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When you venture through the pearly gates and invited for your induction to heaven, in God's front room, we're sure you'll see a couple of PDP-5000EXs from Pioneer.
OK, so six-grand might be a biblical price to pay for a TV but you certainly get celestial performance from Pioneer's immaculate conception. It offers true HD capability at a time where most LCDs can only give 1366x768 or less. But screen resolution isn't the only factor with this set. Unlike other screens that are HD ready, the Pioneer doesn't solely rely on HD material. Instead it relays TV signals and other standard-def sources with an even hand. It's really difficult to explain how good this display looks with 1080P images – perhaps holy is more fitting.
As for the more demonic side, well, you need to know that it's a display, not a telly – you need to add speakers for sound and a TV tuner for, um, TV. It's also a pretty heavy, big unit – yes, even for a 50in monitor. Otherwise, the only un-saintly factor is that price. But, like our fathers said when we were young(er), it might be the best but by God do you pay for it.


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Shamanic Ceremony in SE WI
We are grateful to announce that there will be a sacred ceremony offered by Yawasoe ShuriOshinipa on the 26 & 27th of April here in Wisconsin.
While I have been attending Shamanic ceremonies for almost 30 years, I just began working with this particular medicine in Feb of 2010. Since then, I have sat with many different Shamans from Peru, Argentina, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The Ceremonies with Yawa & Malorie have been the most profound and inspiring that I have ever experienced. They bring so much energy, compassion and love. This is one of those peak experience in life that you do not want to miss
" ~ Peter Ross Voigt
In my experience, I've been working with the Spirit medicine for five years now. Having participated in a plethora of ceremonies with shamans from South America and Puerto Rico, meeting Yawa & Malorie was a part of a turning point in my path. Brother and Sister to us, they create a perfect balance of the divine feminine & masculine within us all, because that's what they bring. The experience with them is a rare one. Through chanting and courage, it is an invitation to raise the connection with Creator through the loving assistance of Mother Earth
~ Marién Enid
Yawasoe ShuriOshinipa
is a medicine worker from Guyana known for his beautiful
and profound work with the Grandmother medicine Ayahuasca, integrating a variety of different shamanic traditions. He is quite unique in his way of facilitating ceremony. It was taught to him by the Grandmothers of several sacred medicinal traditions, yet he has also deeply integrated shamanic traditions of North American Natives with the teachings and ways of his own Grandmother's spiritual line. He offers a beautiful, luminous healing ceremony that integrates aspects of all the traditions he is rooted in.
Malorie Dawn Rehm
was born and raised in the Prairies of Canada. Being of aboriginal decent, she is strongly connected to the lineage of her ancestors, including Cree & Mohawk Indian. Malorie brings her own medicine of song and a deep respect for sacred space and tradition to Ceremony. Her teachers range from North American Indian elders to Grandmothers and Grandfathers Indigenous to the South American rain Forest. Malorie fuses tradition with intuition to guide others through their spiritual journeys of life. She works with light energy bringing her unique gifts given by her Ancestors to the for front of healing needs of today. She uses her hands as a tool for receiving and releasing light energy. The healing hands of Creator are an extension of our own spirits call. She serves all who encounter truth on their roads of life, The beauty way or The Red Road. You could say that she walks the line between North & South spiritually making her a beautiful tool of Creator who is honoured to just know spirit.
Ceremonies are codes.
They are an alchemical patterning of holistic intelligence that invoke, through resonance, new patterns of response within the cerebral cortex, creating powerful brain chemistry that unfetters the intellect from its dogmatic space-time parameters, opening a gateway into a limitless continuum. Ceremony is an alchemical combination of physical, psychological, and instinctual responses that impress, in a balanced way, our holistic nature. When used in healing, ceremony honors all of us, reaching deeper than psychological analysis.
The intentions of this ceremony:
To go within to reunite with the divinity of all. The unification of loves harmonious balance. We are here to heal, grow and evolve. To reach our highest potential and discover our truest destiny.
During ceremony we will be working with you on many realms using tools for energetic realignment, positive affirmations, neural reprogramming, sound healing, song sharing. We desire to create a space for our hearts to open and our spirits to be lifted.Ceremony is a powerful ritual that we are able to use to effect positive change in our lives. With the knowledge of what is known as "anchoring" in NLP (neural linguistic programming) we know that we have had many different experiences in our lives, some that have left positive imprints and some that have left negative imprints. These experiences we've had have left us anchored to different objects, people, places, times and in fact we can sometimes become attached in a way that can feel we are "stuck" or "holding on". When we have a difficult time moving on from negative anchors within ourselves Ceremony is something that can help us to "see the light" of our situation, condition, perspective, circumstances of those experiences and in effect let go of the negative imprint and move on with our lives in a holistic way (mind, body and spirit). With regards to anchoring, ceremony gives us an opportunity to anchor these past experiences to healing energy and thus integrate our lessons in a powerful and uplifting way. This ritual and medicine come from an ancient lineage of shipibo tribes in South America and the vine itself (Ayahuasca which translates as 'vine of the soul') has a divine intelligence in its own right. We are taught that when an elder is present an energy of respect for self is present and taught to those who are younger and still learning. In this case, grandmother (the medicine) is present and she can see everything you have ever experienced, thought, created and breathed in your life experience. The highest recommendation we can give is to surrender yourself to her and trust in her guidance. She is here to help you and surround you with love and grace.
Fasting Specification:
For best results, It is good to fast at least 3-7 days before attending this gathering and also important to
greatly reduce the intake
of foods such as salt, sugar, coffee, breads, dairy and meat.
No eating of pork, alcohol, drugs or sex for 3-4 days before ceremony. If you are not familiar with the concept or technology of fasting please contact us about any questions you may have. It is a good idea to begin to slow down on the foods listed above even a few weeks in advance and up to three days before ceremony to cease completely. Depending on your constitution a fast of vegetables, legumes and grains as well as fresh squeezed juices and lots of water can be an effective and simple way to fast in the days/weeks approaching ceremony.
Also drink a lot of water in the days before ceremony as you will get dehydrated during the ritual and there is no drinking of any liquids recommended during the process. You can drink some water up to 2 hour before ceremony as it will have left your stomach by the time we begin.
Medical Specifications:
If you are suffering from any mental illness or are taking any prescription medicine please contact us before coming to the gathering.
Intention Letters:
Please write about why you are interested in ceremony, what you are looking to receive, explore, let go of, purify, heal, etc.... why you feel drawn to this sacred medicine. and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. This letter helps you to clarify your intentions and helps you to begin your conversation with the medicine and your upcoming journey, so it is good to meditate upon your intentions well before you sit as the stronger your intentions the greater your outcome. The letter also helps us to know you better and hold space in alignment with your needs at this point in your life. The letters are shared with us in complete confidentiality.
The Cost of this ceremony is $125.00 per night.
While it is possible for you to attend just one of the nights, it is highly recommended to come both nights for the deepest, most powerful experience with the medicine.
Payment due by February 10th
, 2013 to hold your place. If you have any questions or concerns please email:
. Location and time will be emailed or phoned to you once you are confirmed.
