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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The American Legion's national commander, James Koutz, warned Congress today that the huge disability claims backlog at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) "is a gathering storm of mistrust between those who fought for their nation and those who promised them benefits if they should become disabled."
Testifying before a joint session of the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs committees, Koutz called the federal government's failure to decide the claims of veterans in a timely manner "inexcusable."
"Congress can no longer simply be concerned about this problem," Koutz said. "Congress, VA and The American Legion must work together to solve it. And that does not mean simply rewarding (claims) processors for fast decisions, regardless of quality.
"We have found an alarming amount of inaccuracy in claims decisions made at VA regional offices throughout the country, and that only slows down the process."
The Legion suggested that veterans could be compensated with interest on their claims if they had to wait longer than a realistic target date to get them processed. Koutz said such an arrangement would create an incentive for VA offices to decide claims more quickly. "There are ways to work with the mechanics of the system to make it serve the veteran and not the bureaucrats. We're willing to roll up our sleeves and work with you to find those ways."
Turning to the topic of sequestration, Koutz reminded the committees that "Congress and the White House have reassured us that the VA will be exempt from sequestration."
Yet many programs beneficial to veterans lie outside the VA budget and are vulnerable to automatic budget cuts in January: Arlington National Cemetery, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command, and the Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service.
"Veterans are seriously concerned that these important government functions will be compromised or cut in order to make ends meet," Koutz said. "The American Legion has been promised that the budget would not be balanced on the backs of veterans.
"If cuts to the Department of Defense erode TRICARE, diminish quality of life for our troops, or put more pressure on our National Guard and reserve components, it is clear that an unfair portion of responsibility is falling upon the shoulders of America's current and future veterans."
Another top legislative priority for The American Legion is to continue working with Congress to provide more employment opportunities for veterans. The Legion's efforts have already helped to produced laws such as the VOW to Hire Heroes Act and the Veterans Skills to Jobs Act.
"The American Legion has been at the forefront of efforts to combat veteran joblessness, and we know we have an ally in this Congress," Koutz said. "Specifically, I speak of the progress made in the acceptance of military experience for credits toward licenses and other credentials in a number of trades and career paths for veterans.
"The American Legion has been fighting this battle longer than anyone else. Since our landmark 'Study of Licensure and Certification for Veterans' in 1997, we've worked with concerned parties in both the government and private sector."
In closing, Koutz told the joint session that addressing issues that face America's veterans "is much more than good political sense …. It is a sacred obligation. I think we can all agree on that."
The American Legion
Marty Callaghan, 202-263-5758/202-215-8644
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A KEYBOARD THAT'S COLOR-CODED and arranged alphabetically. An audio book that lets users hear what they're reading—at several speeds. A 21-inch wand that can be used to manipulate objects on an interactive whiteboard. A school that tailors its curriculum to individual modes of learning. These are glimpses of today's world of assistive technology: hardware, software, and systems for students who can't quite get by with the usual pedagogy. With each technologycomes numerous success stories. Here are a few that stand out.
"By using the keyboard, he doesn't feel so out of it."
Eight-year-old Kevin Hogan has been diagnosed with pervasive developmental delay, a mild form of autism. He also has dyslexia, sometimes hearing—in addition to seeing—words differently. He goes to public school in the morning and the HillSprings Learning Center in Colorado Springs, for students with learning disabilities, in the afternoon. For him, writing is a long, frustrating task; typing is hunt-and-peck.
Or rather it was. When Kevin's mother, Diane, a former teacher, came across a local Colorado Springs newspaper article about different assistive technologies, a device called the New Standard Keyboard caught her eye, and she ordered one for her son. It has made a world of difference.
The New Standard Keyboard, produced by New Standard Keyboards in Santa Maria, CA, will look radically different to anyone trained on the traditional QWERTY (the first six letters of the top finger row) keyboard. The letters are arranged alphabetically and color-coded, which is meant to give students a better understanding of the different functions of the keys. For example, red means "Stop and be sure; these keys issue commands and could delete all your work." Green means "Go ahead and type."
Why is it considered a new standard keyboard? Ask John Parkinson, who designed it. He took a traditional typing class as preparation for writing a book and was frustrated with the old system—he kept looking back at the keyboard as he was composing. Finally, he decided that he could invent something better: a new standard. "It was designed," he says, "to make typing easy for everybody—easy to learn and easy to do."
KEYED IN: Its maker says the New Standard Keyboard makes typing easy for everyone.
Parkinson sees the potential to serve users with a variety of needs. Seniors in particular, he says, have difficulty with tasks that rely on short-term memory for new learning and would benefit, and a colleague suggested that "this is just what they need at the VA hospital, where they have brain injuries and memory problems. They can learn on this because they already know the alphabet." Plus, Parkinson has recently received correspondence from blind typists, who he says seem ideally suited for the new keyboard.
Diane Hogan says it took her son some time to get used to the new keyboard, but he gradually caught on. Whereas before, Kevin wouldn't participate in writing activities, now he's asking her to set him up with his own e-mail account. "It allows him more independence from me," says Diane, who, interestingly, taught traditional keyboarding for more than 10 years."We're seeing him take more risks and be more successful."
Diane bought a second New Standard Keyboard for Kevin to use at the learning center, while keeping the first one for use at home. The keyboard helps him in at least two ways. First, of course, is his academic work. And second is his self-image."He's cognizant of his deficiencies and has a lot of anxiety,"says Diane. "By using the keyboard, he doesn't feel so out of it."
Parkinson says that his next move is to put the keyboard into a laptop. People such as the Hogans have made quite an impression on him. "I had set out to make the difficult easy for lazy people like me," he says, "and what I had done was make the impossible possible for someone who really needed it. There may not be much profit in that, but it seems infinitely more worthwhile."
"I can do anything any kid can do."
Joe Bauer Griffin is in sixth grade now. Paralyzed below his shoulders as the result of a spinal cord injury when he was 2, he uses Activpanel, a 15-inch touchscreen panel made by classroom solutions provider Promethean, which he controls with a pen attached to his visor. He moves his neck, the pen writes. "I can do anything any kid can do," Griffin says, including responding to questions, bringing up a calculator, writing, and drawing. At a recent school board meeting, for being such an inspiration, he was presented with two Activpanels, one for home and one for school.
Representing Promethean, Deanna Harrison was one of the people who gave the panels to Griffin. A former teacher, Harrison, in fact, used Promethean's Activboard— an anti-glare, electromagnetic-surface interactive whiteboard—in her third-grade classroom two years ago. Within four months, her students had improved an entire grade level in reading. She would either read them a story or have them read it, and then she'd ask them questions. She would say, "I don't want the answers; I want you to highlight where to find the answers." There on the interactive whiteboard would be the text of the book, and there the students would point out where they found their answers. "I could never have had overheads of every page in the textbook," says Harrison. "It was just priceless." Griffin agrees. "It's a great way of teaching," he says, "and it makes learning fun for everybody."
