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LINX Voice Camp combines professional vocal instruction with fun traditional camp activities! This is an intensive camp for all experience levels, where children will learn breathing, vowel placement, vocal dynamics, singing with a healthy voice, blending with other singers, vocal vocabulary, and singing in harmony. They will explore music theory by learning the basics of reading music and written musical notations.
Campers will have fun as they build confidence, strengthen performance technique, learn musical theory, and strengthen their voices through conditioning exercises. Newly learned skills are showcased as children perform in a fun show for other LINX campers. A recording will be made and sent to parents to enjoy.
Voice Camp takes place at LINX’s beautiful Dana Hall Campus in Wellesley.
Each day, Voice Campers enjoy 3 periods of Professional Vocal Training, a period for lunch, an extra activity period (in lieu of swim), and a traditional camp activity. Campers take part in exciting opening and closing ceremonies with other LINX Campers, and there is a camp wide special event every Friday!
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The (?) Rock Special (#5): Other Bands
Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976
"I don't understand why people think it's so difficult to learn to play the guitar. I found it incredibly easy. You just pick a chord and go twang, and you've got music."
— Sid Vicious
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Products Pipelines - SFPP
Kinder Morgan’s SFPP system consists of the North Line, which consists of approximately 864 miles of trunk pipeline in five segments that transport products from Richmond and Concord, Calif., to Brisbane, Sacramento, Chico, Fresno, Stockton and San Jose, Calif., and Reno, Nevada. The products delivered through the North Line come from refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area and from various pipeline and marine terminals. SFPP also includes the San Diego Line, a 135-mile pipeline serving major population areas in Orange County and San Diego, the Oregon Line, which is a 114-mile pipeline transporting products to Eugene, Oregon for shippers from marine terminals in Portland, Oregon, the West Line which is approximately 515 miles of primary pipeline and currently transports products from the Los Angeles Basin to Phoenix, Arizona, and the East Line which is approximately 400 miles of pipeline originating in El Paso, Texas transporting products to Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
In addition, Kinder Morgan’s SFPP operations include 13 truck-loading terminals which provide services including short-term product storage, truck loading, vapor handling, additive injection, dye injection and oxygenate blending.
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SB Voice Academy hosts Singers performing current popular music with George Friedenthal on Piano, Bill Macpherson on Guitar, Larry Perpoli on Drums & Nee Sackey on Bass. Performers include: Karen Zell, Joe Auchter, Ali Cortes, Diana Pop, Candice Nyholt, Erin Dougherty & Brandi Redman (just back from her Europe tour! ) Great food, drink and music. Come enjoy! Make your reservations soon as we always fill up.
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Connor Hobbs prepared for the biggest test of his junior career with a crash course in the NHL.
Before rejoining the WHL’s Regina Pats last weekend, the 19-year-old defenceman capped off his second training camp with the Washington Capitals by making an eventful NHL pre-season debut.
tap here to see other videos from our team.
Late in the second period, Hobbs was retrieving a puck behind his net when Andrew Shaw of the Montreal Canadiens drilled him from behind.
Hobbs hit the boards and crumpled to the ice, remaining down until medical personnel arrived. He eventually headed for the dressing room under his own power and — after checking out OK — was able to return for the third period, collecting an assist for his first NHL point.
Shaw earned a three-game suspension for the hit, which was featured prominently on TV and online highlights. It also resulted in a bunch of extra attention for the guy whose face was plastered into the glass.
“It gets me on the map somehow, I guess,” Hobbs said with a laugh. “If I have to take a dirty hit, that’s fine. The guy was frustrated. I’ve done that before so I don’t have any hard feelings towards him.”
That said, it could have been a lot worse.
“I took a hard hit,” admitted Hobbs, who has a concussion history. “It was a good wakeup call. Considering I didn’t get hurt, I’d say it’s only good for me. I learned from it. I saw it a lot on video and I had a lot of people texting me, worried about me, but I’m fine.
“It was definitely different to be part of something like that on such a big stage.”
Hobbs is expected to get his share of attention as the No. 1 defenceman with the Pats, who hope to challenge for a WHL championship this season. He’s also a candidate to play for Canada in the world junior championship after taking part in the team’s summer development camp and exhibition series.
It could add up to a memorable farewell season for Hobbs, who — as a signed NHL prospect — is expected to graduate to the pro ranks next year.
It could also be a bit overwhelming.
“You can’t put too much pressure on yourself,” noted Hobbs, a fifth-round pick in the 2015 NHL draft. “I just have to get better every day as a Pat and what’s down the road is down the road. If I play the way I know how to play, it’s going to translate into good things.”
The Pats are counting on big things from Hobbs, who had a breakout campaign in 2015-16 with 19 goals and 41 points in 58 games before adding four goals and 10 points in 12 playoff contests.
Along the way, he showed head coach/GM John Paddock that he had the ability to be “a star.”
“He’s one of the best defencemen in the league,” said Paddock. “He got to the next level when he came back from the concussion sometime in early February. That’s why he got a contract (from Washington) and that’s why he got a world junior invite, based on that half of the season. I think he’s at (that level now) but he can fall back if he doesn’t maintain it.”
Paddock is prepared to help Hobbs stay on the right path, but he believes the talented blue-liner is well equipped to handle the spotlight.
He also doesn’t think motivation will be an issue.
“(Pressure) comes with the territory once you’re recognized at that level,” added the veteran bench boss. “More often than not those guys maintain it because they want it. Connor does. He has that fire. There are no (guarantees) but I think he understands what he has to do — the preparation and how much work it takes. I don’t think he’s somebody who’s going to rest on his laurels.”
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After going to a local restaurant in my town, I had to make these Quinoa Cakes right as I got home.
- Cook one cup of quinoa with two cups of water for about 15 minutes or until all the water is absorbed. If the water is absorbed and the quinoa is still dry, add more water until light and fluffy
- Put the quinoa into a bowl with 1/4 cup olive oil and juice of 2 limes, mix, and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes
- While the quinoa is cooling, cut up olives, tomatoes, avocado, and red onion and put them in separate dishes. Also have micro greens
- Heavily pack quinoa into 1/3 cup measuring cup and turn upside down on a plate. Top quinoa cake with tomatoes, olives, avocado, micro-greens, and red onion
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Specialist - Operational Excellence and Food Safety
Ready to use your hotel, restaurant or supermarket experience in a new and exciting way? Have a knack for training/coaching others? Looking to build your career in a growing world-class organization? Come see why so many of our team members recommend us to their friends!
Why work at Steritech?
Steritech is the market leader in food safety, quality assurance, and customer experience management. We pride ourselves on being a trusted partner to many of the world’s leading brands across industries as diverse as manufacturing, processing, retail, food service, and hospitality. We help our clients give the best, safest, and healthiest possible service to THEIR customers.
Not to mention…
- World-class training of the latest food safety and customer service best practices
- Coaching/mentoring and career advancement opportunities
- Company car, cell phone, tablet, and purchase card for expenses
- Great benefits - Medical, Dental, and Vision, Employer-matched 401(k)
- Paid vacation, holidays, and PTO days
What do our Specialists do?
Our Specialists help our hotel, restaurant, and grocery clients ensure brand standards, food quality and friendly service for their customers. They also:
- Conduct assessments that measure conformity to established regulatory, industry, and proprietary brand standards for clients
- Observe food prep and cooking standards to ensure food safety, health, and sanitation practices
- Partner with clients to address root causes of assessment discrepancies and develop corrective action plans
- Teach and coach clients how to make their workplace a safer and healthier environment for themselves and THEIR customers
- Travel up to 50%, or 10 days per month, including some evening and weekend work
What do you need?
Must have at least 1 of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree (Hospitality Management, Food Science, Nutrition, Culinary Arts or other Science degree), with at least one year of experience in food service, restaurant or grocery operations
- Bachelor’s degree (other than Science/Food/Hospitality) with at least two years of experience in food service, restaurant or grocery operations
- Associates degree with at least four years progressive experience in food service, restaurant or grocery operations
- High School Diploma/GED and at least five years progressive experience in food service, restaurant or grocery operations
- Ability and desire to influence others with tact and skill
- Ability to provide clear and constructive feedback in a positive manner
- Desire to travel via car and/or plane up to 50% of time
- Thrives in an autonomous working environment
- Ability to work a flexible schedule
- Capable of being detail-oriented while focusing on the big picture
- Ability to organize and prioritize work based on urgency, efficiency and other factors
- Safe driving record and a commitment to working safely
- Ability to lift 32 lbs chest high, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and reaching
- Strong technical knowledge of food safety is preferred
- ServSafe and/or CP-FS Certification(s) a plus
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Introduction: The Cool Air-Zooka
This is an instructible that doesn't work completely like the ones from the stroe but its alot cheaper!
Step 1: Get What You Need
you will need
4.a rubber band
Step 2: Drill a Hole in the Can
get the can and remove the lid if there is one.Now flip it upside down and
drill a hole about 3/4 inches big in the center.
Step 3: Put on the Balloon
strech the balloon over the top of the can where the lid would go.
Step 4: Put on the Rubber Band
now after putting on the balloon, take the rubberband and tightly rap it around until the
balloon is totally secure.
Step 5: Firing
now to shoot the air-zooka, pull back the balloon and let go. if the balloon breaks
then add a new one and if this doesn't work try to make the hole a bit bigger and if
that doesn't work than just go buy one.
If you feel like you could add a handle too.
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Staff with symptoms of COVID-19
If a health or social care worker develops symptoms of COVID-19:
they should follow the stay at home guidance
while at home (off-duty), they should not attend work and notify their line manager immediately
while at work, they should put on a surgical face mask immediately, inform their line manager and return home
comply with all requests for testing
If a member of staff develops symptoms, they should be tested for SARS-CoV-2. Testing is most sensitive within 3 days of symptoms developing. Guidelines on who can get tested and how to arrange for a test can be found in the COVID-19: getting tested guidance.
If their symptoms do not get better after 10 days, or their condition gets worse, they should speak to their occupational health department, if they have one, or use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service. If they do not have internet access, they should call NHS 111. For a medical emergency, they should call 999.
1. Summary: testing for homecare workers
About the service
The service involves:
weekly testing of all homecare workers in adult social care. This includes all carers in domiciliary care organisations
agency managers should order tests every 28 days for their homecare workers
4 tests are delivered for each homecare worker to the agency, for a 28-day testing cycle
each homecare worker should be given 4 test kits every 28 days
every 7 days a care worker should take a test, register it online, and return it by post between Thursday and Sunday
homecare workers will receive their results in 2 to 4 days by email and text message (SMS)
1.1 Eligible organisations
Your organisation is eligible if you are a Care Quality Commission (CQC)-regulated homecare organisation in England providing personal care.
This is defined in the CQC data as locations with the primary inspection category ‘Community based adult social care services’ and providing the service type ‘Domiciliary care service’.
If you believe you match this criterion and have not been contacted by NHS Test and Trace with information on ordering test kits, please call 119.
What if I am not eligible right now?
We are working hard to increase our testing capacity, develop new technologies and reach more people. We will be reaching the following organisations in coming weeks and will provide further updates to:
homecare agencies not registered with CQC – we aim to roll out testing to all homecare organisations, including live-in carers. We will provide a further update in the coming weeks on how you can sign up to order test kits
personal assistants – we aim to roll out testing to all personal assistants. We will provide a further update in coming weeks on how you can sign up to order test kits
We will provide a further update in the coming weeks on how you can sign up to order test kits
1.2 Your involvement
If you are the manager of a homecare agency, responsible for a team of homecare workers or you have been delegated responsibility for testing by your organisation, your key responsibilities are to:
attend a webinar to understand the process
order test kits for homecare workers for every 28-day testing cycle
communicate your agency’s Unique Organisation Number (UON) to homecare workers
distribute test kits to homecare workers
encourage and support your homecare workers to complete weekly testing between Thursdays and Sundays
If you are a homecare worker who visits people with care and support needs at their homes, your key responsibilities are to:
conduct tests weekly between Thursdays and Sundays
register your tests as soon as you have completed them each week using your agency’s Unique Organisation Number (UON)
return your test kits at a Royal Mail priority post box on the same day that you complete the test
if you test positive: isolate, notify your line manager and provide contacts to NHS Track and Trace
regardless of your result, continue following all infection prevention and control (IPC) measures such as wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), washing your hands and socially distancing where possibl
1.3 Summary of testing for homecare workers
The overall process for homecare worker testing is:
Agency manager identifies the number of eligible homecare workers
Agency manager receives UON and orders test kits
Agency manager shares UON with the homecare workers
Agency manager takes delivery of the kits and arranges for homecare workers to receive them
Homecare worker receives 4 kits from the agency manger
Homecare worker takes their own swabs using test kit
Homecare worker registers test kit online, providing the UON from their agency manager
Homecare worker returns test kit on the same day of testing via their nearest priority post box
Homecare worker receives results via email and text message (SMS)
Repeats process every week
If you have any queries with any of the steps please call the national coronavirus contact centre on 119
1.4 Unique Organisation Number
NHS Test and Trace assigns all participating organisations a single Unique Organisation Number (UON).
Agency managers will receive their UON via the email address registered with CQC. Please make sure that the person who receives these emails understands the importance of this message and knows who to contact.
A UON is an 8-digit number which is exclusive to an individual organisation. This can be used to login to all online elements of the testing process.
Agency managers will need to use their UON for:
contacting the national coronavirus contact centre for support (dial 119, or 0300 303 2713 in Scotland)
Homecare workers will need to use their UON for registering completed test kits to make sure they will receive their results.
If you have any issues with this process, please call 119.
2. End-to-end process: agency managers
2.1 Ordering test kits
The agency manager is responsible for ordering test kits for the homecare workers in the team.
Each agency manager must register for test kits.
In order to apply, you will need:
your Unique Organisation Number (UON)
total number of homecare workers for testing
When ordering you will be asked to enter the number of residents or non-staff. You should enter zero for this.
Once you have placed an order, you will receive a confirmatory email from firstname.lastname@example.org.
The agency manager will receive an email from email@example.com when their test kits have been dispatched, informing them of their delivery date.
Test kits will be delivered in boxes of 40 to the address of your homecare agency, as registered with CQC.
The agency manager is responsible for taking delivery of the test kits.
The agency manager must then order kits every 28 days for their homecare workers.
Information extrated from: Gov.uk
What we mean by ‘home care’
By home care, we mean domiciliary care agencies that provide personal care (and sometimes other support) to people living in their own homes, whatever form this may take, which is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
This is delivered by domiciliary care agencies, supported living and extra care housing services. These agencies vary significantly in size, scope, and the people that they care for. Most of these work with older adults, including adults with dementia. Others work with younger disabled adults, and some also work with children. Packages of care may be provided via the traditional route or as part of a third party or notional personal, personal health, or joint personal budget.
Many adults and older people require support in their own homes. This is essential to maintain an individual’s health, wellbeing and independence within their own community.
1. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
The most recent guidance from Public Health England on the use of PPE can be found on GOV.UK.
Getting the right PPE
PPE is a key part of infection prevention and control. Ensuring a supply of PPE to the adult social care sector is fundamental to protect care workers and allow them to continue to safely provide personal care for vulnerable individuals during this COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the initial announcement in the adult social care winter plan of free PPE provision to health and social workers until March 2021, the scheme has been extended until the end of June 2021 to better support this critical stage for vaccination and mass testing programmes.
CQC-registered residential care homes and domiciliary care providers may register for the DHSC PPE portal and providers will have received an invitation to the email address they have used to register with the CQC. The guidance page for the PPE portal has the current order limits for social care providers, which varies depending upon the size of the provider. We will keep order limits under review to make sure these are based on the latest public health guidance, COVID-19 trends, PPE requirements modelling and analysis, and provider feedback.
Providers should not use the portal to order PPE for non-COVID-19 requirements and should obtain this through normal channels.
Adult social care providers who are not CQC-registered and therefore not covered by the PPE portal should contact their local resilience forum (LRF) where it is continuing to distribute PPE, or local authority if the LRF has stood down regular distribution, to obtain their free PPE provision for COVID-19 needs. These providers should contact their local authority for more information.
Where there is an emergency need, all adult social care providers can access the emergency PPE stockpile held by LRFs. Where this need is urgent and PPE is required within 72 hours, providers can access PPE through the National Supply Disruption Response (NSDR).
National Supply Disruption Response
If PPE is needed within 72 hours then the provider should contact NSDR to make emergency PPE requests by calling 0800 915 9964.
NSDR does not have access to the full lines of stock held at other large wholesalers or distributors but can mobilise small priority orders of critical PPE to fulfil an emergency need.
Before calling the NSDR hotline, please ensure you can provide the following details to the call handler:
name, email and telephone number of the requestor
name, email and telephone number of a contact for the next 24 hours (for example, out-of-hours cover if the original requestor will be unavailable)
delivery address, including postcode; and named contact for receiving deliveries
confirmation that your organisation is able to receive the delivery outside of normal business hours
number of people with COVID-19 being treated (confirmed and suspected)
number of beds in your organisation (if appropriate)
how long your current PPE stock provides cover for (for example, less than 24 hours, 1 to 2 days, or more than 2 days)
which products you are requesting and in what quantity
2. Clinically extremely vulnerable people and care groups
How home carers can support clinically extremely vulnerable people receiving home care during COVID-19
Clinically extremely vulnerable people, as defined in Annex 1, should now shield at home. Any carers or visitors who support people in their home can continue to visit. Carers should follow social distancing guidance where close or personal contact is not required.
Individuals’ names will be kept securely on the shielded patient list by NHS Digital and they will be contacted quickly if the advice changes.
Dividing people who receive care into ‘care groups’
Many clinically extremely vulnerable people have been identified as having specific medical conditions that, based on what we know about the virus so far, place someone at greatest risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
One way of reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 to people who are clinically extremely vulnerable is for providers to divide the people they are caring for into ‘care groups’ and allocate subgroups of their staff team to provide care to each.
The workforce and logistical challenges of doing this, especially within small and medium sized providers are acknowledged, and a decision about whether this is possible would need to be made locally. If providers are unable to divide their workforce into subgroups for each category, they may be able to divide the workforce into 2 groups:
one to support the clinically extremely vulnerable
the other to support ‘clinically vulnerable’ groups and everyone else
This is being proposed as a practical suggestion that may be viable for some providers, rather than a direction all providers are expected to follow. We acknowledge that different providers are experiencing different pressures. If providers are unable to work in this way, local authorities may be able to provide support through their plan to provide mutual aid. Should local authorities be unable to provide assistance, providers should contact their local resilience forum.
Commissioners, including local authorities and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should expect to support care providers with the costs of extra staffing and other costs incurred during the pandemic, for example donning and doffing PPE, time spent explaining to people with cognitive impairment why masks are being worn, and/or additional travel costs etc. Detail on the different types of care groups can be found in the annex.
Reducing the number of people with whom clinically extremely vulnerable and clinically vulnerable people come into contact
Home care providers should be working with agencies involved in the health and wellbeing of the people they provide care and support to, in order to develop a multi-agency plan to reduce the number of people going into an individual’s home. This should involve:
working with commissioners, including local authorities and CCGs to identify which people they care for are within the clinically extremely vulnerable category, and identifying which other agencies are providing care and support
working with the people identified as clinically extremely vulnerable and clinically vulnerable to understand which other professionals they have contact with and confirm whether they have received advice to shield or practise social distancing respectively
identifying the priority needs and work with the person, their unpaid carer and partners in primary care, commissioning, and other care providers to review the plan for providing care and support across the wider community care team, it should have considered:
the priority health and care needs of the person receiving care and support
whether the needs currently met by different services can be met by a single, or reduced number of agencies
whether staff can perform the duties of other team members or partner agencies when visiting to avoid multiple visits
if visits from one or more agencies can be reduced
if the number of people seeing the person from within each agency can be reduced
Where it is not possible to allocate specific care groups to specific staff subgroups, it may be possible to schedule for clinically extremely vulnerable and clinically vulnerable individuals to be seen before people from other categories. Again, it is acknowledged that this may not be fully possible given that personal care tasks are often required at similar points in the day.
Reducing contact between staff
When reducing contact between staff:
team meetings and handovers should be held remotely
times of entry to a community base to collect equipment should be staggered – clutter should be kept to a minimum within community bases and hard surfaces should be regularly cleaned
providers should ensure that there is a high level of support and a focus on staff health and wellbeing during this unprecedented time – access to the staff support initiatives offered through the Adult Social Care Action Plan should be promoted
teams and individuals should have remote access to regular supervision
remote, secure sharing of information relating to care between agencies should be supported through providers signing up to NHSmail, or another secure email system.
How home carers can manage people they are caring for safely
Decisions about reallocating tasks or reducing visits will need to be made with:
due consideration of the wishes and feelings of the person, and unpaid carer(s) in line with a personalised care approach
agreement with partner agencies and/or commissioners that the reduction balances the risks of reducing care with that of potential transmission
If a person receiving care or their unpaid carer wishes to suspend their care, the organisation with responsibility for developing the care plan should be alerted to this. All involved parties should work together to agree whether this is an appropriate step and what can be done to ensure the person has access to essentials throughout this period, for example food, medicines etc. It is important to understand the reasons behind the request to cease care and provide reassurance around precautions taken to reduce the risk of transmission.
Providers will need to assess the risks posed by a reduction or suspension of visits. If you are concerned about the risks, or the capacity of the client to make this decision, you must seek advice from the commissioning authority. If the person receiving care is self-funding, contact the local authority for advice.
There is further guidance available on how the Mental Capacity Act applies to a person’s ability to make decisions around receiving care. If you consider at any time that someone may be making this decision on behalf of an individual and not acting in their best interest, then contact your local safeguarding team.
If not all care tasks for people receiving care and support from the service can be delivered due to staffing capacity, interventions should be prioritised for those identified as highly vulnerable if they do not receive care. Where care is commissioned by the local authority then this must be the decision of the local authority in partnership with the person, and in accordance with Care Act Easements guidance and the ethical framework for social care. In this instance, mutual aid support should be urgently sought from the local authority, and escalated to the local resilience forum if required. This incident should be reported in CQC’s ‘Update CQC on the impact of COVID’ online form.
3. Hospital discharge and testing
COVID-19 testing for home care workers and individuals receiving home care
Every social care worker who needs a test can access one, as confirmed in the government’s adult social care action plan, and this includes those who work in the home care sector.
If you are a care worker and need a COVID-19 test because you have symptoms of COVID-19, you should be self-isolating and can access testing through the self-referral or employer referral portals (found on www.gov.uk/coronavirus). This applies to home care staff, domiciliary carers and unpaid carers.
Anyone experiencing coronavirus symptoms can now be tested, which includes individuals receiving home care. This can be accessed through the digital portal or by calling 119 to book testing.
Testing for patients and discharge from hospital into the community
All people admitted to hospital to receive care will be tested for COVID-19, and hospitals should share care needs and COVID status with relevant community partners planning the subsequent community care.
Some people with non-urgent needs, who do not meet the clinical criteria to reside in hospital, will be discharged home for their recovery period. All individuals can be safely cared for at home by home care or supported living care providers, regardless of their COVID status, if the guidance on use of PPE is correctly followed.
Testing must not hold up a timely discharge as detailed in the hospital discharge service guidance.
Where a test has been performed in hospital, but the result is still awaited, the patient will be discharged as planned and, while the result is pending, home care providers should assume that the person may be COVID positive for a 10-day period and follow guidance on the correct use of PPE.
Similarly, as set out in the COVID-19 adult social care action plan, any individual being taken on by a home care or supported living care provider should be cared for as possibly COVID-positive until a 10-day period has passed, within their home. Providers should follow the relevant guidance for use of personal protective equipment for COVID-positive people during this 10-day period.
How home care providers can support the NHS Test and Trace service
NHS Test and Trace is a key part of the government’s COVID-19 response. If we can rapidly detect people who have recently come into close contact with a COVID-19 case, we can take swift action to minimise transmission of the virus.
Full details on how NHS Test and Trace works and maintaining records of staff, customers and visitors are on GOV.UK.
Staff from NHS Test and Trace or other public health professionals may contact home care providers if one of their staff or service users has tested positive for coronavirus in order to alert those who have been in close contact with them.
Home care providers can assist NHS Test and Trace by keeping a temporary record of their care staff and recipients of care. Many providers will already have the necessary record systems to store and provide this information on request. In these cases, providers do not need to duplicate records.
If you do not currently have a system to record this information, this should be done in a way that is manageable for your business, but sufficiently detailed to effectively support NHS Test and Trace.
It is recommended that providers ensure that their systems are set up in such a way that this information can be reported rapidly on request and identify the person(s) who can produce this information at short notice.
If a provider is contacted, the following information may be requested at short notice:
the name and telephone number for a home care worker
the dates and times that a home care worker is at work
a log of the care worker’s visits to individuals receiving care for the previous 21 days. This should include, where possible, arrival and departure times of their visit, as well as a record of the name and residence of any individual(s) they provided care to (‘the client’)
the name and telephone number of the client and/or the client’s representative
the names and telephone numbers of other home care workers, when working in close proximity (for example, during a ‘double up’ visit)
NHS Test and Trace will ask for these records only where it is necessary.
General Data Protection Regulation
All collected data must comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and should not be kept for longer than is necessary.
Any records or reports produced specifically for NHS Test and Trace should be held for 21 days. After 21 days, this information should be securely disposed of or deleted. When deleting or disposing of data, you must do so in a way that does not risk unintended access (for example, shredding paper documents and ensuring permanent deletion of electronic files).
Reports to NHS Test and Trace should not contain data that goes beyond what is requested.
GDPR allows you to request contact information from your staff and those receiving care and share it with NHS Test and Trace to help minimise the transmission of COVID-19 and support public health and safety. It is not necessary to seek consent from each person. If you already collect this information for ordinary business purposes, you should make staff and recipients of care aware that their contact information may now also be shared with NHS Test and Trace.
Safely discharging into the community
The guidance on discharge to assess is clear that the discharge to assess pathways must include NHS organisations working closely with adult social care colleagues, the care sector and the voluntary sector. No person should be discharged before it is clinically safe to do so.
Section 5.1 of the guidance advises the following:
To create a safety net and increase confidence in discharging, consider:
person-initiated follow up – give people the direct number of the ward discharged from to call back for advice. Do not suggest going back to their GP or coming to A&E
telephoning the following day after discharge to check and offer reassurance or advice
calling them back with results of investigations and any changes or updates to a person’s management plan
bringing them back under the same team or speciality
requesting community nursing follow up with a specific clinical need
requesting GPs to follow up in some selected cases
All registered providers and managers will need to have confidence that legal requirements for assessments will be met, and that particular consideration will be given to safety and infection control-related needs during this heightened period. This will require hospital, community health, and social care providers to work together to make sure people have the right support in place.
Escalating inadequate discharge summaries
Where people are discharged from an acute or community hospital back to their own home, the requirements of the hospital discharge service guidance apply. The guidance requires that each locality appoints a local co-ordinator with accountability for all elements of the discharge process covered by the guidance, including the provision of discharge summaries.
Where home care agencies identify inadequacies in discharge summaries, these need to be escalated to the local co-ordinator. All areas are required to have a local co-ordinator during the COVID-19 response. Contact your local authority for clarity around who this person is if required.
How trusted assessors will work
A summary of guidance on trusted assessors and COVID-19 is available. Trusted assessors are a mandatory requirement as part of the High Impact Change Model.
Most hospitals already use trusted assessor schemes for discharges to care homes and care at home services in their areas. These should be kept up to date in local NHS Discharge to Assess (D2A) arrangements. This should be prioritised.
all hospitals will train additional discharge staff to operate as ‘trusted assessors’ – trusted assessors will continue to support care providers with discharge arrangements. The additional staff will supplement trusted assessors in existing schemes.
most hospitals already use trusted assessor schemes for discharges to care homes and care at home services in their areas – these should be kept up to date in local NHS Discharge to Assess (D2A) arrangements. This should be prioritised.
over this period CQC’s priority is to continue to check that people are safe – where we have serious concerns, we will use inspection and other processes to do so.
all registered providers and managers will need to have confidence that legal requirements for assessments will be met, and that particular consideration will be given to safety and infection control-related needs during this heightened period – this will require hospital, community health, and social care providers to work together to make sure people have the right support in pl
4. Government support for social care
On 18 April, the government announced £1.6 billion of new funding for councils, in addition to the £1.6 billion provided in March. This takes the total funding provided to councils to over £3.2 billion, which councils can use to address pressures produced by COVID-19 including in adult social care. We have also brought forward £850 million in social care grants to councils to help with cashflow.
