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We giggled through classics and spent time with Homer Price and his thousand donuts and a giant ball of string. We were in a state of complete calm. I remember clearly, the kids asking if they could rest for a while. I remember nodding yes.
They grabbed sheets from the bathroom and set up a make-shift tent. They curled up on blankets and pillows and spent at least an hour just being still. Calm. Quiet. Recharging. Imagining. Thinking. And yes, even dozing.
I watched them closely and thanked God for our humble little life. The very thought that we can rest overwhelms me. Because I know those that can't and I know some children around the world couldn't dream of such a luxury as an afternoon nap in a grassy, shaded backyard.
As I gazed at my children, happy, comfortable curled together - I realized how deeply they need this rest. This peace. This togetherness and this time to wind down.
You know, it's ironic - in a cultural where children could easily enjoy all the freedom in the world to REST, most don't. Or simply can't.
Because they don't have enough time.
There are so many wonderful aspects to the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education. We were drawn to this style of homeschooling because we believed so firmly in her methods. In fact, for the most part, we were doing many of them before we had ever heard her name. Once I read through my first Mason book, I was hooked. This woman knew what she was talking about.
One of the most beautiful things about adopting the Mason style of learning is this - it promotes giving freedom for children to rest. We do all our 'formal' lessons, activities, etc. in the morning. The afternoons? They are for a time of nature study, exploring, individual learning, play, outings to the market or to see a friend, and yes - lots and lots of time to rest.
As I speak to so many parents both with children in school and out, I often notice a reoccurring theme. Parents are stressed to the limit with how busy their children are. I can't believe the schedules of some kids! If I tried to maintain that schedule, I'd by exhausted. And I have a high level of energy!
I mean, swimming lessons, after-school tutoring, Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey (especially here in Canada), Soccer, art lessons, church activities, social group activities, you name it. So many children have school all day then head to an activity every single night of the week. We're running around like crazy people trying to entertain our children with as many delights as their hearts desire. Or maybe sometimes - as many 'experiences' as we feel necessary to check off that list. The list of must-dos to 'grow a great kid'.
My question is, when do children have a chance to rest?
When can children sit and reflect? Or curl up and quietly read. Or create something out of nothing? Or lay down and have a nap on a sunny afternoon? When can children have a long, relaxed conversation with Mom about anything and everything? How do they have enough time to truly develop into their own? To grow, to imagine, to lay in a fort in the backyard and feel the cool breeze on their toes? When do kids get the chance to be media-free, activity free, busy-work free, distraction free, PEER group free? Expectation free?
When can a child just be a child?
For children who are schooled, determined parents have to fight for their child's ability to play, to rest. I know them, those Moms who stand firm in their beliefs that kids need to be kids. They have to wrestle for less homework and earlier dismissals and every possible avenue to allow for more freedom from the hectic schedule. We need to be fully aware of how the over-burdened child is affected by his adult-paced schedule.
I believe we've been lied to. We believe activities and events and kids' groups and clubs and classes, and apps on the ipad, and brain movies will all help grow our children into responsible, active, intelligent, successful human beings. You know, the type of people who really achieve things.
Maybe not.
Here's my observation -
We're so consumed with flooding our children with 'opportunities' that we are robbing them of the one, most fundamental childhood opportunity - to just be a kid.
I think in many ways, we're missing the whole point.
Childhood is a glorious time when we can afford to run free and wild and explore an insect for hours. We are sheltered at home and develop our deepest bonds, values and giftings. It used to be common for children to play outdoors, imagine for hours on end, and spend days at the stream. Now - most children spend little to no time outside, have a full time "job" all day, and spend their evenings doing homework and taking part in endless extra-curricular activities. Where is the actual 'childhood' in all this crazy busy-ness?
Charlotte Mason did not suggest that children shouldn't have full, rich lives. She preached quite the opposite, actually. But she was an advocate of allowing children the time to grow within themselves. That means less time being taught, being coached, being led, being entertained. More time walking independently, learning in a close-knit circle, experiencing a cornucopia of advanced ideas and concepts. Advanced Math, Phonics, and Language Arts. She believed children were capable of much and we ought to challenge them in every way possible. Oh yes, and plenty of time to draw, paint, pick flowers, discuss cultural topics, and experience real life.
And after this - rest. Play. Nature study. Laying under a tree, dreaming the afternoon away. Every afternoon. Every day. She believe in the power of childhood. And so do I.
We need to allow our children time to be children. It is vital to their development. I see so many children who are overwhelmed, over stimulated, angry, and exhausted. I pray we could gravitate back to the natural, the far more 'sane' as Charlotte Mason would have put it.
We need to fight for our children to remain children for as long as possible.
We need to believe God made childhood for a very special purpose and trust children with their own calling - to be what God created them to be. We need to allow time for children to rest in themselves and in the world around them. Time to be at ease and time to get bored. Time to snooze and time to breathe.
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On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War
By Kim Moody (Haymarket Books, Chicago 2017)
Reviewed by Dougal McNeill
Is there a revival of working-class confidence happening in Aotearoa? The PPTA and NZEI are going into bargaining with big pay claims (e.g. 16 percent over two years for primary teachers) and health workers went on strike for the first time in decades. The NZEI went on strike in winter, and will have rolling strikes in term four. So far this year there has been action by bus drivers, at Event Cinemas, Wendys, Auckland trains, Lyttleton port, Burger King, Blue Star Group printers and Silver Fern Farms. Wellington bus drivers begin an indefinite strike in late October. Their brothers and sisters in Auckland will follow.
This revival takes place, however, in a context of ongoing crisis for our movement. Membership has fallen massively. In 1985 almost half of the workforce was in unions but, by the 2010s, less than 9% of those in the private sector are members. We lost some 320,000 members through the 1990s, as the Employment Contracts Act made it difficult to organise and easier for bosses to attack. Workers' confidence to fight has slipped. There were 381,710 days 'lost' to strikes in 1988; by 2014 that number had slumped to just 1,448. The benefits of union membership are concentrated in the public sector, and union members are older than the working population generally.
What explains this decline? Many commentators argue that the nature of work has changed over the last thirty years, making union power less relevant. We have seen the rise of a "precariat", Guy Standing claims, drifting in insecure jobs with little to gain from unionism. Others look for new ways of building – the 'organising model' – that use community support and savvy media campaigning to work around our workplace weaknesses. Helen Kelly pioneered imaginative campaigning like this, and the Living Wage movement has won victories with similar approaches. There's much here to support, but it still avoids, rather than confronts, the key question: without union power, the power of the strike, what future will our movement have?


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While not advertised very much and primarily only known to the "locals", the Jackson Meadow Recreation Area is a hidden jewel in the Tahoe National Forest.
The Jackson Meadow Recreation Area is about an hour's drive from Truckee in a beautiful area of the Northern Sierra. To save that long drive back into town for forgotten camp items, food, ice, or more fishing bait and tackle, the Jackson Meadow Camp Store is conveniently located on the western border of the Recreation Area. The Camp Store is located in a historical U.S. Forest Service wilderness fire station, which is now used as the administrative area for managing the Recreation Area.
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1/7/2011 - Pants optional? D.C.-area blogs
Happy 1st Blogiversary to WashingTina – one of our favorite bloggers. Here's to many more years of blogging.
7/8/10 - Gird Your Liver: The WMATA Drinking Game
Fabulously forward-thinking local blogger WashingTina offers up the WMATA Drinking Game -- so even if your trip is hot and horrendous, you won't end up caring all that much.
7/23/10 - DC Blogger WashingTina highlights the oddly humorous moments of living in our nation's capitol
Given her unique sense of humor and an overnight success at creating a new pasttime for commuters, it was only proper to have a chat with WashingTina to find out more about this DC personality.
