Born to deliver

I am born before I am delivered. Poor or rich, I live with all. I build some peoples life. Accidently I pull down some people life too. I travel around the world without any visa or passport. I am faster than a flight,stronger than an elephant more wanted than money.

All in all I am the star of the world.

Madam Toastmaster Fellow Toastmasters and guests,

That was none other than NEWS which boasted about itself. People interpret NEWS as NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH. I.e the boundary of what it carries.

True to what it says, each one of us buy news paper, browse internet, listen to Radio, get hooked to our chairs to watch the idiot box to get an update on current happenings.

Chandrachur and I were walking down in a mud road in Sarjapura. Lawyers fling shoes at judges said a news paper banner. Tea shops have a wonderful way of inviting people by having news papers shared freely. Without hesitation Chandra and myself walked to the tea shop. It was slightly whistling and he pulled out the economic times placed there for its customers and read out loud. Lawyers fling shoes at judges. The judge stood back courageously to get the other one to make a pair Chandra was jumped in exhilaration. I quickly moved farther to keep myself away from splashing water. Chandra... I yelled. Current news is always creates a shock in you. They are short lived and has a purpose of most publicity.

Idot box, radio has a sub category of current news called the breaking news. A car and truck hit near pallipalaya. 1 cat, 2 stray dogs, 5 men were killed and 2 injured. Traffic disrupted for 10 hours These are real breaking news. These cause delay in completing your activity.

Petrol prices rise. Lorries on strike. Vegetable prices soar. board has announced the disruption of power in following areas for preventive maintenance. Kaveri water supply will be disrupted in the following areas Regular updates are news which appear at a predicted time. The regular news play an important role in our day to day life. But these news are expected and appear at the scheduled time year after year or month after month. In absence, we tend to make them by creating one.

Dhoni escorts Zoya to ranchi

My heart started beating fast. Tick tick tick tick… Is Dhoni married?? I quickly went to the details in sports page. Dhoni fell in love with Misty. He came to know that a pup from misty’s litter need a care taker. He did not hesitate, but came down to escort Zoya to admit in his dog club. Dhoni drinks 12 liters of cow milk, sorry 1 liter of milk, has 3 dogs in is house and dog club and more than 23 bikes.

By this time, I was back attentive and checked to understand that the sports page contains life history of people along with score boards and standings. Idiot box and radio are a bit matured. They do not mix-match news.

Hot news is those which break hearts. Dhoni has a huge crush on Deepika Padugone. literally made my friend Vidhya cry and stay away from food for a week. In another instance, Shilpa Shetty engaged to Raj kundra for a new beginning crushed my friend suchith’s heart. Hot news are to heat up the emotions. Hot news cause greater damage to individuals. Suchith celebrated when shilpa broke up with Akshay kumar and later with Anubhav Sinha due to parental disapproval.

Entertainment news are published as separate addendum to the main paper. They are special. They are full of gossips that many love to read it without missing a line. It takes lacs to get into those dirty gossips. It is fun reading it. I did love to read the gossips, that too of beauties. Bipasa basu is satisfied with her curves. We have to live with what we have.

The most ambiguous title prompted me to read further.

When contacted Bipasa Basu on her dieting schedule, She said that she is satisfied with her curves and she is no way following any diet schedule or workout to enhance her curves. I was frustrated. I too have curves. I try to eat out to enhance my curves. With a paradox of contraction and enhancement, I too should have figured in the leading daily addendum isn’t it. But a recent enlightment made me realize that they need size 0 and not a real zero.

Toastmasters, Recent survey states that there are 40 % increase in news channels and papers. Instant communication of the happenings is like a heartbeat. Mobiles have news alerts in form of value added services. You can opt to choose your category. All these show News is a STAR and most required. None can live without it. But all cannot be in it.

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Mr. Toastmaster.