NO ORDINARY JOE: With a pen affixed to his visor, Griffin, paralyzed since 2 years old, works on his Activpanel (enlarged, inset).
Besides Activpanel and Activboard, Promethean offers an array of hardware and software that interacts seamlessly to provide an engaging classroom environment and involve different kinds of learning—visual, audio, and kinesthetic. Activwand is a 21-inch wand that helps young students, students in wheelchairs, and students with poor coordination reach the Activboard; Activstudio is lesson-development software that includes a searchable library of resources; and Activote is a student response system that allows teachers to quickly assess student understanding during a lesson. In addition, Promethean users have access to thousands of readymade lessons aligned to state education standards in a searchable database.
The impact of the company's suite of assistive technology is not limited to students. Consider Margaret Galligan, a teacher at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, who herself is legally blind. Galligan uses an Activboard in her classroom. She can import text and graphics from the internet and use the batteryfree pen to pose both problems and solutions to her students. She can use the board in myriad ways to make reading and writing more accessible. But one highlight was perhaps unexpected, as she related to a colleague. Galligan signed her name on the interactive whiteboard and then programmed it to zoom in. She said it was the first time in her life that she'd ever seen her own signature.
"Our goal is to say, 'There's nothing wrong with you.'"
Among the students currently enrolled in Laurel Springs School, you'll find Sara Montgomery. You'll never see her, though, just as you'll never see the other 5,000 Laurel Springs students—unless you attend the graduation ceremony in Ojai, CA. That's because Laurel Springs is a distance learning school; its students live all over the United States and abroad (although an additional 7,000 public school students use the Laurel Springs' curriculum in a traditional classroom setting). And thatarrangement suits Sara just fine.
Sara, 16, has Asperger's syndrome—a neurobiological disorder that resembles high-functioning autism—as well as mild cerebral palsy. Not only wasn't Sara achieving to her potential in public school, she was becoming more and more isolated. In high school, the situation worsened as Sara had to confront bullies, too. "I felt she wasn't getting the education she needed," her mother, Shirley, says. "She started getting depressed." It wasn't that the schools didn't try to accommodate her; it was that their efforts more often than not just made her stand out more.
At Laurel Springs, Shirley found a school that would tailor its curriculum to her daughter's needs. Learning-style coaches meet with each student, assess the student's strengths and abilities, then design the curriculum accordingly. For example, a student with attention deficit disorder might be a hands-on learner, or a performer, or a game player. So the curriculum might involve more audio work instead of written work, or more hands-on materials for math.
It's a relief to know that there's a place out there where [she] can go to get the kind of education I want her to get. —Shirley Montgomery, mother of Laurel Springs School student Sara Montgomery (pictured)
After an assessment, Sara began an online curriculum. Now she works from her home and is thriving. She's a proficient typist, and she's self-motivated—two attributes that suit her well at Laurel Springs. She's been getting mostly A's, and she feels better about herself. She has friends, and she doesn't have to face getting picked on in school anymore—and her mother doesn't have to "worry about the phone ringing at work, saying, 'You have to come get Sara,' or worry about her being on the bus." The aspiring college student (83 percent of Laurel Springs students go on to college) wants a career that involves working with animals."Laurel Springs is a great school," says Shirley. "It's a reliefto know that there's a place out there where Sara can go to getthe kind of education I want her to get."
Laurel Springs provides accreditation (with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and with the National Independent Study Accreditation Council), records, transcripts, diplomas, and support. Course material is aligned to California state standards, and every student works one-onone with a teacher, who is available via e-mail, telephone, fax, and regular mail. Sara's teacher, who lives in Belgium, calls Sara every week.
Laurel Springs also provides two"life-learning" electives, which require students to participate in a class or a community group. The school offers four basic modes of learning—online (80 courses are available), text-based (using state-approved texts correlated to state standards), choice-based (a method modeled along the lines of the Waldorf philosophy of education), and project-based (with a focus on literature and history)—but these four learning modes aren't discrete. Students can switch from one to another as they're further assessed.
Laurel Springs founder Marilyn Mosley wants the school to work for all its students, but especially those like Sara. She says that many children come in feeling dejected, having been through harsh experiences and suffering poor self-esteem."Our goal is to say, 'There's nothing wrong with you. If we didmore hands-on learning, etc., you would be able to assimilatethat material.'"
"It's going to be part of the reason I graduate."
Wes Cogdill is a 20-year-old student and southpaw pitcher at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC. Cogdill has trouble reading and writing. It's far easier for him to comprehend and retain information he hears than information he sees. So for seven years, and especially since entering college, when the reading assignments became heavier and the travel to and from games became more cumbersome, Cogdill has been using specially designed audio books, which he listens to as he reads.
Last year Cogdill had to read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and he just couldn't comprehend it, because of its dialect and rhythm. But with the audio book, things came a lot easier—and he found that he really enjoyed the novel.
The audio books, or AudioPlus textbooks, are created and distributed by Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, a nonprofit volunteer organization founded in 1948. RFB&D serves more than 141,000 students of all ages with roughly 110,000 educational titles on CD or four-track cassettes. That's a lot of books. All the titles are recorded by thousands of trained volunteers working in 29 recording studios around the country.
These aren't just everyday audio books, either. Their topics range from Dr. Seuss to quantum physics. RFB&D reviews K-12 and college publisher catalogs and websites, state textbook adoption lists, and professional journals for books that support curriculum needs; the company also takes requests. The unique digital accessible information system (DAISY) players that play these audio books, such as the Victor Reader Vibe (pictured on page 32), can be purchased directly from RFB&D for as little as $199. They have the features of regular CD players but also include other specialized functionality, such as allowing users to navigate by page, chapter, or section at the press of a button, as well as speed up or slow down the voice narration.
It works like this: Cogdill finds out which textbooks are required for his coursework. He calls RFB&D, asks for the audio books, and within two weeks his CDs come in the mail and he's off and running. "It's real easy to navigate," he says. If he needs to study pages 202 to 241 out of his calculus book, he turns to the page in the book, punches in the numbers on his CD player, and gets the audio feed, which he can play back at any speed he wants. Last year Cogdill had to read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and he just couldn't comprehend it, because of its dialect and rhythm. But with the audio book, things came a lot easier—and he found that he really enjoyed the novel. The system has become invaluable for Cogdill: "It's going to be part of the reason I graduate."
EASY NAVIGATION DAISY players such as the Victor Reader Vibe shown here are outfitted with special functionality for audio books.
RFB&D has reached out to schools as well, through its Learning Through Listening institutional memberships—consisting of a site license for its national library—playback equipment, and the AudioPlus textbooks themselves. To determine the audio books' effectiveness, a 2004-2005 study conducted by Rutgers University (NJ) and RFB&D's Educational Outreach Center involved 75 fourth- through eighth-grade students. The students in the experimental group showed statistically significant increases in reading rate and reading accuracy. Teachers said that the program had a positive impact on a variety of reading skills (including comprehension, decoding, and fluency), and they found that the program was easily implemented into their lesson plans. The study concluded that "using RFB&D's AudioPlus textbooks is an assistive technology intervention that can make a positive contribution to literacy learning in the schools."