8/2/10 - Beautiful Blogger Award
8/6/10 - Aisle surfing, breakfast pizza: 5 D.C. blogs
If you commute by bus – or even Metro – you'll appreciate these tips from WashingTina on aisle surfing, or how not to end up in another passenger's lap when no seats on the bus are available. And I agree -- I have a hard time staying balanced standing still in four-inch heels without having to do so on Metrobus.
9/23/10 - Meet the Faregate Moron
The Faregate Moron, the Pole Dancer – recognize these creatures? WashingTina describes the unique characters found at the Metro station.
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Don't forget to take notes on problems, ideas, data you should collect next (either for this project, or in future research). These go into your Discussion section, and help the reader decide how accurate, detailed and truthful you are being.
A code is a short word to help you remember a theme.
Codes can come from subjects own words (an "in vivo" code)
Codes can also come from the literature (an "a priori" code)
Codes can change, combine & split later
Quote: "I don't like studying when the weather is cold"
Possible Codes: "likes", "dislikes", "weather"
1) to use expensive "CAQDAS" programs (Atlas and Nvivo) if you have lots of data, money, help, and time.
2) Metacoding (limited use)
3) Use one of the stricter methods - e.g. "Analytic induction", "Constant comparison"
For the interview project, I recommend "Cut and Sort"
1) Make sure each line has the speaker and line number
2) Print the transcript
3) Read it once. Highlight the important bits
4) Write a code next to each highlight (see below).
5) Next, cut the transcript into strips - one for each code
6) If one strip has more than one code, copy it
7) Shuffle the strips
8) Start making piles. For each new strip, ask "is this the same or different" for each pile.
9) Keep adding new strips and splitting/combining the piles until it makes sense
10) Split each pile into sub-piles, if necessary.
11) Name the piles and sub-piles. These are your themes.
For details, read page 94-96 of
Ryan, G. & Bernard, H.R. (2003). Techniques to Identify Themes. Field Methods, 15(1), 85-109


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Safe Third Country Concept and Joint Action Plan
The current JAP (Joint-Action Plan) pertaining to the readmission of irregular migrants to Turkey has raised several debates among experts. Many of them claimed that the plan is a "dead duck" and it is futile to take further steps. However, both the EU and Turkish delegations have maintained the negotiations and bargaining.
Turkey has been demanding €3bn+€3bn fundings to spend for the refugee's expenditures. In addition, it is predicted that EU countries will implement a visa exemption for Turkish citizens in the summer. In response to these, Turkey has pledged to cooperate with the EU to struggle against people-smugglers for preventing the irregular migration waves.
The Merkel Plan (mentioned also the Samsom Plan) aimed the legitimization of Turkey as a safe third country to allow for the readmission of migrants in the Greek islands. After a series of negotiations, EU and Turkish delegations have come to an agreement on the plan that is simply based on the exchange of 1 Syrian refugee (in Greece) and a Syrian asylum seeker (in Turkey). It was planned that Syrian refugees chosen from Turkish detention camps will be resettled in European countries.
In doing so, the EU has recognized Turkey as a safe third country as ESI proposed.
"the assumption that Turkey is a safe third country for asylum-seekers from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries so that Greece could return them to Turkey without jeopardizing their rights and safety. This would quickly reduce the number of boats crossing the Aegean as the dangerous passage would become pointless – everybody reaching Greece would be returned back to Turkey."
According to the Asylum Procedures Directive, a migrant/refugee could solely be sent back to a safe third country that has a guaranty for their protection-in legal basis-.
(a) "in which the applicant was previously recognized as a refugee and that he or she can still avail himself or herself of that protection" (b) "or where he or she can still enjoy sufficient and effective protection including protection against refoulement."
It could not be argued that a country which has low crime rates would be defined automatically as a safe country. It is just about its legal structure that how it affiliates with the international agreements on the migration statuses. In a Statewatch report, it is explained clearly:
A 'safe third country' is a state through which a person fleeing from his or her country of origin has passed and where he or she could have found protection, but has not done so. If this person applies for asylum in another state, the latter might consider his or her claim inadmissible and could decide to return the applicant to the 'safe third country' he or she had previously passed through. Therefore, the 'safe third country' concept implies that asylum seekers should claim asylum in the first 'safe country' they are able to reach.
Remembering Safe Third Country Concept
The Asylum Procedures Directive, as it was referred, mentions a first country of asylum in which the applicant is recognized as either refugee or a person "enjoys sufficient protection." Turkey retained a geographic limitation for the ratification of 1951 Geneva Convention for the Status of Refugees. So it pledged giving refugee status when only an event occurs in Europe. Therefore, Syrian and Iraqi migrants could not be recognized as a refugee within the Turkish legislation.
Instead, the government takes some steps to adapt the changing conditions. Firstly, the Law on Foreigners and International Protection (entered into force in April 2014) that is originated from the EU asylum regimes was implemented. This move was seen a hopeful act so it was celebrated by UNHCR as in a press brefing:
"The High Commissioner for Refugees welcomes new legislation, recently adopted as a reflection of Turkey's strong commitment to humanitarian values and principles. UNHCR, which has supported the drafting process, considers this an important advancement for international protection, and for Turkey itself, which has a long history of offering protection for people in need.The new law incorporates key elements of international humanitarian and human rights law. It provides for the establishment, under the Ministry of the Interior, of a specialized institution to manage international protection. This institution will also prepare the implementing regulations over the next year."
However, this prediction had not come into reality. In the second place, on October 2014, TPR (Temporary Protection Regulation) was implemented. It involves a guarantee of temporary protection for migrants who have TPR identity document. However, numerous Syrian refugees have yet another type of document -FID (Foreigner Identity Document)- So it is leading a great confusion.
Refugee Rights Turkey (an organization that provides legal information and assistance services to asylum seekers) states:
"both the "foreigner identity document" and the "temporary protection identity document" are indisputably documents as they are issued by competent authorities, and bear the sign and stamp of these authorities. us, there should be no reluctance on the part of public notaries to rely on the nature of these documents. However, it is observed and reported that in many cases, persons under temporary protection are requested to present their passports or identity documents issued in Syria, and those who fail to do so, are denied to give power of attorney to their legal representatives."
After the new legislative arrangements, a new institution which focused on taking responsibility of the asylum regime. DGMM (Directorate General of Migration Management) manages the procedures of asylum operations. the RRT report gives further information on the procedures and rights of refugees:
"Persons who were forced or compelled to flee their home countries because of war or persecution and are therefore unable to go back have the right to seek asylum in Turkey. In order to seek asylum in Turkey, you have to approach the Directorate General for Migration Management (DGMM) and make a request for asylum. even if you are unable to find another country agreeing to admit you for a long-term settlement, you shall be allowed to stay in Turkey indefinitely on the basis of your "international protection status".
The temporary protection regime is just in use for Syrians and stateless (heimatlose) Palestinians came from Syria. Others have to apply to a status for international protection whose procedure is managed by DGMM. However, only a small part of this application was accepted. So it is even problematic that how these "limbo" statuses will be reached a solution.
Unfortunately, neither Syrian refugees who are settled in the camps not all of the others have not been well-informed about their legal rights. There are many cases have been reported on even the fundamental human rights abuses in the Turkish camps. One of them was announced in January of 2016 by 11 NGOs Amnesty. It reveals the lockdowns to a number of refugees, criminalizing people kept in the camp and violation of the human rights in Erzurum/Askale camp for the asylum seekers. These examples can prove that legislative arrangements would not apply in practice.
Don't Need to be so Optimistic
Until quite recently, Turkey has not an adequate legal structure to cover all aspects of the asylum regime and refugee crises. The current laws that have been implemented a couple years ago could not be applied entirely now. Actually, this is an outcome of the inadequate human capital to conduct the procedures. Besides, the new legislative arrangements caused a bicephalous structure which makes an efficient plan difficult to manage.