Rise to the sky

Triumph is the habit for Roger Federer. He won 15 Grand Slams.he holds the World No 1 title for more than 237 weeks now. What is the reason behind his success?
Lets look back at his career.
In 1998 at the age of 17, he lost 3 times in a row in an ATP tournament
In 1999, He lost 8 times in first round and 4 times in second round
In 2000 he lost 14 matches and finished at number 28
In 2001 He finished at no 12. But still he lost 6 times in a year
In 2002 he finished at no. 6. He had some losses too.
In 2003 he lost in the finals against felix mantilla
But now, he is No 1.
His failures could in no way stop him. The past does not affect the future unless we decide it to do so. Roger ensured that he can play any strategy that his opponent may plan.
He focuses on what he wants. Triumph. When he starts playing, all he wants goes to the subconscious mind and starts driving him. He plays in the present. He just focuses on how to strike the ball. He neither thinks about the past nor about the future during the game. However, He plans when he is out of his court. He does not let his past affect his future. His positive thinking has always lead him to the front.
I.e. Big thinking calls for planning
Big planning calls for preparation
Big preparation calls for hardwork
Hard work calls for achievement.
Fellow Toastmasters and guests,
Each one of us here want to conquer the world. Each one of us want to be the best speaker and a humble listener, be a leader and also a follower. Paradox in thoughts should not anchor us at a point, instead help us move forward.
Taking on the role of Vice president Education, I intend to highlight a few needs of the club.
Committee plans to work towards DP by dec 09.
We must have 6 CC’s and 10 CLs in next 6 months.
We must have 4 AC’s and 3 ALs in next 5 months.
I believe membership will flow in automatically to a successful club. When the quest to perform is high, everyone would like to have the readymade information available to them from the district training programs. To fulfill their wishes, they ensure to follow the guidelines and naturally induct the new members too.
I have an added challenge placed before me by the executive committee of our club. We want each member to move up by 3 speeches. We want each member to be educated about the club roles and also about their opportunities in Toastmasters.
I sat down and started looking out for show stoppers.
1. I sensed that the burden on mentors was not equally distributed. Some mentors were loaded with mentees while some were not.
2. Absence of prescribed schedule based on which each member can Plan, Prepare and Perform.
3. An online tracking system to track member’s progress.
I started with a clean slate. I quickly tried to gather the data. Thanks to my term as a secretary last term where I had the Minutes of the Meeting consolidated in a single workbook. I down loaded the member list from Toastmasters site and consolidated the data. To my astonishment, I found that the activity was easy as there were only 12 members who has renewed the membership and the rest 28 were new ones. Shock of my life was that only six out of the 12 were regular. The statistics tweaked my brain’s grey cells. “Membership retention should be the main goal” said my conscious. I quickly tried to get a snapshot of member records. But none were available except one. I decided to collect the goals individually. I made calls to the mobile numbers registered in the site. I was correctly directed to 25 calls. 15 calls either lead to a voice mail or was switched off.
I now consolidated the data for this 25 members and started the term. I still have a big challenge ahead. The challenge as to how to get the complete data. Challenge as to how to accelerate the growth. Growth of the individual. Growth of the club.
When I put my points straight, I was offered support. Today, I stand before all of you bringing in the members equally distributed among the mentors who have been certified as competent communicators or advanced communicators. Each mentor assured that their mentees will be given equal attention and support. Mentors also assured to train and increase the number of mentors by educating them on mentoring.
The next step was to get the plan in place. I sent out mail to you all asking for your goals. I received immediate replies from most of them. This provided me the input for scheduling roles and your speeches. There too I had a starting trouble. I circulated the draft for a month. I am happy to have most of the scheduled speeches in line with the plan.
My next plan is to extend this for the term. I am in the process of creating the same. I have some new challenges where I need the schedule to be flexible to accommodate opportunities for new joinees and ensure their growth too. I plan to come with that flexible plan by the end of August 2009. Plan, Prepare and Perform has been addressed through the schedules and mentors. How about tracking?
I want all your views and thoughts for an online tracking system.
With this plan and preparation, I am sure we will raise to the sky and go beyond. After all what is sky. It is just a few miles from here.
Mr. TM