On 14 May, we announced an additional £600 million to support providers through a new infection control fund. The fund will support adult social care providers to reduce the rate of transmission in and between care homes and support wider workforce resilience. This will be allocated to local authorities and is in addition to the funding already provided to support adult social care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social care recruitment
The Department of Health and Social Care adult social care action plan sets out how the government is supporting providers’ workforce
We have launched a new website Join Social Care to fast-track recruitment into the adult social care sector. The website allows candidates to access free training via Skills for Care and be considered for multiple job opportunities. This streamlines the recruitment process for candidates and employers, and sits alongside the many local initiatives that have been put in place to recruit staff.
Training to support those moving into the social care workforce
Key elements of the Care Certificate are available from Skills for Care, free of charge, to make it easier for employers to access rapid online induction training for new staff. Details of the training and frequently asked questions can be found on the Skills for Care website.
Getting DBS checks for staff
NHS and many local authorities have set up local volunteer schemes and providers can deploy volunteers where it is safe to do so. The government has put in place arrangements for fast track DBS checks that are free of charge for a list of roles, including emergency volunteers for health and social care services.
CQC also has guidance on interim DBS checks in this time.
Support from commissioners
All local areas are required to have arrangements in place for responding to emergencies under Civil Contingencies legislation. These specify the roles of the different agencies involved and who takes responsibility for what.
In relation to adult social care, the lead role in responding to incidents is with the local authority. As more people will now be living at home with COVID-19 and those who have been hospitalised with the virus will be increasingly discharged from hospital, the strategic co-ordinating groups of the local resilience forum will be working with and responding to unresolved issues from local authorities, CCGs and safeguarding adults boards (SABs). These organisations are already working on:
the relevant Category 1 and 2 responders (for example, CCGs) collaborating to support home care providers adequately, especially concerning their staffing levels; infection control practice and access to PPE
the role of the local resilience forums to support the stabilisation and recovery of home care and care home providers is prioritised as specified in The role of local resilience forums: a reference document.
To ensure the system can deal with unprecedented pressures, local authorities need to have the strongest possible intelligence about emerging risks to continuity of service, and at the centre we need to have robust information about risks to enable a national-level response where necessary.
CQC has developed a tool for home care providers to update daily about the impact of COVID-19 on their service. This will support local resilience forums and local authorities to direct mutual aid to providers where needed. Most local authorities have mutual aid protocols in place to get support from neighbouring and non-neighbouring councils.
Financial framework and payment mechanism support
Agreements are in place for commissioners to:
protect providers’ cashflow, including making payments on plan in advance
monitor the ongoing costs of delivering care, such as higher workforce absence rates caused by self-isolation, sickness and family caring responsibilities
adjust rates paid to providers to meet new costs.
Steps for local authorities to support home care provision
Local authorities, working with their local resilience forums and drawing on local resilience and business continuity plans, should:
ensure their list of individuals in receipt of local authority-commissioned home care is up to date and record levels of informal support available to individuals
work with providers to identify people who fund their own care and help them to establish the levels of informal support available. It may be helpful for providers to share the number of hours of care they provide to help with planning, but they will want to satisfy themselves that it is lawful for them to share that information
map all care and support plans commissioned by the local authority, to inform planning during an outbreak. Support providers similarly to map those packages that are self-funded
contact all home care providers in the local authority area and facilitate plans for mutual aid across the area, taking account of business continuity plans and considering arrangements to support sharing the workforce between home care providers, local primary care and community service providers – it is vital that this includes all providers, including those who mainly or solely deliver services to people who fund their own care, and is not confined solely confined to local authority- or CCG-commissioned services. CQC publishes information about all regulated care services on its online directory
consider the need to draw on local community services and primary care providers to support home care provision and draw up a plan for how and when this will be triggered
consider how voluntary groups can support home care provision and link home care providers and voluntary sector
take stock of how to maintain viable home care provision during the outbreak of COVID-19, including financial resilience – the Local Government Association, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and the Care Provider Alliance has published best practice actions on financial resilience
NHS support for home care provision
CCGs, NHS providers and local community services and primary care, will be working with and supporting local authorities and home care providers in the provision of care.
Community service providers are already, or will be taking steps to:
ensure their list of individuals in receipt of care at home support is up to date, establish levels of informal support available to individuals, and share lists with local authorities and home care providers to ensure join-up
consider which teams need to extend operational hours, or link to other services (such as out-of-hours general practice) in order to ensure the best possible care and maintain patients in the community
explore options for alternative care models, including tele-care and ‘hub and spoke’ models to provide advice and guidance to patients and potentially their families
take stock of how to maintain viable home care provision during the outbreak of COVID-19 – this includes developing joint plans with local authorities, home care and care home providers and primary care colleagues to agree how and when escalation processes can be triggered
support local authorities in planning around resilience, including plans to share resources locally in an outbreak of COVID-19 – this should include workforce, including the deployment of volunteers where it is safe to do so, and where appropriate indemnity arrangements are in place.
consider how voluntary groups that currently support NHS services could also support teams and specific individuals – make the links between those voluntary groups that currently support NHS services, home care providers and local authorities
5. Information collection and governance
How information and data will be collected during this time
To enable us to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the people providers care for, their workforce and their ability to deliver services, we need to collect data to ensure resources are targeted most effectively where they are needed. Read the latest guidance on information governance.
This will mean that:
residential and nursing homes to complete only the NHS Capacity Tracker
homecare providers to complete CQC’s ‘Update CQC on the impact of COVID’ online form (from Monday 13 April) – this will be rolled out to Shared Lives services, Extra Care and Supporting Living services soon and we will be in contact with them directly when the service is available to them
the small number of providers of both homecare and residential and/or nursing homes to complete both data collection sources
If this information is provided daily, through the appropriate route, local authorities, CCGs and other local bodies will receive that data. This means they will not need to make the same request and should not be contacting individual homes or services for this data.
This way of working is a requirement for our collective handling of the crisis but no doubt we will learn valuable lessons from taking this approach that might provide longer term benefits for all. We will want to identify and discuss those together.
6. Other areas
What to do if someone being cared for develops COVID-19 symptoms
If anyone being cared for by a home care provider reports developing COVID-19 symptoms they should be supported to contact NHS 111 via telephone, or online.
Home care workers should report suspected cases of COVID-19 to their managers. Providers should work with community partners, commissioners and the person to review and impact on their care needs.
Suspected cases of COVID-19 should be reported in CQC’s ‘Update CQC on the impact of COVID’ online form.
Mental health support for staff
Working closely with people, building trusting relationships, and delivering compassionate care are at the heart of home care provision. This is emotionally challenging work, and the difficulty of the circumstances people are working under at the current time are unprecedented. We want everybody working in social care to feel like they have somewhere to turn, or someone to talk to, when they are finding things difficult.
Social care staff can send a message with ‘FRONTLINE’ to 85258 to start a conversation. This service is offered by Shout and is free on all major mobile networks and is a direct support for those who may be struggling to cope and need help.
The Samaritans has extended its confidential emotional staff support line to all social care staff who might be feeling increasingly stressed, anxious or overwhelmed. This service offers care workers the opportunity to speak with a trained volunteer who can help with confidential listening and signposting to further support. To access this support, please call: 0300 131 7000
Hospice UK has extended its bereavement and trauma line to provide support to social care staff. This service offers a safe space for care workers to talk to a professional if they have experienced bereavement, trauma or anxiety as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. To access this support, please call: 0300 3034434
We recognise that guidance is being updated frequently for the social care sector, and we need to make sure it is easy for frontline staff to access. We have introduced a new CARE branded website and app, CARE Workforce, developed in partnership with NHSX and NHS BSA, for the social care workforce, aimed at providing timely information and signposting to support. It contains a range of resources to help individuals and their teams manage in this new situation, understand what they might need to be doing differently to support each other and pay attention to their mental and physical wellbeing. The site contains bitesize videos as well as guides to help staff access the information quickly.
Guidance to support and maintain the wellbeing of those working in adult social care has been published on GOV.UK. It provides advice and resources on maintaining mental wellbeing and how employers can take care of the wellbeing of their staff during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. This resource can also be accessed on the CARE Workforce app.
Under the Care Act Easement guidance, local authorities will still be required to deliver their safeguarding responsibilities. Escalation of oversight over any decisions to withdraw aspects of services are described in the guidance. If there are any safeguarding concerns about an individual, local safeguarding teams should be contacted in the normal way.
The government has published an ethical framework to guide local authorities in the event that they need to prioritise between competing needs. This states that decisions need to be made in a way that ensures people are treated with respect, minimises harm and is inclusive.
Any concerns that the guidance is not being followed should be raised with the relevant local authority. This could be done through usual contacts or any established complaint process where relevant. If it is felt Care Act easements have been operationalised without the correct process or authorisation taking place, then this can be raised with the Principal Social Worker (PSW) and ultimately the Director of Adult Social Services (DASS).
Further guidance is available on the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) website, including on supporting autistic people and people with learning disabilities, and supporting those living with dementia.
Annex: care group definitions
1. ‘Clinically extremely vulnerable’ people
Doctors in England have identified specific medical conditions that, based on what we know about the virus so far, place someone at greatest risk of severe illness from COVID-19. These individuals have been identified as ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’.
Clinically extremely vulnerable people should now shield at home. Shielding, in this context, means remaining at home always and avoiding any face-to-face contact for at least 12 weeks. See more guidance on shielding and protecting people who are clinically extremely vulnerable from COVID-19.
Channels of communication should be developed locally to enable care providers to understand who has been placed within this category. This group includes:
solid organ transplant recipients
people with specific cancers:
people with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy
people with lung cancer who are undergoing radical radiotherapy
people with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia, lymphoma or myeloma who are at any stage of treatment
people having immunotherapy or other continuing antibody treatments for cancer
people having other targeted cancer treatments which can affect the immune system, such as protein kinase inhibitors or PARP inhibitors
people who have had bone marrow or stem cell transplants in the last 6 months, or who are still taking immunosuppression drugs
people with severe respiratory conditions including all cystic fibrosis, severe asthma and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary (COPD)
people with rare diseases and inborn errors of metabolism that significantly increase the risk of infections (such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), homozygous sickle cell)
people on immunosuppression therapies sufficient to significantly increase risk of infection
women who are pregnant with significant heart disease, congenital or acquired
2. People who are ‘clinically vulnerable’
This group have been advised to follow social distancing guidance.
Review caseload lists to identify people aged 70 years or over and those with long-term health conditions of any age (anyone advised to get a flu jab as an adult each year on medical grounds).
This group includes:
people aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions)
people under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (anyone instructed to get a flu jab each year on medical grounds):
chronic (long-term) mild to moderate respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema or bronchitis
chronic heart disease, such as heart failure
chronic kidney disease
chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis
chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), or cerebral palsy
a weakened immune system as the result of certain conditions or medicines they are taking (such as steroid tablets)
people who are seriously overweight (a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or above)
Information extrated from: Gov.Uk
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Video Exposes Police Abuse in Venezuela (Or is it Mexico? Or Colombia?)
One video’s journey across Latin American protest movements underscores the challenge of monitoring activism online.
Last Friday, the end of a week in which mass protests in Venezuela resulted in hundreds of arrests and five deaths, a new YouTube video circulated among Venezuelan social media networks showing police officers spraying a water cannon at a young man tied to a tree. The title described in Spanish the GNB—part of Venezuela’s armed forces—torturing a student in Táchira, a state along the Colombian border where clashes have been especially violent.
The problem was, the Human Rights Channel had seen this video before. The same footage circulated among Colombian activists early this year.
The YouTube description of this version states that the video was uploaded from a mobile phone on December 29, 2013. Colombian media activists reported on the video, describing it as depicting ESMAD, or Colombian special forces, torturing a farmer who participated in the country’s widespread agrarian protests.
Media Manipulation Distracts from Authentic Footage
While it’s unclear who would scrape, re-upload and intentionally misidentify footage of police abuse and with what motivations, it is easier to imagine why so many activists, believing the footage to be true, would share the video among their networks. (On Sunday night, the video was removed by the uploader, after several commenters pointed out that it was scraped from a different context.) After all, the mistreatment of detained activists had been reported on by reputable sources; and considering the attacks on journalists covering the protests, citizen reporting and social media have become critical tools to document and share news of the protests and abuse of authorities. But as Global Voices has reported, both opposition activists and media channels supporting President Nicolás Maduro have engaged in the dissemination of false, decontextualized, or misleading images.
The distribution of false images with hidden agendas not only fuels the political—and increasingly violent—divide, but makes it difficult for those monitoring the movement online to separate fact from fiction. And it places an extra burden on those trying to document the protests honestly.
This is why verification is at the core of the Human Rights Channel, which works with our partners at Storyful to make sure that we not only amplify authentic footage of human rights abuse, but put a stop to the spread of misinformation.
(Of course, fighting false rumors is only one challenge facing media activists in Venezuela. Many photos and videos of the protest movement may never see the light of day due to the reported confiscation of cell phones of detained activists and journalists.)
Resources for Filming and Finding Authentic Footage
For those documenting the protests in Venezuela or elsewhere, following a few basic steps when uploading videos will help third parties verify that your footage is authentic. See here for a downloadable tip sheet on effectively uploading to YouTube. A few key pointers include:
- Title: Keep it brief and descriptive, including the date and location.
- Describe: In the YouTube description, include greater context about the video, such as what happened before, during, and afterwards, and links to more information.
- Credit: If the video was originally uploaded by a different user or on a different website, provide a link to the original video. That will help journalists or human rights monitors verify that the footage is authentic.
For those monitoring the protests online, and curating images documenting abuse, the Verification Handbook is a free online resource with tools and tips to determine the authenticity of online media. For a downloadable Spanish tip sheet on how to verify online video, click here. You can also subscribe to the Human Rights Channel on YouTube and follow us on Twitter for the latest on citizen video of human rights abuse.
This article was written by Madeleine Bair and Vienna Maglio, and originally appeared on the WITNESS Blog.
This post was originally written for the Human Rights Channel, which is now the WITNESS Media Lab. Follow @WITNESS_Lab on Twitter for analysis and resources on the verification and contextualization of eyewitness video for human rights.
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In efforts to give MICE tourism in Greece a boost, hospitality consultants Simple Way Of Tourism (SWOT) is organizing the 3rd Business Travel Professionals Forum (BTPF) in the Greek capital on December 10-11 at the Metropolitan Athens Hotel.
“This year we will have the pleasure of welcoming tour operators (hosted buyers) from all over Europe who are interested in destination Greece,” the cofounder and CEO of SWOT, George Constantinidis, said of the event, which is being supported by the Greek tourism ministry, the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO), the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) and Athens Municipality.
Founded in 2013, Athens-based SWOT is active in hospitality management consulting, sales representation and marketing.
For more information or to register for the forum, visit www.swot.gr/btpf
The GTP (Greek Travel Pages) is media sponsor of the event.
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What can I do to personally prepare for this event?
- Make a plan with your family/flatmates/friends to get through an emergency. Think about the things you need every day and work out what you would do if you didn’t have them. Visit the Civil Defence website https://happens.nz/ for more information.
- Know when, where and how to turn off the water, electricity and gas at the mains switch to your home or business. Remember to treat all electrical equipment as ‘live’.
- Have your utility company’s phone number, email and website address handy. That way you can report any faults and follow the progress on the restoring of services. Note that in an emergency call centres and websites may become overloaded.
- If you are reliant on electricity for a medical device, notify your electricity retailer directly.
No Electricity or Gas:
What would you do if the power was out for days? How will you see, cook, and keep warm?
- Treat all electricity as live and never touch exposed electrical equipment.
- Report electricity and gas faults to your retailer via their faults number or website.
- Do you have spare cash in case ATMs are not working?
- Do you have enough fuel in case petrol pumps are not working?
- Make sure you have torches and batteries, either in your emergency kit or somewhere everyone can find them in the dark.
Imagine having no water for three days or more. How would you wash, cook, and clean? What would you drink?
- Do you have enough drinking water (3 litres per person per day for 3 days or more). Do you change the water every 12 months? What will we cook and clean with? What will we use for a toilet?
- Keep your empty water, juice and fizzy drink bottles, give them a good clean and fill them with water. Don’t forget to store water for babies and pets too.
- Remember to store water for cooking and cleaning as well. You can use the water in your hot water cylinder, but store some extra in large plastic containers.
- You can also fill plastic ice cream containers with water and keep them in the freezer. These can help keep food cool if the power is off and can also be used for drinking.
No Phone or Internet
If the phone and internet lines are down, how would you keep in touch, arrange to meet up, keep up with news and weather alerts?
- In most emergencies it’s best to stay in your own home, so make you home your meeting place and have an alternative in case you can’t get there.
- Talk to your family about how you will get in touch and where you will meet up in an emergency if the phone lines and/or internet are down.
- If you have kids, make sure you know the school/day care’s emergency plans and give the school names of three people who could pick the kids up if you can’t get there.
- Have a solar or battery powered radio so you can keep up with the latest news and alerts. Know which radio stations to tune in to for information during an emergency.
- Keep a written list of important phone numbers/ email addresses.
- In an emergency phone lines can become overloaded quickly. Keep them clear so emergency calls can be made and, if you can, use text or online messaging to keep in touch.
In an emergency, trains and buses may not be able to operate, roads may be closed and streets or neighbourhoods might be blocked off.
- If you can’t take your normal route home, how will you get there? Who will you go with? Where will you meet up if your street is a no-go zone?
- Agree on a meeting place if you can’t get home. It might be the school, a friend’s place, or with whānau.
- If you work away from home, find workmates who live in your area. In an emergency you could travel together.
- Have a getaway bag at work or in your car, with walking shoes, warm clothes, some snack food and a bottle of water. A torch, batteries and radio are useful too.
- Give the school or day care a list of three people who can pick the kids up if you can’t get there.
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Poking through the referrer list often turns up a chuckle or two. For example, apparently this site is second on the list if you google for hacked hard corn porn free. Now, "e" and "n" are an awfully long way apart but yet someone managed to do it. Either that or they like their produce far more than me. In any event, they took a detour to my site.
It's still not as impressive as someone actually searching for the phrase they've got bugger all chance of figuring this one out. Which is exactly what I said one time. Doesn't seem like that post is still indexed by google though.
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HEALING MENSTRUAL DISCRIMINATION
Reproductive Health Education and Art Therapy for Sex Trafficked Survivors
Menstruation is a source of stigmatization by many cultures throughout the world where rituals are used to sanitize and conceal menstruation.
The concept of ‘untouchable being,’ or Chhaupadi, requires complete segregation of a menstruating woman. Some ethnic groups within Nepal ritualize menarche with the custom of gupha basne, or ‘staying in the cave’. During this ritual, the menarcheal girl is required to remain in isolation for up to 12 days. As many as 95% of Nepal’s mid and western regions observe this practice.
Women remain outside the home, often in a shed-like dwelling for the duration of their menses, prohibited from consuming dairy, having access to public water, entering temples, or touching any male (including their husband), out of fear of contamination.
There are many risks attributed to this observance including: poor sanitation, poor ventilation from the dwellings, malnutrition, infectious diseases, sexual assault, animal attacks, and death.
As a result, many women experience negative emotions and shame towards their bodies.
This disconnection survivors have formed between their bodies and emotions is common among participants of the programs at Art to Healing. Our use of art therapy, in combination with women’s reproductive health education; serves to empower, cultivate resilience, self-regulation, create positive attitudes and personal values as they seek to re-identify and reintegrate into society.
During Week 5 of Art to Healing’s Women’s Transformational Program, participants discuss menstruation and the relationship to emotions and body image.
The group is guided through the creation of Womb Bowls, an interpretation from Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts (FOAT®) created by Eugene Gendlin in 1981. The process accesses the body’s innate wisdom and potential to heal, helping clients discover new ways of recovery.
Figure 1: Womb Bowls
“This is my uterus. Before the workshop, I did not know that I had to look after myself, and provide comfort to my uterus and my body. I used to be very lazy about taking care of myself and my body, but now I will take care of myself and rest when I need to during my menstruation.”
Figure 2: Art Therapy & Reproductive Health with Art to Healing
Based on 25 participants, the mean K10 score (which measures psychological distress) prior to the Women’s Transformational Program was 26.75 (SD 5.17), indicating moderate levels of psychological distress. At the end of the program, the mean K10 score was 14.82 (SD 5.34), representing a mean decrease of 11.63 (SD 6.47).
The final mean K10 score indicates a noticeable reduction in psychological distress for participants from pre- to post-workshop assessment; inferring a reduction in symptoms of agitation, anxiety, fatigue, restlessness, worthlessness and depression.
Through carefully chosen art-therapy interventions, a nurturing and supportive environment, and the opportunity for self-expression, healing and insight, themes of empowerment, hope, resilience, self-love, and determination were portrayed. The WTP affected positive short-term outcomes for participants, largely because of its innovative experiential, educational, and therapeutic structure and delivery.
Art to Healing hopes to spread the utilisation of the expressive art therapies, combined with reproductive health education, as an innovative way and approach to create change in issues around menstrual discrimination and to improve and increase women’s innate sense of worthiness and confidence, to more partner organisations in South and South East Asia.
As inner resilience builds and women start to accept and love their bodies and natural cycles, attitudes of gender-based violence and disrespect will start to change, hopefully decreasing systemic issues such as domestic violence and child sex slavery. This is our wish, to prevent child sex slavery, trafficking and exploitation, and this starts firstly with respect and honour for a woman’s body and the innate natural cycles of life.
Published August 2020. Copyright Art to Healing.
Learn more about the Women's Transformational Program
Learn more about how we use Art Therapy to heal Menstrual Discrimination through Trauma-Informed & Reproductive Health Programs
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CML driver Jon Howells proves his worth with a great win in
the second round of the 2007 Radio Race Car series.
Originally the second round of the 2007 RRCi series was to be hosted by the Fast
Tracks R/C club at their Tamworth track. However, a change of circumstances made
this impossible so instead Carl and his team welcomed us to their temporary home
for the day at the ever-popular BNRC Frankley venue.
The track, laid out by the Fast Tracks crew, produced lap times over 50 sec for
everyone – this track was big, really BIG! To even things up the drivers were
running in the opposite direction to normal, and not just on the astro-turfed
areas either, with a few sections of grass thrown in to create a multi-surface
feel. Just about every possible feature of this excellent track was used
including several large jumps, a mammoth cross over table top and some great
little ripples to catch out the impatient. Finding a rhythm was difficult at
times but fortunately the FTD qualifying format allowed drivers a second (and
third) chance to stake their claim for pole position.
CML team mates Jon Howells and Andy Reynolds were looking forward to a strong
performance today, both running their Picco P3-R powered Hyper 8 buggies. Andy
was delighted to secure himself a spot direct onto the A final grid after three
steady runs in qualifying. Jim Davis finished just ahead of Jon to steal the
extra point for TQ.
As usual the CML men both used Pro-Line M3 compound tyres for this meeting, Jon
tried the Crimefighters on his Hyper 8 before settling on Bow Ties for the A
final, while Andy preferred the Bow Tie all day.
Despite a warm-up drama for Jon prior to the A final start, nothing was going to
prevent Jon from securing his second victory from two rounds of this years
series, winning the race by a convincing margin from Jim Davis and Greg Hill
with Andy achieving a modest improvement on his qualifying position to finish in
Round three of the series on 24th June takes us down to mid-Devon and the
Tiverton club’s Burlescombe track.
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Victoria Baldesarra is a professional dancer and actress from Canada. Having started her dancing career at the age of just three, she grew up performing and further nurturing her skills. Once she entered her teens, Victoria decided to pursue her second passion as well and entered the field of acting. After doing so, she first rose to fame with the hit TV series, The Next Step. Her portrayal of the character of “Michelle” met with praise from critics and the overall success of the show introduced her to a wider international audience. From that breakthrough onwards, the young artist has continued to carry her dancing and acting careers simultaneously. And as her career has progressed, both her performances and professional projects have continuously transitioned towards maturity. Now moving from her career to intimate life, although Victoria Baldesarra hasn’t shared many details publicly she was previously confirmed to be in a relationship with actor James Preston.
Victoria Baldesarra Personal Details:
- Complete Name: Victoria Baldesarra
- Nicknames: Vic
- Date of Birth: July 28, 1998
- Birthplace: Toronto, Canada
- Nationality: Canadian
- Occupation: Actress
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Race/ Ethnicity: White
- Eye Color: Hazel
- Hair Color: Blonde
Victoria Baldesarra Height Weight Shoe Size Measurements Facts
Victoria Baldesarra Family Details:
- Father: Tulio Baldesarra
- Mother: Cherlann Baldesarra
- Siblings: Alec Baldesarra
- Spouse Name: Unmarried
- Children Name: None
Victoria Baldesarra Relationships History:
- James Preston – Actor
Victoria Baldesarra Career Highlights:
- First Film: Hollywood Trick
- First TV Show: The Next Step
Victoria Baldesarra Distinctive Features:
- Plump Lips
- Long Lashes
Victoria Baldesarra Body Measurements:
Given below are dancer Victoria Baldesarra height, weight, shoe size, body measurements, and vital statistics complete details.
- Build: Slim
- Height in Feet: 5’ 6”
- Height in Centimeters: 168 cm
- Weight in Kilogram: 54 kg
- Weight in Pounds: 119 pounds
- Feet/ Shoe Size: Unknown
Victoria Baldesarra Interesting Facts:
- Her dancing career began at age three.
- During her time in A-Troupe in the series The Next Step, she was the youngest cast member.
- She was the only original cast member of The Next Step to hold her place in A-Troupe throughout the first five seasons.
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January 15, 2009
The Eudora USD 492 Board of Education approved plans for new additions at the high school and a new Eudora-De Soto Technical Education Center
Stories this photo appears in:
The Eudora USD 491 Board of Education got its first glance at additions to the high school last Thursday night when it approved building plans for new science classrooms, a 750-seat auditorium and the new Eudora/De Soto Technical Education Center.
In the first of what will be several demonstrations by community members, students in Jason Gray and Renee Mueting’s culinary arts classes at EHS learned how to make Sicilian artichokes.
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Forgotten Juventus defender Marco Motta is being linked with a January move to Stuttgart.
Motta was signed from Udinese in the summer on a permanent basis after spending last term on loan in Turin.
However, the 25-year-old has yet to feature under new boss Antonio Conte and he could be sold in the New Year.
German giants Stuttgart are apparently interested, even if Juve are unlikely to sell unless they themselves bring in a new right-back.
Conte only has summer signing Stephan Lichtsteiner and Motta as his right-back options, even if Frederik Sorensen could theoretically also be used in that role.
Think you know your Italian football? Share your knowledge, tips and comments to win cash prizes in OLBG's tipster competition - £11,000 to be won monthly!
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Romsey II in Espresso Black Calf - 8000
£860.00 £720.00 inc. VAT
JOHN LOBB FACTORY 2nd CHOICE SHOES & SAMPLES
John Lobb Romsey II chukka boots in "Espresso Black Calf"- This is a sample "Patina" colour devised by John Lobb using variants of brown calf and black patina dye to create a black shoe with hints of dark brown undertones. The colour is essentially black and a brown tint can be seen on very close inspection. However, I would suggest these are black shoes rather than dark brown shoes. Ideal for formal wear with a very discreet twist.
John Lobb shoes are made to the highest standards and sometimes their very strict quality control will reject an occasional pair due to a slight quality issue. They are stamped inside the lining with R or S to indicate this. We have carefully checked every pair and found that this is minimal and it’s usually a leather quality issue, which does not detract from the beauty of these fine shoes and will not affect the wear in any way whatsoever. Therefore we are offering these at the discounted price shown above.
Original John Lobb Shoe Trees can be purchased for these shoes through the checkout if required.
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Bucs veterans report to training camp
Shortly after sunrise, Bucs veterans began to report to training camp as a new era dawned under coach Greg Schiano.
The first player to arrive, according to the team's website, was backup quarterback Dan Orlovsky. The players are in meetings and will likely have a conditioning test later today.
Tampa Bay's first workout is Friday at 8:45-11:30 and is open to the public. Admission is free but the Bucs ask that you access the facililty from Himes Ave and not MLK. Seats are on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Bucs coach Greg Schiano will have a news conference at 11:30 a.m.
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Chipmunks are part of the squirrel family, although their habits are nothing like their larger, grey cousins. There are 21 varieties of chipmunks in North America, but they all sleep in underground burrows. Chipmunks hibernate during the winter months, although they don't sleep the whole time as most hibernators do.
Home Sweet Home
Chipmunks are very busy during the warmer months. They like to live in forested areas with low-growing plants, which offer protection from predators. During the summer, they build their nests in underground burrows, where they sleep and spend the winter. The chipmunk's elaborate burrow consists of a long, underground tunnel with numerous entrances and rooms. They carry plant matter such as grass and leaves to furnish their sleeping quarters, and construct extra rooms to store food for the winter.