The current political chaos, serious threats of ISIL and PKK terrorism, and several concerns about the press freedom are other factors to be pessimistic for Turkey. In these gathering darkness in the politics and the legal structure, it is an exaggerated optimism to think Turkey as a safe third country. After the failure of deal with Ankara, EU has been already looking for new alternatives to cooperate for combating with the rising irregular migration.


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Title and Author: Water Princess, Fire Prince by Kendra E. Ardnek
Name of Reviewer: Dragon Writer
Rating: PG
Reason for choice of rating: Romantic tension between the two main characters, people getting turned to ice and melted, epic battle at the end with mild fantasy violence
The Review:
Rizkaland is unique and every bit as much fun as Bookania, but in different ways. The world is cylinder-shaped, science works differently there, and of course, portals exist between our world and there, so our hero and heroine are not native to Rizkaland.
The main characters, Clara and Andrew, hail from our world, and get pulled through a doorway into Rizkaland in order to fulfill a prophecy and save multiple kingdoms from Amber, the dragon who threatens their world. However, Clara and Andrew aren't certain they want anything to do with this destiny that has been thrust upon them. And they certainly have no interest in falling in love with each other, as the prophecy seems to imply must happen!
Things I Loved:
The Writing Style – It's hard to describe a writing style, as each reader is going to have a different sort of taste or preference, but Kendra's writing just sort of draws me in and invites me to pull a warm blanket around my shoulders and settle in, because I just know I'm about to embark on a fun adventure.
Andrew – Andrew is my favorite character in this story. He is responsible, caring, compassionate, and exactly the sort of person you'd want on your side if you had to go up against a dragon. I love that he represents a more "hearth-like" sort of fire, the steady, gentle glow that keeps you warm, rather than the raging inferno or devouring monstrosity that "fiery" personalities usually engender. But that doesn't mean he's weak, on the contrary, it might take more to get him riled, but Andrew is no slouch when it comes to protecting the people he cares about. He has a core of steel.
Clara – Although it took me longer, I did eventually grow to enjoy Clara. She got on my nerves a bit in the beginning, but she was frightened and so I suppose it makes sense that she felt the need to be prickly. I also have a soft spot for feisty, talented female protagonists who are a bit marshmallowy inside than they seem. Clara's not as tough as she'd like you to think she is.
The plot - From mazes and puzzles to solve, journeys across foreign lands, quests to find each other, hints that not all is as it seems, and the culmination of an epic battle… this story was fun to read!
The references – Clara quotes things. I quote things. I think, on that front, we'd be kindred spirits. It makes me happy that I "got" every reference she made, and it was entertaining to come across these little quote-nuggets throughout the book.
Things I Didn't Love:
As I mentioned earlier, Clara took a while to grow on me. She starts out kind of obnoxious, and I sort of wanted to shake her every now and then.
There were a few places where the story felt like it dragged a little and nothing seemed to be happening.
The battle at the end sort of felt like it ended too easily, like Amber had been hyped-up a bit too much… I guess I was expecting something a bit more epic and grand in scope.
The "it's all going to end okay" use of prophecy throughout the story kind of grated a bit on my nerves. Don't get me wrong, I love the prophecy trope (I wrote one, myself!), I love books with happy endings and I always want the good guys to win… but I don't want to know a quarter of the way into the book that the ending WILL be happy and that the good guys will win. For me, that detracts from the adventure. Everything was spelled out so neatly in the prophecy, it wasn't a mysterious prophecy, it was a "this is what is going to happen, so get on board and go do it" kind of prophecy, and for me, that made it hard to get too worried about the characters.
These are minor quibbles, however, and overall the story was an enjoyable read.
Ideal Audience:
I think this would be a great book for readers 12 and up who enjoy bantering characters, sword fights, and portal fantasy.
Books and movies you would compare this to:
I recommend it to anyone who enjoys The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Inkheart, or portal fantasies in general.
Did you have a favorite character or least favorite character?
Favorite: Andrew
What mood did this book leave you in?
Satisfied... but that EPILOGUE!!! *sobs*
Applicable Tags: Allegory, Children's Christian, Dragon, Epic, Fairy Tale, Portal Adventure, Coming-Of-Age, Magic, Quests, Princesses, Young Adult
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City of Greenville
Planning Commission
Regular Meeting
4:00 PM January 17, 2019
10th Floor Council Chambers, City Hall
Welcome to the Planning Commission meeting. The Commission is responsible for reviewing and taking action on various types of land development applications including subdivisions, multifamily residential projects, and final development plans. In addition, the Commission makes recommendations to City Council on planning-related studies, the Comprehensive Plan, and proposed zoning ordinance and map amendments ("re-zonings"). The Commission usually meets the third Thursday of each month. For your convenience and to help you follow along with the meeting, an overview of the meeting procedure is provided below. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the process and locate the item(s) of interest to you on the agenda.
Public hearing rules and procedures:
Written comments and materials intended for the board members should be given to a staff member for distribution before the meeting begins. Any comments that were submitted to the Planning office prior to the meeting have already been provided to with the commissioners for their review consideration.
Revised 1/16/19 at 4:00 PM
1. Call to Order
2. Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Chair
3. Roll Call
4. Approval of Minutes – December 20, 2018
5. Call for Public Notice Affidavit from Applicants
6. Acceptance of Agenda
7. Conflict of Interest Statement
8. Old Business
Application by Jay Martin for a SUBDIVISION of 1.86 acres located at 808 MCDANIEL AV from 1 LOT to 6 LOTS (TM# 0217000500700)
Application by Dan Bruce for a REZONE of 19.4 acres located at HAYWOOD RD and PELHAM RD from R-6, Single-Family Residential District to PD, Planned Development District (TM#s 0278000200300, 0278000200301)
Deferred to February 21, 2019, meeting as requested by applicant.
Application by W. Norman Hamilton for a MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT on 3.7 acres located at 254 S PLEASANTBURG DR (TM#s 0266000130100, 0266000130101)
9. New Business
Application by Arbor Engineering for a SUBDIVISION of 1.38 acres located at 607, 611, and 617 N MAIN ST from 3 LOTS to 25 LOTS (TM#s 0004000102100, 0004000101800, 0004000101900)
Application by John Lattimore for a SUBDIVISION 0.705 acre located at ZORA DR and WEBSTER RD from 1 LOT to 4 LOTS (TM# 0199030100104)
Deferred to February 21, 2019, meeting as requested by applicant.
Application by Blue Bridge Properties LLC for a SUBDIVISION 0.15 acre located at W PARK AV from 1 LOT to 3 LOTS (TM# 0004000101500)
Application by Integras - Dallas Rd, LLC for a SUBDIVISION of 81.12 acres located at DALLAS RD from 1 LOT to 65 LOTS (TM# M010020101500)
Deferred to February 21, 2019, meeting as requested by applicant.
Application by CAP Camperdown LLC for a SUBDIVISION of 1.022 acres located at S MAIN ST, FALLS ST, E BROAD ST, and JAPANESE DOGWOOD LN from 1 LOT to 4 LOTS (TM# 0061000304101)
Application by Arbor Engineering for a MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT on 1.32 acres located at 317 WILKINS ST (TM#s 0095000800500; 0106000200300)
Deferred to February 21, 2019, meeting as requested by applicant.