Hobby Please…

Every interview has some common questions like “Tell me about yourself”, “What are your dreams” and “What is your hobby”
Hobby…. This question was a night mare to me.
Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Toastmaster and my dear friends,
During my childhood, my hobby was the same as my friend. She too had trouble. But watching realty shows has given her some inputs. She always picked the one which could not make the opposite person ask questions. However, I could not easily lie. When I was a child, I forcibly collected some stamps and purchased a set from an exhibition. I used that as my hobby. But when people asked as to what is my aim and what did I learn and what I plan to do with it, I did not have an answer.
Sooner, I found that this was not what I wanted to do or get embarrassed with. I conducted a survey on various hobbies.
Some of them were Watching TV, reading book, collecting coins or stamps, eating, roaming, gardening, cycling, dressing, singing, dancing, eating, sleeping, painting, playing cricket based on the thirst. None of the answers satisfied me nor suited me. My problem remained. One day , My aunt came down to my house.
Aunt, what is your hobby?
“Cooking, cleaning house” was her immediate reply. “What do you want?”
“I need a hobby”
The laughter took time to settle.
“Do you know what is a hobby?”
“Aunt, I know. A constant question asked by a person to whom you get introduced.”
“ My aunt took me in her hands and said, What do you do in your free time?”
“I walk behind my mother wherever she goes.”
“ Do you play?”
“No. Not much. I play when my mother is next to me.”
“ Oh.. So, walking behind your mother is your hobby?”
I felt relieved then. Later, when I grew up, I found that my hobby was just whiling away time. i.e. Laziness.
But how do I say that. Nobody will respect me, talk to me. I started playing tennikoit. Thanks to the physical training hour in school. They trained me in wobbling, smashing, serving.. I learnt it thoroughly. However, diminishing eyesight did not allow me to continue. Now I had to say hobby with an excuse. Those days spectacles were made of glass instead of plastic or high index lens.
I was in search of a hobby again. I tried reading books, however, I could not compete with book readers. My confidence started going down and I feared to meet people. Solitude hurt me.
I visited my aunt’s place. I talked continuously, when she said, “Latha, talking is your hobby. “
I was happy to find an unquestionable hobby. Then on I stuck to my hobby. Sooner, people started to analyze what I say. I was in trouble. Accidental gossips led me to trouble. I sooner had suggestions to learn what to talk, where to talk, when to talk and how to talk.
So, finalized hobby was in trouble again. But I was already in danger that if I stop talking, I may end up badly. Unable to catch up with what is required and I started changing my styles based on the listeners.
Sooner, I lost track on patterns. Thanks to age, that my grey cells had no place to store. I was worried. I wandered and bought books after books. My laziness never allowed me to read even a chapter. My mother worried more as it required greater effort to pack while shifting.
I was then in a job by then, safely settled. I had a great relief. If I do not opt to participate in reality shows, I will never be asked that question. I had created an end to a daring question.
Happiness did not lost long. Pavitra my colleague in office met me over coffee. “ How do you spend your time ? What is your hobby?”
Now Back again. The Deadly devil is here again. I quickly thought and said, “Chatting with friends.”
Name your friends was her next question. “ You…” was my immediate reply.
Now I can safely say talking, chatting, working and sleeping as I do all of them regularly. Chatting with my office colleagues on technical issues, working longer hours, talking continuously for 5 mins and sleeping when I do not do the other three.
I now have 4 Hobbies. How many do you have?
Mr. TM

CC Project 10 : Be the change

What comes to your mind when I say diwali?

What comes to your mind when I say Christmas?

What comes to your mind when I say New year?

Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Toastmasters and guests.

The new year is just round the corner. I am sure each one of us will have our resolutions to take!!!???

How many of us have made a new year resolution at the beginning of this year? 2008

Have we tracked them to check if we have achieved it? At least started it?
A recent research done in United states of America says that 52% of participants in a Resolution study were confident of success with their goals. However, 12% of them actually achieved their goals. Men achieved their goal 22% more than that of others when they engaged in goal setting. A system where small measurable goals are used (lose a kilogram a week, instead of saying "lose weight") was set by participants, women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.
Each one of us here would have taken resolutions and achieved them. I wish to quote a person whom in out midst, from our club, took a resolution to reach the top of Everest. We all could see that she has been successful in her resolution. I wish to share the 2 main learning I learnt from Shrilatha in her journey as president for past 6 months.
1. Single Minded Focus – i.e. Spending time, effort and imagination to work on the committed task.
2. Sharing with friends i.e. likeminded people – This helps in achieving a common vision
While Shrilatha may normally come across as a carefree person, she strongly displayed these two factors: single minded focus and sharing it with friends.
India's first-ever individual Olympic gold medal winner Abhinav Bindra took a resolution amidst press reporters on his return to India that he would find energy and motivation to repeat his feat again and hold it on for a while.
This year I took a resolution to spend more time with family and friends and enjoy life. I decided to make it public by registering in Keith’s website. I logged in and entered the resolution. The portal was designed intelligently that it tried to details on how resolutions will be turned to reality and not left as a fantasy. I took it as a challenge and started thinking. I finally came to some tangible activities which I could measure.
Calm down in temper, find ways to get out of it. Ensure good relationship with friends and family.
Spend weekends and holidays at home, avoid business work.

