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I am so much better at giving advice than taking it. Are you the same? I wonder if you are.
For example if you came to me and we sat down and you spoke to me about how you were feeling a bit strung out lately, nothing major but a bit depleted and like you were on the verge of not being very well, I would encourage you to look after yourself. To do something completely and only for yourself. And if possible to make it a bit of a treat.
I might talk to you about what would make you feel better, maybe an afternoon nap, or a walk around the lake, or a maybe even a massage. Then I would speak to you about how my farmer boy always reminds me that the people giving the safety demonstration on aeroplanes always tell you that in case of emergency you must place your own oxygen mask on before helping your loved ones with theirs. How can we help others to breathe if we can't breathe ourselves? We are no good to anyone if we aren't feeling good ourselves. We must help ourselves, look inwards and value what it is that we need. And we must honour and trust that feeling and act on it.
Last week on that day that I gave myself permission to stop for a while, I realised that I wasn't feeling all that balanced. Generally my pattern is to go-go-go until I am exhausted and fall in a heap for a bit, but this time I felt like I recognised the signs before hand.
I felt like I was on the edge of something with two choices. I could move forward full steam ahead, ignoring the way I was feeling, getting things done and hope for the best. Hope that I could maintain the pace, stay well and look after my family well. The other choice was to recognise that I wasn't feeling strong and to do something about it before I got sick, or got myself into some sort of drama, or just felt terrible.
See, I would have told you to help yourself by looking after yourself, but I myself would usually push on through. Push it all aside and go and stack some wood or bake a cake or something.
But for some still unknown to me reason, this time I felt the deep need to be kind to myself. This time instead of pulling on my boots and getting back to it, I made an appointment to go and see my Chinese doctor Andrea first instead.
I have no idea why taking a step to looking after myself felt so emotional but it did. I cried when I admitted to myself what I was doing.
And as I sat in my appointment describing how I'd been feeling, it suddenly occurred to me how detached I am from my body. How I only really look after myself when things are actually wrong. And how after growing three babies and mothering them for 14 years, I feel depleted and in need of some nourishing myself.
As soon as I'd admitted all that I felt better. Stronger. More grounded. I know that I know exactly how to look after myself, I just have to remember to do it. And I must do it so I can get everything I have to get done-done and to give myself the best chance I can to avoid something like the left breast thing happening again.
So this week to look after myself I am going to aim to;
- Find a few minutes to be in complete silence without distractions for a few minutes a day.
- Get rid of the guilt associated with doing the things I love and scedule in some knitting/crochet/sewing time.
- Take the homeopathics and Chinese herbs that I should be taking, I always have such good intentions.
- Start the day with a glass of luke warm water with lemon, cinnamon and honey.
- Walk.
- Tune in with my body and get out of my head sometimes.
I'm going to try my very best.
I hope you have a gorgeous week.


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In studying correspondence-based picture books, I found numerous possibilities: one single letter, one-way correspondence, back-and-forth letters between two characters, letters between many different characters, and letters used in combination with a narrative (like my favorite, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type).
Few picture books use this potentially-tricky format—to me, that indicates an opportunity!
Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett
Dear Mrs. LaRue Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart, Illustrated by David Small
Dear Tabby by Carolyn Crimi, Illustrated by David Roberts
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Juvenile Intervention Team
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Malibu/Lost Hills Station has developed a specialized unit to combat juvenile related issues in our policing area. This unit is called the "Juvenile Intervention Team" (also know as the "J-Team"). It currently consists of four investigators, one detective and one sergeant who are specifically assigned and trained to deal with juvenile related matters and concerns. They work out of the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station and are available as another resource of information or help. These deputies are frequently available on area school campuses and on routine patrol in the local cities.
J-Team Concept
The main goal of the Juvenile Intervention Unit is to improve the quality of life for the juveniles in the community. The J-Team program focuses on three major areas of impact with juveniles: 1) Schools - the unit seeks to achieve a long term goal of positive relationships, rapport and familiarity with schools and students; 2) Crisis Intervention - the unit attempts to identify the kids needing some type of assistance or diversion and aid in the resolution of those problems; 3) Community and Criminal issues - the unit is involved with juveniles in all aspects of the community as well as schools. A major component of the program is monitoring and preventing juvenile crime. By working with juveniles in the schools and community, the deputies accumulate a vast knowledge of many juveniles involved in criminal activity. The J-Team takes a proactive and preventive approach toward juvenile law enforcement issues. They track and document local gang members, as well as gang members from outside the patrol area.
J-Team Programs
There are three programs available through the J-Team:
- Parental Resource program;
- Student and Law Enforcement program; and
- Sheriff's Teen Traffic Offender Program.
The Parental Resource Program is designed for the parents of youth, whose contacts with law enforcement have not yet become serious, but who have been identified as "at risk." The program occurs once a month, on a Saturday morning. Parents attend a casual four-hour meeting with deputies and discuss parents' rights and responsibilities, youth issues such as gangs, drug and alcohol abuse, and narcotic issues. The juveniles meet separately with the deputies and are counseled and educated on the various concerns they are confronted with.
The Student and Law Enforcement program allows students to participate in a series of law enforcement role-playing scenarios, where they are given the opportunity to participate both as a "Suspect" and as a "Deputy Sheriff."
The Sheriff's Teen Traffic Offender Program was developed after numerous neighborhood complaints about teens that were terrorizing neighborhoods with their reckless driving. When we receive information about a reckless teen driver, we document the information and pass it onto a traffic deputy who will track down the teen driver and meet with the teen and the teen's parents.


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Cello Lessons in Burnsville, MN
Has your child always dreamed of playing the cello? Or do you have an advancing cellist who has an upcoming recital or audition? At Schmitt Music Burnsville, we offer private cello lessons for students of all ages and all levels.
Schmitt Music Burnsville is a one-stop shop for any cellist. In addition to offering cello instruction, we can equip your student with an instrument that fits them correctly, and supply other items needed to learn cello, from books to necessary accessories. For those with very specific needs, Schmitt Music carries a nice selection of instructional music and repertoire along with strings, rosins, and other teacher-recommended items that are critical to the performance of an advancing student.
Skilled cello instructors have established their studios in Schmitt Music Burnsville, and have been providing quality education for decades. Serving students from all around the Burnsville area, Schmitt Music offers a controlled, safe environment for students and families attending cello lessons.
Private Cello Lessons in Burnsville
Schmitt Music Burnsville is open seven days a week, so you're sure to find a cello instructor and lesson time that works for you and your family. Typically, our private lessons are 30 minutes long, but some instructors offer a number of options. Pricing is established by the teacher and is typically based on their experience and education.
Instructors at Schmitt Music Burnsville are comfortable teaching a broad range of ages and experience levels. With our private one-on-one lessons, both beginner and advanced cello students will excel. Once you select your cello teacher and schedule lessons, your musical goals and current skill level are taken into account so that your lessons can be tailored to meet your needs.
