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"This is a case in which the legal analysis proposed by the Secretary of State became confused at an early stage and was never reviewed and rectified. It also became procedurally very messy", so said the Court of Appeal in The Secretary of State for the Home Department v Mosira [2017] EWCA Civ 407 (08 June 2017).
By not paying proper regard to fundamentals so as to advance a tactful and relevant legal analysis approach from the very start, stemming from the very decision to cease refugee status, the Secretary of State woefully missed out on an opportunity to deport a Zimbabwean national who had never been granted refugee status but rather was conferred it on a technicality for the purposes of family re-unification.
The Secretary of State doggedly took a not very insightful approach until it was too late. By the time those representing the Secretary of State of State had woken up to the true significance of the legal arguments they had missed out, the Court of Appeal would have none of it: "This argument did not emerge as a distinct point either in the grounds of appeal or in Mr Malik's original skeleton argument……It is a complete departure from the way in which the Secretary of State had put her case at every stage before the Tribunal. It took Mr Drabble QC for Mr Mosira by surprise….. Mr Malik did not apply to this Court, either in advance of the hearing or at the hearing itself, for permission to withdraw the concession made below that the case turns upon application of Article 1C(5) and para. 339A(v) of the Immigration Rules; to amend the grounds of appeal; or for permission to rely upon a revised skeleton argument introducing this new point. We heard Mr Malik introduce the argument de bene esse, without prejudice to Mr Drabble's right to object to it. However, I am satisfied that justice requires that we refuse permission for the Secretary of State to raise it at the eleventh hour on this appeal. It is not fair to Mr Mosira to do so".
Summary Facts
Mr Mosira, a citizen of Zimbabwe, came to the UK at the age of 17 in 2004 pursuant to the Secretary of State's family reunion policy promulgated in 2003 to join his mother, who had previously been granted refugee status to stay in the United Kingdom. Under the 2003 policy, Mr Mosira was himself granted refugee status by the Secretary of State. Mr Mosira's mother had however been granted refugee status in 2001 purely because of the lack of medical facilities available in Zimbabwe to treat her medical condition, HIV.
Mr Mosira qualified as a "foreign criminal" for the purposes of section 32 of the UK Borders Act 2007 having been convicted of two counts of sexual activity with a girl less than 16 years old, who had been aged 13 at the relevant time. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of imprisonment for 3 years. The Secretary of State indicated that she intended to make an order to deport Mr Mosira back to Zimbabwe when he was released. She purported to give notice of cessation of his refugee status.
By a decision dated 27 February 2014, the Secretary of State explained that the circumstances which led to a grant of asylum status to Mr Mosira had been reviewed and it was considered that they had fundamentally and durably changed for the purposes of Article 1C of the Refugee Convention and Paragraph 339A(v) of the Immigration Rules by reason of improvements in the political situation in Zimbabwe; and that in the Secretary of State's view, Mr Mosira, as per his claim, did not have a sufficient profile as a supporter of the MDC to face a real risk of persecution for the purposes of the Refugee Convention or a real risk of violation of his Convention rights under Articles 2 and 3 of the ECHR. According to the Secretary of State, the objective evidence set out in her letter of 28 November 2013 demonstrated that Mr Mosira's fear of persecution was no longer applicable on the basis that there had been a fundamental and non-temporary change in Zimbabwe. The Secretary of State relied on her decision of 27 February 2014 to revoke Mr Mosira's refugee status.
An appeal was mounted to the Tribunal by Mr Mosira.
Basis upon which the Upper Tribunal allowed Mr Mosira's appeal
Mr Mosira's appeal reached the Upper Tribunal who allowed his appeal, holding that it had not been open to the Secretary of State to withdraw Mr Mosira's refugee status in the way she did and, in view of the low risk to the public now presented by Mr Mosira, it held that there was no sufficient public interest in deportation to justify his removal for the purposes of the 1951 Refugee Convention.
The Upper Tribunal held that it had not been open to the Secretary of State to proceed by way of cessation of Mr Mosira's refugee status. This was because the changes in circumstances in Zimbabwe had nothing to do with the original basis on which Mr Mosira was granted refugee status, as a child family member of someone in the United Kingdom who had been granted refugee status. Since the Upper Tribunal considered that Mr Mosira should be regarded as a refugee, the Upper Tribunal proceeded to consider whether he could be deported, consistently with the terms of the Refugee Convention. The only argument presented about removal of a refugee appeared to have been by reference to Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention and Section 72 of the 2002 Act.
The Upper Tribunal heard oral evidence from Mr Mosira. It also reviewed two reports from Mr Mosira's probation officer which indicated that his risk of re-offending was assessed to be low and had fallen significantly by the time of the hearing. The Upper Tribunal held that on the available evidence Mr Mosira had rebutted the presumption in section 72(2) that he constituted a danger to the community.
The Upper Tribunal also arrived at the conclusion that Mr Mosira was a person with refugee status for the purposes of the Refugee Convention and that his removal to Zimbabwe could not be justified according to the test set out in Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention.
The Secretary of State appealed the Upper Tribunal decision to the Court of Appeal.
The provisions of the Refugee Convention that were applied to Mr Mosira's case
Article 32 (Expulsion) of the Refugee Convention provides that the Contracting States shall not expel a refugee lawfully in their territory save on grounds of national security or public order.
Article 33- Prohibition of Expulsion or Return ('Refoulement'), provides that (1) No Contracting State shall expel or return ('refouler') a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion and (2) The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.
Section 72 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, has made provision in relation to the construction and application of Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention. Section 72(2) and provides:
"A person shall be presumed to have been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime and to constitute a danger to the community of the United Kingdom if he is-
(a) convicted in the United Kingdom of an offence, and
(b) sentenced to a period of imprisonment of at least two years."
Sub-section (6) provides:
"A presumption under subsection (2), (3) or (4) that a person constitutes a danger to the community is rebuttable by that person."
Observations made by the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal made the following observations:
The Immigration Rules make provision for the grant of asylum or what is termed "refugee status" in paragraph 334. As paragraph 334 currently stands, it seems that it does not apply to a person given leave to enter on the basis of family reunion rules.
On a proper analysis, since Mr Mosira was only granted refugee status under the 2003 policy for family reunion, it seemed that he was not granted such status under paragraph 334 of the Immigration Rules. The Court of Appeal observed that this was not a point appreciated or articulated by the representatives for the Secretary of State in presenting her case at any stage.
Paragraph 338A of the Immigration Rules in their current form state that "A person's grant of refugee status under paragraph 334 shall be revoked or not renewed if any of paragraphs 339A to 339AB apply". Paragraph 339A of the Immigration Rules in their current form makes provision for when the Refugee Convention shall be taken to cease to apply. It reflects Article 1C of that Convention. It provides in relevant part that it applies: "when the Secretary of State is satisfied that … (v) they can no longer, because the circumstances in connection with which they have been recognised as a refugee have ceased to exist, continue to refuse to avail themselves of the protection of the country of nationality;… In considering (v) …, the Secretary of State shall have regard to whether the change of circumstances is of such a significant and non-temporary nature that the refugee's fear of persecution can no longer be regarded as well-founded."