Application by Reid Hipp for a STREET NAME CHANGE to change BLISS WAY to JOSEPH MATHIS WAY in subdivision SD 18-021 located at SUMLAR DR (TM# 0201000101803)
Application by John Batson Jr. for an APPEAL located at 103 MORNINGDALE DR from Sec. 19-6.9 Single-family residential infill standards (TM# 0180000200400)
Application by City of Greenville for a STRATEGIC PLAN to adopt the WADE HAMPTON BOULEVARD STRATEGIC PLAN for properties on BEVERLY LA, BROOKSIDE CIR, BUENA VISTA AV, CHICK SPRINGS RD, DUPONT DR, E STONE AV, GAY ST, ITASCA DR, MT ZION AV, MOHAWK DR, N CHURCH ST, N PLEASANTBURG DR, SPARTANBURG ST, STAG ST, TYTAN CT, WADE HAMPTON BLVD, and WELLINGTON AV (see project documents for TM#s)
Application by NAI Earle Furman, LLC for a REZONE of 63.69 acres located at 200 FAIRFOREST WAY from I-1, Industrial District and S-1, Service District to S-1, Service District (TM# M011010100307)
Deferred to February 21, 2019, meeting.
Application by City of Greenville for a TEXT AMENDMENT to Section(s) 19-3.2.2(O) RDV: Redevelopment district deleting part (3) buffer and parking exemptions for mixed-use developments
10. Other Business
A. Monthly Comp Plan Update
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Get up to date with the latest Australian car seat safety information
Making sure your baby's car seat complies with the latest safety requirements is a legal obligation. It is a good idea to seek the services of a professional child car restraint fitter to ensure peace of mind. Your baby car seat retailer should be able to assist you, or alternatively visit the Royal Automobile Club in your state or territory and see if they provide restraint fitting services close to home.
Travelling with your Child
It's important to know how to position your children when travelling.
If travelling with one child only, place them diagonally opposite the driver's seat, so they are not travelling on the 'traffic side'.
Remember, your baby's car seat need to fit not only the baby but also the car! Be aware of your growing baby and how it's position in the car will need to change as it grows.
The following is a guide only and based on information for Victoria – your state or territory legislation might differ.
Determining the right restraint for your child
Six Months and Under
If your child is under six months of age, they must travel in a rearward facing approved child restraint
Six Months to Four Years Old
If your child is six months to four years old, then it comes down to their size.
Your child must travel in either a forward facing or rearward facing approved child restraint with deciding factor will be your child's size.
Four to Seven Years Old
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Your child should should travel in either a forward facing approved child restraint with an inbuilt harness or should travel in an approved booster seat.
The deciding factor will be your child's size. It's important to be observant of how your child sits in the car.
Seven to 16 Years Old
If your child is aged between seven and 16 years old, then it comes down to their size,
Your child should travel in an approved booster seat or can sit in an adult car seat using a seatbelt.
16 years or over
Your child is ready to use an adult car seat with a proper fitting adult seatvelt.
Note: a booster sear may be used with a child safety harness or a lap-sash.
Too Tall or Heavy?
If your child is too tall or too heavy for the restraint recommended for their age group road rules allow your child to use an approved restraint in the next age level category to them. However:
The restraint must be the right size for your child (do see a professional restraint fitter if you are unsure)
The restraint must be properly adjusted and fastened
The restraint must be correctly fitted to the vehicle
Does my Restraint meet Australian Standards?
All child restraints must meet Australian & New Zealand standard (AS/NZS 1754). This standard has been carefully designed to ensure your child is the safest when travelling and is one of the strictest child restraint standards in the world.
When purchasing your child restraint, make sure you look for the standards approved sticker.
What is CREP?
CREP stands for Child Restraint Evaluation Program, and it is essentially a body of independent information about the level of protection from injury provided by child restraints. In addition CREP details just how easy it can be to use a child restraint. The online resource is supported by VicRoads, RACV and TAC in Victoria.
What is ISOFIX?
ISOFIX is a method of attaching a child restraint to your actual vehicle, without using a seatbelt. ISOFIX compatible child restraints have connectors that attach to ISOFIX anchors (in cars that have installed ISOFIX anchors). These child restraints also come with a top tether strap – it is obligatory to use this strap as well. In short – ISOFIX compatible child restraints give you an alternative option to using a seatbelt.
Learn more about ISOFIX
For more handy car seat tips & advice, see the following articles:
3 car seats in the back seat - some useful tips!
Child Seat Safety - How to Fit the Seat the Right Way
Journey to one, two, three car seats
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text: Many women in Jordan make Jameed to earn extra money for their families [Areej Abuqudairi/Al Jazeera]Karak, Jordan - Nouf al-Jarajreh, better known as Um Faisal, has become a national icon for making Jameed, a Jordanian specialty consisting of balls of salted and dried yoghurt, made with sheep or goat milk. The yoghurt acts as a key ingredient in Jordan's famous lamb-based dish, Mansaf, which symbolises Bedouin hospitality. Jordanians say the country's Bedouin citizens invented Jameed so that they would have something to offer their guests year-round. "Our Bedouin ancestors are generous people and their main concern was to provide guests with something to eat," said Um Faisal, as she sipped cardamom-flavoured coffee beneath an arch of grapevines in her garden. If life turns against you, you have to turn to your skills... I began making Jameed to sell it. - Um Faisal, mother of eight After her husband's alleged death by gunshot in Iraq, where he worked as a truck driver, 20 years ago, she became the sole breadwinner for her eight children. "If life turns against you, you have to turn to your skills," she told Al Jazeera. "I began making Jameed to sell it." RELATED: Becoming 'celebrity chefs' in the West Bank Now, the 70-year-old uses modern technology to make the traditional dish, and producing enough to meet orders from hundreds of clients. Abu Mahmoud, a local farmer, delivers fresh sheep's milk to Um Faisal every day during the early hours of the morning. Jameed's busy season runs between March and May, and according to local folklore, the city of Karak is known as the best place to make it. The secret lies in the quality of milk that sheep produce in Jordan's southern governorate, Um Faisal explained. "Here, [Karak] herds get to eat some herbs like Artemisia and Achillea, which makes the milk taste better," she said, as stirred the milk in steady circles with a big wooden spoon. Once foam forms on top of the milk, Um Faisal switches the stove off and lets it cool. She then works on perfecting homemade yoghurt - made by mixing the milk with active cultures and some ready-made yoghurt - which she later leaves to ferment for 24 hours. Meanwhile, she opens plastic buckets of already-made yoghurt from the night before and pours them, with some ice, in a whirlpool washing machine for about 20 minutes. "Ice is crucial here as it picks up butter very well," Um Faisal explained. Decades ago, before washing machines existed, women would use a piece of goat leather, known as Sigaa, and hung it between two wooden sticks. "By moving Siqaa back and forth, butter would form from the mixture of yoghurt and cool water brought from the well... It was really hard work for us," Um Faisal said. This year, Um Faisal has upgraded to a locally-designed washing machine, specifically used to produce Jameed in large quantities. As the machine swirls, butter begins to build in the middle, and the yoghurt turns into a creamy liquid known as Shaneenah. Um Faisal's daughter, Lamya, brings out cotton sheets, which they fill with the liquid after it had cooled. During the busy season of Jameed, the 29-year-old beautician takes some time off from work to help her mother. "I can only help with simple things as I have not mastered the art of making Jameed yet," Lamya said. They fill several bags carefully and slowly without wasting a drop. After they filled each bag, they squeeze all the juice and then rope it. "This is important to drain all the whey," Um Faisal said. RELATED: Waiting longer to marry in Jordan Finally, Um Faisal lines Jameed balls in rows on the table in her veranda, which is covered with a clear, cotton cloth. "I would leave them to dry here for a few days before taking them out," she said. "Jameed is sensitive to heat and dust, especially during its first few days." During Jameed season, her terrace space functions as a drying and display space. She has trays of Jameed lined up to dry and to sell for clients, and says that she can make up to 100 balls of Jameed per hour. In recent years, selling Jameed has become a major source of income for several families, especially those headed by women - Wesal Qsous, president of Women of Shihan Mountain Association Um Faisal has produced an average of 5,000kg of Jameed every year for the past 20 years, she says. She has regular clients who buy it every season, and who recommend her work to others. An increasing number of women have begun producing the traditional food for extra income. "In recent years, selling Jameed has become a major source of income for several families, especially those headed by women," said Wesal Qsous, president of Women of Shihan Mountain Association. "We have seen that women turn their basic knowledge and home kitchens into a workstation to survive financial hardships," she said. Fahmi Zubi, a member of the Jordanian anthropologists society, says changes to the economic situation of families have made certain social behavior acceptable. "It used to be terribly shameful if a Bedouin sold Jameed and that is why families made enough to save for them and for their guests," he told Al Jazeera. "But economical systems have evolved from self sufficiency and bartering to capitalism, certain social norms and values have changed," he added. Despite increasing demand for Jameed, Um Faisal is concerned about keeping the tradition of making Jameed alive. "It has become commercialised as more people make it to live off it," she said. "Maintaining good quality is the key challenge, as more elderly die without training youngsters to do that." SOURCE: Al Jazeera Middle East Iraq Jordan


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"As in the UK, the needs and expectations of German social investors and social enterprises are very different" – my latest feature for The Guardian's Social Enterprise Network looks at the emergence of social investment in Germany.