Anyone with a documented print disability— including vision impairment, a learning disability, or another physical disability—is eligible to use RFB&D's services. Individual memberships currently require a $65 registration fee and a yearly membership fee of $35, and are available to any school, college, or other educational agency. The effect of the AudioBooks on students is summarized by one supervisor of special education: "You see it in their report cards. They get A's and B's when they were used to failure."
:: web extra :: For more on this topic, visit T.H.E. Journal. In the Browse by Topic menu, click on Special Needs Students.
Neal Starkman is a freelance writer based in Seattle.
This article originally appeared in the 01/01/2007 issue of THE Journal.
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"It's a lot of motherfuckers in here tonight for a tour that ain't selling." – Jay Z
Not going to lie, I almost believed the hype. Months ago, when the tour was announced and tickets went on sale, people were crying over the ticket prices and the narrative of Jay Z being a hypocrite for expecting people to pay expensive tickets when he just told them that throwing money in a strip is inferior to having credit on the socio-economic, "Story of OJ". Come on people, be smart. Buying concert tickets is what you do with your disposable income, not the money that is to be used for establishing financial stability. For the record, my Kendrick Lamar tickets were actually more expensive than these at the same venue, in the same 3rd level, but people need a reason to hate someone at any moment. Reportedly, the low prices are a way to keep scalpers and second-hand sites from making a profit; this innovative move is the reason why this is arguably his most financially successful tour yet. The latest punchline in the career of Mr. Carter has been the availability of cheap tickets on second-hand sites like my go to, StubHub. I don't know why tickets to a concert featuring arguably one of the greatest rappers of all time is a joke. "Aha ha. Jay-Z tickets are only $8." No dumbass, buy a ticket and go! It will be worth it and a smart investment, plus they're passing out six month free subscriptions to Tidal before you get to your seat.
I don't care if I have a ticket for an assigned seat, I like to be early for the previews at movies and I like to be early for concerts to get a scope on the demographics of concerts. While I was in line for a baked pretzel, the concession workers were talking to the father and son in front of me. The father had seen Jay Z in concert four times before and this was his teenage son first time seeing him. 4 TIMES?! That's impressive and it still was mind-blowing to see parents with their children in my section as if Hova was on the level of the Harlem Globetrotters in family entertainment.
Vic Mensa emerged onstage at 8 0'clock on the dot and all I could think about was how much of his show had to be approved by the CEO of his management team, Roc Nation. All artists performing, LISTEN UP!!!!, do not, I repeat, DO NOT PERFORM WITH A BACKING TRACK OR A HYPEMAN! When the Southside, Chicago rapper stopped rapping or singing, nothing was heard except for his band playing. With his vocal performances on the opener, "Say I Didn't", "The Fire Next Time", and "We Could Be Free", I would enjoy more songs of just him singing. The Malcolm X to Chance The Rapper's Martin Luther King Jr. did not come to play, which explains, to my dismay, why he did not perform "Down On My Luck". There were crowd interactions and thanks to the crowd, but with a setlist that included "16 Shots" and "Heaven On Earth", we were getting songs with a message, no mumble raps here, even bringing out famed spoken word poet, Malik Yusef to deliver words of inspiration in these super, dark times. Vic was about sharing his life story, like on "Memories on 47th Street", and his opinions on the unjust treatment of Black people by the police by listing all of the victims lost in the last 5 years. After cellphones went up for the lives lost in the recent American mass shooting involving a small church in Texas; there were still moments that got the crowd hype like "U Mad", "OMG", and "Rollin' Like A Stoner" that had one young man at least 19 or 20 running up and down the aisle in front of me screaming at Vic and dancing with his shoulders so hard that I'm sure he was heard all the way from section 318. To my dismay, he did not perform "Down On My Luck" and only did the chorus of "Rage" as his final number. I got to give his debut album, The Autobiography: As Told By Vic Mensa a 4th listen. Nice performance, sir. 4 out of 5.
*30 Minute Intermission*
Images throughout his career appeared on the huge, movable screens living above the 360-stage centred in the middle of American Airlines Center. From Willo Perron, the art director of the tour and album:
During the show, Jay-Z performed on an octagonal stage, placed in the middle of the stadium, with eight vertically-suspended screens hovering above him that showed various camera angles from the stage and footage of peers and family, some of which he erased himself from.
There's some more production value in this presentation than his set from the Backstage days. "Kill Jay-Z" began and I didn't sit down, shut up or keep my arms to my sides for the rest of the night as my "rapper hands" took flight and I finally got to say "Never go Eric Benet" in a crowd. (Sidenote: Knowing that thousands of people in several arenas across the country sing in unison not to lose the one you love like you did, must hurt Eric Benet in some way)
There were some positive shoutouts throughout the night. During Act 3: Legacy, the father of 3 and philanthropist mentioned the news of Meek Mill's controversial sentence of 2 to 4 years of imprisonment. He was in disbelief as small mistakes that did not lead to any charges being filed, could send a young man to prison for punishment thanks to the ill-intentions of probation. After condemning the justice system for stalking Black people from succeeding, he asked for inspirational music for aspiring Black folks and performed "Moonlight". I finally got my answer why Jay-Z has never been fully invested in a certain religion on "Legacy". This night, he made sure that we all knew that he believes in love and the light. Love conquers all and always search for the light to guide you out of every dark moment in in your life. Honestly, this moment was beautiful, but what made me want to cry tears of joy was when I realized he was rapping to my section the lines from "U Don't Know" that've bewildered me since middle school. "I sell ice in the winter, I sell fire in hell. I am a hustler, baby, I sell water to a well". Man, what?!?! In the words of philosopher Joe Budden, "Hov is different."
No Blueprint 2, Kingdom Come, or American Gangster tracks made it to showtime. Apologies if you were expecting songs from his collabo albums with R. Kelly, but there was a rendition of "N!$$@'s In Paris" that had to be started over after people has already lost their minds once Will Ferrel's voice filled the arena and the first notes of Hit-Boy's production played. Speaking of Watch The Throne, there was also a bittersweet moment around Act II as images of family pictures and Kanye from the "Otis" video appeared on the screens before Mr Carter returned to the stage. The collaboration that some probably forget the most from his discography is the Grammy-winning, Linkin Park mash-up, Collison Course. "Numb/Encore" was the closer as the lights went up, cell phones illuminated, and the last bit of life left in our voices were all apart of the dedication to Chester Bennington.