The Secretary of State at each stage had assumed that this provision applied in relation to Mr Mosira. However, it seemed doubtful that it did, because he was not granted refugee status under paragraph 334 of the Rules.
The Refugee Convention does not impose an obligation on Contracting States to grant leave to enter or leave to remain in order to achieve family reunion with a sponsor who has been granted refugee status in the host state, but the UN Human Rights Committee exhorts Contracting States to do this.
Mr Mosira was given leave to enter and was accorded "refugee status" in 2004 pursuant to the 2003 policy governing applications made by family members who wanted to be reunited with a person in the UK who had been "recognised as a refugee", as Mr Mosira's mother had been.
The 2003 policy was replaced in 2007 with some new Immigration Rules dealing with family reunion. Under the new Rules, a family member of a person with refugee status shall be granted leave to enter, but will not himself be accorded refugee status.
Mr Mosira's mother was granted refugee status in 2001 purely because of the lack of medical facilities available in Zimbabwe to treat her medical condition, HIV. There was no political element to the asylum granted to her. She was granted refugee status even though there was no determination that she met the test for a refugee under Article 1A of the Refugee Convention
Although the Secretary of State had previously invited Mr Mosira to make representations to rebut the presumption in section 72(2) of the 2002 Act that he constitutes a danger to the community of the United Kingdom, the Court of Appeal noted that at that stage, it seemed the Secretary of State thought that Mr Mosira might be able to bring himself within the scope of Article 33(1) of the Refugee Convention by reason of the risk of ill-treatment he would face upon return to Zimbabwe – hence the relevance of Article 33(2) and section 72.
The Court of Appeal noted that the Secretary of State gave notification to Mr Mosira of her intention to cease his refugee status pursuant to Article 1C of the Refugee Convention and paragraph 339A of the Immigration Rules and inviting representations from him. The Court of Appeal observed that since Mr Mosira had not been granted refugee status pursuant to paragraph 334 of the Immigration Rules and had not up till this point been recognised by the Secretary of State as someone who met the definition of a "refugee" in Article 1A of the Refugee Convention, it was open to doubt whether this was an appropriate procedural step for the Secretary of State to take.
What the Court of Appeal said the Secretary of State should have done
The Court of Appeal observed further as below:
It was open to the Secretary of State to seek to respond to the appeal by arguing that Mr Mosira was not a "refugee" as defined in Article 1A of the Refugee Convention and never had been (nor had he been recognised under paragraph 334 of the Immigration Rules as having refugee status), so there was no impediment arising from the Refugee Convention to his deportation to Zimbabwe and it was simply unnecessary to consider or apply Article 1C(5) of the Convention and paragraph 339A(v) of the Rules to remove that status.
Alternatively, if Mr Mosira was entitled to maintain that he had refugee status attracting protection under or equivalent to that under the Refugee Convention, he could still lawfully be deported in accordance with the Refugee Convention on the grounds of "public order" as set out in Article 32(1).
The Secretary of State could have argued that there was no impediment to his deportation arising from the ECHR and the Human Rights Act 1998.
On the Secretary of State's case that Mr Mosira did not face a real risk of ill-treatment if returned to Zimbabwe, Article 33 of the Refugee Convention and section 72 of the 2002 Act were irrelevant.
If, on the other hand, Mr Mosira showed on the appeal that he would be at real risk of ill-treatment if deported to Zimbabwe, he would be entitled to succeed in his appeal on the grounds that deportation to Zimbabwe would violate his rights under Article 2 or Article 3 of the ECHR, whatever the position under the Refugee Convention might be. He would also be entitled to succeed on the basis of the Refugee Convention on the grounds of the same risk of ill-treatment, provided that the Secretary of State could not rely on Article 33(2), with the Secretary of State having the benefit of the presumption in section 72 in that regard.
The Court of Appeal observed that when the Upper Tribunal directed that the decision should be re-made by the Upper Tribunal, it indicated at the hearing that the issue of change of circumstances by reason of becoming an adult should be addressed, as well as these other issues such as :"(i) In what circumstances may it be appropriate to revoke the refugee status of an individual who has become a refugee only by virtue of being the child of a person recognised as a refugee? (ii) In the present case, what is the relevance of the fact that the appellant's mother was granted refugee status only on account of the fact that she was HIV positive? (iii) What is the relevance of the desirability of an individual's integration in the host nation and/or his or her own family and the question of cessation of refugee status?"
The Court of Appeal observed that the above were sensible questions to raise and that it might have been hoped that they would have led to those acting for the Secretary of State to re-assess the proper analysis of the issues in the case, however, that did not occur. Instead, the Secretary of State continued to focus on whether it had been open to her to cease to treat Mr Mosira as a refugee by virtue of application of Article 1C(5) and paragraph 339A(v). The Secretary of State was noted to have expressly accepted that Mr Mosira was to be treated as a refugee for the purposes of the Refugee Convention.
The Court of Appeal's conclusions
The Court of Appeal concluded as below:
In his appeal, Mr Mosira was entitled to argue that his removal from the United Kingdom "would breach the United Kingdom's obligations under the Refugee Convention", which is what he did argue.
On his appeal to the Tribunal he was entitled to an assessment by the Tribunal of whether his removal would in fact breach the relevant obligations under the Refugee Convention, having regard to evidence heard and facts found by the Tribunal.
The Tribunal only reviewed the legality of the Secretary of State's cessation decision in the sense that the Secretary of State advanced the reasons given in that decision as reasons why the Tribunal should come to the same conclusion as her, namely that the deportation of Mr Mosira would not infringe the United Kingdom's obligations under the Refugee Convention. The Tribunal did not exceed its jurisdiction in examining the case presented by Mr Mosira.
Mr Mosira was not granted refugee status by reason of the threat of ill-treatment by the authorities in Zimbabwe. Nor was his mother. Therefore the change in the threat posed by the authorities in Zimbabwe had no bearing upon the circumstances in connection with which Mr Mosira had been recognised as a refugee. He was granted refugee status under the 2003 family reunion policy, to join someone in the United Kingdom who had (and continues to have) refugee status here: those were the "circumstances in connection with which he was recognised as a refugee". It could not be said that the change in the threat posed by the authorities in Zimbabwe meant that those "circumstances" had ceased to exist.
Although the Secretary of State could have sought to argue in the Tribunal that, even on the footing that Mr Mosira was to be regarded as a refugee, his expulsion to Zimbabwe (where he did not face a real risk of ill-treatment) could be regarded as consistent with the United Kingdom's obligations under the Refugee Convention if it was on grounds of "public order" within Article 32(1) – a potentially wider category of case than that contemplated by Article 33(2) – she did not put her case in that way. Instead, she chose to argue that Mr Mosira's expulsion/removal was justified for public order type grounds only because she could show that she could meet the test in Article 33(2). It was only in that context that her reliance on section 72 of the 2002 Act made sense. Since the Secretary of State chose to put her public order case in this way, she could not complain if the Upper Tribunal examined it on its merits. She presented no public order argument apart from this.