Furnishing the House
A chipmunk burrow is an architectural marvel. It can be as much as 30 feet long and 3 feet deep. It consists of two levels -- the first, a shallow tunnel closer to ground level, and a deeper burrow with additional rooms and storage space. Chipmunks nap during the day between foraging in the shallow tunnel, with easy access to the outside. The deeper burrow is used for storing winter food, overnight sleeping and hibernation. It is well lined with plant matter to keep them warm. Chipmunk burrows are usually located on a slope to provide water drainage. Once completed, a chipmunk removes the fresh dirt from the openings in the ground to keep predators from finding them.
The Long Winter's Nap
Chipmunks start to prepare for the winter in July, eating extra seeds and nuts to pack on additional fat. They spend the next few months carrying seeds and nuts to the winter burrow, where it's stored to see them through the cold weather. They retreat to their deep burrow in late October, occasionally emerging on warm days. Chipmunks are not true hibernators whose bodies remain inactive for the winter months. A chipmunk wakes periodically to eat from his food stash. While asleep though, a chipmunk's body is in hibernation mode. His temperature drops, and his heartbeat and breathing slow. He curls into a small ball and can sleep up to several weeks at a time.
A Solitary Sleeper
Chipmunks sleep alone. Although they mate twice a year, in spring and late summer, females raise litters alone after one month's gestation and the young depart the nest at 4 to 6 weeks of age to live solitary lives. There is no bonding between mates or litters. A female chipmunk has her babies in the deep section of her own burrow, where she builds a nest. She continues to live there when the young leave to build burrows and find their own territory, often close to where they were born.
- Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images
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I am catching up with all the analysis to equip you with your trade decisions. Again I am reminding you that you shouldn’t compute for all these ratios to come up with your decision. You got to choose a few to base your buy or sell decisions.
I checked my blog and so far PE or Price-to-Earning ratio is only valuation ratio I have discuss(click here to see this post). Valuation simply means knowing how much is a stock as compared to some basis.
Price-to-Book or sometimes Price/Book is a ratio that measures how much investors are willing to pay for the net worth of the company. Investors are looking at the larger picture when they use this ratio as basis.
To compute this ratio we need the stock’s market price and the stock’s book value by simply dividing the company’s net worth(Assets minus Liability) or Stockholder’s Equity by shares outstanding.
Now how can this ratio help us in our stock investing or trading decisions?
This ratio reflects how investors see how much should the assets be valued in case such will be sold and thus they are willing to pay for it at such price because they perceived or see that such will be more valuable in the future.
As a rule of thumb a Price-to-Book value below one is undervalued thus seen as good opportunity to buy while a value above one may indicate that the stock is overvalued and thus not worth your investment for the moment.
On the other hand we should not easily jump into a stock with a low Price-to-Book ratio. We should always check the actual financial health of the company by looking at its Balance Sheets. A company’s net worth might be over inflated due to assets reflected are not reported at historical prices meaning old prices as they are acquired. Theses assets might have already lost their values and thus making net worth over ending up into a lower P/B ratio.
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Nils talks with our special guest, Halie Powell, the Social Media Manager at Community Bible Church, in San Antonio, TX. They discuss different tools like Social Report for scheduling social media and social graphic mobile apps such as Studio and Phonto. Learn more about how you can maximize your church's influence through social media. We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas! Use #SMCpodcast and let us know!
Social Report - http://www.socialreport.com
Phonto - http://www.phon.to
Studio - http://www.madewithstudio.com
Halie Powell's Twitter - https://twitter.com/haliebpowell
Halie Powell’s Instagram - https://instagram.com/haliebpowell
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God is Able to Perform His Promises
“And being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. being fully persuaded that What He had promised, He was able also to perform”.(Rom 4:19,21).
At each appearance, God revealed to Abraham something of the tenfold secret of divine friendship a step by step revelation. If you have steps in your home you will not jump over them, but climb them step by step. So it was with Abraham. God appeared twice to him in Genesis 12, then in chapters 13,14 and 15. chapter 17 records the sixth time He appeared to Abraham when he was 99 years old and past the age when a man could except a son. Both he and his wife had become like dry trees.
At that time he had to believe that through he was old and his wife equally old, God was able to fulfill his promise ( Romans 4:19-24). It was only at this time Abraham got real faith, and for this kind of faith in him, God had been waiting for 25 years. When God first appeared to him he had faith, but it was not a strong faith, (Heb 11:8). He obeyed God and straightaway left his country, kith and kin, and went away to a strange and new country.
Even though it required much sacrifice and faith to obey like this, God was not satisfied. Step by step He was preparing Abraham for a stronger faith till he and his wife had become too old for child-bearing. Until God put new life into their bodies they could not have a child. That was the great secret of faith through which they understood something of the power of resurrection; and by that same power, we can also conquer our temptations.
___By Vivek Anand
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Do you want to find out what happens if you take a BMW E30, which by the way is a light vehicle, and put a giant Vette Engine under the hood? We hope you are eager to know what came up from this fusion! If you are, click on the video below and see it for yourself. But before you do so, let us give you some more information about this occurrence. This short video is recorded in controlled environment on the streets of Poland, you can notice that by seeing the crowd which curiously observes this situation and by the absence of other vehicles.
Enjoy the video below!
Feel free to Like, Share & Comment!
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May 17, 2011ANDREW COUNTY, MO | By: Wayman
The Andrew County museum has been chosen as one of only 6 institutions to host the Smithsonian Institution's traveling exhibit called "The Way We Worked".
Showing how work became a central part of American culture, the exhibit will feature workplace technology, uniforms, places of work, and other aspects. Andrew County Museum director Glenn Uminosicz says it's a natural tie-in with the museum, and they are also planning on partnering with local businesses for the exhibition. The Smithsonian's "The Way We Worked" exhibit will be at the Andrew County Museum May of next year, with local preparations starting now.
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Kitchen Kupboard is a speciality kitchenware store located in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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Detail of approach from the east, west or north:
See step-by-step directions below map.
1. Take the Baltimore beltway (I-695) toward Towson to I-83 south; take I-83 south to Exit 9 (Cold Spring Lane) eastbound. Take Cold Spring Lane east to Roland Ave. and turn right.
2. At the fork at the first light on Roland, bear left, proceeding south on University Pkwy.
3. Follow University Pkwy. for four additional lights; turn right at the fourth light, onto San Martin Drive. (If you cross Charles St., you have missed the turn onto San Martin.)
4. The Institute is the first building on the right.
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Ali Lohan's Rep Denies Plastic Surgery Reports
Lindsay Lohan’s little sister shocked fans with her new, more adult look.
Despite debuting a drastic new look, Ali Lohan insists that she has not gone under the knife.
Lindsay Lohan’s 17-year-old sister stepped out recently sporting a significantly thinner frame and gaunt facial features. Many fans speculated as to whether the teen had undergone plastic surgery as part of her new gig with NEXT Modeling Agencey.
“Alaina has never had any type of plastic surgery in her life, nor has she ever considered it,” her rep Steve Honig said in a statement. “Her success as a model lies with her natural looks and she has no interest in changing that. During the past two years, she has gone through a normal teenage growth spurt that has made her taller and slimmer.”
"It has also slightly changed the composure of her face, all of which is typical of what happens to kids in their mid to late teens," Honig added. "It’s what most people refer to as the awkward stage. Ali is growing up; that’s all."
In August, Ali announced that she had signed a multiyear contract with top-tier agency NEXT Model Management.
“In fashion, Ali will set herself apart as a bona fide icon,” NEXT director Alexis Borges told E! News. “One that fashion fans will follow not because of their famous last name, but because of the beautiful images and fashion trends she is helping create.”
Ali joins NEXT reps Miranda Kerr, Jamie King, Milla Jovovich and Molly Sims. She previously posed for Lindsay’s fashion line, 6126, in summer of 2011.
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Chic details combine with smooth, padded tricot lining to take the Waive to the next level of comfort and easy style. Crafted with an Easy Flex dance sole and sleek pleated overlay that you'll love to show off, this coveted accessory is perfect for your wardrobe.
- 1.25-in. self-covered heel
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The effective use of ARCHIBUS, or any software system, is highly dependent on each user’s personal experience. This makes it important for administrators to provide just the right experience. When deploying ARCHIBUS at an organization that has multiple users, requirements, and security permissions, it is important to define users in a way that provides the access they need to perform effectively without introducing unnecessary complexity or the potential to undermine system integrity, security, or performance.
The beginning of a deployment usually includes a determination of the users who will access the system, how they will access it, and what their experience will be. Once this determination has been made, individuals are assigned user names and passwords. The user name and password authenticates each user (directly or via an authentication device like SSO or active directory). Users are assigned to “roles” used to group users with similar requirements and menus. The menus, often defined by ARCHIBUS “processes,” are defined by an assembly of views or other functionality. Thus, a deployment will always include the following steps:
- User definition and upkeep (in the case of name changes, employment status, etc.)
- User assignment to roles
- “Process” or menu assignment to roles and individuals
It is the job of the ARCHIBUS implementation team to help define an organization’s users, roles, and processes, and the method by which basic security will be managed. Familiarity with ARCHIBUS’ flexibility in the area of data security and permissions can promote the development of effective and scalable roles, rather than roles that are just based on job titles in use at an organization in a given region. While providing secure access to views, the implementation team’s goal should be to allow each user to perform their jobs as simply as possible by reducing excess navigation or “clicking,” and by focusing on user-friendliness and accessibility.
The goal of this document is to give administrators the skills needed to manage users, roles, and menu processes with the Web Central application. By the end of the document, an administrator should be able to
- Define and remove users
- Manage user passwords, roles, and default menus.
- Assign menu processes (with forms, reports, charts, dashboards, etc.) to roles
- Set up a system that provides users with the right access to data and the fewest “clicks.”
ARCHIBUS allows for and provides a variety of techniques for managing passwords, updating system users, applying security, etc. These techniques are often automated or applied in bulk, especially in organizations with hundreds or thousands of users. While this document describes how to manage or make individual changes to users, roles, and processes within Web Central, it is useful to be aware of the different scenarios requiring change and how they system will be maintained. The following skills should provide some context when thinking about developing users and roles.
Administrators can use Web Central to authenticate its users or choose from a variety of other options. In many instances, organizations integrate ARCHIBUS with active directory, human resource, database, e-mail, or other systems, and even provide access to non-employees. Find the answer to the following types of questions before using Web Central to manage users and roles.
- How are individuals going to be added as users in the ARCHIBUS Users (afm_users) table?
- How are users (and their corresponding employee records) treated when an employee leaves?
- How are user passwords maintained?
- Will non-employees have user accounts, i.e. contractors, vendors, clients?
- How are users synchronized with their corresponding employee, vendor, craftsperson, or project/lease contact records? (The system recognizes individuals via their email address).
- What happens when a user’s name or email account changes due to a marriage or merger?
Roles for the organization are typically created based on similar user routines and system capabilities. Some roles are system roles used by all ARCHIBUS projects and other roles are defined for the organization and its users. Find the answer to the following types of questions before using Web Central to develop roles.
- Which roles are system roles and what do they do? For example:
- System Administrator – Accesses system tables and administrative functions.
- Guest – Accesses menus designed for guest users.
- Which roles are organization-specific?
- How do different roles fit into or support organizational processes and workflows?
- What menus will be assigned to each role?
- Are there menus or views that should be assigned to or excluded from individual users?
Processes are a collection of tasks placed on a menu. Originally, processes were so-named because they represented a set of tasks used by members of an organization to represent the workflow of their daily routine. For example, the “Room Inventory” process assigned to a space planner would have included tasks for developing building spaces, allocating the spaces to internal departments, running daily calculations of space use, and producing reports of an organization’s space allocation over time. Over the years, processes have come to represent a variety of ways to access the system from different products. For example, processes are used to assign dashboards and Home Pages to users in Web Central and to develop menus on the AutoCAD and Smart Client Process Navigators. Strategically developed and assigned processes allow administrators to design business workflows and provide appropriate permissions to data, before taking advantage of ARCHIBUS’ built-in workflow engines and data security devices.
When defining the user experience, administrators begin by defining roles and the menus assigned to each. This procedure walks you through the steps for creating a role.
Creating a role consists of defining a name for a group of users who will use the system in a similar manner.
1. In the Web Central application, use the Process Navigator to navigate to the System Administration > ARCHIBUS System Administration > ARCHIBUS Administrator – User and Security process.
2. Click on the “Add or Edit User Roles” task.
3. Press the “Add New” button on the User Roles panel.
4. Entering the following fields:
- Role Name – A unique identifier, e.g. “ARCH_SPACE.”
- Role Title – A descriptive name, e.g. “ARCHIBUS Space Planner.”
- License Level – A value defined by the ARCHIBUS license and processes, e.g. “ACTIVITY ACP.”
5. Press the “Save” button.
Every role must be assigned at least one “security group.” The system uses security groups to secure data fields and workflow rules based on conditions defined by the organization and system requirements. Security groups are described in the document on database security and are not used by all organizations, so for the purpose of this training procedure a default security group “%” will be used to give users access to data and workflow rules without restriction.
1. Click on the task called “Assign Security Groups to Roles.”
2. Select a role.
3. Press the “Add New” button in the Security Group panel.
4. Enter a Group Name, e.g. “%.”
5. Press the “Save” button.
Once a role is created, the ARCHIBUS Administrator assigns appropriate application-specific Navigator, Home Page or Dashboard “processes” or menus to the user.
To leverage standard menus for a new user and role, follow these steps:
1. Click on the task called “Assign Processes to Roles.”
2. Select a role for assigning processes from the Roles panel.
3. From the “Available Applications and their Processes” panel, click on the check boxes for each process that you would like to add and select assign.
4. Press the “Yes” button in the Confirm dialog box.
5. To make adjustments to the menu, use the “Unassign” or “Unassign All” buttons.
Defining roles and their processes will take the most time to implement due to the business process mapping that occurs at the beginning of an implementation, but it is a one-time step. Once roles are created, administrators simply assign users to the roles and keep them up-to-date as users change roles. If individual users in a role require more system access than other users in the same role, they may need to be assigned processes directly. This can be done after the users are in the system and assigned to a role.
1. In the Web Central application, navigate to the System Administration > ARCHIBUS System Administration > ARCHIBUS Administrator-Users and Security process.
2. Click on the “Add or Edit Users” task.
3. Press the “Add New User” button.
4. Enter the following details:
- User Name – The name the user will use to log in (or be logged in) to Web Central.
- Role Name – The role the user will be assigned.
- Email Address – The email address used to identify the individual. The email is extremely important as the system uses the email to recognize an individual as the same person in the event that they are represented in multiple tables in ARCHIBUS: user, employee, craftsperson, vendor, visitor, or project contact.
- Navigation – The user’s default navigation method. The navigation should match the process type of the processes assigned to the user’s role, otherwise the user will not have access to any menus when they try to log in.
- Color Scheme – 1 of 4 default color schemes that can be customized by administrators.
- Locale – The locale of the user’s home location. The locale automatically sets the country and currency displayed for the user upon logging in.
- User-Display Units-of-Measure – The user’s desired display for area fields. Users in the U.S. and U.K. will generally use “Imperial” while others will use “Metric.”
- Use CAD/BIM License – The right to access ARCHIBUS from AutoCAD or Revit.
5. Press the “Save” button. Once the user has been saved, the ‘Change Password’ button appears.
6. Press the “Change Password” button.
7. Enter a password (if appropriate for your organization’s authentication method).
8. Press the “Change” button.
9. Press the “Save” button again.
10. Press the “Sign Out” button to sign out of Web Central.
11. Sign In to Web Central as the new user with the new role.
12. Verify the new user has been created correctly and been given the appropriate permissions.
13. Log out of Web Central and log back in as an administrator.
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|Color||dark red to red-black|
|Crystal habit||Include prismatic crystals with rhombohedral and scalenohedral faces forming terminations. There is no perpendicular mirror plane and therefore a hemimorphic crystal can be seen, in some rare examples, with differing terminations at the top and bottom of the crystal. Typical crystals are poorly formed and modified heavily by secondary faces. Also found massive.|
|Crystal system||trigonal; 3m|
|Cleavage||Sometimes distinct in three directions forming rhombohedrons|
|Mohs scale hardness||2.5|
|Streak||dark cherry red|
|Specific gravity||approximately 5.8|
|Refractive index||translucent to nearly opaque|
|Other characteristics||darkens upon exposure to light; crystals are frequently striated|
It is closely allied to, and isomorphous with, the corresponding sulfarsenide known as proustite or light red silver ore. Ruby silver or red silver ore (German Rotgiiltigerz) was mentioned by Georg Agricola in 1546, but the two species so closely resemble one another that they were not completely distinguished until chemical analyses of both were made.
Both crystallize in the ditrigonal pyramidal (hemimorphic-hemihedral) class of the rhombohedral system, possessing the same degree of symmetry as tourmaline. Crystals are perfectly developed and are usually prismatic in habit; they are frequently attached at one end, the hemimorphic character being then evident by the fact that the oblique striations on the prism faces are directed towards one end only of the crystal. Twinning according to several laws is not uncommon. The hexagonal prisms of pyrargyrite are usually terminated by a low hexagonal pyramid or by a drusy basal plane.
The color of pyrargyrite is usually greyish-black and the lustre metallic-adamantine; large crystals are opaque, but small ones and thin splinters are deep ruby-red by transmitted light, hence the name, from the Greek pyr and argyros, "fire-silver" in allusion to color and silver content, given by E. F. Glocker in 1831. The streak is purplish-red, thus differing markedly from the scarlet streak of proustite and affording a ready means of distinguishing the two minerals. The Mohs hardness is 2.75, and the specific gravity 5.85. The refractive indices (nω=3.084 nε=2.881) and birefringence (δ=0.203) are very high. There is no very distinct cleavage and the fracture is conchoidal. The mineral occurs in metalliferous veins with calcite, argentiferous galena, native silver, native arsenic, &c. The best crystallized specimens are from Sankt Andreasberg in the Harz, Freiberg in Saxony, and Guanajuato in Mexico. It is not uncommon in many silver mines in the United States, but rarely as distinct crystals; and it has been found in some Cornish mines.
Although the red silver ores afford a good example of isomorphism, they rarely form mixtures; pyrargyrite rarely contains as much as 3% of arsenic replacing antimony, and the same is true of antimony in proustite. Dimorphous with pyrargyrite and proustite respectively are the rare monoclinic species pyrostilpnite or fireblende (Ag3SbS3) and xanthoconite (Ag3AsS3): these four minerals thus form an isodimorphous group.
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Basically, Joanell opened up a can of sensory detail and started writing.
NOT REALLY but it sure seems that way reading her book.
I’d like everyone to stand up and give Joanell Serra a big round of applause for taking part in our exciting adventure.
Joanell Serra’s Bio
Joanell is an MFT (she explains in the interview) whose stories have been published in literary and online journals such as Manifestation, Eclectica, Blue Lake Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine and Poydras Review. She was short listed for Storysouth Million Writers Award, won the grand prize at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and won the 6th Street short play festival.
Joanell and I talked about the Sonoma Valley, the mysticism of horses, being an MFT, researching by sitting down and listening to others, bringing in the psychological aspect of people, writing primers on dealing with depression without meaning to, public readings, the joy of wine, dogs as mascots and first listeners (they can’t read), being influenced by Louise Erdrich, her next book, creating authentic characters, writing groups and authors supporting authors.
You can find links to Joanell’s books on the right or at the bottom of this post (depending on your device). You’ll also find links to Joanell’s social presences underneath the video.
An excerpt from Joanell’s Your Steps Alone
In the airport, waiting for another delayed flight, and Jerry Garcia is singing in my earbuds. When you’re waiting for a miracle. I find myself reflecting on the things we wait for, and the roads we take.
About thirty years ago I took my college degree, two suitcases and a back pack full of journals and got on a plane from Newark to San Francisco. My best friends took me to the airport and waved goodbye at the curb, after sharing the end of a joint for courage. I curled up in a window seat, crying for approximately five of the six hours, in sheer panic. I had turned down my law school acceptances at the last minute. I had no job or clear path and no discernible reason to leave on that day, August 8, 1986. Just an internal diving rod that seemed to point as far West as the country would allow. I had visited San Francisco once. I’d read Kerouac’s On the Road, tasted Napa Cabernets and hugged a real Redwood tree not far from where the Grateful dead lived. (!!)
Neither New Jersey’s pastoral green fieldsnor their gritty cities could satisfy me any longer. My sister waited for me on the other side of the country in a spiffy new red VW cabriole. She was prepared to share her apartment, friends and adventurous spirit.
“It’s just for a year,” I told my parents and friends. Just a year, I told myself on the plane. You’ll go home again.
I didn’t know I’d meet my husband the night I arrived in San Francisco, my face still tear soaked. That the fog rolling in and out across the water would become the blanket of my days; that I’d raise small fine humans who grew up to the rhythm of the Bay; that my parents would follow me and finish their lives watching the sunset over this golden city; that my childhood friend would join me for a weekend and never leave. That I would become a true Californian, slowly shedding ski jackets for flip-flops.
Had I known what I was embarking on – a whole life – would it have been easier or harder to get on that flight?
Now my oldest son prepares to take the reverse geographical leap, heading off to explore life in Manhattan. He might be back in six months, clear that it’s not for him. It’s New York – loud, expensive, intense and winter is. .. well, winter. Or he might dig into New York the way I did with San Francisco. He’ll eat the cannolis of my childhood, build campfires in the Catskills, fight for a spot on a sweltering NJ beach day and run downtown for half-price tickets to the theater. With any luck, he’ll jump on one of those stages himself. I’ll enjoy the ride as his observer for as long as he chooses to stay, visiting as much as possible.
When I arrive back East, the same friends that took me to the airport years ago will be waiting, ready to share a glass of wine and continue our endless conversation. They always are. Three thousand miles and thirty years hasn’t made a dent in our closeness. They will be my son’s New York family.
I went with these friends to see Jerry Garcia perform a few days before I left New Jersey. We sat on the grass on a balmy August evening, singing along, feeling the bittersweet moments before parting, like sweet fruit about to spoil. Someone slipped a cassette tape into my hand for the trip across the country, a live Jerry tape. A passport of sorts.
On the plane ride, Jerry crooned and I cried as the tape played over and over. Together we travelled to my new life.
There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night.
And if you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone.
Ripple in the water
When there is no pebble tossed
Nor wind to blow.
You who choose to lead must follow
But if you fall you fall alone.
If you should stand, then who will guide you?
If I knew the way, I would take you home.
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December 25, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OTTAWA, ON – The Leader of Canada’s Conservatives and the Official Opposition, the Hon. Andrew Scheer, issued the following statement to celebrate Christmas:
“Merry Christmas everyone! Another beautiful Canadian holiday season is upon us. Like so many parents, Jill and I will treasure these precious days of rest and joy with our children, watching them enjoy every minute.
“For many Canadians, the celebration of Christ’s birth is a light in the darkness of our cold winter, a source of warmth and hope in our lives.
“We are blessed to live in Canada, a country of peace, freedom and prosperity. As we spend time with our families, let us recall these blessings in gratitude. Let us also keep in mind those for whom the holidays may be difficult in some way, those who are persecuted for their faith, and all who are less fortunate.
“As we celebrate Christmas, we also keep in our thoughts and prayers the men and women of the Canadian armed forces and first responders. Every year, they stand on guard for us, far from home and family, allowing us to continue enjoying the blessings of this country throughout the Christmas season.
“From my family to yours, I would like to offer my best wishes for a very Merry Christmas!
For more information, please contact:
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For the third time in five years, Native American legislators and supporters of improving Native education in South Dakota have proposed legislation that would allow for creation of state-funded charter schools aimed at immersing students in Lakota Indian language, culture and history.
And once again, the measure has failed in the state House of Representatives, where lawmakers on the education committee on March 2 voted 8-4 to kill Senate Bill 139, which had already been passed by the Senate.
The latest immersion school bill was one manifestation of a larger, expanding effort to improve education of Native students in South Dakota. Several nonprofit groups and coalitions are seeking change at the legislative level and developing new schools and programs at the community level to improve educational outcomes.
Opponents of the latest Lakota Immersion charter school proposal said the bill would have siphoned too much funding away from school districts where the schools would be located and was not well-written in regard to how the charter schools would be funded, governed and managed.
Native American students have traditionally underperformed in South Dakota public schools by wide margins compared with their white peers and other minority groups in the state.
Disparities in performance indicate a clear and consistent ethnic achievement gap, and the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened that gap, according to test scores and other data provided by the State Report Card issued by the Department of Education.
In the 2020-2021 school year, only 14% of Native students were considered proficient in math, compared with 49% of white students. That year, 23% of Native students were proficient in English-language arts, compared with 59% of white students; and in science, only 16% of Native students scored as proficient compared with 48% of white students.
Graduation rates, attendance rates and college/career readiness rates for Native students all lag behind those of their white peers by significant amounts. However, the most telling and worrisome statistic may be the chronic absenteeism rate, which for Native students was 51% in 2020-2021, compared with only 11% for white students. Chronic absenteeism is also tied to poverty, with 32% of economically disadvantaged students chronically absent that year. As evidence of the impacts of the pandemic, Native students saw chronic absenteeism increase to 51% in 2020-21 from 37% in 2018-19, two years before the pandemic.
The prime sponsor of SB 139, Senate Minority Leader Troy Heinert, D-Mission, provided emotional testimony in his defense of the measure and its potential outcomes for Native youth.
Heinert and others say the consistent failure of the existing public school system shows a great need for reform, and notes that significant research and examples from existing immersion schools show that Native achievement levels and graduation rates improve significantly under the cultural and language-immersion model being presented.
“I’m not saying every kid needs this, because we’ve had Native students that have gone through the public schools system and gotten along just fine, but we have many more who have struggled and not been successful,” Heinert said in an interview with News Watch. “As a former teacher, I have seen kids that had plenty of talent, plenty of ability, but the current schools didn’t make any sense to them, and unfortunately, they either dropped out or got into some trouble because we were talking to them in the wrong way.”
Finding a path to academic achievement for non-white students in the U.S. has been a challenge for generations and for members of all minority groups. Many factors, including poverty, play a role in lower success levels for minority students.
But supporters of Lakota Immersion in South Dakota say quantitative and qualitative data support the concept that students perform better and feel more comfortable in settings and with curricula that better reflect their identity, culture and history.
Native immersion schools across the U.S., such as those based on a model developed at the Native American Community Academy in New Mexico, have seen improved graduation rates and academic achievement for Native students.
In a 98-page research study by the American Indian College Fund, supported by the Kellogg Foundation in Michigan, authors found significant evidence of the efficacy of language-immersion education for Native American students.
“A people’s initiative, Native American language immersion encompasses educational practices and social development that lie outside the mainstream language teaching, education and socialization methods of American children,” the report reads. “Native language immersion schools have remarkable benefits: students show impressive educational achievement, participants demonstrate considerable language knowledge gains in relatively short periods of time, programs contribute significantly to family strength, and college students/adult learners are retained as a positive correlate with language and culture learning.”
On a most basic level, backers of immersion charter schools in South Dakota say it is time to give the concept a try, and that Senate Bill 139, not unlike Senate bills proposed in past sessions, would allow for an experiment they believe can be a game changer in regard to Native student achievement and an overall betterment of life and living standards for Native Americans in South Dakota as adults.
While other immersion schools and educational programs exist on reservations in South Dakota, they tend to be nonprofit institutions that rely on donations and grant awards that can be unsteady and susceptible to the vagaries of the larger economy or giving trends.
Supporters of the measure say adequate, consistent funding levels provided by state support are key to the success of immersion schools and their students.
Charter schools are publicly funded, tuition-free schools run independently of traditional local school districts. The schools often focus on improving achievement in underperforming student populations and may place a greater focus on specific teaching methods or subjects not offered in traditional schools.
Most still report to local school boards or other designated authorizing agent, and students typically are held to all state achievement and testing standards.
Opponents of charter schools often argue that they shift per-student funding away from existing public schools and can allow for unorthodox or untested teaching methodologies and curricula.
Charter schools are considered by supporters to be effective because they allow for innovation in teaching methods and also greater flexibility in curriculum development, staffing, scheduling and teaching styles. South Dakota is one of only five states in the nation that do not allow for charter schools; four of those states are in the Great Plains, including South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota and Montana (Vermont is the fifth.)
Achievement gap is wide in SD between white and Native American students
The South Dakota public K-12 school system has about 136,000 students in 688 schools. White students are by far the majority population, making up about 72% of the overall student count, with Native Americans the largest minority with about 11% of the overall student count. This chart shows data from the State Report Card 2020-2021 published by the South Dakota Department of Education and is broken down by all students, white students and Native American students.