We usually begin after sunset and the ceremony lasts all night. Please arrive by 7pm and plan to be there until dawn. You can sleep there, if you wish, after the ceremony. If you plan to attend both nights, it is more powerful if you spend all Saturday at the location, just resting & meditating, rather than jumping back into daily life for a few hours before coming back for another ceremony.
Ceremonies will take place in a private home in the Milwaukee area. You will be notified of the exact location when you register.
What to bring:
A blanket, a bottle of water, any sacred objects for alters or yourself, (if you have back problems) a comfortable cushion to sit on and lean back on. An open mind and heart. Kindness, respect, honesty, love, compassion and truth. Sacred ceremony holds an intention to communicate to a higher self or spirit and creates an imprint deep in our psyches that positively affects our lives and evolution.
Please if you know someone who may be interested in participating who has not received this email, please contact us so we may communicate with them directly. Please do not forward or share this email with anyone, nor publicize or even publicly refer to this event in any way, whether by mouth or in any public forum, without speaking with us first. We greatly appreciate your discretion given the delicate nature of this Sacred work
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We look forward to this journey of light with you,
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Malorie Dawn Rehm
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The next guest speaker for the Spirituality Lecture series is the Rev. Dr. Robert Bugbee, President of Lutheran Church Canada. His topic is The Pastor and Prayer. Watch live here: http://www.concordiasem.ab.ca/CLSTV.php on March 17th at 1:00pm Mountain Time.
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Photographer: Dixon, Henry (1820 - 1892)
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"The Banqueting House was built from the designs of Inigo Jones in 1619-1622. The ceiling...is decorated with pictures painted by Rubens at Antwerp. (Sainsbury's Rubens, 183-186; 191-205.) In its early days Masques were performed at the Banqueting House; it is now used as a chapel, though it has never been consecrated. It was restored in 1831."
King Charles I "...was beheaded on a scaffold before the front shown in the view."
Letterpress by Alfred Marks from 'Photographs of Old London'.


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A man who posted an offensive message on Facebook after six British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, including five from the Yorkshire Regiment, has been spared jail. Azhar Ahmed was ordered to carry out 240 hours of community work. Tina Gelder reports.
Community order for man who posted offensive Facebook message
Azhar Ahmed, wrote on Facebook that "all soldiers should die and go to hell" following the death of six servicemen in Afghanistan. 20-year-old Ahmed, from Ravensthorpe in West Yorkshire said he did not think his comments were offensive.
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France must apologize; McDonald's should be boycotted… "vloggers" are valuable, they exposed the BART execution…
"Sousveillance" provided by emerging technology enables citizens to monitor the government and other repressive forces…
There is nothing new about xenophobia. It in many ways is understandable from the perspective of evolutionary biology. But we are far removed from tribes of monkeys afraid to approach or aggressively attacking anything we don't understand. Or are we?
Professor Steve Mann[1] of the University of Toronto, "the father of wearable computing,"[2] was assaulted in front of his family, inside a French McDonalds, because of his digital eyepiece. Three McDonald's employees confronted Professor Mann while he ate with his family. He provided the group with his paperwork detailing the devices integration with his body, which they destroyed and then physically tried to remove the device from his head.
Professor Mann has been wearing digital recording devices since the 70's and records every moment of his life. The current device Professor Mann is using is fixed to his skull; it must be removed with special tools. It is also important to note that his device is not too different in appearance from blue tooth devices and functions much like Google-glasses will. The event is being called the first cybernetic hate-crime. [3]
This is not Professor Mann's first run-in with controversy; he has been thrown out of government buildings and even a Wal-Mart for wearing his digital eyepiece. With as many cameras as they have watching customers in Wal-Mart, you'd think they would be more understanding of someone wanting to record the actions of others.
As soon as I saw the headline my mind raced to a short film I came across recently entitled "No Robots."[4] Very reminiscent of the Nazi round up of Jews, it is a wonderful depiction of how easy it is to get swept along in the storm of fear and hatred. We should all be familiar with this quote:
"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me." - Pastor Martin Niemöller[5]
Professor Mann has been "vlogging" for longer than I have been alive. Video he has captured has solved crimes and made the streets safer. I had the pleasure of meeting him once [6], and his family, and know him to be a man of peace. He discussed with me the intentions of what he does and the benefits it has for society.
In the presentation he gave the day I met him, he spoke of sousveillance[7]: the power of the people to watch the government. I found his insights inspiring and have advocated that position ever since. During the last round of Presidential elections we saw many instances of sousveillance which brought to light numerous scandals and crimes committed by the police. In response many police jurisdictions have tried to make it a crime to record a police officer.
Perhaps the most atrocious crime caught by sousveillance in the United States in recent history is the execution of a young father on a San Francisco BART platform on New Years Eve 2009. [8] Dozens of people, live, and now millions thanks to sousveillance, witnessed the unarmed and handcuffed man face down on the platform be shot in the back. The officers, not visibly concerned, make no immediate attempt to keep the man alive or call for an ambulance. Without the power of sousveillance, we likely would have missed the 6th page mention of the murder Oscar Grant, and even less than the little done about it would ever have occurred.
Where is the line in the sand? How do we determine how people interpret the world? I often offend people by telling them their pacemaker and/or hearing aid makes them quantifiably cyborg. The heart is the most important organ in the body the only one you cannot live with half of. If your heart is dependent on artificial machinery to operate, I don't know a better line in the sand to say when or not someone has crossed the divide into cyborg. Professor Mann enlightened me that his eyepiece is no different than a hearing aid. It assists his vision as glasses do he even has (had, destroyed by the McDonald's employees) a doctor recommendation for its use. He has lived with it for so long it is effectively an extension of his body and he is imbalanced without it.
This assault is not just upon Professor Mann, not just upon the sousveillance movement, it is upon all of us, our rights, and upon our future. This kind of incident is a precise justification for why Professor Mann does what he does and to let this get swept aside or spun, like the woman scalded out of her livelihood by McDonald's coffee, is an affirmation the saying:
"Those who would trade liberty for security deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin [9]
I cannot understate how important this issue is to all free people. Our human rights to determine our own identity, to express ourselves freely and even to own our thoughts and experiences are at stake here. McDonalds and France must both come forth and apologize; yet the shot has already been fired. To illustrate how important Professor Mann's life work is to all of us I implore everyone to watch the articulate warning made by Tom Scott in his short film "Welcome to Life."[10] While referencing reanimation, these trends are real and existent. How would you like to have to pay a royalty for humming a tune you heard on the radio?
There are still details to emerge and lawyers to be briefed but there is no justification for a paying customer, eating in a restaurant with his family, to be accosted for any reason, especially by a gang of employees. I once, not long ago, was a franchise restaurant manager and unless Professor Mann attempted to enter their kitchen possibly exposing health safety standard failures or corporate secrets they had no right to even question him, in fact it was their job to ensure his comfort, safety and satisfaction!
This case has gotten me very irritated and I hope it does the same for everyone else. I personally stopped patronizing McDonalds long ago; any inclination I ever had to return is now very dead. I am urging everyone to make a sacrifice in their convenience and enjoyment and not purchase any product or service from a McDonald's affiliate or French company until both come forward and publically apologize for their actions and inactions to protect the rights and comfort of Professor Mann Mann and his family.
Lets not let history say that:
"first they came for the AI,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an AI.