Upon examination of the case presented by the Secretary of State, the Upper Tribunal found that she had failed to make it out. It found that Mr Mosira had rebutted the presumption that he represented a danger to the community under section 72(2), as he was entitled to seek to do. The Upper Tribunal had material before it on which it was lawfully entitled to come to the conclusion it did: its own assessment of Mr Mosira in giving evidence to the Upper Tribunal, the reports from his probation officer and the findings regarding remorse and reduction of risk also made by the First Tier Tribunal.
The Secretary of State's appeal was therefore dismissed.


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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Contemplating ET!
Tags 16th, Eiffel Tower Photographed at Esplanade du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France
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It's a well composed shot, Eric, giving us the human dimension and the icon all at once.ReplyDelete
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Could it be three ladies and one gentleman?
Eiffel Tower Sunday!!! Is that a real thing? If not, it should be. Fun photo, E.T. !!ReplyDelete
ET Suzy xx
Aspiring plumbers ?!ReplyDelete
Contemplating is beautiful :)ReplyDelete
Stuart and I had pretty much the same thought. :~}ReplyDelete
Really, it's a great shot—and I love it when you sneak up on people!
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UC: The third stage of the International student practice
News, 17 September 2012
The third stage of the International student practice for students from the Republic of South Africa will be held on 24 September – 14 October 2012 at the JINR University Centre.
International students' practice was organized for the first time in 2004 on the initiative of the JINR University Centre, MEPhI, MIPT, Polish institutes and the Czech Technical University. Since that time students from the JINR Member States and countries that signed agreements with JINR on the governmental level have regularly come to Dubna. Since 2008 the Practice has included three stages; that is done to receive the maximum number of students and postgraduates: students from Egypt came to participate in the Practice in June 2012, the Practice for students from European countries is organized in July 2012, and for students from RSA – in September 2012. 23 students participated in the first practice in 2004, and 136 students participated in the practice of 2011.
A programme of the practice course includes introductory lectures on research fields of JINR laboratories, principal time of the Practice will be devoted to studies of research projects at JINR Laboratories which will be supervised by specialists of JINR laboratories.
The UC website contains regularly replenished data base of study research projects. Participants choose several projects when they register for the Practice.
Students will present reports-presentation on results of accomplished projects at the end of the practice.


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3 Steps and We're Done...
Step 1 - Find all the "required" paperwork. CHECK
Step 2 - Get my paperwork notarized. CHECK
Step 3 - Get the driver's permit at the State Office. After waiting in line for hours, CHECK.
The most frustrating thing about going through the entire ordeal was the reoccurring thought that I would have to do this entire process again as a parent for my next 2 kids. Even though I was moderately annoyed, I really wasn't mad at the folks who helped me because they truly were working as hard and as fast as they could to help me and the countless other folks get their licenses. The fact was this. The system didn't work very efficiently, and I couldn't stop thinking about how it could be more customer-focused instead of system-focused.
But here's the REAL DEAL.
I didn't want to share my thoughts of dissatisfaction because I just wanted to leave. My exasperation drove me to resentment for the entire process because I was confident that no one there was interested in how I felt about my experience. Furthermore I was convinced that this was a systems issue not a personnel issue. After all, what good would it do to offer suggestions or even complain to someone who was clearly a part of the system?
So how does this relate to parents?
The question that we as school leaders must ask is this.
- Do our parents feel the same way about our processes?
- Do they feel that their thoughts really matter?
- Do they feel valued as partners in the education process?
- Do they find our customer service immediate and personal or insensitive and passive?
10 Tips for Super Parent Satisfaction
This is a question that every school leader must answer from the perspective of a parent. If you were a parent, would you feel that your calls were answered promptly and your questions responded to quickly? If you entered the school doors, would your office staff greet you warmly no matter who you were or what you looked like? Would your emails be returned promptly? If you had a suggestion to make the school better, would you feel like the leader or who ever you talked to was open to listening to your ideas?
If you truly believe that all parents matter, don't miss the opportunity to act on that belief. Here are a
few strategies to make parents feel more valued when they enter your building.
few strategies to make parents feel more valued when they enter your building.
- Smile and make eye contact as you greet parents no matter what's going on.
- Don't be so busy that you can't personally and warmly acknowledge them.
- Ask questions that offer your concern, your help or your support.
- Don't get defensive when they're angry. They're not mad at you, yet. Be open and listen to their frustration.
- Help people understand that they're important and their feedback matters to the school.
- Before they leave, ask them if there's anything else you can do for them.
- No matter what, thank them for coming to the school and wish them a great day.
- Reply to parent emails within 24 hours.
- Acknowledge Facebook and Twitter comments with openness and understanding.
- Follow up with contact thanking people for taking time to talk to you.
Parents send us their very best; therefore, we owe them our very best. They deserve our efficiency, courtesy, dignity and most of all appreciation. When parents receive this kind of customer satisfaction, they will not only appreciate what we do, they'll actively support us in meeting our ultimate goal, student success.


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The framework presents life science as "systems within systems within systems" in which cells interact to create body systems which interact to create organisms which interact to create ecosystems. The example instructional sequence in the Discipline Specific grade seven begins at the tangible, macroscopic scale of ecosystems, zooms into the level of cells, and then zooms back out again to revisit ecosystems. The section is rich with example phenomena that illustrate important interactions at each scale.
Students begin by describing the interactions between organisms within an ecosystem in IS1 (Interdependent Ecosystems). A snapshot illustrates how students, after reading an informational text about wolverines, can create a food web as a systems model and then predict the effects of human behavior on this system.
Instructional segment 2 (Photosynthesis and Respiration) focuses on two of the most important mechanisms by which matter cycles through ecosystems—the chemical processes of photosynthesis and respiration. A snapshot shows how students develop physical models of these chemical reactions to explain how matter moves from one organism to another.
In IS3 (Cells and Body Systems), students examine where these chemical reactions happen within individual organisms—within the microscopic system of a cell and by interactions between those cells. Systems thinking allows students to predict the impacts of changes to a system. A vignette asks students, What happens when one system breaks down within the human body? and illustrates how teachers can help students develop their systems thinking enough to construct explanations of the consequences.
In IS4 (Evidence of Evolution), students ask and answer questions about how different organisms have similar body systems but vary slightly in body structures. Students then explain the mechanisms that cause this phenomenon during the next several instructional segments. A snapshot in IS5 (Inheritance and Genetics) shows how students can obtain information from an interactive computer lesson to create systems models illustrating how parents pass on their genetic code to offspring in sexual and asexual reproduction. They then examine the arguments in favor of and against genetically modified food in order to develop a model for how genetic code can be modified at human timescales through tangible interventions. Students analyze data in IS6 (Natural Selection) to see how similar modifications occur naturally over much longer timescales. Instructional segment 6 includes a series of snapshots that illustrate how teachers can scaffold instruction to help students analyze different population data and relate it to environmental conditions. Students track how sardine and anchovy populations change in response to El Niño conditions and how organisms, such as moose in Norway and pygmies in the tropics, have body sizes that are well adapted for heat retention in their local climate.