STUDENT PROFICIENCY BY SUBJECT
English Language Arts proficiency
All — 53%
White — 59%
Native — 23%
All — 43%
White — 49%
Native — 14%
All — 42%
White — 48%
Native — 16%
Overall attendance rate
All — 88%
White — 94%
Native — 59%
High school completion
All — 90%
White — 94%
Native — 63%
Chronic absenteeism rate
All — 18%
White — 11%
Native — 51%
All — 57%
White — 65%
Native — 21%
Proposed schools based on language, culture
Backers of Lakota-language and cultural immersion schools have proposed similar legislation in three of the past five years, including Senate Bill 139, the bill now under consideration by the Legislature.
The 16-page bill lays out a framework for public school districts to sponsor creation of Lakota Immersion schools in reservation areas. Initially, the bill called for formation of four schools in a five-year test period, but has been amended this session to allow only two schools. In its introduction, the bill sets forth its intent to improve education for Native students in South Dakota.
“The school unites the most important influences in a student’s life, including educational experiences, families, and communities, to create a support network that nurtures the student’s development toward productive adulthood,” the bill reads. The immersion schools would “include a strong core instructional program designed to help each student meet high academic standards; enrichment activities designed to expand each student’s learning opportunities and support cognitive, social, emotional, moral, and physical development; a full range of health and mental health services designed to safeguard each student’s well-being and remove barriers to learning.”
Native American students are the largest minority group in the state public school system. South Dakota has 688 public schools with about 136,000 students, roughly 11% of which are Native and 72% of which are white. The state spends about $1.65 billion a year to fund public schools.
The Senate bill bases its proposed curriculum largely on the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards, a set of state-approved concepts that provides a framework for teaching Native history and culture. The 35-page set of lesson plans and instructional guidelines includes teaching aids in history, culture, language, treaties, identity and way of life of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Sioux Indians.
However, bills to make teaching of the Oceti standards mandatory in South Dakota public schools failed this session, and use of the standards remains mixed at best in South Dakota schools. A 2021 state survey of more than 700 educators in 125 school districts found that only 45% of educators reported using the Oceti understandings in their schools, and that 9% of educators said their schools did not celebrate Native history or culture in any way.
South Dakotans in general are largely supportive of including Native teachings in public schools. A News Watch poll of 500 registered state voters in October 2021 showed that 88% of respondents were very or somewhat supportive of teaching Native history and culture in South Dakota schools.
Questions of funding and governance
Opponents of the current Senate bill uniformly stress their support for improving educational achievement for Native students in South Dakota. This year, opponents of SB 139 are making essentially the same arguments as in past years when the immersion charter school concept was proposed.
Opponents this year include the Associated School Boards of South Dakota, the School Administrators of South Dakota, the South Dakota Education Association and a lobbying arm of the largest school districts in the state, including Sioux Falls.
Rob Munson, executive director of the School Administrators of South Dakota, told News Watch that a new law allowing Lakota Immersion schools is not needed because school districts across the state can already open and manage language-immersion schools. As examples, Munson pointed to Sonia Sotomayor Elementary in Sioux Falls, a publicly run and funded K-5 Spanish-language immersion school; and to a Lakota-language immersion class at Canyon Lake Elementary School within the Rapid City Area Schools system.
Munson and other opponents say they support greater attempts to use language immersion as a way to improve education for Native Americans, but are not confident in the funding and governance mechanisms within the proposed legislation.
“We support it [immersion education], but it can be done today, you just need to work within the parameters of your local school board like they’re doing in Sioux Falls and Rapid City,” he said.
Munson also said the bill as written could allow a single school to consume a disproportionate amount of an overall school district’s budget, including state and federal money and any other revenues, such as from fundraising efforts, concession sales at sporting events or grants given to school districts for other specific purposes.
The final section of the bill would require school districts to fund the Lakota Immersion school based on a percentage of how many students are in the school compared with the entire district. Once that ratio is determined, the bill would require the new school to receive “that portion of the total funding received by the district,” which could include monies used for the overhead to run the entire district, not just one school.
“That isn’t a good way to fund a school,” said Wade Pogany, director of the state school boards association. “It doesn’t take into account need, it doesn’t take into account special circumstances of the school, it doesn’t take into account staffing.”
Munson said there are also questions about whether the charter school could legally accept federal funding sent to the sponsoring school district.
“At the end of the day, this is going to be a private school being set up that will take public money to fund it without government oversight,” Munson said. “And yet, the school district that sponsors it is still responsible.”
Opponents also noted that the third version of the bill is very much like the other versions and does not appear to address concerns raised during prior hearings that could have made the legislation stronger and more acceptable to school districts and lawmakers.
“We’re not opposed to Native kids and we’re not opposed to what this bill is doing in many cases,” Pogany said in his Senate testimony. “We’re objecting to the same things we objected to last year … the governance and funding.”
The state education department has not taken a position on SB 139 this session. In response to questions from News Watch on the measure and the achievement gap, Education Secretary Tiffany Sanderson said in an email statement that the state is working with education partners across the state to explore ways to improve Native education:
“The Department of Education is committed to growing achievement for all of our students in South Dakota. In addition to the support we provide schools to strengthen student learning, we collaborate with the Department of Tribal Relations on resources and outreach,” Sanderson wrote. “Through these collaborations, we have elevated the conversations about and support for Native American education. Tribal Relations staff understand Native American culture and government and have direct ties to key tribal decision-makers.”
The DOE is working with school districts to encourage and enhance teaching of the Oceti standards, and has a pilot program called the Wookiye Project in which teachers at five schools will receive training in the use of the Oceti standards.
The office of Gov. Kristi Noem did not return emails seeking comment from News Watch on SB 139 or the Native American achievement gap.
When it comes to the specific criticism of SB 139, Heinert argues that nothing will change, and nothing will improve for Native students, without a new approach, and that to some extent, it is important to open the immersion schools even if all the details aren’t nailed down precisely at the start. Solving any problems that arise, or addressing issues as they reveal themselves, would be a natural part of the development of the schools, he said.
“Nobody is coming forward with any other answers, so at some point we have to try something else,” Heinert said.
Parents see value in language immersion
Sarah White, a former public school administrator in Rapid City who now serves as director of the South Dakota Educational Equity Coalition, said the state public education system has not accepted adequate responsibility for the long-range lack of success of Native American students. Testing data showing Native students consistently and historically underperform compared with their white peers is clear evidence of systematic failure of the current public school model in South Dakota, she said.
“The output of what the system is imposing yields an undeniable truth that the system was not meant for our students and is not designed for our students’ success,” she said. “We also see a clear and consistent evasion of responsibility for indigenous education in our state.”
As a child, White attended reservation schools where she said her Native identity and culture were omnipresent in classes, on campus and in the community. When she went to college, she found that Native Americans were largely absent from the student population, in adornments on campus and the educational experiences in the classroom. White said she found it much harder to feel welcome and to excel in that academic setting.
White said the eldest of her four children attended traditional public schools in Nebraska and in Rapid City before transferring to a high school run by the Oglala Lakota School District in Pine Ridge.
Her son “fell through the cracks” and did not do well as a minority in majority-white schools, which also tended to have large classes, White said.
Upon admission to the school in Pine Ridge, her son began to flourish, she said.
“For the first time, he said he felt like he could actually be himself in an academic setting, and hearing that broke my heart,” she said. “There’s a combination of factors that contribute to his success, but I believe the biggest metric for achievement was that when he admitted he can finally be himself in that space.”
Several studies have borne out the fact that cultural and language-immersion schools provide more stability and academic success for minority students, including Native Americans.
Many of the positive outcomes are not revealed by standardized test scores, White said.
“The increase in self-esteem, self-confidence, self-efficacy, those are all key points any teacher in those systems would point out,” she said. “If you compared student success data from when the students were in public schools versus results from these institutions that see them and value them and represent them, it is significant.”
Matthew Kull, a non-Native resident of the Belle Fourche area in western South Dakota, testified at the Senate committee hearing that he and his non-Native wife saw great benefits in placing their non-Native son in Lakota Immersion preschool when they lived in Pine Ridge.
Kull said that even though his son was very young — he will turn five this summer — he had picked up strong influences of Native culture during his time at a Native-run daycare on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
“At an early age, my son was blessed to be in a setting where he was able to learn another language while also learning about another culture,” said Kull, who works as an educational consultant. “It’s reflected in his speech patterns, and how he sees the world around him, especially among his ‘animal and plant relatives,’ as he calls them.”
Kull said his son felt a sense of community in his Lakota Immersion school that will be nearly impossible to duplicate when he enters the traditional public school system this year.
“His school was everything a parent could ask for; his teachers were not just teachers, they were his aunties and grandmas, and he refers to them as such. His peers were not just his classmates, they were his brothers and sisters, and he tells me no less than once a seek how much he misses them. He understood Lakota kinship because of his time at that school and he thrived in that space, and as a parent, having left that behind breaks my heart.”
Kull said he ran a workforce-development program while living in Pine Ridge and saw much higher success among Natives who had attended schools with strong Native cultural, language and history teachings compared with those who attended majority white schools.
“Young people who came to our program grounded in their language and culture were too often the minority, but by and large, those were the young people who were secure in their identity and thrived,” he said.
In concluding his Senate committee testimony, Heinert urged lawmakers to be part of a potential solution rather than part of an ongoing problem that is hampering the chances of Native children and adults to be successful.
“We’re kind of hung up on the funding issue, and maybe it is all about the money, though it’s not to us,” he said. “You know where my heart lies, and it’s not going to go away … let’s stop being part of the problem and give these kids and these families a chance. That’s all I’m asking.”
Private immersion school on Rosebud raises hopes for future
One of the state’s privately funded Lakota Immersion programs is located at the Wakanyeja Tokeyahci Elementary School on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. The new school uses facilities at the Boys and Girls Club in Mission to provide “a full understanding of Lakota values and virtues.”
The school opened in fall 2020 under the direction of the Sicangu Education Initiative, with founder Sage Fast Dog stressing the need to teach Lakota language and culture in a way that inspires and challenges indigenous youth.
Sage Fast Dog
“It’s about being relevant and giving kids an opportunity to make a connection to the content,” said Fast Dog, who grew up on the Rosebud reservation and who also serves on the Todd County School Board. “If you’re serving Lakota children, then your content should reach their background knowledge and recognize who they are.”
There are now 20 students in the Rosebud program, from various reaches of the reservation in south-central South Dakota. The inability to provide transportation for them to reach school each day highlights the primary challenge these educational programs face — sustainability. The Wakanyeja Ki Tokeyahci school is funded by state grants and private donations, making long-term viability a nagging question with limited solutions.
One major goal of SB 139 is to provide a consistent stream of public funding for Oceti Sakowin community-based schools. Fast Dog supports the bill and sees it as a ray of hope for an educational model that stresses family involvement as a means of keeping indigenous students engaged. Parents are asked to reinforce Lakota-language learning at home, and students undergo progress reports every two months and help set their own academic goals.
Family members or elders are also encouraged to participate in class and share stories of Lakota heritage and culture with faculty and students. Student progress is judged by academic preparedness, holistic wellness and leadership, and supporting Lakota-language and culture and indigenous identity.
“Historically, family involvement is transactional,” said Fast Dog. “A parent might sign in that they went to a meeting, but there’s no followup or strategic planning to get insight on how they could get integrated into curriculum to improve academic output. We want to transform the experience so that school culture and classroom culture reflect the students we serve.”
Parents are encouraged to participate in class and share stories of Lakota heritage and culture with faculty and students. Several of the families involved with the Rosebud elementary school had older children who went through the public system are now trying a different approach with cultural concerns in mind. A recent survey found that there were only about 500 fluent Lakota-language speakers living on the Rosebud Reservation, most of whom were over age 65.
‘They really like that there’s a place where the language is taught, but at the same time the kids are learning math and how to read and write,” said Fast Dog.
— Text by South Dakota News Watch reporter Stu Whitney.
Native education panel discussion set for Thursday, March 3, 2022
In the latest segment of its ongoing “South Dakota Matters” series of polls and panel discussions, South Dakota News Watch will host a one-hour online discussion with education experts at 7:30 p.m. Central on Thursday, March 3, 3022.
Click this link to register to watch the panel discussion live, or visit the News Watch Facebook page starting Friday, March 4 to watch a taped version of the event.
About Bart Pfankuch
Bart Pfankuch, Rapid City, S.D., is the content director for South Dakota News Watch. A Wisconsin native, he is a former editor of the Rapid City Journal and also worked at newspapers in Florida. Bart has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, editor and writing coach.
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MEMC Receives Supplier Excellence Award from TSMC
ST. PETERS, Mo., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. (NYSE: WFR), a leading provider of silicon wafers and North America’s largest solar energy services provider, has received the Supplier of Excellence award from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). The award was presented on December 4 during TSMC’s annual supply chain management forum in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
In a press release announcing the award, TSMC CEO Dr. Morris Chang cited technology leadership and manufacturing excellence as strengths of the company and attributed strong supplier partnerships as a key to its success.
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“This award also demonstrates our renewed commitment to excellence in customer service. As a local supplier in Taiwan, as well as other key manufacturing centers worldwide, we are able to serve TSMC with on-time delivery of high-quality products and world-class service.”
MEMC is a global leader in the manufacture and sale of wafers and related intermediate products to the semiconductor and solar industries. With the recent acquisition of SunEdison, MEMC is also a developer of solar power projects and North America’s largest solar energy services provider.
MEMC has been a pioneer in the design and development of silicon wafer technologies for 50 years. With R&D and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia, MEMC enables the next generation of high performance semiconductor devices and solar cells.
MEMC’s common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WFR” and is included in the S&P 500 Index. For more information about MEMC, please visit www.memc.com.
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The HRC Foundation encourages LGBT Americans to live openly and seeks to change the hearts and minds of Americans to the side of equality.
The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. HRC seeks to improve the lives of LGBT Americans by advocating for equal rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under the law and increasing public support among all Americans through innovative advocacy, education and outreach programs. HRC works to secure equal rights for LGBT individuals and families at the federal and state levels by lobbying elected officials, mobilizing grassroots supporters, educating Americans, investing strategically to elect fair-minded officials and partnering with other LGBT organizations. The Human Rights Campaign represents a grassroots force of over 750,000 members and supporters nationwide — all committed to making HRC’s vision a reality. Founded in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign advocates on behalf of LGBT Americans, mobilizes grassroots actions in diverse communities, invests strategically to elect fair-minded individuals to office and educates the public about LGBT issues. Source: www.hrc.org
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Big news in the Swash Solomon household ... Pickle number four is on the way!
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Singer, presenter and mum-of-three Stacey Solomon announced some very exciting news yesterday – she's pregnant with her fourth baby!
Stacey revealed the news on her Instagram stories, where she often shares moments from her daily life.
She first posted a snapshot of the sky, captioning it: 'Sorry I've been so quiet.. But we have something we are excited to share with you... I feel so nervous for so many reasons.'
The former X Factor star then shared a video of her pregnancy test, writing: 'For a really long time we've been trying for another pickle...
'It didn't work out and this was our news quite a few times....,' she continued, referencing a letter that revealed she had heartbreakingly suffered a miscarriage.
'We decided we were so lucky already to have our boys. It is our biggest privilege in life and we are so grateful to be parents so we stopped trying and counted ourselves so so so blessed already...'
She went on: 'For a while now I've felt so yuck and even though I thought about what it felt like I didn't even want to go and check at first because well, just because, you know (I don't even want to write it).
'But yesterday we went to check what was going on...And we were so grateful to hear an extra heartbeat in my tummy...'
Stacey then posted a video of the baby's ultrasound, which faded into her sons painting the Wendy house in their garden.
She captioned the clip: 'We honestly couldn't believe it. So we told the boys and we've spent yesterday and today finishing the Wendy house ready to welcome a new pickle into our lives...'
An adorable video followed of Harry, Zachary, Leighton and Rex printing purple handprints onto a bench, with the ultrasound picture of 'Pickle' sweetly placed at the bottom.
Stacey and her partner Joe Swash have been engaged since Christmas Eve 2020. The family moved into their 'forever home' earlier this year, where the couple hope to get married.
Earlier this month we reported that she was debating whether to postpone her wedding ... after she told Closer magazine: ‘At the moment, my wedding planning has not gone any further from last year. We didn’t foresee moving house.’
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Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of media company S4 Capital, believes that the war in Ukraine could benefit three of the largest US technology companies.
“I’m very optimistic about the tech giants…because the war will have an impact on them,” Sorrell told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Monday.
Explaining his reasons, Sorrell said, “Defense means cyber defense and cyber crime, so technology and technology companies become really important.”
Sorrell didn’t say exactly how Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon could benefit from this, but the three companies boast that their cybersecurity systems are world-leading.
Google and Amazon also provide cloud computing infrastructure that governments and cyber companies can harness in cyber warfare.
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, S4 Capital.
Owen Noonan | Math file | Getty Images
Google, Amazon and Meta did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The war is taking place in Ukraine both online and off, with hackers on every side targeting the enemy’s national infrastructure, businesses, governments and citizens.
Over the past few weeks, major technology stocks have fallen on fears of persistently high inflation, higher interest rates, and the risk of a global recession. The Nasdaq The stock market fell 3.8% last week, falling for the seventh consecutive week. It’s the tech-heavy index’s longest losing streak in 21 years.
Asked if the world is facing a second dot-com bubble, Sorrell said there was already a “massive correction,” adding that some people think there could be an additional 5-10% correction.
“Beer aficionado. Gamer. Alcohol fanatic. Evil food trailblazer. Avid bacon maven.”
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Hanna Rosin: As the boys of Slate pointed out, this episode was about metamorphoses, which in many cases took the form of playing out some fantasy. Hannah’s attempt fails, of course, as she puts on a goth/hooker outfit for Adam but then gets a call from her gynecologist before they get to act anything out. But mostly I want to talk about Marnie’s up on the High Line.
I don’t quite know what to make of Booth Jonathan’s come-on: “I want you to know, the first time I fuck you, I might scare you a little, because I’m a man, and I know how to do things.” Marnie was touched by it, obviously, but it was so much like something one of the macho morons that Jorma Taccone (the actor who plays Booth) and Andy Samberg play in their comedy group Lonely Island that I had a hard time taking it seriously. Booth is a character straight out of “Jizz in my Pants” or “I Just Had Sex.”
Also, as we digested last week with Katie Roiphe’s piece on working women’s fantasies and Fifty Shades of Grey, women’s fantasies are not meant to be taken this literally. I remember a scene in Tootsie when Dustin Hoffman (as a woman) learns from Jessica Lange that she wants a man to come on to her in that aggro, “I’m a man” sort of way. Having learned her secret he then tries it out, and she slaps him.
What do you all make of it? Are they belittling uptight Marnie here?
L.V. Anderson: I thought Booth’s (can I call him Booth?) attempts at seduction would be weak in real life but were strong in the context of the show. Look at the other men we have to compare to him: sad-sack Charlie, callous Adam, and now pothead Jeff and catty Elijah. By comparison, Booth is positively suave.
Meghan O’Rourke: Overall, one of the most fascinating things to me about the response to this show is how much time is dedicated to trying to suss out whether a certain moment is “believable” or not. See the Boys of Slate this week, who don’t “buy” this come-on. To me, the very fact that we’re stuck talking about whether we “buy” a line like Jorma Taccone’s (“I might scare you a little”) speaks to how unrepresented contemporary female sexual experience is. After all, if some people are turned on by having sex as stuffed animals, how hard is it to believe that a type-A character like Marnie would be turned on by a bossy dude—even if half of his bossiness is thin posturing?
Which is to say: It seems to me, from talking to women, that all this stuff happens, all the time, in all sorts of variations, and some women take it “seriously” and are seduced by it, and some aren’t. And it all depends on pheromones and the specific power dynamic and erotic charge and all that. Love and sex make no sense! Also, we have to remember that this is just the first three episodes, and so each scene here is being held up as “representative,” because the show is still so new.
Anderson: As that scene and others showed, this was the episode I thought Allison Williams’ acting chops proved really not up to the task of playing Marnie. She can do annoyed and bitchy just fine, and we’ve seen that (and almost only that) in the first and second episode. But between the crying scene (when Hannah tells her she has HPV) and the masturbation scene, Williams in this episode was in over her head. I have never seen such bad fake crying in my life, and the bathroom masturbation is the least realistic scene in this show so far. Could I imagine Marnie going home and masturbating later that night? Sure. Can I imagine her SO INFLAMED with lust that she had to alleviate her sexual urges as soon as possible? Not for a second. What did you guys make of that scene?
O’Rourke: I agree about Alison Williams’ acting chops. She’s the weakest link—but it’s maybe a hard character. Again, I find it fascinating that we are talking so much about what these characters wouldn’t do. It seems to me that there is a TREMENDOUS desire on the part of men and women alike to decide that it is “unrealistic” for real girls to behave this way. (It’s OK for a character like Samantha, but that’s because she’s a kind of caricature.) I totally buy that Marnie would masturbate in the bathroom (I have heard these kind of stories), but I’m also really interested in our moving the critical conversation away from what we “buy” or “don’t buy,” because to me this language is an expression of just how powerfully internalized our ideas about how women should behave are. We’re really uncomfortable with just observing these behaviors that don’t aren’t commonly represented—we rush to judge them.
June Thomas: I tend to think there isn’t a wrong way to get off when you’re on your own.
Anderson: I take your point about the rush to judge women’s behavior, Meghan, but the reason the scene in the bathroom bothered me is that it smacked a lot to me of a male fantasy of female sexuality. I don’t mean to dismiss anyone who has had a similar experience—as June says, there isn’t a wrong way to get off when you’re on your own. But whether because of an intentional choice on Dunham’s part or because of Williams’ acting range, that scene read as really porny to me. It seemed that Marnie was putting on a performance as though for an audience: note the gasping and groaning and the open-mouthed sexy-face. Was this meant to be an indication that Marnie is so used to performing the role of the hot girl that she never stops, even when she’s alone?
Dana Stevens: Not to get too personal, but do any of you know any woman, however hot and bothered by the manly charms of Jorma Taccone, who would masturbate standing up in an art-gallery bathroom while wearing pantyhose?
Rosin: Can we talk about the scene with Hannah and her gay ex-boyfriend? I thought that was line by line one of the funniest scenes I have ever seen. I’ve been repeating that very last line—“It was nice to see you. Your dad is gay”—all week.
O’Rourke: I love that scene. To me, one of the strongest things about the show is its offbeat, neurotic humor, embodied in Dunham’s characterization of Hannah here (and her great physical humor—eye-rolling, looking faint). In this scene, she really does render as a kind a female Woody Allen—with her own contemporary quirks. I think that this quality in the show is still finding its footing, and I hope that as the show gets some of its set-up out of the way, that voice—quixotic, selfish, sad, poignant—will get larger and larger.
Stevens: After watching the Elijah/Hannah bar scene three or four times straight through, there are still a few spots where I laugh every time: the sendoff Hanna mentions, and Dunham’s impeccable comic timing as she slips from tearful sentimentality (“What I’m having right now is an inappropriate physical reaction to my total joy for you and your self-discovery”) to wounded spite (“that fruity little voice of yours … that’s a new thing”).
Thomas: My strongest response to the scene with Elijah was that Hannah’s taste in men is improving. Adam is selfish and thoughtless and is taking unacceptable liberties with her body, but the sex seems great. OK, it’s only great for him (and maybe for the viewer—I find it shockingly hot), but he’s modeling a really useful behavior if only Hannah could stop regurgitating self-help/romantic fantasies of the kinds of conversations you’re supposed to have when you’re having sex and just focus on having sex. Knowing what you want in bed and doing what you need to do to get off is a really useful thing to learn. Adam takes that selfishness way too far, but Hannah could learn from him.
Elijah, on the other hand, is a bullshit artist who quotes Maya Angelou and talks about his authentic self. He shifts from telling Hannah how great she looks to saying she looks like a dyke in a matter of minutes. I hate him more than I hate Adam.
Rosin: But why is Lena Dunham subjecting the character to so much humiliation? She hasn’t gotten enough from Adam, and her gynecologist? Now she has to travel back in time to seek out some more? It’s obviously integral to her humor but still curious. Woody Allen’s narcissism took a slightly different form. He never took the extra step of making himself so undesirable, even when he obviously was. But Hannah takes the punches again and again in that scene (“There’s a handsomeness to you,” “If you keep dressing like that” people will think you’re a dyke, etc.).
O’Rourke: Hanna, I think that’s an important point. It connects back to the fact that we never see her really enjoying the sex, either (even if the viewer finds it hot, June!). Unlike SATC, no one here seems to be really getting off on the sex. As Lena Dunham told Salon, “I realized we don’t have enough orgasms in our show. We’ll have to work on the second season.”
Anderson: Dunham’s continual abuse of the characters she plays is fascinating, but I think it will get boring if it never stops. But I think the trials Hannah is subjected to make her small triumphs that much more meaningful—and it seems to me that in every episode she’s had at least one small triumph. In this one, I think it was when Adam blithely mansplains to her how easy it is to lose four pounds and asks her if she’s tried to lose weight a lot. “No, I have not tried a lot to lose weight,” she replies. “Because I decided I was going to have some other concerns in my life.” Hannah has a self-confidence that I think and hope will continue to peek out despite her rough circumstances.
Stevens: OK, here’s where I’m going to make my case for the Hannah/Adam sex being at least somewhat hot for both partners.
Look at the little hop in Hannah’s step when Adam summons her upstairs, with the warning he might not let her leave for three days, after she shows up on his doorstep in that goth-witch getup. Or her barely concealed laughter—laughter not of mockery but of genuine amusement—as he launches into that “11-year-old-junkie-with-a-lunchbox” roleplay fantasy in the opening sex scene. Hannah hasn’t fully cracked the code of Adam yet—and he’s obviously even farther from cracking hers—but she’s fascinated by his untrammeled relationship to his own desire, and they do share a genuine, if uneasy, connection.
Rosin: Well the amazing thing about the Adam/Hannah sex scenes—and this is again another form of extreme humiliation—is that Lena Dunham strives to make Hannah come off worse than him in those scenes. She is the one who doesn’t know what she wants, who pretends she “almost came,” who won’t shut up during sex. If there’s any hotness, it’s all coming from him, and she’s getting in the way of it.
Thomas: Absolutely. Adam’s the only one getting what he wants—though even he complains of it taking 25 years to get his nut off when he sleeps with her. I don’t quite buy—forgive me, Meghan—Charlie’s enjoyment. Dunham seems to be setting up a world where excessive analysis of things—in the bedroom that means too much talking during sex—is negatively correlated with enjoyment of them, and Charlie is a talker.
O’Rourke: Dana, I think that you’re right that there are clues that she is enjoying the sex, that it’s not merely exploitative. But the show is maybe a bit confused here in its dramatization of the very real complexity of their sexual bond: I just wish we saw that kick and hop a little more in the actual sex scenes. (Apparently Apatow did too: he told Dunham not to look like she was being murdered as they filmed it.) As for Adam, I also loved his curt announcement “I’m busy” while BICYCLE KICKING in bed! His character is wonderfully developed by Adam Driver.
One thing I like about this show is that it lets us see two sides to all of the characters. But the exception is Shoshanna, who just seems to provide comic relief. (Often excellent comic relief.) Is her character a liability or an asset? Won’t she have to deepen her role in some way for this show to continue to grow?
Anderson: I appear to be the only person in Slate’s New York office who finds Shoshanna both realistic and sympathetic. Obviously, she provides quite a bit of comic relief. But that moment on the couch after she revealed her “big baggage”—her virginity—and Hannah tried to comfort her, Shoshanna looked so sad, and my heart broke a little bit for her. I’ll try not to steer every single of these dialogues into a lovefest for Zosia Mamet, but I think she infuses this character with a humanity that a lesser actor wouldn’t be able to muster.
Stevens: I have a small thing to point out about Shoshanna: She’s meant to be a few years younger (21 to their 25) and a bit outside their inner circle—she’s basically part of their lives because she’s Jessa’s cousin and puts her up while she’s in town (she doesn’t get invited to Marnie’s dinner party welcoming Jessa, for example, which I’m sure she would have eagerly attended.) I find her please-love-me little-sister quality touching, and Zosia Mamet’s line readings incredibly funny.
Thomas: I love Shoshanna; she’s the Facebook chat of the group. That is, just as Episode 1 delineated the totem of chat, there’s also a totem of cool, and Shoshanna allows Hannah to not be the biggest loser in the group. Jessa’s the coolest, of course, and lives the kind of life Hannah aspires to (though I hope that at some point soon Hannah will realize that Jessa is just a mooching babysitter with a couple of different strains of HPV). Marnie is together and has a long-term boyfriend, so she makes Hannah feel a little inadequate. But Shoshanna allows Hannah to feel like an adventurous woman instead of a confused girl. Everyone needs a Shoshanna in their lives.
