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Sending 🤲🙏🙏💖🫶🤲 to her and the Royal Family--especially her three children. Unless it was Prince William, whomever is responsible for the outrageous PR/marketing blunder of releasing that heavily edited photo knowing how much scrutiny the family is under on a daily basis, needs to be removed from that position. I hope the three individuals at the hospital who attempted to inappropriately access her medical records are also terminated. She deserves privacy, and it's incredibly difficult to keep these things private from kids who are young, but old enough to have friends and classmates whose parents may inadvertently discuss the situation in their presence, or who may have access to the Internet. The speculations about Prince William's affair and the identity of the "other woman"/"homewrecker" is an unfortunately common habit--not just about the private lives of celebrities. While it may not have caused any tangible damage to the alleged mistress's home and professional life in this specific case, in other instances these types of scandalous speculations can have extremely adverse and very tangible impact on the life of a person who is perceived as being the reason for a breakup of a marriage/couple, even if that is inaccurate. It's normal to be curious about people's lives, but the malicious levels of spreading false accusations and/or acting on false accusations and speculations is extremely irresponsible and at times very harmful. #FUcancer #womenshealth https://lnkd.in/gUcgvy7k

A Queen doesn’t cower at the thought of failure- she strides right up to it and makes it work for her. You’re not here to play small or second-guess yourself. Starting today, we decide that every stumble is a stepping stone toward reaching our goal, ok? #calliecrokencoaching #businesscoach #lifecoach

This is my favorite quote of all time. The king died, and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died, and then the queen died of grief" is a plot. - E.M. Forster Everyone talks about improving your storytelling, but no one ever mentions the plot, and it drives me nuts. Telling great stories isn’t just a skill. It’s THE skill. Stories aren’t just entertainment. They’re survival tools. They help us connect and imagine solutions to our biggest problems. Businesses are stories. Relationships are stories. Remodeled basements are stories. They're like injections of pure dopamine and oxytocin. They’re the chemistry of creativity. But they need logic. They need plot. Anyone can recite a series of events, but great storytellers can pick out the ones that matter, building anticipation and leading you somewhere worth going. If you want to stand out from the crowd—no matter what you're doing—master plot development. Hire with a purpose.  Speak intentionally.  Act for a reason. Stop doing things only because you're supposed to, and do things because they're the next step in the story of your life. This is how the queen dies.

Queen Amidala II is kind of a big deal. She has 13 worker bees facing/assisting her. There are about 40,000 or so bees currently in Hive 1. Hive 2 has about 30,000 bees. The queen is the only bee in a hive that should be laying eggs (up to 2,000 per day). If worker bees are laying eggs, you have a big problem to deal with. The presence of the queen/pheromones prevent the worker bees from laying eggs. It’s always great to catch a glimpse of the queen when inspecting the hives. If we don’t see the queen, we look for eggs (laid within the last 3 days) and young larva (laid within the last 6 days).

If you like someone's posts and make a point of reading them when they show up in your feed, please don't just scroll on by or click like and move on. Take a moment and tell them that you liked their post and tell them why. Tell them that you look forward to seeing their posts and appreciate that they post. Most people who create content on LinkedIn, myself included, don't get much if any feedback from people who read the content so we never know what is resonating with our followers and connections. If someone's post made you think or shifted your pespective or inspired you or taught you something, tell them in the comments so they know what kind of content you would like to see more of. We need feedback, people, otherwise we are creating content in a vacuum.

“Leadership” is an ancient and defunct term.

Hello all, As we approach the New Year it is time to change your marking colour for the queen - well perhaps not quite yet. Why do we mark the queens: There are two principal reasons for queen marking: 1) A queen with a bright spot on her back is easier to spot when doing a hive inspection. 2) The colour of the spot indicates the year when the queen first emerged. It is useful to know when the queen first emerged so that you know how long you have had that queen. Most queens are at their peak for 2 to 3 years after which you may wish to consider requeening. The scheme for marking the queens is an international scheme and all countries adopt the same colours. Thus if you are lucky enough to collect a swarm with a marked queen you know the year is started as a queen - even if it has blown in from another country. The scheme is: White - Years ending 1 or 6 Yellow - Years ending 2 or 7 Red - Years ending 3 or 8 Green - Years ending 4 or 9 Blue - Years ending 5 or 0 And the easy way to remember this is that the sequence is Will You Raise Good Bees? Next year the year ends in a 0 being 2020 and thus next year's colour is Blue whereas this year 2019 the colour was green. This does not mean you have to get into your hive and overpaint the queen blue. If she is already marked that shows you when she first appeared. If she is marked white or yellow then perhaps now is the time to think about re-queening. As it will be older queen born in 2021or 2022.(queen bee life span - 3 yrs) So how is it done? The aim is to paint a single spot of paint on the thorax of the queen bee. I have seen a queen that appeared to have been painted with a spray gun. This is not the aim. Try to get a single spot on the thorax. My Queen bee seems to be one year old queen as it is slight red to orange in colour. So I marked red colour in the thorax of the queen bee to ensure that it was born in 2023. Dr Elango Kolanthasamy Ketsy Abika Sasikumar Pooja Periyasamy Athish Balakrishnan #beekeeping #queenbee #beecolony #honeybees #beeidentification"

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👑 Every Queen needs a strong foundation… Yesterday, we met The Mapmaker and charted your course. But every map needs a strong foundation to build on. ✨ A castle built on sand will crumble at the first storm. A business without a strong foundation is no different. ❌ Reinventing the wheel with every launch? ❌ Juggling too many tasks and burning out? ❌ Wasting time on things that don’t truly matter? 👑 The Queen knows better. "Every empire needs its pillars," she says. "Let’s build yours." On Day 2 of the Evergreen Quest, The Queen will help you: ✅ Build a business model that aligns with your lifestyle and revenue goals. ✅ Focus on your “Queen Activities”—the high-value work only YOU can do. ✅ Simplify, delegate, and create space for what truly matters. ✨ With a strong foundation, your empire becomes unshakable. 💡 Click here to join the Quest for FREE! 👉 https://lnkd.in/evNki4eD

See my colleague, Stuart Crippin's, article about the main reasons for setting up a trust and what potential settlors (those transferring assets into trust) should have in mind when contemplating doing so.