast, its second column has a group of pointers containing the address for the disk block that keeps the storage address of the key’s particular value.

The index will-

Take the search key as an input
Effectively return a set of records that match this input

An insight into the different types of index in the database management systems

The following are the different types of indexing you can find in the database management systems-

The index is defined as per its attributes for indexing. There are two primary types of methods for indexing, and they are-

Primary and
Secondary

An overview of the primary index

The primary index is organized, has two fields, and a fixed file size. The first field has a primary key, and the second file points to the particular data block. There exists a one-on-one relationship between these two entities in the table. The primary index, again, can be divided into two kinds. They are-

The dense index and
The sparse index

The dense index refers to the record created in the database for each search key that is valued in it. It helps the user to search the database faster. However, it requires greater space for storing the records of the index. In this method, the records keep the search key’s value that points to the real record on its disk.

The sparse index refers to the index’s record that surfaces for just some values in this file. The sparse index assists you to resolve the problems of dense indexing present in the database management system. In the above indexing technique, the group of columns for the index contains a similar address for the data block, so when the data has to be retrieved, the address for this block data can be easily fetched.

However, one should note that the sparse index contains records for just some search key values. It requires less space and lesser maintenance overheads for insertions and deletions; however, compared to the above index for the location of records, it is much slower.

An overview of the secondary index

When it comes to the secondary index in the database management system, the field can be created with a specific record for every record. This should entail the candidate key and is often referred to as the non-clustering index too.

The technique is two-leveled in nature and can be deployed for reducing the size of the first level mapping at this level. Experienced DBAs say that a large volume of numbers is chosen, making the mapping small all the time.

The above can be better understood with the help of an easy illustration. In the case of a bank’s database, you will find the data is sequentially stored as per the account number, and you will find all the bank accounts of a particular branch of one bank, say XYZ Bank.

You can maintain a secondary index in the mysql database management system for each search key. This index record is the point of record with all the groups of pointers to them in the particular value of the search key.

Clustering index

The clustering index is not a pointer, and the records are stored in the index independently. There are cases where this index is made on non-primary key columns. They do not need to be unique for every record. Professionals from the esteemed company in remote database management and administration, RemoteDBA.com, say that the user can make two or even more columns for getting unique values in such a case. In this way, an index can be made and named a clustered index so that the user can recognize the record quicker.

For instance, let us assume an organization has recruited several employees in different departments. In such a case, the clustering index in the database management system must be made for employees in the same department. This is considered one cluster, and the index points refer to the cluster as a whole. In this case, the department_ no is the non-unique key.

Understanding the multi-level index

Skilled professionals in database administration and management state a multi-level index is made when the primary index does not sync in with the memory. In this method, the user can reduce the volume of disk accesses to shorten any record stored on the disk as a sequential file to make a sparse base on the file.

B-Tree Index

This is a popular type of data structure in the database management system widely used for tree-based indexing. This format is multi-level and has binary search trees that are aligned. The leaf nodes in this index denote the real data pointers. These leaf nodes are also interlinked to the list of links that permit the B tree to offer both sequential and random access.

Skilled and experienced DBAs state that the B-Tree index should have the following traits-

The lead nodes should have at least two to four values
The path from the root to the leaf is generally equal in length
These non-leaf nodes, besides the root node, generally have around three to five children nodes.
Each node is neither a leaf nor a root node has n/2] and n children between them.

Professional experts in database performance tuning, management, and administration state indexing in database systems help you decrease the complete number of input and output operations required for retrieving that data so that you do not need to access the row in the database system from the index structure. In this way, you can get faster searches, and the retrieval of data becomes simpler for users.

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How to Successfully Manage Remote Teams in 2021

February 9, 2021

By Jeya Thiruchelvam

As a result of COVID-19, remote working has become the norm for many employees and attitudes to remote and flexible working are changing dramatically.

In September 2020, XpertHR surveyed 148 HR professionals and found that more than half (54.7%) of businesses plan to increase the amount of permanent homeworking in their organisation in the future. And 35.1% of organisations that did not use homeworking prior to the pandemic plan to now have at least some permanent homeworking arrangements.