Weeks ago, my sister asked me who would I want to see as a surprise guest, I said, "no one". My older co-worker, who made me drop the "Beyonce's husband" moniker to explain who he was to her, contemplated, "Wouldn't it be exciting if Beyonce joined him on stage?". Once again, I responded in the negative. My last two chances of seeing Jay Hova preach were joint tours, the legendary and successful, Watch The Throne and On The Run. I still regret not seeing "Otis" performed live, lord knows I miss the old Kanye. The 4:44 Tour, like the title track, even the whole album is a breathing representation of Shawn Corey Carter at his most vulnerable.
Coincidentally, last month, I debated with my friend, whom I went to the concert with, about the subject matter that can be found in the discography of Jay Z. To me, the Marcy Projects rapper has always taught life lessons about family, friends, career goals, and independence over twenty summers. I didn't understand why he was just now getting praised for his great advice. Maybe it's easier to understand him over a soulful loop by No ID without being distracted by a banger by Timbaland. Since Reasonable Doubt, he has continuously had moments of clarity (See what I did there?) on every album. All of those Easter eggs have brought us to this point in his life and career, where you can have a "Dirt Off Your Shoulder" to live on the same setlist as "Smile" or "Empire State Of Mind" with "D'Evils". (BRUH! HE DID "D'EVILS"!) There is nothing for him to hide behind, all of the armor has been stripped by himself and we get to experience a living legend as there is nothing more for him to fear. This is the same man that said he would be forever mackin' on "Big Pimpin.'" ("Big Pimpin' on your court steps, in case y'all ain't noticed, I ain't lost yet.") Years later, he is now alone centre stage with a mic and a stand performing the song where he pleaded for his wife to forgive him and exposed his infidelities. Thank you, Mr Carter, you're far too kind.


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Here's an idea for parents: try giving your toddler a generous helping of pureed salmon for dinner tonight. Here's another idea: make it a point to have a dinner No. 2 on hand after your baby throws dinner No. 1 at your head.
If there's one hard rule of childhood, it's that kids don't like fish. Yes, they'll scarf down tuna salad and fish sticks, but even Mrs. Paul would tell you that doesn't count. However, Susan Brewer, a professor of food science at the University of Illinois, is convinced that babies' growing bodies particularly their growing brains need fish, and she's developed just the baby food that she thinks could pass their taste (and tolerance) test.
There are a lot of reasons all people are encouraged to eat fish at least twice a week, not the least being that it's low in fat and calories. Just as important, it's also rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for brain and nerve development and help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. For adults, the biggest benefits are the cardiovascular ones, but for babies, the brain is still very much a work in progress, and omega-3s particularly a type called docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are critical. A baby's brain, says Brewer, is 50% DHA, but a baby's liver is not good at synthesizing enough of it.
"If small children are going to get enough DHA," she says, "they're going to have to ingest it in their food."
Salmon, Brewer decided, is one of the best possible ways to provide it. Not only is the fish especially high in omega-3s, it's also mild tasting, which is part of what drives its global popularity so far up (and also, unfortunately, is pushing its wild populations so far down). Brewer developed a baby food that uses wild salmon caught late in the fish's life, a time when its flesh has begun to soften. She also adds salmon bonemeal and roe to her mix, which boosts nutrient level.
O.K., that sounds nasty, but when the raw ingredients are processed into baby food, the result is a product that, Brewer says, tastes more like salmon and cream-cheese dip than plain salmon. Parents (if not yet babies themselves) seem to agree. In one recent focus group, 81% of 107 parents said they liked the product and that they'd feed it to their babies.
Brewer believes that introducing fish early will help nurture not just babies' brains, but their palates too. One reason so many Americans have an aversion to fish is that it was not made part of their diets when their tastes were developing. Fish-based baby food already sells well in Asia, Italy and the U.K., in part because those countries include fish early and often in a child's life. One downside, of course, is sticker shock: wild salmon is pricey stuff even for adult connoisseurs; for babies, it might simply seem too extravagant. For now, however, Brewer is focusing on taste and nutrition; economies of scale may come later.
If American kids have not yet caught the fish habit, other news this week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides one more reason they should start. It's no secret that the obesity epidemic, which already claims 27% of U.S. adults (and two-thirds when you include those who are merely overweight), is hitting kids hard too, with up to 19% in the grade-school age group qualifying as obese. Now it appears that the federal school lunch program one of the government's best-intentioned ideas and also one that, not incidentally, provides the only balanced meal some low-income kids get in a day may be contributing to the problem.
According to new USDA data, students who eat a federally funded school lunch are likelier to be overweight than those who don't. But surprisingly, those who also get a federally funded school breakfast are at lower risk. The numbers were drawn from a survey of 13,500 kids, and while USDA officials are sure of the findings, they're not yet sure of what's behind them.
One likely source of trouble is surely that a portion of the federally funded lunch menu comes from government surplus, which means that some meals may be based as much on what's available as what's nutritious. That's not to say that plenty of federal lunches do not meet good fat, calorie and nutrition guidelines. But in those cases, the very wholesomeness of the meals may be turning kids off, pushing them to buy a la carte items (also known as junk food) that cafeterias sell as a badly needed source of income.
School breakfasts, by contrast, may not qualify as spa food, but they do include whole grains, fruits, fruit juices, cereal and yogurt, and they're served at a time of day when the French fryer and the pizza oven are not yet fired up and cranking out unhealthy alternatives. A child who eats well in the morning may be less likely to gorge at noon, providing a better nutritional balance overall.
Our 19% childhood obesity rate is not likely to return to the 5% rate of the 1970s overnight, but something clearly has to be done to start nudging it downward. Healthy meals for school children is one way; new foods including seafood for babies is another.


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Cost: £10.50 per unit per night (2 adults & children 12-17 CCY). Age concession are available for the over 55yr olds between June 26th and July 17, 2017 (£8.50 pun). Extra adults on a pitch will be charged £2.00 per adult per night.
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The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven 3.0.
Maven is a project comprehension and build tool, designed to simplify
the process of maintaining a healthy development lifecycle for your
project. You can read more here:
Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download
A major goal of Maven 3.0 is to be compatible, to the extent possible,
with existing plugins and projects designed for Maven 2.x. Users
interested in upgrading to this new major release should have a glance
at the compatibility notes for known differences between Maven 3.0 and
Maven 2.x:
If you encounter unexpected problems while using Maven 3.0, please feel
free to contact us via the Maven developer list:
Last but not least, the Maven team would like to thank all the users
that tested the various alphas/betas/RCs and provided valuable feedback
that helped us to eventually release a solid Maven 3.0!
Release Notes - Maven 2 & 3 - Version 3.0 (since 3.0-beta-3 only)
** Bug
* [MNG-4592] - Snapshot artifacts that could not be downloaded due
to communication problems are "blacklisted" for a day by default.
