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GHRSST Level 2P Global Bulk Sea Surface Temperature from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on the NOAA-19 satellite produced by NAVOEntry ID: NAVO-L2P-AVHRR19_G
Abstract: A global Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Level 2P dataset based on multi-channel sea surface temperature (SST) retrievals generated in real-time from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on the NOAA-19 platform (launched 6 Feb 2009) produced and used operationally in oceanographic analyses and forecasts by the US Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO). The ... AVHRR is a space-borne scanning sensor on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) family of Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES) having a operational legacy that traces back to the Television Infrared Observation Satellite-N (TIROS-N) launched in 1978. AVHRR instruments measure the radiance of the Earth in 5 (or 6) relatively wide spectral bands. The first two are centered around the red (0.6 micrometer) and near-infrared (0.9 micrometer) regions, the third one is located around 3.5 micrometer, and the last two sample the emitted thermal radiation, around 11 and 12 micrometers, respectively. The legacy 5 band instrument is known as AVHRR/2 while the more recent version, the AVHRR/3 (first carried on the NOAA-15 platform), acquires data in a 6th channel located at 1.6 micrometer. Typically the 11 and 12 micron channels are used to derive SST sometimes in combination with the 3.5 micron channel. The NOAA platforms are sun synchronous generally viewing the same earth location twice a day (latitude dependent) due to the relatively large AVHRR swath of approximately 2400 km. The highest ground resolution that can be obtained from the current AVHRR instruments is 1.1 km at nadir. AVHRR data are acquired in three formats: High Resolution Picture Transmission (HRPT), Local Area Coverage (LAC), and Global Area Coverage (GAC). HRPT data are full resolution image data transmitted to a ground stations as they are collected. LAC are also full resolution data, but the acquisition is prescheduled and recorded with an on-board tape recorder for subsequent transmission during a station overpass. This particular dataset is produced from GAC data that are derived from an on-board sample averaging of the full resolution global AVHRR data. Four out of every five samples along the scan line are used to compute on average value and the data from only every third scan line are processed, yielding an effective 4 km resolution at nadir. Further binning and averaging of these pixels results in a final dataset resolution of 8.8 km.
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Dataset Title: N-19 AVHRR GAC L2P swath SST data set
Dataset Series Name: N-19 AVHRR GAC MCSST
Dataset Release Date: 2009-09-27
Dataset Release Place: Stennis Space Center, MS, USA
Dataset Publisher: Naval Oceanographic Office
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Other Citation Details: Production of L2P data is sponsored partly by the NOPP.Online Resource: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
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Lisa Sternfeld grew up wanting to be a painter—as a self-described "awkward kid" who was equally crazy about Giacometti, Cy Twombly, and Michelangelo, she haunted New York City's museums. Eventually she found herself in the business side of design, creating branded multimedia campaigns for giant clients Walt Disney, Coach, and Victoria's Secret (before the two big I's: Internet and iPod). "And then I woke up one day thinking I'm so far removed from what I love," she recalls.
A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Lisa worked stints with design greats Thomas O'Brien and Adam Tihany, then founded her own firm, LSID, in 2006. In a way, she's gone back to her first love, painting, she says, because "Interior design is like painting. You build layers, and it grows over time."
The designer—who lives in an apartment in Chelsea she uses as a design lab—loves to take early morning walks when the city is just waking up. So when fellow Manhattanites asked her to give a bit of the city's feel to their second home on Martha's Vineyard, she was already in a New York state of mind. "It's a really interesting home," she says. "The front is classically designed, with beautifully landscaped gardens, and the back is wilder, much more casual. The two sides really represent the husband and the wife who own it."
Lisa loves handcrafted pieces, like the antique dining room chairs, which she had gilded with white gold. She has used such pieces throughout this lovely home, she says, and the homeowners really appreciate the workmanship that went into them.
What Lisa loves most about the residence is its light. She made the most of it with a less-is-more approach, making sure that there are unobstructed views of the sea from every room. "When you walk into the main entry," she says, "you are in a living and dining room area with double height ceilings, and the light is extraordinary. There are no window treatments to obstruct the view. You can watch the changing colors of the sky."
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Chair Detail
Antique dining chairs upholstered in icy blue have been gilded with white gold to reflect the natural light and make the room glow.
Living Room
In the living room, which captures the colors of the landscape, all of the furniture is bench-made, whether antique or new. The silk-velvet Irish sofa is wonderfully luxurious, a concentrated hue of the lofty walls.
