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It must come as a surprise to the Republicans that the public favors Obama’s idea of speading the wealth.
John McCain and Joe the Plumber are campaigning for Barack Obama, and they don’t even know it. The more McCain has ramped up his attacks on Obama as a “spreader of wealth,” the more the country has lined up behind the Democrat’s plan to spread the wealth. If McCain’s economic agenda was a gun and his attacks on Obama’s agenda the bullets, the old soldier would have shot both his feet clean off a long time ago.
Watching the GOP’s coordinated if increasingly delirious attacks on Obama’s economic plan, it’s clear that the party is even further out of touch with the America of 2008 than previously imagined. After eight years of establishing and then extending America’s lead as the most unequal of all industrialized countries, Republicans thought they could deflect a national groundswell of righteous anger by dusting off and hurling every insult in the conservative arsenal, including old favorites “extremist,” “radical,” “Marxist” and “socialist.” One suspects they are saving “anarchist” and “Hessian” for McCain’s last-gasp speech on Monday.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Republican hammer-and-sickle-themed haunted house: Nobody showed. The McCain campaign’s attempts to smear Obama as a Trojan donkey for socialistic un-Americanism have belly-flopped, if not backfired. Obama has not only maintained a stable lead under the Republican barrage, he has increased his positives in the traditionally Republican territory of taxes. The final national polls before Tuesday all show a national hunger for national wealth redistribution downward. An Ipsos/McClatchy poll finds that likely voters prefer Obama’s tax plan to McCain’s by 8 points. Pew says Obama added to his edge on taxes and the economy between mid-September and mid-October by 6 points, jumping from 44 to 39 earlier to 50 to 35. On Oct. 30, Gallup released results showing Americans favor Obama’s style of wealth spreading by a whopping 58-to-37 margin.
It appears the nation’s sanity and sense of fairness has reasserted itself to wipe the floor with condescending GOP red-baiting.
It hasn’t hurt that the GOP attacks have been absurd on their face. A 3-point increase in the top marginal income tax rate to 39 percent is not easily morphed into the face of Pol Pot. For much of the 20th century, the top income tax rate in the United States slid between 50 percent and 90 percent, peaking at 94 percent during the final two years of World War II. Most Americans would agree that the mid-century rates were excessive, but support for some kind of progressive tax curve remains widespread. Both Bill Clinton and Al Gore ran winning campaigns promising to raise taxes on the rich.
“The public has always supported moderately progressive taxation, so I don’t think McCain’s pitch had much resonance unless he could convince people that Obama would raise their taxes,” says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “Obama inoculated himself against this attack by saying that he would cut taxes for 95 percent of the public. Basically, McCain was trying to make things up, and most people didn’t believe him.”
Charges of socialism are especially discordant coming from the McCain campaign. The top marginal income tax rate held steady at 50 percent for five years under McCain’s hero, Ronald Reagan. His other hero, Teddy Roosevelt, was a fierce and early booster for federal income and estate taxes. And Sarah Palin? It wouldn’t be all that surprising to see her turn up at a commemoration of this year’s 70th anniversary of the Fourth International. As Hendrik Hertzberg noted in one of many recent New Yorker pieces debunking the newest GOP attack line, the redistributive principle is practiced with particular gusto in Palin’s Alaska, where the governor spreads the oil wealth like creamy butter around the state’s absorbent white bread. “One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor,” notes Hertzberg, “is that she added an extra $1,200 to this year’s (government) check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269.” Earlier this summer, Palin boasted to journalist Philip Gourevitch, “Alaskans collectively own the resources. We share in the wealth.”
Like Alaskans, we’re all socialist now, to an extent, and have been for a long time. It’s just a question of daring to speak the adjective’s name, which happens to describe hugely popular programs like Social Security and Medicare. Watching McCain’s socialist attack line flop, it’s tempting to think that the country is edging closer to the day when the word, stripped of its Cold War baggage, no longer has the power to frighten Ohio. Another element is the further eclipse of the culture war by economics. As the country’s shifting demographics grow over the divides opened up during the 1960s and ’70s, attempts to bundle pinko economics with fears of godless agents of chaos become increasingly meaningless.
The Right is aware of and worried about this growing de-contextualization of the word “socialism.” The counterrevolution against the New Deal was aided by the presence of the Soviet Union as a running counterpoint. But it’s now almost 20 years after 1989. A generation has matured that never soaked up any of the old propaganda. This generation has studied abroad and knows you can Super-size it in Sweden. It has no memory of “Better Dead Than Red” and can’t imagine an elderly British logician making international headlines for saying he’d rather crawl to Moscow on his hands and knees than die in a nuclear war. Conservatives worry about this group much as arms controllers worry that kids today don’t understand the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. The right’s fright over the post-Cold War generation’s immunity to cries of “socialism!” was expressed clearly in an Oct. 27 editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily titled “Defining Problems With Socialism for the Post-Cold War Generation.”
“John McCain has finally called Barack Obama’s agenda by its proper name,” it begins. “But if he assumes voters understand what he means when he uses the word ‘socialism,’ he assumes too much. Sadly, most people under 60 in this country went to schools and universities where socialism isn’t considered a bad thing.”
Actually, those are two distinct groups — those who don’t understand the word or its gradations, and those who do and wouldn’t mind living under most of them. What they have in common is that together they constitute a future United States where the word “socialist” carries an ever-weakening stigma.
Whether we choose to reclaim or dispense with the word, its days as a conversation stopper appear to be over. Over the last eight years, 90 percent of the new income generated has accrued to the top 10 percent, while average family incomes have dropped $2,000. These numbers have engendered bitterness on top of anxiety that has shifted the economic debate. If Democrats get a chance to seek forceful redress in the coming years, Republicans are sure to call Obama a socialist and much else besides. But that’s OK. Tuesday’s election is going to show that when people are hurting, they don’t mind a little “socialism” — just as long as it’s pointed their way. | <urn:uuid:48b7645a-c44b-4b6e-8772-9914580f04b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://rogerhollander.wordpress.com/tag/obama-socialism/ | 2017-04-30T16:35:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125719.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00547-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956511 | 1,727 |
It’s Bring Your Own Matt on the National Mall this Saturday. For the fifth year Lululemon Athletica is organizing a Cherry Blossom Yoga session at the foot of the Washington Monument. Whether there will actually be cherry blossoms remains to be seen (peak bloom is supposed to occur between April 8 and 12, but we also got some slushy flurries over the weekend) but hopefully it will be warm enough for some outdoor downward facing dogs.
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Today on the ride home from work I felt like I was suffocating. I have severe, severe, cabin fever. I need to go somewhere.
The bigger problem is, what have I done this year? Last year was full of travel, classes, change. This year I'm stuck in a rut. I don't really know if going away will fix things; when did running away from the problem ever solve it? But at least I might gain perspective.
Trying hard to think of an idea, or several. Feeling trapped.
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A Global Authentication Service without Global Trust
This paper describes a design for an authentication service for a very large scale, very long lifetime, distributed system. The paper introduces a methodology for describing authentication protocols that makes explicit the trust relationships amongst the participants. The authentication protocol is based on the primitive notion of composition of secure channels. The authentication model offered provides for the authentication of “roles”, where a principal might exercise differing roles at differing times, whilst having only a single “identity”. Roles are suitable for inclusion in access control lists. The naming of a role implies what entities are being trusted to authenticate the role. We provide a UID scheme that gives clients control over the time at which a name gets bound to a principal, thus controlling the effects of mutability of the name space.
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Hello blogosphere! Sorry I have been MIA as of late – this semester has been kicking my but, for lack of a better phrase. I have been writing and typing like mad lately, finishing stories for my classes and publishing articles for Odyssey, and have unfortunately neglected my own little corner of the Internet. Never fear, though, I’m back – at least for now.
Given my aforementioned stories that have been written for my creative writing classes at school, I thought I would focus on something almost exclusively done in said classes: the creative writing workshop. Workshopping is crucial to being a writer. It’s a pretty widely accepted form of garnering critiques and is how most college level creative writing classes are taught but, as with almost anything, there are positives and negatives to this form. Up until this semester, I would have to say that my workshopping experiences have been largely positive, aside from a few snafus where I put my foot in my mouth in front of the entire class, but I have had some interesting workshops this week in particular that have left me with a sense of fear at the mention of the word “workshop.”
I find that sometimes workshopping is a tedious balance between a love fest, or a bashing fest, on a writer’s work. It can be hard to establish the sense of what is appropriate and useful and what is unhelpful and sometimes just rude. Letting a large group, especially of college students, have almost free reign on a discussion of their peer’s work can be tricky. Like I mentioned, I’ve never really had a negative connation with workshops, but this semester has gotten off to a rocky start in terms of my two creative writing classes.
After experiencing an extremely disorganized workshop in which some student’s work received less attention than others, a workshop consisting of – there’s really no better way to say it – a big mouth who thinks they are better than everyone else, and a pretty brutal workshop in which both my story a classmate’s got picked apart by our vulturous peers, you could say that I am over workshopping altogether. At least for this week!
All of this has made me realize the importance of establishing boundaries when it comes to workshops and the importance of carefully thinking through what you are going to say. Sometimes things come across harsher than intended, and sometimes people don’t actually know what they are talking about (the constant “in my experience, life doesn’t happen this way” thing). I’m not saying that I’m a perfect workshopper myself – I’m sure sometimes I come across in ways I don’t want to – but I always attempt to ruminate on my comments before saying them (if I can get a word in edgewise, that is).
I’m not quite sure what the purpose of this post was. Perhaps a rant. Perhaps a way for me to get over the bashing I went through earlier this evening. Whatever it was, I hope it might inform some mysterious reader of how important thoughtfulness and balance is to having a beneficial workshop. Without workshopping, writers cannot grow, but there must be guidelines to go by that allow for a pleasant and useful experience for everyone involved. | <urn:uuid:5d8ce850-469c-4de8-8780-c9d04321ceb4> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://addeyvaters.com/2016/09/ | 2018-06-18T09:45:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860168.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618090026-20180618110026-00564.warc.gz | en | 0.968565 | 685 |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 52-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced Friday to life in prison after pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder, first-degree arson and burglary to a dwelling with damage in excess of $1,000, which resulted in the death of a 61-year-old man.
In September, Jimmie Jackson Jr. entered Cecil Hepler's home at around 4 a.m. and set the home on fire. Hepler, who was asleep at the time, was taken to the hospital for treatment by rescue personnel, but later died from smoke inhalation.
The investigation revealed that Jackson knew the owner of the home where Hepler (pictured) lived. A few days prior to the killing, Jackson had an argument with the owner of that home. Jackson set the home on fire because he was mad at the owner, prosecutors said.
Jackson also has two prior arson convictions from Fort Worth, Texas, and Pinellas County.
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Because Google is like a jetcar with a 20-speed manual gearbox, first gear is plenty for most people. However, if you want the other 19 gears, here are some ideas to get you fired up (just make sure you’re pointing in the right direction first)…
Google’s 2nd gear – Exact-fu
Without much doubt, I think the two basic Google tricks everyone should know are:-
- If you want an exact word match (i.e. not a nearest sound match, or a plural/singular), precede the word with ‘+’. This is most useful when (as is often the case with historical research) you’re looking for a particularly obscure word or name, for which Google will suggestion zillions of alternatives. For example, if you want to search for Sirturi (but don’t want the 46,000 hits returned by Sireturi), search instead for +Sirturi and you’ll get the 79 hits you do want.
- If you want an exact phrase, wrap the phrase in double quotes. For example, searching for Nick Pelling gets 144,000 hits (any page containing the two words will do) – but searching for “Nick Pelling” will give you a mere 9,250 hits. (Lazy hack: you can usually omit the final double quotes, Google is smart enough to fill them in for you.)
Basically, if you know that a given (fairly rare) search term is correct, you’re normally better off preceding it by ‘+’, to ask Google not to get in the way. Of course, leave out the + if you’re not 100% sure!
Note that these two tricks overlap: if you Google for (the doubly-misspelt) cypher mistery, the top result is for cipher mystery (i.e. Google suggests corrections to both words) – but if you search for “cypher mistery” (i.e. the same word pair but in quotes), Google only suggests web-pages with one change to the pair of words.
Google’s 3rd gear – Success-fu
A recurring problem is how to deal with the vast number of pages returned (even with 2nd gear Google-fu): and with just the one lifetime at your disposal, how could you ever sensibly go through a million hits? Of course, you can’t: but here are some neat Google trickettes to help you when your search query has proved, errrm, too successful:-
- If there is some unrelated idea that is diluting your search results, add a word associated with that secondary strand to your search but precede it with ‘-‘. For example, if you want to search for Voynich but don’t want any hits related to the Broken Sword computer game (written by Charles Cecil’s company Revolution Software), you could search for Voynich -Revolution. For bonus Google-fu points, try excluding multiple things at the same time, such as Voynich -Revolution -Ethel -ufo
- Use “100 results per page” as your default Google preference. The “Page Down” button (or, more likely these days, “mouse scroll-wheel down”) is a quick way of browsing 10x more results than you would otherwise get. OK, it’s not ideal, but any half-decent researcher should be capable of speed-reading, surely?
In short, being able to use ‘+’, ‘-‘ and double-quotes effectively is a good practical starting point for would-be Googlers. Note: while it used to be the case that Google’s engine caused these mechanisms to interfere with each other (specifically, you used not to be able to search for quoted strings and excluding search terms at the same time), these days they seem to have sorted all that out. Just in case you run into some outdated information on the web! (As if…)
Google’s 4th gear – Refinement-fu
Let’s say you’d like to craft a search query to yield a manageable set of results – say, 50 or 100 hits. But what do you do if your ‘vanilla’ two word search gets a million hits, but an exact phrase search gets only 2 or 3 hits? How can you coax Google into returning a more useful number of hits?
- The OR operator (in caps) lets you merge pairs of search words. Rather than search for Sirtori telescopium and then search for Sirturi telescopium, you can search for Sirtori OR Sirturi telescopium – much more useful. If you’re after bonus Google-fu points here, try using multiple ORs in the same search, such as Sirtori OR Sirturi telescopium OR telescope
- Number ranges have their own merging trick! If you separate two numbers by two dots (i.e. 2006..2008), Google will find you pages containing any number in that range (though note that this doesn’t work with negative numbers, maths fans). A nice example is that searching for Voynich “500..700 ducats” will dig up references both to 600 ducats (Marci) and to 630 ducats (Dee) – pretty neat!
- The ‘*’ operator lets you find documents containing a pair of words separated by one (or two) words. This can be useful when you’re searching for two words that are connected but which don’t usually appear exactly next to each other. For example, if you wanted to find my middle name, Googling for Nick * Pelling returns pages with Nicholas John Pelling – here, note that because I didn’t specify +Nick, Google silently converts it to Nicholas. Also, note that you can progressively weaken the link by adding more stars in a line, but only if you put them inside double quotes – so, “Nick ** Pelling” and “Nick * * * Pelling” will all find pages where the two words appear progressively further apart (however, “Nick * * * * Pelling” won’t work, sorry!)
Basically, once you can consistently use your refinement-fu to control Google, you’re not coping with search results any more… you’re managing them.
Google’s 5th gear – Zigzag-fu
This is a hard one to describe, but as it defines a gear change all of its own, it needs its own section.
The big takeaway from the preceding gear-fu should be that the point of searching is not to find the perfect page, but rather to find a sensible range of pages clustered around the perfect page – while Google is pretty good at getting you close, you still need to be actively exercising a fair bit of choice if you’re going to find what you want. The skill lies in crafting queries that get you reasonably close (but not too close) to where you want to go.
However… in practice, the whole process doesn’t usually work out quite as well as you would hope – you can’t always “just get closer”, shaving 1,000,000 hits to 100,000 to 10,000 etc. The noble art of “zigzag-fu” involves constructing queries that iteratively zigzag you towards your final query – too many results is bad, too few results is bad, and too spammy / too general a set of results is also bad.
Zigzag-fu is where you build up a feeling for what you’re looking for (even if you haven’t seen it before), and somehow move around it and towards it without really realizing how. People with great zigzag-fu get to where they want to without really thinking – but as this is more of a craft skill, I’m struggling a bit to explain it.
Just practise – I’m sure you’ll get there yourself (if you’re not already there, of course). 😉
Google’s 6th gear – Operator-fu
Google has a sprawling set of obscure “operators” (you can usually recognize them by their trailing colon) for refining searches according to different aspects of the pages found. Having said that, in most cases these are usually only marginally useful – the big trick is realizing when you’re in a big enough hole that only a special-purpose Google crane can hoist you out. “Operator-fu”, therefore, isn’t so much a refined sense of power as a refined sense of danger – i.e. has your search floundered?
- site: – this operator filters out only those pages whose website name (partially) matches the pattern. So, if you only want to find Voynich pages on US university websites, searching for site:.edu Voynich should do the job. The OR operator works on this, so searching for site:.edu OR site:.ac.uk Voynich will find Voynich pages on US and UK university webpages. You can also use this to see how many pages Google has indexed from a given site: for example, searching for site:ciphermysteries.com yields about 613 results (as of today).
- intitle: / inurl: / intext: / inanchor: / allintitle: / allinurl: / allintext: – these tell Google where to look (and, conversely, where not to look) for the keywords you specify. So, searching for allintitle: Voynich Decoded will list all the webpages in Google’s index that contain the words “Voynich” and “Decoded” in the title. Not very useful, but might possibly save the day.
- filetype: – if you are trying to find (say) a pdf containing the phrase “chilled monkey brains”, then Googling for filetype:pdf “chilled monkey brains” should work OK. There are also a load of obscure Google filetypes (such as htpasswd), but that’s a story all to itself. 🙂
- date: – very useful for finding things within the last N months. Not very useful otherwise. 🙂
- daterange: – very useful for finding things within a range of dates. Sometimes a big help!
- The tilde (‘~‘) operator forces Google to look for synonyms, even when it doesn’t itself think the word is ambiguous. However, this isn’t really very useful as (by and large) Google guesses right.
For more on these (and other mad Google operators), there’s a nice guide on the Google Guide site.
Google’s higher gears – Ninja-fu
(OK, OK, I know it’s mashing Japanese and Chinese words together, but I wanted to evoke a feeling of mastery over many worlds – just so you know!) Ascended Google Ninja-fu masters come up with a constant stream of tricks that make just as much use of Google’s sprawling array of secondary search apps (half of which the GooglePlex’s Borg mind has probably forgotten about) and its business model. There’s also a 2003 O’Reilly book called Google Hacks, most of which is now out of date, but which should arguably be given to ten-year-olds with their first proper laptop. 🙂
But to such a 33rd Scottish Rite Googler as yourself, it should be clear by now that everything Google does and has is fair game. Here are just a handful of things to consider, from an insanely long list:-
- Google lets you search for ampersand and underscore characters (maybe it’ll help one day).
- Google doesn’t match search phrases over paragraph boundaries (that’s just the way it works).
- Google knows about C++ and C# (helpful for programming searches)
- You can search for stopwords (such as ‘the’, that Google normally discards) by preceding them with a ‘+’. Though some searches (such as for The Who) do automatically include them!
- PageRank dominates short query strings, context dominates long query strings. If you can decide whether PageRank is helpful or unhelpful for your query, you can adjust your query length accordingly.
- Google API-based tricks – too many to list
- Google Trends-based tricks – too trendy to list
- Google Widget-based tricks – too new to list
- Google’s cache, calculator, weather, currency, recipe, flight information… you get the idea!
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Scarle v Scarle and the 'commorientes' rule: who died first?
HHJ Philip Kramer, sitting as a judge of the High Court, gave his judgment last Tuesday (13 August 2019) in the matter of Scarle v Scarle.
HHJ Philip Kramer, sitting as a judge of the High Court, gave his judgment last Tuesday (13 August 2019) in the matter of Scarle v Scarle. The claim was brought on behalf of the Estate of Mr John William Scarle Deceased (by his personal representative Ann Winter), against the Estate of Marjorie Ann Scarle Deceased (by her personal representative Deborah Ann Cutler).
In general terms, the case concerned the question as to which of Mr and Mrs Scarle died first and, as a consequence, who would inherit their bungalow and £18,000 in a Co-op bank account, both of which were owned jointly between them.
On 11 October 2016, Mr Scarle, aged 79, and Mrs Scarle, a married couple, sadly passed away in their bungalow in Essex. Mrs Scarle was the younger of the two, aged 69 at the time. The police found Mrs Scarle first, in the bathroom, later finding Mr Scarle in the lounge.
Based on the evidence, it was not possible to establish the date of the deaths, but they occurred in the period 4 October 2016 to 9 October 2016. The post-mortem examinations found that the cause of death of both Mr Scarle and Mrs Scarle was hypothermia.
The law governing the ownership of jointly owned assets is that the last to die is entitled to the whole of the property and the sums in the bank account. As they had both passed away, the house and money would pass to those entitled to their estate, i.e. to Mrs Scarle’s estate if Mr Scarle died first and vice versa.
Central to this question is the operation of section 184 of the Law of Property Act 1925, a provision which, where the order of death is uncertain, creates a presumption that the younger person is deemed to have survived the elder person.
Ann Winter, the claimant, is the only child of Mr Scarle. Her case was that:
- The presumption in s.184 is not engaged if she could prove, on the balance of probabilities (i.e. 50.1%), who died first; and
- Based on the evidence, she could prove that Mrs Scarle died first.
Deborah Cutler, the defendant, is the daughter of Mrs Scarle. Her case was that:
- The standard of proof was higher, i.e. somewhere between the balance of probabilities and beyond all reasonable doubt; and
- Ann could not prove the sequence of deaths, even to 50.1%, and therefore it was to be presumed that Mr Scarle died first.
The doctor carrying out the post mortem examinations thought that the changes due to decomposition were less advanced in Mr Scarle, which may have suggested that he died a period of time after his wife, possibly days.
Another expert was also of the view that Mrs Scarle was more likely to have been first to die based on, by way of example, the more advanced state of decomposition and her underlying pathologies (which could have brought about sudden death).
All of the experts agreed that Mr Scarle and Mrs Scarle were in the early stages of decomposition, but that Mrs Scarle was at a more advanced stage. In consequence, if the temperature and environmental conditions within the two rooms, i.e. the lounge and the bathroom where they were found, were equivalent, it may be concluded that it was more likely than not that Mrs Scarle died before her husband.
The key difference between the experts was whether it should be accepted that the temperature and environmental conditions in which the Scarles were found were equivalent.
Ann argued that there was a lack of significant variation in the micro-climate of the property and that the lounge must have been as warm or warmer than the toilet because of the layout of the premises. If the lounge was warmer, this would have accelerated Mr Scarle’s decomposition and his lesser decomposition would indicate that he must have died substantially later than his wife.
Ann also placed reliance on the evidence that Mr Scarle was alive on the floor for some time before death, namely a pressure sore on the right hip and the continued production of urine. In contrast, she points to Mrs Scarle’s pre-existing conditions, which the experts accepted may have led to a collapse followed by the development of hypothermia.
Deborah said that all the experts had to go on was the rate of decomposition and that they couldn’t draw any reliable inference from the fact that one was more decomposed than the other. This was particularly true, she said, given that decomposition is a very unreliable method of identifying the time of death and the extent of decomposition can be variable amongst people who die at the same place and time.
Deborah said that no safe inference could be drawn as to whether the toilet area was warmer, cooler or the same as the lounge.
The circumstances surrounding the death were also relied upon by Deborah, pointing out, for example, that Mr Scarle was the carer as he was more physically able.
As to the burden of proof, it was held that, where the order of death is uncertain, the burden of proof is on the party seeking to establish otherwise. Such proof is to the civil standard, the balance of probabilities.
The facts surrounding the deaths were equivocal and the picture was incomplete, even when considered in conjunction with the evidence of the pathologists.
The only evidence which could point unequivocally to the sequence of death was the relative differences in decomposition. Both Mr Scarle and Mrs Scarle were at an early stage of decomposition when found but Mrs Scarle was substantially further on in that stage. There were two explanations for this effect, namely that Mrs Scarle pre-deceased her husband or that the micro-environment of the toilet area was warmer than the lounge. The experts accepted that if the temperature and environmental conditions within the two rooms were found to be equivalent, it was more likely than not that Mrs Scarle died before her husband.
It was held that there were too many variables and unknowns to come to a safe conclusion as to the relative temperatures of the toilet and the lounge. Ann, the claimant, therefore did not satisfy the judge as to the order of death. Accordingly, the presumption of death in s. 184 of the Law of Property Act 1925 applied and Mrs Scarle was presumed to have survived Mr Scarle. The bungalow and the bank account therefore passed to those entitled to Mrs Scarle’s estate.
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And, a recent Emory University study shows four of 10 MSM in Jackson have HIV - the highest rate in the nation. “That right there tells you that there's a need for this information,” said Harry Hawkins, field organizer for the Jackson office of the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights organization dedicated to achieving LGBT equality.
“There's an urgency to act and do something to change what might seem inevitable for a significant portion of the population,” Mena said.