But employers must be aware of some the challenges of managing remote workers. At the start of the pandemic, remote working was a novelty for many employees, but it is now starting to have an impact on some people’s health and wellbeing.

Remote working does not suit all employees, and employers should implement measures to support them, especially if the workforce is divided between some people working remotely and others in the office.

Here’s how managers can be more confident when managing remote workers in 2021.

Ensure managers have the right skills

Managers of employees who work remotely need to be more skilled at certain things such as communicating, relationship-building, coaching, and managing by results.

If most of the interaction with an employee is by email, Teams or Zoom, managers can’t rely on body language and facial expressions to help convey their message or to better understand what an employee is saying, increasing the chance of a misunderstanding. So, managers of employees working remotely need to be excellent communicators, not merely competent ones.

Managers need to let go

Often managers find “letting go” uncomfortable. But they need to trust their team and not micro-manage them. Managers must know their team too, and recognise each employee is an individual with their own unique combination of strengths and weaknesses and particular set of personal circumstances and life commitments.

Managers should also have confidence in their ability to guide and support their team, and to create a positive environment where new ways of working can be explored. But confidence doesn’t mean arrogance; managers should understand their own weaknesses and work on those.

Good communication and engagement are paramount

Managers must make time for regular catch-ups with employees and know them well enough to recognise when they might be struggling but reluctant to admit it. This is an important part of looking after an employee’s mental wellbeing.

Ensure employees know they need time away from their desks, and encourage communication with their colleagues, such as having a virtual coffee or Friday afternoon drinks, which can promote good mental wellbeing. Also remind employees of any benefits provided by the employer, such as employee assistance programmes.

Plan new working arrangements carefully

At the start of any new working arrangement, managers should agree some regular events (virtual or face to face) everyone can commit to regardless of their working pattern.

Agreeing these events as a team, through group discussion where there is cooperation and compromise, will mean employees should feel more committed to attending them.

Managers should plan and diarise the events they want everyone to attend well in advance. This means team members can more easily plan and, if necessary, change their work schedule so they can attend an event.

Set objectives to measure performance

Managing employee performance while working remotely can be challenging. Measuring an individual’s performance by results and not by their presence in the office or the hours they work is the best approach.

A person’s presence at work does not necessarily mean they are working. Equally, when someone is working from home, or on the move, this does not mean they are not working or slacking. Often, it is the reverse. Given the freedom to work in their own way, employees almost always get on with the job and appreciate being trusted to choose when and where to work.

To assess an individual’s performance by their output, managers must conduct a thorough objective-setting process. The focus should be on agreeing with team members their outcomes over a specific period and how these outcomes will be measured, and giving them the freedom to choose how they will meet their objectives.

This flexibility will give individuals the chance to use their knowledge and experience – the individual doing a job is usually the one who knows best how to do things better or differently.

After objectives have been set, managers should monitor progress. Creating regular opportunities to review, reflect and provide feedback against required outcomes is even more important when an individual is working flexibly and there are fewer opportunities to observe directly or provide in the moment advice or feedback.

Coach and facilitate

For remote workers, a coaching management style will be more effective than a “command and control” approach as there is less scope to help trouble-shoot problems when they arise. Team members therefore need to develop the skills to solve problems independently.

A coaching management style means managers guiding individuals to work out things for themselves. Managers must be approachable and recognise that employees will be stretching themselves and may need guidance. It is essential they don’t reprimand someone for asking obvious questions or suggest someone is incompetent if they can’t see an obvious solution straightaway.

Giving employees the confidence to deal with problems more independently is something that will benefit both the business and the employee in the long run.

Give constructive feedback

Managers’ recognising good progress and outcomes is crucial for team motivation. Equally, if there are issues with the progress or outcomes that a particular individual is achieving, managers must feed this back promptly, so that they can improve.

It can be demotivating if a team member thinks they are doing a reasonable job because no one has said anything to the contrary only to be presented with a lot of negative feedback at their annual performance review when it is too late for them to do anything about it.

To conclude

Remote and flexible working can be hugely beneficial for both employees and employers. Allowing employees input and control over how, where and when they work means they are more invested and more likely to perform better.

