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If we began this article with the question, "How do we decide whether to build a production plant in a third world country which causes pollution but creates needed jobs?" well, there would probably be few readers. How many of us actually care to make those decisions.
But, buying a cup of coffee … many of us do that every day. And likely we don't think much about it. And probably we don't need to give it much thought. If it makes us happy to do so we'll probably do it and not give it another thought. Although, if we see an article that says it's unhealthy, we might give it more thought.
What that illustrates is related to a breakthrough discovery: To achieve a balanced life we have to balance our need for happiness with our need for life, or life's essentials, which we think about also as health or safety.
We are constantly balancing our need for happiness with our need for life's essentials.
Now, of course, a cup of coffee might give us a lift and so, it might actually help us to get our job done and in that way, it does help us to generate the money we need to pay the bills.
So, drinking a cup of coffee is related to both happiness and life's essentials. Things which relate to our essential needs, like for life (food, water, shelter) and happiness are a real hit with us humans.
There are two other things we crave: liberty and equality. We want to do things that make us feel free. And we want to be treated fairly or equally.
Going for a cup of coffee is a small way to express our need for freedom. And since so many of us do it, it gives us a sense of community. Starbucks has capitalized on this need people have for community, but it's something that we've been doing for a long time at other places. Starbucks, by providing what they call "the third place," that place other than work and home, has merely ratcheted up the "experience". The experience of satisfying a happiness need, a life's essential need, and our need for liberty and equality.
Now, these four needs are actually at the root of many challenges society is facing. This is something the authors Christopher Dunn, Esq. and Cathy LoGerfo have discovered. And they've written about it at length. Their journey to write about how we can better satisfy the needs of life, liberty, happiness and equality began with a seminal piece of writing by Yale's Guido Calabresi, now Federal Judge. The Honorable Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School, wrote a forty page law review article which Dunn discovered just before he went to law school. That article shows how we as a society can better balance competing tensions, such as the need for efficiency with other distributional aims.
Together LoGerfo and Dunn have written several works which provide a breakthrough understanding of how we behave and why we do things as simple as buying a cup of coffee or as complex as building a production plant. When we understand that we have four essential needs, which Jefferson referred to as inalienable rights, we can then make better more balanced decisions. It's all very complicated, and probably not worth thinking about when we get a cup of coffee. But if we're looking to make some tough decisions, it can be really valuable to recognize the insight into human behavior and systems that they've recognized.
Christopher Dunn, Esq. is an attorney and Cathy LoGerfo has a master's degree in elementary education, with background also in psychology and world religion. The two have combined to write and illustrate over forty-five children's books and twenty non-fiction books.
Those books are available at changetheworldu.com, their website, and also at Amazon.com.
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Growing up in Eighties Sydney, Laura dreams of travel, her imagination fired by her globe-trotting great aunt's suitcase of souvenirs. On the other side of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lankan Ravi does the same, but his ambitious mother values an education in science over one in geography.
As the years pass, Laura's fantasies become reality: she settles in London (where the monuments are 'iconic from tea towels') and becomes a travel journalist. Ravi, however, stays put, until an appalling atrocity forces him, traumatised, to flee.
Michelle de Kretser's sweeping and virtuosic novel is not just about travel; it's a journey through late 20th century existence.
As the internet arrives in Ravi and Laura's lives, the world shrinks and a tide of trivia roles in. The information age renders the guidebooks that Laura works on obsolete before they're printed - but, as de Kretser suggests, places have always been slippery things, seen through veils of fantasy and memory, shaped to fit travellers' tales.
Indeed, de Kretser could easily have written a satire and she seizes gleefully on zeitgeisty jargon. But her luminous vignettes are humane and nuanced and while her touch is feather-light, her epigrammatic prose is piercing. An outstanding novel.


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Troubled 2DayFM launching ad campaign
Troubled radio station 2DayFm is launching a new advertising blitz this weekend as it looks to restore its beleaguered reputation.
The new spot previewed on the stations' website features new signings Hamish and Andy, as well as station stalwarts Kyle and Jackie O and drive presenters Jules Lund and Fifi Box.
The Southern Cross Austereo-owned station achieved international notoriety at the end of last year when a prank call to the hospital where Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton ended with the suicide of a nurse.
It led to presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian, who were impersonating the Queen, going into hiding, an ad boycott and eventually the station donating profits from ads to the nurse's family.
Kyle Sandilands has also had his fair share of controversy for the youth-oriented station, and has been censure by ACMA on more than one occasion.


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This radiant, modern decorated 3 level penthouse is perfect for a stress-free getaway in one of the most residential areas of Medellín. (Video below!)
The home leaves little to be desired with its modern furnishings and beautiful built-ins. The bright and airy living room has one large on-trend couch. The dining area connects it to the fully equipped kitchen specially designed for home cooking. There's also a small office area to comfortably work from home and next to it there's the guest bathroom that features a shower.
Downstairs you'll find 2 bedrooms with TV, comfortable queen size beds, black-out curtains and closets. These 2 bedrooms share a bathroom with a shower, which is located on the same hallway. Next to these two bedrooms, there's the master one that features a private bathroom and closet, queen sized bed, and office area for more privacy, a smart TV and black-out curtains.
The 3rd level of this penthouse features a private suite with a queen size bed, HD TV, black-out curtains, private bathroom with shower and natural light, and a closet.
The building is well located in the sector of La Frontera, just between El Poblado and Envigado, walking distance from:
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You'd also be 8-10 minutes away by cab from the Poblado Park and Lleras Park (Provenza area as well).