Using social media as the platform for the videos “gets the message across in a very effective way for the times we live in,” Hawkins said. “A lot of people who are infected are between the ages of 15 and 24.” The first season of #AskTheHIVDoc received 731,141 views on YouTube and another 405,302 on other social and digital platforms, Kaiser Family Foundation statistics show.
The #AskTheHIVDoc messages empower not just MSM, but the caregivers whose lack of expertise in HIV and AIDS treatment leaves them struggling to answer their patients' questions and manage their overall health.
“We're in a health-care system where many clinicians don't regularly ask their patients about their sexual behavior,” Mena said. “They're uncomfortable about having a conversation about sex, and uncomfortable about discussing behaviors to decrease their risk.”
But at the same time, Mena said, clinicians like himself are trying to improve access to health care, especially to those most vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections.
The videos encourage discussions that can never be too basic - for example, the difference between AIDS and HIV, or how people can become infected when they have sex. “We talk about how often you should be tested for HIV, and what tests gay or bisexual men should have when they go to the doctor, and when they should start treatment,” Mena said. “We talk about how safe certain practices are.
“In clinic, I start by talking very frankly with my patients, and breaking things down into the language that makes them comfortable. If you do that, you have a better chance to address their health needs,” Mena said.
The three doctors also talk about PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, a medication that works to keep the HIV virus from establishing a permanent infection. A pill that's taken once daily, PrEP targets those with an ongoing, substantial risk of HIV infection and, when taken consistently, can reduce risk of HIV in people who are at high risk by 92 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
“I've talked to folks in my job and outside of my job that have been to doctors in this area who just don't know anything about PrEP,” Hawkins said. “There's a need for education when you have a patient coming to you who says I'm a sexually active gay male, and I want to get on this to protect myself.”
Brandon Brazzle of Jackson, one of Mena's patients, agrees.
“People think you have HIV, rather than these drugs trying to prevent it,” said Brazzle, 27, who is taking Truvada, the brand name of the drug that gained federal approval in the United States. “I had to explain to my family members that I wasn't HIV positive.”
Brazzle talks with Mena during a clinic visit.
He regularly talks to friends about PrEP because it can help them with their sexual health. “It's kind of hard sometimes to take it up with your doctor, because they might not be used to seeing that kind of patient,” Brazzle said.
The first #AskTheHIVDoc videos featured just Malebranche, an internal medicine physician with Georgia-based Wellstar Health Systems who also cares for inmates at the DeKalb County Adult Detention System in Marietta, a suburb of Atlanta; and Daskalakis. But Daskalakis, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of HIV Prevention and Control at the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, approached Mena about joining the team last fall when the two served as co-presenters at the U.S. Conference on AIDS.
“It was a no-brainer,” said Malebranche, who has specialty training in HIV, AIDS and health needs of the LGBT community. “The additional bonus is him being from the Dominican Republic. He can not only do this in English, but in Spanish so that we can reach a whole different audience.”
Mena said yes to #AskTheHIVDoc, but not without hesitation. “I'm kind of a shy person, but this is something important to reaching many people who might not otherwise have access to this information in a format that people can understand,” he said. “If people are educated, they will make better-informed decisions and in turn will have better health outcomes.”
“We really like each other, and it's not super subtle,” Daskalakis said. “Although we come from different perspectives, we all come to the same conclusion - to give medical information related to HIV and sexual health in a way that's digestible, fun and brief. Leandro gets it, and his comfort level on #AskTheHIVDoc is great.”
How education on MSM sexual health is delivered greatly needs improvement, said Dr. Thomas Dobbs, state epidemiologist with the Mississippi Department of Health. That agency runs the Crossroads Central Clinic in Jackson, which offers HIV testing, counseling and medical referral services. Mena serves as medical director at Crossroads, the only publicly funded clinic of its kind in the state.
“There's been a lot of effort to get the word out,” Dobbs said. But one of the challenges, he said, is that many doctors see treatment of HIV patients as a specialty field. “It really needs to be addressed as part of core health. There's a role for every doctor in the state in HIV care. Everyone should be able to provide testing and have an awareness of the options in care.”
That includes PrEP, Dobbs said. “It's probably not making a big impact right now,” he said of the drug. “Not enough people are on PrEP, but it holds a lot of promise. It's an underutilized opportunity.”
Brazzle is a former Crossroads patient. “It was like my second home,” he said. “I feel comfortable in that environment, and they won't think my questions are silly or stupid.”
“The fact of the matter is, with HIV and patients' adherence to their medications, it's very personal,” Malebranche said. “You have to scrap the old notions of being stoic and not giving patients your cell phone number. All of us embody that spirit. Dr. Mena's patients absolutely love him.”
In a state where the LGBT community often must struggle with discrimination, “Dr. Mena is a warrior to me,” Malebranche said. “There aren't that many experts there who would be approachable and non-judgmental.”
His role in #AskTheHIVDoc “may be just a small contribution,” Mena said. “But, it's an important component of what must take place to end the HIV epidemic in our country.”
“It's hard for us sometimes to reach that community, and there's stigma here, too, but flash back to Leandro,” Daskalakis said. “Nothing we are doing in New York is nearly as heroic and community loving as what Leandro is doing in Mississippi.”
Dr. Leandro Mena devotes a significant part of his waking hours to public health, but also is a researcher, educator, and clinical partner with a number of organizations devoted to sexual health and HIV prevention in gender and sexual minorities.
He has vast experience in clinical and epidemiological research in the area of sexually transmitted infections including HIV, with special interest in the dynamics of transmission and the role social determinants play in the HIV epidemic in ethnic and racial minority populations.
An associate professor of medicine in the Medical Center's Division of Infectious Diseases, Mena joined the Medical Center faculty in 2003. He serves as director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Research, Education and Policy in the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities.
Mena helps his patients to develop a plan to manage the risks of their HIV infection or likelihood of becoming infected. He takes into account their culture and lifestyle in coming up with a plan that works for the patient, with sexual health education playing a key role.
Mena serves as medical director for the Crossroads Central Clinic, a state Department of Health-run clinic for HIV testing and counseling. It's the only publicly funded clinic of its kind in the state. Mena supervises a clinical and epidemiologic research team in conjunction with the clinic.
He is medical director of Open Arms Healthcare Center, a community-based clinic that offers primary care and mental health services with an emphasis in the health-care needs of LGBT populations in Jackson. Mena also is associated with My Brother's Keeper, a Jackson-based community outreach organization that works to improve the health and well-being of minorities. My Brother's Keeper also is committed to HIV prevention among racial and ethnic minority populations.
He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Urena in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and his master of public health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.
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Professionalism in the Classroom Essay
Professionalism in the Classroom
Can you imagine walking into your child’s classroom and his or her teacher looking more like a student than a teacher? Just as the rest of the world is becoming more laid back, so are the standards for the way teachers present themselves. Years ago, when you walked into a classroom, the teacher looked as if he or she were dressed in a professional manner and were neat and clean. Now, due to the fact that teachers are not presenting themselves in a professional manner with regard to clothing and hairstyles, and cell phone use students are not taking them as seriously. Not only as a teacher but also a role model for children a teacher is expected to present themselves in a professional manner. Juli Kwikkel (8/21/2003) stated that “you don’t want to have to guess who’s the teacher and who’s the student”.
There are even some districts that are beginning to implement dress codes due to the issues worsening as new and younger teachers are entering the work place. This new trend is becoming more popular with schools and is going beyond just the students. Especially in districts where there is a dress code for students and not for employees this will lead to student rebelling against the dress codes that are in place. This is primarily due to the fact that many students will feel as if why should they have to dress a certain way when the staff can dress in street clothes. The rules that are implemented at Alleghany Highlands Public Schools (8/21/2003) state “dress should reflect the professional position of the employee.”
Although opinions are different, the general consensus is that teachers should not be wearing things such as belly shirts, jeans, flip flops, and t-shirts to work. This should be left for the students. Rather they should be wearing a more professional and mature type of clothing, such as dress pants and a button up shirt or a skirt that is of an appropriate length. As described by Beth Lewis teachers should wear clothing that is loose fitting and well-tailored, not too much make-up, comfortable shoes, and not too much jewelry. This can still leave many options open for each individual to express their own styles while still looking as if they are in a position that they will be respected among staff and students alike.
The teacher is not only there to help children throughout their learning years, but they are also there to listen and be someone that children look up to. Children are always taking in everything around them. If their teacher is dressing in a manner that looks like they are going for a day out with their family, partying with friends, or even working at part time jobs that are less than upholding the professional statute of a teacher this can become very distracting for the students. It can also allow for the students to not see the teacher as a person that they have to take seriously. Parents also have certain expectations of the learning environment that their children will be in, whether it be public or private schooling.
The teacher needs to be a person that a child can feel a sense of security when they are in their care; also the children must know the teacher is a person with authority. This allows for an environment that children will be able to learn more easily in. If the teacher is presenting themselves in the workplace in a manner that is not professional, then they are not setting a good example as to how adults should behave and what it is like to be a mature adult. Rather they are allowing the child to see them as someone who is caught in the middle of child and adulthood. As is the same in any profession a teacher’s presentation of themselves also goes above and beyond just clothing. A teacher is expecting to have good hygiene, and look “put together.” There is also the matter of make-up and hair styles.
It is hard to take someone seriously if they walk into a professional environment with multicolored hair and makeup. Some teachers now are entering the classroom with blue, pink, and green hair all on the same day. There are also teachers that do not use conservative measures when doing their makeup before going to work. If you were in a classroom, and the teacher walked in and looked like they had slept in their car all night or had different wild hair colors and extravagant makeup, would you take them as a person who knows what they are doing and is good at their job? Or would they be perceived as a person who should be a student in the classroom rather than teaching it. Although they may be well educated, the appearance is often the first thing that you will remember. The teacher will most likely have issues from both students and other faculty members, due to the fact that there are certain expectations of a teacher. Faculty, students and even parents will be more likely to put said teacher in a position that could even come across as bullying, or making them feel uncomfortable in the workplace.
Many times this can lead to harassment charges or worse. This will ultimately become a never ending battle for the teacher due to the fact that they want to stand out, rather than fit in with the conformity and societal expectations of a teacher. This is the same for children. Although they are young, they still make first impressions of people, and within that first five minutes they decide how they can behave and what they think they will be able to get away with. If the teacher is well dressed and appears to be neat and clean they will be more likely to gain the respect of the class and also be more able to show authority when disciplining students. Although teachers should have the ability to dye their hair it should be kept to natural looking colors.
This will allow students to not become distracted trying to count the number of colors in their teacher’s hair, or why they matched stripes with plaid. There are some things that should be left outside of a learning environment. Also by setting a good example for the student the teacher is teaching them what is expected when they eventually enter the workplace whether it be professional or not. Another issue that has arose recently is cell phone use in the classroom. Over the past few years with social media sites and texting becoming more and more popular so is the use of cell phone by not only students but teachers. If a teacher is using their cell phone to text, update their Facebook, or even Twitter that is not only proving to be a distraction for the student who are trying to work, but that also risks the teacher breaking confidentiality laws.
In a situation where the teacher is using their personal cell phones during class it allows for the student to feel that they should be able to also. There are a few schools where the teachers even allow the students to use them during class. How can a child get the most out of their schooling if they are too busy texting friends or updating statuses on social media websites? Wouldn’t it be more productive for the teacher to take that time and do the job that they are being paid for? During the time that they are teaching a class they should be doing just that. Not worrying about who is going where over the weekend or what else is going on in their friend’s day. It should be utilized for teaching to the fullest extent of the time they are there, that is why they chose the profession of being a teacher in the first place. In the past there were strict guidelines as to expectations in the workplace.
Recently due to men and woman trying to use freedom of speech and unconformity it is coming to a point where the entire United States is becoming very relaxed as to what will be accepted. Many times this is due to the fact that people are afraid to voice their opinion for fear of repercussions for doing so. On the other hand although freedom of speech and the ability to dress and present one’s self as they would like, there is still a time and place for everything. By accepting a position in a professional environment such as a school the teacher is in turn giving up that privilege for the time that they are at work. That is not to say that they can’t act and dress as they please out of school. Just as a teacher is expected to not use foul language and be buddies with their students they need to do so by presenting themselves as an authorative figure rather than just another fellow student.
There needs to be a separation in order for the learning environment to stay productive. Teachers of today should be worried more about the learning environment they are working in rather than if they look stylish for the students. Their clothing should be of a mature, classy, and professional manner and they should also try to keep hair and makeup to minimal and natural earth tones. This will allow for a productive learning environment for children and also allow for the teacher to be taken seriously by the students and fellow staff members. Dressing and presenting themselves in such a manner will also reduce any questions as to who is in charge of the classroom when another authorative figure walks into the classroom.
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I have been fielding more and more questions in the past few weeks concerning the “Apple Digital Masters” (formerly Mastered for iTunes) logo that is positioned on so many artist pages in iTunes. “Apple Digital Masters” is a declaration by Apple that the “songs and albums for sale on iTunes are exactly as the artists and engineers intended them to be heard.” To support this claim Apple has developed a series of software tools for mastering engineers, medicine musicians and producers alike that allow them to preview mastered audio as it will sound after being compressed by Apple’s ACC encoding process. The tools also help the engineer compare and detect clipping within the new ACC file. This can be very helpful to identify audible distortion and other issues caused by the ACC encoding which has been a problem in the past.
Apples latest coding method is a two step process which is emulated by their software tools. First, the stereo file’s sample rate is converted from it’s original format to 44.1khz. Some songs are tracked and mastered at 44.1khz so a conversion is not necessary. However, many HD systems can record at sample rates as high as 192,000khz and need to be down-sampled. The bit resolution is then considered by utilizing all the dynamic range of a 24 bit file which eliminates the need for dithering (adding dither noise) and removes the need to encode this noise.
Does it work? Is it helpful? Yes and yes, but as long as Apple is distributing the 256kbps ACC file, which in my opinion is less than adequate, it is a conservative step in the right direction. Apple keeps a copy of the high quality studio masters and retains the option to re-release music as better codecs become available or even release the original studio master if we could be so lucky – so I am holding off on the excitement just yet in favor of something bigger and better!
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Rachel "Bunny" Mellon didn't just throw money at John Edwards because she liked his liberal platform. A close friend of the 101-year-old testified yesterday that the millionaire heiress had something of a crush on the senator, the New York Post reports. "She liked how he looked, what he espoused, and what good he could do for the country," interior designer Bryan Huffman said, adding that Mellon became "euphoric" whenever a flirtatious Edwards showed up, and that his phone calls "always made her extremely happy."
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April 25, 2014 Dubai: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders reportedly deported by Qatar have arrived in Libya, a London-based daily said.The leaders have landed at Maeetiqiya international airport in the Libyan capital over three days, Libyan political, military and security sources told Al Arab newspaper.They were ferried away to unidentified places in cars waiting at the airport located around 11km west of Tripoli and dominated by an armed Islamist group, the sources added.According to the daily, Qatar has been looking for a country that would host the senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following intense pressure by fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — to change its policy of supporting the movement.The three countries on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Doha to protest against what was seen as Qatar’s meddling in their domestic affairs and its backing of the Islamist movement rejected by some GCC countries as an illegal organisation.”Read the rest here.
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The Los Altos City Council Dec. 11 unanimously approved the proposal to build a two-story Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) building on Altos Oaks Drive, despite some public reservations about its size.
The project at 715 Altos Oaks Drive calls for the construction of a 25-foot-tall, two-story structure totaling 8,785 square feet. The building would replace two existing single-story medical buildings. According to PAMF officials, the new building will serve as a plastic and cosmetic surgery center.
The project calls for setbacks ranging from 20 to 55 feet, 8-foot-tall standards with directional lighting in the building’s parking area and 37 parking spaces – eight more than required by city code.
A handful of nearby residents expressed concerns about the project, specifically that the proposed building was out of scale with the surrounding residential area. One resident told the council PAMF’s efforts to create a buffer for nearby neighborhood homes with its 20- to 55-foot setbacks was “like moving an elephant in a bathtub.”
“This building does not look anything like any of the other buildings in that area,” nearby resident Teresa Morris said. “It doesn’t look like any of the other buildings on Altos Oaks, it doesn’t look like any of the residential buildings that are behind it, and it doesn’t look like the houses on Golden (Way).”
Others had privacy concerns and pointed to the expected increase in traffic the building’s occupants and patients would have on city streets.
Linda Slattery, a Brentwood Place resident, told the council she feared the project would set a precedent for other property owners in the neighborhood to build bigger structures in the future.
“As buildings age in that area, there’s going to be the likelihood that (property owners) are going to want to have megabuildings like this built into that area,” she said.
Prior to casting her vote, Councilwoman Val Carpenter said that while she recognized the residents’ concerns, she found no reason to vote against the project, noting that it met the city’s Office-Administrative (OA-1) district zoning code requirements.
City staff noted during the council discussion that the building was subject to the same floor-area ratio – 35 percent – as residential structures in the OA-1 district.
“There’s no question this is a much larger building in terms of its mass than what existed there before,” Carpenter said. “This does set a new trend. It’s much larger and much taller than any of the other buildings currently in that area, although it is (designed) to code.”
Councilwoman Jan Pepper later added that she was “a little bothered by the scale (of the building), too.”
“If it meets our zoning requirements, how can we deny it, other than to say, ‘Well, it’s too big,’” Pepper said. “But that’s what we allow.”
Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins, however, said she was inclined to support the proposal, noting that reactions to the project reminded her of public concerns over the new Packard Foundation building at 343 Second St.
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The Fujifilm Instax Mini EVO is now available for pre-order at BHphoto here, AmazonUS here and soon also at Adorama here. Shipping will start February 1.
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Swaffham Town must keep pressure on Thurlow Nunn promotion rivals − Hunt
Swaffham Town boss Paul Hunt knows his side need to keep the pressure on their promotion rivals and can’t afford to rest on their laurels despite an excellent season so far.
The Shoemakers Lane outfit are currently second in the First Division table, two points behind league leaders Woodbridge Town – who have two games in hand on the Pedlars – ahead of the visit of Debenham LC to Norfolk this weekend.
“We have started really well and sitting where we want to be in the table.
“It is important that we don’t take our foot off the gas and we keep going, the boys have been superb at both ends of the pitch.
“Saturday is going to be another tough test against Debenham, you never get an easy game against them and any points you take from them are hard earned.
“There are no easy games in this league and that is why we have to keep the pressure on the sides around us but I am delighted with where we are sitting at the moment.”
Also getting underway at the same time tomorrow, Downham Town welcome Little Oakley to Memorial Field looking to bounce back to winning ways after suffering defeat at the hands of Debenham LC.
Paul Neary’s side are sitting 12th in the First Division standings, two places above Little Oakley and the Downham chief is confident his side can put last weekend’s frustrating defeat behind them.
“Last Saturday was disappointing for us, we were not at our best and we want to put that right against Little Oakley this weekend.
“It shows just how far we have come as a group, the determination and togetherness is there to keep pushing and put another little run together.”
Fakenham Town are without a game this weekend and are expected to confirm a new first team manager in the near future after Alex Walpole’s stint as caretaker boss ended last weekend.
The Ghosts are next in action at Walsham Le Willows on Saturday December 23. Lynn Reserves are also without a game this weekend.
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Post-natal macro- and microscopic changes of the thymus of Sonali chicken in Bangladesh
Keywords:Histomorphology; involutory signs; post-natal stage; Sonali chicken; thymus
Objectives: Avian lymphatic system plays a very significant role in immunity as well as disease control. This research aimed to investigate the histomorphological changes and involution of the thymus of Sonali chicken at different post-natal stages in Bangladesh as the age-related changes of the thymus of Sonali chicken were not described before.
Materials and methods: A gross and microscopic investigation was performed on the thymus of 25 healthy Sonali chickens representing different stages of post-natal life: days 1, 14, 28, 42, and 56. Experimental chickens were sacrificed by cervical subluxation, and the thymus was collected and subjected for both the gross and histological studies. The histological changes were examined with light microscopy after H&E staining.
Results: The thymus was located in close association of the jugular vein, having a long chain of thymic lobes, 5–8 lobes on each side. The statistically significant age-related changes were observed (p < 0.05). All gross parameters (weight, length, width, and thickness) found to be increased up to day 42. On day 56, the growth was found to decline from the previous groups. The microscopic observations revealed the same pattern of changes such as gross parameters, i.e., continuously increased till day 42 and then declined (p < 0.05). At day 56, the involutory signs such as partial loss of interlobular septa and accumulation of adipose tissue in connective tissue septa were found.
Conclusion: It is well known that in chicken, after a certain period, the thymus got involuted. In Sonali chicken of Bangladesh, the age of involution was notified at day 56/8th week of the post-natal stage, which was correlated both in macro- and microscopic observations.
Adv. Vet. Anim. Res., 7(2): 324-330, June 2020
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The stellar cast that narrated all of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books is finally being released in the United States on MP3 by Blackstone Audio.
In 2012 Ian Fleming’s Bond novels were released as brand new 007 Reloaded audiobooks by AudioGo, but the company disbanded. The original CD versions are now out of print and scarce, so this is welcome news to Bond fans distressed at missing out on these wonderful recordings, read by a spectacular cast of British acting talent including Bill Nighy, Damian Lewis, Hugh Bonneville, David Tennant and Sir Kenneth Branagh.
In 2013, the final two unabridged audiobooks in the 007 Reloaded collection, For Your Eyes Only, was read by Samuel West and Octopussy & The Living Daylights, read by Tom Hiddleston.
Over three years in the making, the project was the brainchild of Lucy Fleming, Ian Fleming’s niece, and was headed by distinguished director Enyd Williams. Lucy Fleming in fact, read the short story 007 in New York, and each story includes a special interview with the narrator.
Lucy describes the experience:
I particularly enjoyed working with all of the actors during the recordings. It was a fascinating and humbling experience because it takes a huge skill to read any book for audio– let alone the Bond books with all the different and familiar characters, accents and places.
It was fun doing the “casting” as it were. David Tennant was an obvious reader for OHMSS because of his wonderful Scottish voice. Bill Nighy was brilliant at all the nasty characters and Gala Brand in Moonraker. Damian Lewis with his fantastic American accent was an obvious choice for Diamonds Are Forever.
We were lucky to get Rosamund Pike to read The Spy who Loved Me as she knows Canada where it is mostly set and does the most amazing Canadian accent. And, of course, Martin Jarvis can do any accent so we were thrilled when he tackled all the Japanese in You Only Live Twice.
Here is the full list of titles:
- Casino Royale (read by Dan Stevens)
- Live and Let Die (read by Rory Kinnear)
- Moonraker (read by Bill Nighy)
- Diamonds Are Forever (read by Damian Lewis)
- From Russia With Love (read by Toby Stephens)
- Doctor No (read by Hugh Quarshie)
- Goldfinger (read by Hugh Bonneville)
- Thunderball (read by Jason Isaacs)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (read by Rosamund Pike)
- On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (read by David Tennant)
- You Only Live Twice (read by Martin Jarvis)
- The Man With The Golden Gun (read by Kenneth Branagh)
- For Your Eyes Only (read by Samuel West)
- Octopussy and The Living Daylights (read by Tom Hiddleston and Lucy Fleming)
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ARLINGTON - Joey Gallo isn’t concerning himself with when Adrian Beltre will be ready to take over at third base again for the Texas Rangers, which likely means a return to the minors for the young slugger.
Gallo will just keep showing up at the ballpark until somebody tells him otherwise, an approach he believes helps him have days like he did Sunday.
The 23-year-old homered and had a career-high five RBIs to back left-hander Martin Perez, and the Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 8-1 on the first day Beltre (right calf) was eligible to come off the disabled list and resume his chase for 3,000 hits with 58 to go.
It’s the third year with at least some time in the majors for Gallo, the first two accompanied by anticipation for a player with 128 minor league homers the past four seasons.
“This year I don’t really have any of that noise in my head,” said Gallo, who has two homers while starting all six games in place of Beltre. “I just show up. It’s nice because you just kind of get to approach it as a game again and not this big event and there’s a lot of hype around it.”
Gallo’s three-run homer was the last of three straight hits in the second inning — the only three allowed by Sean Manaea (0-1).
The Oakland lefty struck out six straight and finished with a career-high 10 strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings. But he gave up six runs, five earned, and hit two batters, including Nomar Mazara with a glancing blow to the batting helmet. Mazara stayed in the game.
Before the six consecutive strikeouts in the third and fourth, Manaea had a hit batter, a throwing error, a walk and a wild pitch.
“That’s just kind of one of those things I’ve mentally been working on,” said the 25-year-old in his second big league season. “I feel like just having those mental reps, just knowing when to bear down and focus and really focus where I’m trying to throw the pitches, has been huge.”
Robinson Chirinos had a two-run homer and another RBI on a bases-loaded walk.
Perez (1-1) allowed six hits and three walks with six strikeouts in 5 1/3 scoreless innings to improve to 7-0 with a 1.48 ERA in eight home daytime starts since the beginning of 2014.
Leading 3-0 in the fifth, Perez escaped a bases-loaded jam with one out, getting Ryon Healy on an infield fly and striking out Khris Davis.