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Living Room
Visitors gravitate to the chair in the fanciful animal print, upholstered in Jonas fabric. The pillow on the sofa looks like cowhide but is needlepoint.
Living Room Details
Geometric pillows in sandy tones decorate the sofa; a shapely lamp from Pucci sits on the guéridon; the silver-plated seashell is a nod to the home's location.
Dining Room
The antique dining table works well with the floor, which is stained cherry and has acquired a beautiful faded patina over time from all the light in the space. The mirrors "weigh a ton!" Lisa says. "Not literally of course, but they are solid, thick, chiseled glass, and when they reflect the sunlight in the space, they're magical." The stools below each console table are 19th century; the columns were part of the original architecture.
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Dining Room Details
Wild animals adorn a beautiful silk-upholstered settee, which sits alongside the dining room table. The luminescent fabric catches sunlight from the windows.
Dining Room Details
Yellow roses complement the blues of the dining room; an equine statue stands guard over the mantel; the antique chairs are gilded in white gold; chiseled glass mirrors flank the fireplace and brighten the space.
Sitting Room
Indigo tie-dyed fabric on the chairs is a nod to the mid-century; Lisa says it reminds her of brushstrokes on canvas.
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Sitting Room Details
Lisa's mantelpiece vignette (middle image) includes a vintage clock, a mirror that is reminiscent of a porthole, and a beetle vase. "The idea of a lovely tray set for tea is so appealing," Lisa says.
- Choose bottom-up shades for kitchens and bathrooms. These offer privacy, but still allow beautiful light to flow through.
- Consider your paint colors wisely. Selecting softer colors will help reflect light back into the space.
- To maximize natural light, choose window treatments made of natural fabrics—open weaves or sheers are best bets.
- For a serene space, opt for tonal variations in color, and then layer in texture and pattern for more visual interest.
- Mix different scales, textures, shapes, colors, and time periods for a more interesting, dynamic space.
Master Bedroom
The headboard fabric is graphic but subtle. "It's a great fabric to work with as it's visually impactful yet still versatile. I think there's a good balance in the space between masculine and feminine," Lisa says.
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Master Bedroom Details
A crystal lamp and a silver vase next to the bed add sparkle; the satin bedding is by Thomas O'Brien.
Master Bath
Because the master bathroom windows open to formally planted gardens beyond, Lisa kept the focus on the surrounding natural beauty. Welcoming with a touch of luxury, the room features an antique bench upholstered in deep blue velvet, used for piles of fresh towels. It sits beside a traditional caned chair. A framed bird print leans against the wall beneath the client's own antique painted ship tile, an homage to local history. The corner of the tub is an ideal spot for freshly cut flowers from the gardens beyond. Flooring and walls are marble.
Home's Exterior
Sitting on a lovely estate on Martha's Vineyard, the home overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. In the front lie manicured gardens, while the back of the house hosts a more natural setting against the ocean.
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I haven't been following the Twinkie Apocalypse story very closely, but a few weeks ago, on the day the news broke that maybe Twinkies were not long for this world, I saw a woman at our local supermarket flat-out hoarding box after box of Twinkies and other Hostess products.
I like Twinkies as much as the next woman, but I find myself craving them above all other available snacks maybe once a year. I'll buy a little two-pack, eat both of them in 25 seconds, and that takes care of Twinkies for 2012.
But I get it. Oh do I understand the need for sweet snacks. I don't know what I'd do if the Reese empire somehow dried up...wait, I DO.
I'd make my own, of course! It's called being a survivor.
And now you, the Twinkie needer, can make your own Twinkies, sort of.
I mean, this cake is very good. The filling is AN EXACT TWINKIE FILLING DUPLICATE. If that's all you're really needing, look no further. The cake itself doesn't quite get there. It's a little heavy and dry, but that could have been my fault. I might--might!--have overbaked it by a few minutes, although I followed the instructions exactly, and the bundt format makes me wonder what would happen if I made mini-bundts or cupcakes instead. Or what if I used a plain old yellow cake mix? I'd like to experiment with the recipe, but this try-out cake kind of made me not need to eat Twinkie cakes for the rest of the year, you know? Maybe you could try the recipe out and report back.