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Chelsea are in a three-way battle to sign Brazilian midfielder Fernando from Spartak Moscow, according to reports.
The Blues have expressed interest in bringing Fernando, 26, to Stamford Bridge this summer but face competition from Tottenham and Everton.
Since joining Spartak from Sampdoria in 2016, Fernando has developed into a key player for the Russian side, playing over 30 games this season.
The Sun say Fernando's performances in Russia have caught the attention of a number of English clubs, with Chelsea, Spurs and Everton hoping to strike a deal.
The midfielder, who could still win the Russian Premier League title this season, has eight caps for Brazil and is expected to be on the move in the summer.
A number of Spanish clubs have also explored the possibility of signing Fernando, who is valued at £22million, with Sevilla and Atletico Madrid weighing up moves.
But Chelsea chiefs are determined to bolster the squad at Stamford Bridge after a difficult season and a midfielder will be targeted.
England international Danny Drinkwater could be sold having spent just one year at the club, while Tiemoue Bakayoko is struggling to adapt to the Premier League.
Antonio Conte is expected to leave Chelsea this summer and Roman Abramovich will hope to provide the incoming manager with a number of key signings.
This week, the west London outfit have emerged as surprise suitors for Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin and Manchester United forward Anthony Martial.
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If you need to record a video of what is happening on the Mac screen, then it can be done using the QuickTime Player program that is already in MacOS, that is, finding and installing additional software for basic tasks for creating screencasts are not required.
Below — about how to record video from the screen of your MacBook, iMac or other Mac this way: nothing complicated here. Unpleasant limitation of this method is that if you can't record a video played in this moment sound (but you can do screen recording with microphone audio).
Can also be useful: excellent free videoconverter HandBrake (Mac, Windows and Linux).
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To start you will need to run QuickTime Player: use the Spotlight search, or just locate it in the Finder, as shown in the screenshot below.
Next you should do the following steps to record the Mac screen and save the recorded video
As you can see, the process of recording video from screen Mac built-in MacOS is pretty simple and will be understandable even to a novice user.
Although this recording method has some limitations:
- The impossibility of recording the reproduced sound.
- Only one format for saving video files (files are saved in QuickTime format — .mov).
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We have all chuckled at the thought of what a Scotsman does (or doesn't) wear under their kilt. I also often wondered what they carry in their sporrans (the little black leather pouch worn around their waist). Well, it seems that traditional Scottish Highlanders in battle often carried a little sack of oatmeal in these little pouches. They would then mix some of the oatmeal with water and place the mixture on their shields which they used as a plate and cook the two ingredients over the campfire. The final product was known as the "Scottish Oatcake". These oatcakes were also known as the bread of Scotland dating back at least as far as the 14th century.


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It's a commonplace that pets resemble their owners (or vice versa), but the phenomenon has rarely been explored with such dogged glee. A 'mockumentary' tracking half-a-dozen contestants as they prepare for the annual Mayflower Dog Show in Philadelphia, Christopher Guest's film combines flea-on-the-wall observation with direct-to-camera interviews. The similarities with This Is Spinal Tap are plain, although most of the gags here are more of a smile than laugh-out-loud. Co-written by Guest and Eugene Levy, but apparently largely improvised, this caricatures a broad cross-section of social archetypes, from the gay couple (McKean and Higgins) with their shih-tzu, to the neurotic yuppies (Posey and Hitchcock) with their Weimaraner, and Guest's backwoods cajun, with his bloodhound Hubert. The performances are perfect, and the actors aren't bad either, but while it rightly celebrates the underdogs, the film doesn't humanise its stereotypes the way Spinal Tap did. The dog show itself is enlivened by an outrageous comic turn from Fred Willard as an addled TV commentator suffering from a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease. Levy is fun, too, as a cuckolded salesman with two left feet (literally).
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Tech trope supercuts may or may not play between sessions on the livestream. Lineup is subject to change. Check back for more information in the days leading up to the conference!
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Elizabeth Angell is an anthropologist studying how people live with the prospect of impending disaster. Her research focuses on earthquake anticipation in Istanbul. She's also written about industrial pollution, landscape archaeology, and the politics of infrastructure in Turkey and the United States.
Ruha Benjamin is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, author of People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (Stanford University Press), and 2016-17 fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her work examines the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine with a particular focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity. She earned her PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley, completed fellowships at UCLA's Institute for Genetics and Society and Harvard's Science, Technology, and Society Program, and has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine among others. Her work is published in numerous journals including Science, Technology, and Human Values; Ethnicity & Health; and Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science. For more info visit: www.ruhabenjamin.com
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We all have players like this. Players that you feel no one else collects or is interested in but you would buy an autograph of there's the second it hits eBay. For me it's Tom "Bruno" Brunansky. He will always be one of the heroes of the 1987 Minnesota Twins World Series team that I followed with bated breath as an eight year old in bordering Wisconsin.
Bruno only played 96 games for the Brewers before retiring but there aren't too many autograph cards for him out there so I'll take what I can get.


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Scottish actor James McAvoy let Hollywood beauty Angelina Jolie take "control" when they filmed an on-screen kiss for new movie 'Wanted'.
The 'Atonement' star admits he was worried about locking lips with the gorgeous actress, but Jolie helped put him at ease by taking charge of the situation.
He says: "I was nervous but after five minutes I thought this is going to be all right, it's cool. She was in very good shape.
"It could be anybody when you're kissing someone on film, you have to make it look good. She's pretty much in control of the situation."