Visit our Burnsville, MN music store today to arrange your first cello lesson, or call 952-435-2454 for more information. Schmitt Music Burnsville is located in Cobblestone Court, 14150 Nicollet Avenue South, Burnsville, MN 55337.


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Rise And Decline Of The Welfare State – OpEd
By James Petras
The American welfare state was created in 1935 and continued to develop through 1973. Since then, over a prolonged period, the capitalist class has been steadily dismantling the entire welfare state.
Between the mid 1970's to the present (2017) labor laws, welfare rights and benefits and the construction of and subsidies for affordable housing have been gutted. 'Workfare' (under President 'Bill' Clinton) ended welfare for the poor and displaced workers. Meanwhile the shift to regressive taxation and the steadily declining real wages have increased corporate profits to an astronomical degree.
What started as incremental reversals during the 1990's under Clinton has snowballed over the last two decades decimating welfare legislation and institutions.
The earlier welfare 'reforms' and the current anti-welfare legislation and austerity practices have been accompanied by a series of endless imperial wars, especially in the Middle East.
In the 1940's through the 1960's, world and regional wars (Korea and Indo-China) were combined with significant welfare program – a form of 'social imperialism', which 'buy off' the working class while expanding the empire. However, recent decades are characterized by multiple regional wars and the reduction or elimination of welfare programs – and a massive growth in poverty, domestic insecurity and poor health.
New Deals and Big Wars
The 1930's witnessed the advent of social legislation and action, which laid the foundations of what is called the 'modern welfare state'.
Labor unions were organized as working class strikes and progressive legislation facilitated trade union organization, elections, collective bargaining rights and a steady increase in union membership. Improved work conditions, rising wages, pension plans and benefits, employer or union-provided health care and protective legislation improved the standard of living for the working class and provided for 2 generations of upward mobility.
Social Security legislation was approved along with workers' compensation and the forty-hour workweek. Jobs were created through federal programs (WPA, CCC, etc.). Protectionist legislation facilitated the growth of domestic markets for US manufacturers. Workplace shop steward councils organized 'on the spot' job action to protect safe working conditions.
World War II led to full employment and increases in union membership, as well as legislation restricting workers' collective bargaining rights and enforcing wage freezes. Hundreds of thousands of Americans found jobs in the war economy but a huge number were also killed or wounded in the war.
The post-war period witnessed a contradictory process: wages and salaries increased while legislation curtailed union rights via the Taft Hartley Act and the McCarthyist purge of leftwing trade union activists. So-called 'right to work' laws effectively outlawed unionization mostly in southern states, which drove industries to relocate to the anti-union states.
Welfare reforms, in the form of the GI bill, provided educational opportunities for working class and rural veterans, while federal-subsidized low interest mortgages encourage home-ownership, especially for veterans.
The New Deal created concrete improvements but did not consolidate labor influence at any level. Capitalists and management still retained control over capital, the workplace and plant location of production.
Trade union officials signed pacts with capital: higher pay for the workers and greater control of the workplace for the bosses. Trade union officials joined management in repressing rank and file movements seeking to control technological changes by reducing hours ("thirty hours work for forty hours pay"). Dissident local unions were seized and gutted by the trade union bosses – sometimes through violence.
Trade union activists, community organizers for rent control and other grassroots movements lost both the capacity and the will to advance toward large-scale structural changes of US capitalism. Living standards improved for a few decades but the capitalist class consolidated strategic control over labor relations. While unionized workers' incomes, increased, inequalities, especially in the non-union sectors began to grow. With the end of the GI bill, veterans' access to high-quality subsidized education declined.
While a new wave of social welfare legislation and programs began in the 1960's and early 1970's it was no longer a result of a mass trade union or workers' "class struggle". Moreover, trade union collaboration with the capitalist regional war policies led to the killing and maiming of hundreds of thousands of workers in two wars – the Korean and Vietnamese wars.
Much of social legislation resulted from the civil and welfare rights movements. While specific programs were helpful, none of them addressed structural racism and poverty.
The Last Wave of Social Welfarism
The 1960'a witnessed the greatest racial war in modern US history: Mass movements in the South and North rocked state and federal governments, while advancing the cause of civil, social and political rights. Millions of black citizens, joined by white activists and, in many cases, led by African American Viet Nam War veterans, confronted the state. At the same time, millions of students and young workers, threatened by military conscription, challenged the military and social order.
Energized by mass movements, a new wave of social welfare legislation was launched by the federal government to pacify mass opposition among blacks, students, community organizers and middle class Americans. Despite this mass popular movement, the union bosses at the AFL-CIO openly supported the war, police repression and the military, or at best, were passive impotent spectators of the drama unfolding in the nation's streets.
Dissident union members and activists were the exception, as many had multiple identities to represent: African American, Hispanic, draft resisters, etc.
Under Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Medicare, Medicaid, OSHA, the EPA and multiple poverty programs were implemented. A national health program, expanding Medicare for all Americans, was introduced by President Nixon and sabotaged by the Kennedy Democrats and the AFL-CIO. Overall, social and economic inequalities diminished during this period.
The Vietnam War ended in defeat for the American militarist empire. This coincided with the beginning of the end of social welfare as we knew it – as the bill for militarism placed even greater demands on the public treasury.
With the election of President Carter, social welfare in the US began its long decline. The next series of regional wars were accompanied by even greater attacks on welfare via the "Volker Plan" – freezing workers' wages as a means to combat inflation.
'Guns without butter' became the legislative policy of the Carter and Reagan Administrations. The welfare programs were based on politically fragile foundations.
Debacle of Welfarism
Private sector trade union membership declined from a post-world war peak of 30% falling to 12% in the 1990's. Today it has sunk to 7%. Capitalists embarked on a massive program of closing thousands of factories in the unionized North which were then relocated to the non-unionized low wage southern states and then overseas to Mexico and Asia. Millions of stable jobs disappeared.
Following the election of 'Jimmy Carter', neither Democratic nor Republican Presidents felt any need to support labor organizations. On the contrary, they facilitated contracts dictated by management, which reduced wages, job security, benefits and social welfare.
The anti-labor offensive from the 'Oval Office' intensified under President Reagan with his direct intervention firing tens of thousands of striking air controllers and arresting union leaders. Under Presidents Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and William Clinton cost of living adjustments failed to keep up with prices of vital goods and services. Health care inflation was astronomical. Financial deregulation led to the subordination of American industry to finance and the Wall Street banks. De-industrialization, capital flight and massive tax evasion reduced labor's share of national income.
The capitalist class followed a trajectory of decline, recovery and ascendance. Moreover, during the earlier world depression, at the height of labor mobilization and organization, the capitalist class never faced any significant political threat over its control of the commanding heights of the economy.
The 'New Deal' was, at best, a de facto 'historical compromise' between the capitalist class and the labor unions, mediated by the Democratic Party elite. It was a temporary pact in which the unions secured legal recognition while the capitalists retained their executive prerogatives.