* [MNG-4751] - Snapshot version not resolved for version range
* [MNG-4785] - NPE in dependency resolution code for TC plugin
* [MNG-4786] - [regression] Ant-based mojo using
maven-script-ant:2.1.0+ cause NPE
* [MNG-4788] - [regression] Appassembler Maven Plugin doesn't work
like as it should
* [MNG-4789] - [regression] Difference in compile scope dependency
* [MNG-4791] - [regression] POM artifacts passed into
MavenProjectBuilder.buildFromRepository() are no longer resolved
* [MNG-4793] - Unable to obtain archiver for extension 'zip'
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.3.1'. A required class
is missing: org.codehaus.plexus.digest.Digester
* [MNG-4795] - [regression] Dependencies in forked reactor projects
are not resolved when aggregator bound to lifecycle forks
* [MNG-4800] - Conflict resolution does not pick sub tree of
nearest dependency if farther conflicting dependency has wider scope
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is not backed by a real JAR file / classpath
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ComponentConfigurator causes infinite loop
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projects prevent their later resolution from the reactor
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configured repositories
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of the POM coordinates gets needlessly repeated
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POMs override repositories configured for original resolution request of POM
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part of Maven core realm
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messages when improperly configured
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lifecycle mappings
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Officials at any of The Walt Disney Company subsidiaries are usually quiet when it comes to describing the technology behind new attractions. The reason is simple: Guests marvel at what goes on in these attractions, and revealing the technology behind the magic might somehow take some of the wonder out of the experience.
However, company officials were so impressed with what hundreds of craftspeople, technicians, and engineers were able to accomplish with their newest creation — Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — that they tipped their hand. The highlight of Expedition Everest occurs when guests come face-to-face with the yeti, the most highly engineered Audio Animatronics figure ever created by Walt Disney Imagineers. The yeti stands well over 20-ft tall and, counting all motion axes, weighs in at 20,000 lb. As guests zoom past the yeti in a roller coaster train, it shows off 19 axes of lifelike motion by lunging at the train and swiping at it with an arm more than 10-ft long.
The yeti is one of the stars of Walt Disney World's newest permanent attraction, but there's much more to Expedition Everest than the yeti. There's a scaled-down Himalayan mountain range, a mythical village inspired by the architecture of Nepal, and, of course, a roller coaster.
As the story goes
As guests enter the Expedition Everest site, they work their way through a maze of authentic props to give the impression they have entered a Himalayan village. During this initial storytelling portion (everything in the attraction is about storytelling), guests learn that they will embark on a tour through the mountains aboard an old train that formerly hauled tea and is still powered by a steam locomotive.
Guests also catch frequent glimpses of Everest towering in the distance. The structure is nearly 200 ft tall, but appears much taller through forced perspective. Forced perspective involves altering the scale at which objects are constructed and painting shadows that create a false sense of depth.
However, guests are repeatedly shown references to the legendary Abominable Snowman — or the yeti, as it is referred to in Himalayan custom. These references become more intense as guests work their way closer to where they will board the roller coaster.
All aboard
As they approach a loading platform, guests see and hear coaster trains approaching and departing. A train departs as often as once a minute with as many as 34 passengers on each. The coasters are adorned with features that make them appear to be old rusty trains. They have a steel framework with outer bodies made of fiberglass for a combination that is light weight, strong, and durable.
To add realism to the scene, steam is routed to nozzles mounted under the loading platform. This makes it easy to see and hear the steam, but keeps it a safe distance from guests and attraction personnel. A blast of steam is released every time a train stops at the loading platform, giving the impression that the train is, indeed, powered by a locomotive. Steam is again released — and a steam whistle sounds — once the train has been loaded and begins its departure.
It's a switch
Upon departure, the train ascends the attraction's first hill. After climbing a second hill, 112-ft high, the coaster enters a snowy canyon. Something appears seriously wrong. Huge footprints in the "snow" and a distant roar signal that the guests have infringed on the yeti's space. Worse yet, the track ahead is broken and twisted — with nowhere to go except off the track and over a steep cliff!
Lacking any other recourse, the train comes to a halt, then backs up. But instead of heading back into the loading area, it crosses over a switch track that diverts it — backwards — to an alternate route. The coaster continues backward and up through a spiral and eventually stops at the top of an incline. After a brief pause, it rolls forward down the hill, then crosses over another switch track that sends it down an 80-ft drop. The coaster reaches speeds up to 50 mph.
Pneumatics in action
Both switches are thrown by pneumatic linear actuators. But unlike conventional railroad switches, which actuate laterally, these switches rotate on their longitudinal axis, thereby keeping the mechanisms hidden from sight.
Each switch contains four actuators mounted perpendicular to the axis — a pair at the front of the switch and a pair at the rear. One actuator of each pair pushes the switch clockwise while the other pulls it. This setup conserves more space than using one or two large actuators for each switch and more evenly distributes loads. However, these switches are no lightweights; each weighs 20,000 lb. This may seem like overkill, but each switch must support a heavy roller coaster train carrying as many as 34 people.
Once the train has passed completely over the switch, controls unlock a mechanical linkage that holds the switch in place. Controls then command the switch to rotate 180°, then the mechanical lock is reset. The entire sequence occurs in about six seconds. Adding to the challenge is controlling the rotational motion of the switches.
Pneumatic actuators usually shift discretely — they shift from one extreme to the other in an instant. In this case, though, the actuators move through an acceleration ramp, to constant speed, then
through a deceleration ramp. This is done to minimize shock to the system, which extends life. It also reduces noise.
A close encounter
Eventually, the coaster train enters the cave of the yeti. Guests catch silhouetted glimpses of the yeti and hear its roars from a distance. However, the tracks bring them in for an up-close and personal encounter.
John Van Oort, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Show Mechanical Group, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, Calif., explained that the power and precise motion of the application clearly called for hydraulics. He revealed that the total thrust from all 19 motion axes generates nearly 260,000 lb of force.
Rather than try to support the yeti by its own legs, the figure is supported through a steel boom attached at the rear of the figure — roughly at the small of its back.
The figure is securely attached to the end of the boom and becomes a load suspended from a cantilevered beam. The boom also provides two major axes of motion: about 2 ft of vertical motion of the torso, and 5 ft of forward-backward thrust. The boom also supports the hoses and control cables going to the yeti.
More than meets the eye
This setup allows the yeti figure to appear to have even more than 19 axes of motion. Van Oort said both feet and the left hand all are attached to structural framework inside the attraction. Legs are free to bend at the hips, knees, and ankles, and the left arm is free to move at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. None of these joints are considered motion axes, because they are not powered.
Van Oort revealed, "There are no actuators in his legs or left arm; they just go along for the ride." The thrust and vertical motions of the boom are powered by hydraulic cylinders. The structure consists of stationary framework and a sled, which is pushed forward and backward on ways (plane bearings) by hydraulics.
Van Oort explained, "We reverted back to pre-World War II technology in that the sled runs on sliding ways, like in old machine tools. We have a huge cantilevered load, and the only way to the get the PV [combined pressure and velocity] of the bearings down was to put the sled on ways."