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Hello there, folks! I just wanted to give everyone a few quick updates on the current state of things here at linksaveszelda.com. Nothing is wrong or anything, don't worry, but things are definitely going to be changing around here for a little while.
Among the changes, and the most important I'd wager, is the posts. While I obviously plan to keep on writing reviews and editorials I have to admit that they will be slow coming for the next few months. As some of you know I have gotten myself a new job at an Amazon Fulfillment Center. It's a great job and all that, but this does mean that I will be working 40-50+ hour weeks up until the holidays and if I am kept on as a permanent employee (I'm seasonal at the moment) then I will be working 40 hour weeks regularly. Right now I am having a hard time adjusting, it's hard work and I'm often rather tired at the end of the day. I will probably only be writing on my days off which means there wont be a ton of content posted in the next couple of months.
I'll also be moving out of my house and into an apartment with my fiance in about 2 weeks. I have lived at the same house since I was born, this is my first time moving, so I will be a bit busy with that in a couple of weeks. I probably wont have internet right away either, so that will also impact my ability to write and post content here on LSZ. I'm also planning a wedding and have a lot to do with that before the end of the year, again further impacting my ability to write due to lack of time. It's an exciting time for me, new job, moving out, getting married – but all these things will be making it tough for me to write stuff and post it up for you all.
While content may be sparse, I am still here and most likely still writing, just slowly. I have a couple of reviews in progress for Hyrule Warriors and The Evil Within, so expect those soon. A couple of other games are coming out this month, namely Assassin's Creed Unity and Dragon Age: Inquisition for me, and I obviously plan to review those as well. I have plans for a handful of editorials too, so you can look forward to those. With the end of the year approaching you can also expect some sort of Game of the Year post or series of posts, as I love to do those annually. Basically, there are still cool things in store for all you readers, but they wont be coming at a as fast a pace as I'd like to come so bear with me.
TL;DR – I wont be writing a ton for the next couple of months because life is making me sleepy but it's all super exciting and stuff so I'm happy but content here will take a hit as far as post frequency goes.
All that being said, I'd like to again extend my hand to any guest writers who would like to submit an article to LSZ. If you have an idea for an article or a review for a game I have not played or planned to review, let me know. I'd love to share your articles with my readers! Here is a link to some of the basic guidelines, you can also drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com with further questions or concerns (about anything, not just guest posts).
That's about it for updates, as far as I know. Keep an eye out for further updates posted by me via my Twitter and Facebook Page. I hope you all have a great end of the year, these are the best two months so enjoy them! Also, happy holidays for those of you who celebrate during these next two months as well. Break out the pumpkin spice lattes and holiday music, it's the most wonderful time of the year after all.
I love you all, never stop being awesome! XOXO
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Cities of Hubbali-Dharwad, Shivamogga, Tumakuru, Belagavi, Davangere and Mangaluru are the chosen six for the smart project.
The six cities have been chosen by the Centre, out of the 20 cities nationwide, to receive funds under the project.
Speaking to the media, Minister for Urban Development Department (UDD) Vinay Kumar Sorake said all the cities have been asked to submit their vision documents and Detailed Project Reports to the Centre by December 15, in order to proceed further for the extent of funding which have been given to each of the six cities.
"We have appointed an IAS officer for each of the six cities, who will be responsible for the preparation of the vision document. The Karnataka Urban Infrastructure and Development Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) will be the nodal agency for the project," said Sorake.
The vision document will be prepared by each of the six cities after eliciting public opinion on what needs to be done for their cities. The Centre has proposed three broad parameters for the purpose of preparing the vision document. Accordingly, the document needs to speak about the development of the existing municipal corporation, it needs to suggest the addition of new townships in each of the cities and complete the renovation and re-development of existing infrastructure projects.
At the other end, the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) project has hit a roadblock in the State.
The proposed AMRUT project financial sharing model, which was scheduled to see close to Rs 200 crore over the next five years for each City, has been rejected by the State finance department.
Under the scheme, Amrut was scheduled to see a 50:50 finance sharing ration between the Centre and the State. However, the FD has rejected the proposal of State government bearing the entire 50 per cent of the funds.
"As a result of this setback we have decided to bear only 20 per cent of the funds with the rest 30 per cent to be raised by the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) or by way loans from various financial agencies. The department is contemplating to seek ULBs with one to two lakh population to raise its own funds, and for those with three lakhs or more we will raise loans from financial institutions," said the minister.
The State Government is still dilly-dallying over its alternative proposals to the Smart City project for the cities of Bengaluru, Mysuru and Kalaburgi. Urban Development Department (UDD) minister Vinay Kumar Sorake on Monday said the government was keen on adding the three cities to the list of smart cities, but failed to do so.
"As for the alternative proposal for these three cities, we are still looking how to provide the funding for its development," he said.
He, nonetheless, said the department will float a new scheme for these three cities and follow the guidelines which have been proposed by the Centre for the Smart City projects.
Sorake said the government intends to divert funds from the Amrut scheme towards the development of Bengaluru as well.


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Popular Youtube travel vlogger and instagram user, Christian LeBlanc released a stunning 11-minute video that would make you want to scrap your travel plans abroad and explore the Philippines more.
Christian LeBlanc is a 22 year-old Canadian national that enjoys traveling and documenting it on his social media channels. He also gained insta-fame when an elephant grabbed his GoPro whilst vacationing in Thailand and took this rare and rather epic, uh, elphie. 😉
The photo has been shared throughout the world and in various news sites like CNN.
At 22, Christian has travelled to a slew of South East Asia countries with his girlfriend but decided that from all of the beautiful sites and places they've been, they have never fallen in love like they had with the Philippines. This video, aside from being very informative, can be viewed as a love letter to our lovely shores. So without further ado.
After traveling to Bali last December, I think I'm making it a point to stop my travels abroad for now and invest in getting to know the Philippines more. What do you guys think?
Share your travel plans with us in the comment section below. 🙂
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Lisbon is one of the greatest cities in the world with a mix of old culture as well as some contemporary art. GREAT food! While my family and I were in Lisbon we rented a beautiful three story Airbnb and this was the amazing view from the patio during sunset.
Albufeira is on the Algarve coast and is home to many of the worlds top one hundred beaches. While staying in Albufeira we rented a suite at a resort with eight beautiful pools and some amazing food. Albufeira is a very touristy place in Portugal. We went on a beautiful barbecue cruise and enjoyed food like the locals do. The picture to the right was taken from the cruise.


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Stony Meteorites
Meteoroids* enter the atmosphere at speeds of many miles per second. At those tremendous speeds, the air in the path of the meteorite is severely compressed. When air is compressed rapidly, its temperature increases (like air in a bicycle tire pump). This hot air causes the exterior of stony meteoroids to melt. The melted portion is so hot and fluid that it immediately ablates (sloughs off) and new material is melted underneath. A meteoroid can lose most of its mass as it passes through the atmosphere. When it slows down to the point where no melting occurs, the last melt to form cools to make a thin, glassy coating called a fusion crust. On stony meteorites, fusion crusts are seldom more than 1 or 2 mm thick. Except for some lunar meteorites (less than 1 in 1000 of all meteorites), fusion crusts are not distinctly vesicular - there are no bubbles. Some fusion crusts will show flow features; others may cover regmaglypts.
* Before it enters the atmosphere, it is a meteoroid - a small rock orbiting the sun. The visible light seen as it passes through the atmosphere is a meteor. After the rock lands, it is a meteorite.


