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Injuries to leg (hip to toes)
Injuries to a bone, muscle, joint or ligament
Types of Leg Injuries
Fractures (broken bones)
Dislocations (bone out of joint)
Sprains - stretches and tears of ligaments. A sprained ankle is the most common ligament injury of the leg. It's usually caused by turning the ankle inward. The main symptoms are pain and swelling of the outside of the ankle.
Strains - stretches and tears of muscles (e.g., pulled muscle)
Muscle overuse injuries from sports or exercise (e.g., shin splints of lower leg)
Muscle bruise from a direct blow (e.g., thigh muscles)
Bone bruise from a direct blow (e.g., hip)
Pain Severity Scale
MILD: doesn't interfere with normal activities
MODERATE: interferes with normal activities or awakens from sleep
SEVERE: excruciating pain, unable to do any normal activities, incapacitated by pain
Involves toe, see FINGER OR TOE INJURY
Only has cuts, scrapes, or bruises, see CUTS, SCRAPES, or BRUISES
Serious injury with multiple fractures
Major bleeding that can't be stopped
You think your child has a serious injury
Looks like a broken bone or dislocated joint
Large swelling
Skin beyond the injury is pale or blue
Skin is split open or gaping and may need stitches
Age under 1 year old
Bicycle spoke or washing machine wringer injury
Pain is SEVERE (and not improved after 2 hours of pain medicine)
Won't stand or walk
Has a limp when walking
Unable to move leg or hip normally
Joint nearest the injury can't be moved fully (opened and closed)
Knee injury with a "snap" or "pop" felt at the time of impact
You think your child needs to be seen urgently
You think your child needs to be seen, but not urgently
Pain not improved after 3 days
You have other questions or concerns
No tetanus shot in over 5 years for DIRTY cuts (over 10 years for CLEAN cuts)
Pain lasts over 2 weeks
Bruised muscle or bone from direct blow
Pain in muscle (probably from mild pulled muscle)
Pain around joint (probably from mild stretched ligament)
Treatment of Pulled Muscle, Bruised Muscle or Bruised Bone:
Reassurance: Bruised muscles or bones can be treated at home.
Pain Medicine: For pain relief, give acetaminophen OR ibuprofen as needed. (See Dosage Table). Ibuprofen is more effective for this type of pain.
Local Cold: For bruises or swelling, apply a cold pack or ice bag wrapped in a wet cloth to the area for 20 minutes per hour. Repeat for 4 consecutive hours. (Reason: reduce the bleeding and pain)
Local Heat: After 48 hours apply a warm wet washcloth or heating pad for 10 minutes three times per day to help absorb the blood.
Rest: Rest the injured part as much as possible for 48 hours.
For pulled muscles, teach your youngster about stretching exercises and strength training.
Treatment of Mild Sprains (stretched ligaments) of Ankle or Knee:
First aid: immediate compression and ice to reduce bleeding, swelling, and pain.
Treat with R.I.C.E. (rest, ice, compression, and elevation) for the first 24 to 48 hours.
Apply compression with a snug, elastic bandage for 48 hours. Numbness, tingling, or increased pain means the bandage is too tight.
Apply a cold pack or ice bag wrapped in a wet cloth to the area for 20 minutes per hour. Repeat for 4 consecutive hours.
Give acetaminophen (e.g., Tylenol) or ibuprofen for pain relief. Continue for at least 48 hours.
Keep injured ankle or knee elevated and at rest for 24 hours.
After 24 hours, allow any activity that doesn't cause pain.
Expected Course: Pain and swelling usually peak on day 2 or 3. Swelling is usually gone by 7 days. Pain may take 2 weeks to completely resolve.
Call Your Doctor If:
Pain becomes severe
Pain is not improving after 3 days
Your child becomes worse
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Saturday will again feature The Edinburgh National and Sunday will be a treat for those closely anticipating The Festival. Spend an exciting winter's afternoon watching premier racing from some of the country's top horses aiming for the Cheltneham Festival or Aintree Grand National meeting.
The build up to the Cheltenham Festival starts here! This two day fixture is the pinnacle of our jumps season.

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Boden's 8th birthday was a blast. There were 20 of Boden's best buddies and their parents arrived at our home for the Splatoon themed party. We spent most of the evening on the slip and slide, throwing water balloons and on the trampoline. We had some 'Olympic Games"…with basketball skills challenge, trampoline skills and water balloon race. Everyone was a winner!
The kids had pizza and the adults pulled pork sliders and salads for dinner. After was ice cream and cake, opening the presents and then we set up a 'drive in' movie for the kids…complete with juice boxes and pop corn. We watched Coco from Disney. 12 tents were set up and by 10 pm, all the kids went to bed. Boden shared a tent with his buddy Aven and Hutson shared a tent with dad and Dylan. The gift of the year had to be Lazer Tag game. The kids played with it for hours!


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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fourth report was officially published yesterday. The Americans posted their draft on the internet in 2006. Perhaps that was a nod in recognition of the reports relevance to their home affairs.
With the weight of scientific evidence that informs the report it will take a strongly motivated organisation to want to seriously question its authority. It would seem that there are not many credible dissenters though its probably important not to get carried out on a wave of acquiescence . So far I've not found anything that pulls together into a cohesive argument the critical opinions that are out there. On the other hand supporters of the reports message seem to be quite willing to sign their name for the cause.
There is perhaps a danger that with all this willing to recognise and tackle the problems it could all end up like a massively mismanaged aid effort that will overshadow the next 100 years or so, until the world gives up or we do. The Stern report advises that it will require global cooperation and partnership to effectively tackle the challenges of climate change. Looking at the state of world affairs today it does not seem likely we're going to get anywhere far.


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Hmm this sounds like something is interfering with your SFTP. What kind of a firewall are you running? Have you checked the log files that it is not truncating or altering your files? You mentioned that running FTP for the files in question did actually transmit the correct files and file sizes.
Ftp is not secure so your company won't let you utilize it – but how about SCP? In Unix, you can use the scp command to copy files and directories securely between remote hosts without starting an FTP session or logging into the remote systems explicitly. The scp command uses SSH to transfer data, so it requires a password or passphrase for authentication. Unlike rcp or FTP, scp encrypts both the file and any passwords exchanged so that anyone snooping on the network can't view them.