For employers it can boost productivity, engagement, and commitment from their workforce. While COVID-19 thrust this way of working on many organisations now is the time to reflect and take advantage of the benefits it can bring in 2021.

This article is based on the XpertHR line manager briefing on leading a flexible working team written by Peter Thomson.

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About the Author

Jeya Thiruchelvam is a managing editor on the employment law team at XpertHR. She is particularly interested in race, disability and sex discrimination law.

Prior to joining XpertHR, she worked as an employment solicitor for six years, regularly hosting training seminars and contributing articles to local and regional publications.

How to Get Rid of a Car with Negative Equity in Vegas?

February 8, 2021

If the market value of your car is worth less than your debt, it means that your vehicle has negative equity. If you are in negative equity with your car, it can be the worst-case scenario for you.

Let’s take a simple example. Say you owe $30,000 for the car or you received a title loan in Las Vegas for that amount. You’ll get the market price of your vehicle after you do some research and let’s assume it’s $25,000. That means you’re in negative equity of $5,000.

What to Do About Negative Equity in Your Car

There are two options to get out of car equity that is negative. Number one is paying the equity as well as the loan amount for the car until you’re out of negative equity. Or number two, which is to sell your vehicle and take the loss.

However, we’re going to tell you about a few more options which you can choose in this situation. The best decision will be based on your loan amount, credit score, and the time frame for which you’ll be paying the loan.

How You Get Rid of a Car with Negative Equity

● Calculate the negative equity of your car

First of all, start calculating the negative equity. You need to make sure how deep you are in terms of the gap between the market price and the debt.

Before that, you need to determine what your car is worth. It can be done by using different tools available on the various online platforms.

You cannot rely on a single source when it comes to car evaluation. We suggest that you should use multiple sources, as it will give you an accurate price estimate.

Let’s consider the same example taken above in which you are $5,000 underwater.

So, before you consider reselling your car or refinancing, you need to take into account all the possible conditions that can arise.

Ask yourself if you’re in a position financially to pay the remaining amount, which is $5,000 in this case. If you’re able to pay this amount by any means, then this is your best option for getting out of negative equity in the car.

● Discuss with your lender

Even if you are not in a position to pay the amount of the negative equity, there are several different ways that can help you get rid of your car.

The very first step would be giving a call to your lender. Explain the situation and then ask him for solutions that might help you with this problem. Even if there are no options available, there’s no harm in asking.

One of the options can be paying some extra amount of debt every month. It can help you get out of negative equity earlier. You might still have an obligation to pay the loan. But paying it will become more comfortable, and you can make the best out of a bad situation.

You might have to cut down on some of your expenses, but at least it will give you zero or positive equity when you shop for a new car at a later stage.

● Consider taking a new loan

If your lender cannot do anything to help you, you’ll need to consider taking a new loan. If you have a good credit score, refinancing at a low-interest rate can be a good deal.

When you are refinancing a loan with negative equity, you need to be very careful about the terms that the lender is putting up in front of you.

The lender might tempt you with low EMI or monthly payments. But make sure that you read all of the agreement carefully. Lower monthly payments can extend a loan from a year to many more.

The major problem with cars is that they lose their value very quickly. They go down by nearly 10% in the first year and then by 50% in five years. So, the quicker you repay your loan, the faster you’re getting rid of negative equity in your car.

● Consider selling your car

We would always suggest you keep your old car and try to pay off as much negative equity as you can. However, if you’re through with all the options given above and none of them are working for you; you need to consider the last option.

If you reach the final decision that you want to sell your car, focus on getting the highest price possible. Try covering as much of the negative equity as you can.

If your car is maintained correctly and is in excellent condition, you can get the right amount for it. Basic design retouches here and there, and some mechanical repairs can also boost the cost of the car.

However, if your budget is low, at least give it a good wash and wax. After you sell the car, do remember that you need to pay your loan amount. The balance amount might get included in the loan amount of the new vehicle.

If you don’t want to sell your car, you can lease it. Although leasing is one of the options which we don’t recommend fondly, it is still an option.

Keep in mind that no matter what option you pick, you need to pay the initial loan.