Rosin: Shoshanna is also fun for Lena Dunham, I think. She is the one character with which Dunham is not trying so hard to represent something or transgress in some way. She feels like Dunham’s unencumbered late night riffs while high on some stupid subject or another. What if you had some reality show where people, like, brought literal suitcases on the set and then confessed some super embarrassing baggage, like they poke holes in condoms or whatever. That is where Dunham gets to be the girl version of Taccone and Samberg, meaning she gets to be a little bit stupid.
O’Rourke: Sad to say, that riff is based on reality. I totally agree about the pleasures of Shoshanna; I just wondered where her character would possibly go. But maybe it’s OK to have a character who doesn’t have much of an arc—à la the bit players in a Will Ferrell comedy.
Anderson: I think there’s plenty of room for an arc for Shoshanna! After all, she’s desperate to lose her virginity, and I’m almost as nervous/excited about it as she is. I know I’m getting foolishly ahead of myself, but I’ve been writing some fan fiction in my head, because I’d love Shoshanna to lose her virginity to the equally-sweet Charlie.
Thomas: Do we think that Hannah identifies her baggage correctly? I think her littlest baggage is a tendency to romanticize everything. Her middle baggage is her inability to take care of herself. And her biggest baggage is what she thinks of as her littlest, her work life: She says that she’s “unfit for any and all paying jobs.” In fact, it’s just that she is living in a fantasy world, and she can’t get the jobs in that world. That doesn’t mean she couldn’t get a job job.
Last note: Are we sure that Adam’s deliberately lying about his STD test? Might it not be that, as Elijah suggests in the bar scene, he just doesn’t know thing one about human sexuality?
Rosin: I assume he is one of those charming narcissists who just invents his own truth on the fly, so at the moment he said that he believed it himself, which is a little different from lying.
June, what’s your baggage?
Thomas: My baggage is that I never want to end conversations like this!
Stevens: My baggage is that I’m enjoying this conversation so much that I don’t know when to play the quiet game!
If you’d like to read the baggage that the guys of Slate brought to this episode, pop on over to Brow Beat.
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(Dr. Norm’s is one of the companies featured in The Power of a Brand: Lessons From 20 Top Cannabis Companies, in the June issue of mg Magazine.)
Jeff and Roberta Koz founded their company on principles they learned from their parents: a caring bedside manner, a contagious sense of humor, and treatment designed with patients, not for them. Dr. Norm’s is named for their father, an honest-to-goodness old-style physician who made house calls and treated patients as though they were family. Their mother was a pharmacist who also baked wicked-good cookies. Both passed away before the company came to be, but the offspring think the parents would be proud.
The siblings, both of whom enjoyed careers as branding and marketing professionals prior to founding the company, embarked on a mission to create a brand that telegraphs a nostalgic, apothecary impression. Ultimately, they intended to establish the kind of rapport patients enjoyed with their family doctors in the 1950s and ’60s, when compassion, comfort, and trust were the norm.
The effort may have been deliberate, but nothing about the brand’s expression is contrived. That’s important, Jeff Koz said, because a brand is nothing if consumers perceive a lack of authenticity.
“We didn’t create a character named ‘Dr. Norm,’” he said. “He was our dad. That’s his med school photo on the package. The cookie recipe really is Mom’s. Our brand communicates all of that.
“Ideally, every cannabis brand should communicate to consumers what to expect when they use the products,” he continued. “And when consumers experience what the brand communicates, that’s the home run.”
Koz said he and his sister—and a brother who’s a silent partner—take a great deal of pride in the way Dr. Norm’s authenticity resonates with a broad age demographic ranging from 21 to golden-agers in their eighties. The siblings, all in their fifties “and proud of it” according to Koz, have made a priority of maintaining the small-town-doctor, family-owned-company vibe even as the company grows.
Growth may take a sudden leap, in fact, thanks to the branding the Koz family accomplished. Four companies have approached the siblings about partnerships. “The brand and products are what attracted them,” said Jeff Koz. All four suitors offered investment with one caveat, he added: “Please don’t change what you’re doing.”
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Carruades de Lafite 2010
Bordeaux Red Blends from Pauillac, Bordeaux, France
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Wine Style Guide
Red wines that are more fruit-forward and lighter in tannin and body.
Medium bodied reds that go down easy, with smooth tannins and supple fruit.
Wines where earthy and/or spicy dominate the flavors – typically medium to full body.
Full bodied wines that have concentrated fruit and are higher in alcohol and/or tannins. Some need age.
Alcohol By Volume: 13.5%
Alcohol By Volume Guide
Most wine ranges from 10-16% alcohol by volume. Some varietals tend to have higher (for example Zinfandel and Cabernet Sauvignon) or lower alcohol levels (Pinot Noir and many white varietals), but there is always some variation from producer to producer. Some wine falls outside of this range, for instance Port weighs in closer to 20%, while Muscat and Riesling are usually a bit below 10%.
Carruades de Lafite has a floral bouquet. Notes of ripe fruit, blackcurrants, cedar, and spices. A dense, rich wine with very refined, well-integrated tannins. Excellent length; overall, an elegant, balanced wine.
"This smells like a bouquet of flowers with blueberries and currants and spices. Full body, yet agile and refined. So fine and pretty. It's balanced and in harmony. Savory. A smoky, decadent and meat undertone."
"Another brilliant second wine, the 2010 Carruades de Lafite (50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 42.5% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Franc and the rest Petit Verdot) is elegant and amazing for a second wine from Lafite. "Carruades de Lafite" is now engraved in the bottle to prevent unscrupulous sommeliers and merchants from trying to pass it off as Lafite Rothschild. The wine displays much of the same lead pencil, charcoal and black currant notes of its bigger sister, although it is forward, precocious and far less structured than the grand vin. Nevertheless, this wine, which can be drunk now, will cellar beautifully for at least 20-25 more years."
The Wine Advocate
"Solid, with bright cassis, fig and blackberry fruit studded with tobacco leaf, anise and violet. The long finish has a tarry thread, but stays polished and refined overall, with a whiff of sandalwood lingering gently. Best from 2014 through 2028."
"A dense and very tannic second wine from Lafite-Rothschild. Ripe fruits from juicy Merlot balance its power and give sweetness. It's a rich, fine wine, with the tannins of the vintage never too prominent. For medium-term aging."
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Learn About Carruades de Lafite
Carruades is the second label wine produced by Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. After fermentation and maceration, the wines are tasted, selected and put together according to their different qualities. This step is very important because this is where we make the difference between the great "Lafite" and the second wine "Carruades de Lafite". The wines are drained off into oak barrels. We use 100% new barrels for the ageing of Lafite. The year after, these same barrels will be used for the Carruades.
Learn About Pauillac
The Big Three
Home to three premier cru (first growth) chateaux, Pauillac is a leader in quality Bordeaux. Chateaux Latour, Lafite Rothschild and Mouton Rothschild are situated within the Pauillac appellation. Sandwiched between St.-Estephe and St.-Julien, Pauillac wines are big - known for their combination of elegance and power.
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Learn About Bordeaux Red Blends
Bordeaux Blends The Fab Five With so much history under its belt, it's no wonder that Bordeaux has figured out the recipe to produce amazing wines. Centuries of making (and drinking) wine led to the blend that has become synonomous with Bordeaux. Winemakers in the New World replicate this formula to create successful blends in their respective regions - you may see Bordeaux blends...
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commence8 wrote:...I hope my league never turns into this...
Vetoes are for absolutely ridiculous trades and collusion. The fact that there is an argument is enough to not be a veto.
No: the fact that there is an argument is enough to show that there are differences of opinion as to when you should veto. Using your argument, as long as one person said nothing should ever be vetoed, ever, ever, then nothing should ever be vetoed because the fact that there is an argument proves that.
Since this isn't a keeper league (when did you draft anyways, OP?) I would say no to veto, even with the Holds added.
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SAP's flagship Business Suite ERP (enterprise resource planning) software is now able to run on top of the vendor's HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
The announcement, which was made Thursday, had been expected for some time. Business Suite on HANA is currently in RTC (release to customers) mode, SAP's preferred term for a beta period. General availability should come toward the middle of this year, executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka said in an interview prior to the announcement.
SAP has positioned HANA as an eventual convergence point for all its technologies, as well as a simpler yet more sophisticated alternative to existing architectures. A recent update to HANA added an application server that runs within the system, and SAP is also building out a set of PaaS (platform as a service) capabilities for the database.
But the Business Suite compatibility for HANA will give SAP an opportunity to take business away from rival database vendors, whose products SAP customers now use widely underneath the Suite.
All database platforms currently certified for the Suite will continue to be supported, however, according to SAP.
Still, it seems clear that SAP, which has resold other companies' databases for years, would rather have a larger share of the pie.
In the past, SAP's competitors "tried to portray HANA as an analytic database," Sikka said. With compatibility for transactional applications like the Business Suite, "we are disproving that in a big way," he added.
But with HANA, Business Suite customers will be able to run analytic and transactional workloads in the same platform, he added. Business Suite users will also enjoy a major gain in processing power, but it's not just speed for speed's sake, Sikka said. For example, an MRP (manufacturing resource planning) batch processing job that might take six hours today could run in seconds on HANA. "I imagine a world where [manufacturing planning] can be based on precise calculations of demand, on the fly," he said.
SAP will roll out a fixed-price Rapid Deployment Solution for Business Suite on HANA in the first quarter, which will enable customers to go live within six months.
In addition, SAP has tweaked the pricing model for Business Suite on HANA, basing the cost of HANA usage on a percentage of the customer's application maintenance fees.
However, HANA is sold as a specialized appliance on hardware from a number of vendors, so would-be Business Suite customers will also have to factor those acquisition costs into account.
SAP's announcement is "significant" for customers, said analyst Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research. "Speed is the difference between a five-day drug recall and a five-minute drug recall. Speed is the difference between a 30-day supply chain plan versus the ability to reroute two iPhones to your store in 30 seconds. The impact is huge if SAP does succeed."
While competitors like Workday have already done this for human resources software and finance, "for the entire SAP suite and given SAP's market share, this is a big deal," Wang added.
SAP has also positioned its Sybase ASE database as an option for running the Business Suite. Customers shouldn't worry about ASE's future now that HANA has gained Suite certification, Sikka said. "We have financial industry customers that run tens of thousands of ASE installations," he said. "This is an incredibly sticky product and they have long lifetimes."
Chris Kanaracus covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Chris' email address is Chris_Kanaracus@idg.com
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If you are a self taught programmer, you might have learned the basic programming skills and jumped right in. It might be Coldfusion, PHP, or ASP. Whatever your flavor, there are some basic HTML functions that we sometimes forget or didn’t even know about. When coding a form, I never considered the use of the <label> tag. Thanks to Joe Danziger, I will now.
I was reading through some post’s on Joe’s Blog this morning and came across a short post regarding the <label> tag. Have you ever wondered why you can click on the word next to a radio button in certain forms and the button will select? Well, the <label> tag controls that function. As Joe puts it:
Why should we be forced to click a tiny little circle when we should be able to click the actual text for that choice?
True. It all comes down to useability. There are a ton of tiny tips and tricks whether it be in HTML, or your programming language of choice, that make for a better experience for the user. One tip on its own might not have much of an impact, but when you apply many usability tips during the same user experience, you visitor should browse away feeling like you have your act together.
All that you need to do is to include the ID element to your radio button form code.
<input type=“radio” name=“buttonName” id=“button1” />
For the text that is associated with the button, reference the ID in your <label>.
<label for=“button1”>Whatever the choice is for Button 1</label>
Here is a radio button group so that you can see them in use.
Here is the code for the above:
<input type=”radio” name=”buttonName” id=”button1″ /><label for=”button1″>Whatever the choice is for Button 1</label>
<input type=”radio” name=”buttonName” id=”button2″ /><label for=”button2″>Whatever the choice is for Button 2</label>
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It’s Monday morning. The alarm goes off at 5:30AM. We have to get up to face our normal work week. Some of us may be dreading it. We may have a job that we hate, and we are dreading the work day. It’s difficult, no question. It’s challenging to get up, get ready, and face the world. But when we are feeling less than enthused, we can shift our thoughts and choose to command joy by bringing light into the world.
One of the greatest influences we have in our world is to radiate our own light. When we shine, we allow others around us to shine too. When we find a way to open our hearts to the light of awareness, freedom, truth, and love…we bring in the light. And through our lightness, we light those around us. We influence the world in a positive way, making things a little lighter, a little better, a little happier. It’s our joy to bring light into the world.
To find our light, we have to get in touch with our deepest, truest self. We have to let go of our egos. We have to release the need to please other people and the feeling of having to prove ourselves, and just be. Once we are in touch with our truest self, lightness happens. We start to radiate the qualities of light and love, truth and beauty. We lose our attachment to things that don’t matter. We feel harmony and balance. From here, from this place of light, we can impact others around us.
We become the light by treating the person next to us with kindness, compassion, and human dignity. We light up the world by being the best, most loving version of ourselves to our friends and family. When we let our light shine, we command joy and light in others.
We all have the power to make the world a little brighter. We can choose to shine our own light. So today, get out there and shine enormous amounts of light! Light up the world by doing what you were born to do. Find the job, the passion, the hobby that lights you up! When we are the light, we light up the world.
Tell me, in the comments below, how do you bring light to yourself, and to others?
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Anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) are designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. Currently, only the United States, the former Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China are known to have developed these weapons.
The development and design of anti-satellite weapons has followed a number of paths. The initial efforts by the USA and the USSR were using ground-launched missiles from the 1950s; many more exotic proposals came afterwards.
U.S. programs
In the late 1950s the U.S. Air Force started a series of advanced strategic missile projects under the designation Weapon System WS-199A. One of the projects studied under the 199A umbrella was Martin's Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) for the B-47 Stratojet, based on the rocket motor from the Sergeant missile. Twelve test launches were carried out between 26 May 1958 and 13 October 1959, but these were generally unsuccessful and further work as an ALBM ended. The system was then modified with the addition of an Altair upper stage to create an anti-satellite weapon with a 1100-mile (1700-km) range. Only one test flight of the anti-satellite mission was carried out, making a mock attack on the Explorer 6 at an altitude of 156 miles (251 km). To record its flight path, the Bold Orion transmitted telemetry to the ground, ejected flares to aid visual tracking, and was continuously tracked by radar. The missile successfully passed within 4 miles (6.4 km) of the satellite, which would be suitable for use with a nuclear weapon, but useless for conventional warheads.
A similar project carried out under 199A, Lockheed's High Virgo, was initially another ALBM for the B-58 Hustler, likewise based on the Sergeant. It too was adapted for the anti-satellite role, and made an attempted intercept on Explorer 5 on 22 September 1959. However, shortly after launch communications with the missile were lost and the camera packs could not be recovered to see if the test was successful. In any event, work on the WS-199 projects ended with the start of the AGM-48 Skybolt project. Simultaneous U.S. Navy projects were also abandoned although smaller projects did continue until the early 1970s.
The use of high altitude nuclear explosions to destroy satellites was considered after the tests of the first conventional missile systems in the 1960s. During the Hardtack Teak test in 1958 observers noted the damaging effects of the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by the explosions on electronic equipment, and during the Starfish Prime test in 1962 the EMP from a 1.4 Mt warhead detonated over the Pacific damaged three satellites and also disrupted power transmission and communications across the Pacific. Further testing of weapons effects was carried out under the DOMINIC I series. An adapted version of the nuclear armed Nike Zeus was used for an ASAT from 1962. Codenamed Mudflap, the missile was designated DM-15S and a single missile was deployed at the Kwajalein atoll until 1966 when the project was ended in favour of the USAF Thor-based Program 437 ASAT which was operational until 6 March 1975.
Another area of research was directed into energy weapons, including a nuclear-explosion powered X-ray laser proposal developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1968. Other research was based on more conventional lasers or masers and developed to include the idea of a satellite with a fixed laser and a deployable mirror for targeting. LLNL continued to consider more edgy technology but their X-ray laser system development was cancelled in 1977 (although research into X-ray lasers was resurrected during the 1980s as part of the SDI).
ASATs were generally given low priority until 1982, when information about a successful USSR program became widely known in the west. A "crash program" followed, which developed into the Vought ASM-135 ASAT, based on the AGM-69 SRAM with an Altair upper stage. The system was carried on a modified F-15 Eagle that carried the missile directly under the central line of the plane. The F-15's guidance system was modified for the mission and provided new directional cueing through the pilot's heads up display, and allowed for mid-course updates via a data link. The first launch of the new anti-satellite missile took place in January 1984. The first, and only, successful interception was on September 13, 1985. The F-15 took off from Edwards Air Force Base, climbed to 38,100 feet (11,613 m) and vertically launched the missile at the Solwind P78-1, a U.S. gamma ray spectroscopy satellite orbiting at 555 km (345 mi), which was launched in 1979. Although successful, the program was cancelled in 1988.
Soviet Union
The origins of the Soviet anti-satellite weapon program are unclear. According to some accounts, Sergei Korolev started some work on the concept in 1956 at his OKB-1, while others attribute the work to Vladimir Chelomei's OKB-52 around 1959. What is certain is that at the beginning of April 1960, Nikita Khrushchev held a meeting at his summer residence in Crimea, discussing an array of defense industry issues. Here, Chelomei outlined his rocket and spacecraft program, and received a go-ahead to start development of the UR-200 rocket, one of its many roles being the launcher for his anti-satellite project. The decision to start work on the weapon was made in March 1961 as the Istrebitel Sputnik (IS) (Interceptor of satellites, or literally "Destroyer of satellites").
The IS system was "co-orbital", approaching its target over time and then exploding a shrapnel warhead close enough to kill it. The missile was launched when a target satellite's ground track rises above the launch site. Once the satellite is detected, the missile is launched into orbit close to the targeted satellite. It takes 90 to 200 minutes (or one to two orbits) for the missile interceptor to get close enough to its target. The missile is guided by an onboard radar. The interceptor, which weighs 1400 kg, may be effective up to one kilometer from a target.
Delays in the UR-200 missile program prompted Chelomei to request R-7 rockets for prototype testing of the IS. Two such tests were carried out on November 1, 1963 and April 12, 1964. Later in the year Khrushchev cancelled the UR-200 in favor of the R-36, forcing the IS to switch to this launcher, whose space launcher version was developed as the Tsyklon 2. Delays in that program led to the introduction of a simpler version, the 2A, which launched its first IS test on October 27, 1967, and a second on April 28, 1968. Further tests carried out against a special target spacecraft, the DS-P1-M, which recorded hits by the IS warhead's shrapnel. A total of 23 launches have been identified as being part of the IS test series. The system was declared operational in February 1973.
Testing resumed in 1976 as a result of the U.S. work on the Space Shuttle. Elements within the Soviet space industry convinced Leonid Brezhnev that the Shuttle was a single-orbit weapon that would be launched from Vandenberg, maneuver to avoid existing anti-ballistic missile sites, bomb Moscow in a first strike, and then land. Although the Soviet military was aware these claims were false, Brezhnev believed them and ordered a resumption of IS testing along with a Shuttle of their own. As part of this work the IS system was expanded to allow attacks at higher altitudes and was declared operational in this new arrangement on July 1, 1979. However, in 1983, Yuri Andropov ended all IS testing and all attempts to resume it failed. Ironically, it was at about this point that the U.S. started its own testing in response to the Soviet program.
The Soviet Union also experimented with large, ground-based ASAT lasers from the 1970s onwards (see Terra-3), with a number of U.S. spysats reportedly being 'blinded' (temporarily) during the 1970s and 1980s. The USSR had also researched directed energy weapons, under the Fon project from 1976, but the technical requirements needed of the high-powered gas dynamic lasers and neutral or charged particle beam systems seemed to be beyond reach. The USSR also experimented with military space stations with a capability for anti-satellite duty in its Almaz program.
In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union also started developing a counterpart to the U.S. air-launched ASAT system, using modified MiG-31 'Foxhounds' (at least six of which were completed) as the launch platform.
ASAT in the era of strategic defense
The era of the Strategic Defense Initiative (proposed in 1983) focused primarily on the development of systems to defend against nuclear warheads, however, some of the technologies developed may be useful also for anti-satellite use.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, there were proposals to use this aircraft as a launch platform for lofting commercial and science packages into orbit. Recent political developments (see below) may have seen the reactivation of the Russian Air-Launched ASAT program, although there is no confirmation of this as yet.
The Strategic Defense Initiative gave the US and Russian ASAT programs a major boost; ASAT projects were adapted for ABM use and the reverse was also true. The initial US plan was to use the already-developed MHV as the basis for a space based constellation of about 40 platforms deploying up to 1,500 kinetic interceptors. By 1988 the US project had evolved into an extended four stage development. The initial stage would consist of the Brilliant Pebbles. defense system, a satellite constellation of 4,600 kinetic interceptors (KE ASAT), of 100 lb (45 kg) each, in Low Earth orbit, and their associated tracking systems. The next stage would deploy the larger platforms and the following phases would include the laser and charged particle beam weapons that would be developed by that time from existing projects such as MIRACL. The first stage was intended to be completed by 2000 at a cost of around $125 billion.
Research in the U.S. and Russia was proving that the requirements, at least for orbital based energy weapon systems, were, with available technology, close to impossible. Nonetheless, the strategic implications of a possible unforeseen breakthrough in technology forced the USSR to initiate massive spending on research in the 12th Five Year Plan, drawing all the various parts of the project together under the control of GUKOS and matching the U.S. proposed deployment date of 2000.
Both countries began to reduce expenditure from 1989 and the Russian Federation unilaterally discontinued all SDI research in 1992. Research and Development (both of ASAT systems and other space based/deployed weapons) has, however, reported to have been resumed under the government of Vladimir Putin as a counter to renewed U.S. Strategic Defense efforts post Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. However, the status of these efforts, or indeed how they are being funded through National Reconnaissance Office projects of record, remains unclear. The U.S. has begun working on a number of programs which could be foundational for a space-based ASAT. These programs include the Experimental Spacecraft System (XSS 11), the Near-Field Infrared Experiment (NFIRE), and the space-based interceptor (SBI).
Recent ASATs
At 5:28 p.m. EST January 11, 2007, the People's Republic of China successfully destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite, FY-1C. The destruction was reportedly carried out by an SC-19 ASAT missile with a kinetic kill warhead similar in concept to the American Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. FY-1C was a weather satellite orbiting Earth in polar orbit at an altitude of about 537 miles (865 km), with a mass of about 750 kg (1,650 lb). Launched in 1999, it was the fourth satellite in the Feng Yun series. The missile was launched from a mobile Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) vehicle at Xichang ( ) and the warhead destroyed the satellite in a head-on collision at an extremely high relative velocity.
United States
USA-193 was an American spy satellite, which was launched on 14 December 2006 by a Delta II rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was reported about a month after launch that the satellite had failed. In January 2008, it was noted that the satellite was decaying from orbit at a rate of 1,640 feet (500 m) per day. On 14 February 2008, it was reported that the U.S. Navy had been instructed to fire an SM-3 ABM weapon at it, to act as an anti-satellite weapon.
According to the U.S. Government, the primary reason for destroying the satellite was the approximately 1,000 lb (450 kg) of toxic hydrazine fuel contained on board, which could pose health risks to persons in the immediate vicinity of the crash site should any significant amount survive the re-entry. On February 20, 2008, it was announced that the launch was carried out successfully and an explosion was observed consistent with the destruction of the hydrazine fuel tank.
Experts debated whether the hydrazine tank would have survived an uncontrolled reentry. However, if it had, any human fatality would still have been very unlikely. Although hydrazine is toxic, a small dose would not have been immediately lethal. The chance of the (assumed intact) hydrazine tank landing close enough to at least one person for that person to be killed if he or she lingered in the vicinity of the crash site was about one percent, while the cost of the intercept was about $100 million.
The intercept, however, was widely interpreted as a demonstration of U.S. capabilities in response to the Chinese anti-satellite test a year earlier. The intercept was different from typical ASAT missions in that it took place at a much lower altitude (133 nautical miles or 247 kilometers) than would normally be the case, and the SM-3 missile as currently deployed would not have adequate range and altitude reach for typical ASAT missions in low-Earth orbit. However, the warhead was shown capable of hitting a satellite at orbital closing speeds.
ASAT development
In a televised press briefing during the 97th Indian Science Congress in Thiruvananthapuram, the DRDO Director General Rupesh announced that India was developing the necessary technology that could be combined to produce a weapon to destroy enemy satellites in orbit.On February 10, 2010, DRDO Director-General and Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, Dr VK Saraswat stated that India had "all the building blocks necessary" to integrate an anti-satellite weapon to neutralize hostile satellites in low earth and polar orbits.
In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union used modified MiG-31 'Foxhounds' as a launch platform for an Anti-Satellite weapon system. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this project was put on hold due to reduced defense expenditures. However, in August 2009, the Russian Air Force had announced the resumption of this program. Further reports in May 2010 based on statements from Col. Eduard Sigalov in Russia's air and space defense forces, indicated that Russia was "developing a fundamentally new weapon that can destroy potential targets in space." The Sokol Eshelon is a prototype laser system based on an A-60 airplane which is reported to be restarting development in 2012.
See also
- Anti-ballistic missile
- High-altitude nuclear explosion
- Kessler syndrome, in which runaway ablation could render Earth orbit uninhabitable for centuries
- Kill vehicle
- Militarisation of space
- Outer Space Treaty
- Multiple Kill Vehicle
- Martin WS-199B Bold Orion
- Grier, Peter."The Flying Tomato Can." Air Force magazine, February 2009. Retrieved: 9 February 2013.
- Kestenbaum, David (January 19, 2007). "Chinese missile destroys satellite in 500 mile orbit". NPR.
- Shuttle Buran, see chronology section
- IS anti-satellite system
- The Heritage Foundation. . Accessed January 21, 2012.
- "China silent on satellite killer". Beijing. AFP. January 18, 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10.
- "U.S. plans for falling satellite". CNN. January 30, 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-01-31.
- Associated Press – Broken Satellite Will Be Shot Down
- "Navy missile hits dying spy satellite, says Pentagon". CNN. February 21, 2008.
- "US shoots down toxic satellite". Daily telegraph (Australia). 2008-02-20. Archived from the original on 2008-12-22. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
- "USSR/CIS Miniature ASAT". Globalsecurity.org.
- "Is Russia ready for Star Wars? | Features & Opinion | RIA Novosti". En.rian.ru. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
- ria novosti 11/08/2009
- "Russian officer says developing new weapon for space defense". RIA Novosti.
- Podvig, Pavel (13 November 2012). "Russia to resume work on airborne laser ASAT". Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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2014 HALLOWEEN on the TOWNSEND III
The Halloween on the Townsedn will start with a welcome party oin 10/24, with rfacing on 12/25-10/26. This will be the 3rd year for HOT3 at Lake Townsend in Greensboro, North Carolina. This is a fund raiser for earlier.org, Friends for an Earlier Biological Test to fight breast cancer. 100% of all money raised goes to earlier.org. Boat entry costs $45.00. Shore pass costs only $20.00 and covers All meals, (Friday cookout, breakfast for Saturday & Sunday, Sunday lunch AND all drinks for the weekend). Collector t-shirts are only $20.00. They are long sleeved, PINK t-shirts of course. Non-sailing visitors are welcome to purchase shore passes and t-shirts. We will have over 40 items in our silent auction and raffle ranging from a pearl necklace , art items and bottles of wine to restaurant gift cards.
Last year we had over 35 Flying Scots, Wayfarers (from Canada), Lightnings, Windmills, Hobie Cats, and Isotopes
Remember…..ALL CHECKS MADE OUT TO EARLIER.ORG AND ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Note that the NOR Has the wrong signup address - this is the correct one (NOR will be corrected soon)
NOR and registrsation are attached below.
Have a great weekend sailing and help out fighting breast cancer. What more can you ask for?
All questions can be directed to me at 336.282.9552 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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Wong Perng Fey’s Equilibrium was published in conjunction with his 14th solo exhibition of the same title at Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur in 2014. The book features images of paintings from the Equilibrium series accompanied with writings by Ronald Kiwitt, Martina Ziesse and Haffendi Anuar. The publication has a limited print run of only 500 copies.
Title: Equilibrium, Wong Perng Fey
Publisher: Richard Koh Fine Art Sdn Bhd
Size: 32.7 x 27.2 x 1.6 cm
Authors: Ronald Kiwitt (main), Martina Ziesse and Haffendi Anuar
Price: USD 50
Wong Perng Fey – Equilibrium
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Five CIO Challenges Addressed by Better Change Management
In today's fast-paced, highly competitive world, change is inevitable. Organizations must respond to change to remain competitive and customer-focused. Change is not only driven by forces outside the company, from enhancement requests to bug reports, it is also driven by economic, organizational and regulatory changes. Internal enterprise IT systems also need to meet service level agreements (SLAs), and provide the level of flexibility and adaptability to change that was promised by the implementation of service oriented architectures (SOAs). This white paper addresses five of the foremost change management challenges that CIOs have to meet and how organizations can turn these challenges into a business advantage.