The Second World War secured the economic recovery for capital and subordinated labor through a federally mandated no strike production agreement. There were a few notable exceptions: The coal miners' union organized strikes in strategic sectors and some leftist leaders and organizers encouraged slow-downs, work to rule and other in-plant actions when employers ran roughshod with special brutality over the workers. The recovery of capital was the prelude to a post-war offensive against independent labor-based political organizations. The quality of labor organization declined even as the quantity of trade union membership increased.
Labor union officials consolidated internal control in collaboration with the capitalist elite. Capitalist class-labor official collaboration was extended overseas with strategic consequences.
The post-war corporate alliance between the state and capital led to a global offensive – the replacement of European-Japanese colonial control and exploitation by US business and bankers. Imperialism was later 're-branded' as 'globalization'. It pried open markets, secured cheap docile labor and pillaged resources for US manufacturers and importers.
US labor unions played a major role by sabotaging militant unions abroad in cooperation with the US security apparatus: They worked to coopt and bribe nationalist and leftist labor leaders and supported police-state regime repression and assassination of recalcitrant militants.
'Hand in bloody glove' with the US Empire, the American trade unions planted the seeds of their own destruction at home. The local capitalists in newly emerging independent nations established industries and supply chains in cooperation with US manufacturers. Attracted to these sources of low-wage, violently repressed workers, US capitalists subsequently relocated their factories overseas and turned their backs on labor at home.
Labor union officials had laid the groundwork for the demise of stable jobs and social benefits for American workers. Their collaboration increased the rate of capitalist profit and overall power in the political system. Their complicity in the brutal purges of militants, activists and leftist union members and leaders at home and abroad put an end to labor's capacity to sustain and expand the welfare state.
Trade unions in the US did not use their collaboration with empire in its bloody regional wars to win social benefits for the rank and file workers. The time of social-imperialism, where workers within the empire benefited from imperialism's pillage, was over. Gains in social welfare henceforth could result only from mass struggles led by the urban poor, especially Afro- Americans, community-based working poor and militant youth organizers.
The last significant social welfare reforms were implemented in the early 1970's – coinciding with the end of the Vietnam War (and victory for the Vietnamese people) and ended with the absorption of the urban and anti- war movements into the Democratic Party.
Henceforward the US corporate state advanced through the overseas expansion of the multi-national corporations and via large-scale, non- unionized production at home.
The technological changes of this period did not benefit labor. The belief, common in the 1950's, that science and technology would increase leisure, decrease work and improve living standards for the working class, was shattered. Instead technological changes displaced well-paid industrial labor while increasing the number of mind-numbing, poorly paid, and politically impotent jobs in the so-called 'service sector' – a rapidly growing section of unorganized and vulnerable workers – especially including women and minorities.
Labor union membership declined precipitously. The demise of the USSR and China's turn to capitalism had a dual effect: It eliminated collectivist (socialist) pressure for social welfare and opened their labor markets with cheap, disciplined workers for foreign manufacturers. Labor as a political force disappeared on every count. The US Federal Reserve and President 'Bill' Clinton deregulated financial capital leading to a frenzy of speculation. Congress wrote laws, which permitted overseas tax evasion – especially in Caribbean tax havens. Regional free-trade agreements, like NAFTA, spurred the relocation of jobs abroad. De-industrialization accompanied the decline of wages, living standards and social benefits for millions of American workers.
The New Abolitionists: Trillionaires
The New Deal, the Great Society, trade unions, and the anti-war and urban movements were in retreat and primed for abolition.
Wars without welfare (or guns without butter) replaced earlier 'social imperialism' with a huge growth of poverty and homelessness. Domestic labor was now exploited to finance overseas wars not vice versa. The fruits of imperial plunder were not shared.
As the working and middle classes drifted downward, they were used up, abandoned and deceived on all sides – especially by the Democratic Party. They elected militarists and demagogues as their new presidents.
President 'Bill' Clinton ravaged Russia, Yugoslavia, Iraq and Somalia and liberated Wall Street. His regime gave birth to the prototype billionaire swindlers: Michael Milken and Bernard 'Bernie' Madoff.
Clinton converted welfare into cheap labor 'workfare', exploiting the poorest and most vulnerable and condemning the next generations to grinding poverty. Under Clinton the prison population of mostly African Americans expanded and the breakup of families ravaged the urban communities.
Provoked by an act of terrorism (9/11) President G.W. Bush Jr. launched the 'endless' wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and deepened the police state (Patriot Act). Wages for American workers and profits for American capitalist moved in opposite directions.
The Great Financial Crash of 2008-2011 shook the paper economy to its roots and led to the greatest shakedown of any national treasury in history directed by the First Black American President. Trillions of public wealth were funneled into the criminal banks on Wall Street – which were 'just too big to fail.' Millions of American workers and homeowners, however, were 'just too small to matter'.
The Age of Demagogues
President Obama transferred 2 trillion dollars to the ten biggest bankers and swindlers on Wall Street, and another trillion to the Pentagon to pursue the Democrats version of foreign policy: from Bush's two overseas wars to Obama's seven.
Obama's electoral 'donor-owners' stashed away two trillion dollars in overseas tax havens and looked forward to global free trade pacts – pushed by the eloquent African American President.
Obama was elected to two terms. His liberal Democratic Party supporters swooned over his peace and justice rhetoric while swallowing his militarist escalation into seven overseas wars as well as the foreclosure of two million American householders. Obama completely failed to honor his campaign promise to reduce wage inequality between black and white wage earners while he continued to moralize to black families about 'values'.
Obama's war against Libya led to the killing and displacement of millions of black Libyans and workers from Sub-Saharan Africa. The smiling Nobel Peace Prize President created more desperate refugees than any previous US head of state – including millions of Africans flooding Europe.
'Obamacare', his imitation of an earlier Republican governor's health plan, was formulated by the private corporate health industry (private insurance, Big Pharma and the for-profit hospitals), to mandate enrollment and ensure triple digit profits with double digit increases in premiums. By the 2016 Presidential elections, 'Obama-care' was opposed by a 45%-43% margin of the American people. Obama's propagandists could not show any improvement of life expectancy or decrease in infant and maternal mortality as a result of his 'health care reform'. Indeed the opposite occurred among the marginalized working class in the old 'rust belt' and in the rural areas. This failure to show any significant health improvement for the masses of Americans is in stark contrast to LBJ's Medicare program of the 1960's, which continues to receive massive popular support.
Forty-years of anti welfare legislation and pro-business regimes paved the golden road for the election of Donald Trump
Trump and the Republicans are focusing on the tattered remnants of the social welfare system: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security. The remains of FDR's New Deal and LBJ's Great Society— are on the chopping block.
The moribund (but well-paid) labor leadership has been notable by its absence in the ensuing collapse of the social welfare state. The liberal left Democrats embraced the platitudinous Obama/Clinton team as the 'Great Society's' gravediggers, while wailing at Trump's allies for shoving the corpse of welfare state into its grave.