Then they came for the cyborgs,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a cyborg.
Then they came for the transhumanists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a transhumanist.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak out for me."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
[2] http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/
[3] http://io9.com/5926587/what-may-be-the-worlds-first-cybernetic-hate-crime-unfolds-in-french-mcdonalds
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller
[5] http://www.terasemcentral.org/TL/2008ColloquiumProgram.html
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
[7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QE2pC6ntyE
[9] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
[10] http://www.tomscott.com/life/


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Top Tips for Wild Camping
Wild camping is also an incredible way to get closer to nature. It will let you experience sunsets and sunrises in secluded places, and let you truly escape from civilisation on your bicycle touring adventures. There is also the fact that wild camping is free… and it's quite often the only option for back-and-beyond touring!
In this blog post, I thought I would provide ten of my 'Top Tips for Wild Camping'; gathered from my experiences on hiking trips, bicycle touring adventures, and most recently my 'Coasts and Cols' tour.
Camping in the wild is an unforgettable activity, and one that should be enjoyed by all; hopefully this 'do's and don'ts of wild camping' guide will give you the confidence and encouragement to give it a go!
1. Don't camp nears towns or houses… 'Go Wild!' - This perhaps goes with the name, but 'Wild Camping' needs to be wild. Houses and towns mean people, and perhaps more concerning, dogs! Camp away from houses, and you're less likely to be disturbed or questioned.
2. Don't trespass - The best bet for a wild camping site is to find somewhere secluded, on public land. This could be a locally owned area of woodland, beach, or alongside a national trail. Needless to say, it's not acceptable to camp in someone's garden without their permission, and if a sign says "private property - no entry", then it's not a good option…
|Camp a safe distance from houses, and don't enter fields that are private or contain livestock
3. Don't leave rubbish outside at night - Unlike in a paid campsite, where you might have to share the site with noisy children and drunk youths; in a wild campsite, you're far more likely to be sharing the immediate area with hedgehogs, badgers and rodents. Don't encourage wildlife to come sniffing around your tent by leaving your rubbish or dirty cookware outside at night - seal it up in a bag, and bring it inside your tent (or hang it in a tree).
4. Don't leave rubbish when you leave - In the morning, when you leave, take ALL your rubbish with you - deposit it in a public bin in the next village, not in the unspoilt woodland.
|Don't leave your rubbish outside for woodland critters! and take it with you when you leave
5. Don't make fires - Fires are beacons, and beacons are made to be seen. Fires are also pretty dangerous; so if a landowner sees one, he's quite likely to investigate, or call the police. Don't make fires.
6. Camp late and leave early - Fortunately, people are not nocturnal - they tend to hide away inside watching television once the sun goes down. This means that you are far less likely to be bothered if you set up camp after most people have retired indoors for the evening. Dusk is the ideal time to be pitching your tent, and equally dawn is the best time to be taking it down. The less chance you have of being spotted, the less chance there is of being approached.
|Set up your camp late, and leave early - you have less chance of being hassled
7. Camp at the bottom of mountains, not the top - The reason for this is two-fold: first, mountain-top campsites, although romantic, are mighty cold! Second, if you get cold on the top of the mountain, you've got little chance of warming up the following morning, when you've got to descend it! Valleys are a far warmer option.
8. Camp near flowing rivers and streams - A fast(ish) flowing river can be great to wash clothes, kit and body in, at the end of a hot day in the saddle. Rivers also help to keep things cooler, if you're touring in hot areas. My only cautionary note with rivers, would be to not camp too close to them, or in the riverbed itself… it might flood!
|Camp in valleys rather than on the top of mountains - it is a lot warmer!
9. Use red lights at night - Buy a head torch with a red light mode on it. Red light is far harder for the human eye to pick up in the dark, and therefore your campsite is less likely to stand out as a blazing beacon on the hillside.
10. Get over the fear - When you first start wild camping, you'll always be a bit fearful of being spotted, getting approached, and being asked to move on. Don't worry! I've stayed on more wild campsites than I can possibly count; the only time I've been approached, was when the friendly French dog walker wanted to warn me that I was camped on an area that was irrigated by a night-time sprinkler system… it went off at 3am! Get over the fear, and enjoy the secluded beautiful moments that only camping in the wild can provide.
|Enjoy the beautiful secluded sunrises and sunset that only wild camping can provide


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SEND School Support Offer
Click to view the Stockton Local Authority Local Offer:
Reviewed: February 2019
Holy Trinity Rosehill V.A. C.E. Primary school is an inclusive school, promoting a sense of community and belonging through its:
- Inclusive ethos
- Broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils
- Systems for early identification of barriers to learning and participation.
- High expectations and challenging targets for all children.
We welcome all pupils and their families, supporting all children whatever their needs and individual circumstances.
Our school mission statement indicates that Holy Trinity Rosehill VA CE Primary School:
"Give high priority to the spiritual development of pupils enabling them to develop attitudes of mutual respect and responsibility and to realise their full potential".
This statement reflects our aim to educate all children by providing relevant experiences, to enable them to reach their full potential, whatever their needs.
"All pupils, including those with special educational needs share the right to a broad and balanced curriculum."
At Holy Trinity Rosehill VA CE. Primary School we aim to help all children to benefit as fully as possible from their education. Children work mainly within their own class group, receiving a high level of first quality teaching, participating in intervention groups and accessing 1:1 support where appropriate.
Arrangements are made for pupils who have medical conditions so that they can access all areas of the curriculum through individual support, adaptations or modifications to all school based activities. Children will have a healthcare plan which will
specify the type and level of support required to meet the medical needs of such pupils.
This section is about the additional support our school offers children with SEND.
At Holy Trinity Rosehill VA CE Primary School all pupils receive first quality teaching from their class teacher, which may be supported by a teaching assistant. Teachers have high aspirations of all the children in their care, providing a range of teaching and learning styles to aid each individual to reach their full potential. Work is differentiated, either by task or outcome, and resources adapted to address the needs of all pupils. In some cases the curriculum will be adapted to ensure all pupils are learning and their needs and requirements are being met. There is access to I.C.T. equipment (Computer programs, laptops, I-pads, spell checkers etc) to help children access the curriculum fully. Children who are identified as having SEND may work within small groups, in or out of the classroom, supported by the class teacher and/or a teaching assistant.
Arrangements for accessing tests are made in accordance with the Standards and Testing Agency. This may include; additional time, a reader, a scribe or tests papers needing to be enlarged or modified.
All children are welcome and encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities provided by our school.
Expertise of Staff
The school, led by The Governing Body, work with a wide range of professionals. To ensure all staff have the opportunity to develop a range of expertise and skills relating to supporting children with SEN. Staff attend training courses relating to the needs of our children, visitors from different organisations offer training within school and school staff disseminate information from courses attended to all staff. These include:
- Supporting children with literacy and numeracy difficulties.
- Team teach.
- Attachment disorders.
- Training on teaching children with hearing/visual impairments.
- CAMHS – ASD, sensory processing, ADHD.
- Supporting children with EAL.
- Medical issues including; epi-pen training, diabetic training.
- TAMHS – counseling service.
- Speech and language service.
- Writing of social stories.
- Supporting LAC.