After Mark Canha doubled off Perez to end an 0-for-25 drought and put runners at second and third with out in the sixth, reliever Jose Leclerc struck out Josh Phegley and got pinch-hitter Matt Joyce on a deep flyout to right.
“The ball Joyce hits, last night it’s probably out of the stadium,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. “Today the wind is blowing the other way. But we had our fair share of opportunities to get back.”
Gallo had a two-run single in the sixth to help the Rangers avoid their first 1-5 start since 2006.
Texas closer Sam Dyson pitched a scoreless ninth with a seven-run lead after giving up eight runs in one inning over his first two appearances, both losses. While Matt Bush’s wild pitch in the eighth cost the Rangers a shutout, Texas allowed only that run in the final three innings after coming in with a major league-high 17 runs allowed late.
Rangers: Manager Jeff Banister didn’t offer a timetable on Beltre. … RHP Tyson Ross (thoracic outlet syndrome surgery) is scheduled for five innings in an extended spring training game Monday in Arizona. … INF Hanser Alberto (right shoulder tightness) will continue his rehab Monday in Arizona.
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From the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of books like Just My Luck comes the most stunning domestic thriller of 2021
Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmum to two gorgeous boys goes missing on Monday. Her husband Mark says he knows nothing of her whereabouts. She simply went to work and just never came home. Their family is shattered.
Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman, Daan, vanishes the same week. Kai left their luxurious penthouse and glamourous world without a backward glance. She seemingly evaporated into thin air. Daan is distraught.
DC Clements knows that people disappear all the time – far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run towards, others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds, their disappearances are unlikely to be connected. And yet, at a gut level, the DC believes they are.
How could these women walk away from their families, husbands and homes willingly? Clements is determined to unearth the truth, no matter how shocking and devastating it may be.
The Sunday Times Number One bestseller Adele Parks returns with her most provocative, compelling book to date: Both Of You.
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We have tides because of the gravitational pull of the moon. It is also known to affect human behaviour - hence the term lunatics - so why would it not also have an effect on water tables in the earth?
Whether it does affect gardening activities will never be resolved scientifically as there is no commercial interest in any of the big agri firms in doing so. We thus have to rely on anecdotal evidence form those who practise it over long periods and there is a wealth of old and new literature on the subject dating back to ancient Egyptian texts.
I suspect it's of importance to farmers and peasants with limted resources of machinery, fertiliser, weed killer, water for irrigation and so on who need to maximise their crop fertility but of far less import to those of us who garden in the developed world with plenty of resources. I would remind you though that our climate is changing, that population pressures, particularly in the south east, make water an increasingly precious and expensive resource. Unusual floods and droughts around the world mean this year's harvests are poor so fruit, corn and veg will be more expensive to buy and I suspect that one day rather more of us will be embracing old and new methods of making the most of our crops whilst limiting our impact on the planet's resources and ecology.
After all, it's not so many years ago that everyone thought going organic was bonkers and just look at how many of us avoid chemicals on our food crops and flowers for our own sake and for wildlife.
Don't be daft! It isn't gardening by moonlight!
It's gardening according to the phases of the moon. The simplest is simply the waxing phase for planting things that do their stuff above ground - leaves, flowers and fruit - and the waning for plants whose roots are of interest so taking cuttings and divisions and sowing or planting root veg.
Then there's the more complicated version using the relative position of the moon in the sky from one night to the next. When it's rising, plant or sow above ground plants. When it's descending, rooty stuff.
And finally the bio-rythmic version which takes into account the moon's passage through the zodiac - Air signs for flowers, Earth signs for roots, Fire signs for fruits and Water signs for foliage. This version also has best days for harvesting crops for keeping.
There are also days when it's best just to do garden maintenance and not sow, plant or harvest anything and days when it's best to go out and have fun or read a catalogue.
But you don't know if it makes no difference unless you keep an "anti-moon gardening diary". I'd like to garden by the moon but like you say it's a question of having time when the weather is right. In France they give away free gardening by the moon calendars in the local gardening shops, so if a whole nation follows it, there must be something in it - mustn't there? Don't answer! Anyway for all we know if we did do everything right and followed the moon maybe the leeks would be 2 inches diameter, really tasty and tender and th tomatoes wouldn't succomb to blight - who knows unless soemone volunteers to split their garden in two - full moon and new moon.
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..., there must be something in it - mustn't there? ...
..., there must be something in it - mustn't there? ...
Taking an objective and rational view there definitely IS a serious phenomena here. Beliefs about the moon are, at the very least, affecting some gardeners. Gardeners are buying these calendars (apparently) and some of them are changing their gardening behaviour accordingly. This is a real socio-horticultural phenomena, which cannot be denied.
You then need to start asking where these ideas came from. And you get led to books such as one quoted in an earlier post. The eminent historian Simon Schama described that point in history as the point at which gardening became a branch of philosophy. It still is. But this is all very serious stuff, and people who just want to grow a few sweet peas and potatoes, don't really need to worry about it.
same as they use to put sheets out bleach on moonlit night before good old washing powder.
Who knows?we plant by seasons and weather conditions,just think how exciting to be gardening at night by the moon.you would have bats and owls and all night things and your neighbours would love it when you started the mower up.
Well, I have to say, I was really happy to see this post up I have been a practising white (Well, more green) witch for 18 years and have heard it works. I have seen a number of articles on the topic and am now working out how I can use it in my craftwork. You can sow certain seeds at the different sabbats to encourage a number of things. I love the idea and will be trying this after researching it an planning ahead. May be next years project as this year I have been too impatient lol.
Im recording everything this year and have a book of shadows just for the garden. They did an experiment with sweet peas on a programme some years ago and it was a huge success. The sweet peas that were planted by the moon was a third stronger and it had almost 3x the amount of flowers.
I used moon cycles for sowing all my seeds a few years ago and had excellent germination results. I then tried using the moon cycles to determine what I did in the garden on a given day and again had good results. I didn't keep records but I did generally find my time was more productive if only because having set out to weed or prick out, or lift and divide, prune and so on, that was what I did without being distracted by other jobs.
Last year I had to have surgery for a slipped disc and that severely limited my time in the garden. This year it's surgery for new feet so my garden is now a weedy, overgrown mess. When I do get back out there I'll be following the lunar cycle so I concentrate my energies on doing one job well at a time and I won't be staring at the rest and feeling overwhelmed.
There's an easy calendar guide here - http://www.the-gardeners-calendar.co.uk/Moon_Planting.asp
Thanks for the link Obelixx, I have had a wee read but bookmarked it on the computer as this will come in handy. Im sorry to hear of your injury and hope you get back on your feet soon.
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The iconic Apple logo is one of the most recognizable symbols in the world and has become synonymous with innovation and quality. In this article, we will provide an in-depth overview of the Apple logo, its various iterations, their popularity, and the quantitative measurements associated with its impact. Furthermore, we will discuss the distinct characteristics that set different Apple logos apart and explore the historical context behind their evolution.
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The Apple logo, initially designed in 1977 by Rob Janoff, consists of a bitten apple silhouette. The shape, color, and symbolism of the logo have undergone subtle changes over the years. While its initial design aimed to represent the apple as a symbol of knowledge and temptations, it has evolved to represent Apple Inc.’s modern yet minimalist design philosophy.
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Since its inception, Apple has employed several logo variations. The most well-known ones include the monochrome ”rainbow apple,” the ”solid color apple,” and the current, sleek ”monochrome apple.” Each iteration has its unique appeal, capturing the zeitgeist of its time. For instance, the rainbow apple gained significant popularity in the 1980s as it exemplified the era’s vibrant and innovative spirit.
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Our Planning Director, John Clark, recently wrote an article for Professional Wealth Management on Private banks that may talk a good game about transforming themselves, but are really only repackaging existing services.
Private banks may talk a good game about how they are transforming themselves, but most are really only repackaging existing services. A much more significant change is required, in areas such as ESG investing and in the digital arena, if they are to engage with a new generation of clients
Heads of private banks are becoming more convinced about some key tenets on which they must base their future plans. Firstly, they must transform digitally to look less like the oak-panelled private members clubs which used to service traditional inherited money. The new generation of investors is simply not interested in the services provided and mentality prevalent throughout much of the old-school private banking sphere.
Secondly, they have to move away from selling the type of high fee structured products which led their clients to distrust them. And thirdly they need to develop expertise in the ESG (environmental, social and governance) and impact investing realms, which connect so intricately with the desires and lifestyles of the millennial generation.
But none of this will come easily. Those banks who think they can achieve the appearance of a total sea-change with a mere wash-and-brush-up – comprising some new coats of paint in the client suites and a few million spent on advertising a ‘rebrand’ – have some hard, commercial lessons ahead.
Consultants Helen Westropp and John Clark at Coley Porter Bell have been involved in many rebranding projects, including banks and financial services companies, as well as retail franchises. They say that lessons from the pharmaceutical sphere – where they saw very few drug manufacturers differentiating themselves from a “sea of sameness” – resonate across the wealth management world.
There is no doubt that change is happening, as standing still is not an option. The problem, says Mr Clark, is that banks are changing from the bottom up, rather than the top down. They are using technology or legislation as a pretext to reinvent themselves, but most end up still looking the same.
A client project recently carried out by the agency, in which they compared the ‘values’ described in the marketing literature of the world’s leading financial services providers, saw barely any difference between their approaches. “About 70 per cent of them were exactly the same, talking about empowerment, security and performance,” recalls Mr Clark.
Few players are actually defining what they stand for and then communicating their vision to the potential audience. This space, is currently “there for the taking”.
But the banks cannot just define themselves in relation to their peer group. They have to compete now with fintechs, social media firms and payment services, plus family offices.
Asset managers are all still regularly calling PWM or approaching us at conferences, desperate to highlight their latest product launch, which they want their private bankers to hawk to clients, old-style, to meet quarterly sales targets, to which bonuses are linked.
By going down this route, they may further alienate clients, who are already blaming their bankers for huge losses incurred before the last crisis. Clients will once again turn on their bankers if they are left without a chair when the music stops at the end of this bull market.
Many banks are still desperate to show that their asset allocation techniques and cash management are better than the competition, whereas much of this type of work is highly commoditised.
The biggest demand among private clients is currently for ESG products and impact investments, which offer a double dividend of financial and social returns.
According to research from OppenheimerFunds, conducted with Campden Wealth in 2017, 70 per cent of ultra high net worth millennials want to align their investments with their social values. This trend is particularly prevalent among women clients.
Yet only a handful are providing this vital and popular service. Indeed, in the Middle East the distrust of banks has become so intense that many family offices are barely on speaking terms with the banking fraternity.
“The traditional private banking club of 20 years ago is all about the assets which business owners are leaving to their grandchildren,” says Mr Clark.
But the next generation is no longer interested in this concept, he believes. Their passion is for their own generation and society as a whole, not just the fortunes of their own family.
“Private banks do not understand this external focus of doing good,” says Mr Clark. “They are still obsessed by passing on assets to the next generation.” Those Swiss banks who see themselves primarily as cross-generational guardians of wealth, rather than facilitators of improving society through transfer of wealth and impact investing, are missing the point, he claims.
Whether or not you agree with everything Mr Clark says – and it all comes from feedback from his clients and the broader market – one thing is clear. To ignore the desires of the next generation of wealthy clients when it comes to investing in innovative, socially responsible projects in developing countries, is tantamount to turning your back on opportunity.
Globally, many talented bankers continue to leave the big warehouses and start their own shops, particularly in Asia, where the recruitment crisis intensifies. Smaller boutiques talk about the bewildered, institutionalised bankers who turn up at their doors, looking for a brighter future. The first thing they expect is a morning briefing of which products to sell and the investment ideas of the day, handed down, factory style, from New York or Zurich.
While private clients continue to like stories and investment themes, this product-push approach is now short-lived. Banks are already suffering in some regions, like the Middle East, where there is a clear inter-generational conflict brewing. The younger family scions have lost interest in the good old-fashioned stock-bond combinations which were once the bastion of family portfolios. The new generation would rather talk about private equity and direct investments into hospitals, smart cities, vast projects to enhance eyesight of disadvantaged people and research into cures for cancer.
The only players really looking at these projects in a serious fashion, apart from a small handful of private banks, are the family offices. When it comes to the private banking marketplace, the landscape will look very different in five years than it does today. The advice from Coley Porter Bell is clear: private banks must differentiate, or die. | <urn:uuid:78a6f420-bdc6-4bb7-a2e2-7deb4354d2fb> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://www.coleyporterbell.com/proffessional-wealth-management/ | 2021-10-20T01:32:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585290.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019233130-20211020023130-00428.warc.gz | en | 0.969631 | 1,331 |
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Parasyte – the maxim ‘ is a loathsomeness science fiction anime that is known for being amazingly merciless with its depiction of a battle among people and the extra-earthbound. Its center thoughts may appear to be somewhat natural, particularly to the individuals who have seen Hollywood films like ‘Venom’ and ‘The Thing.’ Even thus, the anime has its very own horrifying appeal that keeps you spellbound all through its runtime. In the event that you haven’t watched it yet, you would now be able to check it on Netflix.
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‘Parasyte’ season 1 hit the screens on October 9, 2014, and with an aggregate of 24 scenes, it completed the process of circulating on March 29, 2015. Each of the 24 scenes of the anime were then delivered on Netflix on May 15, 2020. Crazy house Studio (‘Death Note’, ‘One Punch Man’), which made the anime, never reestablished it for another season. In addition, even the finish of the main period of the anime is fundamentally the same as that of its unique manga. This makes it pretty evident that due to an absence of source material, making a subsequent season may not be conceivable.
Since it is on Netflix now, if the anime does well industrially on the stage, it is conceivable that Netflix may reconsider it for another season. In its far-fetched situation being reconsidered, the second period of the anime will receive a unique storyline since its manga’s distribution finished route in 1995. That being stated, if Netflix reestablishes it, we can expect ‘Parasyte’ Season 2 to deliver at some point in 2022. Till then you can look at the anime’s two-section film variations.
The English Dubbed version of ‘Parasyte – the proverb ‘ are accessible on Funimation, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.
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Finally my quarter year wrap is completed.
Besides mucking around with that warhammer stuff I managed to get a start on more crusader types, once again from the beast that grips however I notice that they don't seem to be in the cattle dog, well not these exact versions anyhow. They must be well old, it is about time they got a lick of paint (5minutes Mr Fawlty), if anyone would care to give me a more precise description of the figures other than crusader types I would be grateful.
They all seemed to be armed with spears (not glued on yet) which I guess is OK seeing as they have their swords sheathed.
I think maybe that I will leave the shields until I can work out which nationality I want them to represent, I'm leaning towards Italian at the moment although I have no idea what shield designs would be popular with this choice?
Those cloaks were a bit of a pain, they are not very well sculpted (click on the pic to enlarge) and could have done with a bit more trimming and filing by me, there's some pewter in these three fig's the cloak is nearly 10mm thick at the base! Should get a bit more work done on these and update them soon. | <urn:uuid:f875c61d-ce5d-4402-8a67-1fed39ebed62> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://paintpigdave.blogspot.com/2011/06/ye-olde-update-last-hoora-gripping.html | 2018-03-20T13:26:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647475.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320130952-20180320150952-00751.warc.gz | en | 0.986748 | 261 |
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Having a really bad first day at a new school and mother/daughter conflicts are nothing new but this new graphic novel for younger readers presents these in a completely fresh style.
Readers who enjoy cartoons of the Adventure Time ilk will really get into the comic style of the graphics as well as the strangeness of Opposite Land. Steve has a terrible argument with her mum and storms off into her room with some stupid book that was her grandfather’s. It’s so ridiculous you can’t even read the writing in it. That is, until she happens to let it fall in front of the mirror and realises that the writing is all reversed.
As soon as she starts to read the words aloud Stevie is weirdly transported to Opposite Land where indeed everything is opposite!
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Updated 1:03 am, Wednesday, March 13, 2013
A Houston statute that allows people to be ticketed for rummaging through trash bins, as a homeless man was last week near City Hall, has been on the books since 1942, city records show.
The statute, which in 1942 was labeled "molesting garbage containers," first appeared close to its current form in 1981, and has been amended four times since.
In 1988, the wording was changed to include recycling bins, in 1995 to add specific penalties for violators, and in 2002 to include all garbage bins - not just those picked up by city workers - as part of alterations meant to restrict the behavior of the homeless downtown.
The most recent revision, a small wording tweak in 2009, was made three years before Mayor Annise Parker and the City Council outlawed feeding homeless people without permission of the property owner, a move that caused ample controversy last year. Parker said the changes were meant to channel such efforts to places where they could do the most good. Civil libertarians, volunteer groups and religious leaders were opposed, however, saying the law "criminalized charity."
Houston attorney Randall Kallinen, a key opponent of the feeding ordinance, is representing James Kelly, 44, who was ticketed last Thursday. A Tennessee native who recently arrived in Houston en route to California, Kelly said he spent about nine years in the Navy but has fallen on hard times. His military service has not been confirmed.
Kallinen on Tuesday acknowledged that the ticket had been written under the long-standing scavenging statute, and was not linked to the feeding ordinance as he had said Monday.
"It's not a part of that ordinance," the civil rights attorney said. "However, it's the same reasoning - to push the homeless people out of the downtown business district."
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Homeless man draws support: His allies call for change
"These laws all favor the downtown central business district," said Kallinen. "There is a history of laws - the anti-food-sharing law, the civility ordinances which prevent sleeping on sidewalks. Basically, it prohibits the behavior of what the homeless would do. Although it's a different law, the driving force behind it is the same."
The waste and litter chapter of the municipal code does define the boundaries of the central business district, but it's not clear whether the prohibition against rummaging through trash applies citywide or only in that area.
'It's creating a mess'
Ray Hunt, president of the Houston Police Officers' Union, said tickets for violations of the ordinance are written only in response to complaints that garbage has been removed and left outside of trash containers.
"I know on the face of it, it sounds very cruel," the union leader said, stressing that most police officers would not cite someone for simply taking food from a dumpster.
"It's not officers being inhumane," Hunt said. "It's police officers responding to citizens' complaints about someone removing garbage from their garbage can, and leaving it on the ground. It's creating a mess."
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Design Your Own Mirror
A great project for putting your personal stamp on style, the beauty of this simple do-it-yourself mirror is that it's made from mirrored squares, so you can make it as small or as large as you want.
- Lay out your mirror squares
- Measure and cut mitres
- Fill all nail holes
- Dry fit mirror
- Apply silicone adhesive
Lay out your mirror squares
Lay out your mirror squares on a 4 x 4 sheet of MDF (medium density fibreboard) and cut the MDF to fit.
Measure and cut mitres
Measure and cut mitres in casing material to create the frame. Assemble flush with the outside edge of the MDF and attach using wood glue and 1-1/4" brads or finishing nails.
Fill all nail holes
Fill all nail holes and seams with latex caulking. When dry, sand the frame smooth, taking care to remove any rough saw cut edges, then prime and paint all surfaces.
Dry fit mirror
Dry fit mirror inside casing for accuracy and make note of the position of each piece.
Apply silicone adhesive
Apply silicone adhesive to mirrors and place each individual mirror square, gently pushing down to evenly distribute adhesive.
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Blake Shelton, Kellie Pickler and Kix Brooks Land Guest Roles on ‘Bounty Hunters’
Blake Shelton, Kellie Pickler and Kix Brooks already have gigs beyond being country singers, with Shelton coaching on ‘The Voice,’ Pickler winning ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and Brooks hosting his radio countdown show. But soon, the singers will have new additions to their respective resumes, as they’ve all landed guest voice roles on the new animated CMT series ‘Bounty Hunters’ (which, by the way, sounds hilarious).
The show features comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Lisa Lampinelli. Jeff, Bill and Larry will be colleagues at Barton Bounty Hunters, situated in the southern town known as Skeeter Creek. They work together to nab fugitives and keep their beloved town safe and sound. Lampinelli will voice the role of a loudmouth bail bondswoman. There’s also other drama involving ex-wives and more.
Shelton will serve as Buck Masters, a rival bounty hunter, which sounds like a part he was born to voice. Pickler is slated to play a character named Daisy, who has an air of mystery about her. Brooks, meanwhile, has nabbed the voice role of a demolition derby expert.
Consider us very curious as to how these voice roles play out. Shelton, Pickler and Brooks all have distinct speaking voices that are full of inflection and personality, which will certainly add to the overall entertaining nature of the series. We can’t wait to tune in.
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Jardín de Infantes Particular Incorporado N°1207 Dra. Sara Faisal, Argentina Architecture
Jardín Nº 1207 Dra. Sara Faisal kindergarten
13 Apr 2020
Jardín Nº 1207 Dra. Sara Faisal by Estudio VIC
Architects: Estudio VIC office
Remodeling of Jardín Nª1207 – Dra. Sara Faisal kindergarten in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Location: Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Santa Fe province, northeastern Argentina, South America
The education institution “Dr. Sara Faisal” has strong ties and background in educational services in the city of Santa Fe, Argentina. This long lasting history requires the constant building renovations that this Institution regularly implements in each and everyone of its five academic’s units.
Photos © Ramiro Sosa
In this opportunity, in coincidence with the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the kindergarten unit, the institution requested the reform of the building where it was located. This building provides services to babies (one year old and older) and children in their initial stages of systematic education.
This institution was a pioneer in the city of Santa Fe in the introduction of a pedagogical system that integrates early childhood education and diversity. The original building for kindergarten services was made by a conglomared of different sub-units. For example, one of those buildings was used in teacher preparation and the profesional develoment of kindergarten teachers.
By the midd nineteen eighties with the availability of a land area for building another sector, the institution decided the use of the tipology of a high level building. This building included different classrooms and of a multiple service area (fishbowl). As time went by and in addition to the need of new spatial organizations and requirements for educational services, the institution supported the rebuilt of the K and pre-K classrooms.
This happened at the same time of the fiftieth year anniversary and to provide new spaces up dated and relevant for early childhood education. This reformed areas where thought to operate as an ‘entrance’to the educational areas, and its educational offerings that include from earlt childhood to higher education.
In terms of architectural projects the main goal was to refunctionalize different units and sub-units, and to open and integrate the flow between different classrooms and the outside. The Project was influence by pre-existing building conditions in a dynamics of convergences and tensions.
As leaders in the design of this project we became aware of the relevance and weight of the pre-existing conditions, not only in the building structures, but also in the ways in which this comunity used them, they function, and how they were used for different activities. As a result of these processes there was a reinvention or a reformulation of spaces, that at the end, acquired other conditions and qualities.
The main challenges in this project were to develop “spatial continuities”, visual and phisical linkages, and the integration of different spaces that had not been interconnected. Another designers decisions were focused on changing and re-designing the area for the Access to the building.
This changes consisted on adapting the entrance area of the building for the support of students with disabilities, implementing the premises of “universal access” requirementes and also for the sequence and a organization of mobility flows within the whole area. In adition, it was decided the creation of an entry area with a garden to support the flow and the gathering of different members of this educational community within this building.
This entry garden, which also operates as a welcoming space, was remodeled using different textures and colors. Additionally, the changes in. this space allowed to conect different building layers and a more effective use by setting one floor level.
Everyday, in this area different practicies to transition in to activities of the day are held.
Different operations were implemented to modify the first and second building levels, for example, walls were demolished or windows and doors were oppened. This allow the flow between halls and the classroom areas. The administrated areas and principals offices are situated in the bottom floor. The music classroom and the fishbowl are located on the opposite site of the building with connections to the backyard. These allowed the expantion of the areas for outside activities.
The first floor was refuntionctionalized ed as a result of the development of a connection between two areas that were not connected before.
This happens as a result of the building of a hall and aisle that articulates the circulation among classrooms, restrooms, and the new elevator.
One integral strategy of this project was the creation of areas without walls and without obstacules with the addition of halls that support the flow of people and activities.
The model followed the use of colours and textures, similar to the strategy once developed in the Special Education School (Santa Fe city, 2016). This intended to express warmth and social commintment to the children who attend this school.
Jardín Nº 1207 Dra. Sara Faisal in Santa Fe – Building Information
Building: Jardín Nª1207 – Dra. Sara Faisal
Designer: Estudio VIC (https://www.instagram.com/victoriasilvestrearquitecta/)
Project Supervisor: Architect Maria Victoria Silvestre
Technical Associate 1: TCN Alana Ojalvo
Technical Associate 2: TCN Lucas Bravin
Area: 1090.50 square meters
Construction Company: CAM S.A.
Technical Representative: TCN Marcelo Bonazzola
Director and Main Supervisor of the Project: Arch. María Victoria Silvestre – TCN Alana Ojalvo
Estructural Assesstment and oversight: Engineer Amelia Torrieri
Design requested by: Asociación Femenina de profesionales “Doctora Sara Faisal”
Providers: PH Aberturas Aluminio, Rex Pinturerías, Disser SRL, Balcarce 54, Colomé S.A.