The bottom line

Getting rid of a car with negative equity can be stressful.

You need to think very clearly. While trading your old car might get you a new one, it won’t nullify your debt. Rather than searching for an option which will cost you the most, try searching for an opportunity which will be less of a hassle and give you the best results.

It can be calling your lender and asking him for the best option for repaying your debt or paying off your negative equity amount.

Whatever the option you might choose, knowing a little bit better about how to get rid of a car with negative equity will give you a broader vision on the topic and help you find the best deal.

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Karen Connell: Elite Leadership in a Man’s World

February 8, 2021

Karen Connell sits at the helm of one of the industry’s leading personal protection companies, Hunter Protection, an organisation she hopes will help to revolutinise the security industry.

As both a security professional and a woman she works on the frontline in a world that is still largely a male-dominated one — inspiring leadership, helping to break gender stereotypes and paving the way for others to do the same. For Connell operating in a ‘man’s world’ is an everyday business; her elite protection team has protected royalty, heads of state, diplomats, celebrities, individuals and families, garnering an impeccable reputation for quality and discretion.

And it’s not just female-led businesses like Hunter Protection that are challenging the traditional idea of security – female bodyguards too are increasingly high-profile hires, with demand far outstripping supply. The trope of the ‘burly ex-forces wall of muscle’, has given way to a requirement for discretion and ‘brains before brawn’

David Cameron and Tony Blair both had female bodyguards, doubtless drawn to their broad skillset – as Connell notes, most female bodyguards have to be ‘the whole package,’ offering extensive, value-added skills such as protective driving, fluency in foreign languages, or lifestyle qualifications such as scuba diving or skiing.

Successful personal protection also relies on emotional intelligence, and as such female bodyguards often have the edge over male counterparts, particularly when it comes to picking up changes in atmosphere, sensing difference or danger. Attackers have been conditioned to look for male bodyguards, so females benefit from a distinct ‘surprise’ advantage, blending in easily and not drawing attention to clients and putting them, paradoxically, at more risk.

This discreet strength is a source of pride for Connell who chose a career in close protection after working as a management and communications expert for blue chip organisations. “I have three decades of experience working with people, understanding their problems and finding solutions,” she says. She runs her firm in the same way as she ran her business consultancy, by building a strong relationship with clients, and precisely tailoring deployment to need. “My price structure is worked out on what is required, not on the size of the budget available or how wealthy that person is,” she says.

Connell describes the response from clients discovering she’s female as ‘overwhelmingly positive’. “I find that when I walk into the room, the lady of the house will suddenly find reasons to stay and hear what I have to say. I’m also the person that she will pull to one side and ask me to call her as soon as her son/daughter gets into trouble.”

Connell’s specialty is in match-making clients and operatives and finding talent in an industry that has been accused of an increasing ‘race to the bottom’ with variable standards, poor staff engagement and high turnover.

Would-be bodyguards who have a problem with female bosses don’t make the grade for Connell, who has little time for misogyny.

“There are always a few unenlightened individuals who give us a few smiles before they’re quickly moved to the ‘do not use’ file,” she says.

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Professional development guide: How to teach in college?

February 8, 2021

Despite popular belief, teaching is a challenging profession. It is long hours on campus, and most often, it is not the end of a working day. Teachers have to grade their students’ assignments and exams, prepare for the next lecture, and many other things. According to the statistics, approximately fifty percent of the teachers switch their profession within their first five years.

The college prerequisite for hiring a professor is that he is a researcher and has publications in recognized journals. Unfortunately, a person who is a good researcher may not be a good teacher. College students require someone who can efficiently transfer their knowledge. The professional development guide comes to the rescue of teachers. It helps them to narrow down their goals and become successful teachers.

Importance of Professional Development

Education is a dynamic field. Every day new research sheds light on new evidence; some may even nullify the past facts. As an educator, it is essential to keep up with those fast changes. Educators can attend seminars and workshops. These will help them to understand the new concepts and discuss the future possibilities with like-minded people.

Professional Development helps you to enhance your knowledge and transfer it to your students efficiently. It allows you to learn new techniques and strategies that will build a better student-teacher relationship. It can also help you to plan activities for your students. It is a fact that people learn better from experience than theory.