In general, the syntax for scp (as for cp) is:
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You could try using the sftp's -v option, to increase verbosity. It could help on identifying the problem.
Just in case, I would also check the ssh config file to see if compression is enabled, and if so, try disabling it.
You could also use the -o option to play with different ssh options, to see if one of them helps.
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The dashingly debonair Sam Burrow pdf pattern has gone on sale.
You can read about Sam on the A Land Close By blog
The pattern is also available for purchase on Ravelry here.
It is also available on Etsy here.
Sam is now my 5th pattern in the A Land Close By series that has gone on sale and he was my first character created so he's rather close to my heart.


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When I was in Japan last year and I visited two of the Disney stores I could find in Tokyo, the one in Shibuya and the one in Shinjuku, I was expecting to pick up the usual things like cute accessories and phone cases. What I didn't expect were beauty items! Yup, Japanese Disney stores now have lip gloss, face masks, point pads, blotting paper, and more. At the very least, I don't recall ever seeing them the other time I was there four years ago. Combining Disney and beauty products meant I absolutely couldn't resist grabbing a few things, and one of them is this Ariel blotting paper!
To be honest, before writing this review, I wasn't sure what to call this item. I know it's blotting paper, but it doesn't have an official product name, if you get what I mean, on the packaging itself. But I checked the Japanese Disney store website and it's labeled as "あぶらとり紙(ソープバブルスの香り)アリエル" which translates to "Blotting Paper (Soap Bubbles) – Ariel". So, I decided "'Ariel' Blotting Paper" would be best.
Ariel has been my favorite Disney princess since I was a little girl, so of course this is the variant I chose! They have packs featuring other Disney characters too, like Minnie Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Chip & Dale. Each character's pack has different scented blotting sheets. Ariel's is of course soap bubbles! Appropriate, don't you think? I bought the Minnie Mouse one for a friend and it had a strawberry scent to it.
Is this not the cutest and most glamorous looking blotting paper packaging? It even comes with a mirror! And yes, that is a 3D Ariel pop-up too. Japan never fails to amaze me with how they present their beauty products. I wish I could re-fill this with other blotting sheets once I run out so that I can use it over and over!
The blotting sheets themselves are semi-transparent and are 100 x 70MM in size, so they're actually a little big. I like big blotting sheets though because it usually means you have to use less of them each time and I can get away with just using one of these whenever I need to get rid of any shine on my t-zone. I mentioned it's scented and it really does smell like soap! The scent isn't that strong unless you really take a whiff, but for those of you who are sensitive to fragrance still might not like this too much.
The sheets do a fairly good job at getting rid of shine. They're just like a standard pack of blotting sheets, really, so what you're mostly paying for is the gorgeous packaging. These are very affordable though, at least in Japan. For a more universal reference, they're about $5. Over here it would be priced at almost PHP250.00, which is really expensive for blotting paper, especially since good ones are already less than PHP100.00. But where else can you find blotting paper this cute, right? For me, it's just a fun and unique thing to have, especially if you're a Disney fanatic like me.
- Adorable packaging with a 3D pop-up feature inside.
- It really smells like soap.
- A mirror is included.
- The blotting sheets are quite big.
- It's a little bit 'bulkier' compared to standard blotting sheet packs because of the pop-up design inside, but the difference is very minimal.
Price: ¥525.00 | Purchased from: Disney Store (Shibuya, Tokyo)


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A recurring theme in many of the negative responses we get to our vision of Bradenton's future is that new developments are the reason Bradenton's population spikes and traffic increases. We feel it is important to point out that this is a common misconception; the fact of the matter is, it's actually the other way around: it is growth that drives development.
The 2012 Census Report tells us that Bradenton grew the fastest in our region by adding 1,145 residents from the previous year… an uptick of 2.3 percent. This surge occurred despite little new housing having been built and no new lifestyle destinations (malls, parks, tourist attractions) having been developed that year. Clearly, new development was not the reason for Bradenton's recent growth.
Our hunch is that great weather, beautiful beaches, challenging golf courses and just being an overall great place to raise a family is driving growth in the Bradenton area – and we see no end to that trend in the foreseeable future!
Far from being the problem, responsibly planned communities – like that which we envision in Lake Flores – are a necessary response to growth that is already coming. We believe that through modern, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly planning, our community will absorb those new residents and mitigate impacts on traffic and infrastructure in surrounding areas. Furthermore, our vision for Lake Flores is to provide new people spaces – parks, trails, shopping and services – that will benefit the entire community.
So, we must dispute the logic of absolute limits on development and re-double our efforts to get it right, acting on faith that the future we believe in will surely come. In the words of poet Pablo Neruda, "You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming."


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I recently completed a website for the Leeds Junior football club a new start-up academy for Children in the local area, it was a pleasure to work on and below you can read a testimonial from the client. You can also visit the site here.
Daniel Lockwood-Jones | Football Coach at 5 Star Sports Academy
Paul was fantastic to work with, he took a basic idea and came up with an excellent look, feel and ease of use to our website which had to be both adult and child friendly. Dedicated and professional from start to finish, as a group we were very impressed with the relationship and service Paul offered.
Would highly recommend using Paul at Visualchemistry Ltd.


