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The club also has four youngsters playing in the National Junior Championships at Leamington in August, and Berkhamsted will again be staging the incredibly popular Gala Day, attended by 24 teams.
As part of its recruitment drive this year the club wants to emphasise the benefits of the game – citing physical exercise, competition, friendship, mindfulness and social interaction as prime reasons for taking part.
Berkhamsted BC welcomes all ages and abilities to go along and have a free taster session throughout May – all equipment is provided free and the club only asks that anyone attending takes flat soled shoes with them so they don’t harm the wonderful green that is now one of the best in the county.
Fylde’s new council chamber has been unveiled to complete a £2m conversion and restoration programme.
The revamp of the town hall in St Annes has included a new roof, reception area and heating system as well as the first designated council chamber since 2004.
Since then, full council meetings have been held at various locations around the borough, notably Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion.
The new chamber has been extended and reconfigured compared to the previous layout on the same site.
As well as fixed desks with loose seating for all 51 members of the council and a public gallery, it features new technology to allow for webcasting of meetings.
Funding for the project has included proceeds from the sale of council assets such as the Derby Road offices in Wesham, and two depots in St Annes.
NIGERIA opens a national constitutional conference today, starting what military leaders call the slow march back to elected civilian rule.
Head of state Gen. Sani Abacha, who seized power in a coup last November, said the conference would give Nigerians the opportunity to discuss their system of government and help restore credibility to the military.
But civilian opponents have dismissed the conference and organized protests to the government-led meeting after a long period of dormancy. Adding to their fervor was the arrest on June 23 on charges of sedition of Moshood Abiola, whose victory in last June's presidential poll was annulled by General Abacha's predecessor, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.
Mr. Abiola echoes the views of many Nigerians: The constitution is not at fault but successive regimes have failed to implement it.
Since Abacha seized power, Nigeria has been isolated diplomatically by the West, branded by the United States as a drug smuggling center, and eclipsed by South Africa's peaceful transition to majority rule. The government's reversion to state-controlled economic policies has deterred private-sector investment and official aid.
The military rulers apparently hoped the conference would revive its flagging fortunes. But delays and limits on the conference's powers and scope, as well as antimilitary protests, have lowered expectations.
``Nigeria is between the gunmen [the military] and the conmen [the politicians],'' according to a recent speech by Theophilus Danjuma, who was chief of military staff in 1979, the only time the military handed over power on schedule to an elected president.
The constitutional reform process here stands in stark contrast to the South African elections.
Nigerians, who greeted last month's polling for the constitutional delegates with a mixture of apathy and hostility, look upon South Africa's transfer of power with a realization that that country can now claim the vacant title to which Nigeria has long aspired - to be the foremost black African state. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has championed the cause of black majorities in southern Africa more successfully than it has resolved its own political problems.
Popular opposition to the conference is widespread.
Mr. Danjuma has formed the Middle Belt forum, representing an area of mainly Christian minority tribes who have formed the backbone of the armed forces but have been deprived of political power by the more numerous Hausa and Fulani in the far north. Minority tribes in the oil producing area, the source of 90 percent of the country's exports, say they want a conference leading to greater regional autonomy.
By early May other regional alliances had formed and called for a boycott of the conference. In the southwest, where Abiola's Yoruba kinsmen feel cheated of their turn to hold power, an assortment of veteran politicians, democracy campaigners, and retired Army officers formed the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). They denounced the conference as a sham and demanded that the military make way for a civilian government of national unity, whose first task would be to call a sovereign national conference leading to federalism rather than centralized power under military rule.
Gerry Gana, the information minister, has denied such charges. ``The constitutional conference is definitely not a ploy to buy time. We believe we are answering the yearnings of Nigerians,'' he said on state television earlier this year.
Abacha's Provisional Ruling Council will keep close control of the process. Aminu Saleh, secretary to the government, has made it clear that the final report from the conference will be written by a military-appointed commission. The commission will in turn report to a political bureau, to be appointed by the regime, which will draft the next constitution.