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2 Flag Army flag display case
This case displays 2 flags, a USA flag with either Army or state flags, and also provides a good amount of space for your memorabilia.
This case is available in either Red Oak, Walnut or Cherry and comes with a red, black, blue or green backround.
Holds 2 flags a 3'x5' flag or the large Burial flags 5'x9.5'
Mounting brackets is included with the Army Flag Frame.
Outside dimensions are 22"x 26" x 3" for the 2 Flag and Medal .
Photos of real cases, that we have done for our Happy Clients!
Orders for the Army flag cases are usually shipped out within one business day to places within the USA and Canada.
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Orders for the Army 2 Flag Shadow case are usually shipped out within one business day to places within the USA and Canada.
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Anyone who has a business that entails sending their products to customers knows how important inventory, packing, fulfillment and shipping are. In fact, mundane as they are, these functions are vital for the success of any business.
While many businesses do their own packing, fulfillment and shipping, a growing number of specialist service providers will do it for you.
Whether you do it yourself, or hire a company like Technik to handle your packing, fulfillment and possibly also your shipping for you, it is important that you appreciate and understand what the best business practices are in relation to these jobs.
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Any products that are going to be shipped will need to be properly packed and labeled, either manually (which is generally time consuming and labor intensive) or done with an automated packaging system. However it is done, it's important that packaging and presentation are part of the ultimate shopping experience of customers.
Of course it is essential that goods are packaged in the best possible way for each product. It is usually best to keep packaging minimal and as small as possible, though it shouldn't make the product virtually invisible, and packaging must protect the goods being shipped.
This can be a challenge for many business owners since there is nothing obviously standard about packaging. It's not just fitting goods into the best containers, it's also got a lot to do with presentation. This is not as important if you are shipping directly to customers (though good presentation often tends to result in reorders, and bad presentation has the opposite effect), but it is hugely important for high street retailers who will be selling what they buy from your business off their shelves.
Branding is also important whether you are posting direct or aiming for shop shelves where your customers will hope your products will attract buyers. This doesn't only relate to the packages used, but also labels and printing. Furthermore, labels must be compatible with packages. If you can't place labels on boxes and other packages then you've got a problem already.
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Having taken care of packing issues, you want to be sure that packages are handled properly and carefully. For instance, you need to be sure the storage facility is clean and works efficiently. Packages must be properly stored and available for shipping on due date. It's not rocket science, but it often pays to call in a fulfillment provider, particularly a service provider with experience that has a warehouse that can automate the process for you.
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- Ensure that you can constantly review and revise content supply
- Balance the assets of the business quickly and accurately
- Mix and match the materials you work with and ship and in this way lower freight costs
- Reduce the printing and shipping costs of the business by minimizing excess materials
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- Pick up If you or your service provider is able to schedule pickups you can usually save trips to the carrier.
- Tracking Customers like to know where their purchased items are, especially if they cannot be delivered overnight or within a few days. Most good carriers are able to provide a tracking system because this really is good practice.
Other issues include how and what to charge for shipping. Whether you are shipping goods yourself or using a partner like Technik to do the shipping for you, you need to know what strategy will be used. If free shipping isn't an option, you can charge a flat rate regardless of what people buy, or you can charge what you will be charged by the carrier you are using. Both options can work, though flat-rate shipping is often complicated by certain factors, including products that differ in weight and size.
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We had a go today at work. Made a chocolate mug cake with melted nutella on top. I would say I have a healthy disrespect for recipes, but strangely mixing warmed nutella with boiling water to make a 'sauce' causes a strange chemical reaction in the nutella where everything seperates and disagrees with you and congeals into a peculiar gritty chocolate situation. Which is not unpleasant to be honest but I guess you couldn't sell it.
Here are some lovely recipes made by some people who measure ingredients.
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General CP – https://www.cerebralpalsy.org.au/about-cerebral-palsy/
CP Daily Living – http://cpdailyliving.com/
Texas State Agencies and Programs***
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Transition to Adulthood: Home Remodeling for Young Adults with Special Needs
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Some can take up to 10 years for your child to come to the top. It is important to call the numbers below and get placed on the interests lists.
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Pericles is classed as a 'late play' and a 'romance', filled sequentially with archetypal episodes of riddles, storms, supernatural intervention and long-lost children, and illuminated by flashes of the hero's psychology. Thought to have been composed in 1607-8, Pericles first appears in a 'bad quarto' of 1609, a badly damaged text that was not included in the First Folio of 1623. In 1664, it appeared in the Third Folio as one of seven apocryphal 'Shakespeare' plays 'never before Printed in Folio', though it is the only one of these plays to have been accepted into the Shakespearean canon. Based on the tale of Appollonius in the medieval poet John Gower's narrative poem Confessio Amantis (1393), it is now generally accepted that Shakespeare collaborated on the play with the pamphleteer, inn-keeper and possible bawd George Wilkins, who, in 1608, published a prose reworking of the play, The Painful Adventures of Pericles.
The action of the play is introduced by the poet Gower, who acts like a chorus throughout. He explains how King Antiochus had an incestuous affair with his daughter, and demanded that her suitors answer a riddle to gain her hand. Pericles solves the riddle, which suggests incest, and flees the city in fear of his life – first to his home city of Tyre, then to Tarsus. There he relieves the city from famine, to the joy of the governor Cleon and his wife Dionyza.
Pericles is pursued by Antiochus' servant Thaliart, so he leaves Tarsus. He is shipwrecked and rescued by fishermen in Pentapolis, who escort him to the court of King Simonides. He wins a tournament and the hand of the princess Thaisa.
Pericles and Thaisa set off for Tyre, but during a storm Thaisa appears to die in childbirth, and her body is thrown overboard. Pericles leaves his newborn daughter Marina with Cleon and Dionyza. Thaisa is washed ashore at Ephesus, where she is revived by Cerimon.
Fourteen years later, Marina is kidnapped by pirates just before Dionyza has her murdered. Marina is sold into prostitution at Mytilene, but she is determinedly chaste. A grief-stricken Pericles, having heard that Marina is dead, arrives at Mytilene, and the governor Lysimachus brings Marina aboard his ship. Father and daughter are reunited. The goddess Diana tells Pericles to go to Ephesus where he finds Thaisa.
Although apparently popular from its first performance to the late seventeenth century, Pericles has been relatively underperformed ever since, perhaps due to the difficulties of its trans-Mediterranean structure. Conversely, the play has been subject to trends in feminist, spatial and perhaps most significantly, psychoanalytic and criticism: the latter reads the play as part of the 'late play' dynamic of familial violation, loss, recovery and wish-fulfilment. The play's ending has been read, alongside other 'late plays' such as The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, a Christianized redemption.