text: 17th November 2014 | IN DESIGN ADVICE | BY SBID ShareTweetPinterestLinkedIn Our trend spotters have been busy scouting around the latest design events to see what's current and what's next in the world of interiors. Here's a round up of our findings… Instagrammed Orange, Yellow and Green It's all about colour combinations, rather than a single accent colour. Apple green paired with chartreuse, rust, canary yellow and slate works so well in commercial interiors. At Design Junction the look was super edgy on stands like Pinch Design – paired with raw wood, leather and concrete flooring. And at 100% Design we saw a sharper, fresher take on the trend, where the colours were used on felt seating, carpet tiles and office furniture. We're definitely seeing a shift towards warmer tones lately, a sharp contrast to the cool greys and neutrals that have been so popular in residential and commercial interiors. Tektura's sampling department has a first hand insight into the new colour combinations and the key neutrals – and there's definitely a lot more warm tones showing up. Maybe it has something to do with Instagram? Circles Circles are the new shape of choice! Circular tiles, plates, hand illustrated designs, spots, round etched and embossed patterns, ceiling roses, hoops of light, globes… everything is curved, circular or spotted, from carpeting and wallcovering to acoustic panels and furniture. At Design Junction we loved the white dots painted directly onto the concrete walls and floors on the Mini & Dezeen stand. Richard Brendan's new Speck ceramic collection is decorated with metallic dots, which emphasise imperfections. And our very own Helen Strevens, has launched a new hand drawn wallcovering design inspired by Fornasetti's plates. Tiles Tiles feature heavily at all the shows we've been to, and it seems you can't go wrong with this look. Hand crafted, hand painted, printed onto fabric or wallpaper, small panels or whole walls, distressed, shiny, metallic, matt… Colours are neutral and muted (think Instagram again) with a smattering of metallic. We've been admiring Smink Things' abstract designs since we spotted them at Clerkenwell Design Week this summer. Their vintage influenced tile designs make a feature out of subtle imperfections. Bert & May are specialists in bespoke and reclaimed tiles and were hand-making tiles live at Design Junction, where they launched a new collection of geometric and distressed wood designs. Lines A delicate new take on what we call the Tessellate Trend. Fine, trailing, hand drawn lines, which connect and create clever patterns. Often layered over photographic prints, and lovely when used to embellish raw materials such as wood and concrete. Colours are muted with splashes of brights here and there. At Design Junction Anglepoise's stand featured wallcovering that looked like large-scale graph paper. As We Go showed a screen made up of intricate tessellating hexagon shapes at 100% Design, and we spotted rugs, wallcoverings and soft furnishings with self-coloured geometric patterns at Decorex. And finally, worth a mention: Monochrome with a splash of colour This refreshing colour scheme could be a reaction to the black and white geometrics we've seen so much of. Think white geometric walls with a scattering of citrus and tertiary colours in furniture and accessories. We saw variations on this theme in both commercial and domestic interiors. Dark, glam walls Dark midnight blue, deep navy, charcoal, chalky dark grey, and velvety black. Paired with marble, leather, gold and orange toned woods for an overstated glamorous look. More is more! And a stuffed bird from the curiosity cabinet would fit right in too! Turquoise and teal At Decorex we saw lashings of turquoise, sea green, duck egg and mint… with a splash of copper and raw wood here and there… and more teal velvet than you could shake a stick at! 3D textured walls This time last year we talked about geometric textures, and the new generation is large scale, deeply textured patterns, often with a hand crafted, folded feel. Materials range from polished marble, plaster and wood, to felt, paper and leather. Still fairly exclusively in shades of white and grey. Written by Eleanor Cardwell, Marketing Executive for Tektura Wallcoverings. Visit www.tektura.com or follow @tekturatalk


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According to a newly published survey from comparison website finder.com.au, nearly one in five Australians think their smartphone is eavesdropping on them, and one in eight (12%) — or 2.1 million Australians — are "totally freaked out" by the fact that their devices appear to hear what they say, and 6% who believe it's the trade-off for getting a free service like Facebook or YouTube.
In fact, the survey reveals that 18% of adults — equivalent to 3.2 million people — say they've had a conversation about a product or service, only to see an advertisement pop up about it on their social media feeds soon after.
Of the 2085 surveyed, Australians aged 18 to 23 (Generation Z) were the most paranoid, with 37% convinced their smartphones are listening in on their conversations and exploiting that knowledge.
Angus Kidman, tech editor at finder.com.au, says there's "no evidence that smartphones themselves are listening in".
"If you've been chatting to your friend about a product and it suddenly pops up in an advertisement in your social media feed, the most logical explanation is you're noticing it more,"he said.
"It's human nature to look for links and patterns, when in actuality most of the time it's just a coincidence. We often remember an ad when it seems topical, but forget all the times that we've scrolled past other ads and never even noticed it."
But Kidman says that before you totally write this phenomenon off without apparent cause, consider your online history.
"It's no coincidence that consumers are targeted by certain products in their Facebook and Instagram feeds – it's insights gleaned from websites you visit and online retailers you shop with," he said.
"There are plenty of apps monitoring and recording your every move, we just can't blame the smartphone itself."
And if you want to protect your privacy when using your smartphone here's some suggestions from finder:
- Adjust your settings and disable access to your microphone in your apps. You might need to toggle it on and off for when you do need to record sound for your Instagram story or Skype a relative, but at least when it's not needed, you know it's off.
- Disable location services so apps can't access your GPS location. Turn it back on when you're using Google Maps or need to jump into an Uber.
- You might still use Siri for a giggle, but if you genuinely don't use your voice assistant, go into the setting and disable the voice detection.


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While some like Brian Carney have written dissents regarding the forced altruism behind the viral "Ice-bucket Challenge," one has to admit that this frenzied fad has made waves.
The ALS Association's Ice-bucket Challenge has reached millions of viewers as thousands have participated, uploaded videos, and made donations to charity. Celebrities, presidents, school teachers, and even billionaires have been peer pressured into being silly for what will hopefully make a make long-term impact against a debilitating disease.
It's no doubt that the ALS Association has benefited with a record-breaking $51.3 million raised, largely due to this campaign, in addition to the aided awareness.
What's personally fascinating is the vast reach of young to old, rich to poor, popular to unknown…this social media tactic ignited a visible movement. People have openly expressed their support, financially contributed, had fun, and involved others. That's exactly what nonprofits and many businesses strive for when engaging audiences.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (my employer) had a viral success earlier this year thanks to Ellen DeGeneres' star-studded selfie that was retweeted by millions. The children's hospital received more than $1 million along with millions of mentions because of a charitable social media push.
Although many folks challenged themselves and others for sport, I am glad to see strangers cheerfully uniting online for good causes. It sure beats the daily vitriol and mindless BuzzFeed posts that typically fill my newsfeed.
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To all the women in my life who teach me what and who a man is. Everyday.
Mum. Grandma RIP. Sisters. Aunts. Cousins. Soulmates. Friends. Colleagues. Girlfriends. And all the inspiring ladies I'm yet to meet.
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Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new obsession.
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About our Fancy Holy Hearts Decorations:
The months of June and August honor the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart. Why not decorate for it!? These decorations can also be used for many Marian and Jesus centered feast day or celebrations! These fancy hearts make an amazing decoration for your home, church vestibule, or class room!
Old antique prayer cards where the inspiration for these Holy Hearts decorations. Some of the old holy cards often had a decorative lacy border to each card. These cards were a beautiful tribute to Our Lord and His Blessed Mother!