What a magic it was..

I have been successful in my journey to date.

Let me share an instance in these lines.
Recently I attended a family gathering. I wished my aunt whom I am seeing almost after an year.
“Aah.. You found your way now and had time to come down. Not bad that I am still in your mind.” My mother who was with me did not know what to answer as it was most embarrassing.
I did miss to meet her when she lost her daughter in august. She had been hospitalized for some time. I did make calls to enquire her health. I could not meet her personally.
Aloud I replied, “Yes. Though the road leading to Ramamurthy Nagar has lot of diversions and potholes, I did find the way this time. I ensured not to disturb you by my calls asking for directions”. I sat next to her and added “ I drove 10 Kms at one stretch in 20 minutes. I am a great driver. Isn’t it ?”
Calmness prevailed. I smiled and started boasting my driving skills, when my aunt interrupted, “Calm down. You are yet to drive back home.” With laughter, all of us settled down and we had our conversation on as usual.

I was happy to have changed myself. I was happy to note my words like fireballs did not hurt others. In deed mended the relationship.


If you wanted support to achieve your dream, you need to share your resolutions. I had completed project 9 in Nov 2006. I had been dreaming to complete my project 10 for more than a year. I tried doing a self assessment and repeated my speeches again and again to gain confidence. When I could sense my confidence, I started to draft my speech 10. I shared my resolution to complete my CC by this year to my mentor. It was with his help, I am here today standing before you.
Sharing helps in providing support to achieve your goals.

My dear friends, I could just think of Chendil’s quote here.
If you wanted to go fast, go alone. If you wanted to go far, go together.

1. If you wanted to go fast, Go alone – Single minded focus
2. If you wanted to go far, go together – Share your resolutions and get forward

We are all here to be great leaders. Leaders create a positive change. To create the change, we have to be a part of change. Take your resolution today.

Do you want to Be the change you want to see?

Mr. Toastmaster

I Know everything

“I know everything. Just take it as is. I can get it done in this period by sonia.” said Mr. Ambu a senior manager of a company. His juniors were not just confused, but also irritated as their manager snubbed them in front of the other department managers.
Sonia a new entrant to the office was shocked. She was brought up in a middle income group family. Her parents ensured that she incorporated respect in her communications. In return they too followed the same. She practiced the same in school, college and now in her job, she could hardly digest the fact of her manager snubbing her in front of people. She just walked to the rest room where she could just have her space. She cried aloud, washed her face when Sreeja joined her. Finally, she got out and drank three cups of water.
She went back home and again could not digest the fact that she was just ripped in front of people. She shared this with her parents.” Ma, I am the person who is working on it. I know the product and the work. I feel bad on hearing those words from my manager.”
Her mother calm’s her down and says, “ Sonia, “ I feel you have to tell this to your manager. However, you cannot be direct as I feel he would not have known the impact. Many people are more direct and curt in communication as they talk to computers and machines. People may not have the human touch. Find a way in which you will talk to him personally about this. Also, I do not want you to carry it in your heart. Communicate , but in a way in which he could get your feelings”.
Sonia felt good. She did not forget her mother’s words. She was also wondering as to how to communicate. Finally she got up to meet her manager. She saw that he was sitting alone reading his mails. She excused herself and said, “ Sir, I wish share what I felt yesterday after the meeting. I felt that I was ripped off by your words. But after your meet, Sreeja, the other manager contacted me. She analyzed the scenario and accepted that this wasn’t possible. I hope that she would have communicated that to you.”
Mr. Ambu smiled. “I am sorry Sonia. My thought that I know everything made me speak like that. When Sreeja returned to me on the same yesterday, I understood that I have overlooked on certain points. I wish I apologize to all.” Sonia smiled back and left the room.
Sonia, was happy that she could create an open atmosphere, to communicate her feelings. Ambu, charted out a plan to correct himself. He arranged for open discussions, where he shared his views and discussed them openly. This helped his team plan their work and achieve the goal. The Oneness feeling kept the team motivated which yielded laurels for the company.
MORAL OF THE STORY: “Communication can make or break relationships. Positive and open communication can help in building relationships.”