Photos © Ramiro Sosa (https://www.instagram.com/ramirososafotografia/)
Jardín Nº 1207 Dra. Sara Faisal in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina images / information received 110420 from Estudio VIC office
Location: Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina, South America
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Enter Courtney Coleman and Bill Brockschmidt. Coleman had worked for designer David Easton and done some freelance projects for Tarlow. Not long after Nesbit got in touch, Coleman established a design firm with Brockschmidt. Trained as architects, they were the perfect team for the job. The new apartment—in a prewar Park Avenue building down the street from Nesbit’s offices—was in serious need of renovation. “It had been decorated a long time ago by Parish-Hadley, so it still had some charming touches,” Coleman says. But these weren’t part of Nesbit’s vision. “She wanted a clean, loftlike space.”
To that end, Nesbit arranged for Coleman and Brockschmidt to visit the nearby apartment of fashion designer Bill Blass, whose spare and finely curated space had become something of a design-world shrine. “Everybody in our field was influenced by that apartment’s sculptural take on furniture, how you could really see the art,” Coleman says, adding that the taste and aesthetics of Tarlow and Blass were great influences on Nesbit’s project. But there were other considerations as well.
Nesbit kept only a couple of pieces from her former space (including a tufted chair that once belonged to Gypsy Rose Lee), but the designers still had to find room for what Coleman calls “acres of books.” Since Nesbit is renowned for her frequent dinner parties, ample space for entertaining was a must. The solution was to reconfigure the living room to create a library by day and party space by night. Floor-to-ceiling bookcases were installed. Two library tables were designed with extra leaves, so they could be transformed into a single table for 24, an idea inspired by Blass’s pair of large Parsons tables.
“A big part of our work was figuring out the logistics of different types of parties,” says Coleman. She and Brockschmidt designed airy brass table lamps that don’t hinder conversation. In the powder room, the shower was transformed into a storage closet, where Nesbit stashes the chic green folding chairs she had commissioned in India while attending the wedding of the son of Knopf editor in chief Sonny Mehta. | <urn:uuid:60d992ae-ab93-437c-8a43-f89b13be009f> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.elledecor.com/home-remodeling/design-solutions/decor-by-the-book-a-70668-2 | 2015-01-29T00:35:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122233086.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124175713-00172-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978201 | 494 |
We are not at all sure about this one. It’s DREAMTIME meets Salvador Dali.
A monitor lizard deity that invents the canoe? Marries magpies? Weds teals? Finds a secret reservoir of water and refuses to share? But somehow the water flows into what becomes the Murray River? And now teals refuse to marry goannas?
Who was Murray? A Tory Politician and Secretary of State for the Colonies. Exactly the kind of person to have a river named after him. The river’s original name was Millewah but nobody seems to care about that anymore. | <urn:uuid:b371c9ff-b419-459a-8082-5cfc223ba9c7> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/australian-mythology.php?deity=GOANNA | 2014-11-23T23:50:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416400380233.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20141119123300-00243-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974787 | 131 |
All Good Things Must Come to an End
Trip Start Jan 20, 2004
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Unfortunately, just over a year ago Alberto fell off a ladder while attempting to fix a wooden shutter, suffering a severe fracture to the right shoulder. Despite spending time in the hospital followed by several visits to a local healer, he continued to experience intermittent pain and has been unable to lift his right arm past shoulder level. Since Janine is a practising physiotherapist, we asked whether she might consider taking a closer look at Alberto's shoulder/arm, and perhaps propose some simple exercises for him. We can't be sure whether it was simply the assurance that lifting his arm higher wouldn't aggravate the injury further, or whether the daily exercises were spot on, but the improvement to Alberto's flexibility was unbelievable. Thanks so much for all the quality time you spent with him, Janine!!
Alberto isn't alone in the mishap department. Last week, Eddy Maudilio somehow managed to spill a pot of boiling water onto his ankle. Although obviously in pain, he was reluctant to take off his shoe in order to allow us to examine his foot. By the time we did finally get to see the damage, it appeared to be quite a horrifying injury. We unearthed our first aid kit, and once again nurse Janine was called in to gently clean the wound and apply an antiseptic dressing. We had decided to take Eddy to the local clinic in spite of his adamant protestations, but fortunately the wound finally began to heal on its own.
Reflective moments at the hacienda continued to be interspersed with outings to surrounding towns and villages, each with its own special charisma. In spite of the dazzling colours of Chichicastenango, the brilliant indigo blues depicting Santa Catarina, the dozens of cute, inexpensive restaurants in Panajachel,
Antigua is of course also well endowed with a myriad of interesting restaurants, so following an afternoon of being tourists, we enjoyed a final "plato tipico" with Peter and Janine before taking them into Guatemala City for their flight back to Canada. Yes, the last of our visitors had left, meaning that our departure from the hacienda was not far away. But not before tying up a few final ends.
Over the past month, Alberto and Juliana have been extremely busy harvesting their maize, drying it thoroughly in the sunshine, removing the kernels from the cobs, and finally winnowing it to remove any remaining extraneous substances before storing it in their new silo. Although they were cautiously optimistic about this season's production, we could see at a glance that they would run short of their staple crop well before next year's harvest was anywhere near ready. And naturally, the price will rise considerably before that time, so they would be forced to buy at inflated costs. We suspect that because of Alberto's accident, he was unable to keep up with the daily demands on his time during planting season last year, resulting in a somewhat reduced harvest. Thus, we made a quick trip into Panajachel to purchase 500 pounds of maize to augment their harvest, ensuring that their supply would last the year. The smiles on the faces of the entire family when they saw the maize will stay with us forever. | <urn:uuid:0867fec7-29c4-4883-933b-92aa7cdaf7c2> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/thymeoff/thyme_off/1173128880/tpod.html | 2015-07-30T23:15:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042987775.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002307-00175-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98 | 681 |
Perry Mason courtesy CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment
Earlier this week CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment announced the Perry Mason - 50th Anniversary Edition 4-disc set, coming out on April 8th.We've got the scoop now on just what episodes and extras you'll find in this great upcoming DVD package!The studio describes The 50th Anniversary Edition as a compilation of "12 of the most gripping, thrilling, and shocking episodes of the show's incredible 9 seasons". The episodes selected to celebrate Perry's golden anniversary are: "The Case of the Wary Wildcatter" (with Barbara Bain), "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" (with Robert Redford), "The Case of the Envious Editor" (with James Coburn), "The Case of the Barefaced Witness" (with Adam West), "The Case of the Counterfeit Crank" (with Burt Reynolds), "The Case of the Shoplifter's Shoe" (with Leonard Nimoy), "The Case of Constant Doyle" (with Bette Davis), "The Case of the Deadly Verdict" (Mason loses a case), "The Case of the Bountiful Beauty" (with Ryan O'Neal), "The Case of t...
Cape fear: Hero's Katt
Question: Just wondering. Did William Katt star in anything before The Greatest American Hero
Answer: His big break in the pre-Hero years was as doomed prom king Tommy in 1976's Carrie, Kyle. His first true starring role was as the young Sundance Kid, playing opposite Tom Berenger's Butch Cassidy, in 1979's Butch and Sundance: The Early Days. I'm betting, however, that you missed that one since most people did.
Like it or not, Katt, the son of actors Bill Williams and Barbara Hale (Perry Mason) is best remembered for his work on the ABC series, which ran from March 1981 to February 1983. And to hear him talk at the time, he didn't like the idea of that — and quite rightly feared it w | <urn:uuid:796ca5f1-ffe9-4925-b8c7-29b918a3d5ca> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/barbara-hale/news/141143 | 2014-10-25T04:24:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119647629.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030047-00095-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954636 | 427 |
PARSE Journal Issue #6 Secularity
The subject matter for PARSE Journal #6 has been taken directly from Nav Haq’s curatorial thematic for GIBCA 2017. It was launched during the biennial's opening week to accompany the biennial as part-catalogue, part-contextual (re)source and part-imaginative interpolation.
Combining a biennial research conference and a twice-annually published peer-review research journal, PARSE provides a forum for dialogue between artistic researchers and researchers from other domains and disciplines.
This 6th issue of PARSE Journal was developed in collaboration with Nav Haq (Curator) and Stina Edblom (Artistic Director) of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2017 (GIBCA 2017) on the theme of secularity: The issue comes at a critical time for European social and political attitudes within a global context, in which many attitudes and principles are fundamentally being challenged. In particular, the very European truce between secular humanism and religious traditions has come under increasing scrutiny, challenged both from within and without. While there may certainly be good reasons to challenge any particular societal configuration, the question inevitably arises how human beings of different beliefs, or no particular belief and of different modes of life should be able to live together in peace and with a sense of equality, rights and freedom.
The journal is available online here .
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You may have heard the recent buzz about Instagram rolling out a live video feature for its users. The mobile photo sharing giant has finally confirmed that its new feature includes the option to live stream videos. The Instagram Live Video option is officially available this week to US users, while others around the globe can be expected to see the feature in the next few weeks. Ever since news about Instagram rolling out its live video option broke out on the Internet, it has been a hot topic among its 400 million active users. It can be expected to shine some positive light on the social network. Luckily, you’ve got this ultimate guide to using Instagram Live Video to help you get acquainted with everything you need to know to start using it today.
What’s New for Instagram Users?
The social media platform has introduced two new updates for its users. Included are live videos in Instagram Stories, which allows users to broadcast themselves in real-time, with no replay option available for viewers. The second feature is sharing ephemeral photos and videos with friends via Instagram Direct, which is perfect for sharing live videos with a more private audience.
Instagram made the announcement about the official launch of Instagram Live Video to their users here:
How Do You Use the New Instagram Live Video Feature?
The Instagram live video stream feature is quite simple and easy to use. With your mobile device, all you need to do is swipe right from feed and open the camera. Then, tap the ‘start live video’ button and begin sharing your video. You can share your video for up to an hour. It’s as easy as that. Also, while you’re live, you can add comments that are visible to everyone. You could also disable this feature altogether.
If, however, you want to share real-time videos with your friends or groups more privately, then Instagram Direct is what you’re looking for. All you need to do is swipe right into the camera and record a video. Then tap onto the arrow icon to send it to whomever you wish. You can either send it to individuals separately or to a whole group at once.
What’s even better about the new live video option on Instagram Direct is that the video messages you send to recipients will disappear from their inboxes once they have viewed them. On top of that, you will be able to see who replayed your video and even who took a screenshot. Recipients can only replay the video once and then it’s gone forever. Bear in mind you can only send disappearing videos to your followers, regardless of whether your account is set to public or private.
Instagram has got this covered. When you go live, your most dedicated followers will get a notification saying you’re online, so they can tune into your live feed. On the other hand, if one of the people you follow goes live, you’ll see the word ‘live’ added under their profile pictures in the stories bar. You can also find new live videos using the ‘explore’ tab by tapping the ‘top live’ option. Find the best live videos broadcasting at the moment by swiping right and left.
What Does The New Instagram Feature Mean For Users?
The new feature allows users to share personal real-time videos with a specific audience, without fear of who is watching or sharing. Since the video cannot be replayed, it does help users to feel safer in terms of their privacy. This puts extra emphasis on the term ‘live’, since a live video means to convey just that. It’s a particular moment in time, rather than something you can replay over and over again. Replayed live videos lose the sense of being live and muddy the lines between regular and live videos
Also, the new live video feature is perfect for brands looking to expand their businesses and earn some extra exposure. In essence, it is a good marketing campaign strategy for businesses looking to do something creative. Did you know that about 25% of Internet users watch at least one video daily? Consequently, investing in creating a quality video can be good for business in terms of publicity. Perhaps you could use the option to live stream an event or create an explainer video. Just be sure to stand out and leave a strong impression on viewers.
If you have a live video idea in mind, feel free to contact Valoso. We specialize in creating quality professional video content. We can help you get a professional opinion from a pool of international talent to find a solution to all your video marketing needs. Get a free quote today. | <urn:uuid:a55b42c5-7fc7-43ac-a7bb-fc09120bf1ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://blog.valoso.com/ultimate-guide-instagram-live-video/ | 2022-12-06T03:44:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711069.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206024911-20221206054911-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.935049 | 947 |
Latest Cycling News for May 31, 2006
Edited by Anthony Tan, with assistance from Susan Westemeyer
ASO to withdraw Würth's TdF invite?
The Spanish newspaper AS reports that on Friday, the Tour de France organisers ASO will withdraw their invitation to the Liberty Seguros-Würth Team, now known as Würth. Former race director Jean-Marie Leblanc announced that the Tour would take "vigorous measures" against any teams found to be implicated in the Spanish doping scandal.
However, according to AS, ASO cannot unilaterally remove Manolo Saiz's team from the race because of the way the current ProTour rules stand, which was also communicated by ProTour manager Alain Rumpf to the press on the final day of the Giro d'Italia. To withdraw Würth's invite, the TdF organisers will have to await a ruling from the UCI as to whether the team is still a part of the ProTour, and is therefore eligible to participate or not.
AS also reports that ASO will prevent Spanish pro continental team Comunidad Valenciana from racing the Tour, although the announcement has not been officially made yet. Comunidad Valenciana isn't a ProTour squad, and was invited at the descretion of the race organisers, but the implication of its assistant director Ignacio Labarta in "Operación Puerto" seems to have put its Tour spot in jeopardy.
All T-Mobile riders must deny involvement
In light of Oscar Sevilla's involvement in the current Spanish doping scandal, T-Mobile Team is requiring all its riders to verify they have nothing to do with the matter. "We have requested all our riders to sign a three-line declaration, stating that they have not worked with Fuentes. "Our manager Olaf Ludwig will collect these declarations in the coming days," said Christian Frommert, Director of Sports Information for the T-Mobile Team.
Sevilla was allegedly filmed entering the Fuentes clinic, but claims to have visited another doctor in the same building. Frommert said there is "no reason to doubt Oscar. If, however, it transpires that he has been clandestinely using banned substances, then we will take action."
Liberty Seguros offline
And if anyone's looking for news on the former Liberty Seguros-Würth team on the Internet, don't bother: their Web site is gone. Click on www.libertyseguroswurth.com and all you get is the following message: "Página no disponible, Page not available."
May 18, 2009 - Valverde to start Catalunya
Investigating lawyer says Armstrong should be cleared
According to Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the UCI's appointed independent lawyer Emile Vrijman says Lance Armstrong should be cleared of any suspicion surrounding the retrospective testing of his blood samples from the 1999 Tour de France. In late August last year, the seven-time Tour de France winner was at the centre of French newspaper L'Equipe's allegations, who claimed Armstrong's first Tour victory was aided by blood-boosting agent erythropoietin (EPO).
Mr. Vrijman denounced the manner in which the doping laboratory in Châtenay-Malabry carried out its research, as well as questioning the ethics of World Anti-Doping Agency chairman, Dick Pound. Furthermore, Vrijman said the French scientists who worked on the retrospective testing facilitated the ease with which L'Equipe journalist Damien Ressiot obtained the documentation that listed riders' code numbers against each of the urine samples tested. Ressiot was then able to match the code numbers against the doping control forms mistakenly given out by UCI doctor Mario Zorzoli.
Despite Zorzoli handing out these forms, Vrijman believed it was definitely not enough to identify Armstrong as guilty of taking EPO. Again slamming the Châtenay-Malabry laboratory for its research methods, he said it was "irresponsible to suggest the results of the 1999 analyses contain enough proof [to convict Armstrong]".
June 27, 2006 - Carmichael
defends Armstrong, Armstrong answers L'Equipe & LeMond
Phonak for Schwarzwald & Gippingen
The Phonak Cycling Team will send the following line-ups to the GP Triberg-Schwarzwald and GP Kanton Aargau one-day races, to be held this weekend.
Team GP Triberg-Schwarzwald: Alexandre Moos, Steve Morabito, Luis
Oliveira, Gregory Rast, Florian Stalder, Johann Tschopp, David Vitoria,
GP Kanton Aargau: Aurélien Clerc, Martin Elmiger, Alexandre Moos,
Steve Morabito, Luis Oliveira, Gregory Rast, Florian Stalder, David Vitoria
Wiesenhof-Akud for upcoming races
Almost the entire Wiesenhof-Akud team will be racing this week, with only three of the team's 16 riders sitting it out. Starting today, German road champion Gerald Ciolek will be leading the team in the Tour of Luxembourg, while climber Gerhard Trampusch will lead a small team in the GP Schwarzwald in Germany on Saturday and also at the GP Aargau in Gippingen, Switzerland, on Sunday.
Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg: Gerald Ciolek, Artur Gajek, Steffen Radochla, Marcel Sieberg, Corey Sweet, Carlo Westphal, Gergor Willwohl
GP Triberg-Schwarzwald/GP Kanton Aargau: Tim Klinger, Christian Leben, Robert Retschke, Gerhard Trampusch, Lars Wackernagel
Lampre to Memorial Pantani
With the approval of team manager Giuseppe Saronni, Lampre-Fondital direttore sportivo Giuseppe Martinelli confirmed the team's line-up for this Saturday's Memorial Pantani, a 176 kilometre race from 'Il Pirata's' former home in Cesenatico to Cesena.
Riders: Alessandro Ballan, Daniele Bennati, Giuliano Figueras, Enrico Franzoi, Daniele Righi, Mauro Santambrogio
South African nationals start tomorrow
South Africa's Herald Online reports Nelson Mandela will play host to the South African national road championships, which begin tomorrow (Thursday) until June 4 in Altona.
According to the Herald, over 800 cyclists have registered for the championships, which commence with the national time trial championship on Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, the schools events will take place, followed by the men's and women's road races on Sunday.
In the women's road race, Anriette Schoeman, who recently won her division in the Cape Argus Cycle Tour for the fifth time, is vying for a record eighth championship on Sunday. "Team tactics will play a major role in the outcome of the event," Schoeman said. "It will be left to the team manager to decide who is singled out in the team to go for the win. The only important aspect is that we as Team Proline Computers, take the national title."
Pakistan MTB race to help earthquake victims
An epic three days of mountain biking over some of the most exciting and gruelling terrain in the world, the Tour of the Karakorum in Pakistan is being promoted to help victims of last October's earthquake that destroyed much of the area and killed thousands of people.
Organised by former Marco Polo Cycling Team member Nathan Dahlberg, all funds generated from the race will go to the Kaghan Memorial School Project of the Kaghan Memorial Trust. This school is being built in Balakot, one of the areas worst-affected by the earthquake, where thousands of children were killed when their schools collapsed on top of them.
To be held from September 1-3, 2006, the Tour of The Karakorum is a combined mountain bike stage race and bike tour. 20 invited riders will participate in the three-day race that will cover 250 kilometres on dirt, paved and track only roads, crossing the Babusar Pass at more than 4,100 metres above sea level (that's 13,600 feet!). A further 20 tourists will cover the same distance, and any others who are game (read: mad - ed.) enough can also tackle the race.
Organisers warn this is not a trip for the physically, mentally or culturally weak, and a documentary for British television will also be filmed during the race.
Daily prizes for the first three on each stage
More information: tr.nelson.co.nz/tour_of_the_karakorum.htm
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In the early years of this blog I wrote a lot about the personal struggles of people who had attained financial independence only to find out that it revealed that money was not what was standing in the way of happiness. That's contrary to the message of our society, which is this:
I was fascinated with this topic, because a few years earlier, when the company I founded went public, I had achieved this independence, and found that I wasn't happy. I felt like I had done all that had been asked of me, and I was promised happiness, and I had been cheated, and wanted to understand why.
Before I hit the mother lode, I was just another gold digger, struggling to make payroll, even though my company had offices on Easy Street (not a joke) in Mountain View. I was actually having as much fun as you could have, but didn't know it at the time.
One evening, I was walking around the neighborhood of the office when I met a friend of a friend, let's call him Joe (not his real name) and stopped to chat. I had heard that he was very rich, and asked why he lived in such a modest middle-class neighborhood when he could afford an estate in Los Altos Hills or Portola Valley. He said he preferred to live a modest life, to live within his ability to use his wealth, and just kept the money as a cushion in case something went bad, someone in his family got sick, or some other emergency.
I thought then this was puzzling, I didn't get it, but now, with the benefit of almost 30 years of hindsight, I realize he was totally right. One of the biggest mistakes rich people make is to try to live larger than a single human being can. A mathematical impossibility. You can buy a big house, but you can only sleep in one bedroom at a time. You can own twenty fantastic cars, airplanes and yachts, but you can only be in one at a time. You can own an NBA team and a MLB team, and you get to sit in the nicest seat in the house at games, but you still can only sit in one seat. In other words, your humanity doesn't increase just because your wealth did. You don't get bigger.
And it's even worse than it appears -- the struggle to live more than one life will fail, and it will make you feel like a failure, just as you felt before you made the money! So being rich does not mean success if your goal is to achieve immortal super-human-ness.
You can see that horrific struggle in Peter Thiel's actions and statements. He says he's going to live forever, and so will today's college grads. And I assume in the back of his mind he's also going to solve the problem of just getting one body to use. He will persevere and find a way to sleep in his San Francisco mansion and his New York penthouse at the same time. But here's the problem -- even if he achieves these goals, and of course he won't -- he still won't be happy.
I can say this with some certainty because I've been down the road he's on, and I got off. And I just watched. Watched as the super-rich of my generation got old and their arteries hardened. They got used to talking to servants, and having their asses kissed at all times, and never having to listen to anyone tell them they're full of shit. I'm a few years older than Thiel, and if he had seen what I have seen, he wouldn't be so happy about living forever.
I think we all need a struggle, I think that's where our creativity comes from. We need something that feels unattainable, but actually is not. But the struggle to rise above our humanity, that's not going to happen for any of us. And the desire to have it robs your very human life of any value.
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A total of 320 military personnel will retire from the armed forces next week, says Air Vice Marshal Austine Jekenu, Commandant, Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC).
Jekenu told newsmen at the centre in Oshodi, Lagos on Wednesday that the retiring military men were drawn from the Army, the Air Force and the Navy.
“A total of 320 servicemen comprising of 262 from the Nigerian Army, 44 from the Nigerian Navy and 14 from the Nigerian Air Force would be graduating from the NAFRC,’’ he said.
Jekenu said that the retiring servicemen went through months of intensive training on skills acquisition and entrepreneurship at NAFRC.
He said the training was to prepare the retirees for life after military service.
According to him, the centre has the mandate to provide necessary training geared towards preparing retiring servicemen for reintegration into civil life.
He said that the initiative was to enable the beneficiaries adjust and appropriately blend with the peculiarities of retirement and contribute actively to national economy as worthy civilians.
Jekenu urged all the retiring servicemen to positively contribute to boost national economy in whatever business they engaged in.
“The centre graduates 2 courses annually and it is on record that we have trained over 41, 000 ex-servicemen of the Nigerian Armed Forces since its inception,” he said.
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I’ve been waffling for what feels like eons about starting a blog cataloguing my various adventures and mishaps in the wilderness.
You would think it would be a no brainer, I love writing and I love hiking, so why not combine a couple of my favorite pastimes? I grew up taking family vacations to the national parks, as well as hiking and horseback riding on the local trails in my small California town. I have continued hiking as I have gotten older and have taken several amazing trips as an adult.
Since my recent move to the not-as-damp-as-everyone-from-California-said Pacific Northwest, I have been able to explore a vastly different landscape than the one I grew up in. The desert of my youth has been left behind for a land of dense forests and water (seriously, there is water everywhere), and there are three national parks within a 2-3 hour drive.
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Encouraging Kids To Try New Foods
Eating a variety of healthy foods is the best way for your child to get needed nutrients. But how do you encourage kids-notorious for being picky eaters-to explore the wide world of food? According to the health and parenting experts at Kids Health, the answer is pleasant persistence.
It turns out that once is not enough when it comes to kids and trying new foods. It may take up to 15 tries before children warm up to new tastes, research shows. So if your child turns up his nose at green beans or broccoli, don’t assume he will never like those good-for-you green veggies.
Consider starting a new rule at your family table: Everyone takes at least a bite of what’s being served, even if they tried it before and didn’t like it. This exposes kids to new tastes again and again, increasing the odds that they’ll eventually accept some of them. It also makes trying new foods just part of the normal routine. The Kids Health experts offer these tips for implementing this one-bite strategy:
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I’ve been using wordpress for about 6 months now and I’m using the “luminescent lite” theme. I now decided it was time to move my old phpbb board over to bbpress and I’m struggling a bit with the design. So:
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Can I add a paragraph for each forum or even not show the forums at all (they would open on a click on the category).
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NEWTOWN TWP. - What do you call it when one girls lacrosse team stubbornly tried to lure the other into extending its defense, only to have the other obstinately refuse to do so, with the result being that both teams spent an inordinate amount of time standing around killing grass?
"Good coaching," according to Jami Wilus.
"It's boring," was what Pat Toner had to say.
North Penn, the team Wilus coaches, defeated Council Rock North, the team Toner co-coaches along with Carolyn Kacergis, 7-6 in a nonleague game Wednesday afternoon. But the entire affair was as remarkable for the dramatic way in which the Maidens won - Brenda McDermott scored on a restart with 40.2 seconds remaining - as it was for the slowdown, stand-and-watch-and-wait style North Penn deployed for more than 20 of the 50 regulation minutes of play.