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Many people go on and on about the beauty of this particular landscape or the other. They tell me how much they miss the hills of home or how there is something about the light in the sky that always tells them where they are. Each outcropping or stand of trees represents a landmark in their journey from childhood to maturity. Blah, blah, blah.
Frankly all countryside looks pretty much the same to me. As The Arrogant Worms put it: it's all rocks and trees, rocks and trees and water. Which pretty much sums it up.
I was recently in rural Alberta visiting my in-laws in the wake of my mother in law breaking her hip. It involved a lot of driving around. My wife was telling me how it was all so familiar, so Albertan. I responded that the only way I could tell I was in Alberta as opposed to rural anywhere else was by the large number of oil pumps extracting hydrocarbons from the ground. That's right. For me the most distinctive feature of the landscape was a manmade device important for powering cities.
Really, when I look around – to the extent that I can see through allergy blinded eyes – it all looks like empty fields broken by clumps of bushes or trees of various heights. I'm sure there is some variation in types of trees but really, it's all just wood, right? And one little valley shaped by a piddling ass stream is pretty much the same as another wherever you go.
Now I'm not oblivious to the spectacular. Mountains with snow on top have always impressed me as have really big waterfalls and the ocean. Though it has to be a real ocean like the Pacific and not some piddling little sea or lake. Yes, nature can be impressive but really, if you've seen one big gush of water going over a cliff, you've pretty much seen them all.
For the most part I view the country side as pollen filled wastelands one has to cross to get from one city to another. Not that every city is a wondrous place but in my experience they are all significantly different one from the other. No one is going to confuse Seattlwith Paris the way I confuse Saskatchewan and South Dakota or the wilds of New Brunswick with northern Ontario or Wisconsin. Contrary to what Karl Marx said, even an idiot must prefer cities to rural life.
Cities have character. They have interesting architecture. They have fine restaurants. And theatres. They have interesting people rather than coyotes and bears. They don't generally have an excess of allergens.
And they have airports which – to me – is the next best thing to teleportation.
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Captivating and Engaging: IB Drama Student-Directed Plays
Posted 04/02/2015 02:59PM
Don't miss five short plays performed by IB Theatre Arts students! February 4th & 5th, in the Fleming Theatre.
A fun night of drama written and directed by
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Wednesday & Thursday, February 4 & 5
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Tickets: Free for TE Community
Five short plays on the themes of Revolution, Destiny, Ambition, and Desire.


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The 1023 sq ft 2 storey townhouses, with undeveloped basement space, are now starting at $255,000 (including GST). You can choose from 6 colour combinations for your interior finishing based on your taste and If you are on a short timeline we have designed some great units that are move-in ready, or you can customize your own. The 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath units have standard finishes including carpet & linoleum (upgrade options for laminate & tile), shaker style cabinets in 3 colours, 2 choices of lighting packages, blinds package, $3200 appliance credit, as well as upgrade options for central air conditioning & granite countertops. One electrified parking stall is included with the option to purchase a 2nd stall.
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These are my Elk in the Pines quilts. I made them to give to the grandpas in our family for Father's Day. They are both men who love the outdoors. (We have some beautiful mountains in Utah!) They have both told me that they use them all the time. I feel that is the highest compliment for something I create. :D
They are the April mystery quilt at Stitches and Sew Forth. They are from the Elk Ridge collection by Riley Blake. The original tutorial used a 12 x 6 inch finished piece and two 6 x 6 inch finished pieces for each block. I changed it up by having the blocks made up of a 12 x 6 inch finished piece, a 4 x 6 inch finished piece, and a 8 x 6 inch piece. This makes the blocks more like a turning twenty quilt, and has less points to match. I also only used the large elk prints in the bigger pieces.
Here is the first one. It is for my dad. I backed it in an elk flannel print.
Here is a close-up.
Here is the second one. It is for my father-in-law. I backed it in an elk quilting cotton.
Oh, wait! The wind was really blowing. Hi, Hubby.
That is better. (Thank you, Hubby, for holding the corner.) Now, here is a close-up.
I decided to have fun and pose the quilts on my new patio furniture.
The quilts actually match my furniture well.
I really felt like I was sewing snakes to the quilts when I added on the binding.
I asked my husband if he thought it looked like snakes, and he said, "Coral snakes don't have that many colors." He is very practical. ;)
I still think it looks like snakes. I hate snakes, but I do love stripy bindings!
Here is a peek at the labels I added to the quilts. (I blocked out the personal information and message.)
Here is a picture of the backings. You can really see the stipple I quilted them with on the backs. I used an Aurifil 40 weight thread. (Normally I use 50.) It worked very well.
And here is one last picture of the two quilts together.
I would like to thank my hubby for hanging up the clothes line on our deck. The only purpose it serves is for hanging quilts for pictures. The nice thing is that I can take pictures of quilts without any helpers (when it isn't windy). He really is so supportive. He is definitely a keeper!
Quilt Stats #68-69
Name: Elk in the Pines I and II
Pattern: altered from this tutorial
Size: about 60 x 72
Batting: Hobbs 80/20
Date finished: 2013
What I learned:
- Aurifil 40 weight worked well for machine quilting.
- It is nice to change things up on patterns.
- Stripy bindings are awesome (but sometimes seem like snakes!)
- Mystery quilts are not my favorite. (I like more control.)


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Welcome to Custom Professional Learning!
A successful blogger once told me not to return from a blogging hiatus with "Well, it's been awhile since I've written." So, I'm definitely NOT starting this article with that! 😉 How's this?
This blog and site are dedicated to the power and promise of professional learning.
New site, new name!
The site certainly looks different than it did the last time you visited. I have a new business name, new logo, new colors, and new pictures. The site was long overdue for a makeover – but I'm no web designer. However, I wanted something customized and flexible. So… I set about to learn web design. Why am I sharing this? You'll have to wait for the next post to find that out!
More importantly, it's time for new content. This blog began with a strong focus on program evaluation, with articles on education, survey design, presentations, and data visualization. That will continue, but with a theme that ties all of these fields (my professional interests) together: professional learning.
You might know professional learning by another name – professional development, staff development, inservice, continuing education, or training. These terms have more nuanced definitions and different meanings in different fields. Also, you may or may not receive formal credit for licensure for participating in them.
Now, no matter what name we use, let's recognize that professional learning can be much more than those formal sessions and seminars arranged by our organizations. It can be attending conferences, taking online courses, and listening to podcasts whenever we want to. It can be reading books, journal articles, and blogs. It can be collaborating with colleagues on projects and learning from each other's expertise and talents. It can be following and interacting with others on social media, and participating in twitter chats and other online hangouts.
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Executive coaches become more common in companies as talent becomes more valuable.
Companies large and small are finding gaps in their organizations when looking at the next generation of leaders. A new focus has been to identify candidates with high potential and to begin developing them to ensure they are ready for the continued responsibilities of higher and higher levels of management. Perceptions have changed from helping low performers to catch up to helping exceptional employees reach their highest potential.