Mounted to the sled is a second hydraulic cylinder that pushes and pulls a second sled up and down. The beam that supports the yeti figure is rigidly attached to the framework of the sled that moves vertically. Therefore, this entire assembly generates two axes of motion.
Bringing the yeti to life
Other motion axes include left-right and fore-aft bending and twisting at the waist; turning, tilting and nodding at the neck; plus fully articulated motions of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, and fingers. The remaining motion axes move the mouth and produce facial expressions.
The cylinders that produce these motions become smaller the higher they are located above the waist. This is because cylinders at the waist must move more mass than cylinders in the neck. For example, cylinders in the waist have a bore of 3¼ in., whereas cylinders in the neck have a 1½-in. bore.
All of these motions are accomplished using hydraulics, except those for the eyes. Pneumatic cylinders were chosen to move the eyes because they are lightweight and space was limited. Servo control ensures lifelike movement of the eyes.
The hydraulic system itself is powered by two variable-displacement axial-piston pumps with pressure compensation set at 3000 psi. Each pump is rated for flow of 60 gpm, but only one pump operates at a time; the other is a standby power source. Flow from the pump is used to charge accumulators, which provide the flows needed to perform the show sequence.
Hydraulic fluid flows from either pump to a bank of eight 15-gal accumulators. These accumulators store pressurized fluid until peak flow of 400 gpm is needed. By storing hydraulic energy and releasing it on demand, the accumulators save energy by allowing the system to be driven by a 60-gpm pump instead of a 400-gpm pump.
Van Oort said designers specified standard components wherever they could. However, strength and longevity for the hydraulic cylinder mounts were well beyond what are found on standard JIC cylinders. Van Oort offered, "Standard mounting configurations just don't handle the kind of duty we put them through. So we started with a standard cylinder and specified extended tie rods at the cap end. Then we made our own mounts — even head trunnions — out of aircraft-quality alloys for high strength and light weight.
"Another concern was the rod seals. We have the cylinders manufactured with extra-long glands and double rod seals. We drain the gland volume between the seals with clear tubing and route it to a place where a maintenance person can monitor flow past the inboard seal." By doing this, personnel can replace a rod seal before it fails. If it should fail, the second rod seal acts as a backup.
Management approval
At the opening of the attraction on April 7 earlier this year, Bob Iger, president and CEO of The Walt Disney Company offered, "Expedition Everest is a shining example of what we do best at Disney — create unique, high-quality, and innovative experiences to delight our guests from around the world." Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo added, "This extraordinary expedition is another example of the lengths to which Walt Disney Imagineering will go to research subject matter in developing our story lines."
Click here to watch a video explaining more of the hydraulics technology behind the Yeti..
For more information and images covering the technology behind Expedition Everest, click here to view an article published by our sister publication, Machine Design.


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Those who love coffee and those who love vinyl are of the same breed. They are folks who relish warmth, pleasant sounds, and the physicality of their passion. You might even say that a record player is like the pour-over coffee of music formats -- it takes practice to understand the subtleties, but its slow richness is what makes its fans so loyal.
Since it's hard to have too much of a good thing, the logical solution for lovers of coffee and vinyl is to combine the two together into the perfect pairing. So that you don't have to spend hours coming up with earth-shatteringly awesome combinations (we'll let you do that with your very favorite records) here is a list of 7 classics and their respective coffee pairings that you need to try out this weekend.
Both coffee and vinyl music preferences are deeply personal, so this list is not meant to be taken as gospel, but simply as a suggestion of pairings that might pique your interest.
1. Leon Bridges, Coming Home + Classic Cup of Joe
Infuse your brew with Southern soul and R&B. Leon Bridges' debut album is a pleasing Sunday morning listen with a warm beat that is sure to please every ear. Plus, this album is more than just a stylistic revival - it is a recreation.
Recorded on original equipment of the early R&B era, this album calls for a classic cup of coffee. Brew your coffee in something vintage, like a Bialetti Moka Express for some real authentic taste. The combination is sure to be a real crowd pleaser.
2. Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison + Irish Coffee
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This album is a country classic that was released the year before Woodstock. Why is this an important historical tidbit? Because this was the first time country got rebellious. This independent spirit was powered by a unique social message making it one heck of an educating record for listening.
Edify your mind and your tastebuds by trying a more incorrigible brew. Try an Irish coffee. The perfect way to start a Sunday morning.
3. Radiohead, In Rainbows + Pour-Over Coffee
Two albums ago, Radiohead released an album that made a new generation of teenagers fall in love with their subtly complex and musically demanding sound.
It is modern without being pretentious, and it is an album whose nuances demand that you listen to it repeatedly - kind of like a pour-over coffee. Rich in texture and subtle in its harmonious flavor profile, it is a perfect complement to these tunes.
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This latest album from Tame Impala is a departure from their signature reverb-soaked psychedelic style. This time around, however, there are notes of pop within their textured and cleanly layered sounds.
Bright and lush with funky elements, this album calls for something a little unusual. Try a latte macchiato. This striated coffee beverage is sure to keep you guessing what flavor will hit your tongue next.
5. Jay-Z, The Black Album + Cappuccino
13 year anniversary. I heard a sampler (remember those?) and was geeked off the production. Copped when it was released and was instantly in love with the "Mamba Out" Narrative as well. Jay-Z's last Classic (Honorable Mention to American Gangster). One of the last albums in hip hop to genuinely excite me that didn't involve Kanye or NERD. Change Clothes & 99 Problems both impacted pop culture heavy, PSA is the crown jewel of Jay & @justblaze collabs, Allure coulda had Billy Joel on the hook, Lucifer is still a top 10 chipmunk era Ye beat, Dirt off your Shoulder was a homerun for Timbo & Jay, and Encore was under appreciated at Radio but still classic. I didnt even name all the records but those are my favs. S/o to the studio footage with the producers in "Fade To Black" it changed my life, and S/o To @dangermouse_ for flipping this album with beatles samples fron "White Album" on Grey Album. #jayzblackalbum
This is a soul-bearing album from one of the most influential rappers of the post-Biggie and Tupac era. It is a nod to the ups and downs and changing culture that helped shape Jay-Z into a household name. Perpetually the underdog, Shawn Carter continually defied expectations of his fans and music.
In The Black Album, Carter once again strikes a chord. This time, he creates the perfect balance of gangster rap and pop; a balance that altered mainstream rap. Pair this perfectly balanced album with a cappuccino. This is a beverage that elegantly contrasts the hardcore flavor of espresso with the soft, sweet flavor of foamed milk.
6. Dixie Chicks, Wide Open Spaces + Coffee with Cream
For those times when you have a mixed crowd, the Dixie Chicks' fourth album is the answer. This seamless blend of bluegrass and mainstream country was the reason that folksy groups like Mumford and Sons enjoy such widespread popularity today.