While these hearts look great when colored with bold colors, they also look gentle and lovely when colored lightly. But if you are not fond of coloring, they look just as gorgeous uncolored!! They add a sweet pale-white splash to any wall or display!
How to make and use these hearts:These are so easy to make! Just print them off, color them (if you wish), and cut out around the hearts. They each have a thick gray border. Cut anywhere inside this gray border for a perfect and beautiful cut! It's so easy!
Use a hole puncher to create a hole (or holes) to hang these up. Depending on the way you want to hang them, you can make two holes or just one hole in the flame area.
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WOW, is all I can say. No, it isn't. I posted on Stage32.com's forum a few days ago, searching for someone to analyze my five (5)-page screenplay short, "Love Appeal". An experienced Horror Director/Writer (Shane W.) offered to analyze it free of charge.
This is what he had to say, "Hi Dawn, Read through the screenplay. It's a pretty unique story, not something done to my knowledge, and the quasi-silent film feel is an interesting touch. It has a nice feel to it, and it's a good story."
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Friday, May 16, 2014 — Friday, June 27, 2014
Opening Friday, May 16, 2014, 8 to 11 p.m.
Artist's talk Friday, May 16, 2014, 8 p.m.
Exhibition continues through June 27
A Hallwalls Artists-in-Residence Project (HARP) guest curated by Carolyn Tennant
The artist will employ multiple media in the exhibition, transforming the gallery into a temporary sinkhole museum complete with diagrams, wall texts, dioramas, videos and sculptural elements gathered in an exploration of both naturally occurring and man-made chasms. "These terrestrial features, while intimating an incremental, geological time, may also be sudden, cataclysmic events. On one hand plainly topographical, sinkholes approximate a kind of dream logic wherein at any moment one might drop into an alter-territory, as implicitly trusted surfaces give way," writes Stratman. "They are, precisely, events which 'take place.' They are, if we think in terms of cinema, like an edit in the landscape. In the exhibit, the metaphysical terror of an open hole whose bottom we can't fathom will coexist alongside a methodical cataloging of landforms."
A Chicago-based artist and filmmaker, Deborah Stratman is interested in landscapes and systems, and has previously worked in sculpture, photography, drawing, and audio in her pursuits and has exhibited widely at such venues as the Whitney Biennial, MoMA NY, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, and Walker Art Center. Her critically acclaimed films have been featured at national and international festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Full Frame, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, and the Robert Flaherty International Film Seminar. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, a 2012 Creative Capital award, and most recently the prestigious Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, 2014.
In addition to major project support for HARP from the National Endowment for the Arts, Deborah Stratman's presentation at Hallwalls was supported in part with a statewide Presentation Funds regrant from the Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes, with funds provided by the Electronic Media & Film (EMF) Program of NYSCA. SWALLOWS: Subsurface Voids is also partially supported by a grant to the artist from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.


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The Cardiology Department at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of services for the management of all aspects of adult Coronary heart disease. These services benefit from being part of the North Trent Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (pPCI) programme for the provision of acute angioplasty and stent, and for surgical revascularisation.
The department actively supports both Portfolio and non-Portfolio research in varying capacities, and works closely with a range of research partners, including those from industry, academia and other NHS Trusts. Specialist Nurse Practitioners work in partnership with dedicated Research Nurses to support active research. Clinical colleagues in this department remain committed to delivering high-quality research outcomes for all patients using this service.
The Cardio-Respiratory team continue to support ongoing research by providing a range of diagnostic services, including:
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The Philippines, is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Philippines is a country that contains a myriad of different amalgated cultures and influences. The superficial face of modern Filipino culture has many more influences from the Western world than other nearby Asian cultures. Most of these influences are a product of previous colonization and derived mainly from the cultures of Spain and the United States, with a secondary influence from Latin American cultures who were under Spain during the same period the Philippines was. Despite the visual Western and Hispanic influences, the older Asian aspects of Filipino culture are seen through the strength of filial piety, family and its influence, empahasis on the group before the individual, the concept of maintaining social harmony, ancient cultural beliefs and mythology, the complexities of local psychology (such as hiya or shame and the concept of saving face), and accepted social etiquette between other Filipinos. Within Asia, this Western-Eastern juxtaposition is most seen in the Philippines, and continues to fascinate many a guest to the country.
Signs of a faster growth appeared in the early 1990s. About 1.2 million tourists visited the Philippines in 1992, which was a record high in the number of tourist visits since 1989. The tourism growth of the year of 1992 gave the Department of Tourism a reason to forecast a positive outlook for the future years.[citation needed]
In 2000, the Philippines' tourist arrivals totaled 2.2 million. In 2003 it totaled 2,838,000, a growth of almost 29%, and it is expected to grow as much as 3.4 million in 2007. In the first quarter of 2007, the tourist arrival in the Philippines grew as much as 20% in same period last year. In the period of January to September 2009 alone, the government recorded 5.2 million tourists visiting the country


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Wiz Khalifa is nearing the release of his highly anticipated, Rolling Papers 2. It feels like the rapper's been working on the project for a long time at this point but he's dropped off some new music to hold us over until the project arrives in full. He recently revealed some of the features that would land on the project. Regular collaborators like Snoop Dogg, Ty Dolla $ign and Chevy Woods are expected to appear on the project but he's also has tracks with Gucci Mane, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Swae Lee. Today, he debuts his collaboration with Swae Lee, "Hopeless Romantic."
Wiz Khalifa and Swae Lee team up for their new collaboration, "Hopeless Romantic." Swae's a certified hit-maker at this point and with Wiz Khalifa on the hook, it's already sounding like it's about to be a certified summer smash. Swae Lee holds down hook duties and the first verse on the track before Wiz Khalifa comes through. It sounds like it's more of a Swae track than a Wiz song but we're not complaining.
With a new track out, we could only expect that Wiz Khalifa and Swae Lee will perform it on the forthcoming "Dazed And Blazed" tour. With that being said, check out the fire after the jump!
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Vaccination Myths
By Abraham Mathew Saji
In this modern and fast-paced age of advanced communication, healthcare professionals can encounter patients who have reservations about getting vaccinations for themselves or their children. There could be a myriad of reasons for this "fear-of" or "opposition to" vaccination. Some people have religious or philosophic objections. Some see mandatory vaccination as interference by the healthcare system into what they believe should be a personal choice. Others are concerned about the quality, safety or efficacy of vaccines; or may believe that vaccine-preventable diseases do not pose a serious health risk.