Tag Archives: social finance
The rise of European social investment
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Tagged as germany social enterprise, social finance, social investment
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Can Cook director, Robbie Davison, quotes Bob Dylan in his timely report, Does Social Finance Understand Social Need, published last week. The report gives a practitioner's view of the current state of the market for specialist social finance (also known as impact investment and social investment).
2012 was a strange year for the social investment sector. On the one hand, there was the triumphant unveiling of Big Society Capital (BSC). At the launch event for Big Society Capital, the prime minister, David Cameron explained that: "While direct grants from government might be going down, the money available to charities and social enterprises is actually going up. We are moving from the old stop-start hand-to-mouth way the social sector was funded, towards something new, and, I believe, very exciting."
On the other hand there was the growing atmosphere of discontent and anger within the social enterprise and voluntary sectors about the direction that this bigger, shinier social investment market appeared to be taking.
Davison explains part of the problem in the background section of his report: "The UK Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) will lose around £911million in public funding a year by 2015-16. Cumulatively, the sector stands to lose £2.8billion over the spending review period (2011- 2016). Current estimates reckon that there will be a replacement investment of £500m and this investment will be almost entirely loans."
Social investment organisations as a whole, and Big Society Capital in particular, have struggled to counter repeated attempts from government ministers, from the Prime Minister downwards, to imply that a bigger social investment market will directly ameliorate the effects of massive public sector cuts.
While these communications failures may be relatively easy to address, the key message of Davison's report is that it's the overall approach of the government-backed social investment sector, led by Big Society Capital, which is not fit for purpose.
For Davison, a social investment (or impact investment) market should be about: "Stepping back, then stepping in where there is societal market failure. Impact investment should be looking for solutions that overcome the deficiencies of the norm and take on the challenge of supporting services that wish to expand by providing solutions to societal need."
He makes the distinction between 'buyers' – investors primarily looking for an opportunity to buy an investment that will generate a return – and 'builders' explaining that: "The term 'builder' refers to a process of investment that is knowledgeable in its understanding of the problems and is patient in the reclaim of any investment. As builders, investors acknowledge that building takes time and is an episodic process that will understandably feature peaks and troughs in performance. During troughs, builder investors work with the investee to design the appropriate programme of support to enable their enterprise to cope and, later, prosper."
He adds: "Crucially, these types of investors are aware of the right time to dismantle their growth capital 'scaffolding' in order to demonstrate that they have helped build an enterprise that can stand on its own. In a market focused on tackling need, these lenders are the real change-makers. Right now, there is a chronic shortage of builder investors."
From his perspective as an experienced social entrepreneur who has received social investment he explains: "Today, the narrative is one of 'social investment' which looks top-down from the point of the investor, wherein, the debate has shifted from a focus on market failure addressing unmet need, to a leap of faith in social investment/finance becoming a good thing per se."
Despite the success of programmes such as Unltd's Big Venture Challenge, in demonstrating a positive role for grants in de-risking private investment in social enterprises, there is a growing orthodoxy amongst some in the social investment sector that grants are bad because they 'distort the market' for investment.
This position appears to ignore the question of whether a market that fails to respond to social need is really best left undistorted but Davison's report offers a pragmatic explanation for why grants are an important part of the social investment package: "For a multitude of reasons, larger organisations trading within the sector often have access to income streams that are out of reach to those smaller enterprises servicing the lives of the poor."
He adds: "In the face of growing need, it is therefore appropriate for these particular enterprises to fight for the continued injection of grant as both necessary capital for start-up and growth."
In his 2011 e-book, Betterness: Economics for Humans, the author and economist, Umair Haque, describes some of the problems of the global financial sector: "The role of the financial sector is to allocate the many kinds of capital, not to produce them. The producers of capital are fighting tooth and nail for a smaller and smaller share of the pie."*
He continues: "Such an economy is unsustainable in the deepest sense of the word: the incentives to produce capital are drying up, and that is why little or nothing is being added back to the buckets. Today's economy rewards people for merely allocating existing capital. That's not a recipe for prosperity; it's simply a game of musical chairs."
The key point of investment is what happens as a result of that investment (the impact). That's not just true for social enterprises and charities, and specialist social investment, it's equally important in the world of conventional commercial business.
While Haque is not commenting specifically on the market for social investment, and clearly the UK's social investment has the potential to develop into a positive alternative to the situation he describes, there's a big danger that we could end up with a social investment market that simply transfers the failed, rent-seeking behaviour of commercial financial markets into the social sector.
If conventional financial markets have failed/are failing because they've become focused on rewarding those who slice and dice capital rather than produce it, the last thing we want is a social investment equivalent – delivering investment to the low-risk organisations best able to interact with investors, while failing to develop pragmatic and/or innovative models for investing in organisations tackling the greatest social needs.
The answer to these challenges is clearly not to reject idea of social investment. In a thoughtful post on the Third Sector website earlier this month, Social Enterprise UK's Nick Temple recognises that social investment: "is officially taking on Marmite status: you either believe it will revolutionise the social sector (and the investment industry) by leveraging billions of pounds, or you think it is the worst and most inappropriate thing since Rylan on The X Factor."
He suggests that: "Among all the talk of investment-readiness (a leading contender for the most over-used term of the year) and investment returns, we should be thinking much more about investment relevance: how social finance fits into the current context and situation of the third sector and, in turn, its relevance to each individual organisation."
In the recommendations at the end of his report, Davison calls for the creation of a Compact/Alliance of Big Society Capital, social investors and social enterprise practitioners. It's a conversation worth starting as soon as possible.
*Words in bold are italicised in the original document but bolded here due to my convention of italicising all quotes.
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Tagged as big society capital, Social Enterprise, social finance, social investment
Toynbee savages Social Impact Bonds
Social Impact Bonds are, by some distance, the most hyped innovation in a sector – social enterprise finance – that is currently rivaled in the spin versus substance stakes only by reality TV. Based on expectations raised in recent years, anyone who attends both social enterprise conferences and football matches would probably be unsurprised to see their team's physio running on to the pitch and massaging their star striker's injured calf with a social impact bond in place of the famous magic sponge.
With that in mind, it was probably high time that Social Impact Bonds were on the receiving end of Polly Toynbee's moral outrage. It's a shame that Toynbee's critique is topped and tailed with a jibe at Bond advocate Sir Ronald Cohen over his attitude to tax. While this provides a neat hook for the article, there's no reason in principle why Sir Ronald shouldn't be entitled to campaign for or against rich people paying higher taxes (or, as seems to be the case, not be publicly committed either way) and also to seek to use his expertise to tackle social problems. These are separate activities which should be judged on their own merits.