Over the past forty years the working class and the rump of what was once referred to as the 'labor movement' has contributed to the dismantling of the social welfare state, voting for 'strike-breaker' Reagan, 'workfare' Clinton, 'Wall Street crash' Bush, 'Wall Street savior' Obama and 'Trickle- down' Trump.
Gone are the days when social welfare and profitable wars raised US living standards and transformed American trade unions into an appendage of the Democratic Party and a handmaiden of Empire. The Democratic Party rescued capitalism from its collapse in the Great Depression, incorporated labor into the war economy and the post- colonial global empire, and resurrected Wall Street from the 'Great Financial Meltdown' of the 21st century.
The war economy no longer fuels social welfare. The military-industrial complex has found new partners on Wall Street and among the globalized multi-national corporations. Profits rise while wages fall. Low paying compulsive labor (workfare) lopped off state transfers to the poor. Technology – IT, robotics, artificial intelligence and electronic gadgets – has created the most class polarized social system in history.
The first trillionaire and multi-billionaire tax evaders rose on the backs of a miserable standing army of tens of millions of low-wage workers, stripped of rights and representation. State subsidies eliminate virtually all risk to capital. The end of social welfare coerced labor (including young mother with children) to seek insecure low-income employment while slashing education and health – cementing the feet of generations into poverty. Regional wars abroad have depleted the Treasury and robbed the country of productive investment.
Economic imperialism exports profits, reversing the historic relation of the past.
Labor is left without compass or direction; it flails in all directions and falls deeper in the web of deception and demagogy. To escape from Reagan and the strike breakers, labor embraced the cheap-labor predator Clinton; black and white workers united to elect Obama who expelled millions of immigrant workers, pursued 7 wars, abandoned black workers and enriched the already filthy rich. Deception and demagogy of the labor-liberals bred the ugly and unlikely plutocrat-populist demagogue: labor voted for Trump.
The demise of welfare and the rise of the opioid epidemic killing close to one million (mostly working class) Americans occurred mostly under Democratic regimes. The collaboration of liberals and unions in promoting endless wars opened the door to Trump's mirage of a stateless, tax-less, ruling class.
Who will the Democrats choose as their next demagogue champion to challenge the 'Donald' – one who will speak to the 'deplorables' and work for the trillionaires?


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If your child has ADHD or you think they have get testing done. Either Leaps from MGH, Developmental Science at Childrens Hospital or www.thinkkids.org program at MGH. Here are some other articles you might find helpful.
you may find these articles from ADDitude magazine *really* helpful: :: "IEP Accommodations: What Works for Us" http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/6511.html :: "ADHD Classroom Accommodations: Guide to Getting Special Services" http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/711.html :: "Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and IEPs vs. 504 Plans: Which Is Better for ADHD Children?" http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/4020.html :: "Is Your Child's IEP Working? Checking Up on ADHD Accommodations" http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/943.html :: "20 Classroom Accommodations for ADHD Children" http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/5901.html couple other resources if you're not famiar with them for support now and in the ongoing future (as ADHD is a life-long journey that changes and morphs with each age and stage ... even these older ages and stages!) :: CHADD - Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder ("School and ADHD" | http://www.chadd.org/Understanding-ADHD/Parents-Caregivers-of-Children-with-ADHD/School-and-ADHD.aspx) :: The Hallowell Centers for Emotional and Cognitive Health | http://www.drhallowell.com/add-adhd/ Remember that ADHD **on its own** is NOT considered a reason for an IEP nor is it considered a learning disability. However, in 30-50% of people with ADHD, there is also co-existing learning disabilities (a solid neuro-psych eval would tease out which is which) "ADHD is not considered to be a learning disability. It can be determined to be a disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), making a student eligible to receive special education services. However, ADHD falls under the category "Other Health Impaired" and not under "Specific Learning Disabilities."" (National Institute of Mental Health, 2003 - via the Learning Disabilities Association of America | http://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/adhd/) Leave a Reply. |
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Not in my womb, always in my heart
Learning & Emotional Assessment Program
The Learning and Emotional Assessment Program (LEAP) at Massachusetts General
Hospital assesses students and children ages 2 to 22 who have developmental
difficulties and consults with their parents, teachers and care providers.
Our clinical professionals have devoted their training, research and clinical practice to acquiring the specialized skills needed to assess children with learning disabilities, psychological and developmental disorders. Our team loves working with children and has a natural ability to put them at ease. The Department of Psychiatry offers a depth and breadth of resources available at few other hospitals or psychiatric centers, meaning your child receives comprehensive, state-of-the-art care without leaving our campus. Services available at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children include:
Referral forms Clinician's Referral From (PDF) Parent Referral Form (PDF) HIPAA Authorization Form for release of information (PDF) Learn more about: Our Services Our clinical assessments are designed to be a comfortable and often fascinating experience, and we find that many children enjoy the warm, one-on-one attention they receive. In addition, our professionals excel at discussing the benefits of assessments with even the most skeptical of adolescents. Our Staff Our experienced professional staff includes Child psychologists, Licensed clinical psychologists, Neuropsychologists, Certified school psychologists, clinical psychology interns and postgraduate fellows. Our Research Research is an ongoing companion to treatment in the LEAP program, with clinical test data collected daily. This data is used to help participants in LEAP, as well as in other programs and departments. Conditions We Evaluate LEAP treats a variety of conditions and disorders. With the trained resources of Mass General Hospital's Dept. of Psychiatry, we are able to evaluate and treat a variety of conditions and disorders. Contact Us LEAP (Learning and Emotional Assessment Program) 151 Merrimac St., 5th Floor Boston, MA 02114 Phone: 617-643-6010 Boston Medical Center Dr. Augustyn is the Director of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center (BMC) and is a Professor at Boston University School of Medicine. She went to medical school at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, completed her pediatric residency at UCLA and her Developmental and Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship at Boston University-Boston City Hospital. Her clinical work at BMC primarily involves the evaluation of children with various developmental delays including autism,speech and language delays, global developmental delay, learning disabilities, ADHD to mention a few. Her research work has varied across her career and includes work on the effects of both in utero cocaine exposure and violence on early childhood and parenting and recently she has been a leader in developing the Center for Family Navigation at BU, a national leader in promoting and developing the use of navigators to support families of children with developmental disabilities. Dr. Augustyn is co-editor of The Zuckerman Parker Handbook of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics for Primary Care and the section co-editor for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics for the online journal UpToDate. She currently sits on the sub board of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the American Board of Pediatrics and is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She is also on the American Academy of Pediatrics planning committee for Practical Pediatrics, their national CME Program. Deborah Frank, MD Dr. Frank is the Director of the Grow Clinic for Children and a board-certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She is also a Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Frank attended Harvard Medical School and completed her residency at Children's Hospital Seattle. After her residency, she went on to complete a fellowship in Child Development at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Frank specializes in issues of growth and nutrition and the impact of hunger on child development. Dr. Frank has written numerous scientific articles and papers. Her work has focused on breastfeeding promotion, women and children affected by substance use, nutrition among homeless pregnant women and children, Failure to Thrive, food insecurity, and the "heat or eat" phenomenon, the dilemma that many low-income families face in the winter when they have to make the critical choice between heating their homes and feeding their children. She is especially proud of successfully mentoring many pre-professional and professional colleagues. Cited as a respected