How the governing body involves other bodies including Health, Social care, local authority support services and voluntary organisations in meeting the needs of SEN pupils
Where a child is not making appropriate progress and we feel we need advice from external agencies, we will discuss such a need with parents/carers. If we feel this is the next appropriate action, we will make a referral to an external professional agency or professionals for an assessment, support or advice. Following a referral, we will work with the child using the advice and support obtained. We make referrals to a number of professionals, such as; Educational Psychology Service, One Point Referrals, Speech and Language Service, CAMHS, Alliance, Hearing Impaired Service, Visual Impaired Service, Specialist teachers for undertaking literacy and numeracy assessments, health services, including the school nurse, Occupational Therapy Service and Social Care and Attendance. Our school ensures these links are maintained so that all relevant information is considered when making provision for all our children with SEND.
The SENCO/designated teacher for LAC attends training sessions and update sessions termly.
Specialist support can be secured in a number of ways. In the first instance, the class teacher or parent may raise a concern about the needs of a pupil, which in most cases can be supported within school through working with or seeking advice from a member of staff who possesses the expertise in the specific area. In some cases, the SENCO or Head Teacher may need to make a referral to a specialised service in order to receive support or further guidance on how a pupil's needs may be met. This could be a One-Point referral to the authority for High Needs Funding, the hearing impaired service, TAMHS or CAMHS. Opportunities for all staff to receive training on any SEN issues is on-going and relevant to the school's current needs.
The SENCO is allocated a budget for supporting children with SEN each financial year. Resources are purchased to support the needs of the pupils depending on their needs. If a specific resource is recommended by an external agency, such as maths apparatus, coloured reading overlays, a writing slope or specialised books, the equipment will be purchased with the funding available. If the funding is not available within school because the recommendation is for a larger piece of equipment, such as a laptop, an application for High Needs funding will be made.
Holy Trinity Rosehill VA CE Primary School seeks to ensure a smooth transition from one phase of education to another. Transition between phases within school takes place throughout the second half of the summer term. There is a transition morning where all pupils move to their next class teacher, in the classroom they will be working in during the next academic year. Children with SEN will have opportunity to spend additional time with the new teacher, visits will be organised between staff. Children transferring from KS1 to KS2 will have the opportunity to visit the Trinity site and familiarise themselves with their new classroom as well as with the layout. All children receive a leaflet about their new class containing information about the curriculum in the new year group. In addition, children who need extra support with transition will help to compile a booklet, with the help of staff, containing photographs of staff and areas within school to take home over the summer to help relieve any anxieties.
The Y6 teachers and SENCO meet with staff from all feeder secondary schools during the summer term to pass on records and ensure the transition of all pupils is as smooth as possible. If deemed necessary, visits, in addition to the planned transition days are arranged to meet the needs of all pupils. The Moving On document is completed for pupils who are transferring to another school. At the end of the summer term the final APDR meeting takes place between the current class teacher, the next class teacher and the parents to ensure all information has been passed on to ensure the continuation into the next class.
SENCO – Mrs Helen Green – 01642 581239
Head Teacher- Mrs Andrea Swift – 01642 581239
The SEN and Engagement Team – 01642 527145 or 528739
The Educational Psychology Service – 01642 527110/11
Hearing Impaired Service – 01642 354354
Visually Impaired Service – 01642 354354
Early Help Assessment Team – 01642 526526
Speech and Language Team – 01429 522717
Arrangements for Complaint
It is in everyone's interest that complaints are resolved at the earliest possible stage. The parent /carer of the child with special educational needs should initially raise any concern regarding the support provided by school directly with the class teacher. If the complainant is not satisfied with the response from the class teacher they should contact the Special Needs Co-ordinator to arrange a meeting with all persons involved with the support of the child. (Please refer to the school's Complaints Policy and Procedures)
- Identification of children with special educational needs and/difficulties
- Parent concerns
- Intervention
- Involvement of pupils
Click here to access further information about the assessment process.
- Teaching and supporting children with special educational needs and/or difficulties
- Sharing of information with school staff, external agencies and parents
- Facilities and extra-curricular activities
- Transition
Click here to access further information about the planning process.
Click the links below to find out further information about the different areas of SEND:
- Cognition and Learning
- Communication and Interaction
- Sensory and Physical Needs
- Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties
- Delivery of school provision
- The role of teachers
- Adults working with your child
- External services and agencies
- Parental involvement
Click here to access further information about the doing process.
- Communication with parents
- Assessing and evaluating pupil's provision
- SEN policy
- LA Local offer
- Further information
Click here to access further information about the review process.


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Although the upcoming battle around the 2012 budget is being painted as one between President Obama and the GOP, other budget options continue to crop up. First there was the Congressional Black Caucus budget.
Then, there was The People's Budget, an alternative presented by the Congressional People's Caucus, a group of lawmakers chaired by Minnesota and Arizona Democrats Keith Ellison and Raúl M. Grijalva. The People's Budget preserves spending and reduces tax cuts, as opposed to the GOP budget.
Ezra Klein took a look at the budget and found it to be reasonable, even if it's heavy on taxation:
"In the same way that Ryan's plan is useful for showing how you could do this/what one would have to do on if you do it all on the spending side," says William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, "the House Progressive Budget shows how one might do this/what one would have to do to do almost all of it on the tax side of the ledger." Gale thought their proposal probably went a bit far in new upper-income taxes, and treating capital gains as normal income might erect a barrier to investment. It would have been wiser, he thought, to be even a bit bolder in terms of new taxes and propose either an energy tax or a value-added tax. "Still," he said, "I think it would be interesting to get this plan out in front of the American people and see how they react to it versus Ryan."
Similarly, Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman says it's worth considering, asking, "So why does this plan get no attention, while the cruel fantasies of the right get headlines?"
Good question.


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Welcome to the Recruitment Geek Xing X-ray Search Tool (Now there's a mouthful!)
This is a free tool that I have built. It is a pre-defined Google Search that has the main bulk of a boolean search already built in.
The search tool will only look at Profiles on Xing (Handy right?). It has also been pre-defined with removing annoying keywords like Jobs and Recruitment/Recruiter to give you a better chance of finding that "Java Developer" rather than that recruitment consultant that is advertising a "Java Developer Job".
All you have to do is write your Skills and Location into the search box and click search. (Yes it is that simple, but if you are not too sure on best practice of searching Google for skills then read this article)
If you are used to searching Xing then this is another way of searching for all the criteria with a different order of results.
Hope it is of use to you. You can find it by selecting it under "Recruitment Tools" in the navigation bar above. Or simply click this link.


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Main Menu
Lost Male Music Legends come alive through their Greatest Hits
Headlined by West End and Broadway star and international recording artist
MiG Ayesa
alongside fabulous local talents
In celebration of her 25th Anniversary in the Entertainment Industry, Collett Dawson of The CoLab Network launches a series of concerts entitled GONE TOO SOON – shows that will pay homage to iconic music legends who have left us before their time, but still live on through their music.
The first in this series; GONE TOO SOON – The Gents will be staged in spectacular fashion at The Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City for FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY from Thursday 4th May – Saturday 6th May.
Gone Too Soon – The Gents will delight audiences old and young as they celebrate the powerhouse male singers that became legends through their music over the past few decades.