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1998 Bodenstown oration at Wolfe Tone's grave
New Stormont must be removed
In glorious sunshine Republicans gathered in Sallins, Co Kildare on June 14 for the Bicentenary Wolfe Tone commemoration. To mark the 200th anniversary of the 1798 Rising a short programme of music and song was presented beside a Liberty Tree before the parade set off for Bodenstown churchyard and the impressive graveside of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Protestant Father of Irish Republicanism, who died aged 35 in October 1798. Mary Ward, Republican Sinn Féin Vice-President, gave the keynote address:
Is mór ar fad an phribhléid do dhuine ar bith deis a fháil labhairt anseo ag uaigh Wolfe Tone, bunaitheoir an Phoblachtais in Éirinn. Ní gá a rá mar sin gur pribhléid fíor-speisialta domsa a bheith i láthair i mbliain seo '98 nuair atá 200 bliain cothrom an ama nuair a rinneadh an chéad éirí amach ar son phrionsbail an Phoblachtais. Is mór agam í mar phribhléid, mar bhean, mar Éireannach, mar Phoblachtach agus go háirithe mar Leas-Uachtarán ar Shinn Féin Phoblachtach — an t-aon eagras polaitúil atá gníomhach ar bhonn 32 chontae a raibh feachtas leanúnach acu in aghaidh an dá "Tá" san dá reifreann le déanaí, cé nach dtuigfeá é b'fhéidir ó chláir chúrsaí reatha RTÉ.
"We come to the holiest place in Ireland, holier to us even than the place where Patrick sleeps in Down. Patrick brought us life, but this man died for us. And though many before him and some since have died in testimony of the truth of Ireland's claim to nationhood, Wolfe Tone was the greatest of all that have made that testimony the greatest of all that have died for Ireland, whether in old times or in new.
"He was the greatest of Irish nationalists, I believe he was the greatest of Irish men. And if I am right in saying this I am right in saying that we stand in the holiest place in Ireland, for it must be that the holiest sod of a nation's soil is the sod where the greatest of her dead lies buried."
Those were the words spoken by Patrick Pearse in his oration at this very spot in June 1913. We in Sinn Féin Poblachtach in common with Pearse acknowledge the grave of Wolfe Tone as the shrine of revolutionary Republicanism, the place where the founding father of Republican idealism is buried. We come here today not just as an act of faith, we come to restate our programme. Tone has stated it for us when he said:
"To break the connection with England the never failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country, these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland and to substitute the common name of Irishmen in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and dissenter these were my means. It is to that definition of Ireland as a Nation and to that programme we declare ourselves anew here today."
Speaking in New York on the March 2, 1914 Pearse said and I quote "Let us not pledge ourselves unless we mean to pledge, we pledge ourselves to follow in the steps of Tone, never to rest either by day or night until his work be accomplished, deeming it the proudest of all privileges to fight for freedom, to fight not in despondency but in great joy, hoping for the victory in our day, but fighting on whether victory seem near or far, never lowering our ideal, never bartering one jot a tittle of our birthright holding faith to the memory and inspiration of Tone. Only we in Sinn Féin Poblachtach and we alone can stand here today and say yes we have kept our faith.
It is indeed sad to note that in the age of mass media soundbite it is necessary to distinguish which branch of Sinn Féin we belong to by recourse to the fact that we are, always have been, and are proud to proclaim REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin. What clear-thinking foresight had those loyal Republican activists who decided after the decision to recognise Leinster House in 1986 to stress our Republican claim at that stage!
We said at that time what we say still. That Adams and McGuinness and company had already set their minds on becoming some sort of Northern Fianna Fáil party, that would continue to claim to be representative of a 32-county revolutionary aisling but in fact is now confined to a declining form of resentful populism that may currently be strong in some urban ghettos but in no way represents the broader Republican family even throughout the six of the nine counties of Ulster that are still ruled by Britain.
For make no mistake about it, those six north-eastern counties of Ulster, which even RTÉ and the Irish News not to mention the wider pro-British media increasingly refer to as "the province" are still ruled by, with, and from Westminster. The latest Blair trick simply confuses people with abuse of language in a manner that hides the reality but distorts terms like "Ulster" etc. in such a way as to remove the perceived international "blame" for the situation from the door of No 10 Downing Street, in a manner that was never possible up to this.
We in Republican Sinn Féin drew attention over the past year or two to this strategy that was aimed in our view at making a re-constructed British rule in Ireland more benign, and because others would be sucked into co-operating in it would be all the more difficult to end. But even those of us who have read the lessons of the past, feared another dishonest "fix-it" pro tem could hardly have suspected that British imperial policy could have been more successful in so short a period.
I am not saying that all is lost or that there were not darker days even in our own lifetime for the Republican cause. The saddest and most amazing thing about this current sell-out however, is not only that it has been so well camouflaged, but is in fact being "sold" by some of our former comrades not just as a stepping stone a la Collins, but in fact a victory.
Even younger Republicans in our midst are well aware that sell-outs are nothing new—not just of ideals and principled positions but in the honest use of language and in open and honest discussion of the issues themselves. This while Gerry Adams says he is on the road to the Republic for which he once fought and encouraged others to sacrifice their all, David Trimble and his Orange Order bullyboys have asserted that the Union is safe, indeed that union of 1800, forced through by bribery and corruption in the aftermath of the Republican challenge to British rule in 1798, was safer than ever. Both men cannot be right. You know that, I know that and Adams knows that! At least in the past when some former comrades, who used to assemble here with us in Bodenstown, changed their tactics or even their aims, they had the honesty to admit that, to suggest like Fianna Fáil in the 1920s that they were going another route towards the same or admit like the Officials did in the 1970s that they had changed their minds altogether and proceeded to adopt a classical pro-unionist position themselves albeit with some pseudo Socialist trappings that were swept away some years later.
It was left to this generation however for the revisionists and counter-revolutionaries to confuse people further by not only defying the constitution of Sinn Féin as it had been since Griffith's original "political organisation" embraced the Republic declared in arms in 1916, at the historic 1917 Ard Fheis, but by holding on to the title of the organisation itself — in spite of the clear change of direction.
But even those who remember the clear differences in ideology which were spelled out by my late husband when he spoke here in 1987, could hardly have imagined some of the Alice in Wonderland brands of Republicanism that have now taken place. And what of suggestions that if you cannot get rid of the RUC you can at least work towards "reforming" them — by offering jobs as RUC informants to some former IRA prisoners, whose release will depend on Gerry and Martin remaining good boys We all know that when Dev got into office in 1932 he released the Republican prisoners then being held by Cosgrave and the others who had abandoned the Republican path ten years earlier. But we also recall that many of those released were offered positions within a few years in the Broy Harriers—and the legacy of these gentlemen with their "specialist inside knowledge" of Republicanism in the 1930s and '40s.
Those who went along with the Leinster House compromise in 1986 must be worried with the recent attempts by Adams and Britain's right to rule in Ireland by suggesting that even elected constitutional MP's stay at home in Ireland and get on with idling up the Dáil in Ireland. The point needs to be made perhaps, that the issue about going to Westminster or recognising any British right to govern any part of Ireland is not really the path, as the Provisionals now De Valera-like protest.
The real issue is what the hell is any Irish representative doing in Westminster in the first place, or in England for that matter. Except of course as a member of a militant Republican delegation that wants to talk to HMG about the one and only real issue in this context. Arrangements for ending British rule in Ireland.
Gerry Adams was released from internment in 1972, at the insistence of some of the founders of Republican Sinn Féin, living and dead, to form part of such a delegation to the British Tory Government of the time, with one main issue only. Negotiations aimed at getting a British declaration of intent to leave Ireland in a phased and orderly manner of course.
But a clear distinction was and had to made at all times by people like the late Daithí Ó Conaill, who knew what Tone was all about, and John Hume who even in 1972 was suggesting, indirectly of course, that once he had gained a Stormont seat at the expense of former Nationalist Party leader Eddie McAteer, it was time for all the boys to seek political jobs, even in that corrupt distortion of Irish democracy that was Stormont, and which cost all of us including my late husband such a huge price in blood, sweat and tears before it was brought down in March 1972.
In that regard, it may be worth asking Mr Hume, Mr Adams and indeed all those political and establishment figures who have thrown themselves behind the new Stormont agreement on the anniversary of the 1798 Rising, in what way the current, basically dishonest deal is better than Sunningdale, for example?
Austin Currie once a nationalist, then SDLP and now a Fine Gael TD in Dublin is telling everybody that what we have on the table now is considerably less than Sunningdale, negotiated by Liam Cosgrave, Garrett Fitzgerald and Conor Cruise O'Brien in December 1973.
And whatever else one may think about Liam Cosgrave and his government they did NOT sell out Article 2 and Article 3 of the 1937 Constitution at that time, just as Garret Fitzgerald —in spite of his protestations about a life-long campaign to scrap these articles—his government wrote the 1985 agreement specifically so that no change in Article 2 and Article 3 would be required.
But Bertie, it seems, had no problem at all in outbidding the Blueshirts. He had fewer problems it seems with this than he had with appointing Burke to Cabinet!
The late John Joe Rice, Sinn Féin TD for South Kerry, used to recall how Fionán Lynch once advised his Sinn Féin followers at the 1918 General Election that "there will be some who may come back here in later years and preach a doctrine other than the basic Sinn Féin position and they will tell you this is now Sinn Féin policy."
Given Lynch's role a few years later as a Cumann na nGael TD and as a Free State Army "Chief" in Kerry in the lead-up to the Ballyseedy period, it may be worth noting that Fionán himself was one of the ones who returned and tried to turn Wolfe Tone ideals and methods on their head.
Let us therefore ignore the revisionist historians, the spin-doctors, the various media and political attempts to turn Tone and '98 upside down and explain it away in terms of current political necessity. True Republicans, but also honest people who may not be Republican at all and may even to opposed be our views also know that it is not possible to believe Adams, Trimble, Hume and Ahern at the same time.
Honest people, be they historians, politicians, students or just ordinary folk, all know that to omit the Tone dictat "to break the connection with England" makes an insulting mockery of Tone's gospel. All those loaded chat shows that continue to feature John A Murphy, Conor Cruise O'Brien and all the same old tired suspects, while ignoring scholars; who have in fact researched, updated and sought to set 1798 in context for this the 200th anniversary are evidence of this.
In that regard can I recommend the excellent job of editorship done by our Cathaoirleach Seán Ó Brádaigh. His Songs of '98 is exactly the type of popular but informative booklet in two languages (le beagáin den bhFraincís tríd freisin) that should have been produced by the Department of Education and distributed through the national school system. That is if we still can refer to our school system as being in any way national.
Can I also mention Patrick C Powers Irish Historical Press publication on the Courts Martial in the various parts of the country in 1798 and 1799. Here the sheer injustice and cruel follow-up of "British justice" is revealed in a fashion which still shocks even in the context of the time. The bigoted racialist bias of their lordships and the ruling elite in general is clear. As is the on-going treachery of some Castle Agents — above and beyond the sad pathetic betrayal of many rebels, comrades who sought only to protect their own hides. The irony of all this of course is that even those Irish Republicans who betrayed their own for whatever price usually did not get an opportunity to benefit from the deal. Paddy was Paddy and remained Paddy!
Even the Catholic bishops who backed the Act of Union in the hope that they would then see Catholic Emancipation and parity of esteem, were as disappointed as Cathal Daly, no doubt, will be, when having failed to get the picket on Mass-goers in Co Antrim withdrawn over the past two years dared to join the Head of the Parachute Regiment, Charles, when the Crown Prince opened the Corrymeela building in the predominately Nationalist Ballycastle, without even as much as a whimper of protest about this denial of basic religious liberty.
In summary, British policy in 1798 was one of repression. Those on top stayed on top and made some begrudging concessions in the aftermath of the French revolution — but only to the extent that was necessary to try and bind a certain segment of the non-establishment population, Presbyterians and later on the growing Catholic middle class—in submission, in a form that would involve Catholic leaders from O'Connell through Maynooth to Redmond, in keeping the rest in their place.
For since, through Famine, land wars, Home Rule struggle, even the Treaty negotiations that arose from the rebellion of 1916 and the Declaration of the Republican First Dáil Éireann, British policy always has been in broad terms, to concede a minimum, mainly that which she could no longer pursue in the light of international attention, but at the same time to frustrate the growth and development of Irish trade and commerce, employment and industry, arts and culture, native education and language, even simply democracy and equal social and constitutional rights.
Of course in recent times, the approach has become somewhat more sophisticated. Clearly, a "spin" must be part of the root cause of the problem, because America is worried. Britain, which retains the straight vote for Westminster and ignored the massive institutionalised gerrymandering ways of Stormont for 50 years, must pretend to be on the side of "democracy" now.
Even though her main contribution to "democracy" in this country , as soon as it became clear that she could no longer hold most of the island even by brute force and official terrorism. HMG then drew a line on the map of Ulster that had nothing to do with geography, or with anything else in fact, except a naked sectarian head count.
Not even a cultural event of the magnitude of Blueshirt Bono joining John Hume and David Trimble on stage can hide the legacy of this the original denial of normal democracy in this land. We in Republican Sinn Féin will continue to highlight these basic issues in spite of all the thoughtless hype and ballyhoo!
On the bicentenary of the 1798 Rising we answer those commentators who state that Irish Republicanism has run its 200-year course and is at an end.
In due course the euphoria will pass as the New Stormont fails to deliver and non-sectarian Republicanism will come into its own again as the last hope for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity with the "breaking of the connection with England". Republican Sinn Féin will work and prepare for that day and be ready once more to give the lead.
The New Stormont will be a barrier administration between the British government and the Irish people. It will be a self-perpetuating power bloc dispensing patronage to its supporters.
As such it will have to be taken out of the way on the road to a free and independent Ireland.
An entirely artificial means has been devised to administer under British rule an artificial area carved out of Ireland. It cannot endure, no more than did the Sunningdale agreement nor the original Stormont. Regardless of the outcome of the referendums in two geographical fragments in Ireland, Republican Sinn Féin is continuing to campaign for British disengagement from Ireland and for a new four-province federation with maximum devolution to local level as the best guarantee of a permanent peace in Ireland.
Do not make the task more difficult. Do not cement British rule in place. Do not strengthen the New Stormont. Do not vote in the elections to the New Stormont on June 25. Boycott them and weaken British rule in Ireland.
The Republican Movement today is a modern, enlightened and progressive movement as can be seen from our policy documents ÉIRE NUA, SAOL NUA, and Towards a Peaceful Ireland; just as Tone and the United Irishmen were in their day. They were the foremost thinkers of their age as were the leaders of the 1916 Rising when they addressed their Proclamation to "Irishmen and Irishwomen" at a time when women did not even have a vote. Today we are in the world vanguard of liberation struggles and forward thinkers – in keeping with those who have gone before us on this path.
In May 1795 Wolfe Tone visited Belfast for the last time, as he expressed it himself. "I remember particularly two days that we passed on Cave Hill. On the first, Russell, Neilson, Simms, McCracken and one or two more of us on the summit of MacArt's fort, took a solemn obligation which, I think I may say I have, on my part, endeavoured to fulfil — never to desist in our efforts until we have subverted the authority of England over our country, and asserted our independence.
That bedrock link prevails to the present day in this Movement.
Having kept our Republican faith let us who have come here today to this holiest place renew the pledge of Tone.
An Phoblacht Abú!