Previous constitutional conferences in Nigeria have acted as springboards for civilian political alliances that eventually became parties - when allowed by the military. Ninety of the 360 delagates attending the conference were nominated by the government, and many have figured prominently in past regimes.
The absence of younger political leaders from the delegate list has added to skepticism that this conference will follow patterns of the past and fail to address the most urgent issues.
Is ‘The Good Fight’ worth adding another streaming subscription? Afraid so.
One needn’t always perk up at the words “But wait, there’s more!” which is why it might have seemed, only nine months ago, as if we’d had our fill of the fictional Chicago law firms, courtrooms and political squabbles seen in seven seasons of Robert and Michelle King’s hit CBS drama “The Good Wife.” Even the most faithful watchers were ready to move on.
But what do we know? With remarkable turnaround, the Kings and their collaborators have delivered a spinoff drama, “The Good Fight,” which, in its first two episodes, proves to be a more-than-worthy successor, with the potential to surpass the original. That’s the good news.
The bad news (depending on how much you’re currently spending on your TV addiction) is that “The Good Fight” will only be available through CBS All Access, the network’s subscription streaming site that costs $5.99 a month — make that $9.99 if you want it commercial-free. Taking a page from the huckster handbook, the first taste is on the house: CBS will air a slightly edited version of the pilot episode Sunday night to lure you in, and the remaining nine episodes will be released weekly on the pay site.
That’s a little irksome, especially for those of us already paying for the privilege of watching CBS on cable or satellite. And yet consumers all but asked for this situation, first by demanding a-la-carte options from their cable providers (which never came to pass), and then, as Netflix and others revolutionized the streaming experience, cutting their cords with zeal. CBS is wise to elbow in on this action.
So, with that fine print out of the way, let’s get back to appraising “The Good Fight.” Set a year or so after “The Good Wife’s” slaptastic finale, we catch up with Diane Lockhart (Christine Baranski) at the top of her game. Her law firm, Lockhart Gardner, has merged with two other firms, creating a top-heavy mumbo-jumbo of partners. (Their names barely fit on the lobby wall.) Sensing it’s a good time to retire and get away from her displeasure at Donald Trump’s election win, Diane is shopping for a country villa in France while she works toward a settlement in her last case, representing the city in a police brutality case.
Diane asks for her job back, but she’s shown the door by her weaselly partners, including David Lee (Zach Grenier) and Howard Lyman (Jerry Adler).
As it happens, Rindell’s daughter, Maia (Rose Leslie, who played Ygritte on “Game of Thrones”), has been working as a new associate in Diane’s firm — thanks to strings Diane had pulled for her. Maia is now also out of a job and bereft at the possibility that her father (and maybe also her mother, played by Bernadette Peters) were part of such a massive crime. The first treat in “The Good Fight” is to see how instantly good Leslie is as a rookie lawyer faced with an overwhelming personal crisis. The show could easily be built around her — and it sort of is.
Baranski, of course, is a force all her own; fans will enjoy watching Diane pick herself up and start anew. Her rescuer comes in the form of Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo), Diane’s opposing attorney on the police brutality case and a partner at a law firm that prides itself on its all-black staff. Convincing his colleagues — among them Diane’s former employee, Lucca Quinn (Cush Jumbo) — that she would be a strong “diversity hire,” Lindo makes Diane a junior partner. Maia also winds up working there on the lowest rung. And before long so does Marissa Gold (Sarah Steele), and, as we get back to the courtroom, a host of familiar judges and attorneys from “The Good Wife” universe begin to reappear.
Still, the show is by no means a retread. There are shifts in storytelling and core values that are different from “The Good Wife” and make judicious use of new freedoms to be a little more risque. Most notable is the way “The Good Fight” becomes an intriguing drama about life at a minority-owned law firm, where the money, clients and a sense of justice are not as easily won as they were at Diane’s old job.
On its broadcast network, CBS may or may not have had the gumption to roll out a new one-hour drama about black lawyers — and that’s not exactly what it’s done here, either, using the firm more as a backdrop than center stage. It’s a subtle but effective use of diversity that continues to elude CBS in its on-air programming — which is all the more reason I wish “The Good Fight” was airing for free, where more viewers might catch it, instead of being offered as a fancy accessory.