All those involved in the healthcare system in the administration of vaccines have a responsibility to listen to and try to understand a patient's concerns, fears, and beliefs about vaccination and to consider them when offering vaccines. These efforts will not only help to strengthen the bond of trust between staff and patient but will also help determine which, if any, arguments might be most effective in persuading these patients to accept vaccination. There are a few common misconceptions about vaccination that are often cited by concerned parents as reasons to question the reason behind having to get their children vaccinated. If staffs can respond with accurate reasons, perhaps it can not only help to ease parents' minds on their specific queries but also discourage them from accepting other "anti-vaccination information" at face value.
The goal of healthcare providers is not to persuade parents into vaccinating, but to ensure they have accurate information with which to make an informed decision.
Myth 1: "Diseases had already begun to disappear before vaccines were introduced, because of better hygiene and sanitation."
Statements like this are very common in anti-vaccination literature, the intent apparently being to suggest that vaccines are not needed. Improved socioeconomic conditions have undoubtedly had an indirect impact on disease. Better nutrition, not to mention the development of antibiotics and other treatments, have increased survival rates among the sick; less crowded living conditions have reduced disease transmission, and lower birth rates have decreased the number of susceptible household contacts. But looking at the actual incidence of disease over the years can leave little doubt of the significant direct impact vaccines have had, even in modern times.
For example, there have been periodic peaks and valleys throughout the years, but the real, permanent drop in measles incidences coincided with the licensure and wide use of measles vaccine beginning in 1963. Other vaccine-preventable diseases show a roughly similar pattern in incidence, with all except hepatitis B showing a significant drop in cases corresponding with the advent of vaccine use. The incidence of hepatitis B has not dropped as much because infants vaccinated in routine programs will not be at high risk of the disease until they are at least teenagers. Therefore a 15-year lag can be expected between the start of routine infant vaccination and a significant drop in disease incidence.
Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) vaccine is another good example because Hib disease was prevalent until the early to mid-1990s when conjugate vaccines that can be used for infants were finally developed. (the polysaccharide vaccine previously available could not be used for infants, in whom most cases of the disease were occurring). Are we expected to believe that better sanitation caused the incidence of each disease to drop just at the time a vaccine for that disease was introduced? Since sanitation is not better now than it was in 1990, it is hard to attribute the virtual disappearance of Hib disease in children in recent years in countries with routine Hib vaccination to anything other than the vaccine.
Finally, we can look at the experiences of several developed countries after they allowed their immunization levels to drop. Three countries namely Great Britain, Sweden and Japan, cut back the use of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine because of fear about the vaccine. The effect was dramatic and immediate. In Great Britain, a drop in pertussis vaccination in 1974 was followed by an epidemic of more than 100,000 cases of pertussis and 36 deaths by 1978. In Japan, around the same time, a drop in vaccination rates from 70% to 20%-40% led to a jump in pertussis from 393 cases and no deaths in 1974 to 13,000 cases and 41 deaths in 1979. In Sweden, the annual incidence rate of pertussis per 100,000 children of 0-6 years of age increased from 700 cases in 1981 to 3,200 in 1985.
It seems clear from these experiences that not only would diseases not be disappearing without vaccines, but if we were to stop vaccinating, they would come back.
Of more immediate interest is the major epidemics of diphtheria that occurred in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, where low primary immunization rates for children and the lack of booster vaccinations for adults resulted in an increase from 839 cases in 1989 to nearly 50,000 cases and 1,700 deaths in 1994.
Myth 2: "The majority of people who get disease had already been vaccinated."
This is another argument frequently found in anti-vaccination literature, the implication being that this proves that vaccines are not effective. In fact, it is true that in an outbreak those who have been vaccinated often outnumber those who have not — even with vaccines such as measles, which we know to be about 98% effective when used as recommended.
This apparent paradox is explained by two factors. First, no vaccine is 100% effective. To make vaccines safer than the disease, the bacteria or virus is killed or weakened (attenuated). For reasons related to the individual, not all vaccinated persons develop immunity. Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients. Second, in any population, the numbers of people who have been vaccinated vastly outnumber those who have not.
How these two factors work together to result in outbreaks in which the majority of cases have been vaccinated can be more easily understood by looking at a hypothetical example:
"In a high school of 1,000 students, none has ever had measles. All but five of the students have had two doses of measles vaccine, and so are fully immunized. The entire student body is exposed to measles, and every susceptible student becomes infected. The five unvaccinated students will be infected, of course. But of the 995 who have been vaccinated, we would expect several not to respond to the vaccine. The efficacy rate for two doses of measles vaccine can be as high as >99%. In this class, seven students do not respond, and they, too, become infected. Therefore seven of 12, or about 58%, of the cases occur in students who have been fully vaccinated."
As you can see, this doesn't prove the vaccine didn't work; just that most of the children in the class had been vaccinated, so those who were vaccinated and did not respond outnumbered those who had not been vaccinated. Looking at it another way, 100% of the children who had not been vaccinated got measles, compared with less than 1% of those who had been vaccinated. Measles vaccine protected most of the class; if nobody in the class had been vaccinated, there would probably have been 1,000 cases of measles.
Myth 3: "There are "hot lots" of vaccine that have been associated with more adverse events and deaths than others. Parents should find the numbers of these lots and not allow their children to receive vaccines from them."
This misconception often receives considerable publicity. First of all, the concept of a "hot lot" of vaccine as it is used in this context is wrong. It is based on the presumption that the more reports of adverse events a vaccine lot is associated with, the more dangerous the vaccine in that lot; and that by consulting a list of the number of reports per lot, a parent can identify vaccine lots to avoid. This is misleading for two reasons:
Reason 1: Most surveillance systems report events that are temporally associated with receipt of vaccine; these reports should not be interpreted to imply causality. In other words, an adverse report following vaccination does not mean that the vaccine caused the event. Statistically, a certain number of serious illnesses, even deaths, can be expected to occur by chance alone among children recently vaccinated. Although vaccines are known to cause minor, temporary side effects such as soreness or fever, there is little, if any, evidence linking vaccination with permanent health problems or death. The point is that just because an adverse event has been reported by the surveillance system; it does not mean a vaccine caused it.