authority in her fields, Dr. Frank has frequently given testimony to state and federal legislative committees on the growing problem of hunger and associated hardships in the United States and its effects on our youngest children. She has recently been nominated by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to the newly established National Commission on Hunger. She is also an invited member of the Aspen's Dialogue on Food Insecurity and Health Care Costs. L. Kari Hironaka MD, MPH Dr. Hironaka is a board-certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Boston Medical Center. She completed her fellowship at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Hironaka specializes in health services research, health literacy and ADHD, as well as residency training. John Maypole, MD Dr. Maypole completed Pediatric Residency in 1999, and Pediatric Chief Residency in 2000 following his training at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Maypole has consistently included primary care, medical education, and in participating in and developing innovative clinical programs for complex children and their families. Dr. Maypole served as Associate Director of the Pediatric Integrative Medicine Education Project and performing Holistic Medicine consults and medical education at Children's Hospital from 2003-2005. In 2005, Dr. Maypole became Director of the Department of Pediatrics at the South End Community Health Center while serving as an attending physician for the Comprehensive Care Program (CCP) in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. CCP is a multi-disciplinary team of providers who provide enhanced and coordinated primary care to the most medically complex patients and higher risk families in the Pediatric Department, including ex-premature infants, children with special health needs and neurodevelopmental disabilities. In February of 2013, Dr. Maypole came to Boston University/Boston Medical Center to work full time to develop approaches and programs to address this fast-growing segment of the pediatric population. In September of 2014, Dr. Maypole received an award from the Center for Medicare Medicaid Innovation, supporting a 3 year effort for the Massachusetts Alliance for Complex Care/4C program--a consultative, multidisciplinary care support model of care for PCPs and families of medically complex children, of which he is co-principal investigator. He is an associate professor of Pediatrics at BUSM. Dr. Maypole writes child health-related articles for a lay audience, for mainstream media and online publications. Jenny Radesky, MD Dr. Radesky is a board-eligible Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and a board-certified general pediatrician who recently joined the faculty at Boston Medical Center after completing her fellowship training here. She attended Harvard Medical School and completed her pediatrics training at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Radesky is a clinician-investigator whose clinical interests include early childhood adversity, attachment relationships, and child self-regulation, as well as teaching trainees methods of observing parent-child interaction. Her research examines mobile/interactive media use by parents and young children and how this effects parent-child interaction and child social-emotional development. She is an active member of the AAP Council on Communications and Media. Arathi Reddy, DO Dr. Reddy is a board-certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Boston Medical Center. She attended medical school at Western University of Allied Health Sciences in Pomona, CA and completed her residency at Morristown Memorial Hospital/ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Morristown, NJ. She completed her fellowship at Einstein Montefiore and worked in NYC prior to joining the faculty in March 2011. Jodi Santosuosso, NP, MSN Jodi is a certified nurse practitioner in the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Division at Boston Medical Center. She attended University of Massachusetts College of Nursing and Health Sciences and completed her residency at University of Massachusetts, Boston. She joined the Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine faculty in April 2007. Jodi has had extensive training in developmental and behavioral pediatrics, gastrointestinal (GI) diseases and ear, nose and throat (ENT) disorders. Laura Sices, MD, MSDr. Sices is a board-certified Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician at Boston Medical Center (BMC). She attended medical school at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, completed her residency at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and completed her fellowship at University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Dr. Sices was on the faculty at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, OH before joining BMC in 2007. Dr. Sices' clinical work focuses on assessment and management of children with a variety of different concerns, including developmental delays, speech and language delays and conditions, ADHD, learning disabilities and differences, and autism spectrum conditions. Her academic focus is on developmental screening and the early identification of developmental delays. Naomi Steiner, MD Dr. Steiner is the Director of Training at the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Dr. Steiner studies how computers train the brain, which is an area of great interest in overlapping fields of ADHD, psychology, neuroscience and education, and closely followed by many as a complimentary or alternative approach to the traditional psychopharmacological treatment of ADHD. She is specifically interested in implementing neurofeedback attention training in schools. She is also interested in teaching self-regulation skills and relaxation breathing in schools. Dr. Steiner is multicultural and multilingual. In 2030 more than 50% of children will be raised bilingual in the United States! Dr. Steiner has written a book on how to successfully raise children bilingual (7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child), and instructs medical professional, teachers and parents on how children learn two languages, and how English Language Learners can be successful at school. Mary Ellen Stolecki, NP, MSN Mary Ellen is a board certified pediatric nurse practitioner in the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Division at Boston Medical Center and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. She specializes in primary care of the Child with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) in the Comprehensive Care Program. She also practices in the Pediatric Gastroenterology Division providing specialty care for gastrointestinal (GI) conditions. Her clinical interests are primary care for medically complex children (as well as GI issues) of CSHCN including: care of the premature infant, autism, cerebral palsy, seizures, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, Turner syndrome,achrondroplasia,and multiple congenital anomalies. Jodi Wenger, MD Jodi Wenger, MD is a graduate of Dartmouth Medical School who completed her pediatric residency at Boston Medical Center. She spent several years on the Navajo Reservation in northeastern Arizona before transitioning back to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH. She served as a pediatric hospitalist, outpatient provider and educator at Dartmouth Medical School. She has always had an interest in children with special health care needs. She worked in the Comprehensive Care Program at BMC as a resident and is thrilled to return. She was the general pediatrician at the multidisciplinary spina bifida clinic at Dartmouth Hitchcock and cared for children with neurologic challenges while on the Navajo Reservation. Dr. Wenger has also had an interest in resident work hour reform and continues to support the software she and her husband created during her chief resident year. Amion, continues to allow one to make fair physician call schedules that can be easily accessed online. Barry Zuckerman, MD Dr. Zuckerman is Professor and Chair Emeritus of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. He is a national and international leader in child health and development. His research focuses on the interplay among biological, social and psychological factors as they contribute to children's health and development. Dr. Zuckerman and colleagues have developed four programs that transformed health care to better meet the needs of low income and minority children. The success of these efforts is that they are now all national programs; Reach Out and Read, Medical-Legal Partnership, Health Leads and Healthy Steps. In addition to more than 250 scientific publications, he has edited nine books, including three editions of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics: Handbook for Primary Care. He has served on prestigious national committees; National Commission on Children, Carnegie Commission on Young Children, Bright Futures, and has received numerous national and international awards including the C. Anderson Aldrich for Child Development and the Joseph St Geme Award for Leadership from AAP, and the Policy and Advocacy award and Health Care Delivery Award from the APA. He has consulted in Turkey, Bangladesh, and Thailand regarding child development. - See more at: http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics-developmentalbehavioral/team.htm#sthash.UrLgPWRv.dpuf |
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PAULUS OF PRAGUE (Elhanan ben Menahem):
Convert to Christianity; born apparently at Kholm (Chelm), Poland, about 1540; died at Prague about the end of the sixteenth century. He was first baptized at Nuremberg in 1556, was rebaptized at Chelm in 1568, and is said to have died after he had for the second time forsworn the Christian religion.