The Good Fight (one hour) premieres Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBS. The remaining nine episodes will become available each Sunday on CBS All Access, a subscription streaming service.
I read recently that parents should help children take responsibility for their own feelings. For example, according to this way of thinking, if your child gets very upset when someone teases her, you should teach her how to restore her emotional equilibrium. If she blames the other child for upsetting her, you should help her realize that she has a choice as to how to react. This advice leaves me feeling confused. I would have thought that the teasing child is to blame for causing upset to the other youngster. Am I wrong?
Does a child have a choice as to how to react to an external stressor?
Is someone capable of inflicting emotional pain on someone else?
How should a parent react when one child feels injured by another child?
In answer to the first question, a child (or adult, for that matter) always has a choice as to how to react behaviorally to an external stressor. For example, if Michael teases Aaron, Aaron can choose to push Michael down, call him a nasty name, threaten to tell his mother, ask him to please stop How should a parent react when one child feels injured by another child?doing that, walk away without saying anything, and so on. Each of these is a behavioral response, and Aaron can choose how he will respond. As it says in the Torah, “I have set before you life and death . . . Choose life.”1 We all have free will when it comes to our actions.
Emotional reactions are different, however. Our emotional reactions happen through the processes of our subconscious minds. We can’t choose to feel hurt or peaceful, frightened or calm, rage or resentment. Emotional responses happen faster than the speed of light, coming from a myriad of internal sources (neural pathways, genetic information, stored memories and meanings, etc.). We can learn to choose appropriate behavioral channels for expressing emotion, such as using words instead of our fists to express our sentiments. We can also learn to help calm our own emotional responses.
This latter technique, called “Emotional Regulation,” is appropriate to teach to children to help them negotiate their own inner world. If someone hurts them, you can teach them to self-soothe, recuperate, address the wound, and so on. This information should be taught to all kids, but in the specific situation where one child has hurt another, this information is pertinent to the victim.
As for the second question, the Torah view is that we are responsible if we inflict emotional pain on other people. In fact, there is a specific mitzvah to refrain from hurting people’s feelings with words, and of course there are many, many mitzvot involving refraining from hurting them physically, financially, emotionally, and so on.2 So a child’s hurtful behavior ought to hurt its victim. If you stab someone in the arm with a knife, you are directly responsible for that pain. The idea that no one can hurt our feelings is a secular innovation of 1960s–’70s psychology. In Judaism, someone who hurts another is held accountable for doing so, and therefore a parent can and should point out to a (perpetrator) child that his behavior has consequences for others.
So far, we’ve looked at the situation where one child teases, pushes or insults another. Now let’s address the parent’s reaction. Suppose that a sibling innocently walks by his sister, and the sister cries out to Mom, “He’s making faces at me!” In this case, Mom can ask the boy if this is what happened, and if it did, direct his attention to her sad face and her obvious upset. Mom can then do whatever other educational intervention is required. Is this a pattern that needs focused attention through discipline? Is it sufficient to impress upon him that his sister is now feeling hurt?
This combination of emotional validation and education accomplishes a number of things. First, Dr. John Gottman has established through intensive research that emotional validation itself leads the child to develop the internal processes necessary for healthy emotional regulation. The more a child’s emotional world is validated, the more the child is able to self-soothe in stressful moments. Had Mom just said, “He didn’t do anything,” the invalidation would have likely led to the daughter becoming more emotionally oversensitive and reactive in the future.
In addition, the son hears his mother validating his sister. If he did have a role in the little girl’s pain, he has heard its emotional consequences. And while he may have been innocent on this particular occasion, chances are good that he is hurtful on other occasions. His mother’s statement can penetrate more easily right now precisely because he is not under direct attack. Third, the parent’s statement teaches the important Torah concepts that people need to be careful not to hurt others and remember to judge others positively.
Children are responsible for how they act in response to stress, but not for how they feel.
We need to refrain from inflicting pain on others, and take responsibility when we have inflicted pain.