Inserting the filling was not exactly easy, and it involved digging holes into the cake by hand and connecting them with tunnels. Some pieces resulted in a near-perfect circle of filling mostly surrounded by yellow cake. Others were more like the one above, where the filling didn't quite make it all the way in but smooshed around the bottom (to this I shrug and say so what?)
The filling seemed to improve the moisture level of the cake on day 2. If you like the part of the Twinkie that sticks to the little white card they put in the packages, you're going to love the bottom of this cake on day 2 and 3. But this is a whole lotta cake for two people, and Jeff and I couldn't get through it, because we have something called self-discipline. And also because it had become dry again.
A truly great breakdown of this recipe, complete with the kinds of photos I should have taken but somehow couldn't be bothered to do so, can be found here. Please go, please read, please try it out.
For now, I will leave you with the recipe for the filling. Please note that this makes only just enough filling for the cake, so don't go crazy eating it beforehand. If you don't want to deal with making the recipe's from-scratch cake, you could buy a mix, a pound cake, or one of those deli "creme cakes" that come pre-sliced.
Gah, that cake does not look good to me at all. But you know what I'm talking about. Get a yellow cake and dip it in or frost it with this filling for easy faux-Twinkie satisfaction. You could be like Poof and me and call this hybrid a Twankie, which is fun to say aloud with a Southern drawl. TWANKIE.
- 1 stick of room temperature, unsalted butter
- 1 tub (7.5 ounces) marshmallow creme (aka Fluff) <--I couldn't find anything smaller than 15 ounces, so in my case it's half a tub
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat butter and marshmallow creme until smooth. Add vanilla and beat until incorporated.
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We've all played videogames to temporarily escape from reality, but who knew that games could be an effective medical treatment for chronic pain? Rob Zacny explores the psychology of pain therapy.
That's exactly what I'm trying to explain to my girlfriend :/ I hope that this article will come in handy next time we get in argument
This is actually sweet. When I need painkillers next I'm just gonna' stick on FF:XII!!!!
So glad you decided to add this to the 'Best of'. It's always been my favourite article :D
Maby not the best choice.
Why ever not my friend?
To bad the last time I was in great pain my whole right hand (my primary hand) was in a great big cast so I couldn't play anything :(
I can of course only speak for myself but I find most ff games having the opposite effect.
Hasn't this article been published before?
Very Interesting article, enjoyed reading it a lot.
Sure has. That's why it's a "Best of" issue :)
I think I just got why this magazine is called "The Escapist". lol.
Good article.
The quotes looked fucking horrible. Just wanted to say that.
Ooh, my bad...
Video games are at their core are just another form of stimuli. If we accept the statement "energy flows where the mind goes" then we see that by focusing on physical or emotional pain it can be exacerbated, by focusing our thoughts away from the pain we can alleviate it to lesser or larger extent. More than that various stimuli, including video games, can open our minds to fresh points of view that can make coping with painful situations much easier.
Of course, in so far as video games are concerned, the cure can be more poisonous than the disease. Getting "T-Bagged" by some guy in an online Halo 3 match, being constantly bullied by a bunch of players in an MMO, or the sheer frustration of playing any Ninja Gaiden game, is enough to make a person's pain go from bad to devastating.
Too as beneficial as playing a game like Flower on the PS3 could be it still doesn't compare to actually being out in a real meadow, amongst real flowers and a cool breeze blowing across your face.
I suffer back pain and fybromyalgia. I told the doctor that when I play games I noticed I was in less pain. And she looked at me like I was an idiot. So this article is a kind of vindication. Although she probably will never read this.
Playing games while I have a cold reduces the amount of sneezes and coughs. Does that help?
Print out, fax, or email the article to her. Most doctors don't have much free time to look up something they aren't already familiar with, but they do have time if someone is able to directly give them the material to read.
Then again, perhaps she already knows about such things, and the look was one of frustration that she's unable to prescribe video games (not thinking you were an idiot). :)
Interesting stuff. When I went through a fairly major bout of depression, gaming was the only effective anti-depressant I could find.
Knew this one was familiar, didn't realise it was a Best Of issue till I read the comments, though. Bad me. *Goes to read editor's notes*
Anyway, great article. I've used games for escapism and distracting myself from emotional and physical pain for many, many, many years.
A most interesting piece, definitely worthy of further study.
Good Job.
I totally don't imagine people in school whilst I roll people up in Katamari Damacy, and there pleasurable screams of pain totally don't make me feel like I need to go see a psychiatrist...