Paulus wrote several works in German with Latin titles in defense of Christianity, among them "Solida et Perspicua Demonstratio de SS. Trinitate," Leipsic, 1574. To the second edition (ib. 1576) was prefixed a pamphlet entitled "Confessio Fidei et Testimonia Scripturæ Sacræ de Resurrectione Mortuorum." He is, however, particularly knownfor his "Mysterium Novum" (Helmstädt, 1580), in which he endeavors to prove by means of gemaṭria and noṭariḳon that the names of Jesus and his mother, Mary, occur in the Scriptures and in cabalistic works, and that Jesus is indicated in the Bible as the true Messiah. He prefaced this work with a Hebrew poem consisting of 139 verses arranged in alphabetical order and giving an acrostic of his own name. A Latin translation was published in the same year. Paulus wrote also: "Symbolum Apostolicum" (Wittenberg, 1580) and "Jona Quadrilinguis" (Helmstädt, 1580), the Book of Jonah in four languages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and German.
- De le Roi, Juden-Mission, i. 133;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i. 229;
- Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i., iii., iv., Nos. 224, 1812.


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Thomas A Bond |
Portland, Oregon |
Date of Death Unknown |
Served in Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War |
For some memorial service snapshots, click photo below: May 22, 2015 |
19 long-dead Oregon hospital patients get military honors 19 veterans whose ashes were forgotten at Oregon psychiatric hospital get military burial By GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — They served in the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War and World War I — but for decades, their ashes and those of thousands of others lay abandoned in corroded urns in an outbuilding at Oregon's state psychiatric hospital. The Oregon National Guard on Friday offered a rifle salute and played Taps at Willamette National Cemetery to honor 19 veterans and the spouses of two others who were patients at the now 132-year-old hospital and died there. Their cremated remains were discovered a decade ago, along with those of about 3,500 other people. Dubbed the "forgotten souls," they became a symbol of the state's dark history of treating the mentally ill at Oregon State Hospital, where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed. "We are finally laying to rest the veterans and spouses whom time and society had forgotten," hospital superintendent Greg Roberts said at the ceremony. The military honors are part of an effort to pay respect to those who died, to reunite their remains with surviving relatives and to honor those eligible with a veteran burial. Lawmakers discovered the urns by chance while on a tour of the dilapidated hospital in 2004. Senate State President Peter Courtney, who found the canisters, said he did not want these people to be forgotten. Thus far, the hospital has identified about 90 eligible veterans among the remains. It handed four of the urns to the Oregon Department of Veteran Affairs three years ago, and they were interred. Since then, the state identified an additional 88 remains eligible for a burial with military honors. Between 1914 and 1971, more than 5,000 people were cremated at the hospital. They were born in different states and countries. Most were patients at the state psychiatric hospital, while others died at other institutions. Courtney and other lawmakers pushed to fund a respectful way to honor the remains and to replace the existing psychiatric hospital. Using records and genealogy research, the hospital identified most of the dead and four years ago published their names in an online database. The hospital has matched 302 urns with families. A total of 3,348 still have not been claimed. Last summer, the hospital unveiled a memorial on its grounds to honor the unclaimed remains. Those who served the country would be honored and buried like other veterans. At the cemetery, Mike Allegre of the state's Department of Veterans' Affairs read the roll call of names. At least three had served in the Civil War, six in the Spanish American War, six in the Indian Wars and two in World War I. A bagpiper played Amazing Grace. The National Guard twice fired their rifles in the still, gray morning. No eulogies were given; the men's records are sparse. Some had a mental illness or were dealing with post-war traumas, while others were admitted to receive better medical care. Arthur B. Hunter died at the hospital in 1931, after arriving two years earlier. According to old hospital notes, he told staff that he was a Civil War veteran. Hospital officials say they are certain that Hunter was a military veteran, but they don't know whether he actually served in the Civil War. While researching Hunter, officials found documents on an Arthur B. Hunter who was born in Kansas, was age 27 in 1904, and had served in the Army. John Q. Howard served in the Spanish American War and is listed as a cook in Company C in the 2nd Regiment Muster in Eugene in 1898. He was born in Iowa in 1859, and died in Oregon in 1926 at 67. John Wilson Sevedge was a farmer and a private in Company A, 1st Brigade of the Oregon Militia. Records indicate he fought in the Modoc Indian War in the early 1870s. Sevedge was born in Illinois 1858, and died in 1935. Curtis Lufate Oaks is a veteran of World War I. Documents note he served in the U.S. Army in 1917 and was honorably discharged in May 1919. According to his file, he had a scar from a gunshot wound received during the war. Oaks, who was born in Tennessee in 1895, never married and died in Oregon in 1955 at age 60. The urns with the remains of those four men, along with 17 others, will be interred in a memorial wall at the cemetery. The remains of 70 other veterans will be interred at a future date. |
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Lilli just had her 8th birthday party and she decided on a sweet princess party with a color scheme of pink, gold and white.
I am pretty sure our recent trip to Disneyland and the number of people telling her she looked like Cinderella had no part whatsoever to play in her decision :)
Regardless of the reasoning I was more than happy to oblige. I've mentioned before that my tastes run towards pastel and pretty and Princess is totally a theme within my comfort zone.
The party had a bit of a shabby chic feel and a touch of glittery glitz to reflect Lilli's sweet, fun and vibrant personalty.
I modified it with some pink muslin fabric and a scattering of handmade shabby chic fabric flowers.
We used the same flowers in pink frames behind the table to add a bit of texture and interest on the plain white walls. The same effect could be achieved with paper poms.
I hung a handful of paper pom poms in light pink, tan and white from Ah-Tissue to continue the ruffle theme.
Of course we did have to have a princess themed cake and I decided to make a ruffle cake (which we still love at the moment in this household). The tiara is totally edible made from fondant, edible jelly jewels and painted with gold lustre dust. More photo's of the cake and what I used to make the tiara can be found in my previous blog post CLICK HERE.
Royal cookies were an assortment of cookies in gold, pink and white that were a little bit more mature than the cookies we generally make for the kids parties. My little girl is growing up and the treats while still fun are more reflective of her tastes. They are fondant covered sugar cookies (recipe from Sweets on a Stick) decorated with rolled fondant, royal icing (recipe from Sweets on a Stick) and edible jelly jewels. The white cookies with the jewel and gold royal icing piping were her favorite. Mine were the ruffled cookies.
To keep in with the pink and gold royal theme I made the macarons in pink and gold with hand piped and painted decorations on the pink batch.