Parents can help both perpetrator and victim. The perpetrator has the responsibility to develop appropriate empathy toward others, and to act in accordance with Hashem’s directives to refrain from hurting others. The victim has the responsibility to judge positively, to react in a behaviorally appropriate way, and to calm him- or herself down after injury. Parents can help victims become better at emotional regulation by validating the emotional pain they experienced.
I hope this answers your question, and I wish you luck on your parenting journey.
Exodus 2:13; Leviticus 19:11; Talmud, Bava Metzia 58b.
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My Son Is Called a Wimp!
Confused, some people are more sensitive than others, and I couldn't handle teasing, either. My parents told me to ignore it and the teasing would eventually stop. It didn't always work, and I often expressed hostility and distrust of people because of it.
In today's world, teasing can lead to online bullying and even guns and knives if kids try to ignore teasing. It's very sad and unfortunate that the police sometimes have to get involved.
The "shrinking map of Palestine" to which you link is incomplete and inaccurate. I offer only three examples.
First, its initial map of Palestine ignores at least two relevant points. (A) Under the Ottoman Empire, "Palestine" did not exist as a political entity. (B) In 1917, the British conquered the land on both sides of the Jordan River. Initially, the Palestine Mandate included both territories. This is why, before its annexation of the West Bank, the country now known as Jordan was called "Transjordan." Please see this Wikipedia map. In 1922 (others say 1923), Britain unilaterally partitioned the land into "Palestine," comprising what today are Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, and "Transjordan." Some extreme Jewish nationalists and messianists claim that that partition either provided the Arabs of Palestine with a homeland ("Jordan is Palestine") or wrongfully deprived Jews of a part of our rightful patrimony -- "the Jordan has two banks, and both are ours."
Second, the author omits a map of the partition proposed by the Peel Commission in 1937, which the Jewish Agency for Palestine, under David Ben Gurion, accepted, but the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee (under the Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el-Husseini) rejected. You can see how much land that rejection cost them.
Third, the caption under 2006 map reads: "Israeli government seeks to impose final borders by 2010." I don't know what Mr. Lahoud's source is, but so far as I am aware, however inadequate their conception of final borders may have been, neither the Sharon nor Olmert governments have tried to "impose" them.
Nutella is often marketed as a nutritious hazelnut spread.
A breakdown of the ingredients shows that Nutella has very few hazelnuts and is actually made mostly of sugar and palm oil.
Ever seen a Nutella commercial?
Generally, Nutella, a delicious hazelnut and cocoa spread, is marketed as "healthy," despite basically being a liquid chocolate spread.
Ads feature cherub-cheeked children eating slices of whole-grain bread spread with a frugal amount of Nutella for breakfast.
In most countries, it's marketed as a simple hazelnut cream, and ads highlight the fact that Nutella has no artificial colors or preservatives.
But Nutella is not exactly a health food.
A now-viral image uploaded to Reddit (and originally created by the consumer center in Hamburg, Germany) shows exactly what is in a jar of Nutella.
The first layer represents skim milk powder, the second hazelnuts, the third sugar, followed by low fat cocoa powder and palm oil.
While Nutella contains just five ingredients, a whopping half of the stuff is sugar.
According to its nutritional label, a jar of Nutella has 21 grams of sugar per 37 grams of spread (two tablespoons), meaning that in reality more than half is sugar. Much of the rest is palm oil — solid fat some claim causes cancer.
The label also says that jars contain "over 50 hazelnuts per 13 oz. jar."
"One of Ferrero's core nutritional beliefs is that small portion sizes help people to enjoy their favourite foods in moderation. The labelling on all our products enables consumers to make informed choices and helps ensure that Nutella can be enjoyed as part of a balanced diet."
In other words, you may want to cut back on eating it from the jar by the spoon.
Italian professional football club, Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as AS Roma, has launched Nigerian pidgin English Twitter account purposely to serve its Nigerian fans.
The news, published on official AS Roma website, was announced on Wednesday (today).
The Italian club side also superimposed its logo on the Super Eagles World Cup branded T-Shirt as part of the deal.
AS Roma is delighted to announce the launch today of a new official Pidgin English Twitter account for fans in Nigeria and neighbouring countries in Africa.