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There is a little bit of everything in this legendary operatic glam rock album. Since you can't take it all in at once, allow yourself a moment to revel at the sonic innovation that this album presented the world with.
Perhaps the best way to do that is with an innovative caffeinated beverage. Try an iced coffee tonic. Inspired by the Kaffe Tonic at Saint Frank in San Francisco, just pour a shot of espresso over some Fever-Tree tonic water, and voila. A new, refreshing way to enjoy your caffeine.


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A comprehensive residential redevelopment of a former hospital site in a regional centre
The site of the former Napier Hospital occupies a prominent location along the top of the ridgeline of Hospital Hill, Napier. Since 1999, when Napier Hospital was closed and services amalgamated with Hastings Hospital, the elevated hill top site (approximately 4.95 ha) with its series of purpose built buildings lain more or less abandoned. Over a decade later, Todd Property Napier Hill Ltd took ownership of the land with a view to redeveloping the site for residential purposes.
Todd Property Group gained consent in 2014 to convert to residential use the former Napier Hospital site on the landmark Napier Hill. The development includes 11 stand-alone residential sites, 21 townhouses including attached duplex houses, and two high rise towers of 18 apartments that replicate the extent of the former main hospital wards. Adaptive re-use will also see the Arohaina former maternity ward converted to 26 apartments.
It was important to reflect the site's history and prominence in the master planning and landscape design of the development, which falls within the Napier Hill Character Zone of the district plan. The masterplanning and design of the Napier Hill development established a strong relationship to the surrounding landscape and urban environment. The redevelopment provides both physical connections across the site and the opportunity for the establishment of a strong residential community. The design of the landscape provides public access to features from the former uses of the site, as well as providing for the enjoyment of the outlook that this elevated site offers.
The design of the residential environment was developed to integrate with and complement the adjacent areas of the Hill. In achieving this integration the public amenity of the former Hospital site and surrounding part of Napier Hill has been greatly enhanced through the overall future development of the site.
Boffa Miskell was engaged in 2012 to provide advice in relation to overall master planning working alongside Paris Magdalinos Architects (PMA). Boffa Miskell's role has included a particular emphasis on landscape amenity, urban design and the neighbourhood context, in addition to landscape design and advising on vegetation management. Boffa Miskell also assisted in the resource consent process undertaking the landscape and visual effects assessment and working with council's expert peer reviewers to gain support for the project including its two residential apartment buildings.
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The Hot-Spots vase series is like a dance of colours. The individual features on the surfaces of the vase appear to move and alter their effect depending on the light level and the viewing angle. Designer Christine Rathmann has skilfully combined a wide range of on-trend colours to form harmonious colour gradations, which are constantly creating new moods and inviting the beholder to use a variety of arrangements.
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Christine Rathmann (*1981) was born in Kiel and studied industrial design at Muthesius University in her home city. Since 2009, she has worked as a designer for various companies in the furniture industry and also works freelance in the field of product, furniture and graphic design. The designer lives and works in Bünde in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Christine Rathmann works intuitively, creates atmospheres, has a passion for colour. Tones of yellow, green, blue, red and pink swirl across the faceted surfaces of the porcelain vases like a kaleidoscope. The Hot Spots collection offers an eye-catching and bright colour gradient that smoothly tapers off into a single colour. This creates a changeable piece, which is both a decorative object and functional vase for creating effective flower displays, and which also works especially well as an ensemble. "I like it when little details in objects surprise people, so the observer quickly develops an affinity for them," explains the designer. And this is what gives Hot Spots its appearance as an enticing combination of shapes and colours – always changing depending on the light level and viewing angle.
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SAN DIEGO, March 12, 2016 —It's been two weeks since the 88th annual Academy Awards telecast, but the entertainment world is still abuzz. Since no African-Americans were nominated this year, the academy has been accused of racism. People watched the 2016 telecast with anticipation and perhaps a sense of foreboding, wondering if this disturbing turn of events would be highlighted or ignored during the awards presentation.
Predictably, host Chris Rock did address this lightning-charged topic. But few would have guessed that he would barely talk about anything else.
Meanwhile, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President, Cheryl Boone Isaacs has also spoken out, promising more diversity. More diversity? How exactly will they pull this off? Will there be affirmative action embedded in the annual ballots? Will members of the Academy be forced to nominate one African-American candidate before they can nominate anyone else? Will such a trend force them to follow suit for Latinos, Asians and others? Time will tell.
All that has been promised so far is that the academy will "conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond."
By the way: Big elephant in the room: President Cheryl Boone is herself African-American. How did that happen? How did the same academy that banned black nominees vote in an African-American president?
In addition, the only reason Chris Rock was on TV pontificating is that he had been asked to host the awards long before the nominations even came out. So how did racist Hollywood ever think of contacting Chris Rock and inviting him to play such a prominent role on its annual live presentation?
Of course, a much larger question begs to be asked, inasmuch as African-Americans have not only been nominated for Academy Awards in previous years – they have won many times.
So how do we explain this? Is the Academy racist one year, only to overcome its racism the next year and then revert back to racism again the following year?
Worse, sometimes, when there is an award given to an African American, we hear a speech as if it were the very first time such an event has ever happened.
Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress during the 2002 awards show for the previous year, 2001. She stopped the music which is designed as a cue for the award winners to wrap up their speeches.
"It's been 74 years, I've got to take this time."
74 years? She must have forgotten that Sidney Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Lilies of the Field in 1963 and that Denzel Washington won Best Supporting Actor for Glory in 1989, long before he won again, (this time, Best Actor) for Training Day on the very same night Hallie won her Oscar.
There have also been other African-American wins in the academy's history:
- Lou Gosset Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman, 1982
- Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry McGuire, 1996
- Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby, 2004
- Jamie Fox, Ray, 2004
- Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland, 2006
Not to mention the numerous times African-Americans were nominated. In fact, Morgan Freeman was nominated for Driving Miss Daisy, the same year Washington won for Glory.
Here are some other African-American nominees from the past:
- James Earl Jones, The Great White Hope, 1970
- Paul Winfield, Sounder, 1971
- Dexter Gordon, Round Midnight, 1986
- Denzel Washington, Malcolm X, 1989
- Laurence Fishburne, What's Love Got to Do With It? 1993
- Will Smith, Ali, 2001
- Morgan Freeman, Invictus, 2009
- Denzel Washington, Flight, 2012
- Chiwetel Ejo, 12 years a Slave, 2004
- Robert Crossee, The Reivers, 1969
- Howard Rollins, Ragtime, 1981
- Adolph Caesar, A Soldier's Story, 1984
- Morgan Freeman, Street Smart, 1987
- Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game, 1992
- Samuel Jackson, Pulp Fiction, 1994
- Michael Clark Duncan, The Green Mile, 1999
- Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond, 2006
- Eddie Murphy, Dream Girls, 2006
Oh wait! Those were only men! Maybe Halle was thinking it was high time the academy honored an African-American woman. Well, they already had.