I poke fun, because we've all been there.
That makes sense, so it might be good to make a list of the games that would work for you when you might be dealing with pain from a headache, illness, or accident; whathaveyou. Avoid those that can create uncomfortable emotional events, such as multiplayer games, as well as those that in the past might have created ghost pain from something a character experiences. But that might not be the case for everyone. I've often finished a campaign in Left 4 Dead, and as the tally-credits are rolling, I would feel a distinct separation and return to self. I would imagine L4D would be good anesthesia for me.
What a very interesting article. This reminds me of my first few years at uni. Ridiculous devotion to my units, and then a marathon of gaming or swimming to relax and let it all fall away. My scores were through the roof. Course, not much of a social life, but it was some type of gamer-monasticism. There was only games (Soul Calibre 2, Hitman, Civilization etc), peaceful swimming at night, and study.
Years later came across another productive combination. Short but frequent periods of sleep, and alternating between writing my thesis and gaming. Ignoring other distractions could get a huge amount done in a week of this.
I've been particularly pants recently & reading this makes me feel no different. In fact, it's because I've been feeling down that I've been playing less games. Somehow I've not been able to enjoy them as much as I normally do because my 'annoyances' are nibbling at my anterior cingulate cortex (Apparently).
Saying that though, I understand what this article is saying.
And so without further hesitation. I am going to shoot people on Call of Duty 4 for a few hours. That should do the trick for a while.
Great read, thanks.
haha nice im gonna show this thread to my girlfriend acually rly intrestig :P
When ever I'm feeling bad I think to myself, "I need 20 CCs of Halo," and go play Halo.
Absolutely this.
I'm at university right now, in a house with six other people. Of the four that I consider friends, two are gamers and the other two are... well, not the sort of people who 'get' gaming (read: women, although one of them has a Wii. And one of the gamers is female. But never mind that). I really want to send this article to those two, in the hope that it gives them a bit of an understanding (as psychology students, if nothing else) of why I play. Of the two that are gamers, I mentioned this article to the guy last night... the other one is an occasional visitor to this site so maybe she's seen it for herself.
So... yeah. If ever there was an article that deserved 'best of' status, it's this.
"Kingdom Hearts: my anti-drug"
I never thought about that...I'm a girl gamer and I never noticed that...but now that I think about it they do help me escape from my messed up life...that's probably the reason why I don't have nearly as much drama as the other girls my age.
Very interesting article, suck on this Jack Thompson lol.
If found this quite interesting. As someone who has suffered for over half a year with (sometimes crippling) chronic leg and lower back pain from a compressed nerve root, I can testify to the truth of this. I never thought about it before, but sitting in my chair in front of my TV, I get some relief from the distraction of TV shows, but a lot more when playing a console game.
The only danger is, sometimes I'm aggravating the source of the pain and don't realize it until the pain grows to an unbearable level. Then it's a whole lot more difficult to calm the pain down than it would have been had I caught it earlier.
lol that remedy is out my hand im depressed cz of waiting for ffxiii
I guess I could take a couple of weeks of leave and dig up my civilization games to try to quit smoking.
This is an awesome article, loved it. Btw, Turok on the original Xbox (or the one for the 360 because it's prbly the same crap) is definetly NOT ur source of getaway pleasure since there's inverted controls, never enough ammo to just fuking kill the guy, unbeatable lvls, and to top it off a story that makes no fucking sense because they never explain a damn thing! Man, I wish Yatzee would do an episode about Turok... :/
Oh yeah, and it is such a long game that you have to make sure you don't get too sucked into it or you'll find yourself playing level after level of crap.
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Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani human rights lawyer, gives the keynote address for the Breaking Barriers: What It Will Take To Achieve Security, Justice and Peace conference hosted by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego. Asma Jahangir served two terms as chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and was the first woman president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan. She has fought to defend the human rights of women, religious minorities and laborers in Pakistan for over 40 years, both in and out of the courtroom. (#24170)
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Facebook's latest nip/tuck to its privacy policy is mostly a lot of legal housecleaning, but there's one big change every user should understand. When the policy takes effect Sept. 5, the social networking giant will grant itself the right to use facial recognition technology to analyze user profile photos, though the firm says users can opt out of the technology.