"We wanted to play our style, and to our tempo," Wilus said. "We wanted to take control of the game, and they wanted to pack it in, so I guess it was just a battle of wills."
Wilus first had the Maidens (3-0 overall) slow things to a stop with a little less than 14 minutes remaining in the first half, when they were ahead 3-2. NP possessed the ball in the CR North's end, and nobody moved.
For a looooooong time.
Wilus could be heard instructing her players not to do anything until one of the Indians (1-2 overall) came out to defend them. Toner, at the other end, was overheard telling her team not to give in by defending the ball.
And so it went for the next 13 action-free minutes, with NP finally deigning to move with 45 seconds to go and McDermott eventually scoring with 7.0 seconds to play before halftime to make it 4-2.
"We lost our top two players (Molly Doyle and Hannah Plappert, both of whom are injured), so if we run out on them with inexperienced people, they just come in and score and score and score," Toner said. "They can stand there all they want. We were hoping to keep it close and then wait for an opportunity to go out."
The Indians - and anyone else who was there - did a lot of waiting, as it turned out. With about 12 minutes to go in the game and North Penn in front 6-5, Wilus had the Maidens do it again, another interlude of uninteresting strategizing that stretched on for an interminable seven minutes, during which time Toner became visibly (and audibly) upset.
"It's boring, but for us it's a waste of a nonleague game because I want to see how we do against one of the premiere teams in the area," Toner said. "I would rather see them run plays and see how our defense can do against them rather than stand there and watch them stall.
"They're waiting for us to come out on them, and if we don't go out on them, then it's a boring game. But I'm not going to send inexperienced players out to get burned like that."
Wilus, who had done something similar in a playoff game last year against Radnor, remained adamant about the wisdom of what went on - or didn't, depending on one's perspective. Especially since, after CR North tied it at 6 on Lindsay Rheiner's third goal with 2:31 to go, North Penn held it again until McDermott was fouled with 42 seconds left.
She scored the game-winner an instant later.
"You could look at it both ways," Wilus said. "You could say we stalled, but we really weren't stalling; we just wanted them to come out and play us on defense, instead of packing it in."
Even for that long?
"Good coaching," Wilus replied. "It comes down to what style of play you are. We like to spread it out; they like to pack it in defensively. I don't care if we win by one or 10; it's about winning. We won the game, and that's the most important thing right now."
Dom Cosentino can be reached at dcosentino@phillyBurbs.com
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North Penn 7, Council Rock North 6
North Penn 4 3 - 7
Council Rock North 2 4 - 6
Goals: NP- Macie Hauk 2, Brenda McDermott 2, Rachel Shaw 2, Garrie Grenfell; CRN- Kara Magley 3, Lindsay Rheiner 3
Shots: NP 14, CRN 10. Saves: Jenna Stover (NP) 4; Taylor Beck (CRN) 6
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Now’s a good time to pick up a Kings Dominion season pass for next year.
A $76.99 (current price) 2013 Gold Season Pass Includes:
One free visit in 2012
Buy now and you can use your pass one time this season! Visit this Labor Day weekend or experience our great fall events, including Halloween Haunt! New pass holders must process your 2013 Gold Pass to receive one free visit.
Unlimited visits in 2013
Visit as many times as you’d like next year! Come for an hour or stay for the day – you decide with a Gold Season Pass.
Free season-long parking
Flash your Gold Pass and zoom past the parking booth without paying!
In-park discounts, and more
Gold Passholders enjoy exclusive perks all season long that are designed to help you stretch your dollar. Food and merchandise discounts, designated days where you can bring friends at an incredibly low rate, and so much more.
Two key benefits to the Gold Pass over Silver (cheaper, not available for 2013 yet) are the free parking and that it includes Halloween Haunt admission for 2013 – in addition to the one free visit this year. So if you’re planning to go once this fall and at least once next summer, the pass is worth it!
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15 Dec 2011 Ottawa proposes first nations property ownership
Globe and Mail, Dec 15 2011: Conservative MPs are proposing a fundamental change to Canada’s reserve system, advocating legislation that would allow natives to own private property within the communal land of reserves.
The change – recommended Wednesday in a Conservative-led prebudget report by the House of Commons finance committee – would mark a dramatic shift for individuals living on reserve. It would make it easier to accumulate wealth and to use homes as collateral when seeking bank loans to start businesses. Keep reading
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February 6, 2013 at 1:02 PM
PATERSON, NJ - A stationary store on Chamberlain Avenue was robbed at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon, police said.
A 28-year-old store employee told police he was mopping up the floor at about 1:25 pm when a man came in and pulled an automatic handgun, according to Lt. Richard Reyes.
The suspect forced the employee into a back area of the store, took the worker's cell phone and the money in cash register and fled, police said.
The store is located on the same block where a 7-Eleven had been robbed at gunpoint a month ago. The suspects in that case have been arrested.
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We reached out to some of our former Charlottesville Tomorrow editorial team to find out where life has taken them since leaving Charlottesville. The second update in the series is our former News Editor Elliott Robinson.
Where has life taken you since leaving Charlottesville Tomorrow?
I’m news director at VPM (NPR and PBS) in Richmond, VA
How did working at Charlottesville Tomorrow help you in your career?
I’m grateful for being given the tools, support, training and resources to grow in leadership during my tenure.
What was your favorite part of working at Charlottesville Tomorrow?
Working with a mixture of young and experienced journalists and seeing their talents blossom while they served the greater Charlottesville community.
What is your outlook for the future of local journalism?
I believe that local journalism will survive wherever engaged residents can get their local outlets out of massive corporate control and continue to pour resources into those that are in the nonprofit sphere. | <urn:uuid:b1b7e8b9-173b-4f46-b8c5-5ba749860eef> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/where-are-they-now-former-ct-news-editor-elliott-robinson/ | 2023-01-27T13:59:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494986.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230127132641-20230127162641-00048.warc.gz | en | 0.947887 | 189 |
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I had an interesting confluence of information thrown at me this past week. First, on Monday, I got an e-mail from one of the organizers of FrostBurn. It was a gentle suggestion to check out the lecture on TED.com by Philip Zimbardo: How ordinary people become monsters…or heroes.
The gist is that it is relatively easy to get people to do unimaginably cruel things. All you need to do is to ask them to gradually increase the intensity of their behavior, and to absolve them of responsibility for that behavior. As has been demonstrated by the atrocities of history, nearly anybody can be party to this kind of behavior, except for a few: the "everyday heroes".
In response to that e-mail, someone else posted a link to What is the Monkeysphere?. It outlines the notion that our brains are only capable of dealing with a clan of about 150 individuals. Outside that group, everyone else is not even a person, just a thing in the world. The article argues that in general, people don't care about the outsider group except when they make a deliberate effort to be empathetic. I personally don't think this is true, but Philip Zimbardo's research seems to back it up.
Anyway, in Zimbardo's lecture, he says that anybody can be trained to be an "everyday hero". His method of doing so asks people to consider themselves "heroes in waiting" — that someday you may be called upon to act heroically. I personally use the guilt-based technique where I ask myself, "which course of action will make me respect myself tomorrow?" to elicit my best behavior. Regardless, we agree that a core element is the desire to not go along with the status quo for its own sake, but to remain vigilant and question that which seems wrong.
Then on Tuesday, I went to The Rochester Public Library (115 South Ave.) for the Books Sandwiched-In lecture. Douglas Lowry discussed his view on The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez. Lopez, a columnist, discovers a man named Nathaniel Ayers playing violin in the streets of L.A. Although he writes a column about this encounter, he is struck by this man and returns to him many times over several years. Ayers is clearly mentally ill, and Lopez tries to get him to use psychiatric services to discover how to experience joy.
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting that these things all seemed pretty related.
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This post is about England’s remarkable victory over South Africa, which has just been completed. Before I get to the details I start with a highlight from the commentary box…
BEAUTIFULLY BOWLED, AGGERS
BBC Cricket Correspondent Jonathan Agnew with some assistance from statistician Andrew Sampson pulled a classic stunt on Geoffrey Boycott earlier today – check out the video below:
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England started today needing six wickets to win and go 2-1 up in the series, while South Africa needed to bat the day out to save the game. Roland-Jones took two of the wickets in successive balls after quiet start to the day, and then Moeen Ali snapped up the seventh wicket with the last ball of the morning session. The second session also started quietly before Moeen broke through, accounting for Dean Elgar for 136. One sensed that Soutrh Africa’s last hopes of saving the game went with the opener. This sense heightened when Rabada edged his first ball to Stokes who made no mistake. Morkel was hit on the pads by the next delivery, given not out by the on-field umpire and instantly reviewed, with all 11 members of the fielding side indicating simultaneously. The technology showed that it was out, and the game was over, with Moeen having a hat trick to his credit.
THE ETYMOLOGY OF THE TERM HAT TRICK
This term, which has been borrowed by other sports for less dramatic associations with the number three dates back to a match at Hyde Park, Sheffield in the 1850s in which Heathfield Stephenson, then captain of the All-England Eleven, took three wickets with successive balls, and the crowd spontaneously recognised the feat by passing a hat around to collect money that was then presented to Stephenson. Thus the feat was termed a ‘hat trick’ and has been so called ever since.
THE PLAYER OF THE MATCH AWARD
Ben Stokes has been confirmed as Player of the Match for his century, plus some useful second innings runs, wickets and catches. The only other appraoch to a contender was debutant Toby Roland-Jones (sometimes referred to as the ‘Sunbury Shotgun’ because he played club cricket at Sunbury early in his career and has a double-barrelled surname) who batted well in both innings and took wickets, including the top four of the South African order in the first innings. Tom Westley also had a good debut, looking composed in both innings. | <urn:uuid:0125c01e-b0cb-4243-a259-0cbb951966bb> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://aspi.blog/tag/boycott/ | 2021-07-26T14:30:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046152129.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210726120442-20210726150442-00454.warc.gz | en | 0.967584 | 590 |
They stole as little as a breakfast sausage, but as much as thousands of dollars in gold.
The looters evacuees feared while away from their homes did strike, according to reports from the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office and the Beaufort Police and Bluffton Police departments.
They stole guns and televisions, gasoline powered generators and gasoline. They took jewelry and coins and cash, electronics and outdoor furniture.
They kicked in doors, broke windows and removed air conditioning units.
Across the county from Oct. 5 through Oct. 11, 47 burglary cases were reported to the Sheriff’s Office. A majority of those cases were reported on Hilton Head Island with 11 instances and St. Helena Island with 9 cases.
In Bluffton, six cases were reported during that time frame and a Bluffton man was charged in three of those burglaries, according to the Bluffton Police Department.
In one case, before she evacuated, a Dale woman reported $40,000 worth of gold bars missing from a cardboard box labeled "Gold and Gun."
She had put the cardboard box in a small safe a few months earlier at the suggestion of a neighbor, whom she had shown the valuables. She asked her neighbor to store the box in his larger safe during the evacuation. That’s when he noticed the gold bars missing.
The 30 bars, about an ounce each, were valued at $39,000.
On Hilton Head, a woman reported several electronics stolen after looters pushed in through her daughter’s window. Thankfully, the family had evacuated and was not home at the time of the break in .
Station One gas station on Palmetto Parkway was also broken into and several items were stolen, according to a Sheriff’s Office report. The alarm activated, but deputies were unable to see the suspect because the cameras were not working since the power was out at the time of the incident.
In another case, a woman said sausage had been stolen from her refrigerator, but the bed was more made up than she left it and the cat's water had been topped off.
The looters - or the prospect of them - had those who stayed during the evacuation on edge.
A man told deputies he had taken on a newspaper route on St. Helena for a friend when a man in a truck confronted him and raised a gun in the air.
The man with the gun told deputies he could have handled the situation better but had been on the lookout for suspicious activity. Other called deputies for as little as a loose doorknob.
A Lady's Island woman said someone stole thousands in jewelry, $1,000 in coins, Coach purses, her .357 Magnum. -- even pots and pans.
Five rifles, $10,000 in jewelry, XBox games, iPhones and a laptop were missing from another Lady's Island home, with the owner telling deputies a blue crowbar had been left behind by the burglar.
Televisions, tablet computers and jewelry were stolen in Seabrook.
On Capers Island Road on St. Helena, $15,000 in cash, coins, jewelry and liquor went missing.
In Beaufort, burglaries were reported in Jericho Woods, Waight Street, Talbird Road, River Acres, Hundred Pines and Battery Point.
A St. Helena Island resident and burglary victim said he’s glad he evacuated and he would do it again. Looters took about $15,000 worth of his belongings, but Achan Laifang said there wasn’t much damage to his home.
“I’m alive,” Laifang said. “I’m not even going to fuss ... I left it.” He said he won’t try to replace the sentimental things that were taken, including his coin collection, and then if there’s a next time there won’t be anything to steal, he said. Hurricane Matthew “wasn’t something to stay for.”
Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Cpt. Bob Bromage said an “extremely small percentage” of people will stay behind in an evacuation just for the purpose of breaking into and stealing from homes, but that shouldn’t be a reason for homeowners to risk their lives. The Sheriff’s Office implements curfews in an attempt to limit criminal activity during evacuations.
“Human life is precious and property can be replaced,” Bromage said. Everyone who remains behind to guard their belongings during a mandatory evacuation increases the risk of harm coming to them, he said. Citizens can bring items like firearms, jewelry, things of sentimental value and important paperwork with them when evacuating or insure precious items and keep them well documented, Bromage said.
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Today is the day!
After a year (almost to the day!) of working on London Littles, it finally launched this morning!
Since I announced it on my blog in early August, I have been overwhelmed by all your enthusiasm and support – thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart. I truly couldn’t ask for a more amazing community over the past decade, and I wish I could give you each a huge hug for being so wonderful and supportive.
London Littles has been such an adventure for our family this past year. One of the things I’ve always loved about blogging has been the chance to learn all sorts of new things, and London Littles has been that multiplied by ten.
We’ve gotten to learn all about branding and manufacturing and packaging and fulfillment, and I’ve loved getting to work with a lot of amazing people along the way who are ridiculously talented in their chosen fields.
I also think that working on a big project like this with your spouse can be fraught with peril, but for us, it’s brought us closer together as we’ve worked through dozens of designs, dealt with setbacks, made hundreds of decisions, and talked late into the night many many many evenings about all the different aspects of London Littles.
This week has been a blur of getting all the last minute things ready for launch, from writing product descriptions to adding inventory numbers to buying packing tape.
Over the past year, we’ve put our best effort into London Littles and I am so delighted with how these sweet rain boots have turned out.
This week, my girls wore their rain boots to the playground, to tromp through the (admittedly small) piles of leaves in the neighborhood, and to the pond for a little fishing.
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|Dimensions||100 × 100 × 100 mm|
Gold, Gold Nugget.
This Nugget has been kept as natural as possible only having a light clean with warm soapy water. It is accented well with the small pieces of ironstone still embedded within the nugget which I left in deliberately. I am happy to remove the ironstone should the purchaser wish.
Measures 25 x 15 x 7mm and weighs 10.52 grams.
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The Beautiful South @ Apollo
AS they shuffled on stage in their coats, frontmen Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway cut sombre figures. Ninety-five minutes later, the coats were still on, but both they and the crowd had loosened up considerably after a nostalgic trip through the best bits of the Beautiful South back catalogue.
Ninety-five minutes later, the coats were still on, but both they and the crowd had loosened up considerably after a nostalgic trip through the best bits of the Beautiful South back catalogue.
They may not be shifting records in such quantities as they were <JU>10 years ago but their fan base remains solid. And anyone cocking an ear to last night's proceedings will be left in no doubt about why they have such enduring popularity.
From the opening, which saw them play Under The Covers, Old Red Eyes Is Back and a superb, moody stripped down version of S Club's Don't Stop Moving, right through to the live favourite Woman In The Wall, the Beautiful South gave an understated lesson in just how to keep a crowd entertained.
At times, Heaton, now a Didsbury resident, seemed a little more reserved than usual. But by the 40-minute mark, he was attacking I'm Your No 1 One Fan and 36D with as much enthusiasm as the crowd.
By the time they left the stage, there were many present at the packed out Apollo who would gladly have coughed up to place a blue plaque at Heaton's Didsbury door, because last night was a clear indication of his status as one of Britain's greatest songwriters.
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Discussion in 'Pakistan' started by A.V., Feb 25, 2009.
all pakistani economic discussion here please.
discussions to be supported by relevant links please.
West urged to give Pakistan $5bn
West urged to give Pakistan $5bn
The US and Europe must give Pakistan up to $5bn in urgent aid or risk seeing the country descend into chaos, a US report is set to warn.
The Atlantic Council foreign policy group report, which carries an appeal for international aid to stabilise Pakistan amid a global economic crisis, is set for formal release on Wednesday.
"If we fail, we face a truly frightening prospect: terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism, all in a nation with 170 million inhabitants and a full arsenal of nuclear weapons," said John Kerry, the Democratic senator and co-chair of the report, in a statement released by the council.
Kerry, who also chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, added that he and Richard Lugar, a Republican senator, would soon introduce legislation aiming to provide Pakistan with $7.5bn in non-military aid over five years.
The report "calls for an additional $4bn-$5bn of immediate financial aid for Pakistan to avert an economic meltdown", a statement by the council said.
"Given the tools and the financing, Pakistan can turn back from the brink. But for that to happen, it needs help now."
However, some US politicians have already questioned the amount of aid given to Pakistan, and concerns have been raised over Islamabad's strategy for dealing with Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters after it reached a deal with religious leaders in the Swat valley area to introduce sharia, or Islamic law, as part of a truce.
Qureshi denied the Swat policy was "appeasement toward militants" [EPA]
Critics in the US, Europe, Afghanistan and India, have said the Swat move could embolden al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in North West Frontier Province, which borders Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, Taliban fighters in Pakistan declared an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley, the group's spokesman said.
The Taliban imposed a strict version of sharia during its 1996-2001 rule in Afghanistan.
Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, said the Swat policy represented a "local solution to a local problem" and was "not any appeasement toward militants".
And he received support from his Afghan counterpart Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, who said after talks with Qureshi that "the Afghanistan government has confidence in the leadership in Pakistan".
The Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministers were holding talks in Washington ahead of meetings with Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state.
Qureshi and Spanta hailed improving relations between the neighbours, which in the past had deteriorated over border attacks by fighters.
"There is a new environment between Afghanistan and Pakistan," Qureshi said on Tuesday.
"The trust level, the confidence between the two countries, has increased manifold."
I knew the surrender to the taliban and closing supply route was because of the above.
Pakistan president seeks China's economic support
Pakistan president seeks China's economic support
SHANGHAI (AP) — Pakistan's president sought China's economic help during a visit to the country's financial capital Monday, but there was no sign of fresh Chinese commitment for aid in its neighbor's financial crisis.
On his second visit to China in just a few months after taking office, Asif Ali Zardari was hoping to build on Islamabad and Beijing's strong relations. He promised help in securing supply routes for Middle Eastern oil to China.
Massive government overspending and trade imbalances threaten to undermine Pakistan as authorities struggle to turn back a wave of Islamic militancy. The country took a US$7.6 billion IMF bailout last year to ward off collapse, but says it needs billions more.
There has been no sign from Beijing that it might forgive some of Pakistan's debt or extend additional aid.
"China has been providing help, within its own capability, to Pakistan's economic and social development," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters during a regular news briefing last week.
"We hope that Pakistan maintains stability, and achieves economic development and social harmony," she said.
In a commentary published Monday in the state-run China Daily newspaper, Zardari acknowledged China's assistance in building up his country's military, nuclear power plants and ports, and he promised Pakistan's help in securing supply routes for Middle Eastern oil to China.
"Pakistan is also a sizable country in its own right. Once we get our economic fundamentals right we can be a useful economic partner, a significant market and a profitable destination for investment," he wrote.
Zardari took office in September after his party won elections last year. He has led the party since his late wife, the moderate U.S. ally Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated by suspected al-Qaida militants in late 2007.
In China, Zardari also toured the huge Three Gorges hydroelectric project to "see some of the engines that lie behind China's economic growth," his commentary said.
China's highest-ranking legislator, Dai Bingguo, reassured Zardari that Beijing would do all it can to strengthen bilateral ties.
Cooperation agreements were signed over the weekend on farm technology, port engineering and hydroelectric power development, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
US senators urge rethink on Pakistan aid
US senators urge rethink on Pakistan aid
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US senators on Monday urged a rethink on aid to Pakistan after a watchdog said more than 12 billion dollars in US spending had failed to eliminate the country's militant haven.
The call came as the foreign ministers of Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan start a week of talks in Washington with President Barack Obama's administration on how to combat extremism.
The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found the United States has spent 12.3 billion dollars since 2002 aiming to end the "terrorist threat" on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
"Despite six years of US and Pakistani government efforts, Al-Qaeda has regenerated its ability to attack the United States and continues to maintain a safe haven in Pakistan?s FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas)," it said.
The tribal areas, which border Afghanistan, have never been fully under Pakistani control and are believed to be the hideout for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants forced out of Afghanistan following the 2001 US military offensive.
Senator Robert Menendez, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on international assistance, said the report showed US aid to Pakistan was not working.
"It's clear that the strategy in place over the past seven years must be rethought if we are to improve our security," said Menendez, a member of Obama's Democratic Party.
"I look forward to working on a policy that focuses assistance on institutions that help ensure long-term stability and minimize the threat in Pakistan," he said in a statement.
Senator Tom Harkin said the previous administration of George W. Bush had "thrown billions of taxpayer dollars down a rabbit hole.
"This colossal foreign policy and national security failure is yet another legacy item of the Bush administration -- one that we will work to turn around with President Obama and the new Congress," he said.
A deputy to Pakistan's top Taliban commander on Monday declared a unilateral ceasefire in Bajaur, one of the seven federally administered tribal areas, after a months-long operation by Pakistani forces.
Islamabad says the offensive proves its commitment to crush the insurgents, despite heavy criticism from US and Afghan officials who say Pakistan is not doing enough to stop militants crossing into Afghanistan.
Zardari draws a blank from China visit
Zardari draws a blank from China visit
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider
QUETTA, Pakistan - Asif Ali Zardari, president of cash-strapped Pakistan, has returned home from Beijing for the second time in a few months virtually empty-handed, without any commitment from China for aid.
During his first visit as president last October, Zardari failed to secure financial support from Beijing to stave off a balance of payments crisis, with the Chinese government rebuffing a request for concessional loans.
This time, the two countries signed cooperation agreements for hydropower generation and agriculture development, but there was no firm commitment from Beijing about writing off some of
Islamabad's debt or extending additional aid.
Zardari's four-day visit, which included trips to Hubei province and Shanghai, overlapped with and was overshadowed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to the Chinese capital.
After China's rebuff in October, Pakistan reluctantly reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a US$7.6 billion loan facility, which in turn paved the way for Beijing to grant $500 million in loans. That compares with the estimated $14 billion some economists say is needed to get Pakistan back on its feet.
"China has been providing help, within its own capability, to Pakistan's economic and social development," AP quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu as saying last week.
Even so, Pakistan's financial distress and worsening internal security may be cooling China's perception of its neighbor.
"Instead of increasing assistance to its old ally, Beijing has apparently been keeping a distance from Islamabad," Time magazine reported last week.
"Pakistan today needs China more than China needs Pakistan - that is why there is more enthusiasm in Pakistan about its relations with China than vice-versa," the magazine quoted Shabbir Cheema, director of the Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative, as saying.
While economic issues were at the heart of Zardari's visit, it took place in the shadow of the intensifying US "war on terror" in Afghanistan, also involving Pakistan's western border areas, and amid continuing questions on Pakistan's involvement in terrorist attacks in India's financial center, Mumbai, last November.
In a telephone conversation with President Hu Jintao on Tuesday, Zardari thanked him for China's support to Pakistan's stance on the Mumbai incident, over which Islamabad has had to fend of Indian charges of complicity. The two leaders agreed to work together to build a strong economic and political partnership.
"The visit assumes significance as Islamabad had given a blank check to China to intercede on its behalf with India on the Mumbai terror attacks," Press Trust of India reported.
Zardari sought during his latest visit to highlight the benefits his country offered China. In an interview with Chinese media, he said companies based in central China would gain from trading through Pakistani ports, which are nearer to the sea than their own country's ports such as Shanghai and Hong Kong.
"We will encourage Chinese companies to come to Pakistan as Pakistan is geo-strategically located and provides them access to the rest of the world through our warm waters," Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Zardari as saying.
The two sides agreed that establishing trans-border economic zones and a Pakistan-China rail link would go a long way in strengthening the relationship between the two countries.
Pakistan wants "to initiate rail links as well in addition to existing road and sea links". Pakistan Press International quoted Zardari as saying. Addressing Chinese heads of major financial institutions and banks, he said the government would also provide maximum support to Chinese investors to enhance links between the two countries. The opening of branches by Chinese banks in Pakistan, would further expand financial interaction.