Tribute is paid to a diverse selection of artists including Freddie Mercury, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Prince, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, Al Green, The Righteous Brothers, Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Michael Hutchence, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and many others.
A fitting medley will also be included of a selction of South Africa's own legends who are no longer with us, but still evoke unforgettable memories.
Direct from New York and taking centre stage will be the insanely talented Broadway and West End star and international recording artist MiG Ayesa.
Ayesa was catapulted into stardom through the global reality television series ROCKSTAR: INXS where he went through to the final three. Added to this his countless lead roles on the West End and Broadway and other international stages including amongst many others, We Will Rock You, Rock of Ages, Thriller Live, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, RENT, The Bridges of Madison Country, The Music of Queen : The Rock and Symphonic Spectacular and Tenors of Rock, makes him the ideal headliner for Gone Too Soon.
He has a close affinity with South Africa, last being here ten years ago when he joined the South African cast for rehearsals of the International Tour of We Will Rock You, and has long since had a desire for returning to perform here.
With the vibrant arrangements by the world-class creative team Bluberry Entertainment of Kurt Herman and Tima Reece and along with a dynamic live band led by Music Director Llewellyn George, audiences will thrill to instantly recognisable hits including Show Must Go On, Man in the Mirror, Hallelujah, What's Going On, Unchained Melody, Mercy Mercy Me, Everything She Wants and many more.
Gone Too Soon – The Gents is the ultimate concert experience, honouring a selection of the many men who've made an indelible mark on the local and international music industry.
While the show pays homage to these music icons who have left us too soon, the focus will be strongly on the uplifting atmosphere of inspiration that they continue to live on through their music, the memories they still evoke in all of us, as well as the impact that so many of them have made on the industry and world as a whole.
Performances for Gone To Soon – The Gents will be at The Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City for four performances only.
Thursday 4th May at 8pm
Friday 5th May at 8pm
Saturday 6th May at 3pm and 8pm
Tickets range from R150 to R250. These are available by visiting www.goldreefcity.co.za or calling The Lyric Theatre Box Office on 011 248 5000 or through Computicket.
No under 3's allowed in the theatre due to audience members' comfort.
Discounts for senior citizens and scholars apply.
Group Bookings of 10 seats or more qualify for a 10% discount if booked directly with The Lyric Theatre Box Office on 011 248 5000. Group Bookings of 50 seats or more qualify for a 15% discount if booked directly with The Lyric Theatre Box Office on 011 248 5000.
Tsogo Sun Rewards cardholders enjoy instant savings: 10% (Gold); 15% (Platinum); 20% (Black).


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I know it's been a long time since the 18th sketchcrawl happened, but I've been sorting out internet technical difficulties ever since. So here goes.
Nikki Abraham's sketches:
This is a watercolour sketch of a famous local Toronto ice cream shop, Dutch Dreams
Vaughan Rd. South of St. Clair Ave., across from my studio
Thirty-second hoodie sketch
Woman waiting for the streetcar, St. Clair and Bathurst
Nancy Oakes' pen-and-ink sketches, along St. Clair Ave.:
Rita Ridaz Lepsi's drawings from High Park:
Belated Toronto [Results]
Saturday March 29th 2008
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Great work, never too late to post (well at some point each forum gets locked but only after many months). Thank you for sharing.
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Before: Broken doorknobs, After: Patio flooring
Doorknobs, salvaged steel discs, and a stovetop burner make up this cobblestone-esque patio floor. The knobs' chrome and brass
finishes brighten the shady patch of designer Matthew Levesque's (matthewlevesque.com) patio. And, set in soil, the knobs are surprisingly stable.
Cost: Free--salvaged (with permission)
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This is where I want to live after the kids move out! This modern farmhouse cottage is a dream and full of inspiring ideas, inside and out!
I am so happy to be once again featuring Lisa Furey of Barefoot Interiors. This time I am sharing her dreamy cottage. The cottage features one bedroom, one bathroom and about 690 square feet. It is a very cozy getaway that seems to quiet your mind and fade any type of stress away.
Come on in for a detailed tour.
The cottage was freshly painted in Benjamin Moore Simply White to match the carriage house. Siding is Hardie Board Board and Batten siding.
The carriage house was previously featured on Home Bunch and you can see it here.
Shutters are Benjamin Moore Hale Navy.
The porch is approximately 6′ x 24′.
Roof: Galvalume standing seam metal roof. Color is Medium Bronze.
The porch foundation skirt is tabby with brick edging and brick steps. Brick is Old Savannah Brick.
The door is a stained mahogany.
Porch Furniture: Kingsley Bate.
Planters: Wayfair (similar here)
Lanterns: Bevolo "Governor" gas lanterns
"Our goal on this project was to create a livable and open feeling space in a 690 square foot modern farmhouse. We planned for an open feeling space by installing tall windows and doors, utilizing pocket doors and building a vaulted ceiling." – Lisa Furey.
Paint color is Benjamin Moore Simply White.
The floor is reclaimed engineered pine – stain is 1/2 walnut, 1/2 ebony – finish is matte.
Ceiling height is about 15′.
Chair and Ottoman: Ballard Designs (similar options here & here).
Artwork: Home Goods
Integrated refrigerator/freezer: Liebherr.
Door Hardware: Baldwin.
Island Stools: Arteriors.
Countertops are honed Black Absolute Granite.
Kitchen Faucet: Brizo.
The pendants are discontinued but similar to this.
Painted wood panel over the sofa can be found here.
The sofa is custom, by Lisa Furey Barefoot Interiors with a Kravet fabric.
Orange Throw: Joss and Main.
"An efficient layout with hidden kitchen appliances and a concealed laundry space, built in tv and work desk, carefully selected furniture pieces and a bright and white colour palette combine to make this tiny house feel like a home." – Lisa Furey.
Barn Door: custom door with Rustica Hardware track and pull – There is a stacking washer and dryer behind the barn door!
Coffee Table: Wisteria.
Isn't this bedroom so beautiful? I am loving the blue and white bedding and the art.
Bedding: Annie Selke/Pine Cone Hill – Pine Cone Hill Annette Blue Quilt.
Wall Sconces: Hudson Valley.
"This is the built in on the other side of the window – the tray pulls out so my husband can work – when guests come or it is bedtime, we push it all in and close the retractable door so we have a nice, clean look – no wires, no monitors, etc! This is one of my favorite things!!!" – Lisa Furey.
This farmhouse bathroom offers plenty of charm with the classic wainscoting and white vanity. Paint color is Benjamin Moore Simply White.
Countertop: Venantino marble.
Vanity: custom.
Tile: Crossville "Bluestone" Porcelain Tile.
Pivot Mirror: Pottery Barn.
Sconces: Hudson Valley
Vessel Sink: Kraus
Faucet: Brizo.
Toilet – Kohler "Archer"
Imagine being quiet in this porch watching the sunset… isn't it peaceful?
Architect: Court Atkins Group.
Photos: John McManus.
Hello, everyone!
I hope that by seeing this sweet cottage you could relax and be ready to start the day with a clear mind.
I have been working a lot lately and it's wonderful to see the results. Thank you for your loyal presence and for being part of this community. This blog wouldn't be here for almost 10 years if it wasn't because of you!