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Archive for October, 2013
A thousand ways to be a great teacher: A look at estimation
When I was is in grade 2, I had an awful experience with estimation. My teacher, Mrs. Wright, was great. I loved her to death, but man did she make me feel stupid that day. I can't remember exactly what we were supposed to be estimating that day, but it was something in centimeters. I remember coming up with a number close to 200. Again, I don't remember exactly what we were measuring, but I was WAY off. We were asked or told (?) to share our estimate. When I shared my answer, everyone laughed. I think the answer was closer to 30. I felt AWFUL.
I don't know why this one learning experience had such a negative impact on me, but I can tell you it was somewhat traumatic. I know I was a keener, but I imagine I had SOME other wrong answers in my elementary school career. Why was this one so important to me? Why do I remember this negative experience to this day? Why has it impacted me for the rest of my life?
You might be thinking, Danielle, really? Aren't you being a little dramatic? You can't tell me an estimation experience in grade 2 affects you today. Well friends, it has. Less than a half an hour ago, my friend and I walked into this pd classroom session and she said, "how many people do you think are in here?" And I said these exact words, "I don't know, I am bad at estimating."
And it's true, I am bad at estimating. It's been proven time and time again at concerts or big events where there are tons of people, I really do suck at guessing how many people. But my question is, had I not had that negative experience back in grade 2, would I be a better estimator today? Would I have been willing to try harder at learning this skill? Would it have transferred into my life RIGHT NOW? Hard to say, but now that I recognize this, I need to do 3 things:
1) stop saying I am bad at estimating, and start trying to use strategies to help me become a better estimator.
2) make sure that I share my experience with my class every time I am about to teach estimating so they hear the negative impact it had on me, and so that they are aware of not making others feel like I once did.
3) share this experience with others so they can feel sorry for me. Just kidding- share it with others so that my experience can help others reflect on their own childhood learning experiences and how they affect our lives today.
What early learning experience have you had that you know affects the way you do something as an adult?<