Grade seven culminates in IS7 (Revisiting Ecosystems) with students returning to the ecosystem scale. They apply their understanding of natural changes to predict the effects of rapid changes due to human activities. Students define problems that may result from human activities and design solutions that minimize these impacts. Solutions can be very local and practical, such as the engineering connection in which students design and optimize a compost system to reduce the waste from their school cafeteria.
from d'Alessio, Matthew A. (2018). Executive Summary: Science Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve. Sacramento: Consortium for the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards.
Image Source: 2016 CA Science Framework
Click the links below to view specific pages from Chapter 6 of the 2016 California Science Framework (PDF).
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 1: Interdependent Ecosystems
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.1: Matter and Energy in the Wolverine Habitat
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 2: Photosynthesis and Respiration
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.2: Modeling Chemical Reactions
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 3: Cells and Body Systems
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Vignette 6.2: Structure, Function, and Information Processing
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.3: What's in the Water?
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 4: Evidence of Evolution
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 5: Inheritance and Genetics
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.4: Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 6: Natural Selection
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.5: Graphing Fish Populations
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Snapshot 6.6: Physical Environment Shifts Population
Discipline Specific Grade 7 Instructional Segment 7: Ecosystem Interactions, Revisited


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007 Will Be Played By a Black Woman in 'Bond 25'
Rumors have been circling for some time now that Daniel Craig could be ready to leave the character of James Bond behind, prompting speculation that the next iteration of the character will be played by a black actor, with Idris Elba the most popular choice. Some have even said that a more modern version of the character should be played by a woman — and now that is actually happening. Sort of.
According to an insider, the upcoming Bond 25 will see Craig's secret agent retiring to the Caribbean, with black British actress Lashana Lynch playing a younger spy who takes over his iconic '007' codename. "There is a pivotal scene at the start of the film where M says 'Come in 007', and in walks Lashana who is black, beautiful and a woman," they told the Daily Mail. "It's a popcorn-dropping moment. Bond is still Bond but he's been replaced as 007 by this stunning woman."
"Bond, of course, is sexually attracted to the new female 007 and tries his usual seduction tricks, but is baffled when they don't work on a brilliant, young black woman who basically rolls her eyes at him and has no interest in jumping into his bed. Well, certainly not at the beginning."
The insider added that the term "Bond girls," a phrase coined to describe the female characters of the franchise, has been replaced by "Bond women."
"There's been a lot of talk about whether or not Bond is relevant now because of who he is and the way he treats women," said Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the writer of pop culture phenomenon Fleabag and cult spy series Killing Eve, who was brought in to tighten up the script on Bond 25. "I think he's absolutely relevant now. [The franchise] has just got to grow. It has just got to evolve, and the important thing is that the film treats the women properly. He doesn't have to. He needs to be true to his character."
Lashana Lynch is no stranger to films which bring much-needed female representation to male-dominated franchises; earlier this year she starred alongside Alison Brie in the MCU's record-breaking box office smash Captain Marvel as Maria Rambeau.
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In a recent news article by the ABQ Free Press, Dennis Domrzalski reports on continued setbacks for the Mayor and leaders of the disputed Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project.
"…a state court judge ordered the City Council to – catch this – do its job and give ART opponents a hearing on a procedural, but also substantive, matter regarding the project….Lopez also ordered the Landmarks Commission, which is scheduled to meet Wednesday, July 13, to take no action on the ART matter until the City Council holds its hearing next month." – ABQ Free Press
Read the full article, Screech! Another ART Roadblock, at the ABQ Free Press website.
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One of the huge benefits of living in Thailand is the very affordable cost of getting a wonderful Thai massage. I am of course talking about the traditional kind, not the more saucy type, you may be disappointed to read.
For a mere 200-400 Baht, depending on the area and decor of the business, you can melt away the stress and tension in your body with a one-hour Thai massage for a fraction of the 50-100 Pounds/Dollars/Euros it would cost you back home.
As an avid fan, and someone who believes it does me the world of good, I recently thought – after having a masseuse who performed some twists and turns on my body that I had to question as potentially dangerous – is Thai massage actually good for you. I mean, what are the purported benefits and is there any scientific evidence to back them up.
There are, of course, particular issues when discussing a process as experiential as receiving a massage, particularly when one wishes to apply some measure of scientific evidence to the topic. Double blind studies are impossible, and this is a problem when attempting to establish clear benefits to any of the internal processes we humans have developed to improve our well-being.
This problem has affected many disciplines that have been with us for longer than most religions. Practitioners of Yoga, Tai Chi and meditation will all extol the virtues of their art, but we are unable to verify much objectively. The same can be said about Thai massage; we know that it feels good in the short term, but actual verification of what the practitioners claim – benefits like slowing the ageing process, preventing illness by boosting the immune system, reducing the symptoms of asthma and alleviating degenerative diseases – is thin on the ground.
Where possible in this post I have provided case studies to support the claims, but some benefits of Thai massage are impossible to quantify. I have also applied medical studies that deal with sports or Swedish massage where appropriate. I ask your forgiveness that I have not provided irrefutable evidence in some cases; it simply does not exist at the time of writing.
Thai Massage: A Brief History
According to the Buddhist canon Shivago Komarpaj, the physician to the Buddha, is credited as the inventor of Thai massage over two and a half thousand years ago. While this is a nice enough legend, the actual history of Thai Traditional Massage (TTM) is more complex.
Like most cultural practices that have such long lineage, TTM is likely to be an evolving amalgamation of many different arts. Over time, TTM has been adapted from its original forms with influence from India, China, and other South East Asian regions. The colonial period of the nineteenth century accelerated this process with the influence of western trade routes.
In the modern day, professional TTM practitioners are regulated by the Ministries of Education and Public Health in Thailand, though there is a limited oversight in other countries. This is partly due to the strenuously physical demands on receiving a Thai massage.
It must also be mentioned that there are very many hereditary methods that have been practiced in rural areas by family lineages that stretch back centuries and remain unregulated. In western countries like the UK an hour on the table costs around ten times that of the going rate in Thailand, which is around the £6 mark.
With prices so low for a recognised masseuse to work on you, I cannot in good conscience advise visitors to Thailand to seek out the near legendary abilities of the hereditary masters. Wherever you go in the world, being a tourist means you're pickings for charlatans, and while of course I am not accusing every unlicensed masseuse in Thailand of being one, you must consider that when you visit a Thai massage shop, you are taking a slight risk in not knowing just how qualified the person applying pressure to precious areas of your body is.
You can, however, usually tell the qualified, experienced masseuse/masseur from the "just doing it for some cash" flyby worker because the latter tends to steer clear of any complex stretches and twists that can result in injury if performed incorrectly. That said, most of us who've been here for a while have experienced some questionable neck-cracking followed by some naive giggling, not dissimilar to that of a child finding out something works for the first time – you leave thanking buddha that you aren't in a neck brace!
Speculation aside, It's worth noting that many Westerners gain their TM experience from schools in Thailand, so certification must be pretty credible, right?