Many people wonder about the potential benefits and scope of pursuing such a field. There can be various ways to investigate how satisfied the education sector professionals are even after serving for a significant period. A college professor salary, for instance, can be as high as 4.3 million as Prof. David N. Silvers ranks first in the list of highest-paid professors. One can achieve such goals after fulfilling all the requirements of experience and education to earn the ideal professional journey.

Let’s begin exploring this lucrative career pathway:

How to Teach in College:

College students are on their way to enter professional lives. They have their opinions and voices. It is not easy to teach them, and we are here to help you successfully teach college students.

1. Believe in your Students

Students crave the approval of their teachers. They want someone to mentor them and believe in them. Most teachers say that they believe in their students, but their actions contradict. Entrusting new learners gives them a great deal of strength and motivation. It allows you to push them to their full potential and learn with passion. The students of such mentors are not scared of the outcomes. They enjoy their class and never back out of a challenge. These are the teachers that students remember for their lives.

2. Master the Art of Teaching

Educators call teaching an art. A good teacher instills confidence in his students and allows them to learn in a positive learning environment. There are a lot of ways a teacher can master the art of teaching. Books are great to help to master the art. You can also attend seminars and conferences that will allow you to learn new ways to engage your students.

3. Vary the Teaching Style

A professor teaches many classes and tons of students every day. Every student that you come across has different abilities and calibers. There are various teaching styles that teachers use. If a teacher wants to become successful, experts recommend that you switch over between ways. It helps to interact with different students and helps them learn the concepts effectively.

4. Clear Policies

Every professor has policies for their class, whether they are for attendance, grading system, etc. Experts recommend that you communicate these policies to the students. It minimizes the communication gap between the students and their teachers. It is also necessary that you apply their policies equally. If your rules are not the same for all the students, the students may question you ethically. It also puts a question mark on credibility.

5. Be Empathetic

A successful teacher understands that students are human. They have problems that affect their learning. A teacher needs to help the students in the time of crisis. For example, an A-grade student suffering from depression may not be able to focus in the class. As their teacher, you can assist them, get the help they need. It will let the student know that you care for them, and they are not an experiment for you.

6. Bring Lectures to Life

We all have been in a class where the time stays still. It usually happens when the teacher is not passionate about their work. They come and deliver the lecture and go. Students avoid such teachers. On the other hand, a devoted lecturer brings their subject to life. Even the dull disciplines such as advanced calculus start making sense and draw students’ attention. Their love for their specialization reciprocates in their teaching methods.

Conclusion

There is no fixed merit for a successful career as a professor. However, above mentioned few things allow you to enjoy a dynamic and ever-evolving career. A successful teacher has successful students. He considers them as humans rather than numbers of customers and clients. Having a passion for their subjects benefits students in all possible ways. We all remember the teachers that mentor us and help us love the disciplines.

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What Is Bitcoin Wallet? Let’s Discuss Four Main Types of Wallets!

February 6, 2021

Whether you are a newcomer or an experienced one in the bitcoin market, it doesn’t matter, everyone should read this post till the end. Bitcoin is one of the most expensive Cryptocurrencies in the world which has one bitcoin price is equal to 2,182,491 Indian rupees. With the passage of every minute, the bitcoin price fluctuated, so it would be better to keep an eye on its price, especially whenever you are thinking of investing in it.

Because of its huge price of one bitcoin, everyone wants to keep it safe in the best security system. Meanwhile, bitcoins can be store in a digital wallet where one can make the best use of them at any time and any place as well.

But it would be better for everyone to choose a secure or better wallet in order to keep your entire bitcoins secure and avoid certain losses. The bitcoin wallet comes in four main forms such as web, mobile, desktop, and hardware that users can choose as per the personal priority.

Understanding the bitcoin wallet procedure!

A bitcoin wallet is also known as a digital wallet. As we all know that digital wallet is the only place where users can safely store their bitcoins and trade with a second party at any time without approaching the third one, such as a bank or government. Here we will discuss some of the best types of digital wallets like btq

Desktop Wallets!