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St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball Win Results in Two St. Louis Losses! [News Video]
The St. Bonaventure Men's Basketball Team celebrated their win over St, Louis on Wednesday...but also shared grief in the other team's loss... the loss of the St, Louis Bus that is!!!
When the St. Louis Team walked out of St. Bonaventure's Reilly Center to get on the bus to fly back to St. Louis ... the bus was GONE!!!! Yet another loss, unexpectedly, for the St. Louis Team. The question however was; WHERE IS THE BUS!!!!???
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I purchased an amazon ec2 instance, where I configured a webserver. Then I purchased Route53 to handle dns, where I set my custom domain to point on the Elastic IP.
The fact is that when typing my domain name the server web answers using the AmazonAws.com domain!!
I'm running varnish in front of apache2.
How can I fix that?
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With his contract expiring at the end of the 2012/2013 season, Theo Walcott’s Arsenal future is clearly in jeopardy. Rumours say the pacey England international wants £100,000 pounds per week which is £25,000 more than his current contract with Arsenal Football Club.
The news of his possible availability has put a host of clubs including Chelsea, Manchester United and more recently Paris St Germain on high alert to obtain his services.
Personally I think Theo is a class act and has an enormous amount of potential, I also think with him recently scoring a brilliant hattrick in their remarkable 7-3 victory against Newcastle, his future lies at the Emirates.
On the other hand, Theo has clearly asked a lot from Arsenal who unlike Man City cannot afford to splash hundreds of thousands of pounds per week on their players. I think one of the main reasons why Theo is yet to sign the contract is because he wants to play in his preferred role as a centre forward in oppose to out wide, Arsene though, has spoken publicly, saying he likes Theo out wide, so could a clash of opinions with him and his boss come between him and his contract?
Only time will tell but a clear piece of evidence that Wenger knows what he is doing is that at the same age as Walcott is now (23) club legend Thierry Henry was converted from a winger to a striker, and he has gone on to score hundreds of goals for the club.
So surely if Theo uses his brain he will make the decision which is best for his future and not get side-tracked by the money involved or persuaded by the ‘better’ clubs like Man U or Chelsea.
To conclude my opinion; I think, for the benefit of his career, Theo should remain with the gunners.
Rumours on the Walcott topic have recently spammed local newspapers and transfer sites, with many confused football fans wondering whether Wenger may not want to run the risk of letting a £15 Million pounds player leave on a free, so will he be told a deadline to sign the dotted line?
Well, rumours suggest the 16th of January 2013 is his final deadline to make his decision, according to BBC Sport Football Gossip Theo has until the 16th to sign the offered 90k per week or he is placed on the clubs growing transfer list which includes; Tomas Rosicky, Sebastien Squillaci, Andrey Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh and Swiss international Johan Djourou.
What will he do? Will he go looking and find his desired £100k per week contract elsewhere or will he stay for maybe a cheaper deal?
To conclude my article, I feel the best for such a talented young player like Theo should be too stay put and sign the dotted line on the contract, this means he gets world-class training and management (as Wenger is known to give), and a good future in the game with a lot of game time with his status as one of Arsenal’s key players.
I also prefer him as a centre forward in oppose to a winger. I personally believe he will first demand that £100k per week contract, but may be willing to negotiate as I can’t see him leaving the Gooners.
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This edition of Ego Check was a long time in the making. When I first contacted Monte Cook to request an interview, it was January and he was still the Design Lead for D&D Next. I was eager to speak with him about his Legends & Lore columns for Wizards of the Coast, but the interview was delayed for several reasons including yours truly traveling to Middle Earth for two weeks. I was able to reconnect with Monte Cook in April after his decision to leave the position at Wizards of the Coast. During the past six weeks, Monte has been incredibly gracious with his time to discuss his experiences in the RPG industry, which have spanned four decades.
Below, he talks about how the roleplaying game industry has changed but how the players have remained mostly the same. He describes his personal evolution as a game designer over the years, and details his thoughts on what makes a rule good in addition to the challenges of presenting appropriate rewards and punishments to players within a game. We discuss the costs and benefits of incorporating system mastery as a built-in reward for players, and conclude with a conversation about his current game design project.
I thank Monte for his time and thought-provoking responses, which provided me with quite an education in game design. I wish him the best of luck with his current project, and look forward to seeing a final product of his “old-school, weird-science fantasy” game system!
Thank you for taking the time to participate in this interview. You are most recently known for working on D&D Next for Wizards of the Coast. However, you have almost 25 years of experience as a game designer and author. I am certainly curious to learn about your work on specific projects, but first I wonder if you could discuss how functioning as a game designer has changed over the course of four separate decades. Compared to when you started working professionally as a game designer in 1988, what has changed and what has remained the same?
The pleasure’s all mine.
A lot has changed in the last 25 years, both in the industry, and for me personally. I think in the late 80s and early 90s, setting and character background were at the forefront, and rules were on the backburner. To elaborate, game design was about rules design in the late 70s and early 80s. It was about realism, simulation, and complexity. The way to distinguish yourself was through having a more “realistic” system than D&D. Rolemaster, Champions, Chivalry & Sorcery, etc. all offered more complex systems. (I suppose in this period it was also about genre exploration–taking rpgs into non-fantasy realms.) Nowadays, it’s also about rules design, but it’s most often about simplicity, although again this is a reaction to the market leader, D&D. In those middling years, however, the only time people gave any thought to mechanics were simply to make them different. Dice pools and various mechanical structures were all the rage, and they were interesting, although often a bit flawed. The flaws didn’t matter, however, because what people really wanted was characters and setting. Look at Vampire, Ars Magica, Shadowrun, and other games of that era–people wanted interesting stories.
So for me as a designer, my relationship with rules design was a distant one. Even when working on rules-heavy games like Rolemaster and Champions, I was writing characters and settings. When I moved to TSR, I wrote old school dungeon crawl modules like Labyrinth of Madness and wildly fanciful settings and adventures (Planescape, mainly).
In 1997, however, I started working on 3rd Edition D&D with Rich Baker and Skip Williams (and later Jonathan Tweet) and everything changed. For me, it was an awakening of how important rules actually are to help make a fun experience. Since that point, I focused on both setting and character (in products like Ptolus) and also on rules, preferably in ways that blended both (like Arcana Evolved, or my Books of Might series).
Today, I am still interested in both, but my focus on rules is more about how to design them so that they work more intuitively and invisibly. In order for them to do that, though, they need to be more than just simple. They need to be good. Rules need to encourage story in interesting ways. In order to have a beautifully rendered painting, you need to have precisely the right paint, and the right canvas. When everything is working as it should, these things don’t just serve the art, but can actually encourage the artist to try new and interesting techniques.
Some things, of course, haven’t changed, or haven’t changed much. It’s still just as hard to make a career in tabletop game design. In some ways, perhaps harder. In others, simpler. The advent of desktop publishing, followed then by the rise of the ebook, has lowered the bar for entry drastically. While today the market is more willing to look for a designer’s name than it was 25 years ago, it’s probably harder to stand out in the crowd of designers and would-be designers. I make a very comfortable living, and there are others out there doing well too. I think that we’re not very typical, however. There’s still a lot of designers out there working for a couple of cents a word, or putting out ebooks that sell in the dozens of copies, and basically doing this as a hobby. Twenty-five years ago, those same people would be writing Dragon Magazine articles, I suppose.
There is a great deal of interesting thoughts there, but the thing that jumped out to me the most is your personal relationship to rules and how that relationship has evolved over the decades. When you started as a designer, it seems your focus was first on establishing the setting and character background while the importance of rules was secondary. Then in the late 1990’s, you began to appreciate rules and how they influence story and decisions made by the gamemaster and players. Now you emphasize designing not only simple rules, but good rules.
Could you explain what makes a rule good, and provide an example of rules that encourage or preclude a gamemaster’s or player’s ability to experiment with new techniques?
It’s a complex issue. Some people think rules are good when they’re simple. Others, when they are “realistic.” For me, it’s two factors: rules need to be intuitive and encouraging of play.
The first is simpler to talk about, but harder to design. In short, rules need to work the way you think they should work. That is not to say that they’re unnecessary. Sometimes the way you think something should work would never occur to you unless someone explained it to you that way. Which sounds contradictory. But think of all the times you didn’t understand something in life, then someone explained it to you, and you thought, “oh, right. That makes sense.” When you read intuitive rules, you should think, “that makes sense.” As a very simplistic example, think of the rules change in 3E that is usually credited as being the best one by gamers across the board: that when you roll a d20, you’re always looking for high numbers. Prior to 3E, sometimes low numbers were good, and sometimes high numbers were, based on what kind of action you took. Players were always asking, “am I looking for a 20 here or not?” Standardizing the procedure was intuitive.
To be clear, that doesn’t make 2E bad and 3E good. Non-intuitive rules aren’t bad. But intuitive rules are better. (Sometimes, in order for a game to work the way you want, you have to have some non-intuitive rules. Consider, for a moment, how 3E retained the idea that caster level doesn’t equal spell level. You have to be 5th level to cast 3rd level spells. What? But yeah, attempts to fix that have always proven to be difficult or worse.) Was Gary wrong for having AC go down as it got better? Of course not. Is it better to have it go up instead? Most people think so.Designing intuitive rules requires a lot of playtesting, and a deep understanding of how the game is played. Which means it’s really hard to do in the early stages of a game’s design. For a complex game, you might have to go through a lot of iterations before you get there. It’s no wonder that a game like Magic: The Gathering has had so many editions.
It’s easier to create rules that encourage play (if you recognize that it is important), but it’s harder to explain what that means. Or rather, it’s one of those concepts that sounds easier to understand than it actually is. Because it sounds simple enough: make rules that encourage people to play the game the way that is most fun. If you want combat to happen a lot, you’ve got to design combat mechanics that are robust (or it will get boring) and still quick (because it’s going to happen a lot). If you want characters to fly spaceships, make the skill (or whatever) for doing so easily understood and obtained. But it’s far more complex than that. Insidious really, because sometimes intuition gets in the way. For example, take the old “system shock” rule from earlier versions of D&D. Seems like a fine rule at first blush. You have a roll that you have to make if you survive major transformations or, most importantly, if you successfully come back if someone tries to raise you after you died. Seems good because it controls the revolving resurrection door. It explains why the ultra rich and powerful in the world still fear death. Eventually you fail that roll.
But let’s think about that for a moment. This is a rule that determines whether or not a player (not a character) gets to do what he wants–namely, play the character that he wants to play. That’s not like a rule that determines whether a character hits a foe or casts a spell on either one or two targets. This is different. Let me give you an analogy. Let’s say you’re a parent, and you don’t want your kid to go into the front room with its new, white carpet with shoes on. What do you do? You tell him that. Or you forbid him from going into the room at all. You don’t institute a policy that there’s a 78% chance that if he goes into the room (shoes or no), that he’ll be punished. That’s just frustrating and confusing. Raise dead is like that. You either make it possible under whatever conditions you feel are justified based on how common or rare you want it to be, or you forbid it entirely. Otherwise, what kind of play is the rule really encouraging? It doesn’t keep me from hoping my character will come back. But it might prevent it. It’s just encouraging disappointment. If as a group we just want Bob’s cleric to use his scroll of Raise Dead to get Phil’s wizard back so we can keep playing Ghost Tower of Inverness (that might be why the DM let Bob find the scroll to begin with), that rule can derail the whole session, the whole adventure, or even the whole campaign.
Developing just one rule for a game seems incredibly complicated. And I imagine rules are not universally intuitive – what “makes sense” to me may leave another player confused, and vice versa. It seems impossible to create rules that are intuitive to all. And with social media, it seems that everyone these days is a game designer. I find the amount of discourse and conjecture about rules overwhelming at times.
For example, take almost any rule for a game system and there will be those who strongly voice their opinion supporting or decrying the rule while others offer an opinion somewhere in the middle of the two positions. How do you as a designer reach a consensus on a set of rules that are intuitive to most people in that atmosphere? You referenced extensive playtesting, but how does the ability to communicate immediately with thousands of players through social media about the development of rules help or hinder the process?
It’s not an exact science. Sometimes, you start with your own gamer instincts. Often, my own start with thoughts of what I’d like in a game. That’s why it’s so vital as a designer to play a lot of games, both broadly and deeply. By that I mean sample a lot of different games, but then zero in on the games that really appeal to what you want to work on and play those games a lot. A lot. While sampling is good, you rarely get a good feel for what people who love a specific game want until you play it many times.
Using the Internet as a resource is great. Staying in touch with what people are thinking about games is vital. It’s also dangerous. Because the Internet is a boon to communication, but not necessarily to truth. On a message board discussion, it’s the loudest voices that you hear most, not the smartest ones. (Sometimes they’re the same, often they’re not.) It’s why you don’t really want playtesters to talk to each other while they’re playtesting. Groups A and B might have come up with one result, but then they talk to a guy from Group C who got a different result, and because the guy from C is persuasive (or a bully), you end up getting the Group C’s feedback from all three groups. (I’ve watched this happen.)
As a designer, you have to listen, but you have to do it intelligently.
You spoke earlier about how the industry has changed over your many years of design work. I wonder how you think players have changed over that same period of time?
I’ll get flak for this I’m sure, but I don’t think they have changed. You still have the same kinds of players: those who like to min-max and create optimal characters, and those who want to create compelling stories. Those who want new material constantly, and those who are happy with what they acquired 30 years ago. Those who want to get an insider view into game publishing, and those who never give such things a moment’s thought. And everyone in between. The difference is, I think, that it’s easier for players to communicate. Which means that people can look beyond their own game group. They can see that there are more gamers like them than they thought, but also more unlike them. For example, there’s kind of this idea that in the last five years or so, there’s a resurgence of people who want games more like “old school” D&D. I don’t think that’s true. I think there’s always been a fair number of gamers out there who want that, but they were isolated enough that they assumed that they were alone in their wishes.
At the same time, though, we have the rise of system antagonism. When I got into the industry as a professional, there were many games to choose from, but rarely was their hostility between fans of different games. There was some. You could look at it like D&D players versus non-D&D players, I suppose. Really, really different systems–say, Rolemaster and GURPS–engendered kind of friendly rivalries between player bases. But for the most part, that didn’t happen. You didn’t hate Shadowrun players if you played Vampire. If you played Traveller you didn’t write insulting diatribes about players of d6 Star Wars. And I think that was because most people played a lot of different systems.
What surprises me most about players today is not their different tastes, but their unwillingness to accept that someone else’s tastes are as valid as their own. I blame Internet cranks for that mentality, and I blame game company spokesmen who have encouraged it in the belief that it would help them sell games. It’s the very people who must now solve the problem of a very fractured marketplace who fractured it in the first place.
Okay. End of rant.
You referenced earlier the old “system shock” rule and how it affects the a player’s relationship to their character and the gaming world. Roleplaying games are based on the principles of reinforcement. If a player engages in the game long enough, then his or her character will gain a level. The new level provides rewards such as new abilities and access to better items. The rewards reinforce the player to continue playing the game. The concepts are the same whether it’s Diablo III, Dungeons & Dragons or a rat pressing a bar in a cage. The rat will press that bar because it knows that after a certain number of presses, it’s going to get rewarded with a food pellet – just like a player is rewarded with a new level. This observation isn’t meant to diminish game designers or players in any way, shape or form.
What I find interesting and challenging is placing limits on players (or punishing them) in a paradigm that is driven by reinforcing and rewarding player actions. The rules of a roleplaying game establish the boundaries of what players can and cannot do within the gaming system. The rules describe how a player is either reinforced or punished for his or her specific actions in the game. In terms of designing or running a game (you touched on the later here by discussing Player Empowerment), which set of rules is more important – those that reinforce or those that punish?
The issue of punishment and reward is a difficult one. I don’t really believe in “punishing” players, as such. I know that a lot of people reading this will scoff, because I’m known in some circles as creating really hard adventures that kill characters, and people see that as punishing. But that’s not the intention.
When it comes to punishment and reward, if everyone in the group works to get their Armor Class (or other defense) high except for one guy, so that guy ends up taking more damage than his friends, is the game punishing that guy, or is it rewarding the other players for having high ACs? It’s almost a glass half full/half empty kind of situation.
I do believe that reward built into the game system is important. There are a lot of things that Gary and Dave got right with D&D right out of the gate, and that is one of them. You’re simply more likely to keep playing if there’s always the promise of that next level’s benefits (among other things) just around the corner. There are other rewards a game can offer as well. First and foremost, of course, is fun. Fun is defined differently by different people, and that’s why there are different games. A games reward of fun can come from an entertaining tactical situation, a cool story, or the ability to discover some great new combo for your character build. Not every game offers all of these, nor should they. For 3rd Edition D&D, we decided that “system mastery” would be a built-in reward. This is the idea that people who play the game longer figure out better choices than a brand new player, and so the old veteran around the table feels rewarded. Some people hate the idea of system mastery, though, so it’s not right for every game. However, one could also observe that it’s simply the other people around the table feeling punished–glass half empty.
Trying to avoid punishment–or perceived punishment–can be a dangerous trap for game designers. I’ve seen some guys really go down the wrong path, in my opinion, by trying to take anything that anyone might think of as “unfun” out of the game. This is a trap because it can risk taking all the interesting challenge out of the game as well. You can design a game without any metaphorical sharp corners, but you likely end up with a bland, uninteresting… thing. I’m not even sure what to call it, because if there’s no chance that you can lose, is it really a game? If there’s no chance for failure, does success mean anything? If the challenges can’t really harm you, you lose any feeling of accomplishment in overcoming them. In other words, by trying to avoid punishment, you also lose reward.
That might seem contradictory with what I wrote a minute ago, about not putting in punishment. But there’s a difference between not writing punishment in, and trying really hard to make sure that you write all punishment out. The difference is that the latter is really about “perceived punishment.” To use a concrete example, I’d say that designing a D&D monster that just kills fighters on sight is punishing. But a medusa is not. In the former, for some reason, you’ve decided to punish people who decide to play fighters. The latter, however, is just an encounter with dire consequences. Good tactics can win the day, as can good die rolls. I suppose you could make the argument that it punishes people with terrible save bonuses or defenses who charge at the medusa with eyes wide open, but I’d say it rewards people for smart play. Again, we’re back to the glass half full situation. It’s a fine line, but the difference is that the first (absurd) example gives no at-the-table choice, and doesn’t even give the player a chance to leave things up to fate (the dice).
It seems much of the reward/punishment dynamic drifts back to the preferences of the players engaging in the game. If there is a disconnect within the group of players – or between the players as a whole and the gamemaster – then there is likely going to be players who do not have “fun.” I think a clear objective of any gaming group is to find some “common ground” in terms of the preferences of the players. You recently spoke about the importance of designers listening to players, but on a smaller scale it seems vital for gamemasters to listen to their players to fully understand what motivates them to play to the game. I previously posted an interview for gamemasters to conduct with his or her potential or current players to learn some of this information.
How would you communicate with players in your group to gauge the proper balance of rewards and punishments in the campaign? And how do you cope when players within the same group have very different preferences for the level of challenge or “system mastery” required for gameplay?
Communication between GM and players is key, obviously. Games run so much more smoothly when you play with friends–people who you know and spend time with outside of the game. This way, the GM can talk about things, or even just learn through unrelated interactions, what the players want. Conversely, the players can often know what kind of game a person might run even before the first session begins.
When I am a GM, I try to be as up-front as I can about my preferred play style, and also try to encourage the players to be as open and honest as they can be about what they want. If players want different things from each other, I try to please all of them and make sure that everyone is cool with compromise. In other words, if Bob wants lots of puzzles but Mary wants lots of hack and slash, I not only try to provide them with both but make sure that Mary doesn’t abhor puzzles. In a more involved example, a GM can sometimes combine play experiences. For example, an encounter where Mary has to hold off a bunch of violent enemies to buy Bob the time it takes to solve a puzzle. But the key word there is sometimes.
As for characters with different levels of experience (and thus, depending on the game, different levels of mastery), again, it depends on what the players want. If Bob, the more experienced player, has a “better” character because of that, first of all, I need to learn if the other players care. “Balance,” or rather the strict need for balance, is sometimes an illusion. To put it another way, if everyone’s having a good time, it often simply doesn’t matter. If it does matter to the other players, I will often help those players with tips or advice. Mastery, like balance, is mostly a psychological aspect to the game, rather than a game design aspect. In other words, Bob still feels good about himself as a player for having mastery even if in the end everyone’s character is on par with his because I helped out.
You just referred to mastery as “mostly a psychological aspect to the game, rather than a game design aspect.” But you previously stated:
For 3rd Edition D&D, we decided that ‘system mastery’ would be a built-in reward. This is the idea that people who play the game longer figure out better choices than a brand new player, and so the old veteran around the table feels rewarded.
At least with 3rd Edition D&D, it seems that mastery was more than a psychological aspect of the game.
Any game – video, tabletop or otherwise – has exploits, optimal builds or movesets for characters. Mastery may be a psychological aspect for some players, but you previously mentioned it has been used as a built-in reward for experienced players. I imagine it’s a challenge to create a variety of character-customization paths that are equally effective during gameplay, which would seem to be a positive goal for game design.
It reminds me of a quote from Alice In Wonderland, “At last the Dodo said, `EVERYBODY has won, and all must have prizes.’” How can you design a game so all character builds can get their prizes?
No, I would say that mastery is entirely a psychological thing. Lots of good game design actually has to do more with psychology than mechanics. You want people to be glad they’re playing your game. You want them to be happy about their choices, particularly when those choices are good for the game. Getting a cool new thing at each level isn’t about game balance, it’s about psychology. You want people to think, “I am glad I kept playing, because now I’ve gained a level and got this cool new ability.” That’s why the whole concept of levels is so brilliant.
System mastery is the same thing. It’s a reward for being really invested in the game, long-term. “I feel smart because I have read the rules twice and have been playing for nine years.” People who are that invested are likely to want to keep playing. And player retention–getting people to continue to play–is as important as getting new players. In fact, it’s a great way to get new players, because existing players teaching new people is the #1 way new players are recruited.
Mastery can be a huge problem for new players if handled poorly. The idea should work this way: the game works fine “out of the box,” but there are rewards for people who really get invested. If the latter gets in the way of the former, the idea of mastery has been probably mishandled. It’s tricky, though, because one helps new player acquisition, and the other helps old player retention. Both are important for a game’s long-term success.
You were working on your own game system before you got involved in Dungeons & Dragons Next. You spoke about the system a bit on a recent Jennisodes podcast and indicated that the flavor and setting was “old-school, weird-science fantasy.” What are the dynamics you find most attractive for game design (and play) in that setting?
I am indeed working on a new game system. It’s basically what I was working on before I went to work for Wizards, and had to put on hold while I did that job. And truthfully, the core germ of the idea is something that I came up with about 20 years ago, so it’s something I’ve been noodling with for a very long time. And it’s still very, very much in the formative stages. I don’t even have a name for it yet.
It’s a simple game, and not very D&D like, really. It embraces the power of the GM, but it also authorizes players to have some control over the narrative, but only in the way a player should. In other words, players don’t overrule the GM, their power is based on their own actions. Basically, the GM says, “the door is locked.” The GM decides how difficult the door is to get through. The players can’t affect that, but they can affect how their characters react to the situation. In effect, they decide–through the use of limited resources that they have to spend–whether they are going to really focus themselves on getting through the door or not.
Picture it this way: in most games, the GM decides how hard a task is, but then the players react to that task the same way they would any similar task. Whether they are jumping over a barrel for fun or jumping over a pit of lava with a dragon hot on their tail, they use the same mechanic for resolving the jump. In a few games, you can use the very rare “hero point” or what have you when it’s really crucial that basically overrides the normal system. But I want to design a game where that idea of player control over how much emphasis they put into things is built right into the core of the game.
It’ll also be a game with really quick character generation options, but also a lot of customization options for people who like that. The way to accomplish that, I think, is to give the player the option to make some big and important choices and have them mean something, rather than making choices which then ultimately derive other aspects of your character. Derived stats are where games get really math-heavy, slow, and complex. It would be nice to step away from that.
And it will be a game that assumes a lot of intelligence and creativity on the GM’s part. Having a living, breathing GM is the #1 strength of a tabletop RPG, and I think that placing too much emphasis on having a game that has a system rather than GM (with the ability to use logic) ends up creating game experiences and game design that I have little interest in. In other words, if your character is on fire, the GM and the players can figure out how to put that fire out using real world sensibilities. Programming it into the game system means that I might as well play a computer game, and limits player creativity.
Story-wise, it will be a post apocalyptic science fantasy setting, where the line between magic and technology blurs to the point where you wonder if it’s even a meaningful distinction. Magic as technology/technology as magic is interesting in a RPG, because you take the “cool” stuff out of the hands of the few and put it into the hands of anyone that wants it, but making it post apocalyptic means that the GM still has control over the flow of it (you can’t run down to the corner store and buy it).
In coming months, obviously, I’ll be publicly talking about this a lot more. I’m a firm believer in people knowing what they’re getting before they buy. And frankly, considering how much work there is to do, it’s likely that it’s an endeavor that won’t even see the light of day until 2013. But I’m really excited about it, and having a lot of fun with it even now.
You mentioned that your goals for the new system are to create more fluidity in the rules to encourage gamemaster and player empowerment. As a contrast, you discussed D&D as a game that has historically been designed to give the vast majority of players relatively the same experience – similar to a boardgame. What do you foresee as potential strengths and weaknesses of designing a game system that promotes such fluidity and independence on the part of the gamemaster and players?
D&D has, at various times, been about delivering similar experiences, certainly with the rise of importance of the RPGA and organized play. If you go from one D&D convention game to another, I think the management over the game–for most of its history–has hoped that those two games would feel similar. That’s not a bad idea, but it’s not the only way to go. If you focus on at-home play rather than organized play, for example, you might lean the other way, and allow people to play the game they want, in isolation from the way another group plays down the street (or across the continent). The latter is my personal preference.
I’d rather design an easily customizable game because I’d rather play one like that. I think I’ve been pretty vocal that as a RPG player, I’d rather a game designer give me a game and let me do with it as I pleased, rather than telling me how to play it “correctly.” If you throw out the idea of a “right” way to play even as a concept, you encourage players to play their way. It’s far truer to the roots of the hobby, and I think it gets people more invested in the game if they can make their own tweaks to it. Most long-term GMs I know like to talk about how they run various games that is different from others or different from the rules as written. And they do so with pride. Some people (including perhaps those same GMs) mistake that as evidence that those games were poorly designed. On the contrary, to develop that kind of investment, I think those games might just be extremely well designed.
It seems like a massive task to design a new game, and you indicated there is much work left for you to complete the project. How do you organize your work on the game? For example, is it more fruitful to jump around to different components (world-building, mechanics, etc.) or focus solely on one aspect of the game for an extended period of time?
I jump around. It’s the nature of the beast. You’re writing about the setting, and it gives you a mechanical idea. You’re writing about equipment, and some part of it suggests a great rule for damaging inanimate objects.
It is a massive task. Particularly if there’s a setting attached. In a way, you’re creating not just a whole world, but even the very laws of physics of that world. But the way I am looking at it now is that what I’m really doing is providing the tools for other people to actually create and flesh out that world in easy and fun ways, and for both GMs and players to understand the fundamentals of the rules so that they can make sense of them as they see fit. There’s a careful balance there–a fine line between empowering the people at the table to have things work they way they should without actually just making them do all the work of making that happen. It’s a thing of beauty if you can pull it off well.
Good luck with making your next project a thing of beauty! And thank you for the time you’ve shared. I look forward to learning how other players and designers feel about the topics we discussed.
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If you want to read John Hurrell reviews there is a new place to go. Up to a month or so ago he was review meister for artbash. How Artbash will cope without the man they call “the Headmaster" is hard to tell, but already there are signs that it is wobbling away from discussing art. John Hurrell was given $10,000 by CNZ and is using it to “assist him in the writing of the articles” which he is posting on a blog called eyeCONTACT. John obviously intends to run a tight ship. “My insistence on proper names is to minimize personal abuse, waffle and shameless self-promotion.” That said, he’s not short on content. In the just four days of operation he’s already posted thirteen of his relentlessly positive reviews. Better get over there quick or you’ll never catch up.