8 Provable Benefits of Thai Massage
1. Unbeatable Stretching
TTM has been linked with Muay Thai for as long as the art has been around. Why? Well, the robust massage is excellent for limbering up limbs for athletic performance and relieving deep muscle tension afterwards Useful for both martial artists and stressed out civilians.
2. Improved Mental Well-Being
It may seem obvious but having a physically relaxing experience is good for the mind. A 2004 study found significant improvement in the mental well-being of patients suffering from musculoskeletal pain when treated with massage compared to treatment with relaxation tapes. Like Tai Chi and Yoga, TTM is as much a moving meditation as it is a massage.
3. Decreased Cortisol Levels
Most likely a contributing factor to the post-massage sense of well-being is the boost to serotonin and reduction in cortisol found in people who have received massages. Cortisol being a stress hormone, serotonin being the happy hormone. A clear positive result.
4. Improved Circulation
Although not medically researched, it has long been held that TTM benefits the circulation of blood in our bodies. This is said to aid in the reduction of migraines through the use of acupressure. While the invisible energy lines that are supposed to move through our bodies are hotly contested by medical research, there is significant anecdotal and experimental evidence to support the claim.
5. Behavioural Treatment for Autistic Children
I found this study illuminating. Autistic children generally experience much higher levels of anxiety and stress. Traditional Thai massage has been shown to provide some degree of improvement to stereotypical behaviours in autistic children.
6. Pain Relief
Patients suffering from scapula costal syndrome (SCS) showed a reduction in the pain suffered and overall patient satisfaction when compared to ultrasound therapies.[i]
7. The Human Touch is Language
We instinctively respond to human touch from birth, and are attracted to it (or repelled from it, depending on circumstance) our entire lives. The touch of another human in a relaxing scenario devoid of the pressures of the real world is priceless. "touch strengthens relationships and is a marker of closeness," he says. "It increases cooperation but is also an indicator of how strong bonds are between people," – Michael Kraus, University of Illinois
8. Reprogramming the Mind
Massage increases delta wave frequency in our brains. This particular brain wave is closely associated with deep rest and sleep- I'm sure with less strenuous forms of massage you have experienced the sensation of nodding off on the table, as I have.
Although there has not been an EEG study conducted on Thai massage, I would hypothesise that brainwave activity changes through different stages of Thai massage and indeed different styles. The more relaxing the more theta and delta waves would be released, and the more active the more alpha and beta waves would be released.
We see then that from the deepest part of our minds to the tips of our toes, traditional Thai massage can relieve pain, stress and improve the functioning of the only body we have. Admittedly, the medical evidence for much of what has been claimed is sparse, but essentially there are very few downsides and many potential benefits. What do you have to lose?
[i] Buttagat V, Eungpinichpong W, Chatchawan U, Arayawichanon P. Therapeutic effects of traditional Thai massage on pain, muscle tension and anxiety in patients with scapulocostal syndrome: a randomized single-blinded pilot study. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2012;16:1:57-63.


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Every day in America, on public radio stations across the land, a short program airs called "The Writer's Almanac." Hosted by the writer, musician and impresario Garrison Keillor, the show's five minutes begin and end with a ceremonious progression of melancholic piano chords. Between these bookending strains, in his lulling baritone, Keillor catalogues the high-points of the date in literary history: which writer was born, what book appeared, who passed away. And then, before bidding us adieu ("Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."), Keillor reads a poem. Though the authors he includes vary in age and gender, race and reputation, the poems themselves share a kind of soothing sameness–if not of subject or style or accomplishment then surely in the tone in which Keillor delivers them. Warm, winsome, tolerant, reassuring: whether the poem is one of longing or of losing, of joy or of grief, Keillor's tone seems aimed at providing an almost analgesic relief to the listener — at proving that poetry is the balm that can heal any wound.
I find that tone a toxic thing, for it makes poetry into a kind of pillow, something puffed up and upon which one comes tiredly to rest. Whereas poetry at its best is a vigorous thing, an enlivening art, vibratingly alive, alive in its language and its music, a field of force and of forces. A poem in the collection Sunrise by American poet Frederick Seidel, suggests as much, concluding with the following lines, lines that give a potent sense of poetry's better purpose:
At a very formal dinner party,
At which I met the woman I have loved the most
In my life, Belleville
Pulled out a sterling silver–plated revolver
And waved it around, pointing it at people, who smiled.
One didn't know if the thing could be ?red.
That is the poem.
Frederick Seidel, for fifty years and across ten collections, has been writing our most serious, beautiful, and essential poems, poems that are shocking in their art and astonishing in their truth, and that remind us, in their forms, why poetry was once a vital part of cultural life (and not, as Keillor seems to have it, a respite from it). This week, Seidel's collected Poems 1959-2009 appears, 500 pages of astonishments that renew the cultural definition of what a poem is: a thing that wakes us, shakes us, moves us, and pays equal attention to the details of living and the art of poetry.
The collection is already receiving intelligent attention. This magazine's Christian Lorentzen has a fine essay in The National. Harper's readers will also recall Benjamin Kunkel's excellent essay on Seidel's previous book,Ooga-Booga. As Kunkel wrote perceptively in these pages:
The suave tone setting up the shock, the excellent table manners combined with a savage display of appetite: this is what everyone notices in Seidel. Yet he wouldn't be so special or powerful a poet of what's cruel, corrupt, and horrifying had he not also lately shown himself to be a great poet of innocence. Critics have tended to miss or dismiss this in him, skipping ahead, as it were, to the good stuff. But for now let us go back to what, for Seidel, is clearly the beginning: the innocent oblivion that precedes everything. It seems that for him it is an important feature of a spoiled person, country, or planet ("Contorted and disfigured nature in the dying days of oil") that at one time these things were nothing at all, and might just as easily have been almost anything else.
Poems 1959-2009 allows all of us to go back to Seidel's beginnings, on his terms. This book of cunning art is itself a cunning thing: Seidel has organized his collected works backwards. Whereas one typically reads through a collected poems in the order that the collections first appeared, Seidel has ordered his from the most recent work to the most distant. Thus we begin by reading his new poems, those of the limited edition chapbook Evening Man, and march steadily backwards to Seidel's first collection, Final Solutions. The effect of such inversion is an inversion of expectations: great poets' early poems tend, when compared with those of the more mature writers they must become, to suffer by comparison. In Seidel's case, what one notices as one reads towards his beginnings is how much of his present sensibility and capacity were already alive in his early work, and how dedicatedly he has tuned and challenged that sensibility as he has continued to surpass himself.
This Sunday, as your weekend read, I propose you spend a little time with Seidel. First, you can read many of Seidel's poems online in the Google Preview of Poems 1959-2009, here. Begin, why don't you, with "Boys", a poem first published in Harper's. And then, in the New York Times Magazine, you can read my profile of Seidel, wherein are included recordings of Seidel reading from his collected works (making it admittedly a weekend listen as much as a weekend read). Bon weekend.