Facebook posted handy "red-line" versions of updates to its "Data Use Policy" and its "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities." You can scan through them and get the gist of the changes in a few minutes. The main impetus for the change is last week's settlement of a class-action lawsuit against Facebook that objected to the firm's use of consumer photos in advertisements. Terms of that settlement required Facebook to be more clear about its "sponsored stories" feature.
What They're Not Saying
Facebook has now posted a clear example of how sponsored stories work, and also made the explanation of the feature much more clear in its privacy policy.
Specifically, this rather arcane language:
"You can use your privacy settings to limit how your name and profile picture may be associated with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us."
Now reads like this:
"You give us permission to use your name, profile picture, content, and information in connection with commercial, sponsored, or related content (such as a brand you like) served or enhanced by us."
Two words you won't read in the revised privacy policy, however, are "facial recognition." Instead, the new policy says this:
"We are able to suggest that your friend tag you in a picture by scanning and comparing your friend's pictures to information we've put together from your profile pictures and the other photos in which you've been tagged."
Consumers tend to react to the phrase "facial recognition" the way they do "fingerprint database." Europeans react even more strongly. In fact, last year Facebook had to turn off its facial recognition tools after complaints from privacy officials there.
Opting Out
For years, Facebook has suggested "tags" when users upload photos of friends, based on image recognition technology. Before this change, Facebook limited the pool of photos it analyzed. When the policy takes effect next week, profile photos will be included. That's important because users are required to post a profile photo, and that photo must be public to everyone. Privacy-conscious users cannot limit profile photos to friends, for example. Users will be able to opt out of image recognition of profile photos, Facebook lawyer Ed Palmieri told the New York Times.
He also argued that image recognition actually has privacy-enhancing qualities. Users will suffer fewer surprises when friends post photos of them without their knowledge, as Facebook can now spot the photos and offer to warn the people who are in them, giving them the opportunity to "un-tag" themselves or demand the photos be removed.
That is true; but it's also true that Facebook has granted itself another way to use customer data and placed another demand on users to figure out how to opt out of it.
To read Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan's explanation of the changes, click here.
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On the trail of Gagarin
"This was one of the most remarkable events of the century. We always see these firsts as something very remarkable, for example when climbers reach the top of very high mountains, or pilots make the first flight of a new aircraft. In this sense, Gagarin really opened an era," says Thomas Reiter, ESA's new Director of Human Spaceflight and an ESA astronaut with experience of two spaceflights (Soyuz TM-22 and STS-121).
"Humans have been looking towards the skies for centuries, and were fascinated by space, and at every moment there has been a longing to see what is really out there. Even though our understanding of the Universe has changed over thousands of years, I am absolutely sure there has been the same desire to see what is behind this 'black curtain' that comes up every evening. With Gagarin, we got a little bit closer to seeing for ourselves.
"The Universe is infinite, and human spaceflight is a very difficult endeavour, but at least this was the first step. I consider his flight to be a kind of relief that, finally, after such a long time, it was possible to overcome the gravity of our planet, to have the technology available to go into space.
"I don't remember it well, because I was just short of three years old in 1961, but later I saw this as a fantastic endeavour of human beings. My father was a keen glider pilot and I can say that I partly grew up on the glider field close to our home. My mother also flew gliders until a few months before I was born. From being told about flying gliders and planes and then the logical step of someone flying in space, I started to follow the US Gemini and early Apollo missions from 1966 onwards.
"But I was definitely influenced by this first step of going into space, and later in my career the influence of Yuri Gagarin continued. When I was training in Star City near Moscow, I had the chance to meet Gagarin's wife – she was still living there at the time.
"You always talk about Star City and Gagarin in the same sentence (the Russian cosmonaut training facility is called the Y.A. Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre, GCTC). There is a museum full of items from his training and his actual spacesuit. There is a room where he had his former office, where every crew goes before leaving Star City for Kazakhstan for a flight. They are left alone to write a few words in a visitor's book, and each crew since then has done this little ceremony.
"When you look at the Soyuz capsules we flew in, there is an impression of those early days of spaceflight. For me, when I was on the Euromir '95 mission, this impression was very evident and it always reminded me that this was what it must have been like almost 40 years before. If you compare a Shuttle launch to a Mercury or Gemini, they are very different. Of course the rocket engines, the structures, the guidance and avionics and so forth are new developments in the Soyuz, but they are still very robust and the general appearance of my spacecraft and launcher was similar to Vostok. It felt similar, or at least you imagined that it was similar.