"We also have a free-trade agreement with China and hope to finalize a trade agreement in services shortly", China Daily reported Zardari as saying. "Once we get our economic fundamentals right we can be a useful economic partner, a significant market and a profitable destination for investment." Pakistan is the first country with which China has signed a free trade agreement (FTA). The first phase of an FTA in goods and investment was completed last July.
Investment by China and provision of easier access for Pakistani goods into the Chinese market could help boost trade between the two countries. Last year, bilateral trade volume rose a mere 1.3% to $6.9 billion.
Zardari acknowledged the assistance China has already given to his country.
"China has helped Pakistan’s economic development. Chinese assistance and enterprise has been invaluable in areas as diverse as construction of nuclear power plants to dams, roads and industrial estates. The port of Gwadar on Pakistan's Arabian Sea coast is a testament to China’s friendship with Pakistan," he said.
At the mouth of the Persian Gulf and opposite the Strait of Hormuz, Gwadar port is being funded and built by China and is intended to serve as a corridor for energy, cargo and services between Central Asia, the Gulf and other surrounding regions. Islamabad has awarded the US$70 million construction contract for an international airport at Gwadar to China Harbour Engineering Company. Under a memorandum of understanding signed during Zardari's latest visit, the Chinese company is to support the National Dredging Corporation of Pakistan in its dredging work - silting is a considerable problem at, for example, Gwadar.
Over 3,000 Chinese nationals have their presence in Pakistan, and concern is rising over their safety given the increased numbers of terrorist incidents in the country, which has included the deaths of Chinese engineers involved in the Gwadar port project.
"Terrorists have specifically targeted some of our Chinese friends who were working in Pakistan to drive a wedge between the two countries and peoples," China Daily quoted Zardari as saying. "The sacrifice of these Chinese citizens for Pakistan’s cause is an abiding reminder to us Pakistanis of China's friendship with our country."
Zardari identified possible areas of co-operation between Pakistan and China in hybrid seed development and other agriculture technology such as water management and use of solar technology, Business Recorder reported, citing a statement by the Pakistan Embassy in China.
Under a joint breeding programme, China’s Hubei Seed Group will transfer germplasm technology to boost productivity of hybrid rice. Pakistani scientists will also be trained in agronomy and oilseed production.
The two sides also signed an agreement under which China will provide technical assistance to Pakistan in hydro-power generation. Zardari visited the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest dam.
"Pakistan has not benefited to the extent that it should from its relations with China. We would like China to help us in the construction of a dam similar to this one," Associated Press of Pakistan quoted the Pakistani president as saying.
Huge increase in US military aid to Pak
NEW DELHI: India’s efforts to prevent fresh US military aid going to the Pakistani Army has failed with US President Barack Obama proposing to
massively increase non-military and military aid to Pakistan in his maiden budget.
Though the exact amount of military aid has not been specified. Mr Obama’s maiden budget proposes spending of $130 billion for 2010 and $75.5 billion for 2009. There is a further request for $205.5 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between now and 2010. The $130-billion request for the war also includes military aid to Pakistan to fight the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The budget comes at a time when the Obama administration has just concluded trilateral talks with Afghanistan and Pakistan on the situation in the region with Pakistan seeking both military and non military aid. The development is worrying for India as past anti-terror funds supplied by the US have been diverted by the Pakistani military to prepare a war against India and to strike deals with the Taliban.
US government reports have also detailed the misuse of military funds by Pakistan and Mr Obama himself has earlier pointed out that $10 billion of US funds being wasted during the Musharraf regime.
Since Pakistani links were uncovered in the Mumbai terror attacks, India has been asking the US and other countries to stop military aid to Pakistan. The matter was taken up by the Indian side during special envoy Richard Holbrooke’s visit to India.
But the Obama administration, which initially did a lot of tough talking on the issue, needs the Pakistani military, which is now asking for drones to take action against militant hideouts, to take action against the Al Qaeda and Taliban. Though India has been talking about a congruence of interests in the region with the US, the issue of military aid for Pakistan remains a point of disagreement between India and the US.
On the budget expenditure US policy towards Pakistan, joint chief of staff Admiral Mike Mullen was quoted as saying: "I think it's very important that we help resource them and develop this comprehensive strategy with Pakistan over a number of years. I'm delighted to see that kind of support in the 2010 budget. “ The budget also proposes increasing non-military aid to Afghanistan and also Pakistan.
“External challenges include undertaking a responsible drawdown of troops from Iraq and focusing the appropriate resources on achieving US objectives in Afghanistan,” said the budget in the areas related to the defence department. There has been a lot of talk in the US polity of increasing non-military aid to Pakistan conditional to effective counter terrorism measures.
There are reports that the US might be looking at $5-billion aid to Pakistan apart from the $1.5-billion package which is in the US Congress.
Mr Obama in his budget has also proposed to increasing non- military aid to Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight the resurgence of the Taliban through developmental activities. The proposal is for 10.5 billion in supplemental non-military funding for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to the budget, the proposal looks at doubling foreign aid and includes increasing the number of civilian personnel in Afghanistan and Pakistan to do development and reconstruction work to counter the Taliban. “In addition, we must leverage allied support to help struggling states such as Pakistan, which are the keystone for regional stability,” said the budget.
The defence spending for this year, according to the budget, $533.7 billion, which is a four per cent increase from last year. Incidentally, the move to double aid to Pakistan comes at a time when the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated that Pakistan has been fudging statements to the US for certain transport facilities it provided in counter terror effort. The fraud was revealed during an audit carried out by the US authorities.
one up on Bush.....
obama turning out to be a bigger hypocrite than bush, glad i didn't vote for him.
So, I guess Pakistan might finally be able to afford those Submarines and rebuilding their fleet...because you know the Taliban has an umm..strong naval presence somewhere in the Indian ocean.
i wonder what demands usa has planned for pakistan? either way let USA fight China themselves no need for us to be part of a temporary alliance. There can only be one number one in history and it's always settled thru war.
Its funny because US has steadily been stepping up the aid and Pakistan has progressively gone down the drain, I mean come on, they gave away all those northern territories to Osama and Co. I do not understand how Obama rationalized this. Any thoughts people?
I think it;s part of a greater plan for pakistan to implode from within but that's just my opinion , this may be a carrot held out for the coming surge.
I don't understand, why will the US want to buildup Pakistan's capabilities?
2 reasons they want to keep pakistan in their defense market fold and the obvious to buildup against India, we are doing the right thing testing the ICBM next year our relations with USA are not going to be as good as they were under Bush, a third reason which may also be possible that many claim they are scaird shitless of pakistan and their islamic bomb which also be very true.
True...Pakistan's bombs falling into Osama's hands is not a good proposition. I still think that Obama has something planned for Pakistan after he pulls the troops out of Iraq and puts them in Afghanistan. I guess time will tell
I guess chances for super hornet are getting slimmer, I think rafele will win the MRCA.
Pakistan eyes $40bn aid from donors
* Zardari to attend Friends of Pakistan meeting, donors’ conference in Tokyo
* Govt to seek help in security, infrastructure and energy
By Sajid Chaudhry
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will seek $40 billion in aid and investment and $6 billion in annual budgetary support over five years during a meeting of the Friends of Pakistan forum and a donors’ conference scheduled in Tokyo on April 17, sources told Daily Times on Saturday.
President Asif Ali Zardari will represent Pakistan during the meetings. Bilateral and multilateral donors will make pledges the same day.
The decision was made in a meeting at the President’s House on Saturday, officials privy to the meeting told Daily Times.
The government would focus on seeking help from bilateral donors in the security, institution building, social development, infrastructure development, governance and energy sectors, the officials said. It will also seek market access for Pakistani goods, oil supplies on deferred payment, barter trade, a trust fund for the development of FATA and debt swaps from western countries, they added.
The participants of the meeting at the President’s House discussed preparations for the events.
In a statement, Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the 15-member Friends of Pakistan group was formed in September last year on the initiative of President Asif Zardari to garner international support for bolstering Pakistan’s security and economic situation.
The countries and international bodies included in the group are Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, the US, the European Union, the EC and the United Nations.
A number of other countries including Sweden, Norway, Spain and the Netherlands are also likely to join the initiative in the near future, Babar said.
Two meetings of the group have thus far been held, one in New York on September 26, 2008 and the other in the UAE on November 17, 2008.
The April meeting will be crucial as a clear affirmation of support of world powers to stand by Pakistan is considered invaluable for the country’s long-term security, stability and economic development. The donors’ conference on the same day in Tokyo will be attended by representatives of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank among other bodies to address issues relating to Pakistan’s immediate financial problems.
I second somebody else's opinion on this thread that said that the more aid the US has given Pakistan, the more progressively he's gone down the drain.
If aid is being given to Pakistan in the current terms and conditions, it'll obviously be used to buy more submarines, more destroyers, new aircraft carriers, more AWACS and more nuclear bombs (all of them essential requirements in the fight against the Taliban and other extremist elements, no doubt) ;;;;
I think the real issue is what safeguards is Obama going to put on the money to make sure it doesn't end up in Osama's hands
Seriously though, some sort of new safeguards need to be developed given the news that is coming out that the Pakistani Navy has been forging bills to get reimbursements.
If money is being given on the current terms and conditions, it'll indeed be a great fillip to the War on Terrorism (or should I say, the War OF Terrorism) :sAni_monkey::sAni_monkey::sAni_monkey:
Pakistan’s inflation up by 21.07 per cent in February
I am sad to hear that
As the financial crisis revolving around the world,no country can escape from the disaster,and today it is hard to say wheather it is reach the bottom,some experts said that the second wave is coming.In the first period ,investment bank collapsed,and it is turn to Commencial bank and credit now.In China ,a rare deflation emerged,and economy is growing slowly.
But you have to put this in perspective Yang. We do know that India and China have been affected by the crisis, but you have to understand that Pakistan has been suffering from quite sometime. Even though they claim to have a GDP of 4% for this year (estimated), I suspect that the political anarchy and terrorist attacks are going to affect that figure very badly.
And, add to this his mounting external debt, needs to repeatedly goto the IMF for loans and also that US will have to now possibly provide some money to save Pakistan's economy is all testament to the fact that the economy has been highly neglected in favour of other pursuits.
And, if I remember right, China had transferred some 500 million dollars to Pakistan because his foreign reserves were running critically low.
I hope this puts the above article in perspective for you...
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A 1MW solar farm in Sicily has commenced operations with modules by Zytech Solar. The park, located in Santa Ninfa (Trapani), is one of the largest on Italian island and has been installed by Celi Società Cooperativa. In this installation, 4,300 Zytech polycrystalline silicon solar modules have been used in three models: ZT225P, ZT230P and ZT235P, mounted on fixed structure in accordance with regional environmental impact legislation.
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SummaryRead the full fact sheet
- Uterine prolapse occurs when weakened or damaged muscles and connective tissues such as ligaments allow the uterus to drop into the vagina.
- Common causes include pregnancy, childbirth, hormonal changes after menopause, obesity, severe coughing and straining on the toilet.
- Treatment options include pelvic floor exercises, vaginal pessaries and surgery.
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The uterus (womb) is an organ of the female reproductive system. It is shaped like an upside down pear and is located inside the pelvis. The uterus, bladder and bowel are supported by a hammock of muscles located between the tailbone (coccyx) and the pubic bone within the pelvis. These muscles are known as the pelvic floor, or the levator ani muscles. Ligaments and connective tissue also suspend the uterus and pelvic organs in place. If these muscles or connective tissues are weakened or damaged, the uterus can drop down into the vagina. This is known as prolapse.
Common causes of uterine prolapse include vaginal childbirth, obesity, severe coughing, straining on the toilet and hormonal changes after menopause which can damage the pelvic organ support structures. First line treatment should include pelvic floor muscle strengthening exercises, taught by a pelvic floor physiotherapist.
A pessary can be inserted to support the uterus and reduce the symptoms associated with the prolapse. Pelvic floor exercises are still helpful when a pessary is in place. Surgery may be needed in severe cases.
Symptoms of prolapse of the uterus
The symptoms of uterine prolapse include:
- a sensation of heaviness and pressure in the vagina
- a distinct lump or bulge within the vagina
- a bulge protruding out of the vagina
- painful sexual intercourse.
Degrees of uterine prolapse
Uterine prolapse is described in stages, indicating how far it has descended. Other pelvic organs (such as the bladder or bowel) may also be prolapsed into the vagina.,. The four categories of uterine prolapse are:
- Stage I – the uterus is in the upper half of the vagina
- Stage II – the uterus has descended nearly to the opening of the vagina
- Stage III – the uterus protrudes out of the vagina
- Stage IV – the uterus is completely out of the vagina.
Causes of uterine prolapse
The pelvic floor and associated supporting connective tissues can be weakened or damaged in many ways including:
- pregnancy, especially in the case of multiple births (such as twins or triplets), or multiple pregnancies
- vaginal childbirth, especially if the baby was large or delivered quickly, or if there was a prolonged pushing phase
- straining on the toilet to pass a bowel motion
- low levels of the sex hormone oestrogen after menopause
- severe coughing associated with conditions such as chronic bronchitis or asthma
- in rare cases, pelvic tumour.
Treatments for uterine prolapse
Treatments for uterine prolapse include surgical and non-surgical options, the choice of which will depend on general health, the severity of the condition and plans for a future pregnancy. Treatment options include:
- pelvic floor exercises
- vaginal pessary
- vaginal surgery.
Pelvic floor exercises
Stage I and II uterine prolapse in particular can be helped by pelvic floor muscle exercises, but they need to be done correctly and practised long enough to strengthen the muscles. Although the following information may give you some ideas about how to do PF exercises, it is imperative to seek professional help from a pelvic floor physiotherapist if you have a prolapse.
Familiarising yourself with the muscles of the vagina, urethra and anus gives you a better chance of performing the exercises correctly.
To identify your pelvic floor muscles, try the following:
- Insert one or two fingers into the vagina and try to squeeze them.
- Imagine you are passing urine, and try to stop the flow midstream (do not do this while urinating).
- Squeeze the muscles inside the anus as if you are trying to stop yourself from breaking wind.
Consult with your doctor or pelvic floor physiotherapist to ensure correct performance.
You can perform these exercises lying down, sitting or standing. Ideally, aim for five or six sessions every day while you are learning the exercises. After you have a good understanding of how to do the exercises, three sessions each day is enough.
Before you start, direct your attention to your pelvic floor muscles. Try to relax your abdominal muscles, buttocks and leg muscles. Don’t bear down or hold your breath. Squeeze and lift the urethra, vagina and anus and hold the tension for three seconds if you can. Release completely. Then perform the exercises, which include:
- Squeeze slowly and lift and hold as strongly as you can for 5 to 10 seconds while breathing normally. Release slowly. Repeat up to 10 times. Relax for 5 to 10 seconds between each one.
- Perform quick, short, strong squeezes. Repeat 10 times.
- Remember to squeeze and lift the muscles whenever you cough, sneeze, laugh or lift anything.
It’s okay to feel your lower abdomen gently tightening as you hold the pelvic floor muscle contraction.
A pessary is a flexible device which can be fitted into the vagina to support the uterus. There are different shapes and sizes of pessary, which can be prescribed and fitted by a suitably trained health professional. Women can be taught to remove and re-insert their pessary much like a tampon. However, regular reviews with your gynaecologist or doctor are necessary.
Vaginal pessaries can be an effective way of reducing the symptoms of a prolapse, but they will not be appropriate for everyone. Together with pelvic floor exercises, they may provide a non-surgical solution to manage a uterine prolapse.
In moderate to severe cases, the prolapse may have to be surgically repaired. In laparoscopic surgery, instruments are inserted through the navel. The uterus is pulled back into its correct position and reattached to its supporting ligaments. The operation can also be performed with an abdominal incision.
Surgery may fail and the prolapse can recur if the original cause of the prolapse, such as obesity, coughing or straining, is not addressed. Consult your pelvic floor physiotherapist for help with this.
Some women are at increased risk of uterine prolapse. Simple preventive measures include:
- pregnancy – pelvic floor exercises throughout pregnancy
- vaginal childbirth – post-partum pelvic floor exercises
- post-menopause – oestrogen cream to boost flagging hormone levels, and pelvic floor exercises
- obesity – loss of excess abdominal fat with dietary modifications and regular exercise
- chronic constipation – it’s ideal if you have big, soft, formed stools. Usually, eating lots of fruit, vegetables and fibre, and drinking plenty of water will help. Avoid straining when using your bowels. Manage chronic constipation in consultation with your doctor
- other conditions – treat underlying disorders (such as asthma and chronic bronchitis) in consultation with your doctor.
Where to get help
- Your doctor
- Family planning clinic
- Australian Physiotherapy Association Tel. 1300 306 622
- Sexual Health Victoria (SHV). To book an appointment call SHV Melbourne CBD Clinic: (03) 9660 4700 or call SHV Box Hill Clinic: (03) 9257 0100 or (free call): 1800 013 952. These services are youth friendly.
- Victorian Continence Resource Centre Tel. (03) 9816 8266; Continence Advisory Service Tel. 1300 220 871
- Bø K, Hilde G, Stær-Jensen J, et al. 2015, ‘Postpartum pelvic floor muscle training and pelvic organ prolapse – a randomized trial of primiparous women’, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 212, no. 1, 38.e31–37. More information here.
- Braekken IH, Majida M, Engh ME and Bø K 2010, ‘Can pelvic floor muscle training reverse pelvic organ prolapse and reduce prolapse symptoms? An assessor-blinded, randomized, controlled trial’, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 203, no. 2, 170.e171–177. More information here.
- Dumoulin C, Hunter KF, Moore K, et al. 2014, ‘Conservative management for female urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse review 2013: Summary of the 5th international consultation on incontinence’, Neurourology and Urodynamics, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 15–20.More information here.
- Frawley HC, Hagen S, Sherburn M, et al. 2012, ‘Changes in prolapse following pelvic floor muscle training: a randomised controlled trial’, Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International-Continence-Society (ICS).More information here.
- Hagen S, Stark D, Glazener C, et al. 2014, ‘Individualised pelvic floor muscle training in women with pelvic organ prolapse (POPPY): a multicentre randomised controlled trial’, Lancet, vol. 383, no. 9919), pp. 796–806.More information here.
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Mommaw always says there’s nothing that can’t be fixed with cheese or whipped cream, and I found out she was right when I dropped a 28-ounce can (still sealed) onto my freshly glazed Coca-Cola Cake.
Oh, the cussing.
I’d made it, because sometimes you just want a grandma cake. Something that’s homey and good and doesn’t require any piping. Or parchment paper.
Coca-Cola Cake is a lot like Texas sheet cake, but instead of adding a cup of water to the batter, you add a cup of Coke for extra flavor. And a few handfuls of miniature marshmallows for extra richness. And you bake it in a pan instead of on a baking sheet for extra height.
It’s extra good – a moist, sweet chocolate cake glazed with warm cola frosting that makes a thin, fudgy layer where the cake and frosting meet.
Traditionally, you’re supposed to stir chopped pecans into the frosting, but why ruin the satiny finish and turn your pecans into weird, chewy little niblets when you can just toast the nuts and sprinkle them on top? It’s much, much better.
So, here’s how I wound up salvaging that cake abomination: I broke it up with a fork, spooned individual servings into jelly jars, and layered each one with whipped cream.
Thank God for Mommaw and Pinterest.
Slightly adapted from the “Southern Living Heirloom Recipe Cookbook”
Makes 15 servings
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 2 cups (about 10 ounces) all-purpose flour
- 2 cups sugar (you could dial it back to 1 1/3 cups)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup Coca-Cola or other cola drink
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, cut into pieces
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1/4 cup Coca-Cola or other cola drink
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch pan, and set aside.
- Bake pecans on a baking sheet for 5 minutes or until you can smell them. Set aside.
- Combine the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.
- In a large saucepan, combine the Coca-Cola, butter, and cocoa over medium-low heat, stirring often, just until the butter melts and starts to bubble. Gradually stir into the flour mixture.
- In a separate bowl, combine the buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla. Add to flour mixture, stirring until blended.
- Stir in marshmallows.
- Pour batter into prepared pan. (Use a spatula to distribute marshmallows, if necessary.)
- Bake for 32 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from oven; cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
- To Make the Frosting: Bring the 1/2 cup butter, 1/4 cup Coca-Cola, and 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa to a boil in a large saucepan over medium heat, stirring often, just until the butter melts and starts to bubble. Remove from heat; whisk in 3 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and a pinch of salt until smooth. Let it stand for 5 minutes.
- Pour Coca-Cola Frosting over warm cake, and spread with a spatula, if necessary. Sprinkle with pecans.
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One day my Grandmere (my mom’s mom…she’s French) called me around ten at night. I’m sure there are a lot of people who would be alarmed to see their grandparents’ phone number show up on their screen at that hour, but I don’t think twice about it. She and I talk a lot in the late evenings, sometimes for long stretches of time and sometimes just for a few minutes. That night it was only for a few minutes as there was just one thing she wanted to tell me. There’s a note in my phone dated February 12 with what we talked about because I promised my Grandmere I would write it down.
Ready for it? She told me that in case she died first, she knew what she wanted my Grandpa’s (Irish, not French) gravestone to say: The kindest man.
That’s it. The kindest man. I told her it was perfect, because it was. It is. And then that was that. We hung up and went back to whatever we’d been doing.
Just as a late night phone call from grandparents might alarm someone, so might having a conversation like this, randomly discussing matters of death on a casual Sunday night. But again, this didn’t throw me. As a family, there aren’t a lot of things we shy away from and won’t talk about.
Just last summer we were passing around my grandparents’ future urns at a family dinner. It’s not as weird as it sounds – my great uncle in Calgary is a talented wood worker and makes many beautiful things, including urns, and my grandparents wanted a set, so he delivered them when he was in town last summer. A bunch of us gathered around admiring these urns, and when my Grandpa went back out onto the deck he chuckled and lightheartedly said he’d just been checking out “his next home.” We laughed because it all seemed so impossibly far away.
Even on February 12 when my Grandmere called me, the idea of my Grandpa’s gravestone was still all theoretical. By that day, cancer was already spreading throughout his body, we just didn’t know it yet. But even though we didn’t know it, and even though it all still seemed so far away, there was no doubt that, “the kindest man” were the perfect words by which to remember my Grandpa. One day.
That one day came a lot quicker than anyone expected. He died last Wednesday, April 12, 2017 and yesterday we said goodbye to the 87 years young man with a heart of gold.
My grandpa really was the kindest man.
He was so many other things, too. Patient, hard-working, humble, accepting, generous and loyal. But his kindness is what set him apart.
Growing up it seemed like Grandpa was always off helping someone in the community. My mom would call their house on a Saturday or Sunday and he wouldn’t be home because he was volunteering at the food bank, serving hot meals on the downtown eastside, or helping refugee families adjust and get settled. I remember in grade two or three talking about him in class when we had to give examples of being a Christian witness. Even then, even without knowing the half of everything that he did for other people, I knew that I was proud to be related to such a kind person.
I don’t think any of us know just how much he did for other people, because my Grandpa was incredibly humble. He never made a fuss over anything he did. He helped without expecting anything in return. He didn’t want any recognition and he never made anyone feel like a burden, rather he made it seem as if we were doing him the favour by asking for his help in the first place.
There was no question that we could count on Grandpa when we were in a bind. When I was twelve I had a dance competition out in Abbotsford in the middle of a school day. After having no luck finding me a ride, my mom called her dad and asked if he could help. He didn’t say yes or no. Instead he answered with, “I love Abbotsford.” Even though it meant over four hours of driving for him, he didn’t hesitate to help out. He made it sound like he’d been planning on going to Abbotsford all along.
My Grandpa had a song for everything. He was always singing songs from before my time, especially mid conversation. One of his favourite songs to sing to us grandkids when we were in the hot tub was “Tiny Bubbles” and I think I was 18 before I realized that it wasn’t actually a sweet love song but rather an ode to wine. Still, I think it will always be a love song to us.
I could go on forever with stories of my Grandpa. And I’ve only been around for the last 25 years of his 87 years of life. I can’t even scratch the surface of the depth and meaning of the life he lived, and more importantly, of the lives he touched.
But I think the best testament to the wonderful person that he was goes back to my conversation with my Grandmere on February 12. When she told me that she wanted him to be remembered as the kindest man, we didn’t even know he was sick. This isn’t just how he will be remembered, but this is how my Grandpa was talked about his entire life. This is exactly how he lived his life and how he made his mark on this world. With kindness.
Recently my mom was on my Grandpa’s computer resetting a password for an online account, and when the email came through with the link to reset it, it also contained a secure phrase, a phrase my Grandpa had come up with himself as a second safety measure for this account.
The phrase he wrote was: I love all my family.