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PAINT is the new project from Pedrum Siadation of Allah-Las. Siadation started four-tracking songs for his debut self-titled solo album while finishing Allah-Las third studio album Calico Review in 2016. The songs were slow-growing, written over the course of two years and influenced by the prose and poetry he was reading at the time.
We caught up with Pedrum to talk about his shift to solo recording. You can listen to an exclusive stream of the album below ahead of its release tomorrow through Mexican Summer.
He is performing live at The Shacklewell Arms on 4 December.
Buy tickets here.
Order the album here.
Do you remember when music became an important influence in your life?
I was obsessed with the radio and MTV when I was a kid and I think it grew from there. I really liked Rock The Casbah.
What encouraged the decision to write a solo album?
It was less of a decision than something that slowly happened over time. There were some songs I was writing and feeling really good about that I didn't feel would work in the group dynamic. Once I accumulated songs enough for an LP, I blocked out dates and recorded with my friend Frank Maston.
Allah-Las have achieved great success as a band, what was it like starting again from scratch and going it alone?
It's been refreshing. I've felt really good playing more intimate venues with this project.
How did the songwriting process differ as a soloist to writing in a band? Did you find that the creative process was more pure having not been diluted by anyone else?
Yeah, it's different in the sense that I can write more personally, and it's easier to stay true to my vision for the things I've written. With the band, it's very democratic, and the idiosyncrasies I like sometimes get smoothed over in the final recording process.
What can we expect from PAINT in the future? Will this be a permanent project?
I'm going on a brief tour in Uk/Eu in December and hopefully will start work on lp 2 soon after. Yes I hope so..
If you could change something about the provisions made for touring artists by the industry or government, what would it be?
Less taxes.


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With another potentially record-breaking heat wave coming to the Bay Area this week, public health officials are warning people to take precaution to avoid exhaustion and dehydration.
Temperatures near the Bay and the coast are expected to rise to the mid 80s to mid 90s, while inland temperatures will peak at 104 degrees, the National Weather Service said today.
The heat is expected to last through Thursday, with temperatures starting to cool off that day and drop even further by Friday and the weekend, according to the weather service.
The heat could have health impacts, causing dehydration and exhaustion, particularly in people over age 65, infants and young children, people with medical conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, asthma or respiratory conditions. People who have been consuming caffeine or alcohol are also at a higher risk of dehydration, public health officials said.
To avoid heat-related illnesses, the San Francisco Department of Public Health recommends drinking plenty of water, even if not thirsty, wearing light-colored clothes and a hat, consuming alcohol or sugary drinks only in moderation, wearing sunscreen and taking breaks in the shade whenever possible.
Heat-related illnesses can cause symptoms such as difficulty breathing, red, dry skin with no sweating, a rapid pulse, a throbbing headache, dizziness, nausea, delirium or chills.
The hot, dry air could also cause health problems by trapping more pollution than normal. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a "Spare the Air" warning for high smog today and Tuesday, and the forecast for the coming days indicate that more alerts will likely follow this week.
High smog can cause respiratory problems and can be particularly problematic for people already suffering from diseases like asthma, bronchitis or emphysema.
The dry air and strong sun could also create a fire danger with conditions ripe for wildfires starting from downed power lines, car accidents, construction sites, or outdoor barbecues.
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ACF Pro
In this article, we'll cover some usage examples of how you can utilize ACF Pro within your X or Pro powered site. We'll mainly be focusing on how to use ACF Pro and so may skip over some finer details.
ACF Pro is one of the most powerful tools available for WordPress that both developers and non-developers love! Allowing you to create custom fields for any post type with a vast array of display options.
Getting Started
Go to Pro > Validation or X > Validation for X then look for ACF Pro. Click Install.
Once installed, the Install button will change and say Activate. Click that button and it will activate the plugin. You will then see the status change to Installed and Activated.
On the WordPress dashboard navigation, you should now see the ACF Pro menu item like this:
Go ahead and click on the Custom Fields menu item. This will take you to the main overview of ACF Pro.
What are the Field Groups
The first thing you'll see on the main ACF Pro overview is Field Groups these field groups are what ACF uses to group fields you create for use in your theme, child theme, template or plugin.
As you can see we already have a field group that we've set up earlier, let's explore that to see what's going on and how we can utilize ACF to add an About Author meta box to our single post template.
Here's our basic field group layout:
There's a lot going on here so let's split it down one by one. First, we have our rules, these are the basic rules of how our fields in this specific field group will display. For example in the field group we've created, we have it checked to show this field group if the post type is equal to post. Which means if, for example, you are on a portfolio item the field group won't be displayed.
We could expand on the field group display rule and add multiple other conditions, how you add these conditions is an important part of ACF Pro. There are two options both and as well as Add Rule Group.
Option 1 AND allows you to add an additional rule in addition to the first rule that must be matched with the first one to display the field group. This is both useful and powerful with ACF. In this example say if we had a magazine style website. We may not want our Author field group to display in all categories, just our regular blog. So if we had a category called blog in ACF Pro we can then set Post Taxonomy is equal to Blog.
With that set our field group would then look like this:
This now means that our Field Group will only show if the post type is a post and if the post taxonomy is Blog. If only one of these conditions is matched it means the Field Group won't display.
But what about if you wanted it to show if either of those conditions was matched?
Option 2: Add Rule Group allows you to add an additional rule group to the Field Group this is an OR conditional rather than an And conditional, meaning that if either condition A or condition B is met display the Field Group where both Field Group rules don't have to be met to display the field group. So if we set this value to Post Taxonomy is equal to Blog our Field Group would then look like this:
This now means that our Field Group will display if either the post type is a post or if the post taxonomy is set to Blog. Which means if you had the blog taxonomy on another post type the Field Group would still display, whereas with option 1 it wouldn't have displayed as both conditions had to be matched.
Field Group displays are an extremely powerful part of ACF Pro and allow you to achieve near limitless display options.
The remaining options for the Field Group settings are:
- Status
- Style
- Position
- Label Placement
- Instruction Placement
- Order No.
- Description
- Hide on Screen
What's important to note about all these options is that they are for the Field Group within the wp-admin Not how the Field Group will display in your theme.
For example, if you set the position to Normal (after content) your Fields within the Field Group will then display at the bottom of the page/post you've configured your Field Group to show on. Like this:
However, if we change that to show at the side, our fields within the Field Display group will then show at the side like this:
Once you're happy with your Field Group, go ahead and save it.
Adding the Fields
On your Field Group click on Add Field:
You'll then see a range of Field options like this:
As you can see there are a variety of options you can fill in for each field, the options will change depending on the field type you have selected, so make sure you have selected the Field Type before filling in the Field Options.
First of all give your field a name, for the purpose of this article as we've already mentioned, we're adding an About Author section to our blog posts.
The Field Label will be the name of the field as it appears on the edit page of the post type that your Field Group is set to display for.
The Field Name is what you will use in your theme, child theme, template or plugin to retrieve the field value so don't make it something too complex. In this case, we've gone for about_author, it can have underscores or dashes but no spaces are allowed.
Field Type, there is a huge range of options from a simple text area to Wysiwyg editors and much much more.