Have a great day, my friends and go ahead! There will be many Blessings on your path!
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Here at George Salter Academy, our highly trained and experienced Catering manager and and her team offer high quality school meals at an affordable price. Our friendly staff are multiskilled and motivated in providing the highest quality food and standards for the students to be able to enjoy their school meals.
We offer a large variety of meals for all students and staff, ranging from meat dishes to vegetarian meals:
- We have a sandwich bar which offers a great range of sandwiches, baguettes and wraps, and also pizza's.
- Our very own "Pasta King" counter has a variety of meat and vegetarian based sauces, served with pasta, and topped with cheese for a quick and easy snack.
- Breakfast is served during morning break where we offer a large choice of items such as toast, cheese/jam on toast, bacon/sausage sandwiches and croissants.
We try to ensure that we use the freshest ingredients from our suppliers, as this is an important element to providing the highest quality meals. Therefore, we do not plan more than a few days in advance, but our sample menu can be used as a guide to the meals that we serve: Sample Menu [pdf, 398 KB]
You will find our prices very competitive:
Students in ANY year group who bring their own packed lunches may eat in the West/Dining Hall from the beginning of lunchtime.
Reminder - sandwiches are now available to purchase at break time.
Theme Days
As a catering team, we run "theme days" where we cook various dishes from around the world to encourage the students to try something new. We also try to incorporate memorable dates throughout the year to use these for inspiration for different themes.
Cashless Catering System
Our Cashless Catering System allows quick and easy payment for all school meals and reduces long queues at the tills. Money is loaded onto students' accounts using their fingerprints at the machines located around the Academy. Once students have selected their meal or snack from the dining rooms, their fingerprint is scanned and the cost of the items is deducted from their account.
Click here for more information about our cashless catering system and the integration with our online payment system ParentMail
Contact us
If you have any queries regarding the catering at George Salter Academy, then please do not hesitate to contact us on 0121 553 4665, ext 5328 where we will do our best to answer any of your questions.


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Copley Square Hotel, Boston
- Free continental breakfast and free WiFi
- Collect nights
Copley Square Hotel, Bostonfrom $157 CAD
- Boutique Queen
- Premier Room 1 King
- Deluxe Room, 1 King Bed
- Premier Edge King
- Premier Double Room, 2 Double Beds
More great choices
What's around Copley Square Hotel, Boston
- In Back Bay
- Copley Place - 1 min walk
- Copley Square - 4 min walk
- Boston Public Library - 4 min walk
- Hancock Conference Center - 4 min walk
- Newbury Street - 4 min walk
- Prudential Tower - 6 min walk
- Hynes Convention Center - 8 min walk
Getting around
- Boston, MA (BOS-Logan Intl.) - 15 min drive
- Norwood, MA (OWD-Norwood Memorial) - 30 min drive
- Bedford, MA (BED-Laurence G. Hanscom Field) - 30 min drive
- Beverly, MA (BVY-Beverly Municipal) - 40 min drive
- Lawrence, MA (LWM-Lawrence Municipal) - 40 min drive
- Boston-Back Bay Station - 4 min walk
- Boston Ruggles Station - 23 min walk
- Boston South Station - 26 min walk
- Copley Station - 3 min walk
- Prudential Station - 5 min walk
- Arlington Station - 9 min walk
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 143 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 7 floors
- Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check-in
- Credit card deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed *
- Up to 90 lbs
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Valet parking *
Payment types at the property
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Free continental breakfast daily
- Free reception
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Fitness facilities
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Nightclub
- Conference space size (feet) - 1505
- Conference space size (meters) - 140
- One meeting room
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built - 1891
- Elevator
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
- Wheelchair-accessible path of travel
- Assistive listening devices available
- English
- Spanish
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room massage available
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- 32-inch LCD TV
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- Free newspaper
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- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Valet parking costs USD 51.00 per day with in/out privileges
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Recent reviews
Very Good 8.4 From 1,592 reviews
No water in room, parking is very expensive, club at the bottom of the hotel. Rooms are very tiny. Overall condition of the hotel was charming- perfect location.
enjoyed my stay will recommend
Great room. Bathroom was small for the room size, but good.
We really enjoyed our stay. Staff is very friendly and attentive. The location is perfect. The room was a little small but comfortable.
The Copley Square Hotel is conveniently located in Back Bay, which is a great location full of shopping and dining options. It's also conveniently located close to two subway lines, and a direct bus that takes you to and from Logan airport. It's also about a 15 minute walk to Boston Common and 25 to Quincy Market, but both an easy subway ride away too. The staff and service were amazing. Coffee, lemonade and nightly wine reception in the lobby. A great little bar of you don't want to venture far. The rooms are quite small, but very clean and comfortable. Don't forget to leave the sign on your door if you want your room tidied while you are out; we forgot and had to wait a while.
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I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time; I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.
I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.
Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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These cells are highly sought-after for therapeutic and biotechnological purposes, but have been historically difficult to attain from hPSCs. The ability to generate pure endoderm at higher yields from hPSCs is a key and important step towards the use of stem cells in clinical applications.
The discovery, published in the latest issue of Cell Stem Cell, was led by Dr Bing Lim, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Cancer Stem Cell Biology at the GIS, Dr Lay Teng Ang, a postdoctoral fellow from Dr Lim's lab, and Kyle Loh, a graduate student at Stanford University School of Medicine.
hPSCs are stem cells that can generate over 200 distinct cell types in the human body. They respond to multiple external protein instructions to differentiate into other cell types. Therefore, generating one single cell type from hPSCs, and a pure population of that given cell type, is delicate as hPSCs have a tendency to also form other types of cells.
Employing a highly systematic and novel approach, the group screened for proteins and chemicals that promote the formation of a single desired cell type, and concurrently block induction of unwanted cell types. This strategy uncovered a combination of triggers that could drive hPSCs towards pure populations of endoderm. The valuable cells produced and the insights gained from this work have brought stem cells one step closer to clinical translation and furthered basic research into the understanding of how cell fates are specified during stem cell differentiation.
"Using this novel strategy, the work beautifully shows how hPSCs can be guided to differentiate into the endoderm cells at high efficiencies. The strategy described should be more widely applicable to other desired cell types." said Prof Thomas Graf, Coordinator of the Differentiation and Cancer Programme at the Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.
Next, leveraging the highly pure population of endoderm cells, the team utilised GIS' expertise in next-generation sequencing as well as bioinformatics and accurately characterised the transcriptional and enhancer states of these highly pure cells. Enhancers are DNA elements that can become activated to increase the expression of flanking genes. In hPSCs, a category of dormant enhancers was reported to be pre-configured before subsequently becoming activated when the cells differentiate.
"Our new results indicate that the reality is more complex. Beyond current scientific knowledge, we found a larger superset of inactive enhancer states, all of which have the ability to convert to an active state upon cell differentiation." commented Dr Shyam Prabhakar, Group Leader of Computational and Systems Biology, and Associate Director of Integrative Genomics at the GIS.
The study not only provides a more comprehensive model of enhancer regulation of cellular differentiation, it also provides a valuable resource for the scientific community, commented Prof Ken Zaret of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.