Where Toynbee is on target is with her questions about the workings of Bonds themselves. These include the issue of whether it's actually possible to measure the impact of particular social interventions in a way that can be accurately monetized. This point has already been raised by sceptical voices within the sector, such as Senscot's Laurence DeMarco. Many of us who believe that effective measurement may be possible in specific cases, such as the current pilot project to tackle re-offending at Peterborough Prison, will sympathise with Toynbee's reflection on possible wider application: "This small scheme with a simple target – prisoners reoffending less – raised those dilemmas. Imagine the headache of drawing up watertight contracts that take a "problem family", evaluate their addictions, mental health, education, crime, truancy or unemployment, then put a price on their heads, returning to measure the cash value of any improvements a few years later."
Equally important, though, is the question of whether, even Social Impact Bonds did succeed on their own terms, they would be the best way of raising money to deliver positive social change. Toynbee's verdict is an damning, unequivocal 'no'. The Bonds will not be good value for public money: "Here is an extraordinarily cumbersome way of creating a PFI, worse than those recently castigated by the Treasury select committee. All this springs from a belief that the private sector is always more efficient, whatever its mind-boggling extra costs. After all, the government can always borrow at 1% less than the private sector."
And, if impacts aren't delivered, the state is still bound to pick up the tab: "Sir Ronald and the government say these are suitable investments for pension funds, ISAs and even junior ISAs where families save for their children. In other words, they are rock-solid safe. That means, as with previous employment schemes and the current work programme, if targets are missed you can bet the state will pay out anyway. So the risk will not be transferred from taxpayer to investor, but the state is borrowing expensive money to pay back later come what may. The public accounts committee will need a beady eye on money wasted on a fancy financial vehicle. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is."
For Toynbee, "It's a novel solution to extreme inequality, inviting the rich to make money out of the poor." While many in the social enterprise movement will understand where she's coming from, even if her assertion were true, it would be a mistake to reject Social Impact Bonds solely on that basis. It's pointless and counter-productive to object to practical solutions to social problems, that could transform the lives of some poorer people, on the basis that some richer people (and possibly some pension funds holding the pensions of many moderately off people) will get a financial return.
Where Toynbee is right, though, is in challenging the myth that money raised through Social Impact Bonds is new money coming into the social sector. The reality is that Bonds, as currently proposed, are an advance on government money to be paid at a later date. As yet, it's been a challenge to get anyone other grantmaking trusts to put money into (relatively safe) pilot Bonds. For Bonds to even have a measurable claim to be increasing the available resources for social change we would need to reach the point where individuals and financial organisations from outside the social sector were prepared to put money into Bonds with the genuine risk that they wouldn't get a return. At the point, it would be time to start the discussion about whether Bonds are better vehicle for financing social change than government borrowing.
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Tagged as sir ronald cohen, Social Enterprise, social finance, social impact bonds
Bond issues
Big news in the world of social investment with the announcement yesterday of a £11.25 million investment of Big Lottery funds in Social Impact Bonds. The Social Impact Bond (SIB), launched in March by social investment organisation, Social Finance, is a new kind of financial instrument whereby investors in the Bond receive a share of a the long-term savings made by the government as a result of the work funded by their investment.
The first ever SIB will fund a pilot project at Peterborough Prison where social sector organisations including Ormiston Trust, YMCA and St Giles Trust will provide intensive support to 3000 short-term prisoners to help them resettle into the community thereby reducing re-offending rates.
The rational is that keeping people in prison very expensive (it costs an average of £50,000 a year) and most (60%) of short term prisoners go on to re-offend in the year after their release. If the SIB funds work that reduces re-offending and saves the government lots of money over a six-year period, the investors should be entitled to a return on their investment which reflects the money that they've saved through their intervention.
£6.25 million of Big Lottery's total SIB investment will go towards funding the Peterborough project with other investors in the first SIB including a mini-Who's Who of top charitable trusts: Barrow Cadbury Charitable Trust, Friends Provident Foundation, The Henry Smith Charity, Johansson Family Foundation, LankellyChase Foundation, The Monument Trust, Panahpur Charitable Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Tudor Trust.
This stellar line-up clearly reflects a high level of excitement in the grant-funding sector about the potential for SIBs, along with a credible desire from these trusts to put some cash into testing a new model. That's a positive thing in itself, what's currently less clear is the SIB's potential to bring in new money from outside the current social investment sector. The launch press release quotes Rob Owen, Chief Executive of St Giles Trust explaining that:
"The Social Impact Bond represents the start of a funding revolution for organisations that specialise in preventative work. By unlocking future savings and capturing their value, the SiB allows access to capital from a wide range of new investors. This means that charities, such as St Giles Trust, can deliver their life changing services over a larger scale, with greater impact."
The difficulty with this statement is that the investors in the first SIB aren't 'a wide range of new investors', they're an impressive list of trusts who already give out grants to pay for positive social outcomes who are using the SIB instrument to provide money in a slightly different way.
Is this because no investors without an existing grant-giving remit were asked to invest in the pilot or because they were asked but weren't interested?
Either way, that leaves two big questions which the Peterborough pilot and further Big Lottery funded work will need to answer. The first is whether the SIB model works in terms of delivering money-saving social incomes – given the the amount of cashing going into one project, we've got to assume that the one project concerned is a reasonably decent bet in those terms – and the second is whether, if it does work and the Peterborough investors get a decent return, that will be enough encourage other investors (banks and wealthy individuals) to invest in future SIBs.
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Surface Pro 4 is ultrathin, fast, and versatile, the perfect balance of portability and power. With 6th Gen Intel Core processors and up to 1TB of storage, it's built to run professional-grade software. And the PixelSense Display has stunning color and contrast that comes to life with Surface Pen and touch. Surface Pro 4 is meticulously crafted to be a powerful, ultrathin laptop—or a beautiful tablet that can stand on its own. It's great for business travel or a life that keeps you moving, and the Type Cover features perfectly spaced, backlit keys and a large trackpad that supports multi-touch and gestures.
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Review from dpreview.com
*The below review is from Amazon.com
It seems like the big question right now is, "Do I get the Surface Pro 4 or the Surface Book?"
I'll explain why I chose the Surface Pro 4, but first, a quick about me. I am a college student majoring in EECS and I commute 4 hours a day by bus so having a light backpack is important to me.
The S.Book is almost two times heavier than the SP4. It packs much more computing power than the SP4, but as an EECS major, I don't need the extra power that the S.Book has. I don't plan to play any intensive games or render/animate things so the SP4 fits my needs better. The S.Book also has a $400 higher price tag ($270 if you get the Type Cover for the SP4) that I'm not willing to pay for unneeded performance. I haven't tried the S.Book's keyboard, but the SP4's keyboard feels great to type on and other reviewers have said both keyboards are amazing. Reading textbooks or other PDF's feels much more natural with the SP4's tablet form. The S.Book without the keyboard only has a battery life of 3 hours, and although it can be used with the keyboard 'wrapped' around the back, I think that it'll only be a hassle for me to deal with. I'd rather not deal with having to detach the S.Book every time I want to use it in tablet mode. If you plan to render/animate things you should probably consider going with the Surface Book. Otherwise, I highly recommend the Surface Pro 4 for doing everyday/light to medium tasks.
Now onto the actual Surface Pro 4 Review.
I love the SP4. In the past year, I've owned an iPad Air, MacBook Pro, and the Razer Blade 2015. The SP4 fits my needs the best by far.
The SP4 replaces both my textbooks and notebooks. For me, this is a big deal because I no longer have to carry around my notebooks, textbooks, and supplemental writing materials (highlighters, etc). The Surface Pen tips can be replaced with other pen tips to change the writing "feedback" feeling but the stock pen tip feels great. OneNote keeps all my notes organized and being able to access them from any device is incredibly convenient. Using the Surface Pen for writing on textbooks and PDF's is also very useful.