In launching the @ASRomaPidgin account, Roma have become the first major European football club to create an official social media profile specifically to communicate directly with followers in Nigeria.
The new account – which is being run out of Lagos and can be followed at @ASRomaPidgin – was set up after fans in Nigeria contacted the club to request an account to cater specifically for Naija Twitter.
Roma’s popularity amongst Nigerian football fans has been growing ever since the club featured Lagos radio personality Mark Otabor’s epic commentary of Roma’s comeback against Barcelona on the club’s English Twitter account and then ‘adopted’ Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the World Cup.
The club’s digital team then began working with the Nigerian FA ahead of the World Cup in Russia and helped the team on the ground with social strategy and the graphics that were seen on Twitter and Instagram throughout the tournament.
“After Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup and we chose to support the Super Eagles, followers in Nigeria have been asking for a Pidgin English Roma account,” revealed Paul Rogers, Head of Strategy at AS Roma.
“The club’s president Jim Pallotta watched Mark Otabor’s commentary after the Barcelona game and then personally wrote to Mark to thank him and from that moment we’ve enjoyed a really fun relationship with our followers in Nigeria, who seem to enjoy our English Twitter account’s sense of humour. The launch of this new account means that we can now directly engage with these fans on a daily basis in a style that suits them,” Rogers added.
The launch of the new Pidgin English accounts means AS Roma now communicates in 13 different languages on social media – with official accounts also in Italian, English, Arabic, Indonesian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Bosnian, Turkish, Dutch, Farsi and Chinese.
Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Developer Team has reportedly let slip the news that the company has finally completed work on its Windows Mobile 6.5, and it’s ready to be shipped to manufacturers.
In a Twitter update posted on 14th May, the company notified that the work on version 6.5 of its signature mobile operating system has been finished.
“For the record, Windows Mobile 6.5 is DONE... complete... looks really good IOHO and every bit functional. ping us if u want to know more”, Windows Mobile Developer Team notified through a Twitter update posted last week.
However, a Microsoft spokesperson stated that Windows Mobile 6.5 has already been released to manufacturing, and informed that as many as 20 handset makers and mobile operators, including HP, LG, Toshiba, Orange, HTC and Acer, have already agreed to support the platform.
The spokesperson further went on to say that handsets integrating Windows Mobile 6.5 platform are expected to be shipped during the second half of the year.
Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 6.5 at the Mobile World Congress, held in February, and demonstrated its touch-screen user interface as well as improved navigation capabilities. However, Microsoft positioned Windows Mobile 6.5 as a stopgap platform until Windows Mobile 7 appears.
Michelle Williams has a new love interest in her life. The ever-enchanting actress is reportedly romantically linked to actor, Jason Segel after photos of the two friends suggest that this friendship might be ready to move onto the next step.
Michelle Williams is a woman in love!
The My Week With Marilyn actress has reportedly fallen for friend and How I Met Your Mother actor, Jason Segel, according to Us Weekly. The two first became friends through Michelle’s friend and fellow former Dawson’s Creek co-star, Busy Philipps, and are now taking their platonic relationship to the next level. A source tells the entertainment magazine that Michelle and Jason “are smitten” with one another.
The website shows the pair in various photographs strolling down a Brooklyn sidewalk, with Michelle beaming happily while holding onto Jason and another one showing Jason with Michelle’s six-year-old daughter, Matilda, while she rides around on the scooter.
We’re so thrilled that Michelle has found love with Jason, especially since the Oscar nominee has not really dated that much since her split in 2008 from Matilda’s father and actor, the late Heath Ledger. As well, unlike most Hollywood celebs, Michelle has opted out from being in the media’s eye, especially when it came to her love and family life.
Although Michelle has yet to confirm the new romance, we think she and Jason will compliment each other perfectly. Her humble and soft personality would be a good match for his funny and likeable persona – it’s like the description of the perfect Hollywood couple. Or the premise to a very successful romantic comedy.
STEPHANIE Davis has share an adorable photo of her son Caben-Albi meeting Santa Claus.
Stephanie Davis' son Caben-Albi was left screaming with fear as she took him to meet Father Christmas for the first time.

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