Which One Am I - Version .001

Which One Am I?
Theories and books state that there are 3 types of learners.
· Listening learners
· Seeing / observing learners
· Touch / experience learners
Which one am I?
Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow toastmasters and my dear friends,
It was a chilly evening. I was sitting on the swing and gossiping with my mother. The sun was trying to kiss the moon , when the wrestling rain drops tried its best to cover it. My mother went to the back yard and lit the wood to make dosa’s. Engrossed in the peaceful weather, I tried to warm myself sitting next to the lit wood. My mother paced the tawa on the fire. She filled the ladle upto the 3/4 level with Dosa batter. She gently poured the batter onto the center of the pan. She then spread it on the tawa in perfect circles to form a thin film. Dosa after Dosa , she repeated the same and I could see Dosa’s of same shape, size and thickness in the collection plate. It reminded me of my progress card with ‘0’s.
“ Mom… You must have been a teacher before. You really put good circular zeros. Your Dosa’s are the best examples of the same”
She smiled. “ Why don’t you learn communication from Dosa. See The point you want to make is the batter. The batter is picked by ladle and placed on tawa and spread equally to a thin film. I.e. the point is elaborated with anecdotes and such that every body can break it, take it and digest it. Do not overstress a point as it will be disagreeable like a blackened dosa”
I starred … If we keep on observing what we do, we can expect books on burgers to hit our book stalls soon.
A 100 i.e. centum in academics tastes delicious. A Perfect zero in Dosa tastes delicious.
Looking back, I found that I am neither an observer nor a listener. Doubt arose that if I am an experience learner.?
Compromise plays a major role in maintaining relationships.

Hobby Please…

Every interview has some common questions like “Tell me about yourself”, “What are your dreams” and “What is your hobby”
Hobby…. This question was a night mare to me.
Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Toastmaster and my dear friends,
During my childhood, my hobby was the same as my friend. She too had trouble. But watching realty shows has given her some inputs. She always picked the one which could not make the opposite person ask questions. However, I could not easily lie. When I was a child, I forcibly collected some stamps and purchased a set from an exhibition. I used that as my hobby. But when people asked as to what is my aim and what did I learn and what I plan to do with it, I did not have an answer.
Sooner, I found that this was not what I wanted to do or get embarrassed with. I conducted a survey on various hobbies.
Some of them were Watching TV, reading book, collecting coins or stamps, eating, roaming, gardening, cycling, dressing, singing, dancing, eating, sleeping, painting, playing cricket based on the thirst. None of the answers satisfied me nor suited me. My problem remained. One day , My aunt came down to my house.
Aunt, what is your hobby?
“Cooking, cleaning house” was her immediate reply. “What do you want?”
“I need a hobby”
The laughter took time to settle.
“Do you know what is a hobby?”
“Aunt, I know. A constant question asked by a person to whom you get introduced.”
“ My aunt took me in her hands and said, What do you do in your free time?”
“I walk behind my mother wherever she goes.”
“ Do you play?”
“No. Not much. I play when my mother is next to me.”
“ Oh.. So, walking behind your mother is your hobby?”
I felt relieved then. Later, when I grew up, I found that my hobby was just whiling away time. i.e. Laziness.
But how do I say that. Nobody will respect me, talk to me. I started playing tennikoit. Thanks to the physical training hour in school. They trained me in wobbling, smashing, serving.. I learnt it thoroughly. However, diminishing eyesight did not allow me to continue. Now I had to say hobby with an excuse. Those days spectacles were made of glass instead of plastic or high index lens.
I was in search of a hobby again. I tried reading books, however, I could not compete with book readers. My confidence started going down and I feared to meet people. Solitude hurt me.
I visited my aunt’s place. I talked continuously, when she said, “Latha, talking is your hobby. “
I was happy to find an unquestionable hobby. Then on I stuck to my hobby. Sooner, people started to analyze what I say. I was in trouble. Accidental gossips led me to trouble. I sooner had suggestions to learn what to talk, where to talk, when to talk and how to talk.
So, finalized hobby was in trouble again. But I was already in danger that if I stop talking, I may end up badly. Unable to catch up with what is required and I started changing my styles based on the listeners.
Sooner, I lost track on patterns. Thanks to age, that my grey cells had no place to store. I was worried. I wandered and bought books after books. My laziness never allowed me to read even a chapter. My mother worried more as it required greater effort to pack while shifting.
I was then in a job by then, safely settled. I had a great relief. If I do not opt to participate in reality shows, I will never be asked that question. I had created an end to a daring question.
Happiness did not lost long. Pavitra my colleague in office met me over coffee. “ How do you spend your time ? What is your hobby?”
Now Back again. The Deadly devil is here again. I quickly thought and said, “Chatting with friends.”
Name your friends was her next question. “ You…” was my immediate reply.
Now I can safely say talking, chatting, working and sleeping as I do all of them regularly. Chatting with my office colleagues on technical issues, working longer hours, talking continuously for 5 mins and sleeping when I do not do the other three.
I now have 4 Hobbies. How many do you have?
Mr. TM