Whoopee Goldberg won Best Supporting Actress for Ghost in 1990. Not that this was all that new or novel of an idea either. As far back as 1939, when the Oscars hadn't even been around for that long, Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for Gone With the Wind.
And the trend continued long after Halle Berry's big evening. In more recent years, the award of Best Supporting Actress has gone to:
- Jennifer Hudson, 2006, Dreamgirls
- Mo Nique, Precious, 2009
- Octavia Spencer, The Help, 2011
- Lupita Nyongo, 12 Years a Slave, 2013
Those were just the winners.What about nominations? There have been a few:
- 1949: Ethel Waters, Pinky
- 1959: Juanita Moore, Imitation of Life
- 1967: Beah Richards, Guess Whose Coming To Dinner
- 1983: Alfre Woodard, Cross Creek
- 1985: Margaret Avery, The Color Purple; same year, same film, Oprah Winfrey
- 1996: Marianne Jean Baptiste, Secrets and Lies
- 2002: Queen Latifah, Chicago
- 2004: Sophie Okonedo, Hotel Rwanda
- 2007: Ruby Lee, American Gangster
- 2007: Viola Davis, Doubt
- 2008: Taraji Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Maybe in the minds of some, "Supporting Actress" doesn't mean a whole lot. Maybe that's why it was special when Hallie won the higher category of "Best Actress," period!
Oh sure, several black men had already won "Best Actor," but now it was a woman. Of course ,there had been many African-American women nominated for the exact same award.
A nomination, incidentally means these women were considered one of the five best actresses of the year. Women such as:
- Dorthy Dandridge, Carmen Jones, 1954
- Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues, 1972; same year: Cicely Tyson Sounder
- Diahann Carroll Claudine, 1974
- Whoopie Goldberg, The Color Purple, 1985
- Angela Bassett, What's Love Got To Do With It? 1993
- Gabourey Sidibe, Precious, 2009
- Viola Davis, The Help, 2011
- Quzenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012
Have there been less African-American awards and nominations than the amount for white people? Of course. White people outnumber African-Americans in Hollywood and the entire country. But this same white majority voted for and nominated African-Americans many, many times, to the exclusion of the white majority they might have picked from. That's a whole different way to look at this.
By the way, it's not like the dominant liberals in Hollywood didn't vote twice for an African-American President of the United States, either. So they vote for a black president but they go out of their way to snub black actors? Is that the way it works? Does that make any kind of sense? Only in the world of Political Correctness.
Perhaps it's time to take a simpler approach and throw out a modest little theory, an "emperor isn't wearing any clothes" type of theory:
Is it possible, just remotely possible, that when academy members vote, they aren't thinking about skin color? That they are instead thinking about what was the best picture or the best performance?
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Now I can't take much credit for designing this as I found some very similar images online as inspiration. But I think it has a bit of everything- balloons, a house and it's absolutely minuscule. Also, it'll only take you a couple of hours to put together, so this cross-stitch would make a great present.
You will need:
- about 15x15cm square of 22 count aida.
- embroidery thread- black, yellow and then at least 7 other colours. In a pinch, you could use cotton.
- a fine needle
- optional: embroidery hoop. If you're new to stitching this will help you to keep your tension correct, so I would recommend it but it's by no means essential.
Note: With aida, the higher the count, the smaller the squares as the number corresponds to the number of holes per inch. You could make this bigger by just using different aida and the doubling up the strands of embroidery thread you use.
Work with a single strand of thread if you are using 22-count aida.
- Feel free to use my pic as a reference image. OR you could use this handy dandy 'chart' I made
- I started with the balloons, though now I'm not entirely sure why! I started out by trying to slavishly copy another design but actually that's quite tricky when it's a photo rather than a nice pattern.
- Anyway, use one colour at a time and pick out a few stitches that aren't too close to one another. Don't be too precious about this as I think it will look good however it turns out. I would recommend saving a couple of pale, neutral-ish colours, such as yellow and pink, until last and using them to fill in any gaps.The thread will become very thick, but don't worry about this.Next, I worked on the house. I used the bottom right corner of the balloon mass as a reference point for the uppermost point of the house. Leave the balloon strings until last, and I would say this is a good way to start as you don't need to go back on yourself or carry long bits of thread across the back of your design. If you do carry thread in this way, the black might show through the aida.
- You can see that I did the windows before starting the outline. I think I did this so that the yellow thread wouldn't be visible on top of the black. Go ahead and do the yellow first if you're good at counting stitches, but it is a bit of a headache. I carried the thread down from the balloon mass and between the windows. Otherwise, it would be virtually impossible to work the ends of the thread under the stitches at the back to secure them.
- You can see here that I worked the windows when the yellow thread was live.Either way, finish the out line of the house and the highlighted windows. The balloon strings are single long stitches connecting the balloon mass and the house.Secure the ends of the black thread and you're done!If your design looks a bit messy with fingerprints etc, you can block it by gently washing it in lukewarm water with a tiny bit of delicate fabric soap or baby shampoo. Don't wring the fabric or you might distort the stitches. Just squeeze the water out as best you can and leave on a clean towel in a warm place to dry. You can then iron the piece so it looks perfect. I didn't do this stage as the fabric looked fine and I knew I would be framing it, which helps to stretch everything out nicely anyway.You're done! This cross-stitch looks great in a tiny frame like this.


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We currently have a number of patients registered with interest in being involved with the group. We have endeavoured to ensure that these patients cover a cross-section of the practice population including ethnicity, employment status, age, sex and disability.
The group meet every 6-8 weeks face-to-face with representatives of the Practice to discuss and consult on how to develop the Practice. Some patients prefer to be contacted only by email which we are happy to accomodate. The group advise on patient issues, patient survey outcomes, locality changes and how we can meet the needs of patients and practice alike.
As a Practice we continue to encourage interest through the patient survey, at patient registration, posters and the website.
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We are also happy to liase with patients online, which will hopefully allow us to consult with a wide range of patients.
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Dear Patient,
We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff.
To help us with this, we are setting up a virtual patient representation group so that you can have your say. We will ask the members of this representative group some questions from time to time, such as what you think about our opening times or the quality of the care or service you received. We will contact you via email and keep our surveys succinct so it shouldn't take too much of your time.
We aim to gather around a hundred patients from as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.
If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please click the link below to open the sign-up form and complete all the fields.
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We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.
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In order to determine the issues for the survey appropriately, the Patient Participation Group (PPG) and the Practice discuss and agree the subject material to be addressed. The patient survey is to obtain feedback from patients on the service/services that we provide.
A patient survey is developed and circulated to patients.
Responses are collated and analysed and the full report made available to the PPG.
The PPG considered the outcomes and by discussion we agree an action plan for the Practice to address the priority issues.
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