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Each year the Zonta Club of Woodstock hosts fundraising initiatives to raise money to support our commitments to Oxford County, District, and International projects.
Rheo Thompson Mint Smoothie Chocolates
Sold at local markets and designated stores to raise funds for club initiatives.
These famous Mint Smoothies come in creamy milk chocolate accented with a delicate mint flavour.
Available at:
- Mostly Roses between Nov. and Feb.
- Woodstock Market in Nov. and Dec.
International Women's Day
Rose Sale
The funds raised from the sale of individual roses, pre-ordered roses or in the community, go directly to our International Programs.
Zonta Golf Classic – Women Golfing for Women
This annual event held in early summer brings together community sponsors/donors and women golfers to raise funds to improve the health and the status of women in Oxford County.
The Classic is held at the @ Craigowan on the first Monday of June. All funds stay in Oxford County.
Thank you BDO for continuing to be our Platinum Event Sponsor, and Scotiabank for our Platinum Matching Fundraised $ Sponsorship and Kinsdale Carriers as our Golfer Registration Gift Sponsor.


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Tianjin, China (Web Desk): News about Samsung Note 7 battery catching fire have hardly faded from memory when the fire erupted in Samsung SDI factory in china which was making batteries for Note 7.
According to details, Samsung SDI Co., a supplier of batteries to explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 smartphones reported, a "minor fire" broke out at a plant in northern China but was quickly put out.
The fire occurred at a waste depository, not a production facility, Shin said.
Pictures that were circulated on social media, showed plumes of black smoke rising into the air from what users described as a plant operated by the affiliate of Samsung Electronics Co. in Tianjin.
The fire didn't affect production, spokesman Shin Yong-doo said on Wednesday.
Samsung SDI was one of two battery suppliers for the Note 7 smartphones, which was eventually killed off after a global recall. Samsung Electronics this month completed a probe into the device and cited flaws in battery manufacturing and design for the fiasco.
SDI said this month is has invested about 150 billion won ($129 million) in safety and that its batteries will probably be used in Samsung Electronics' next smartphone model.


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