I've been getting ~7-9 hours of battery life on the SP4 which is more than enough to get me through a school day. The screen is not too small like the iPad, neither is it bulky like a laptop. The screen resolution is high and text/videos are crisp and easy to read/watch. The magnet on the left side of the SP4 is surprising strong and holds the Surface Pen well. The magnet on the right side is significantly weaker (maybe because all the I/O ports are on this side) but it can hold the pen well. The kickstand works perfectly and stays in the position I set it to. The SP4 Type Cover feels great and protects your screen when you aren't using it.
Gaming shouldn't be the main reason you buy the SP4, but it could run some games if you decide to do so. I did try running StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm and the SP4 handled it pretty well. I wouldn't even bother trying to run more demanding games such as GTAV on the SP4. That being said, the gaming experience was rather unpleasant. You should consider the Surface Book if you plan to game on-the-go frequently.
Software-wise, I don't have much to comment on. It looks and performs exactly like Windows 10 should on a normal desktop or laptop. I've never used the Microsoft Store and don't intend to so I don't know much about the apps that are available on the SP4.
The only con I found with this device is the fact that it only has a single USB port. It's inconvenient when I'm using the SP4 with a mouse and I need to use my flash drive. I haven't had any overheating issues and I can't find any issues with the build quality.
In closing, I don't think anyone else offers the performance and quality that the Surface Pro 4 has in the same lightweight and thin chassis. It is incredibly versatile and it has replaced many heavy and cumbersome objects in my bag.
I'll update this review as I continue to use the SP4. Feel free to leave questions/comments and I will try my best to answer them.


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The Taj West End
With 150-year old raintrees, gulmohars, and banyans, this leafy 20-acre property successfully drowns out traffic noise and offers a significantly higher oxygen level, both luxuries without a price-tag. Quite simply, this is the most verdant hotel in Bangalore — beloved of locals and repeat guests.
- Shoba Narayan, Travel Writer
Though not as close to Central Bangalore as its sister property, Vivanta by Taj or the Oberoi, this hotel, considered to be India's oldest, is close to public transport, the National Gallery of Modern Art, boutiques, and the Bangalore turf club.
Style and Character
Founded in 1887 as the Bronsons West End, the hotel has seen wars, calamities, and the filming of 'Passage to India,' during which time Dame Peggy Ashcroft stayed here. Its "Prince of Wales lawns" host weddings and parties almost every day. A Shiva temple on site is worshipped by staff.
With monkey-top roofs, gothic arches, and red tiled roofs, the hotel looks like a large manor house. Turkeys wander amidst ancient cycad trees off the lobby. Flocks of geese, hens and rabbits run around the tennis court. Over 30 species of birds including barbets and Brahmini kites fly over the swimming pool. Stay in the heritage Taj club wing if you can, which has a terrace garden and lovely art work.
Service and Facilities
The Jiva spa is exceptional and situated in the oldest part of the property, which used to be the Bronsons' home. The spa is entirely organic, and features three treatment rooms, including a couples room. Try the specialized Indian therapies: Sushupti to put you to sleep and Vishrama for aches and pains (both INR 10,080/£115). There is an adjacent fitness centre. Evenings can be spent browsing the library, the shops in-house, or taking a walk through the property with the resident horticulturalist or historian. The hotel seems to inspire passion and loyalty amongst the staff. The horticulturalist, for instance, points out trees that were planted by his father.
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- Room service
- Bar
- Laundry
- Pool
- Sauna
- Spa
- Wi-Fi
- Tennis court
- Fitness centre
- Steam room/hammam
The 117 rooms fall into four categories. The basic rooms are well-sized and have private gardens or verandahs. The ambience is more old-world charm than edgy contemporary. While there is free Wi-Fi, minibar, and tea/coffee on offer, don't expect docking stations or Nespresso machines. The bathrooms have couples showers, and fragrant toiletries by Forest Essentials, an Indian luxury ayurvedic firm.
Food and Drink
Of the three restaurants, Masala Klub serves authentic Indian food with a twist. Signature dishes include lamb shanks marinated in rose petals, chicken cubes in a cheese marinade, garlic infused mahi-fish, and the vegetarian kebabs. All of these run to about INR 1,941 (£23).
Blue Ginger serves brightly flavoured Vietnamese cuisine in a water-bordered, open Chinese pavilion. Standouts include tenderloin pho-soup, silken tofu, shaken beef, and grilled prawns. Well-planned tasting menus begin at INR 2,090 (£25) for the vegetarian and run to an expensive INR 5,600 (£68) for the seafood, thanks to imported lobster.
The expansive buffet breakfast at Mynt has eggs, bacon, croissants along with South Indian idlis, dosas, and unusual juices such as the super-healthy amla or Indian gooseberry juice. The Blue Bar serves curry and spice-infused cocktails, with snacks such as the New Zealand lamb chops INR 1,344 (£16), a favourite of the Indian cricket team.
Value for Money
Double rooms from INR 14,963 (£145), inclusive of breakfast.
Access for guests with disabilities?
There are ramps everywhere and golf carts for guests who need them. The hotel has fitted one room with special lights, and amenities for guests with special needs.
There are several interconnecting rooms. Baby cots are available for free and children's beds (including breakfast) are available for INR 1,120 (£13). There are children's menus available at all restaurants. The housekeeping staff supplies toys, colouring books and stuffed animals to their younger guests. Bicycles are available for free in the property.


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The late Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who passed away from liver cancer on Thursday after spending the last eight years of his life in jail, famously wrote, "I have no enemies and no hatred." His words were intended to be a part of his final statement during his December 2009 trial, at which he was charged with "inciting subversion of state power." But he was never allowed to make any last remarks. When his note was later published as an essay, readers discovered that Liu had even thanked, by name, his prosecutors and the cell warden at the detention center where he had been held. At the time, some Chinese dissidents criticized him for forgiving his oppressors and saw it as a form of capitulation. But the statement surely played a role in the decision of the Nobel Peace Prize committee when it awarded him the prize in 2010 "for his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."
Over the years, Liu's influence has grown even as his voice has been silenced. Most Chinese dissidents have chosen nonviolent methods to try to change the Chinese regime. The New Citizens movement led by civil rights activist Xu Zhiyong asked its members to speak and act as citizens under the Chinese constitution, which includes the right to vote and criticize the government. Xu subsequently received a four-year sentence in 2014 for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order." During this "rights protection" movement, lawyers and activists tried to use the Chinese courts to protect victims of rights abuses; some 300 of them were rounded up in July 2015, and a number still remain in jail or are in custody. In 2015, five feminist activists were arrested after demonstrating against sexual harassment and domestic violence.
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Cyberstalking-what is it, where can I get help
What is cyberstalking and what is cyberharassment?
Cyberstalking and cyberharassment are very similar. Most people use them interchangeably, but there is a subtle distinction, typically relating to the perpetratorfs intent and the original motivation for their behavior.
While the two situations usually involve many of the same online tactics, cyberstalking is almost always characterized by the stalker relentlessly pursuing his\her victim online and is much more likely to include some form of offline attack, as well. This offline aspect makes it a more serious situation as it can easily lead to
dangerous physical contact, if the victimfs location is known.
Why do people cyberstalk or cyberharass others?
Cyberstalkers are often driven by revenge, hate, anger, jealousy, obsession and mental illness. While a cyberharasser may be motivated by some of these same feelings, often the harassment is driven by the desire to frighten or embarrass the harassment victim.
Sometimes the harasser intends to teach the victim a lesson in netiquette or political correctness (from the harasserfs point of view). Often the cyberharassment victim is merely in the wrong place at the wrong time, or has made a comment or expressed an opinion that the cyberharasser dislikes. We have even seen cases where the victim is merely being targeted because they are the first ones the cyberharasser encounters when they are in a gbad mood.
What do cyberstalkers/harassers do when the stalk or harass someone?