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After a year of dissing Obama as a nothing more than a celebrity and a rock star, the repubs now have their very own. And they're SO pleased about it. Which really verifies what I've been whispering to my conservative friends at parties for the past year: If Obama were a republican, the republicans would L-O-V-E him. When I finish whispering that to them, I look into their eyes, and the truth is laid bare. They have no response other than stammering for a few moments before they recover and come up with some really lame non sequitur. | <urn:uuid:dd3b1fc3-7cdd-4b47-a9ed-1f97ddedde49> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.lpsg.com/threads/repub-palin-love-the-truth-it-reveals.101952/ | 2017-11-23T03:58:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806720.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123031247-20171123051247-00583.warc.gz | en | 0.986604 | 125 |
The transport minister Stephen Hammond is facing a formal parliamentary inquiry after the Guardian disclosed he had failed to declare his directorship with a company that receives tax breaks.
The MP for Wimbledon has been a partner in Harwood Film Partnership, which has deferred tax for its members. His involvement had not been disclosed in the MPs' register of members' interests.
Hammond was at the forefront of Tory attacks on Ken Livingstone, Labour's candidate for London mayor, for using a tax loophole to pay 20% tax on his outside earnings.
The Tory MP became an investor in Harwood in 2005, the same year the partnership was established. He said he was introduced to the partnership by David Rangeley, a financial adviser who uses the email address "rdrtaxwizard".
Simon Danczuk, Labour MP for Rochdale, wrote to John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, in October asking him to investigate whether Hammond had broken the rules. A spokeswoman for Lyon said a formal inquiry into Hammond had now been launched.
The code of conduct for MPs says: "It is a cardinal principle that members are responsible for making a full disclosure of their own interests in the register; and if they have relevant interests which do not fall clearly into one or other of the specified categories [directorships, paid employment, clients, sponsorships, property, shareholdings], they will nonetheless be expected to register them".
In an email to the Guardian in October, Hammond wrote that there had been a deferral of tax but he believed it complied with tax laws. "As the scheme was a sale and leaseback, by its very nature there was a deferral of tax but there was always a tax liability which I now declare and pay every year," he said.
Hammond said he had no idea that he was listed as an "associated director" to the company until he was contacted by the Guardian and that this was an incorrect. "A partnership has no directors," he said. He said he believed he was not required to record his partnership in the register of members' interests because he was an investor and not a director. "As HMRC have never raised a query with me I have always assumed the advice that the scheme was entirely legal and HMRC compliant to be correct." he said.
Approached on Thursday, Hammond wrote in an email that he was helping Lyon with his inquiries and had been cleared of one complaint already. He said he had supplied a letter to the commissioner which showed his holdings were below declarable limits.
In an email, Rangeley wrote on Thursday that the scheme invested in two films: Retrograde, a 2004 sci-fi movie starring Dolph Lungren, and Renaissance, which may refer to a French black and white animation film starring Daniel Craig.
"The sale and leaseback structure was well known to, and acceptable to, HM Revenue and Customs who devoted a good number of pages in their Inspectors' Business Income Manual to dealing with them. HMRC enquired into the partnership tax return (as they always do) and the enquiry has been settled," said Rangeley. | <urn:uuid:443c05e9-d4c0-48ab-82f5-88d32f305ffc> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/dec/06/transport-minister-stephen-hammond-inquiry-tax | 2019-11-15T02:14:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668561.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20191115015509-20191115043509-00145.warc.gz | en | 0.991708 | 637 |
by Tom March
An updated version of this article is available through ozline’s Web-and-Flow. Two new critical thinking formats have been added: the Concept Builder and the Insight Reflector.
This article builds on the notions set out in an earlier article, “What’s on the Web?”,
published in the July / August 1995 Computer-Using Educators’ Newsletter
Theory: an Introduction
In 1995, “What’s on the Web?” was written with the goal of scanning the Web for what might be useful to teachers and students. The “might be useful” was not individual stellar Web sites, but a broader contextual framework to cyberspace: if not exactly defining the universe, I hoped to at least mark out that some things are galaxies, a few constellations, and many are stars radiating their own special light. Books entitled such things as “Explore the Unleashed World Wide Web in 7 Days for Dummies/Educators” list tens of thousands of “Killer Web sites,” implicitly suggesting that once you get a handle on these you’ll have “done” the Web. But this is akin to getting access to the Library of Congress and being handed a piece of paper listing someone’s Top Ten Favorite Books. Oh yes, and the library’s collection doubles in size every three months. So, it’s not the titles that are needed, it’s the structure, the organization, the forest for the trees.
Zen in the Art of Teaching with the Web
It’s a lot like what you’re already doing.
It’s unlike anything you’ve ever done before.
Say what? After exploring the Web from a teacher’s perspective, the above paired truths sang out their accuracy. Getting a take on the stuff of the Web proved comforting in that basically the Internet offers lots of information and some learning experiences. Doesn’t this sound like the familiar terra firma of the classroom teacher? You might ask then, “What’s so big about cyberspace?” “Big” has a lot to do with it. Teachers are frequently bound by the magazines they subscribe to, the television shows they videotape, the books available in their library, the perspectives filtered through textbooks, etc. With the Web you get the world.
Explore the Zen of Teaching with the Web
Our attempt to classify the content and function of Web sites that would be useful to teachers defined seven main categories. If you’d like to find out more about each, turn to the earlier article, otherwise click, surf, and cogitate your way through the table below until the Zen truth is revealed to you. In case you need the “Teacher’s Edition” to this table, skip ahead to the “correct answer.”
– American Studies Web
– The Library of Congress
– field trips
– guest speakers
– The Heart
– CNN Interactive
– History Alive Chautauquas
– group direct instruction
– Solo Frog Dissection
– Quick and Dirty HTML
– bulletin boards
– textbook index
– Mrs. Howard’s Class Homepage
– ElectraGuide for Writers
– The San Diego Zoo InternQuest
– The Journey North
– collaborative groups
– research component
– class discussions
– multimedia product
– Searching for China
– Little Rock 9, Integration 0?
– Ewe 2
– Eyes on Art
The Benefits of the Web
If you came here for the right answer, all I can say is: Gotcha! Like religion, politics, and favorite foods, the Internet is large enough to accommodate most everyone’s taste, bias, and natural inclination. It seems to have something for everybody. This is not to say it has everything for everybody. It is not an encyclopedia (although encyclopedia are available there). It is not abundant in its resources for non-reading elementary students (although there are plenty of images). It is not the storehouse for archived historical documents (yet). Conversely, it’s spotty in its range and attitude toward posting the work of contemporary artists (let’s be advocates for a sensible Fair Use policy for education). But the Web (just out of toddlerhood in human years) continues to grow exponentially, becoming more robust and sophisticated in what seem like six month increments. So if something you want or need is lacking, either put it up yourself, or wait a few months and check again. Now that I’ve made a case for there being no one right answer to what makes the Web so great compared to traditional information sources or learning experiences, it’s too tempting not to at least offer some fairly obvious advantages afforded learners through the Web.
Basically, the Web-based content and experiences look a lot like what traditionally grows in classrooms. But in other ways the fruit borne of these trees tastes unlike anything educators have chanced to sample before. In other words, educators will recognize old friends like references, resources and lessons, but the breadth, depth, immediacy, passion, and interactivity available in the Web-based brethren open up an entirely new way to educate.
Browsing the Internet garden brings forth specimens that blossom with potential:
- it’s rich – Blue Web’n
- it’s immediate – Washington Post
- it’s passionate – Rainforest Action Network
- it’s clever – Museum of Bad Art
- it’s funny – The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project
- it’s interactive – U.S. National Debt Clock
- it’s contemporary – Yahoo!’s Picks of the Week
- It’s relevant – Google News
- it’s authentic – Nonprofit Prophets
So the suggestion is, as you search for Web sites, don’t look for the online equivalent of your textbook or handouts (though they may exist), look for the sparks that create insights, the contrasts that excite problem solving, the bells and whistles that motivate, the passion that inspires. Needless to say, if you are new to the Web, it’s necessary for you to surf, stumble, search, and lurch your way to finding your own understanding of the Web. It would be a shame to inflict the Internet on students as just one more structured, assigned, have-to dictated by the teacher. Along these lines, the next section makes a case for shifting the teacher’s sphere of influence in the orbit of the classroom.
An Embarrassment of Riches (that could be worthless)
Question: If the basic categories of the learning universe are the same, but they gain the potentials of immediacy, relevance, interactivity, authenticity, etc. through Internet access, how does the teacher’s relative position in the learning alignment change?
In other words, when the teacher is the source of the information, the learning path tends to be teacher-to-learner, sometimes skipping the critical process of learning along the way. When the source of information, interaction, opinion, imagery, etc. is other than the teacher – i.e., the Internet and its netizens – what is the teacher now supposed to do? Every few years a term pops up that no one’s heard of, but that within six months has become a regular and even tired part of the teaching vernacular. Remember the first time you heard “paradigm shift?” Within months, the metaphor of “thinking out of the box” had gone from little considered, if not unknown, to a standard assumption about what (more) teachers should do.
Last fall, I heard a term three times in two days in three different cities. Disintermediation. Like paradigm shift, disintermediation comes to education from the business world (author’s uncontroled soapbox jab: When will the learning community get its gods right?). An example is the easiest way to understand both the concept and implications of disintermediation. Suppose you have two bookstores, one is at the mall and the other is online. Let’s say the online version sells books for less (even with shipping costs factored in), has a far greater selection, and is available 24 hours a day without leaving your home. The question arises, “What value does the actual mall-based bookstore offer that the Web-based version does not? This is not a rhetorical question. And answers will vary. Sometimes people don’t know what they are looking for and they want to browse the aisles, read some pages, maybe ask a clerk for help or suggestions. Maybe there are lattés and over-stuffed chairs. Maybe there’s the chance to make acquaintance with other (single?) booklovers? Regardless, the mall-based bookstores have to contend with the new competitor who has taken out (dis) a middle man (intermediary) between the book and the buyer.
The point for educators is clear: if more information and expertise might be available to learners via the Internet (Web sites, E-mail correspondence, listservs, etc.), what value do teachers add to students’ education? Again, this is not a rhetorical question. And answers can vary along with teachers’ strengths, personalities, philosophies, etc. But the question remains.
Many years before the Web, educational theories and models began to champion a learner-centered focus in which students take greater responsibility for what goes on in their own minds. Cognitive psychology has been persuasive in arguing that the expert learner’s rich fabric of meaning (AKA schema) doesn’t come from acquiring a single strand of knowledge, but from weaving together relationships among topics into a complex and synthetic whole. Similarly, constructivism suggests that truly comprehensive understanding of a complex topic comes from learners stitching together the facts, relationships, perspectives, variations, and non-examples from an array of contextually rich (not “text usually limited”) inputs. In fact, my personal experience was one of on-going frustration as I tried to implement cog psych and constructivist strategies with the limited resources available pre-Web. Now with the depth and breadth of the Internet becoming more and more accessible to more learners, the marriage of technology with learning seems assured after their lengthy, off-again on-again, courtship.
So rather than view disintermediation as a threat, the power of the Internet has liberated teachers to move from the industrial Age of assembly line learning to an Information / Communication Age where they can no longer sphincter the firehose flow of information shooting through our society. So we get to take on the roles that have been suggested by the learner-centered strategies: facilitator, guide-on-the-side, mentor, coach, etc. After all, we’ve taken the educational psychology courses and thought about the learning theories, so let’s add the human, inspiring, adaptive value that we can bring to make this embarrassment of riches that is the Internet truly valuable to learners.
Practice: A Role for the Webbed Educator
So if we teachers are not the source of information, what other value do we add to support students? There seem to be three main areas: creating a learning environment, shaping Web-based activities, and hands-on facilitation while students are in the learning process. The remainder of this article will focus on the second aspect, the only one that is exclusively related to integrating the Web into classroom learning. The other two aspects (creating a learning community and in-process facilitation) are well-treated in the literature on student-centered instruction.
Remember the premise that the Internet is an embarrassment of riches that’s next to worthless without an educator. If this statement seems filled with too much boosterism, perhaps pointing to a few non-examples of how technology is ab-used will make the case. Perhaps you too have seen technology used as a “Lesson Plan in a Can:” rolling a two hour Hollywood movie with little or no tie-in to learning activities, letting students play computer games divorced from other classroom studies, surfing the Net, or online chatting. It’s a little surprising that teachers who wouldn’t dream of sending students to the library without a learning task and who would never sanction class time for students to pass notes, do see surfing and chatting as somehow inherently educational just because they involve the Internet. This is a natural response to a new technology. People need to gather to see the latest thing, aren’t sure what it’s for, and tend to use it in traditional ways. Enough people (and many students from home!) have spent this time and are now ready to see what this new technology will actually do to increase student learning.
What follows is one fairly comprehensive strategy for integrating the incredible power of the Internet with student learning. The strategy offers an easy entry place for newcomers to the Internet as well as more sophisticated activities for advanced users. There are two main phases to the strategy are:
Harvesting the Web’s abundance
Shaping activities related to learning goals
The chart below outlines the decisions that would guide users toward a particular format of Web-based learning.
Start Where You’re At: New or Savvy?
The best suggestion in picking a topic is to start where you’re at. If you have an area that’s your specialty, something that thrills you to teach, that you know inside and out, up and down begin there. Or maybe there’s a topic you’ve been wanting to learn more about; there’s nothing like a hungry learner. (If you’re stuck, explore The Idea Machine to click through 50 prompts for picking a topic.)
The natural place to begin integrating the Web for learning is collecting sites that you find most useful / interesting / peculiar on your topic. Doing this will save your learners hours of aimless surfing. In the bad old Pre-Web days, people collected Internet locations on index cards, in databases, or on crumpled scraps of paper. With today’s Web browsers, this Internet harvesting can be done through bookmarking your favorite sites with a simple pull down on the menu. This is fine for the machine you’re using, but it’s a bit of a hassle to get those bookmarks transferred to all the computers in a lab. It’s a much more efficient process to create a Webpage that collects the locations in a Topic Hotlist. This solves the computer-specific nature of bookmarks and also makes your collection available to everyone in your school, district and the world (nothing like maximizing your effort!).
When you create a Topic Hotlist, your learners will be spared hours of fruitless searching. What they will have is analogous to when your diligent school librarian gathers key works from the stacks on a topic your classes are studying and rolls them into your room for students to explore. The resources likely differ in quality, currency, and quirkiness, but the learning strategy is similar: give the students a breadth of materials on the topic they are studying. What’s missing is the exact learning you’d like the students to achieve. Those tasks and instructions are probably on the handout they’re working on, not the Webpage they’re using to gain insights, experiences, and information. This is why a Topic Hotlist is an easy strategy to employ; you simply add the Web resources to an activity or unit you already have prepared.
Sometimes you might choose to have learners search their own sites on the Internet. Good examples of this are when students do independent study projects like I-Searches or you have groups studying different aspects of a larger topic (an example would be an interdisciplinary study with student teams each taking a decades in 20th Century American history). In these cases it makes sense to have students search – and shouldn’t they be able to post what they have found on the Web via their own hotlist? The deciding factor here is probably how many computers you have available to students in school or in their homes or local libraries and available time. Access speed can also cramp this activity if your connection is dial-up, clogged or molasses.
Example Topic Hotlist – China on the Net
Many teachers who are fairly new to the Net have been technology-users for years. Their students create newsletters, desktop slide presentations, HyperStudio stacks, etc. Creating Multimedia Scrapbooks will be no-brainers for these teachers who now get access to the Web. Essentially a hotlist, the Scrapbook focuses on providing links to a variety of media and content types (photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations, sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, etc.). Learners use the Scrapbook links to explore aspects of the topic that they feel are important. They then download or copy and paste these scraps into a variety of formats: newsletter, desktop slide presentation, collage, bulletin board, HyperStudio stack, or Web page. The students’ creations will now be richer and more sophisticated because of resources that had never been available in their classrooms before. This is also a good time to educate students on copyright and fair use policies as well as making contact with more expert learners via e-mail. Finally, By allowing students to pursue their own interests amid an abundance of choices, the Multimedia Scrapbook offers a more open, student-centered approach that encourages construction of meaning. Even though neither Topic Hotlists nor Multimedia Scrapbooks target achieving specific learning, the cluey teacher will use these strategies to promote the constructivist learning that can happen when students synthesize a large and contextually rich selection of data and experiences.
Example Multimedia Scrapbook – Exploring China
Let’s say that you want to create a totally Web-based activity. You might as well. After all, you’ll create handouts, do research, locate resources, and design the activities, so why not put this on the Web, too? Then your students can access it from any connected computer and other teachers at your grade level across the world could have access to your learning experience. The main difference between the first two formats and the following three is that Treasure Hunts, Subject Samplers, and WebQuests target specific learning, rather than merely sending students to Web sites hoping they will find something useful there and create cognitive sparks. Isn’t it better to provide compelling experiences that foster the attitudes, knowledge and skills that are the goals you’re all working toward? Take a tour through the descriptions and examples below to see which format most captures your learning goals.
When it’s time to develop some solid knowledge on a subject, teachers and students can create Treasure Hunts. The basic strategy here is to find Web pages that hold information (text, graphic, sound, video, etc.) that you feel is essential to understanding the given topic. Maybe you gather 10 – 15 links (and remember, these are the exact pages you want the students to go to for information, not the top page of a huge Web site). After you’ve gathered these links, you pose one key question for each Web site you’ve linked to.
A smartly designed Treasure Hunt can go far beyond finding unrelated nuggets of knowledge. By choosing questions that define the scope or parameters of the topic, when the students discover the answers they are tapping into a deeper vein of thought, one that now stakes out the dimensions or schema of the domain being studied. Finally, by including a culminating “Big Question,” students can synthesize what they have learned and shape it into a broader understanding of the big picture.
Example Treasure Hunt – Black History Past to Present
Part of what makes the Internet so great is the quirky, passionate, real stuff that many people and organizations post there. You’ll find things on the Web that you’d never find on TV, the newspapers, or magazines. Subject Samplers tap into this vibrant vein in order to connect students to the chosen topic. Specifically, Samplers work like those chocolate samplers: you open the box, look things over, think you see something you’d like, then poke your finger into it. If you like it, you eat it. If you don’t, you leave it pre-poked for someone else’s taste.
Specifically, in a Subject Sampler learners are presented with a smaller number (maybe half a dozen) of intriguing Web sites organized around a main topic. What makes this a particularly effective way to engage student buy-in is that first off, you’ve chosen Web sites themselves that offer something interesting to do, read, or see. Second, students are asked to respond to the Web-based activities from a personal perspective. Rather than uncover hard knowledge (as they do in a Treasure Hunt), students are asked about their perspectives on topics, comparisons to experiences they have had, personal interpretations of artworks or data, etc. Thus, more important than the right answer is that students are invited to join the community of learners surrounding the topic, for students to see that their views are valued in this context. Use a Subject Sampler when you want students to feel connected to the topic and to feel that the subject matter really matters.
Example Subject Sampler – My China
When it’s time to go beyond learning facts and to get into grayer matter in a topic, your students are ready to try a WebQuest. Basically, a WebQuest is an inquiry activity that presents student groups with a challenging task, provides access to an abundance of usually online resources and scaffolds the learning process to prompt higher order thinking. The products of WebQuests are usually then put out to the world for some real feedback.
It’s best to choose a topic in which aspects are under dispute or that at least offer a couple different perspectives. Current events, controversial social and environmental topics work well. Also anything that requires evaluation or scientific hypothesizing will evoke a variety of interpretations. The reason the Web is so critical is because it offers the breadth of perspectives and viewpoints that are usually needed to construct meaning on complex topics. Students benefit from being linked to a wide variety of Web resources so that they can explore and make sense of the issues involved in the challenge.
Logistically, all students begin by learning some common background knowledge, then divide into groups. In the groups each student or pair of students have a particular role, task, or perspective to master. They effectively become experts on one aspect of a topic. When the roles come together, students must synthesize their learning by completing a summarizing act such as e-mailing congressional representatives or presenting their interpretation to real world experts on the topic.
You might want to use an WebQuest as a first activity to quickly immerse students in real learning, then go back and fill in the broader picture with a Treasure Hunt or Subject Sampler.
Where Do You Go From Here?
Suggestions for Choosing Activity Formats
If you’re new to the Web or think students merely need additional resources, gather links into a Hotlist or Scrapbook. If you’re ready to take the next step of incorporating learning activities into a Webpage, then choose one of the three formats based upon what might be missing in your present curriculum. For example, if learners need to gain more knowledge about the subject, inform them with a Treasure Hunt. If they come out of a current unit apathetic, hook them with a Subject Sampler. If they learn enough knowledge and like the topic, but don’t engage in higher-level thinking, challenge them with a WebQuest.
Now you may be saying, “Okay, I’m interested in making one of these Web pages, but I don’t know HTML, haven’t got a clue about how to post pages on the Internet, and mostly, I have no time to learn either.” So the next question arises:
So do I give up?
Fear not, feisty teachers, your life just got easier thanks to Filamentality (“combining filaments of the Web with learners’ mentalities”). Filamentality is an interactive Web site that we created because learning HTML, designing a Web-based activity, and posting pages on the Net are three pretty big hurdles for people with students to see, papers to grade, lessons to write, and cookies to bake (the true glue that keeps a class happy). Thanks to masterful Perl programming by Jodi Reed (see her Getting Started with CGI Webpage) and the willingness of Pacific Bell to post user Web pages on its server, you can be guided through choosing a topic, gathering quality Internet sites, creating one or all five of the activity formats described above, and automatically posting your pages on the Web. Want to learn more? Test drive Filamentality on the Web or in a workshop near you.
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Three years (and many HTML tags) later, our sponsorship from Pacific Bell Education First continues after the conclusion of the Fellowships. We hope that you find at least some aspect of our applications useful in working the Web for education. When we heard people ask “What’s on the Web?” we wrote that article and presented at conferences throughout California. When teachers and librarians were saying, “Where’s the good stuff on the Net?” we created the Blue Web’n library of great educational sites. Filamentality ties most of it together. It looks like we left you hanging with just one more question: who’ll bake those cookies?
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MIDLAND — The United Way of Midland is looking for some warm hearts and plenty of muscle this spring.
From April 15 to May 15, the United Way is hosting its Spring Season of Caring — an event that aims to get the community to reach out to elderly and disabled people.
"So many of us take for granted the ability to do simple things, like rake the yard and clear out the gutters," said Heather Bean, the United Way's community impact program associate, in a statement. "When you live with a disability, those day-to-day activities become more of a challenge."
Projects for the event range from painting and staining, to yard work and simple handy-man projects.
In 2010, more than 200 volunteers completed 30 projects.
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Most of you know Psion because of the several well-received mobile devices it has put on the market since the early 1980s, such as the Psion Organiser, Organiser II, and Series 5. However, the company also released a product named Psion netBook in 1999, indeed a sub-notebook, and despite the product being long gone (discontinued in 2003) and Psion not marketing any product named "netbook", it has started a legal offensive to stop other companies from using said term.
Several companies, bloggers, and journalists have received cease and desist letters from the Canadian company, in an effort to defend the Psion netbook trademark. Psion has given them until the end of March 2009 to "transition to a different descriptive term". In case you're wondering - no, OSNews is not important enough to be on their radar, so we haven't received anything. In other words: netbook! Netbook! Netbook!
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Dell has stepped up to fight against Psion in name of all other defendants, without preconditions. Some claim they have already been successful, but until Psion actually gives up the trademark, there is still danger of this case resurfacing.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of terrorism and other civil conflict in Northern Ireland: randomised controlled trialBMJ 2007; 334 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39021.846852.BE (Published 31 May 2007) Cite this as: BMJ 2007;334:1147
- Michael Duffy, director, cognitive therapy course1,
- Kate Gillespie, consultant psychiatrist2,
- David M Clark, professor of psychology3
- 1University of Ulster at Magee, Londonderry, Northern Ireland BT48 7JL
- 2Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, Omagh, Northern Ireland
- 3King's College London
- Correspondence to: M Duffy
- Accepted 22 March 2007
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder related to terrorism and other civil conflict in Northern Ireland.
Design Randomised controlled trial.
Setting Community treatment centre, Northern Ireland.
Participants 58 consecutive patients with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (median 5.2 years, range 3 months to 32 years) mostly resulting from multiple traumas linked to terrorism and other civil conflict.
Interventions Immediate cognitive therapy compared with a waiting list control condition for 12 weeks followed by treatment. Treatment comprised a mean of 5.9 sessions during 12 weeks and 2.0 sessions thereafter.
Main outcome measures Primary outcome measures were patients' scores for post-traumatic stress disorder (post-traumatic stress diagnostic scale) and depression (Beck depression inventory). The secondary outcome measure was scores for occupational and social functioning (work related disability, social disability, and family related disability) on the Sheehan disability scale.
Results At 12 weeks after randomisation, immediate cognitive therapy was associated with significantly greater improvement than the waiting list control group in the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (mean difference 9.6, 95% confidence interval 3.6 to 15.6), depression (mean difference 10.1, 4.8 to 15.3), and self reported occupational and social functioning (mean difference 1.3, 0.3 to 2.5). Effect sizes from before to after treatment were large: post-traumatic stress disorder 1.25, depression 1.05, and occupational and social functioning 1.17. No change was observed in the control group.
Conclusion Cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder related to terrorism and other civil conflict.
Trial registration Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN16228473.