Field Instructions, these are the instructions shown to your other admins, editors, authors and anyone else who has access to the edit of the post type your field group is set to display for.
Required, whether the field itself should be required to be filled in or not, if the field is set to required and isn't filled in an error will be shown on trying to publish/update. As we don't want an empty author bio on our page we're going to set this to required.
Default Value Here you can an enter a default value to be used when creating a new post.
If you select the Wysiwyg option, you'll see a couple of other options.
With these options, you can select if with the Wysiwyg editor if both the Visual and Text options should be available or just one or the other along with if you want to show the media upload buttons for your custom field.
Once you're happy with everything click on Update/Save.
Displaying the Fields
Now you have a field added and a field group created, but what about actually outputting the field value within the theme? As we've created an about author field we want it to display above the Leave a Comment section of our single post template on our selected Stack Ethos.
Before we get started with adding our field first we need to make sure we have a child theme ready. If you don't already have a child theme on your website you can download one here.
Now with your FTP or SFTP program such as Coda, Filezilla, Cyberduck etc log in via FTP/SFTP and navigate to wp-content/themes/x-child and create the following folder at this exact path:
This is the template that is responsible for outputting the single post template of the Ethos stack. Copy the contents of that file from the parent theme at wp-content/themes/x/framework/views/ethos/wp-single.php. The code should look like this:
// =============================================================================
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Single post output for Ethos.
// =============================================================================
$fullwidth = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_x_post_layout', true );
<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="<?php x_main_content_class(); ?>" role="main">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php x_get_view( 'ethos', 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<?php x_get_view( 'global', '_comments-template' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php if ( $fullwidth != 'on' ) : ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Before this line:
<?php the_field('about_author'); ?>
Add the code to retrieve the value from ACF Pro for the custom field which is:
// =============================================================================
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Single post output for Ethos.
// =============================================================================
$fullwidth = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), '_x_post_layout', true );
<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="<?php x_main_content_class(); ?>" role="main">
<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<?php x_get_view( 'ethos', 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<?php the_field('about_author'); ?>
<?php x_get_view( 'global', '_comments-template' ); ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php if ( $fullwidth != 'on' ) : ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Note you don't need the paragraph tags there they just give us some extra styling with spacing rather than being all bunched together, this is also a basic implementation and you could add a range of additional styles and markup, the only limit is your imagination.
This leaves the total file looking like this (in our child theme).
Now we've added the code to display our field lets go and add a value to display, open up any post and fill in the author details box with the content you want. Save the post and visit it on the front-end. You should see the new custom field you created displayed like this:
Congrats! You've successfully created a custom field group, added a custom field and got the custom field displaying by using a child theme and the get_field function of ACF Pro. You can find out more about the get_field function here.
Cornerstone/Content Builder Integration
We've included a basic ACF Pro integration with Cornerstone which allows you to use a shortcode within your pages and posts created with Cornerstone to automatically pull through the value of your ACF Pro custom field without having to modify template files.
You'd use:
Within your Cornerstone content where field_name is the name of your field as shown in the ACF Pro field edit screen. Please note, this is a basic integration and will only support text-based fields. For example, it won't output a gallery. Also, use the WYSIWYG type field with caution - WordPress's visual editor automatically adds tags, which can break element markup causing display issues.
Well done! Now you know how to easily add custom fields to your WordPress site using ACF Pro that comes with your X and Pro install.
Further Reading
To learn more about ACF Pro check out the official documentation here.
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At the age of 12 weeks at the latest, infants respond to a friendly smile with a happy "social smile". Their mirror neuron system makes it possible to "mirror" facial expressions if the baby can see facial features clearly enough to copy them. Therefore, if an infant does not respond to smiling faces, eyes and vision need to be thoroughly examined. In this examination the Hiding Heidi test is important for testing whether there is a difficulty in perception of low contrast facial features at usual communication distances.
Visual communication is the most important way of communicating during the first year of life. Expressions on faces are mediated by faint shadows and changes of the contours of the mouth and eyes.
Hiding Heidi test is designed for assessment of low contrast information in communication situations in infants, children and adult persons who are unable to respond verbally or by pointing. If the infant/person can follow a moving target or shift gaze to or turn head to peripherally presented visual stimuli, preferential looking test situation can be used. A preferential looking test situation is a detection test and does usually not depict how the infant or child perceives the test picture. However, if an infant responds with a smile, he must have perceived the picture of a smiling face.
Figure 1. Hiding Heidi picture presented in a preferential looking test situation to an infant at the age of 3 months.
The test picture is exposed from behind the white card by moving the cards in opposite directions with the same speed. The normal reaction is that a young infant follows the picture of the face with a combined movement of the eyes and head (the differentiation of eye movements from head movements has not yet developed). If the infant follows the card and smiles like the 3-month-old infant does in the above picture, he must have perceived the smiling face and responds with an age appropriate social smile. In the brief moment of the test you have received information on the infant's visual, motor and emotional development. The prerequisite for an age appropriate response is that the infant has a normally functioning mirror neuron system and can perceive facial features.
If an infant does not respond to smiling faces, eyes and vision need to be thoroughly examined. In this examination the Hiding Heidi test is important for testing whether there is a difficulty in perception of low contrast facial features at usual communication distances.
By presenting the test at different distances it is possible to assess how close the people should be in communication situation so that the infant can perceive faces. If an infant only responds to high contrast pictures of Heidi, the people in his or her life should be aware of this problem and make their faces more visible. This can be done by wearing lip and eye liners, bright lipstick and eyeglasses with dark frames. Men can use brown lip liner.
The question of "normal values of the Hiding Heidi test" is not a relevant question. We are not comparing the communication situation of a visually impaired infant with that of a normally sighted infant. We want to find the contrast level where the infant can perceive the face of a communicating person, with or without increased make-up.
Before starting to test, notice how far the infant becomes interested in people around him and how often he looks at faces and at which distance. Hiding Heidi pictures are usually used to find the contrast level an infant needs in usual communication distances.
Position the infant so he or she faces the tester in an optimal position for participation in the test situation. If possible, select for the first functional assessment the time of day when the infant is most alert.
Start the test at a distance that is usual to the infant's communication situation. Hide the full contrast stimulus card behind the blank card. Tap on the white card to guide the infant to look in the direction of the test and say something softly, e.g. "I hide a Heidi face". Move the blank card off to one side and the card with the face picture off to the other side at the same speed. The card with the picture should be moved to the right or left in a random order. (If the infant seems to have fairly normal visual functions, you may shorten the test and start with the picture at 10% contrast.)
If an infant does not respond to a horizontal presentation of the face cards, try vertical presentation.
When you find the distance and direction of presentation that work, present the cards in the order of decreasing contrast: full contrast, 25%, 10%, 5%, 2.5% and 1.25%, each card once as long as the infant responds with a following movement.
If the infant does not follow the movement of the face picture at a low contrast level, place the picture behind the white card and say "Heidi is hiding now", tap on the white card and then present the picture again.
If you do not see the usual response, go to the previous contrast to confirm the threshold level. If the infant responds, you have found the threshold contrast for the present distance. If the infant does not respond, he has lost interest and you need to play with another test game and try again later.