"The rich trove of genomic data from their hESC work beautifully illustrates the power of having developed a rigorous developmental system that will serve as a resource for years to come". said Prof Ken Zaret
"This unprecedented access to highly pure population of endodermal cells attracts pharmaceutical companies, who are interested in further making human liver cells to tests drug toxicities." added Dr Lim.
"This is a beautiful piece of work to delineate the early events in cell fate decision. The findings will enable researchers to obtain high quality endodermal cells for future applications." said GIS' Executive Director Prof Ng Huck Hui.
The research was carried out in collaboration with the Stanford University School of Medicine, the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, the Computational and Systems Biology group at the GIS, A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University, the Temasek Polytechnic, and the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore.
- Loh KM, Ang LT, Zhang J, Kumar V, Ang J, Auyeong JQ, Lee KL, Choo SH, Lim CY, Nichane M, Tan J, Noghabi MS, Azzola L, Ng ES, Durruthy-Durruthy J, Sebastiano V, Poellinger L, Elefanty AG, Stanley EG, Chen Q, Prabhakar S, Weissman IL, & Lim B (2014). Efficient Endoderm Induction from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells by Logically Directing Signals Controlling Lineage Bifurcations. Cell stem cell PMID: 24412311


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FULL STRENGTH FUNK BAND features a playlist of hits that spans the decades from the classic funk tunes of the '70's to the dance hits of today. Performing with a full horn section, sweet harmonies and Latin percussion, Full Strength Funk provides the music to keep the audience groovin'! They perform songs from the greats like Earth, Wind & Fire, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores, The Meters, Parliament, The Isley Brothers, War, Sly & The Family Stone and many more.
JUKEBOX is a Band and Pro DJ all in one! They integrate the DJ as an on-stage member of the band. This unique format adds to the band's versatility to play your favorite modern top 40 hits straight off the charts, mixed in with some classic favorites and rock anthems. But really, the best part is, with a band and DJ the party literally never stops! Jukebox will make your party an energetic and memorable event by performing hits from the past to the hottest music of today. The DJ is not just any DJ but is an integral part of the band. The DJ is a band member adding vocals, percussion, hype, Emcee work and those DJ effects that can really make your day pop!
SOCIETY BAND is the premier corporate event and wedding band of Southern California. Delivering high energy performances filled with pop, rock, dance and standard music, The Society Band classes up any occassion. From packing the dance floor at weddings to raising the roof at corporate events, the band executes performances that are both specialized and entertaining. The Society Band has performed with such notable celebrities as Five For Fighting, The Beach Boys, Albert Lee and Roger Waters. They have also worked countless events for Disney and performed as backup singers on NBC's #1 TV Show "The Voice."
EVE SELIS, a seven-time San Diego music awards winner, is no stranger to the Roots music genre. Touring the US each year, she plays more than 100 dates a year, headlining from coast to coast at such venerable hot spots as LA's House of Blues and New York City's Bitter End. She has shared the stage with Travis Tritt, Chris Isaak, Counting Crows, Jewel, and Joan Osborne, to name just a few. On MP3.Com, Selis is one of the top female artists, with over a million downloads. Her innovative sound, which she calls "Roadhouse Rock," is a unique blend of soaring pop melodies, hard-hitting rock and roll, and alternative country twang, topped off by Eve's powerful technique and passionate delivery. On stage she delivers with equal parts innocence and authority, always soulful, and strong.
HAUTE CHILE is a powerful sound machine whose spicy blend of covers is accompanied by hip choreography and presented with a fresh, dynamic approach. Performing the best of Motown, classic rock, jazz, standards, disco, Salsa, hip-hop, and of course, Top 40, the group features April Doyle, whose vocal range breathes new life into every song, and Mark Jones, whose sounds matches the legendary James Brown. Backed by a complete rhythm section and a critically acclaimed funky, Salsa horn section, Haute Chile has become a favorite among Fortune 500 and society audiences around the globe. Included among their abundant credits is the Sports Illustrated Super Bowl Party, the Jane Fonda Life Time Achievement Ceremony, a tour of Greece with GMAC, and appearing with Jay Leno.
THE KICKS, a variety dance band from San Diego, has had tremendous success since its inception in 1981. Working fulltime in the clubs of southern California, they branched out into the Nevada casino circuit in the mid 1980s, and then began landing corporate events for some of the largest companies in the world. Today, their repertoire, which spans six decades, is the key to their success within the event market, and their popularity with public audiences throughout the region. A highlight at the San Diego Marriott & Marina for more than 7 years, the multi-sized Kicks Band features an unprecedented number of lead vocalists, resulting in some of the best-sung harmonies around the area.
METALACHI is the world's first and only heavy metal Mariachi band. Witness the phenomenon that is taking the music world by storm and somehow manages to twist the unlikely pairing of Mariachi and Heavy Metal into an all out, over-the-top comedic stage spectacle for the eyes and ears. You will be shocked and amazed at how seamlessly your favorite rock standards from bands such as AC/DC, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden and Metallica are transformed into an indulgent sonic fiesta so gloriously wrong it can only be right.
POP VINYL hits dance floors with a high-energy performance that engages audiences and keeps the party rocking. Featuring five core musicians, this Southern California based group provides a seamless musical experience, and can grow to as many as 11, including a raucous horn section, melodious strings, backup vocals, and even a DJ. Dedicated to presenting unparalleled musicianship in an engaging, interactive manner, Pop Vinyl's repertoire covers a gamut of dance hits and ballads from Aretha to Beyoncé, Frank to Elvis, Michael to Justin, Sade to Madonna, Prince to Maroon 5, Cyndi to Katy, Marvin to Pharrell, and even Run DMC to LMFAO. In fact, their playlist spans 5 decades of up-beat, groove-making hits. Whatever your musical needs, Pop Vinyl has it covered. With more than 20 years of experience entertaining private and public groups alike, they have been featured at Humphrey's Half Moon Bay, Valley View and Agua Caliente Casinos, Alpine's V-Lounge, and San Diego's USS Midway Museum, as well as at dozens of special and corporate events
This sophisticated; energetic group adds pizzazz and panache to any event. From six-pieces to 16-pieces, SOCIETY BEAT recreates the sassy rhythms of the Swing era with ease, and effortlessly segues into an eclectic mix of melodies from Classic Rock and Motown to Contemporary Top 40 hits. Featuring smooth, silky, syncopated vocals and instrumentals appealing to every kind of musical taste, Society Beat is one swingin' event dinner/dance band!
THE MIGHTY UNTOUCHABLES are a multi-cultural mix of musicians and singers who entertain throughout the world, and are guaranteed to please audiences of all tastes with their extensive and diverse collection of material. The Mighty Untouchables offer musical selections from Motown to classic rock, as well as Latin, country, current pop hits, and much more. Their repertoire includes songs from The Temptations, Carrie Underwood, Journey, Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonder, Guns N' Roses, Celia Cruz and Tito Puente, just to name a few! If you want fun and excitement with all the class and cache, look no further than The Mighty Untouchables.
THE TRIP is California's high-energy, crowd-pleasing rock cover band. Based in Orange County, The Trip brings their guests on a musical journey using the best rock songs from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and now. The band has performed worldwide, showcasing their talents at venues like Disneyland, LA Dodgers Stadium, private events for Toby Keith and Michael Anthony, and charity events for Stephen Stills. The Trip has received rave reviews from other massive corporations like Microsoft, Budweiser, Dell, Intuit and many other Fortune 500 companies. The Trip will deliver a jam-packed, chart-topping performance for any and every event.