Speech rules

The Speech Opening

Due to the primacy effect, words, body language, and visuals in the speech opening are all critical to speaking success.

• Was a hook used effectively to draw the audience into the speech? Or did the speaker open with a dry “It’s great to be here today.“
• Did the speech open with a story? A joke? A startling statistic? A controversial statement? A powerful visual?
• Did the speech opening clearly establish the intent of the presentation?
• Was the opening memorable?

The Speech Body

• Was the presentation focussed? i.e. Did all arguments, stories, anecdotes relate back to the primary objective?
• Were examples or statistics provided to support the arguments?
• Were metaphors and symbolism use to improve understanding?
• Was the speech organized logically? Was it easy to follow?
• Did the speaker bridge smoothly from one part of the presentation to the next?

The Speech Conclusion

Like the opening, the words, body language, and visuals in the speech conclusion are all critical to speaking success. This is due to the recency effect.

• Was the conclusion concise?
• Was the conclusion memorable?
• If appropriate, was there a call-to-action?

Delivery Skills and Techniques

Delivery skills are like a gigantic toolbox — the best speakers know precisely when to use every tool and for what purpose.

Enthusiasm and Connection to the Audience

• Was the speaker enthusiastic? How can you tell?
• Was there audience interaction? Was it effective?
• Was the message you- and we-focussed, or was it I- and me-focussed?

Humor

• Was humor used?
• Was it safe and appropriate given the audience?
• Were appropriate pauses used before and after the punch lines, phrases, or words?
• Was it relevant to the speech?

Visual Aids

• Were they designed effectively?
• Did they complement speech arguments?
• Was the use of visual aids timed well with the speaker’s words?
• Did they add energy to the presentation or remove it?
• Were they simple and easy to understand?
• Were they easy to see? e.g. large enough
• Would an additional visual aid help to convey the message?

Use of Stage Area

• Did the speaker make appropriate use of the speaking area?

Physical - Gestures and Eye Contact

• Did the speaker’s posture display confidence and poise?
• Were gestures natural, timely, and complementary?
• Were gestures easy to see?
• Does the speaker have any distracting mannerisms?
• Was eye contact effective in connecting the speaker to the whole audience?

Vocal Variety

• Was the speaker easy to hear?
• Were loud and soft variations used appropriately?
• Was the pace varied? Was it slow enough overall to be understandable?
• Were pauses used to aid understandability, heighten excitement, or provide drama?

Language

• Was the language appropriate for the audience?
• Did the speaker articulate clearly?
• Were sentences short and easy to understand?
• Was technical jargon or unnecessarily complex language used?
• What rhetorical devices were used? e.g. repetition, alliteration, the rule of three, etc.

Intangibles

Sometimes, a technically sound speech can still miss the mark. Likewise, technical deficiencies can sometimes be overcome to produce a must-see presentation. The intangibles are impossible to list, but here are a few questions to consider:

• How did the speech make you feel?
• Were you convinced?
• Would you want to listen to this speaker again?
• Were there any original ideas or techniques?