Princess delights were round choux pastry puffs with raspberry pastry cream, fondant and raspberries.
To dress up a packet of simple marshmallows I popped them on a stick, dipped them in pink chocolate/ candy coating, added a jelly jewel, piped a 'royal' decoration which was painted with gold edible paint.
Candy consisted of 4 different flavors of bon bons and twisted rope marshmallow cut into shorter pieces.
I picked up the princess printables from Polkadot Prints (who are one of my favorite designers with a fun blog as well) and did a bit of glittering.
Cardboard cake boxes are from Robert Gorden, I picked them up at 2 garnish, they come flat pack with double sided tape already in place. Seriously I was so behind in my preparations the Friday before the party I took them along to the kids swimming classes and put them together in the viewing areas. I was folding and sticking those boxes in between waving at the kids and giving them thumbs up signs through the glass barrier.
We like to have the parties at our house and this year the timing was not great as we are having some minor renovations. The painters packed up at about 2pm on the Friday ready to return bright and early Monday morning which did not leave a lot of time for me to bake and decorate for the event.
Knowing this in advance, I arranged for an entertainer to come and manage the kids which took some of the pressure off as I had no need to think up party games, or buy prizes and I could focus on what I love which is the food.
I booked in Super Steph - and she truly was super.
The kids adored her magic show, they were totally enthralled, and as a result the mums and dads adored not having to worry about looking after the kids at all.
We also had a princess pit stop with dress ups, tiaras, and jewels, which was actually just the kids Ikea storage unit repurposed with a bit of 'satin' from the craft store.
I made up the ruffled party bags myself CLICK HERE for a tutorial on how to DIY.
It was all worth it.....after the party Lilli gave me a big hug and said 'Thank you for my Party I loved it".
Cakes, macarons, cookies, marshmallows, choux puffs by Bubble and Sweet
Photography Alyce Holzberg Photography
Entertainer (magic, balloons, party games) Super Steph
Printables PolkaDot Prints
Paper Pom Poms Ah Tissue
Pink Ceramic Cake Stand Clara French
Cake boxes and candy jars from 2 Garnish
Edible Jelly Jewels from Culpitt purchased at Party Animal
Fabric Shabby Chic Flowers Karen McCubbin
Special thanks to Terri Vandermeer for her styling assistance and help Xx
Here are some pictures of the kids enjoying themselves at the party. Thanks everyone for sharing Lilli's special day.
EDIT UPDATE I found some similar kids dress up racks here over at Amazon as quite a few people have asked about them:
Linda Vandermeer is a blogger, baker, maker and author of the cookbook ' Sweets on a Stick': More than 150 kid friendly recipes for cakes, candies, cookies and pies on the go!. Published in the US the book is available at most online book stores:


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W&M board approves undergraduate business school fee
William & Mary's Mason School of Business will join other leading schools in the country who now charge a supplemental fee to undergraduate students who major and minor in business, according to the proposal approved Friday by the W&M Board of Visitors.
"While an undergraduate business school fee is new to William & Mary, we are not alone," said Dean Lawrence B. Pulley. "The gaps between the necessary funding to remain a top business school and the funds available are simply too great to be left unattended. This investment will sustain our status as a recognized innovator and leader in undergraduate business education and strengthen the personalized academic experience we offer with world-class faculty."
The fee will be implemented in two phases over two years. Undergraduate students who enter the Mason business school majors program in the academic year 2013/14 will be assessed an undergraduate business school fee of $750 per semester, and students who enter the business school minors program in academic year 2013/14 will be assessed $375 per semester. Beginning in academic year 2014/15, all enrolled (current and newly admitted) business majors will be assessed an undergraduate business school fee of $1,500 per semester, and all enrolled (current and newly admitted) business minors will be assessed $750 per semester. These fees do not apply to students who entered the majors program prior to fall 2013, or entered the minors program prior to fall 2013.
Once fully implemented in 2014/15, the total fees (majors and minors) will generate about $1,350,000 in additional funds. William & Mary will set aside about 25 percent of gross revenue from the fee to support need-based financial aid and scholarships.
Currently, William & Mary has about 225 juniors and 225 seniors majoring in Mason's nationally ranked undergraduate business program. In the most recent rankings, the school was ranked 25th (10th among public universities) by Bloomberg Businessweek and 40th by U.S. News & World Report. In terms of undergraduate programs, Bloomberg Businessweek also ranked Mason second for sustainability, third for marketing and sixth in accounting.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Farmers should take extra precautions so drifting herbicides do not create unintended consequences on neighboring fields and farms, according to agricultural researchers.
Recently, researchers found a range of effects — positive, neutral and negative — when they sprayed the herbicide dicamba on old fields — ones that are no longer used for cultivation — and on field edges, according to J. Franklin Egan, research ecologist, USDA-Agricultural Research Service.
He said the effects should be similar for a related compound, 2,4-D.
Variable, but…
"The general consensus is that the effects of the increased use of these herbicides are going to be variable," said Egan. "But, given that there is really so much uncertainty, we think that taking precautions to prevent herbicide drift is the right way to go."
Farmers are expected to use dicamba and 2,4-D on their fields more often in the near future because biotechnology companies are introducing crops genetically modified to resist those chemicals.
From past experience, 2,4-D and dicamba are the herbicides most frequently involved in herbicide-drift accidents, according to the researchers.
Grasses OK
Because the herbicides typically target broadleaf plants, such as wildflowers, they are not as harmful to grasses, Egan said.
In the study, the researchers found grasses eventually dominated the field edge test site that was once a mix of broadleaf plants and grass. The old field site showed little response to the herbicide treatments.
Herbicide drift was also associated with the declines of three species of herbivores, including pea aphids, spotted alfalfa aphids and potato leaf hoppers, and an increase in a pest called clover root curculio, Egan said.
Crickets, bees OK, too
The researchers found more crickets, which are considered beneficial because they eat weed seeds, in the field edge site.
The researchers did not see a drop in the number of pollinators, such as bees, in the fields. However, the relatively small size of the research fields limited the researchers' ability to measure the effect on pollinators, according to Egan.
"That may be because pollinators are very mobile and the spatial scale of our experiment may not be big enough to show any effects," Egan said.
Farmers can cut down on herbicide drift by taking a few precautions, according to Egan. They can spray low-volatility herbicide blends, which are less likely to turn to vapors, and use a nozzle design on the sprayer that produces larger droplets that do not easily drift in the wind.
Egan also recommended that farmers follow application restrictions printed on herbicide labels and try to spray on less windy days when possible.
The tests were conducted on two farms in Pennsylvania. One field edge site was located near a forest and alfalfa field. The old field was an acre plot near Penn State's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research farm.
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Bitmover ends free Bitkeeper, replacement sought for managing Linux kernel code
April 7, 2005
Bitmover, the company producing a management program for computer source code named Bitkeeper (BK), announced on April 5 that it will no longer be providing a free version of its product.