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Every day, thousands of people are rushed to hospitals after a heart attack——and most of them have two things in common.
First is cholesterol.
No, their cholesterol isn't "high." Despite what you've heard, up to 75 percent of all heart attack victims have NORMAL cholesterol. Heck, many of them even have the ultra-low cholesterol levels that mainstream health officials consider to be "optimal."
Low cholesterol is optimal... if you have a death wish.
The second thing they have in common is arterial calcification. These are the calcium deposits that lead to hardened arteries, and studies show that 95 percent of all heart attack victims have them.
Yet the latest research finds that more than a third of all patients on statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) have NO CALCIFICATION AT ALL.
These are patients who've been told they have a high risk of a heart attack, entirely because of their (perfectly healthy) "high" cholesterol levels——and they're pumped full of statin drugs and worry because of it. In reality, they've got zip to worry about, at least when it comes to the heart, because without those calcium deposits they're almost guaranteed NOT to suffer a heart attack.
Meanwhile, 15 percent of Americans who've been told they're perfectly healthy——Americans who hit every mainstream health target——actually have dangerously high levels of calcification, according to that same study.
They're not worried at all. And when that inevitable heart attack strikes, supposedly out of the blue, they're left wondering just what in the heck went wrong (assuming they even survive).
Well, it's time to stop wondering and start taking action, because you CAN stop calcium from building up in your arteries and completely reverse calcification if it does strike.
And you can start with my...
Your own doctor might tell you that calcification is inevitable with age.
Bull. Calcification is only inevitable when you follow the modern diet, especially government health advice. The longer you follow it, the more your arteries will calcify (and it's a wonder they don't turn to stone).
Follow these steps, however, and calcium will go where it needs to instead of collecting in your arteries.
Step 1: Toss your statins!
That's right... take 'em and toss 'em, because not only will lower cholesterol levels NOT prevent a heart attack, but the statins themselves can actually CAUSE arterial calcification.
One major study of 6,673 patients finds statins can increase the extent of calcified coronary plaques by 52 percent. Another finds diabetics in particular could suffer from calcification, especially in the carotid artery, while on statins. That's one doozy of a side effect for a drug that's supposed to prevent heart problems.
I realize this goes against everything you've heard from the mainstream. So if you want a little reassurance before ditching your statins, consider this: The very reason for their existence is a lie.
Despite what you've heard, you NEED cholesterol, even the LDL that the mainstream calls "bad" cholesterol. It's essential for everything from your immune system to your memory, which is why multiple studies have shown that lower cholesterol levels will increase your risk of an early death.
Shoot for total cholesterol of between 200 and 300, and you'll outlive anyone who tells you otherwise.
Step 2: Put fats back on the menu
Say it with me: Natural animal fats will NOT clog or harden your arteries. It's just not so——and the omega-3 fatty acids in fish, grass-fed meats and fresh dairy will actually break up those dangerous deposits.
Yes, the very foods you've been told to avoid are actually essential to your arteries——so along with a diet rich in healthy and natural animal fats (and fatty fish), take cod liver oil or an omega-3 supplement daily.
Step 3: Drink more coffee
You've no doubt heard the killjoys chant about how coffee is a "bad" habit. They're dead wrong. Coffee can fight cancer, protect the brain and prevent heart disease——and one major study finds regular coffee consumption will cut your risk of death from heart disease by a quarter.
Coffee works in a number of ways. It can raise your levels of HDL cholesterol, slash inflammation and prevent the platelet aggregation that leads to clots——and one study out of the coffee-crazy Netherlands finds that more than 3 cups of coffee per day will reduce calcification, especially in women.
Just be sure you put the right stuff in your coffee... and that brings us to:
Step 4: Skip the skim
One of the biggest crimes in nutrition is the pasteurization of milk——but coming in at a close second is the push to replace fresh whole milk with tasteless, watery skim. It's a major cause for the rise in heart disease in modern times——right up there with the government advice to replace healthy animal fats with dangerous vegetable oils.
Low-fat milk and skim milk (sorry, I gag a little just writing those words) can lead to calcification and hardening of the arteries, according to animal tests. They will also cause calcification elsewhere in the body——in the joints, leading to arthritis, and in the pineal gland, leading to problems with hormone regulation, especially in women.
Drink only full-fat unpasteurized (aka "fresh" or "raw") milk. The powers-that-be have made it difficult to get fresh milk, but it's not impossible——even in places where it's technically illegal. Do some homework and you should be able to find a source of raw milk near you.
I realize that for some of you this advice may be coming much too late. You've wasted years——maybe decades——dutifully guzzling pasteurized skim milk, avoiding animal fats, using margarine over butter and bringing your cholesterol down to "perfect" (i.e. heart attack) levels.
And if that's your story, it's not too late. First, make those changes you should've made years ago by following steps one through four.
And second, turn to one of my...
If you or your doctor suspects calcification, these two natural options can bust through buildups and restore your arteries to health quickly, painlessly and safely.
BUILDUP BUSTER # 1: Vitamin K
Your body has a natural defense against arterial calcification. It's called matrix GLA protein, or MGP——but years of bad habits (aka "good" habits as defined by the mainstream) eventually cause so much calcification that your MGP can't keep up.
But there is a way to give it a lift. Vitamin K2——found in meats, butter and cheese——can activate more MGP and reverse the damage. It's so effective that a diet rich in K2 can prevent artery calcification.
One major study in the Journal of Nutrition finds that men with the highest intake of vitamin K2 have a 51 percent lower risk of death from a heart attack.
Yes, it's that good——so good that even if your arteries are suffering from the damage of calcification, high doses of K2 can reverse it, often completely and in some cases within weeks.
By the way, if you're on warfarin——aka Coumadin, aka rat poison——you're almost certainly suffering from low vitamin K. The drug "works" by blocking it, putting you at risk for calcification even as it thins the blood.
The cod liver oil I mentioned earlier often makes a safe and effective substitute for warfarin, just be sure to work with your doctor before you go making any changes.
BUILDUP BUSTER #2: Chelation Therapy
Nothing will get a mainstream doctor howling in protest faster than a mention of chelation therapy. Ignore the howls and listen to the science: Decades of research show chelation can safely pull toxins out of the body, including metals from your brain and calcium from your arteries.
It's so effective at breaking up calcium deposits in the arteries that a recent government-backed study (imagine that!) found this therapy will cut the risk of serious heart problems by 18 percent overall and by as much as 40 percent in diabetics.
Your doctor, of course, will claim that chelation is dangerous. While every treatment has risks, chelation is certainly far safer than medication or bypass surgery——and, done responsibly, the only real risk is boredom. Each session lasts for up to three hours, and you could need as many as 30 sessions.
Consider it time to catch up on your reading.
Don't be tempted by faster forms of chelation (and don't even touch so-called "chelation pills"). You want only tried-and-true chelation performed by a doctor experienced in this life-saving therapy. I recommend a member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine. Call 1-800-532-3688 or visit them online at www.acam.org to locate a physician near you.