"You notice this at the beginning of your training, but also very strongly when you are on your way to the launch pad. The Russians have some rituals before a launch, and on the way to the launch pad you make a stop where you can, for the last time before launch, decrease your weight a little. Cosmonauts do this because Yuri Gagarin had such a stop before he arrived at the launch pad. With things like that, you are reminded at every point that you are on the trail of this person who opened the space age for humankind."


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For the past decade, educational policymakers have stressed the importance of institutional quality, productivity, and effectiveness. These leaders look to state-level accountability measures to guide state planning, form a context for budgetary decisions, and monitor the return on public investment in colleges and universities.
Institutional accountability is a natural consequence of institutional autonomy, a major objective in the 1994 restructuring of New Jersey's higher education system. Annual institutional excellence and accountability reports were launched in the fall of 1995 to inform the public and state policymakers about individual institutions. This first systemwide report on New Jersey higher education complements institutional reports. The document provides valuable information and opens the door for meaningful policy discussions and decisions.
New Jersey's statewide goals for higher education are affordability and accessibility, institutional excellence, and effectiveness in addressing the societal and economic needs of the state. This report provides evidence of progress in meeting these goals and informs planning efforts for future improvement. Following are some of the major issues, successes, and challenges discussed in the report:
This systemwide accountability report, along with individual institutional reports, is an initial effort and an important first step in providing information on the state's higher education system to state policymakers and the public. New Jersey's new accountability reporting system is an integral part of the restructuring of higher education and relates directly to the master planning process. Once the master plan is in place and a clearer direction is established for New Jersey's higher education system, the accountability reporting system will evolve and more completely document progress toward identified goals.


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The Moscow Victory Day Parade of 2010 was held on 9 May 2010 to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade marks the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
It was the largest parade held in Moscow, Russia since the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, and saw 11,135 troops, 127 aircraft and helicopters, and the new Topol-M mobile intercontinental ballistic missile taking part. For the first time, the 2010 parade also included military units from foreign countries who were allied with the Soviet Union during World War II, with representation from France, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.


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Autumn finds us working on the development of our network of family separation centres, the most recent addition of which is the Jersey Centre for Separated Families. This network, which works outside of the prevailing lone parent model of support, demonstrates what can be done when local expertise is combined with a holistic approach to supporting separated families.
The critical part of what we are doing with our new network is located in its delivery of a whole family model, which is designed to engage with, and support, every family member and meet their different needs for support. This is outside of the prevailing paradigm and deliberately moves away from the the lone parent model (which is the current framework used in the UK), which was designed to create and maintain fatherlessness.
That last statement may be a little much for some, whilst others may immediately understand what I mean by it. It is, however, worth explaining the reality of how the lone parent model of support was designed to create fatherlessness because it is only when one understands this in real terms, that it is possible to see how delivering family services which are underpinned by it will continue to deliver generational fatherlessness.
The lone parent model of support, which divides two previously partnered parents into two distinct roles on the morning of their separation, forces one parent to take up the role of carer for children and the other to take up the role of provider. So deeply embedded in our belief system is the idea that separated mothers care and separated fathers provide, that people who do not understand real separated family life appear to believe that parents have these distinctly divided roles tattooed within their DNA. The fact that mothers AND fathers care for children and mothers AND fathers provide for children when the family is together is widely accepted. That mothers AND fathers wish to care for their children and mothers AND fathers are able to provide for their children when the family separates seems to leave many people astonished and sometimes confused. In discussing this, I hear over and over the phrase 'but 90% of primary carers after separation are mothers', the intimation being 'surely that proves that mothers are the natural carers for children'. And though we have been saying it for over fifteen years, I patiently reply all over again with the following explanation:
The lone parent model of support to families was designed as part of a women's rights agenda. The split of roles into carer and provider is denoted by the Child Benefit. Whoever receives it, receives all of the financial and other support available, regardless of how much care each parent gives, even when it is a fully shared parenting arrangement. Almost 100% of Child Benefit is paid directly to mothers when the family is together. Using it as a gateway to denote who is the primary carer was a supreme move by those who designed the legislation because it ensures that control over the family after separation lies well and truly in the hands of women. Try being a mother who is not the primary carer in this model, consider for a moment how other people will react to you. Now add a large dose of the lies, stereotypes and misinformation peddled by the women's rights movement about fathers after separation, and you will begin to understand how the lone parent model of support to separated families is designed to create and maintain fatherlessness and how, if you underpin services with research and strategies from this model, you will deliver the same outcomes of disengaged fathers that we have seen in the past four decades since the women's rights movement took over social policy around the family.