Reason 2: Vaccine lots are not the same. The sizes of vaccine lots might vary from several hundred thousand doses to several million, and some are in distribution much longer than others. Naturally, a larger lot or one that is in distribution for a longer period will be associated with more adverse events, simply by chance. Also, more coincidental deaths are associated with vaccines given in infancy than later in childhood, since the background death rates for children are highest during the first year of life. So knowing that lot A has been associated with x number of adverse events while lot B has been associated with y number would not necessarily say anything about the relative safety of the two lots, even if the vaccine did cause the events. Reviewing published lists of "hot lots" will not help parents identify the best or worst vaccines for their children. If the number and type of adverse event reports for a particular vaccine lot suggested that it was associated with more serious adverse events or deaths than are expected by chance, most countries have a system which results in the lot being recalled.
Myth 4: "Vaccines cause many harmful side effects, illnesses, and even death – not to mention possible long-term effects we don't even know about."
Vaccines are very safe, despite implications to the contrary in many anti-vaccination publications. Most vaccine adverse events are minor and temporary, such as soreness or mild fever. These can often be controlled by taking paracetamol after vaccination. More serious adverse events occur rarely (on the order of one per thousands to one per millions of doses), and some are so rare that risk cannot be accurately assessed. As for vaccines causing death, again so few deaths can plausibly be attributed to vaccines that it is hard to assess the risk statistically. Each death reported would be thoroughly examined to assess whether it is related to administration of the vaccine, and if so, what exactly is the cause. When, after careful investigation, an event is felt to be a genuine vaccine-related event, it is most frequently found to be a programmatic error, not related to vaccine manufacture.
Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
One myth that won't seem to go away is that DTP vaccine causes sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This belief came about because a moderate proportion of children who die of SIDS have been vaccinated with DTP; on the surface, this seems to point toward a causal connection. This logic is faulty, however you might as well say that eating bread causes car crashes since most drivers who crash their cars could probably be shown to have eaten bread within the past 24 hours.
If you consider that most SIDS deaths occur during the age range when three shots of DTP are given, you would expect DTP shots to precede a fair number of SIDS deaths simply by chance. In fact, when a number of well-controlled studies were conducted during the 1980s, the investigators found, nearly unanimously, that the number of SIDS deaths temporally associated with DTP vaccination was within the range expected to occur by chance. In other words, the SIDS deaths would have occurred even if no vaccinations had been given. In fact, in several of the studies, children who had recently received a DTP shot were less likely to get SIDS.
Looking at risk alone is not enough. However one must always look at both risks and benefits. Even one serious adverse effect in a million doses of vaccine cannot be justified if there is no benefit from the vaccination. If there were no vaccines, there would be many more cases of the disease, and along with them, more serious side effects and more deaths. For example, according to an analysis of the benefit and risk of DTP immunization, if there was no immunization program, pertussis cases could increase 71-fold and deaths due to pertussis could increase four-fold. Comparing the risk from disease with the risk from the vaccines can give us an idea of the benefits we get from vaccinating our children.
The fact is that a child is far more likely to be seriously injured by one of these diseases than by any vaccine. While any serious injury or death caused by vaccines is too many, it is also clear that the benefits of vaccination greatly outweigh the slight risk, and that many, many more injuries and deaths would occur without vaccinations.
Myth 5: "Vaccine-preventable diseases have been virtually eliminated from my country, so there is no need for my child to be vaccinated."
It is true that vaccination has enabled us to reduce most vaccine-preventable diseases to very low levels in many countries. However, some of them are still quite prevalent and epidemic, in other parts of the world. Travellers can unknowingly bring these diseases into any country, and if the community were not protected by vaccinations, these diseases could quickly spread throughout the population, causing new epidemics.
At the same time, the relatively few cases that a country may currently have could very quickly become tens or hundreds of thousands of cases without the protection given by vaccines. We should therefore still be vaccinated, for two reasons.
- The first is to protect ourselves. Even if we think our chances of getting any of these diseases are small, the diseases still exist and can still infect anyone who is not protected.
- The second is to protect those around us. There is a small number of people who cannot be vaccinated (because of severe allergies to vaccine components, for example), and a small percentage of people don't respond to vaccines. These people are susceptible to disease, and their only hope of protection is that people around them are immune and cannot pass the disease on to them.
A successful vaccination program, like a successful society, depends on the cooperation of every individual to ensure the good of all. We would think it irresponsible of a driver to ignore all traffic regulations on the presumption that other drivers will watch out for him or her. In the same way, we shouldn't rely on people around us to stop the spread of disease; we, too, must do what we can.
Myth 6: "Giving a child multiple vaccinations for different diseases at the same time increases the risk of harmful side effects and can overload the immune system."
Children are exposed to many foreign antigens every day. Eating food introduces new bacteria into the body, and numerous bacteria live in the mouth and nose, exposing the immune system to still more antigens. An upper respiratory viral infection exposes a child to four to ten antigens, and a case of "strep throat" to 25 – 50. According to "Adverse events Associated with childhood vaccines", a 1994 report from the Institute of Medicine in the United States, "In the face of these normal events, it seems unlikely that the number of separate antigens contained in childhood vaccines, whether given orally or by injection, would represent an appreciable added burden on the immune system that would be immunosuppressive."
Indeed, available scientific data show that simultaneous vaccination with multiple vaccines has no adverse effect on the normal childhood immune system. Numerous studies and reviews conducted to examine the effects of giving various combinations of vaccines simultaneously have shown that the recommended vaccines are as effective in combination as they are individually and that such combinations carry no greater risk for adverse side effects.
Continuous research finds ways to combine more antigens in a single vaccine injection (for example, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) and chickenpox). This will provide all the advantages of the individual vaccines but will require fewer shots.
There are two practical factors in favour of giving a child several vaccinations during the same visit.
- First, we want to immunize children as early as possible to give them protection during the vulnerable early months of their lives. This means giving inactivated vaccines beginning at two months and live vaccines at 12 months. The various vaccine doses thus tend to fall due at the same time.
- Second, giving several vaccinations at the same time will mean fewer clinic visits for vaccinations, which saves parents both time and money and may be less traumatic for the child. In countries where there is a likelihood of reduced contact with the health care system, there is an added advantage of ensuring that there are no missed opportunities to complete the recommended vaccinations for a child.
Delaying vaccination or missing scheduled shots is playing Russian roulette with the innocent child. The simple truth is that the child is being left unprotected, at a time when he/she is the most vulnerable.