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Toilet Brush and Holder Set Bathroom Cleaning Toilet Bowl Brush Cleaner Anti Slip with Sturdy Soft Silicone Bristle Removable Water Drawer Quick Drying – for Wall Mounted and Floor Standing
Brand New Premium Material – Toilet brush bristle is the core of the toilet brush. To prevent your Toilet brush from being scratch, our toilet bowl brush bristle made from envelopment friendly TPR Material, Gentle yet efficient in Cleaning. Its wide cleaning surface contact to support efficient dirt-removing power, Never wear out or changes its shape, maintaining perfect cleaning.
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In her own words,
'I am an American Egyptian artist. I studied Fine Art (painting department) and moved to the US in 2006. I love Art, Painting, crafting and creating unusual unique pieces.
I use Black and White tones in my abstract paintings, and I use colors to make painted colorful jewelry.
Inspired by Pop Art, Abstract art, Geometric shapes, my Egyptian background and the pulse of NYC.
it's been a great journey and still lots to discover and learn every single day.
Thank you so much for taking the time reading my story hope you like them as much as I enjoy making them.'
Miran's shop can be found here:
Here are some of my favorites,
As another designer who uses wood and loves geometric style, I really love this shop. I love the unique, modern style Miran creates. Her items are for those people who like to stand out from the crowd.
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I had a particularly hard day at work yesterday and totally wasn’t feeling the funny vibe. This video is something that my adorable husband posted to lift my spirits. It worked, and is my funnies entry for this week. Anyone who’s ever done tech support or even customer support I’m sure could relate to this. :)
Note: may be a bit NSFW (hand gestures and a couple words) so you may want to keep the volume down.
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- AIR Members
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Long before working and training under some of San Francisco’s most talented chefs, Hugo Ramirez was raised on the intense and varied flavors native to his hometown of Mexico City. In fact, he still calls on his mother for the secrets of traditional Mexican dishes, which he reinvents in innovative and surprising ways. At Limones, Hugo’s love of Mexican food is combined with his training in French-influenced California cuisine.
Monday – Saturday: 2pm – Midnight
Sunday: Brunch: 10:30am – 2:30pm; Dinner: 5pm – 10pm
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Welcome to Catering Solutions Limited!
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Decision Maker: Director (Resources and Property)
Decision status: Implemented
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
In accordance with the attached Officer Decisions Record, the Director (Resources and Property) has made a decision on the implementation of the Council Tax Energy Rebate “Discretionary Scheme” following the allocation of funding from Government.
The Director (Resources and Property) has taken the decision to use the following approach to allocate the £150 payments to households under the “discretionary scheme”:
1. To build on the principles for eligibility for the scheme, as set out in the Government guidance.
2. For the scheme to be administered by Anglia Revenues Partnership
3. For support to be given to the following groups:
· Recipients of Local Council Tax Support in bands E to H.
· Properties exempt from Council Tax under class U (severely mentally impaired) in bands E to H.
· Those liable Council Taxpayers in Band F-H who qualify for the Disabled Band Reduction.
· Movers from temporary accommodation or a care placement after 1 April 2022.
· Residents of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) where the landlord pays Council Tax but the applicant pays for energy.
· Residents of band E-H properties who do not meet any of the above categories but are experiencing exceptional financial hardship.
4. To mirror the payment arrangements for the main scheme, namely:
a) to make payments to Council Tax payers who have direct debits in place straight into the relevant bank account as soon as at least one successful direct debit payment has been made (so long as the name on the account matches the liable party for Council Tax). These recipients will be asked through social media messaging and other communications to check their eligibility against the criteria on the council website.
b) To contact householders with no direct debit in place (or no matching names – see above) by letter, asking them to complete an online form to provide bank details so that payments can be made to them. If no response is received within 28 days, the £150 will be applied to the Council Tax account relating to the property, and a new bill issued. If, following payment of the rebate, the Council Tax account shows a credit balance, a follow-up process will then be initiated whereby the liable person is contacted by post and phone to help them claim a refund (a range of methods will be offered). No time limit has been set by Government for this process.
· Councils are required to develop local arrangements for distributing the energy rebate funding from Government.
· The funding is critical to supporting householders who are impacted by rising energy prices
· The decision was within the delegation given to the Director for Resources and Property
The principles set out above have arisen from work by Council officers, including expert operational advice from Anglia Revenues Partnership, in order to identify the arrangements that will: target the most vulnerable groups and those most in need of financial support for rising energy costs; not result in high administration costs; enable as many residents as possible to easily access the money, even if they don’t pay Council Tax by direct debit; and ensure payments can be made quickly.
Other options included:
- Providing financial supporting to different categories of West Suffolk residents
- Writing to all direct debit payers to ask them to apply for the grant
- Putting in place no, or a different time limit for non-direct debit payers to contact the Council with payment details
Following consideration, all of these options were dismissed on the grounds of their overlooking of vulnerable groups; negative implications for speed of payment; volume of customers to whom payments can be made quickly; or excessive cost to the public purse in terms of administrative burden.
Publication date: 13/06/2022
Date of decision: 13/06/2022
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July 27, 2012
HATTTIESBURG, Miss. - The Southern Miss Department of Athletics has unveiled the "Fill To The Top" campaign for its home season-opening football game, Sat., Sept. 15, against East Carolina. The mission of the campaign is to fill the stadium to capacity for the season's first home game. The "Fill To The Top" campaign has many different elements and layers, all with the goal of filling The Rock for the first home football game.
The first element of the "Fill To The Top" campaign began July 18 as athletic department staff and community leaders met to go over all of the details of this campaign. During this meeting, 10 teams were selected to go out throughout the state selling tickets to groups, organizations and businesses in the Carlisle-Faulkner Field at Roberts Stadium upper decks for $10 apiece. Each team includes a team leader, an athletics department contact, and community leaders.
Each team has been given the task to sell 650 upper tickets with a minimum of 10 tickets per purchase. For every group, company, and or business that purchasing at least 10 of the upper deck tickets will receive a commemorative mini poster proclaiming "I helped The Rock Fill TO THE TOP!"
Of the 10 teams that were formed on July 18, three were based out of Hattiesburg as well as teams formed from Jackson, the Gulf Coast and Laurel.
"As we begin our celebration of 100 Years of Championships and Commencements, we wanted to start the year off right by filling The Rock to capacity," said Southern Miss Director of Athletics Jeff Hammond. "We cannot extend enough gratitude to the special and dedicated Southern Miss family members that have donated their time and resources to join us in this task to "Fill To The Top" for our home opener against East Carolina." The campaign has also enabled the engagement of Golden Eagle family members to be involved in the school's special celebration season.
"Volunteering for the FTTT campaign is something that I have loved being a part of as I have a passion for Southern Miss," said team leader Gregg Hess, a former Golden Eagle student-athlete. "The reception I have received so far has been incredible. The enthusiasm and excitement for 2012 is palpable and you can feel it throughout the community."
Beginning Aug. 1, the Southern Miss Athletic Ticket Office will also offer $10 upper deck to any fan wishing to purchase tickets for the East Carolina contest. There is no limit on the number of upper deck tickets purchased at this price.
Also on Aug. 1, all lower deck tickets to the ECU contest will be available half-off for that day only. The special half off ticket deal will be available online beginning at midnight and ending at 11:59 p.m. The athletic ticket office will have extended hours for that only day beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 6 p.m.
Fans can purchase their tickets either online at SouthernMiss.com, by calling 1-800-844-TICK (8425) or visiting the Pat Ferlise Ticket Center from 8 a.m., until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Southern Miss athletics' social media platforms will provide updates for Golden Eagle fans throughout this campaign. Fans can follow via Twitter (@USMGoldenEagles or #FTTT) and on the Southern Miss Athletics Facebook page. Game time is set for 2:30 p.m., CT.
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/// iPad Mini’s Color Range Still a Shade Shy of the Best
Anandtech With the next-generation iPad mini with Retina display, Apple managed to create a device identical to its sibling, the iPad Air, in most ways, save size. The two tablets run the same A7 chip and use the same cameras — front and back. They feature the same design, and they are nearly equivalent in performance and battery life. But they do differ in one important area: Color accuracy. Two new analyses of the Retina iPad mini display reveal that the device has the same color gamut as the now year-old standard iPad mini. That means its color range is narrower than that of not just the iPad Air, but rival tablets like the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. According to Anandtech’s tests of the Retina mini , the device’s Delta-E — a measurement that represents the “distance” between the color a display is told to reproduce and the color it actually shows — is much higher than that of the iPad Air. The Retina mini scored an average Delta-E of 6.5, compared to 2.4 for the iPad Air (and 3.3 for Google’s Nexus 7). This isn’t a huge deficit; the Retina mini’s display still looks great, but as Anandtech observes, it lacks the same visual punch you get from the iPad Air (compare the reds in the Retina mini and iPad Air above). Anandtech DisplayMate reached a similar conclusion in its analysis of mini tablet displays . The firm ranked the Retina mini last in a display shootout with the Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 7, and criticized Apple for leaving it with the same small color gamut as the original iPad mini and even older iPad 2. “That is inexcusable for a current generation premium tablet,” DisplayMate President Ray Soneira said. “The big differences in color gamut between the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Nexus 7 and the much smaller 63 percent gamut in the iPad mini Retina display were quite obvious and easy to see in the side-by-side viewing tests.
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Fellow nail freaks, best get saving! Headed our way from Estee Lauder are ten of the most covetable, luxe and hypnotic nail colours I’ve seen since…well, since the launch of the Lauder owned Tom Ford Nail Lacquer line, actually. Funny, that!
For now we can only bring you the very sneakiest of peeks, but the capsule collection, inspired by Paris, will be on counter next month. It includes five stunning metallics – glitters for grown ups – that look like drops of molten metal in their shiny square glass bottles. That’s the Metal Mania line, which includes gold, silver, pewter, violet and the rosy copper shade I’m wearing in these pics.
Beyond Black features five deep, moody, fashion inspired shades – including dark green, blue, purple and grey. They’re all part of the Pure Color Nail Lacquer line, they’re €20, and they’re divine. I want them all.
There’s lots more Lauder loveliness headed our way and we’ll bring you more on that soon, but for now – are we liking what we see?
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Fed up with your dumb "Smart TV?" Tired of waiting for your console to boot up just so you can watch Netflix? Lookng for a cheap tech gift? There are plenty of reasons to get a new dedicated video streamer. We'll help you choose one.
iPad and iOS news
From the Cheapskate: Amazon's ludicrously affordable tablet is now even more ludicrously affordable. Plus: an extra 2GB of Google Drive storage, free!
Google's Pixel C tablet has arrived -- let's see how it stacks up against its chief competitors.
Apple just overhauled the Apple TV streaming video box; see how the new features compare to the competition.
How does the new big-screen iPad size up against the competition?
It's a battle between two tech giants for tablet supremacy. Apple's iPad Pro and Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 have gone multifunctional, so who's taking this Prizefight punchout?
The latest beta version of Apple TV's upcoming software also includes support for Bluetooth keyboards and the ability to organize your apps into individual folders.
Ready for more comparisons than you can shake a stick at? Ranging in price from $35 to $50, these three HDMI streaming sticks all offer Netflix...and diverge from there. Stick with this roundup for all the details.
See how the iPad Mini 2 stacks up against 2013's popular 7-inch tablets.
We tested out Apple's Siri commands on other video streamers to see if they understood what we were saying.
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This three-part Voices from the Field video series profiles how Education Service Center (ESC) 15 in Texas approached implementing the DBI process in San Saba Independent School District (ISD). In these videos, Dedra Carter and Valerie Moos from ESC 15 and Jenna McSherry from San Saba ISD, discuss their experiences and recommendations for other districts implementing DBI.
Implementation Guidance and Considerations
In this video, Sandy Cook, NCII Coach and Differentiated Instruction Specialist at Elms Road Elementary in Swartz Creek Michigan & Michele Corbat, NCII Coach and Principal at Morris Elementary in Swartz Creek Michigan, discuss the importance of leadership to support implementation of intensive intervention.
In this video, Mary Randel, a doctoral candidate in Special Education at Michigan State University & NCII Coach for the Swartz Creek School District, addresses the importance of ensuring that students with disabilities have access to supports across the tiers of a tiered frameworks, especially intensive intervention.
In this video, Dr. Lynn Fuchs, Nicholas Hobbs Professor of Special Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University and Senior Advisor to the National Center on Intensive Intervention, shares advice regarding access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.
In this video, Dr. Evelyn Johnson, Associate Professor at Boise State University, discusses how data can be used to support eligibility decisions for students with disabilities.
In this video, Mike Jacobsen, Assessment and Curriculum Director, White River School District in Washington State discusses how their districts planned for and implemented intensive intervention within the districts RTI model.
In this video, Rob Horner, Professor of Special Education at the University of Oregon and co-Director of OSEP Technical Assistance Center on PBIS and the OSEP Research and Demonstration Center on School-wide Behavior Support, discusses how data systems can be used within the context of intensive intervention.
This video features reflections from Bill Rasplica, the former executive director of Franklin Pierce Schools, about his experiences implementing DBI, lessons learned, and recommendations for other district leaders.
In this video, Drs. Mitch Yell and Tessie Bailey share information about the 2017 Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. They highlight implications for writing a student's IEP and discuss the importance of setting setting ambitious IEP goals to ensure that students make progress in light of their individual circumstances.
In this video, Dr. Steve Goodman, Director of Michigan's Integrated Behavior and Learning Support Initiative, discusses the benefits of embedding intensive intervention within a multi-tiered system of support.
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Over the last several months, many people have expressed how strangely time seems to be passing by. In one way, the time has flown by, and in other ways, it’s crept along at a snail’s pace. Since the pandemic started, some of us have been forced to slow down and take stock of our lives, while others have been grappling with new or altered family roles and responsibilities—and there aren’t enough hours in the day.
The card for the month of September is the Two of Wands, an interesting card as it depicts a man holding a small globe, a symbol that the world is in his hands. There is massive potential and future discoveries waiting for him…if he accepts them, that is. Since we’re all experiencing shifts—both internal and external—the Two of Wands beckons us to see the possibilities ahead. It encourages us to take chances and necessary risks to live fuller lives. Change is coming, and you’ll be asked to make moves that are grounded in intention and alignment.
Because we all process change differently, this period of time might feel energizing for some and uncomfortable for others. As often as you can, breathe into the present moment. Savor what you can—you’ll look back on this time and realize just how pivotal it was.
Now that we have this month’s overarching theme out of the way, let’s get down to your individual signs, shall we?
*Many of the individual cards this month are court cards (Knight, Queen, King, etc.), which means that you’ll be asked to take back the reins of your life and lead with authority. With the Two of Wands as the overarching theme of change, this means you’ll be taking ownership of your life in new ways.*
Virgo: Knight of Wands
Favorable circumstances are waiting for you, Virgos. Don’t procrastinate on passion projects this month—they could carry an opportunity that you least expect. Be open and receptive; it will pay off in the end.
Libra: Four of Wands
Celebrations galore this month! Enjoy this time with loved ones and be grateful for the blessings you have. Even when life is crazy, there are still things to appreciate and celebrate. Make gratitude your focus this month.
Scorpio: Knight of Swords
Communication is key these next few weeks, as you could be easily misinterpreted or misunderstood. Be direct and clear with your words. Speak up for yourself—people will respect you even more when they see you standing up for what you care about.
Sagittarius: King of Swords
This month holds a big realization for you. Something that you’ve been mulling over lately is now starting to make sense. This could apply to work/career, as well as a dynamic within your relationships. You have incredible communication skills and you’re not afraid to speak up for what you believe, so use your voice in a constructive way.
Capricorn: The Lovers
Love is in the air! The message for you, dear Capricorns, is to open yourself up to love and unity. Don’t be afraid to come out of your shell and realize just how much of a catch you are. The Lovers card can apply to romantic relationships with others, but it can also mean embracing love for yourself. So, in the spirit of love, here’s a challenge: each morning this month, look at yourself in the mirror and give yourself a big juicy compliment.
Aquarius: Ten of Wands
You’ve got a lot on your plate this month, Aquarians. Your load is heavy, and you’re getting tired. You might be carrying around a lot of worry and anxiety, too. Just remember to take things one step at a time. Listen to your energy levels and take time to rest when you need it. In other words, be kind to yourself!
Pisces: Eight of Cups, reversed
Have you noticed a shift in your life recently? A realization that’s bubbling to the surface of your consciousness? You may experience more clarity this month around a big decision or choice. You may feel the need to step away from something that isn’t working. Continue to dig deep for answers and let go of what doesn’t serve you. When you move in alignment with your inner knowing, all will be well.
Aries: Page of Wands
Has there been something that’s caught your attention lately? A class that piques your interest? Perhaps a hobby you haven’t explored in a while? Explore why this need is arising within you. Spend some quality time with your inner artist this month.
Taurus: King of Pentacles
This month will bring more stability, and you’ll be able to transmit that to family and loved ones as well. People might lean on you because you have the physical and emotional means to provide for them. This is a beautiful thing, especially in a time when many are struggling for support.
The reversal of this card might leave you feeling a bit imbalanced this month. There could be relationships in your life that are pulling you in opposite directions. Are co-workers and work taking time away from family? Maybe there’s tension among friends, leaving you in the middle? Take some time to be really intentional with the people in your life and those you care about most. By slowing down and spending some time alone with your feelings, you could restore some of that balance.
It’s time to make a decision on an important matter that you’ve been procrastinating on—it’s not the time to be wishy-washy. People are depending on you to make up your mind. The Justice card is all about fairness and truth. Choose carefully and consciously—your decision could have long-term repercussions.
Leo: Two of Cups
Commitment and coexistence: How can you honor these dynamics this month? They could show up in the form of compromising with a partner as you juggle family responsibilities. Or, it could mean making needed changes to work harmoniously with a colleague. Whatever the situation, be prepared to meet them halfway.
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Dated: 24 May 2008
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Gordon Brown’s government is reacting to its growing unpopularity by increasing its shift to the right.
Redistribute the wealth at Argos Two thousand distribution workers in the Unite union at Argos are currently balloting to strike over pay.
In a bitter blow to firefighters, the high court decided last week to back a government ruling that strips pensions payments from firefighters injured in the course of their duties.
The conference of the TSSA rail workers’ union last week debated the union’s relationship with Labour, and in particular Gordon Brown.
Two sacked airport workers in Northern Ireland are on hunger and thirst strike for the second time in a month.
Blackburn with Darwen Refuse workers in Blackburn with Darwen council are planning another one-day strike with a mass rally through Blackburn town centre on Friday of this week.
Around 200 people gathered in Preston Flag market on Thursday of last week to commemorate 60 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Members of the NUJ journalists’ union at Newsquest York were set to strike for five days from Thursday of this week over management’s below-inflation pay offer of 3 percent.
Unite union members working on London’s buses met last week for the London Busworkers Conference.
Bus drivers in the Unite union at Transdev Harrogate and District have voted in favour of strike action over a new driving schedule and rota system.
Almost 600 bus drivers in the Unite union at Brighton and Hove Buses are set to strike over a pay deal that would also make changes to workers’ conditions.
The national council elected at Respect’s annual conference last year met last weekend, joined by branch representatives from around the country. The main subject of discussion was the elections held earlier this month.
Oldham protest against academies Over 100 parents, children, teachers and local residents held a lively and noisy protest at the planned site for one of three proposed city academies in Oldham in Lancashire on Wednesday of last week.
Not content with allowing Royal Mail to close hundreds of post offices around the country as part of a bid to become more market friendly, the government is said to be considering plans to part-privatise the entire postal service.
There is another, less famous May 1968 anniversary this month – the partial collapse of the Ronan Point tower block in Newham, east London. Twenty two storeys high, this block was based on a Danish system that was only designed to go up to six storeys.
Leaders of the Unison union were delivered two shattering blows last week when the trade union certification officer ruled that a crackdown on two of the union’s best known left wingers broke the union’s own rules – and in one case even broke the law.
The Trade union certification officer found that Tony Staunton, a member of the Unison union’s south west regional council for more than a decade, was "unreasonably excluded" from being a candidate in the 2007 national executive elections.
More than a million people employed by local authorities could take on the government in the growing battle over public sector pay.
Workers from different public sector unions will come together on 9 June for a TUC lobby of parliament over pay.
The need for more united action to beat Gordon Brown’s pay freeze is clear to many.
The national march against fascism and racism called for Saturday 21 June in London is building momentum.
The trial of the "Raytheon Nine" anti-war activists is set to start this week in Belfast, and last for up to six weeks.
A 24-year old US soldier has refused his deployment to Iraq.
The US military and its Iraqi allies have abandoned the siege of Sadr City, the poor Shia slum of Baghdad, after failing to disarm the Mehdi army – a resistance organisation led by rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Key amendments to the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill – which include the biggest attacks on abortion rights for 18 years – were being debated as Socialist Worker went to press.
"Who would have thought that a Labour government would abolish the 10p tax rate, increase taxes for the least well off and cut tax for the rich? We need to make Gordon Brown listen."
Attempts to limit women’s access to abortion were defeated on Tuesday evening. Anti-abortionists had tried to hijack the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill by putting various amendments that would restrict a woman’s right to choose – including cutting the current 24-week time limit to between 12 and 22 weeks and forcing pregnant women to undergo compulsory counselling.
The trial of the Raytheon Nine got underway after a number of delays and postponements on Tuesday at Laganside Court in Belfast.
New Labour was routed in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election because Labour voters wanted to punish Gordon Brown. The decision to increase taxes for some of the poorest paid and for many pensioners topped the list of grievances but working class people are seeing prices soar as this government tries to hold wage rises below inflation.
A series of brutal attacks on migrant workers in South Africa in the last two weeks has left dozens dead and forced thousands to flee.
A Roma camp in Naples is burnt to the ground as crowds cheer the attackers. Meanwhile police round up hundreds of illegal immigrants, deporting many of them immediately.
The US-backed government in Lebanon is attempting to wriggle out of a deal that ended days of heavy fighting in the country last week.
There has been a slight recovery of nerve in the financial centres of Wall Street and the City of London over the past few weeks.
Many people reading the mainstream media coverage of the British National Party (BNP) will have been struck by a curious coyness when it comes to describing the nature of the organisation.
The roots of the British National Party (BNP) lie in the splinters of the National Front (NF), the main fascist organisation of the late 1970s.
The collapse of the Labour vote and the resurgence of the Tories in the recent local elections sent a shiver down the spine of millions and should have sounded the death knell for New Labour.
Instant pay cuts, a minimum wage that exists on paper but not in pay packets, 70-hour weeks, unpaid overtime, no holidays, rotten conditions and instant dismissal are the daily grind for at least two million workers in Gordon Brown’s Britain.
The TUC report includes many interviews with vulnerable workers, giving snapshots into the reality of life for many in Britain.
Agency workers are paid much less than their directly employed counterparts.
At the beginning of the First World War, lines of French infantry in blue coats and red trousers charged machine guns and modern artillery. The French lost one man in four in a month.
This book is about a period that, for so many of us who were involved, was one of the most memorable and extraordinary of our lives.
Alexandra township was at the forefront of South Africa’s fight against apartheid. So it is shocking that it is now at the centre of attacks on migrants. But the experience in the townships of 14 years of African National Congress (ANC) government has been the slow removal of hope.
A Saturday at the end of every June will see armies parade through the streets, showing off their military might. Sporting events on the day will acquire a "military flavour".
Thanks to Gordon Brown’s pandering to the bigots inside his own cabinet, Labour MPs had a free vote on anti-abortion amendments put to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in parliament this week.
Pauline Campbell was a formidable campaigner and a tower of strength for those whom the state willfully chose to neglect.
We can organise the unemployed It is notoriously difficult for us to organise ourselves when we are unemployed because we have no workplace.
‘Rising energy and import prices will almost certainly push inflation up further, possibly significantly, in the coming months.’ Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England
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Subhumans - "Time Flies + Rats" LP (Red)
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As the title suggests, this 1986 album compiled the eight-track, "Time Flies... But Aeroplanes Crash" 12"ep, originally recorded and released in 1983, and the four-track, "Rats," 7” EP that had been recorded during the summer of 1984 and released in early '85. "Rats" might just be the band’s most powerful and compelling release, the title track inspired by the Stop The City protests of ’84 that sought to highlight the undeniable links between first-world capitalism and third-world poverty. Whilst it’s something of a mishmash with several rowdy live tracks and a few, very enjoyable re-recordings of old Stupid Humans songs (Stupid Humans being guitarist Bruce’s pre-Subhumans band), it contains two of the Subhumans' best-loved tracks: "Work Rest Play Die" and "Susan," the latter something of an oddity as it's a stirring piano piece with lyrics written by Steve Hamilton, an old friend of the band.
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The idea of the “architecture of a system” is growing in recognition; today there are more than 100,000 professionals with the title "system architect." It appears in diverse industries, from the architecture of a power grid to the architecture of a mobile payment system.
A new book, "System Architecture: Strategy and Product Development for Complex Systems," provides a summary of the field from Edward Crawley, the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, Bruce Cameron, lecturer in MIT's Engineering Systems Division, and Daniel Selva assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University. Cameron is a graduate of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and the Engineering Systems Division doctoral program, and Selva is a graduate of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics doctoral program.
Focused on modern complex systems, the book views architecture as a series of decisions that can be actively sorted and managed. The text builds a cohesive framework, working from foundational examples, such as pumps, circuits, and sorting algorithms, to complex systems in networking and hybrid cars. Examples are built on the development experience of the authors in communications, transportation, mobile advertising, finance, robotics, and medical devices — ranging in complexity from farm equipment to the International Space Station.
Other contributors include Norm Augustine, former CEO of Lockheed Martin; Victor Tang, former special advisor to the CEO of IBM; and Willard Simmons, CTO of DataXu, the leading demand-side platform for online advertising.
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Bo Grayson has spent eight years travelling around living the life of a ski bum. His prep school shrink refers to his lifestyle as "fantasyland" and warns against dedicating his life to finding fresh powder. Gradually, spurred on by new relationships and the success of old friends, Bo decides to become a serious grown up and becomes a Chicago trader in search of the really big money. However he has always been interested in psychology and eventually turns to a Jungian analyst to try and make sense of his life.
I was initially attracted to this book as someone who had spent some time working in ski resorts. In fact the first part of the book was so familiar to me. Bo could have been any number of people I worked with in the past, and I remember sharing his musings about whether one should do what is expected; go to university, get a good job, buy a big house and have a family, or whether living on the breadline but having a lot of fun could be equally fulfilling. It was a vivid reminder of a very alluring lifestyle
The second part charts Bo's move into the "real" world and explores his relationships with old school friends. Some have been wildly successful in monetary terms but appear lacking in other ways. He dwells more and more on who he is and how he should be living his life, and in the third part he finally addresses all the internal conflicts causing his ongoing depression. I found the ideas on psychology interesting and presented in a way that was, to me with very limited knowledge on the subject, accessible. The latter parts had a very different feel to the first, probably a reflection on Bo's state of mind but it felt a little disconnected to me. This book was almost the negative image of Adelaide MacKenzie Fuss' The Watermen, which I read and reviewed last year. The themes are certainly similar, although this book tackles them in a more academic way.
I liked Bo and was able to empathise with his somewhat familiar dilemma early on in the book. As he knuckled down to life as a city trader I was interested to see whether he would end up with a seven figure salary and a trophy wife or whether he would choose a different measure of success. The supporting characters made for an interesting cast. I found myself compelled to pick the book up and keep reading to find out what would happen to more than one of them.
I enjoyed this read which provided a bit of snow covered escapism and some interesting psychology. I've struggled to decide what rating to give it, but decided that having to think about it rather than having a really strong positive reaction probably meant I should go with the rating given. A good piece of nicely written contemporary fiction.
Format: Kindle, review copy
Publisher: Mud Season Publishing
My Rating: 3*
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Queens, NY has seventeen travel and tourism schools within a 100-mile radius of its city center. New York University, the highest ranked school in this group with a travel and tourism program, has a total student population of 43,404. It is the 13th highest ranked school in the USA and the 2nd highest in the state of New York (#1 is Columbia University in the City of New York).
Travel and Tourism students from Queens schools who go on to become travel agents, tourism agents, tourism specialists, tour guides, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 76,990 people working as travel agents alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $32,450. Also, Travel guides make on average $33,300 per year and there are about 4,270 of them employed in the US today.
Of the 17 travel and tourism schools with a 100-mile radius of Queens, only 7 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, New York University comes out as the most expensive ($34,011/yr) for travel and tourism students, with Mercer County Community College as the lowest, reported at only $3,403/yr.
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|Long Island City||NY||-||4||18.9499||59||7.9 miles|
|Garden City||NY||-||5||29.9653||250||8.7 miles|
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Foundations for Farming, is a life-long process, seeking the potential of Africa, using the faithfull stewardship of the land. Through FfF, Africans are encouraged and trained to use their talent, trusting God to be faithful to their land, by serving individuals, villages, communities and nations, to grow to their God-given potential and purpose - to glorify God.