The old saying 'if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got' is one that exemplifies the UK government's approach to supporting family separation. The most recent example of this being demonstrated by the Coalition Government's Help and Support for Separated Families (HSSF) initiative which, ironically, had as its intention (at the outset at least) a move towards supporting parents to collaborate after separation. Sadly, as with most if not all of the government funded services which are available to support parents after separation, HSSF has fallen foul of the dominant and all encompassing lone parent model of analysis and delivery. Which means that it predominantly serves the needs of mothers, who are considered to have problems, at the same time as seeing fathers as people who are problems. As a result, we can confidently expect that the latest £14 million, which was supposedly made available to test innovative new approaches to supporting collaboration between parents, will simply deliver the same outcomes as all of the other rounds of wasted funding in this arena.
In contrast, working in a whole family model – even though that is constrained by the prevailing strait jacket of the lone parent model in legislation – entry to the family is offered by fathers as well as mothers. This whole family model, which values equally the different things that mothers and fathers bring to their children's lives ensures that strong and confident relationships are maintained by both parents with their children through and beyond the crisis of separation. The critical part of this model is what makes delivery and access to services different to the lone parent model. The difference being that fathers are presumed to be equally as important and equally as valuable as mothers are in children's lives, and their importance is not watered down or apologised for; it is simply both expected and supported.
In the whole family model that we developed at the Centre for Separated Families (which is underpinned by gender mainstreaming approaches to supporting equality between parents), the family is a unit in which children enjoy the benefits of access to the different things that mothering and fathering bring to their lives. It is not, as Harriet Harman's 1990's policy paper the Family Way describes, outdated and fathers, as described in the same paper, are not considered unnecessary. Neither is the whole family model one which determines that the only right way to bring up children is in a two parent family situation. A whole family model simply recognises, engages with and supports the different needs of all important adults in a child's life, instead of locating all need for support in one parent whilst demonising the other, which is the current UK way of supporting families after separation.
The reality is that the lone parent model of support furthers the rights of women and renders fathers meaningless; and it was designed that way. The lone parent model of support tells us that fathers abandon their families, that they are reckless, feckless and that they spend their money in the pub rather than on their children. A stereotype tweeted only yesterday by Harriet Harman and which is so offensive that I consider it to be akin to saying that all black men carry guns and sell drugs. The lone parent model of support delivers all of the decision making power about the family directly into the hands of mothers via the Child Benefit 'gateway' and enables mothers to take and maintain control over children, leading to the desperate situation of dads being driven into the family courts to ask 'permission' to have relationships with their children.
And the lone parent model, which furthers a women's rights agenda, is massively funded by government and Charities such as the Nuffield Foundation to 'research' family separation in order to tell us that mothers have problems whilst fathers are problems. The lone parent model is a well constructed, well funded, well maintained, illusion, that has nothing to do with the well being of children and everything to do with ensuring that the rights of women come before all else. Before fathers, before the family and ultimately before children. Delivering services in this paradigm can only ever further this myth and can only ever shore up and support the misinformation which is endlessly recycled by those women who first garnered control over the family and since then have done everything to maintain it.
As Autumn settles in and the leaves begin to fall, we are planting seeds for a different way of working. Seeds which have been taken from the fruit of our whole family approach with families over the past fifteen years and which have proved to us and to the parents and practitioners we work with that outside of the lone parent paradigm, where fathers as well as mothers are equally valued for the different things they offer to our children, different outcomes are possible. Off shore on Islands around the UK, soon in Northern Ireland, the Midlands and in London, whole family approaches will be embedded within the community, bypassing the state and the illusion that it peddles, connecting with families in ways that offer astonishing levels of change. As we roll this ball up hill again, more hands have come to join us and the model of collaboration between men and women serving the needs of mothers and fathers in local communities is becoming real. A world far beyond the lone parent paradigm, where lies, stereotypes and misinformation are no longer needed because we are working with reality, not what the women's rights movement tell us about families.
In a world of sadness and loss, where challenge and change are daily experiences, mutual co-operation in local communities brings relief, respect and rejuvenation to mothers and fathers who are hurting and struggling to cope.
And those of us who work with families, find that we can sleep again at night.