Desktop wallets are only installed on a desktop computer where users can completely control their wallets and store their bitcoins at any time. This wallet has a great function where the users send and receive bitcoins from time to time whenever they think that it’s the right time to trade with the second party.
This wallet allows users to store a private key. Some best desktop wallets, namely MultiBit, Armory, Bitcoin Core, Hive OSX and Electrum.

Web Wallets!

Web wallets allow the users to make access to bitcoins from any part of the world, but they must have a better speed internet connection every time. Make sure to choose the web wallet carefully by considering a few aspects so that it stores your bitcoins and make the entire transactions much easier.
As we all know that web wallet helps the users to store their bitcoins and make the best use of them at any time whenever you’re start trading with another party or travelling from any part of the world. So, it would be better to choose a secure wallet in order to avoid certain risks.

Mobile Wallets!

Mobile wallets perform similar functions as the desktop ones, but its controls by the smart device. Mobiles wallets can be easily installed on your iOS or Android devices at any time. Make sure to choose the device that runs very smoothly and works efficiently so that users can safely store their bitcoins and make the best use of them from time to time.
Before using a mobile wallet, it would be better for users to read reviews of the experienced ones so that it becomes easier to choose which one is best. The better device you choose, the freedom you store the bitcoins and trade with the second party without approaching the third one like bank or government.

Hardware Wallets!

Hardware Wallets are one of the safest types of bitcoin wallets that are usually plugged into a computer via a USB port. This wallet is very well-known for the safety where one can store a lot of bitcoins and make the best use of them from time to time without any risk of any type of fraud.
This wallet charges a little bit of money that’s cost ranging from $100 to $200. This cost is affordable that you must pay for it if you want to keep your bitcoins safe every time and trade with a second party without approaching the third one.

The Final Words!

So, these are the pure basics of bitcoins wallets that help the users to choose any digital wallet as per their personal priority. Users can choose any wallet and safely store the bitcoins that help them to trade with the second party and make a huge amount of money without any type of risk.

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Role of Demand and Supply in the Market Mechanism of Bitcoin

February 6, 2021

A market is a place where buyers and sellers interact with each other to exchange goods and services. The main aim of a market could be summarized as being a platform that would serve as a facilitator of trade activities. However, it is not so. The functions of a market are not only limited to these, as the different stakeholders of the market have their own tasks to do and duties to fulfil. The various stakeholders of a market are buyer, seller, mediator, price of the commodity, quantity of the commodity, etc. Buyer purchases goods and avails services being put on offer by the seller. The mediator might act as a facilitator in the trading process. The price of the goods determines the quantity to be purchased by the buyer, as it would lead to the determination of the amount to be spent. But, in its intricate sense, there are two major players in the market that plan out the entire course of how the market works and its mechanism reacts.

The two major players in the league are Demand and Supply. Demand is the quantity to be purchased by a buyer at a particular point of time, and on a similar note, supply is the quantity to be sold by the seller at a particular point of time. These two major players turn up together to decide the course of the market. The price to be sold at and the quantity to be traded, everything is determined with the help of these two factors. Having emphasized much upon the importance of demand and supply in market, get more details here we will discuss their role with respect to a commodity that gets traded on a market.

Bitcoin trading with respect to demand and supply

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that has been on the market for quite a long time now. People have been complete stranger to it, but, as it turns out to be, gone are the days. There was little information regarding the possibility of trading opportunities in Bitcoins. However, as the trade went up, it attracted the attention of every single investor towards it. It is the attraction of Bitcoins that results in every investor wanting to include Bitcoin as an investment in their portfolios. In the majority of the cases, it has been considered possible to count upon Bitcoins as positive investments with little or minimal rate of risk.

As it has been already mentioned that Bitcoins are traded on a free-market basis, it makes it easier to explain the role of demand and supply in determining the price and quantity conditions. It is basic knowledge that price and demand are inversely related, while supply and price are positively related. Hence, when the demand and supply curves intersect each other at a point, price and quantity to be sold are determined. If demand goes up, the price increases and the quantity to be sold increases too. This is because due to the high price, sellers are enticed to sell of their trading stock. This way, supply moves up to, bringing about equilibrium to the entire demand and supply concept. It is highly essential for an investor to understand how these curves behave, in case he is strongly motivated to invest in Bitcoins.