The harasser may post comments intended to cause distress to the victim, or make them the subject of harassment by others. They may send a constant stream of e-mails and instant messages to their victims or a victimfs co-workers, friends, or family. They may pose as the victim and post offensive comments or send offensive messages in their name. They may send hateful or provocative communications to the victimfs boss, family or significant other (in their own name or posing as the victim). Often the victimfs computer is hacked or their e-mail accounts are broken-into by the cyberstalker/harasser and taken over entirely, or the password is changed and the victim locked out of their own accounts. The victim may be signed-up for spam, porn sites and questionable offers.
Cyberstalkers/harassers frequently follow their victims into chat rooms and onto discussion boards, posting lies and hateful messages, or passing misinformation about the victim. They may create sexually explicit images, using the head of their victims attached to the bodies of porn actors. If they have real sexually explicit or nude images of their victims (usually from a failed romantic relationship between the stalker/harasser and the victim), they may create Web sites posting the images and advertising the site to friends and family of the victim, or supply them to commercial porn sites with amateur image sections for public display. We are even familiar with cases where the cyberstalker has threatened the life of the President of the United States or the Queen of England, while posing as the victim.
In the most dangerous type of cases, the cyberstalker posts the name, address and telephone number of the victim online, often posing as them, and soliciting sexual activities on their behalf. In a California case, a man targeted a woman by posting her name and address online and soliciting group sex. The woman had never even used the computer before, but found herself facing angry, sexually frustrated men at her front door.
Death threats are typical in a cyberstalking situation. In fact, there have been several well-publicized cases in the United States where victims were eventually murdered by their stalkers. Many of these began as cyberstalking situations.
If there is any indication that a cyberstalker/harasser knows where the victim lives, works or how to find them offline, law enforcement must be contacted IMMEDIATELY to begin an active investigation into the circumstances of the situation. WiredSafety's law enforcement division, CyberLawEnforcement.org assists law enforcement in cyberstalking/harassment cases.
Is cyberstalking illegal? What about cyberharassment?
The laws tend to lump the two types of cybercrimes together. For the purposes of this guide, other than when there is a legal distinction, both cyberstalking and harassment are discussed under the heading gcyberstalking.h While most states in the United States have various types of cyberstalking/harassment laws on the books, there is no U.S. federal cyberstalking/harassment law (except when children under 16 are involved and being targeted for sexual harassment). Many Western European countries have cyberstalking/harassment laws, but they are the exception rather than the rule. Few Asian countries have cyberstalking/harassment laws.
If I canft file criminal charges against the cyberstalker/harasser, what can I do to them?
Often the victims of cyberstalking and cyberharassment are limited to civil litigation (suing the stalker or harassment) or reporting the cyberstalker/harasser to their ISP and trying to get their accounts revoked, or Web sites shutdown.
Are there different types of cyberstalking/harassment situations?
Absolutely! There are three different kinds of cyberstalking situations...
¡Online cyberstalking and harassment that stays online
¡Online harassment and stalking that ventures offline or encourages offline actions
¡Offline stalking or harassment that moves online
It doesnft make any difference whether or not the victim has even used the Internet. The distinction between online and offline is dependent on the medium used by the perpetrator.
For example, online stalking/harassing is usually defined as gcrepeated unsolicited contact by electronic meansch with the intent to gcterrify, intimidate, or harassch another. The medium in this instance can include computers, Fax machines, telephones, etc.
Offline stalking/harassment involves the same type of behavior, but in real life. This includes everything from repeatedly following a victim to actual physical contact between a stalker and his/her victim.
Although each of the three situations above include some form of online attack, and can be terrifying for a victim, only those that have an offline component are physically dangerous. Note: the laws in your jurisdiction may only cover offline stalking and harassment, or those with an offline component
What is the profile of a typical cyberstalking/harassment victim?
Cyberstalking occurs more often with women as the victim, although that is gradually changing. Our most recent survey discloses that men are being cyberstalked and harassed more frequently by women than ever before. To view our survey results, visit 2003 cyberstalking Survey.
Children who are stalked by adult sexual predators are not considered victims of cyberstalking, but rather are considered luring victims or victims of child exploitation. You can read our Margaretfs Story page for more information about how stalkers/harassers target children online for abuse/exploitation by others
What can you do to avoid becoming a victim of cyberstalking/harassment?
Typically, the cyberharassment victim is new online, and inexperienced with the rules of netiquette (online etiquette). So learning the rules of the cyber-road is a good way to avoid being an easy mark for a cyberstalker/harasser.
Typically, the cyberharasser feels empowered by the perceived anonymity online. They feel they can hide behind their monitor. But most people leave a trail of cyber-breadcrumbs behind them online. Learning how to read an e-mail header is a good place to start stripping your stalker/harasser of their perceived anonymity.
Ignoring the communications sent to you is the best first step to stopping most cyberstalking/harassment. Unless your situation involves a truly obsessed or depraved harasser, most will lose interest quickly if they don't get the reaction they seek. Our cyber-self-defense tips can help you avoid cyberstalking/harassment entirely and stop it before it gets out-of-hand.
Flaming wars (where insults and verbal attacks are traded online) can often lead to cyberstalking and harassment. Flaming can get out of control quickly and often escalates into serious threats, offline and online.
Cyberstalking, where the real dangers arise, can have a substantial offline aspect, either by way of the victim and stalker working together, romantically involved or prior or current communications of some kind. Some are intent on targeting victims of sexual abuse, cancer patients and members of certain minority groups. Protecting your privacy is key to protecting yourself form credible offline threats.
What is a quick list of safety tips to avoid cyberstalking/harassment?
Read our cyberstalking Online Self-Defense Guide and know these online safety rules:
¡Don't respond to flaming (provocation online)
¡Choose a genderless screen name
¡Don't flirt online, unless you're prepared for the consequences. This is just like real life. Yes, you have the right to flirt. And you have the right to a sexy nickname. But the more obvious you are, the more likely you are to arouse unwanted attention from unwanted suitors.
¡Save offending messages and report them to your service provider >>
¡If someone makes threats in a chat room or on a message board, notify the moderator or Web site operator right away
¡Donft confront the stalker/harasser, this only arouses more anger or emotional attacks
¡Don't give out any personal information about yourself or anyone else link to private surfing info]
¡Get out of a situation online that has become hostile, log off or surf elsewhere
¡Google yourself to make sure no personal information is posted by others about you >>
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Federal law provides a number of important tools that are available to combat cyberstalking. Under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), it is a federal crime, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, to transmit any communication in interstate or foreign commerce containing a threat to injure the person of another. Section 875(c) applies to any communication actually transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce - thus it includes threats transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce via the telephone, e-mail, beepers, or the Internet.


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Proper lighting is about more than illumination or lighting for security purposes. Lighting can make or break a room, so it needs to be specific to the use for each space. Whether it's finding the right spot to brighten up a room from, setting a specific mood or creating a unique way to light a room, Steven C. Poston Electrical will work with you to find the best lighting for the job. Our extensive experience with both commercial and residential lighting means that we understand what lighting works in different spaces, with different uses.
In a working space, the right kind of light is imperative, not only to work productivity but also to comfort and health. In fact, the incorrect level of lighting can cause tiredness and lack of concentration. Because people perform many different tasks, requiring different lighting levels in a work space, the lighting should be flexible. There should be a balance of indirect and direct lighting sources as well as a balance of daylight and artificial light.
In residential homes every room needs a different type of lighting to make sure that optimum use and enjoyment is reached. Dimmers and recessed lighting are only a couple of the ways in which you can enhance the mood of a room through the right kind of lighting. Unfortunately, the importance of lighting is sometimes overlooked when building a new home or planning a renovation. We can help you come up with new ways to light your existing home so that you can truly enjoy each room as it's meant to be.
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