This agricultural curriculum is much more than a method of farming - it is a message of hope for the poor.
The message is about our Father, the Creator, who desires to have a living relationship with us, His children. He calls us to be faithful stewards of His creation, to see our work as our greatest act of worship to Him.
Foundations for Farming is all about making disciples for Jesus Christ, believing that He is the only foundation, also for agriculture.
In FfF, a school curriculum has been written to raise up the next generation with focus to be faithful stewards of their land and breaking the bondage of hunger and dependancy.
At Eagle's Nest Christian School, the FfF model serves as a training station in giving teachers, learners and community workers, the exposure of integration of FfF into the different grades' (currently 5 and 6) outreach, leadership and life orientation programme and to be a part of a club in the afternoons.
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Experts to share mobile app development know-how
Manama, April 8, 2014
Bahrain’s eGovernment Authority is set to organise a workshop entitled ‘Mobile Applications,’ where experts will present their global expertise.
As part of the Bahrain International eGovernment Forum 2014 activities, the workshop, in collaboration with mobile product development company ThinSlices, will take place on April 22 and 23 at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC).
The workshop will discuss the latest trends in mobility, the experience of companies in developing mobile apps and transforming them into ‘Smart Government’ concept, in addition to developing users’ experience and transforming multiple complicated services into mobility platforms that are compatible with the main traditional platforms to provide services via several channels using web applications, smart device applications and cloud computing.
The speakers are Ilie Ghiciuc, founder and COO of ThinSlices and CTO of Hppy, and Vlad Bodi, the founder and CEO of Hppy, a mobile app entrepreneur who created a mobile and web tool that assists companies to track and manage their employee’s happiness.
They will also present an introduction of mobile platforms in Europe and North America.
The forum will comprise eight specialised workshops, each covering 16 hours arranged in two days.
It will take place under the supervision and follow-up of the eGovernment Authority as well as the coordination of NGOs, specialised institutes and international organisations. - TradeArabia News Service
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The Moscow Zoo. (1990 - 1999)
Availability of videosources
Needs clarification of possibility of digitizing in HD.
Scene №1 The Moscow Zoo
Giraffe in the Zoo aviary.
Vultures, golden eagles and other predatory birds in the aviary.
Sculpture of a tiger.
Weathered sculptures of animals and fairy-tale characters in a landfill.
The monkeys, ostriches, llamas in cages, black swans in the pond.
Visitors to the zoo.
Main entrance to the zoo, a tower with weather vane.
Llamas in the aviary.
Plates, "Please do not feed the animals," "The barrier of children is not set!"
A pond, a coin in the water.
People at the entrance to the Moscow Zoo.
The representative of the police said an anonymous call reporting the bomb scare at the zoo, the evacuation of people from the zoo, the search for explosive devices.
The policemen at the entrance to the zoo, go to the police dog.
Adults and children are held on the territory of the zoo through the main entrance - different plans.
Key wordsThings to Do in Moscow Terrorism
SeasonsSummer Day Sunny Cloudy Rain
Ecology; Towns and countries; Defense and internal security; Crime and Accidents
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It sucks to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan these days. I mean, it really sucks. They have unpredictable goaltending, no leadership and a lack of both mental and physical toughness. And 2012 will mark the seventh calendar year the "flagship franchise" of the NHL will be on the outside of the playoffs looking in. While the fanbase is more jaded and upset than ever before (and that's saying a lot), if Leafs fans stopped and looked around, they'd realize that things aren't really as bad as they think.
Here's a list of the reasons the Leafs will be back in the postseason in 2013.
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BY KURT MOFFETT REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
NORFOLK — Most residents here would prefer the Colebrook and Norfolk schools pursue a tuition or cooperative arrangement rather than regionalization.
That was the sentiment expressed at a 90-minute meeting in the Botelle School Hall of Flags Wednesday night. A committee of elected officials and school superintendents from both towns spent the past several months discussing with a consultant, Jonathan Costa of Education Connection, different options the districts have should they merge.
Each town has one elementary school. Both towns are experiencing declining student enrollments and higher per pupil costs.
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Fear not for the demonized Casey Anthony, who has gotten her fair share of death threats, sure (and will be changing her name and donning a disguise upon her release from jail). Because despite all that, she has lots of friends. Friends who send her money to spend on makeup and ponytail holders and delicious snacks, and other fun things from the jailhouse canteen. As you’d probably guess, most of the people sending her money are men…but there are some women, too. Some believe she’s innocent, some think she hasn’t been fairly treated, some think Nancy Grace is really too mean, some just want to marry her.
ABC News reports that at least 17 people have sent Anthony money orders since May, according to Orange County Corrections Department records. Her parents, for the record, have not sent her any money since May 8. Donations have increased since her acquittal, including $100 from one person this week. Compared with the average prison balance of $36.30, Casey’s got a sweet $472.18. One person even offered her a place to stay when she gets out of jail. What does she buy with this cash?
Anthony, who does not appear to have sent any thank you notes, has spent the money on things like shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, eyeliner, ponytail holders as well as snacks like premium chicken breasts, jalapeno nacho cheese dip and spicy peanuts.
When contacted by ABC News to find out why her son sent money to Casey Anthony, the mom of one guy screamed into the phone, “He did what?”
Seems fair. By the way, she gets to bring the money home with her when she leaves…on Sunday.
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Summer is winding down, and with it, our Email Essentials blog series comes to a close. Over the last month we’ve explored four critical components of successful email marketing: authentication, email lists, mobile, and metrics. Today we consider audience identity management.
For the last 20 years, healthcare marketers have known little about their website visitors. Requiring site registration has always turned physicians away, and cookies have become increasingly unreliable. Fortunately, you now have another option.
In June, we launched the Audience Identity Manager℠, a new technology that gathers physician-level data about visitors to your healthcare and pharma websites, without a login. You can use this data in real-time to drive dynamic content personalization and ad optimization. Or, you can analyze it and integrate your visitor insights into your email campaigns, event promotions, and sales rep interactions.
The three blogs below explore how AIM works and why DMD is uniquely positioned to deliver this technology.
Stop Daydreaming. Audience Identity Management is a Reality
Cookies can’t provide the web data that healthcare marketers need, so we created an innovative audience management tool that can. Learn exactly how our new Audience Identity Manager℠ (AIM) works.
4 Features of Audience Identity Management That Every HCP Marketer Should Know
AIM delivers greater insights into your physician website visitors than ever before. Discover how this new technology goes beyond cookies to provide lasting value—even if you’re not a DMD email customer.
Audience Identity Management and the Email Channel
DMD’s email and data expertise make us uniquely qualified to deliver physician-level website data to power your marketing campaigns. Understand the role authentication and our Healthcare Communication Network℠ play in audience identity management.
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The Department of Religious Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor for a specialist in the study of Hinduism beginning September 1, 2014. Candidates may specialize in any time period, but the successful candidate must demonstrate expertise in Classical Sanskrit. Candidates must also combine their research interests with questions of theory and method in the study of religion, and must engage with Buddhist Studies. The successful candidate will contribute to the graduate and undergraduate programs of a religious studies department. Please send in PDF format a cover letter, 3 letters of recommendation, CV, and writing sample no longer than 25 pages. Applications must be submitted online and will be given primary consideration if received by November 1, 2013. AA/EOE. Women and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply. Feel free to contact us at email@example.com if you have any questions or need help with the application.
To begin the application process for this search, click here.
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Kwame Raoul: Emanuel's comments about morals in violent neighborhoods 'outright Improper'
Site owners identified the value of the substantial ranking and visibility in online search engine outcomes,[six] producing a possibility for equally white hat and black hat Search engine marketing practitioners. In keeping with market analyst Danny Sullivan, the phrase "search engine optimization" possibly came into use in 1997.
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An Web optimization system is considered white hat if it conforms to the search engines' suggestions and includes no deception. Given that the online search engine guidelines will not be published to be a series of guidelines or commandments, this is a vital distinction to notice. White hat SEO isn't just about pursuing rules, but is about making sure that the content a search engine indexes and subsequently ranks is identical written content a person will see.
As of 2009, you will find just a few large marketplaces where Google is not the major internet search engine. In most cases, when Google will not be major in a offered current market, it truly is lagging behind an area player.
Kate (our venture manager) has an uncanny power to acquire items I describe in less than technological phrases and produce them to lifestyle on our company Web page. I’m constantly impressed by the workforce’s availability and swift turnarounds. In the last year, Now we have expanded our romance With all the Andromeda group to incorporate Website positioning administration and advancement. We are psyched to view in which this project and long run assignments consider us.
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Some search engines like google and yahoo have also achieved out to the Web optimization business, and they are Regular sponsors and company at Search engine optimisation conferences, webchats, and seminars. Major serps offer facts and suggestions to assist with Site optimization.[eighteen] Google includes a Sitemaps application to aid website owners find out if Google is owning any difficulties indexing their Web-site and in addition presents info on Google visitors to the website.
Deeply optimistic, I’m an creator, educator and speaker; I get in touch with myself a winner of social excellent. As a result of my perform, I hope that will help remedy a lot of the planet's major difficulties--poverty, sickness and local weather transform. My books—examine over one million situations—on making use of revenue once and for all, perso...
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With respect to the benefits of their social superior endeavours to the corporate, Consler concluded, “With our far better-for-you offerings, our social responsibility courses and our ongoing guidance on the Neighborhood, consumers frequently realize Jamba as one of several best well being and wellness models from the region, which can be notable when you concentrate on that we do not need shops in every point out.”
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The Chief Executive’s Office is responsible for the governance and internal day to day operation of the society, supporting the chair, vice-chair and members of Council, and for managing and coordinating all decisions of Council. The directorate also includes the Human Resources Team. Karen Middleton CBE (right) is CSP chief executive - find out more about Karen.
Natalie Beswetherick (left) is director of the Practice and Development Directorate which promotes high standards of physiotherapy practice, education, research and development. The directorate provides the tools and services to lead and support members in their physiotherapy practice and development and works with members to advocate for and promote the value of physiotherapy to stakeholders.
Claire Sullivan (right) is director of Employment Relations and Union Services (ERUS), the trade union arm of the society. ERUS staff support CSP members, both individually and collectively, in the workplace and promotes both CSP and members' interests at local, regional, national and international level.
Finance, Facilities and Membership Directorate - Stuart De Boos (left) is the director of finance and manages the financial affairs of the Society, membership business, CSP's Information Communication Technology Team and upkeep of its various premises.
Rob Yeldham (right) is director of Strategy, Policy and Engagement Directorate, and is responsible for promoting the physiotherapy profession, member communications, stakeholder relations, enquiry handling, policy and income generation.
To get in touch with any of the Leadership Team please contact the CSP’s Enquiries Team (ET).
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In Suicide Room, Dominik Santorski (Jakub Gierszał) is a teenager who seemed to have everything that matters to the young: good grades at school, money to buy the best branded clothing, tons of friends and the hottest girl in school. All of that changes for him following a series of embarrassing incidents that his friends capture on video and share on social media websites. His humiliation and victimisation at the hand of bullying is extended when one encounter suggests his interest in boys is more than just a party prank. Shutting himself off from the rest of the world, Dominic is then drawn into the virtual reality chat room world of the Suicide Room, a hangout where group members watch films that depict people self-harming themselves. It is in this virtual word that he meets Sylwia (Roma Gąsiorowska) with whom he develops a strong bond of friendship.
Dominik withdraws increasingly from the real world and shuts himself more and more into the darkness of the virtual world, for days at a time. His career-driven parents are inadequately able to understand or help him, even after an embarrassing incident at the opera house where an angry Dominik tells his parents he is gay and makes out with male busts in the lobby. Things come to a head when Sylwia asks him to get pills for her which he does with far reaching consequences.
The Suicide Room does not apologise for its heavy, dark and disturbing themes. Instead what is offered is a spotlight on the real damaging effects of bullying as well as offering an insightful view into millennial youth culture.
“It takes an emotional toll on some. That being said, Komasa has the kind of guts and ambition we need in cinema today.”
— Cinema Without Boarders
“A disturbing and occasionally powerful look at youths with suicidal tendencies through the off/online realms that they inhabit. ”
Did You Know?
When Suicide Room was first released in cinemas in Poland, it held the number one movie spot for three weeks. The film includes names of a few real life teenagers who committed suicide which can be found in the Facebook sequences. Review our Gay Themed Films Here
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I did this solo adventure originally for Fight On Magazine #13, which came out in December. It has had a couple of months now to make sales, and I want to release the adventure to a wider audience. This new version incorporates material that the original did not have—an essay about Tunnels and Trolls combat, a section at the end telling how to run it as a GM adventure, and some new art by David Ullery.
Adventures like Battle School, Tavern by the Sea, and DewDrop Inn help explain what the bold adventurers are doing between adventures. It may be a trend as I have noticed several other solos recently, like Michael Eidson’s Down Time in TrollsZine 4, that also ask the question: what is the adventurer doing between expeditions?
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It was only a mock of a head on collision with another vehicle that resulted in two deaths. The whole scene was staged but the impact was no less real.
Wesley Clayton, president of the Western Days Association said, “You can’t imagine, even in this scenario with the parents and students going through it, the emotions that come out. We know that it is not real. We try to make it as real as possible. It is very traumatic.”
The Yorktown Western Days Association worked together with emergency responders and related businesses to bring “Shattered Dreams” to Yorktown on March 4 and 5.
Maddie Bryand and Raegan Cunningham were selected to be part of the staged wreck.
Before the event, while being prepped, Bryand said, “I am kind of nervous. Shaking. I just want to get to it and see what it will be like.”
Read more in this week's edition of the Yorktown News-View. Call 361-564-2242 to subscribe to the News-View.
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This week, listen Tuesday night at Midnight (Wednesday @ 12 AM EDT), Friday night at 10:00 EDT, and Sunday night at 9:00 EDT.
The Weekly Feed is a one hour specialty show hosted by Kyle Meredith from the WFPK studios in Louisville, KY. Hear the newest, best, and most discussed tracks making waves on music blogs across the net, all compiled into a mixtape bent on keeping you up-to-date!
Week of 3/23/15: Houndmouth is the featured guest and Parquet Courts play guest DJ!
Houndmouth joins Kyle Meredith to talk Little Neon Limelight, Sean Cannon hangs with Parquet Courts, and we spin new Wire, Dandy Warhols, Young Fathers, Ben Sollee, Laura Marling, Surjan Stevens, and Lydia Loveless covering Prince!
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Great news for all Spidey fans, as Beenox’s upcoming ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ will hit the PC platform after all. The game was originally announced as a X360 / PS3 title and there was no mention about a possible PC version. However, Activision sent us a new press release in which they have included the PC version. Not only that, but the PC version is developed by Beenox themselves and will be released after the console versions. There is no specific date yet, but we can expect it to see around August (the console versions are slated for a June 29th release).
The Amazing Spider-Man brings Spider-Man’s free-roaming, web-slinging action back to New York City. Players take on the role of a young Peter Parker discovering his new Spider-Man powers and added Super Hero responsibilities, using the game’s innovative Web Rush mechanic to swing freely around Manhattan, combat a variety of criminal activities and take on classic Marvel Super Villains.
Set against an original story crafted by Hollywood writer Seamus Kevin Fahey (Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Battlestar Galactica) that takes place entirely after the events of the upcoming feature film, The Amazing Spider-Man video game delivers a brand-new, immersive and cinematic adventure allowing players to truly harness the power of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN New York Comic Con Trailer
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With controversy raging over the lack of diversity among this year’s Academy Award acting nominees, organizers of the Tree of Life Awards, informally known as the “Black Oscars,” are reportedly considering reviving the defunct awards ceremony as way of honoring the industry’s top black talent.
The Tree of Life Awards were begun in 1981 by Washington, D.C. attorney Albert Nellum and retired in 2007, the same year that Forrest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson and Dreamgirls sound mixer Wille D. Burton took home top awards at the Oscars, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The industry’s most prolific black entertainers gathered at a Hollywood hotel on the night before the Academy Awards and toasted each other’s accomplishments. Earning an Oscar nomination got one an automatic invitation to the ceremony; stars like Will Smith, Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, Queen Latifah, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Vivica A. Fox have all been honored at the awards show.
Instead of the Academy, the event was organized and overseen by a private group called Friends of the Black Oscar Nominees. Journalists were invited to the ceremony, but were encouraged not to write about it.
Gil Robertson, president of the African-American Film Critics Association, described the event to the Times as a “symbolic gesture [to black Hollywood] to say, ‘I see you. We can do this, and so we are.'”
“It was something that was needed because we were all over the place trying to make our careers, which were dependent on [mainstream] acceptance,” Oscar-winner Louis Gossett Jr., who co-hosted the Tree of Life Awards in 2002, told the Times. “This got us ‘back to the roots’ to recognize one another and encourage one another to continue on. It was an extremely important thing.”
The 2003 event was hosted by Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith and took place at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Honorees included Washington, Viola Davis, Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson, according to a write-up of the evening in Jet magazine.
The annual event was retired in 2007 after eight African-Americans were nominated at that year’s Academy Awards.
However, after a second consecutive year in which the Academy nominated exclusively white actors in top categories at the Oscars — leading to pledges of boycott from top stars like Will Smith and Spike Lee and a dramatic overhaul of the Academy’s voting rules and organizational structure — organizers have expressed interest in bringing back the “Black Oscars,” actress-director Debbie Allen told the Times.
“It was always a celebration of what accomplishments black people had done in the film industry,” Allen said. “Sound, music directors, actors, whatever your participation was, you were honored.”
The 88th Academy Awards airs Sunday, February 28th on ABC.
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Murwillumbah trainer Matthew Dunn is looking...
Trainer Peter Snowden believes that he would have been robbing Long John of an opportunity if he did not run him in the 2013 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley tomorrow.
Snowden had said in the lead-up to the Caulfield Guineas (1600m) that he was unsure whether he would press Long John on to the Cox Plate but after the Street Cry gelding’s strong performance in the Group 1 event earlier this month believes that he is more than worthy of a place in the 2013 Cox Plate field.
“He’s come on well so there was no hesitation in my mind to give him his chance,” Snowden told AAP.
“He’s been very strong late and I feel if I didn’t give the horse the opportunity I would be robbing him of that possibility.”
Long John has shown a great deal of tactical versatility throughout his three-year-old preparation and Snowden said he is hoping that the tough gelding would be towards the front of the field and putting the pressure on with his light-weight in the 2013 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley tomorrow.
“These are real proven 2000-metre horses and they’ll be very strong late so we need to take advantage of our weight situation and put him in the first three or four at least and give himself a chance when they do start to quicken up,” Snowden said.
“He’s shown before he can keep finding something when he’s challenged.”
Long John will be only Snowden’s second ever runner in the Cox Plate after classy colt Helmet finished eighth behind Pinker Pinker as favourite in the 2011 edition of the race.
Snowden has said consistently that Long John and Helmet could not be any more different and admits that he feels less pressure going into the race this year.
“For me there was a lot of pressure on Helmet as he was expected to win and it didn’t come off,” Snowden said.
“It’s an even race this time.
“I’m going in with an open mind and just knowing the horse is well and racing well.”
Long John will be the first horse to complete the Caulfield Guineas/Cox Plate double since Red Anchor in 1984 if he is successful at Moonee Valley tomorrow.
You can find the best odds for Long John or any other Cox Plate runner at Ladbrokes.com.au.
They are offering Double The Odds on every horse in the Cox Plate field so Long John is available at the amazing odds of $15.
Sign-up and deposit at Ladbrokes.com.au tomorrow to take advantage of this deal and receive a free bet worth up to $500!
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“Eh… So where does your money come from?”
Hands down, this is the question I get the most often… And if people aren’t asking it, I can tell they are thinking it. 😉
First off, let’s clarify a few things:
Like I mentioned in my homestead myth-busting post, becoming a modern homesteader doesn’t necessarily mean you head for the hills, go completely off-grid, and live off the land entirely. (Although I suppose you could go that route if you wanted…)
For me, modern homesteading is a magical concoction of old-fashioned skills mixed with our modern-day conveniences. Although we raise a lot of food on our property, are obsessive DIYers, and try to be as self-sufficient as possible, my husband has always had a “job in town” and there are times when I’m quite thankful for the local grocery store. It’s a balance.
That said, I think most of us homestead-folks would agree: the sign you’ve officially “arrived” as a modern homesteader is the day you create an income exclusively from your land. It’s something definitely on our list of goals, and we are achieving it in our own way (more on that later). However, we didn’t start out this way, and we pursued our homesteading dreams on one-income for several years before my business took off.
Thankfully, the ways of making money while homesteading are endless. Here is a list to jump-start your entrepreneur juices—>
(this post contains affiliate links)
39 Ways to Make Money Homesteading
Selling Food Products
The downside to selling food you’ve grown or made, is dealing with restrictive food safety laws (especially in regards to meat and milk). Do your homework first and looked into your state’s regulations extensively before proceeding. One strategy to help avoid red tape is to sell the animals themselves, rather than the food product. For example: if you are raising meat chickens for profit, you can often sell the bird without as many hoops to jump through, as compared to selling cut and wrapped chicken breasts.
1. Sell eggs — someone is ALWAYS wanting farm-fresh eggs!
2. Sell extra milk from your goats or cow.
3. Start a cowshare or goatshare program — This is one way to work around raw milk laws– just do your homework first.
4. Sell cheeses or other homemade dairy products.
5. Sell broilers or meat birds (Joel Salatin’s book, Pastured Poultry Profits, will give you the scoop on this.)
6. Raise and sell grassfed steers for beef
7. Raise and sell heritage turkeys, ducks, or geese.
8. Raise and sell tilapia or other farmed fish (This is actually something we’ve looked into extensively, believe it or not! It’s my husband’s dream to own a fish farm.)
9. Grow extra vegetables and herbs to sell at your local farmer’s market
10. If you have an orchard, berry bushes, or fruit trees, sell fresh fruit
12. Make and sell homemade jams, jellies, and preserves
13. Keep bees and sell local honey and beeswax
14. Become a mushroom farmer, and delight the ‘shroom lovers in your area.
As interest in modern homesteading increase, more and more people are on the lookout for dairy animals, heritage-breed chickens, and other options for increasing their self-sufficiency. If you plan to breed animals, please become knowledgeable in the bloodlines, breeding practices, and desired characteristic of that breed. Do not breed just anything that comes along–know your stuff and strive to create the best progeny possible.
15. Incubate eggs and sell day-old chicks to other homesteaders
16. Raise worms — either for fishing purposes, or raise red wigglers to sell to other people interested in compost worms
17. Breed, raise, and train family milk cows or dairy goats to sell to other homesteaders
18. Breed sheep or meat goats
19. Keep a ram, buck, or bull and charge for stud services.
20. Start a dog boarding service or pet-sitting business.
21. Raise bottle calves, sheep, or goats.
22. Keep fiber animals and sell wool
Homemade Products & Services
Have skills? Put ’em to use!
23. Make and sell homemade soaps, lotions, and balms
25. Put your knitting or sewing skills to work and create homemade hats, gloves, scarves, blankets, and more
26. Use your carpentry skills to create rustic handmade furniture or other wooden items
27. Use metal-working skills to create personalized signs or horseshoe creations
28. Have land that needs clearing? Cut and sell firewood.
29. Rent out your pasture or land for others to graze their livestock on
30. Become a compost-master and sell the best garden fertilizer for miles around
31. Use your greenhouse to grow and sell bedding plants and seedlings
Create an Experience
People are enchanted with the idea of farming and homesteading right now. Share your unique lifestyle with them!
33. Turn your house into a Bed & Breakfast and give your guests a first-hand taste of homestead life
34. Grow a pumpkin patch, and create the ultimate fall farm experience in October.
35. If you live in an especially picturesque location, rent out your pasture, barn, or land for weddings, parties, photo shoots, or other events.
36. Start a Community-Supported-Agriculture program (CSA).
Many aspects of homesteading are not second-nature to most people, and they’ll happily pay you to show them the ropes.
37. Start a blog or website — This is near and dear to my heart, as it is the income stream which has allowed us to create a full-time income while I stay at home to raise the kids. Blogging is HARD work and takes a lot of time, but it’s also very fulfilling. This post explains how I’ve created my blogging income, and I also have an online course where I’ll teach you my “secrets”, if blogging appeals to you.
38. Teach classes — Cheesemaking, fiber arts, meat processing, soap making, candle making, beekeeping… If you have mastered an aspect of homesteading, there’s a good chance others will pay to learn from you!
The main thing all of these ideas have in common? They all take time and effort. Starting your own business or becoming an entrepreneur doesn’t happen overnight. You’ll have to make a plan, overcome obstacles, and push through the times you want to give up.
The reward for the blood, sweat, and tears? Massive satisfaction, and a well-deserved income. Don’t let anyone tell you it’s easy, but it’s absolutely and totally worth it. 🙂
My Favorite Homestead Income Resources:
- How to Make Money Homesteading by Tim Young – A fabulous resource which will help you formulate a business plan and find inspiration in your homestead business ventures.
- Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin – This book will give you a detailed plan of how to raise and sell meat birds for profit.
- You Can Farm by Joel Salatin – The entrepreneuer’s guide to start and succeed in a farming enterprise.
- Blogger Blueprint – My 6-week online course where I show you exactly how I make an income from my blog (and how you can too).
Can’t Get Enough Homesteading Goodness?
Join over 75,000 others who get the weekly Homestead Toolbox delivered fresh to their inbox. It’s packed full of recipes, ideas, and homesteading tips you can actually use (no fluff), plus a copy of my very popular mulch gardening how-to guide.
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When you have a team like Target Chip Ganassi Racing behind you, you’re usually in a position to contend almost anywhere – including the Indianapolis 500. Scott Dixon, last year’s “500” runner-up, has been in this position for over a decade with TCGR, and it has to play a little into his belief that he can win Sunday’s race from 16th position.
But, as he knows very well, running for a team as strong as Ganassi at the Brickyard doesn’t just add confidence.
“It’s added pressure too, because there’s a lot to be expected,” said Dixon on Thursday during Media Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “I think everybody on our team and most of the other teams, we come here to win and you come here to do the best you can. I think the only time you might feel bad is if you did something where you didn’t give it your all or made a mistake to not achieve what you should have.”
Dixon and TCGR teammate Dario Franchitti have been battling for pace at Indianapolis, and will both be starting from the middle of the pack on Sunday. However, the Hondas showed their muscle today during Carb Day practice, and both Dixon (fourth, 224.870 mph) and Franchitti (224.688) were amongst the Top 10 drivers in the session.
Dixon hasn’t won at Indy since 2008, but has come very close recently with Top 5 results (fifth, fifth, second) in his last three “500” appearances. He is also bolstered by his team’s rally last year, which saw Franchitti and himself finish first and second on Race Day after they and the entire Honda camp appeared to be written off as threats after a dismal Pole Day (only one Honda-powered driver cracked the Fast Nine in 2012).
“I think starting mid-pack is not a total downer,” said Dixon. “I think our pace has been pretty soft for the two weeks, and we’ve definitely got some work to do, but last year, we still turned it around from a similar position. Fingers crossed, we’ll keep trying.”
It wouldn’t be wise to count out the New Zealander come Sunday.
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26th GST Council Meeting Updates.
✓ Reverse Charge Mechanism on supplies from un-registered supplier to a registered person is deferred till June, 2018.
✓ Nationwide E-way Bill on Inter-state supplies to be rolled out from 1st April, 2018.
✓ Also, E-way Bill on Intra- state supplies to be made applicable from 15th April, 2018 in phases but not later than 1st June, 2018.
To facilitate the same states are divided into 4 lots.
Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are likely to implement the same in first phase from 15th April.
✓ No decision on simplification of Returns.
✓ GSTR-3B to continue for further 3 months i.e. for Apr- Jun months.
✓ GST Implementation Committee (GIC) being tasked to redress the grievances caused to the taxpayers due to IT glitches.
✓ Deferred the implementation of E-wallet scheme for 6 months i.e. 1st Oct, 2018.
✓ Tax Exemption for exporters extended for further 6 months till 1st Oct, 2018 which was earlier 31st Mar, 2018.
✓ Suspended the provisions of TDS and TCS under section 52 & 53 respectively of CGST Act, 2017 till 30th Jun, 2018.
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Seller's Comments and Description:
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS BIG! at these 2 busy motels on well traveled Michigan Ave. Long established and recently upgraded and renovated. This listing includes 42 rental units plus residential dwelling plus a vacant commercial lot. Furniture and fixtures are included along for supplies enough for 5 years. Good Income, also good for a developers. It features 42 rooms, 18 kitchenette, 18 king, 4 Queen, 2 rooms for storage and 3.5 car garage.
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