Knowing what to do and when

It is only when these curves are known, a person becomes so intellectual about speculating the market conditions. Investments are made with an aim of increasing the money value with trade, and if that is not on the cards, it is actually pretty much difficult for anyone to remain interested in Bitcoins any longer. The rule to move shall be pretty much easy.

If the investor speculates that the demand is going to get high and prices are going to shoot up, then it is a direct indicator for investing more and more money into Bitcoins. As soon as price start going sky high, the investor shall redeem his holdings in order to gain an extra return on investment. However, if the market I going to enter in a bearish phase, then it is imperative to initiate withdrawal of investments. This seems to conclude the investment mechanism to a much simpler level.

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Why bitcoin’s price is increasing at a rapid pace?

February 6, 2021

Bitcoin is the currency of the modern world, and its popularity is increasing with each passing day. It is a decentralized digital currency that is used as a common medium of exchange and an excellent investment. Bitcoin has a massive price, and it is increasing at a rapid pace. So, you can use its high price to make some profits with bitcoin trading by using bitrebels.com . Most people are confused that why bitcoin is the price so high. So, some of the top reasons behind bitcoin’s increasing price are listed below.

Investors holding bitcoins

There are several strategies to trade or invest in bitcoins, but most of the investors follow the ‘buy and hold’ strategy. It refers to buying and holding bitcoins for several months or years. It is one of the primary reasons behind the huge increase in the price of bitcoin. With more investors holding bitcoins, the availability of bitcoin declined a lot. At present, the demand for bitcoin is way more than its supply, and the fact that only 21 million bitcoins can ever be mined makes it worse.

The supply of bitcoin is limited, but the demand is increasing day by day, which is the reason behind its rapidly increasing price. The popularity of bitcoin is increasing at a burgeoning rate, and seeing it, the price of bitcoin is expected to increase more in the future. The more investors will hold bitcoins, the more their prices will rise.

Excellent liquidity

Earlier, people were scared to invest in bitcoins as it was a decentralized currency and offer no liquidity. With such high price volatility, it was a foolish thing to invest in a cryptocurrency that offers no liquidity. It means if the price falls, you will have no option to withdraw your money other than selling it at a low price. So, people used to hesitate to invest money in bitcoins, but now things have changed.

With modern trading platforms and instruments, bitcoin has started offering excellent liquidity. Now you can get your bitcoins converted into cash anytime as there are several online bitcoin exchanges where you can sell them anytime. The liquidity offered by bitcoin is a great feature, but it is also one of the primary reasons behind its high prices. With higher liquidity, more people have started investing in bitcoins, which has led to an increase in its demand and prices.

Market hype

The rumors, news, and hype in the market and the Internet have a significant impact on bitcoins’ price. There has been a great hype of bitcoin over the Internet and other media platforms, which has increased its price to a great extent. The media controls the price of bitcoin as it can create hype to increase its price and also crash it by spreading rumors and creating negative hype. Bitcoin is being appreciated everywhere, which has increased the interest of people in it.

When people see the same thing everywhere, they are induced to try it, and the same has happened with bitcoins. Most of the people who have invested in it got attracted towards it, seeing the hype created on the Internet. The media tries to boost the price of bitcoin by promoting it, and if the price gets too high, it can also crash the market easily.

Lack of trust in fiat currencies

The trust of users and investors plays an important role in the success of any currency. If we talk about fiat currencies, people are losing their trust in them as their price is highly unstable, and the government has complete control over it. If you earn your own money, a single decision by the government can turn its value to zero. In several countries, the government has announced sudden demonetization, which had made people lose their trust in fiat currencies.

With people losing their trust in fiat currencies, the popularity of bitcoin has increased a lot. People see it as a great option to replace traditional currencies. People have started investing more in digital currencies, which another reason behind the inclining prices of bitcoin.

Limited supply

If you have used bitcoins, you must know that the supply of bitcoin is limited. Only 21 million bitcoins can ever be mined, which has increased its demand even more. So, while the supply being limited, the increase in its demand has boosted its prices.

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