Guidance from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence1 recommends trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy as the leading evidence based treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. These recommendations are largely based on randomised controlled trials that focus on non-terrorism related traumatic events, such as road traffic crashes and rape. Little is known about how to successfully treat trauma resulting from events such as the bombings in London in 2005, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and the train bombings in Madrid. The only published evaluation of treatment after a terrorist bomb is an open trial of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (a form of cognitive behaviour therapy) with survivors of the car bomb that exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, in 1998. In this uncontrolled study2 cognitive therapy delivered three months to two years after the bombing was associated with improvements in post-traumatic stress disorder as large as those normally observed with cognitive therapy in randomised controlled trials of non-terrorism related post-traumatic stress disorder. In response to these results the Victims Liaison Unit of the Northern Ireland Office established a new treatment centre (the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation) with a Northern Ireland wide remit that would offer trauma focused cognitive therapy to people affected by terrorism and other civil conflict over the past four decades. We evaluated the effectiveness of cognitive therapy provided by the centre.
The Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation was a new initiative that aimed to provide a treatment option that had not been generally available. The service was brought to the attention of potential referrers and the wider community in several ways. An information leaflet and a letter were sent to all general practitioners in Northern Ireland as well as to health authorities and trusts, mental health teams, voluntary and community organisations, self help groups, the clergy, and other community care professionals. A website and several newspaper articles also mentioned the service.
Patients referred to the centre between August 2003 and September 2004 were assessed by mental health clinicians for post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric disorders using the semi-structured clinical interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, (DSM-IV)3 and the clinician administered post-traumatic stress disorder scale for DSM-IV.4 Referrals came from a wide range of sources: community mental health teams (39%), primary care (22%), self referral (21%), voluntary sector and victims' groups (10%), and occupational health (7%). We invited patients meeting diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic events in adulthood to participate in the trial unless they had another disorder that required immediate treatment. After consent had been obtained patients were randomly allocated to immediate cognitive therapy or to a 12 week wait followed by cognitive therapy. Treatment entailed up to one therapy session a week for 12 weeks, followed by a review and additional therapy sessions if these were indicated by the therapist.
We chose a waiting list control rather than a comparison with another psychological or pharmacological treatment. We did this because we anticipated that many of the patients referred to the centre would be those who had failed more commonly available psychological treatments (such as counselling or debriefing) or pharmacotherapy, and a design that compared cognitive therapy with alternative treatments would have excluded such people. Also, cognitive behaviour therapy had already been shown to be superior to supportive counselling in non-terrorism related post-traumatic stress disorder.5
To determine whether cognitive therapy is effective, at 12 weeks we compared the immediate cognitive therapy and waiting list groups' scores for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and functioning (work related disability, social disability, and family related disability). To determine the overall improvement that could be obtained with cognitive therapy, we compared scores before treatment and after treatment, combining the immediate treatment and delayed treatment groups. Patients were followed up 1, 4, and 12 months after treatment to assess maintenance of gains.
An independent office allocated patients to immediate therapy or to wait followed by therapy on a stratified random basis using the minimisation method of Pocock.6 Assessors were not aware of the allocation algorithm. Stratification variables were severity of post-traumatic stress disorder, severity of depression, and presence or absence of continuing physical problems related to the traumatic event (for example, chronic pain, burns requiring multiple surgery). Continuing physical problems had predicted a less favourable outcome in our study of cognitive therapy after the Omagh bomb.2
Measures and assessments
Primary outcome measures were severity of post-traumatic stress disorder, assessed by the post-traumatic stress diagnostic scale,7 and severity of depression, assessed by the Beck depression inventory.8 The secondary outcome measure was the Sheehan disability scale,9 which has separate items for different aspects of functioning (work, social, and family). Each of these self report measures has been validated against interviewer administered measures of the same construct.7 10 11 We obtained scores for each measure before treatment or wait, after 12 weeks (end of wait), after treatment, and at 1, 4, and 12 months' follow-up. Patients also completed the post-traumatic stress diagnostic scale and Beck depression inventory before each treatment session, providing a clinical endpoint measurement for all patients, even if they dropped out. To estimate the magnitude of the changes in scores before and after treatment we calculated effect sizes using the formula: effect size=(mean score before treatment−mean score after treatment)/pooled standard deviation. Cohen12 classified effect sizes as small if 0.20-0.49, medium if 0.50-0.79, and large if 0.8 or more. To investigate possible predictors of improvement we calculated residualised before to after treatment gain scores, which control for variation in baseline levels. We used one way analysis of covariance to compare the therapists' on these scores.
Treatment, therapists, and supervision
The cognitive therapy programme is described in detail elsewhere2 13 and was based on Ehlers and Clark's model of persistent post-traumatic stress disorder.14 The model identifies three factors thought to prolong the disorder, with therapy targeting each factor. The three factors are excessively negative appraisals of the traumatic event or its sequelae, a disturbance in autobiographical memory, and dysfunctional cognitive and behavioural strategies. We used behavioural activation early in therapy to lift mood when initial levels of depression interfered with trauma processing.
Five therapists (one psychiatrist, one social worker, and three nurse therapists) delivered the treatment. Allocation to therapist was based on available slots. Three of the therapists had been trained to diploma level in Beckian cognitive therapy, and the remaining two had completed ENB 650 style cognitive behaviour therapy courses for nurses. Although three of the therapists had four or five years' experience of treating patients using the Ehlers and Clark model,14 the other two had modest experience. The therapists attended a two day workshop on the application of the model, delivered by MD and KG.
We determined sample sizes on the basis of 86% power to detect differences of at least 7 points on the post-traumatic stress diagnostic scale between immediate therapy and wait with a 5% significance level. We carried out analyses on an intention to treat basis and on patients who completed the study, including patients in the waiting list group who subsequently completed cognitive therapy. Patients were classified as having completed the study if they had at least six sessions of treatment or they ended therapy earlier as agreed by the therapist because of noticeable improvement. Comparisons between the immediate treatment and waiting list groups at 12 weeks were based on analyses of covariance, with scores before treatment or wait as covariates. We used t tests to compare scores before treatment, after treatment, and at follow-up. Some trauma related characteristics (number of traumas, years since the traumatic event) were not normally distributed and were transformed before analysis. No patients started drugs while in the study. Preliminary analyses included drug status at intake and several patient characteristics (a civilian, experienced a bombing, or taken hostage) as factors. None of these variables was related to outcome and are not considered further.
To quantify individual differences in symptom change, we followed the Omagh bomb study2 and calculated percentage change in scores for post-traumatic stress disorder (from before to after treatment) for all treated patients.
Fifty eight consecutive patients who met the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder participated in the trial (figure⇓): 29 were allocated to immediate cognitive therapy and 29 to a 12 week wait followed by cognitive therapy.15 The groups were similar at baseline for personal details, psychiatric status, trauma history, and previous treatments (table 1⇓). Most patients had experienced multiple traumatic events. The trauma that was most prominent as an intrusive memory for each patient was identified and described in detail (table 1⇓).
The mean (standard deviation) number of treatment sessions was 7.8 (5.1), with 5.9 (2.5) sessions in the first 12 weeks and 2.0 (3.2) sessions thereafter. Twelve patients (21%) dropped out. The mean (standard deviation) numbers of sessions for those who dropped out and those who completed the study were 2.8 (1.2) and 9.2 (4.9).
Comparison between immediate treatment and waiting list groups at 12 weeks after randomisation
No significant differences were found between the groups at intake on scores for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and social functioning, but at 12 weeks the scores were significantly lower in the immediate therapy group (table 2⇓). Paired t tests showed that at 12 weeks the waiting list group did not improve on any measure whereas the immediate therapy group improved on all measures (P<0.001).
Overall effectiveness of cognitive therapy
Table 3⇓ shows the scores before and after treatment and at follow-up for all patients who received cognitive therapy. The immediate therapy and delayed therapy groups were combined as the latter group showed no improvement during wait and did not differ in improvement during treatment from the immediate therapy group. Therapists had the option of offering a few additional sessions after 12 weeks if clinically indicated. Twenty seven of 57 patients (47%) had additional sessions. The overall improvements in scores for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and social functioning were greater than those observed at 12 weeks. Paired t tests showed highly significant reductions between the scores before and after treatment. The observed effect sizes for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and social functioning for patients who completed the study were 1.74, 1.24, 1.08, 1.36, and 0.96, with respective values for the intention to treat sample of 1.25, 1.05, 0.97, 1.03, and 0.70. Most of the effect sizes were large and one was medium.12
Maintenance of treatment gains
Only patients who completed treatment were offered follow-up appointments. Most attended at least one follow-up appointment and completed the outcome measures at that time. Those who did not were asked to return completed questionnaires by post. Overall 43 patients (96%) provided follow-up data. Table 3⇑ shows the mean scores for the latest available follow-up (at four or 12 months for all but two patients, who were assessed at one month). Paired t tests comparing patients' scores after treatment and at follow-up indicated that treatment gains were well maintained. No significant difference was found in scores from after treatment to follow-up for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and social disability. Further significant improvement was evident at follow-up for work related disability (P<0.05) and family related disability scales (P<0.01). Effect sizes from before treatment to follow-up were large for post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, work related disability, social disability, and family related disability: 2.10, 1.45, 1.44, 1.46, and 1.30.
Predictors of treatment response
Percentage change in scores from before to after treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder showed that four patients had deteriorated (change <0%), four showed no change, and the remaining 49 (88%) showed various degrees of improvement: 1-24% (n=10), 25-49% (n=7), 50-74% (n=18), and 75-100% (n=14). Deterioration occurred more often in the wait period (38%) than in therapy (7%).
The presence or absence of a comorbid psychiatric disorder was not related to degree of improvement. This may have been because patients with comorbidities had significantly (P<0.05) more treatment sessions than those who did not: 8.6 v 5.9 sessions. Contrary to the findings of the Omagh bomb study2 degree of improvement was also unrelated to the presence or absence of enduring physical health problems as a consequence of the trauma. However, higher scores for depression at baseline (P<0.05) and a longer time since the trauma (P<0.05) were associated with less improvement.
A significant therapist effect was found when residualised gain scores were compared between therapists. Paired comparisons indicated significant differences (P<0.05) between each of the two therapists whose patients had improved most and one therapist whose patients had improved least.t tests indicated that the patients treated by these two sets of therapists did not differ in symptoms of initial post-traumatic stress disorder, initial depression, or time since the trauma, but patients treated by the therapist with poorer outcomes were significantly older (P<0.01) and had significantly fewer treatment sessions (P<0.01). The therapist effect remained significant (P<0.05) after patient age and number of treatment sessions were entered before the therapist's identity in a multiple regression analysis, indicating that the effect cannot be entirely explained by patient age or number of sessions.
The drop-out rate (20%) was higher than that in the two previous randomised controlled trials16 17 of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (0%-5%), both of which focused on non-terrorism related trauma. The case notes for the 12 patients who dropped out in the present trial were reviewed. Four were related to the unique context of Northern Ireland (threats to self or family linked to the civil conflict), four were associated with non-adherence to the therapy protocol in relation to imaginal reliving and behavioural experiments (not tackling beliefs, inadequate or inappropriate preparation), two were due to illness or trauma in the family, and two were unknown.
Cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder related to terrorism and other civil conflict. Patients allocated to immediate therapy showed significant and substantial reductions in the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression and noticeable improvements in self reported work related disability, social disability, and family related disability. In contrast, patients allocated to a no treatment (waiting list) control condition showed no change.
The trial builds on and extends the findings of our uncontrolled study2 of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder after the Omagh bomb. Both studies had minimal exclusion criteria and so are probably best conceptualised as effectiveness, rather than efficacy, studies. However, patients in the Omagh study were treated between three months and two years after the bombing, whereas patients in the current study were treated up to 33 years after trauma (median 6 years). Half had failed other treatments and many had high levels of concurrent depression.
A high proportion of patients in the present study had experienced multiple traumas. The Omagh bomb study2 focused on a single recent trauma, with only a few patients reporting a multiple trauma history. Similarly, the two randomised controlled trials16 17 of cognitive therapy for non-terrorism related post-traumatic stress disorder were restricted to patients who had experienced no more than two major traumas. In contrast, 59% of patients in the present study had experienced more than two traumas. Such patients improved as much as those who had experienced fewer traumas.
Although cognitive therapy was effective overall, the degree of improvement varied considerably. Analysis of this variability suggested several important lessons for future research and clinical practice. Firstly, the presence or absence of another psychiatric disorder did not influence the extent of a patient's reduction in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This was also reported in the Omagh bomb study.2 In that, as well as in the present study, therapists were given flexibility in the number of sessions that they could offer and were also allowed to use cognitive behaviour therapy techniques for other conditions requiring treatment. Patients with comorbidities received more sessions than those without comorbidities. This flexibility may have been responsible for the similarly good results of treatment in patients with comorbidities.
Secondly, unlike in the Omagh bomb study,2 ongoing physical problems resulting from the trauma did not predict poorer outcome. This may be because patients had longer to adapt to the problem. In addition, the team may have become better at dealing with this problem as a result of treating people affected by the Omagh bombing.
Thirdly, high levels of depression at intake were associated with poorer outcome. This finding was not observed in the Omagh bomb study2 or in the two randomised controlled trials16 17 of cognitive therapy for non-terrorism related post-traumatic stress disorder. However, the average scores for depression at intake were noticeably higher in the present study (average score 35) than in the Omagh bomb study (28) or the randomised controlled trials (19 and 24). Furthermore, mean scores at intake were as high as for published trials of severe major depression.18 We included behavioural activation in the treatment protocol to help reduce high levels of initial depression but it would seem that further development of the protocol is required for severely depressed patients. In our study, patients whose initial depression score was over 35 were particularly difficult to engage in the treatment, although notable exceptions occurred.
Fourthly, the drop-out rate in the present study (20%) was higher than those reported in the previous three studies of this cognitive therapy programme, but is not unusually high for trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy programmes in general (average drop-out rate 23%, see NICE guidance,1 appendix 15a). Some patients seem to have dropped out of the study as a result of problems in running a treatment centre that serves communities where terrorism and other civil conflict related fears and suspicions are still present. However, other patients seem to have dropped out because of suboptimal delivery of the treatment protocol, in particular omitting to use cognitive techniques to tackle some patients' extreme beliefs about the adverse effects of imaginal reliving. This observation, and the finding of a therapist effect, suggests that greater attention may be needed to ensure that therapists dealing with chronic and severe post-traumatic stress disorders have sufficient training and ongoing supervision. The variation in outcome associated with different therapists (14%) was much larger than that observed in a randomised controlled trial of the same treatment (<1%), which was run in a university research clinic with therapists who had received extensive training to protocol.16
Recent NICE guidelines1 19 20 21 22 recommend cognitive behaviour therapy as a treatment of choice (alone or in conjunction with drugs) for many psychiatric disorders. In view of this guidance, and other recent developments, such as the Layard initiative,23 NHS trusts are increasingly likely to make cognitive behaviour therapy available to a variety of populations, some of which will not have been represented in the randomised controlled trials that led to a particular guideline. In such instances, NHS providers will wish to determine rapidly whether the treatment is effective in the new setting. When the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation was established, evidence was not available to indicate whether the positive results that have been observed with randomised controlled trials of cognitive behaviour for non-terrorism post-traumatic stress disorder would generalise to chronic, terrorist and civil conflict related violence. The centre took the decision to establish its treatment programme as a randomised controlled trial, with all referred adults with post-traumatic stress disorder being invited to participate in the trial. In this way it was possible to determine in a relatively short time that treatment does generalise to a different population and setting.
Because of financial constraints the study relied on self report measures of post-traumatic stress disorder and associated symptoms. The absence of independent assessor ratings is a limitation. We do not think this is likely to have seriously compromised the study because in our two previous trials16 17 of cognitive therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder, and in several trials of cognitive behaviour therapy for other anxiety disorders,24 25 independent assessor ratings and self report scores have been similar. In addition, if there was any demand effect with respect to self reported symptoms it might be more in the direction of under-reporting of improvement at the end of the controlled phase of the study (12 weeks). This is because patients who had reported only modest improvement were offered further treatment.
Civil conflict occurs in a community context. In Northern Ireland the historic ceasefires that started in 1997 have had numerous effects on the community and there have been many positive community based initiatives, not least in Omagh, where the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation is located. Such societal changes applied equally to the waiting list and immediate therapy groups in our study and hence do not compromise the design. It is, however, our impression that recent community initiatives have had a role in helping people to come to terms with civil conflict related trauma as well as making treatment more acceptable. Evaluation of such influences was beyond the scope of our investigation.
What is already known on this topic
Trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing therapy are recommended by NICE for non-terrorism related post-traumatic stress disorder
What this study adds
Cognitive therapy is effective in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to terrorism and other civil conflict
The therapists were Sean Collins, MD, KG, Susan McGandy, and John McLaren. Tracy McCrossan assisted with data collection. DMC is supported by the Wellcome Trust. We thank David Bolton, director of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma and Transformation, for supporting the research.
Contributors: All authors contributed to the design, execution, analysis, and writing up of the trial. MD is guarantor.
Funding: Northern Ireland Victims Liaison Unit.
Competing interests: None declared.
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Here is one possibility:
As an alternative, consider Arnie Graf, who’s been an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation for thirty years. Graf and about ten fellow community organizers from Maryland and DC took the last two weeks of the 2004 election off and headed to East Cleveland, a city of
about 30,000 mostly poor and working-class African-Americans. They had been invited by a community-based organization that set them up in a local church to work on boosting voter turnout in the city. “We learned as much as we could about East Cleveland and got to know the issues,” says Graf. “We wound up covering every door, about 30,000 people, and we decided instead of canvassing and talking about Iraq or how many jobs had been lost in Ohio we would talk to people about what was happening in East Cleveland.” Through the network of the East Cleveland Concerned Pastors for Progress, they recruited 140 volunteers who went door to door among their neighbors, and when election day was over Kerry’s vote total in East Cleveland exceeded Gore’s by 97 percent.
What was important here? They didn’t just “hit and run”, they didn’t just knock on the door, run through the canned script and run away, trying to hit their thirty doors per hour quota. They actually stopped to listen to the people they were trying to influence. Someone finally realized that before you can persuade someone to come to your point of view, you must start by listening to theirs. Before they can solve your problem (winning an election) you have to show that you will help them solve their problems, and you can only find out what people need from you by listening to them. But you can’t listen to people you are targeting to ignore.
The 527 PAC ACT (America Coming Together) wanted to follow the 2004 election by creating just such a grassroots precinct system (as the above quote continues):
In a business plan circulated after the election, ACT painted a picture of a kind of ACT 2.0, with deeper local roots, a focus on local issues and races and a mission of training a permanent, stable cohort of professional organizers. “The greatest experience for me,” says Rosenthal, “was going out to places and seeing young organizers who knew how to cut walk lists and put material together and run a GOTV. That was one of the stated missions from the beginning: We were going to train a whole new generation of organizers, and we were going to figure out a way to keep them working year-round.”
Well, if you followed the ACT link, you discover they didn’t get their wish, and if we want it to happen we cannot depend on wealthy Democratic funders to bankroll it. In fact we will have to rediscover that money is just a means to measure human labor, and if we are wise we will emphasize people’s efforts more than money. After the failed election, I went to a meeting where hundreds of those Progressive volunteers who had been working for ACT or MoveOn or NARAL or the League of Pissed Off Voters, (in fact just about all the local Progressive groups I know of) all were looking for ways to continue the struggle. We all put wrote our names and contact information, but I notice we never got any calls back from the Democratic Party. So if it is going to get done we may just have to do it ourselves.
Any group can put together a precinct system. It does not require top down leadership. It merely requires someone with energy and a real liking for people get some neighbors together to contact everybody in their local neighborhood. Ask what issues are important to them, what problems are besetting them, and what would they like to see happen. Ask if they would like to help out. Have some handouts showing people where they can find help for common problems…and have the precinct contact information prominently displayed. (Have block parties and other functions where people can stop seeing each other as strangers and start seeing each other as neighbors for the first time in decades…) And if you find any local techies willing to help out, put all the information down in a local database, ready to share with other databases.
It can be done, and it can be done from the ground up. If people are willing to get out there and do it. If the Party is wise they will encourage it and reap the benefits. If not, they could watch the rest of the country do an end run around the Old Guard…and maybe take our country back. | <urn:uuid:9d92c154-50b2-4903-b521-a01cd1ec7755> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://numen.wordpress.com/tag/campaigning/ | 2019-02-23T09:53:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249495888.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190223082039-20190223104039-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.977176 | 949 |
Summer maybe drawing to a close but these wonderful bars will bring back great camp fire memories. Our whole family loves them.
2 sticks unsalted butter, melted, plus more, softened, for pan
18 plain graham crackers (about 2 packages) or 2 cups crumbs
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
3 cups milk chocolate chips
3 1/2 cups mini-marshmallows
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line the bottom and sides of a 9 by 13-inch baking pan with foil. You want to leave about 4 inches of overhang on the 2 opposite sides. These are going to serve as your handles to remove the bars from the pan in 1 piece, so make sure that there is enough of the overhang for you to have a solid grip. Grease the foil well with the softened butter.
In your food processor, grind the graham crackers into a fine meal (you need 2 cups). In your food processor, grind the graham crackers into a fine meal (you need 2 cups). In a large bowl, combine your crumbs with the sugar, sea salt and melted butter. The mixture should look and feel like wet sand. Set aside a heaping 1/2 cup of the crumb mixture for the topping. Evenly press the remaining crumb mixture into the bottom the foil-lined pan. Pop your crust into the oven and bake until it is golden brown and your kitchen smells of graham crackers, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove the crust from the oven and allow it to cool on a rack
Melt the milk chocolate in a saucepan over low heat, stirring continuously until fully melted. Do not turn up the heat to hurry this process, you must keep it on low. I use a double boiler. Alternately, you can microwave the chocolate on low power, stirring after 2 minutes.
Preheat the broiler.
Pour the melted chocolate over the cooled graham cracker crust. Spread the chocolate evenly over the crust with a butter knife. Sprinkle the marshmallows over the chocolate and press them lightly into the chocolate. Sprinkle the reserved crumb mixture over and in between the marshmallows so that you cannot see the chocolate peaking through the marshmallows. Broil the bars 6 inches from the flame until the marshmallows are golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
Refrigerate the bars until the chocolate is hard, 2 hours or so. Grab the ends of the foil liner and lift the bars out of the pan in 1 piece. Move to a cutting board and cut into 24 squares. | <urn:uuid:55d8e4a4-aa37-461b-945c-c761ad5a752a> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://www.westwyndfarminn.com/smores-bars | 2014-09-17T05:30:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657121288.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011201-00143-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915622 | 541 |
Dracut Soccer is a non-profit organization made up exclusively of volunteers. We have no full time staff. With over 650 children playing in the Spring and Fall, we are one of the largest independent sports organization in the town. Everyone who has a child playing in Dracut Soccer is considered a member. We are run by a Board of Directors who meet once a month, usually on the last Wednesday of the month.
We are a member of Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association, Essex County Youth Soccer Association. As such, we are required to adhere to statewide standards. Among the rules and regulations with which we must comply are age requirements, referee requirements and playing rules. The Board also adheres to by-laws.
What We Do
The organization handles registration and team placement for over 650 children in the Spring and Fall seasons. We usually have over 50 teams. Coaches come from the parents of our players. DSA funds coaching clinics to help prepare them for their role as a soccer coach.
The soccer season usually runs about 8 games in the spring and fall. The weather and field readiness and availability play a big part in our starting date. We also try to time the end to coincide with the end of the school year. To get all of the games in we do play in inclement weather. You’ll see us on the field in light rain (never a thunder storm) and even during the occasional snowfall.
DSA pays for referees, equipment, coaching clinics, insurance and affiliation fees for those players registered. We also fund such mundane items as public toilets.
Questions? Concerns? Comments? Email us
Board of Directors
We are always looking for new board members, coaches or helpers. Let us know if you can help or if you are interested in coaching!
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|Sportsmanship Director||John email@example.com|
|Travel Head Director||Erick firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Assistant Travel Director||VACANT|
|Boys Travel Commissioner||Erick email@example.com|
|Girls Travel Commissioner||Jim St. firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Recreation Head Director||Justin email@example.com|
|Recreation Micro Director||VACANT|
|Recreation U6 firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Recreation U7/U8 email@example.com|
|Referee Coordinator||Stephen firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Equipment Coordinator||Aaron email@example.com|
|Travel Uniform Coordinator||Seth firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Field Maintenance Coordinator||Aaron email@example.com|
|Media Coordinator||Jim Gilliland|
|Coach/Player Development Director||Brandon firstname.lastname@example.org|
|Fundraising & Activities Coordinator||Ascenio email@example.com|
|Merchandise Coordinator||Ron D’firstname.lastname@example.org|
|High School Liaison||Seth Ustaitis|
|At Large 1||Doug Jones|
|At Large 2||VACANT|
|At Large 3||VACANT|
|At Large 4||VACANT|
|Referee Assignor||Stephen email@example.com|
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