Delaying vaccination or missing scheduled shots is playing Russian roulette with the innocent child. The simple truth is that the child is being left unprotected, at a time when he/she is the most vulnerable.
- Vaccines given at government health facilities:
- Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), vaccine that gives protection against tuberculosis
- DTaP is the combination of diphtheria(D), tetanus(T) and accelullar pertussis(aP)
- DT is a booster dose which protects against diphtheria (D) and tetanus (T)
- Hib is Haemophilus Influenza type B
- MMR is the combination of Measles(M), Mumps(M) and Rubella(R)
- MR vaccine provides protection against Measles (M) and Rubella (R). MR Dose 2 at 7 years old, until year 2022
- JE is vaccine against Japanese Encephalitis. This vaccine is only provided in Sarawak, Malaysia
- HPV is Human Papillomavirus. This vaccine is provided only for girls aged 13 years. Dose 2 is given 6 months after dose 1
What it means
- BCG:Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (for tubercolosis)
- DTaP:Diptheria, Tetanus, accellular Pertussis
- IPV:Inactivated Poliovirus
- Hib:Haemophilus influenzae b
- MMR:Mumps, Measles, Rubella
- DT:Diptheria, Tetanus
- HPV:Human papillomavirus
- TT:Tetanus
Optional Vaccines
- Pneumococcal (2 months up)
- Influenza (6 months up)
- Rotavirus (6 weeks to 6 months)
- Hepatitis A (10 months up)
- Chicken pox (12 months up)
The optional vaccines above can be obtained at a private clinic or hospital of your choice.


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FRTB Overview
With FRTB, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has completely rewritten the rules used to determine how much capital banks must hold in order to offset their exposure to market risk. It replaces the existing standardised approach with a new calculation methodology, drastically changes the way in which model approval is granted and policed, replaces value-at-risk (VAR) with expected shortfall (ES) and alters the boundary between banking and trading books. It is clear that banks will face significant challenges with the introduction of FRTB.
The AxiomSL FRTB solution supports the standardised approach calculations i.e. the Sensitivities Based Approach (SBA) (including the Delta Risk Charge, Vega Risk Charge and Curvature Risk Charge for all risk classes, for example General Interest Rate Risk and Credit Spread Risk), the Default Risk Charge (DRC) and the Residual Risk Add-On (RRAO). In addition, the solution enables the execution of IMA models written in R within the platform.
All of AxiomSL's solutions are built on the same adaptable, high-performance platform. This gives clients the opportunity to reduce costs and complexity of compliance by using one platform to manage all requirements. AxiomSL's solutions are fully supported and are upgraded to reflect rule and reporting template changes. The unparalleled transparency gives users the ability to drill down from the reports produced to the calculations and source data.
AxiomSL is the leading global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions for banks, asset managers and insurers. It empowers clients with the tools they need to manage their financial, risk and operational requirements, and to comply with regulatory calculation and disclosure mandates around the world.
FRTB Solution Diagram
FRTB Benefits
Built in partnership with client
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Support for desk level calculations
Reporting capabilities – Internal and external to regulators
Not black box – users can view logic being applied
No fixed input format for data into the platform
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Ongoing monitoring of rule changes and provision of updates
FRTB Challenges
For many banks, FRTB implementation will require major changes to the current market risk infrastructure and while there are quantitative challenges it is important to be aware that this also creates a fundamental data challenge. FRTB will require firms to consolidate data from a number of sources both internal and external, including pricing and analytics, position and transactional data from trading or back-office systems alongside model outputs from risk engines. With so many data attributes and data sets to be managed, the depth and volume of data required – both firm-wide and at individual desk-level – is vast. It is essential that banks have a sufficiently scalable architecture in place to store this data and, additionally, a flexible data model that is able to adequately map relationships between datasets. As FRTB has a direct impact on business, getting data management right will result in a multitude of more tangible benefits.
Regardless of whether they currently use the standardised or internal models approach (IMA), banks will need to review their portfolios to determine if existing classifications of desks as trading or banking book are still applicable under the new trading book definitions or whether a revision of desk structure is required.
For banks choosing to apply the standardised approach, existing data feeds will need to be significantly amended and calculators replaced. The data required for the new calculations is more onerous than in the past, with the need to calculate deltas and vegas for prescribed risk factors and also the requirement to run both downward and upward shock stress scenarios in order to provide the data required as inputs into the standardised calculations.
For banks selecting to use IMA, models will need to be run at a desk level for the first time and both backtesting and P&L attribution tests must be implemented and then performed and passed regularly. Even if banks opt for the IMA, they will still need to implement the standardised approach for desks not gaining approval or for desks which fail the tests and are forced to switch from IMA to the standardised approach.
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Mr SPEIRS ( Bright ) ( 15:40 ): I rise today to pay tribute to the work of a great organisation which serves the community in my electorate: Meals on Wheels.
Meals on Wheels has a significant presence across the Bright electorate, having branches at both Hallett Cove and Brighton. I just want to talk about the service that Meals on Wheels contributes to the community and also provide some names of people who go above and beyond in their service to the local Meals on Wheels branches in Hallett Cove and Brighton.
The two organisations combined serve hundreds of meals every week to those who are perhaps a little frailer and unable to prepare their own meals. Not only does Meals on Wheels provide vital sustenance for many older people living in our community but Meals on Wheels also ensures that there is a knock on the door, that the doorbell is being rung and that someone is checking on these older people in our community on a regular basis.
That, I think, actually has equal value to providing meals to older people in our community—being able to have that ongoing connection, with a familiar face knocking on the door and making sure that they are doing okay. If they need any extra assistance, that can be brought to the attention of family, friends, or the appropriate authorities. That is often an unrecognised benefit of an organisation like Meals on Wheels, but one that I really want to emphasise is incredibly important to the community I represent. There are many older people in my electorate who benefit from this great organisation.
On 26 August this year, I had the pleasure of going along to the AGM of the Hallett Cove branch of Meals on Wheels. I was able to catch up with many of the regulars who are involved in putting that organisation together. It was an opportunity for the long-serving chair of Hallett Cove Meals on Wheels, Llew Jones, to step down from that role and to be replaced by Mr Gordon Burns, another Hallett Cove stalwart who no doubt will carry on Llew's great work in Meals on Wheels, Hallett Cove.