As a result of Bitmover's announcement, the programmer who wrote the original Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, stated on a mailing list that he "decided to not use BK mainly because [he] need[s] to figure out the alternatives". As to an alternative to Bitkeeper, Torvalds hinted that he is considering Monotone but that Subversion, a recent replacement for CVS, is out of the running. Bitkeeper was originally developed to allow Torvalds to manage code contributions more easily, according to Jeremy Andrews at Kerneltrap.org, and was previously provided to kernel developers free of charge, though it was restricted in its use.
Bitkeeper is the software that Torvalds and hundreds of other Linux developers use to manage submissions of code to the Linux kernel, the heart of the computer operating systems referred to as "Linux" or "GNU/Linux". Linux is distributed in many different forms, bundled with other software by companies such as Red Hat, Novell, and Linspire.
While the details are not clear, it appears from Andrews' article that Bitmover's decision to stop releasing the free version of Bitkeeper is related to a dispute with Torvalds' employer, Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
According to Kerneltrap, an OSDL contractor had been reverse engineering the free version of Bitkeeper in order to make an open source replacement, which is prohibited by the license under which the free version of Bitkeeper is released. Nevertheless, Torvalds notes in his post that he is "personally very happy with BK, and with Larry [McVoy, the CEO of Bitmover]."
- Linus Torvalds. "Kernel SCM saga.." — Linux kernel mailing list, April 6, 2005
- "Bitmover announces accelerated commercial development strategy and migration plan for open source users" — Bitkeeper.com press release, April 5, 2005
- Jeremy Andrews. "Feature: No More Free BitKeeper" — Kerneltrap.org, April 5, 2005
- Andrew Orlowski. "Linus Torvalds defers closed source crunch" — The Register, April 6, 2005


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[Jeremy Zunker] from 10bitworks recently wrote in to share a cool build the group put together for the Luminaria 2012 festival which took place in March of this year. As you might have guessed, the fest is home to a wide array of light-themed projects, so the team at 10bitworks thought long and hard to come up with a design which would help them stand out from the other 79 featured artists.
At the core of their project is a t-shirt which features a deep-sea diver surrounded by swarm of jellyfish. Each of the jellyfish is backlit by an LED module, allowing the group to create intricate light patterns on the shirt.
10bitworks brought 8 shirts to the show, each fitted with a small control pack that contained a set of batteries and a Jeenode wireless board. A ninth Jeenode and a large antenna were used as the master control unit, sending signals to each of the t-shirts in order to synchronize the light display.
The final result turned out very nicely as you can see in the video below, where [Jeremy] walks through all of the project's finer details.


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Club Coach Coordinator Program
Club Coaching Coordinator Program
The WAFC highly recommends this initiative to all clubs and schools who value the continued improvement in the quality of coaching and the subsequent enhancement of the quality of the sporting experience for all participants.
The course will be delivered as a parallel stream to the upcoming Level 2 Course.
The CCC role will be an increasingly important role in Junior and Senior football clubs. The training course and CCC role has been designed to enhance the skills and abilities of a coach across a variety of areas to allow them to develop other coaches within your club, and improve the overall performance and professionalism within your club.
The course will feature specific sessions covering the topics listed below;
- Introduction to the course and the rationale for the club coaching coordinator
- The role and scope of the club coaching coordinator
- Communication skills especially listening and influencing skills
- Developing a positive club culture
- Coaching philosophy and trademark
- Recruitment, selection and retention of coaches
- Assessment; assessor training
- Mentoring
- Long Term Player Development
- Australian Football curriculum development
- Effective practices and match day coaching
- Conducting coach meetings
- Technology and coaching.
- Planning and review
?Course Cost includes
- Club Coach Coordinator Handbook
- Club Coach Coordinator Course Booklet
- Club Coach Coordinator Polo Shirt
- 4 Year AFCA Membership
- 4 Year Club Coach Coordinator Accreditation
- Free Access to all Club Coach Coordinator Seminars
- Coaching Resources
- Meals during course time
Why coaching coordinators?
Coaches are key influencers in developing and maintaining a positive club culture. They also have a significant impact on the lives of individuals within the club especially the players. Presently coaches are accredited through a sound educational structure within the AFL's National Coaching Accreditation Scheme (NCAS) recognised by The Australian Sports Commission (ASC). After completion of their coaching courses there is often little support for coaches beyond that.
The WAFC believes there is a growing need to support accredited coaches in clubs and schools and support their development in a variety of aspects of the multi-faceted role they play in the club or school environment. A club coaching coordinator could support and oversee the growth and development of individual coaches and enhance the overall effectiveness of the coach on site. This would facilitate the enjoyment of the coaches, players and officials within the organisation.
Success of a club coaching coordinator position can only be measured by the roles and responsibilities that are afforded to the coach in a particular coaching environment – these may be varied and all-encompassing. Each club or school that appoints a club coaching coordinator will clearly define the role that they expect of the individual that they appoint.
Roles and responsibilities
The development of the specific role and responsibilities of the club coaching coordinator will depend on the specific needs of individual clubs and schools; however the following roles and responsibilities are likely to be core:
1. Develop a positive coaching culture
2. Assist and support the on-going growth and development of coaches through the development of individual coach development plans
3. To provide necessary and up to date information on current coaching trends, practices and courses to all coaches
4. Support coaches so that players will receive the best practice approach to training, skill development and match day environment
5. Assist clubs and schools to develop processes whereby they can recruit and retain coaches
6. Assist coaches to develop processes whereby clubs can recruit, develop and retain players.
7. Ensure all coaches are recognized for their efforts and their commitment to quality coaching practices.
8. Assist in the development of a club and school Australian Football development curriculum.
The following roles and responsibilities are also considered important and part of the guidelines for the role of a club coaching coordinator:
1. Act as a mentor to club coaches as requested
2. Chair the selection panel for club coaches
3. Conduct coaching assessments and evaluations of coaches
4. Ensure coaches uphold the AFL Coaches Code of Conduct
5. Chair club or school coaches meetings
6. Attend district or zone club coaching coordinator meetings
Broadly, the club coaching coordinator is essentially responsible for all aspects of the development and management of the club's or school's coaching program and personnel and also for the promotion of the value of quality coaching within the club or school program.
Qualities of a club coaching coordinator:
1. Well-developed communication skills especially as an effective listener.
2. Good questioning skills
3. Empathy
4. Well organized
5. Passion for assisting coaches improve
6. Enthusiastic positive encourager
Club Coach Coordinator Handbook


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January 29, 2015
The first Community Workshop was held on January 29, 2015 and was well attended by approximately 50 Larkspur residents. The focus of the meeting was to understand how community envisioned their day to day use of a new Library & Community Center. The City Staff and Consultant team presented an overview of the Community decisions developed during he Master Plan process. These decisions are the starting point for the design effort. The attendees visited three stations, a Library Station, Community Rooms Station and Site Station and discussed ideas for how they envisioned each area would be used by the Larkspur Community. The ideas were recorded and are summarized in the slides below.
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