At the AGM at Hallett Cove, there were a number of achievement awards for service provided to those who are involved in that branch. I would like to name those people this afternoon. We had a number of people who received five-year service awards, including Eric Ebelthite, Raymond Hadchity, Robert Joyce, Anne Cavanagh, Beverley Leader and Wayne McGrath.
Eric Ebelthite was also a recipient of a City of Marion Unsung Hero Award earlier in the year for his work with Meals on Wheels Hallett Cove. Pat Anesbury and Carol Shaw were awarded 10‑year service awards, and Yvonne Gill received a 15-year service award. These are all people who have been exceptional contributors to the Hallett Cove Meals on Wheels branch.
I also want to make mention of the Brighton Meals on Wheels AGM, which I attended earlier this month, on 12 October. It is another great organisation, and a particularly large branch of Meals on Wheels. It is one of the largest in the state, serving quite a large area, covering the northern part of my electorate and stretching next door into the member for Mitchell's electorate as well. Mr John Francis is the chair there and does a great job and oversees a large group—an army, really—of volunteers.
Service awards which were given out included one year to Jake Glass, a friend of mine and someone who is doing great work for Meals on Wheels; five years to Norman Boucher, Monica McGee, Rosemary Miller, Bill Purling, Julie Skillitzi and Beverley Wigglesworth; 10-year service awards were given to John Conigrave, Terry Maddison, Olwen Moore and Maxine Reid; and 15-year service awards were given to Robert Earle, Margot Eime, Leon Gregory, Adam Jablonskas, Marian Maitland and Elizabeth Milner.
Twenty-year service awards went to Mary Francis and Rae Stranger; 30 years—this lady has been doing it for as long as I have been alive—went to Phyllis Boots; 45 years went to Margaret Fairhead; and a service award was also given to Brighton Uniting Church for hosting Meals on Wheels in our community for 55 years. Congratulations and thanks to them all.
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Harold Mitchum spent seven and one-half years on Okinawa studying with Master Shimabuku. In 1961, he was appointed by Master Shimabuku as the first president of the American Okinawan Karate Association. It was some seven years earlier, May 1954, that this Marine from South Carolina was introduced to karate by the company's interpreter-washboy who taught him a few Goju techniques. Later, on Okinawa, in addition to studying Isshin-Ryu, Sensei Mitchum studied Shorin-Ryu. His relationship with his teachers was very close, and he learned well.
After serving in Korea, Okinawa, and two tours in Vietnam, Sensei Mitchum returned to the South as a First Sergeant with twenty years in the Marine Corps. After retiring from the military, he opened a dojo.
His philosophy of karate is:
(1) "I personally think that tournaments have terribly distorted the public image of what karate really is."
(2) "I stress hard the very basics of karate and kata, and that when people have the perseverance to stay with karate long enough, they will know without having to demonstrate to themselves or anyone else when they have reached a high degree of enlightenment and ability. I believe in Master Funakoshi's philosophy that the ultimate aim should be the perfection of one's character."


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Ojai, California | 9th Public Talk 28th June, 1934
All reforms in religion, in moral standards, in social life and political organizations are merely the dictates of desire for adjustment to ever changing environment. That is what you call reform. Environments are constantly changing; circumstances are continually in movement, and reforms are made only because of the need for adjustment between the mind and the environment, not because the mind pierces through the environment, and therefore understands it. These new values are glorified as being fundamental, original and true. To me they are nothing else but subtle forms of coercion and conformity, subtle forms of modification; and these new values help, futilely, to bring about a scrappy reformation, a deceitful transformation of cloaks which we call change.
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What's Your Thanksgiving Centerpiece Style?by Suzie Kostick on November 18, 2018 at 7:36 am
Thanksgiving is a time when families gather, feasts are prepared, and we say our final goodbye to the growing season before winter covers the ground in a blanket of white.
There is something comforting about this autumn holiday as it provides time to pause and reflect on our surroundings and brings family and friends to the gathering table.
As you prepare for Thanksgiving, you'll want to make sure flowers are part of your celebration. This time of year offers a variety of textural blossoms in rich tones of golden yellow, velvety burgundy and deep oranges.
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Recently, there was a story on 60 Minutes that featured the iPad and apps for individuals with Autism.
While I can agree that the iPad is a revolutionary tool for students with a variety of disabilities, not just Autism, I tend to take the 60 Minutes piece as a piece for the masses. From a practitioner's point of view, my perspective is different.
I'm not the only one to think this way.
In a blog post by Adam Slota from ASHA, he speaks about the skewed view of the 60 Minutes piece gives in terms of the iPad. Simply "prescribe the iPad as a panacea for autism treatment, you know, just give the kid an iPad and he'll be on his way to communicating and that it'll unlock an new and undiscovered portal into their minds that we never knew existed".
Another blogger and long-time AT professional, Jeanette Van Houten speaks to the importance of finding the right TOOL for the end user. This message is not conveyed at all in the 60 Minutes piece. In fact, it detracts from the powerful tool that the iPad truly is and makes it seem that without the iPad, any and all therapies, teaching, and techniques that have been proven to work with individuals with Autism are virtually worthless. At least that's how the piece felt to me.
No one can deny the potential of the iPad as a powerful TOOL for learning for individuals with special needs- not just Autism. While there are a variety of Augmentative Communication Devices on the market that may provide the same function, yes, the iPad can be a lower-cost alternative. But before one goes forth and declares an iPad for one and all, it is wisest to do the homework and make an informed decision.
This is true of ANY tool that is used to enhance the educational experience of a student. Training, data collection, careful evaluation, and ongoing assessment must be in place before making a determination. Teams must ask the following:
1. What is it we want students to be able to know?
2. How do we know they've learned it?
3. What happens when they don't?
Looking at the setting, environment, tasks and tools is also a key component to assessing what, if any, Assistive Technology needs to be in place. Furthermore, student buy in is critical. If they don't like it- they are not going to use it.
While I've been fortunate to see first hand how the iPad can benefit students with Autism, it was done with careful planning, training, and assessment. Thoughtful implementation and consideration of matching the app to the learner is critical. Ensuring that the iPad is used as a tool for learning, communication, etc is paramount. Otherwise the iPad will amount to nothing than a flash in the pan or a glorified TV. This would be the greatest disservice to those that benefit from the device the most.


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