To perceive facial expressions on young faces of the parents the infant needs to have both perception of low contrast information and motion perception. After a short play situation try the contrast level that did not work but now at a shorter distance from the child. Keep your voice soft and friendly.
If you get responses to the picture with 10% contrast at a distance of 40 cm (16 inches) but not to the lower contrast pictures, observe the infant's communication with parents when they have increased contrast on their face. If more contrast improves interaction, add also tactile information in the early intervention, i.e., the little hands on the face of the parents. It gives the abstract visual information a more concrete content.
Inform all persons who are related to the child about the importance of the short communication distance and use of tactile and haptic information and voice to support visual information.
Recording the result:
The infant responded to the picture at 25% contrast at a distance of 60 cm (2 feet) and to the picture at 10% contrast at 40 cm (16 inches) but not to the pictures at lower contrast levels. Since the test was performed without near correction, it needs to be repeated when the infant has become accustomed to the use of the new spectacles. Increased make-up seemed to improve visual communication. Use of tactile information for supporting visual information was demonstrated and recommended.
If another 3-4-month-old infant follows the low contrast face pictures in the preferential-looking test situation until 2.5% picture at the usual communication distance but does not smile to the picture or people smiling to him, paediatric neurologist should assess brain functions carefully to answer why the brain does not use the available visual information in communication situation. At the same time early intervention should be started to build effective communication through observation of body language, tactile and auditory information and carrying the infant in a sling all day long so that he can experience movements, changes in positions, and bodily closeness.
An infant who does not experience bonding through vision needs to get confirmation of being loved and close to parents through all other senses more than a normally sighted infant.
Normal values of the Hiding Heidi test
The question of "normal values of the Hiding Heidi test" is not a relevant question. We are not comparing the communication situation of a visually impaired infant with that of a normally sighted infant. We want to find the contrast level and distance where the infant can perceive the face of a communicating person, with or without increased make-up.
The "normal values" would be difficult to measure because the sphere of visual interest and attention grow with varying speed in infants at the same age even if the cohort would be infants with typical development. Uncorrected refractive errors would affect the recognition of facial features. For such an investigation we would need to have pictures with many more sizes, if, for example, the measurements would be made at half the maximum distance of the visual sphere of each infant. So far there has not been a well-founded demand for this type of information.
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world for my wife, for she was able to fully enjoy the
trip. We saw so many elderly seniors, who were unable to do
ten percent of the things we did, because of their inability
to walk. Many of them asked about our scooter, and we were
happy to recommend it. And we told several of them where
they could get a folding scooter just like it.
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buy this scooter again? Yes, in a heartbeat.
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For a fresh interpretation on a low, modern klismos chair, this silhouette takes on dramatic style when you view the wide, Whisper of Gold panel that shines off its back. A neutral sateen fabric with a subtle moire pattern fully surrounds the square upper back and seat cushion that rest on an exposed wood frame and sabre legs finished in Seal Skin. This is a chair with truly polished appeal.
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FX Sanlorenzo - Cantieri Navali Di Viareggio
If you have any questions about the FX information page below please contact us.
A General Description of Motor Yacht FX
Sanlorenzo - Cantieri Navali Di Viareggio finished building motor yacht FX in 2005. Accordingly, she can be categorised as having been built within Italy. FX had naval architecture and design developed by Sanlorenzo and Sanlorenzo. This superyacht FX can accommodate overnight the sum total of 8 passengers all told aboard as well as 5 qualified crew. Finished and launched for 2005 the comparatively recent interior decoration proffers the endowment from Studio Dellarole and their approach to interior yacht design.
Yacht FX was the Winner of the BEST SEMI-DISPLACEMENT OR PLANING MOTOR YACHT 30m – 39m at World Superyacht Awards 2010
Building & Naval Architecture for Luxury Yacht FX
Sanlorenzo was the naval architecture company involved in the formal superyacht plans for FX. Also the company Sanlorenzo skillfully collaborated on this venture. Interior designer Studio Dellarole was responsible for the internal internal ambience. In 2005 she was formally launched with accolade in Viareggio and following sea trials and detailing was thereafter delivered to the new owner. nlorenzo - Cantieri Navali Di Viareggio completed their new build motor yacht in Italy. The hull was crafted from composite. The motor yacht main superstructure is fabricated for the most part using composite. With a beam of 7.4 m or 24.28 ft FX has moderate internal space. A fairly shallow draught of 2.5m (8.2ft) limits the list of marinas she can visit, contingent on their specific depth.
Engineering And The Speed/Range That M/Y FX :
The 12V 4000 M90 engine installed in the motor yacht is produced by MTU. For propulsion FX has twin screw propellers. The main engine of the yacht produces 2734 horse power (or 2040 kilowatts). She is equiped with 2 engines. The combined power for the yacht is accordingly 5467 HP / 4080 KW.
For Superyacht FX There is Accommodation For Guest:
Bestowing room for a limit of 8 yacht guests overnighting, the FX accommodates everyone in style. This ship carries around 5 expert crewmembers to maintain and sail.
A List of the Specifications of the FX:
|Superyacht Name:
|Motor Yacht FX
|Built By:
|Sanlorenzo - Cantieri Navali di Viareggio
|Built in:
|Viareggio, Italian
|Launched in:
|Length Overall:
|33 metres / 108 feet.
|Waterline Length:
|28.16 (92.39 ft)
|Naval Architecture:
|Sanlorenzo, Sanlorenzo
|Interior Designers:
|Studio Dellarole
|Hull / Superstructure Construction Material:
|composite / composite
|Owner of FX:
|FX available for luxury yacht charters:
|Is the yacht for sale:
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|The propulsion comes from two 2734 Horse Power or 2040 kW MTU. The Model type is 12V 4000 M90 diesel.
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|Cruise Speed:
|26 nautical miles per hour.
|Top Speed:
|30 nautical miles per hour.
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Miscellaneous Yacht Details
She has a teak deck.
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The luxury yacht FX displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.
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Inside USBE > Departments and Programs > Financial Operations > Property Tax
Funding for Public Education comes from three general sources: federal, state, and local funds. Federal funds account for 11.86% of school districts' General Fund revenue and is appropriated for specific purposes. State funds account for 63.99% of school districts' General Fund revenue and earmarks revenue from income taxes for public and higher education. Local funding accounts for 24.15% of the school districts' General Fund revenues.
Local funding consists of revenue from six different taxes that a local school board may levy plus interest on investments, tuition payments, and student fees. Each district must impose a minimum Basic property tax levy and contribute the proceeds of that levy to the cost of providing educational services. The more Basic Levy revenue collected, the less state funding-from the Uniform School Fund is required.
Historic Overview of Utah's Property Tax
Property taxes are the main source of local funding and consist of the following.
Local property taxes that are used for general fund expenditures:
Taxes used for capital outlay and debt service:
Other taxes a district may levy:
Each year a school district board of education must decide what property taxes they will levy and whether or not they will need to increase the total dollars yielded from those six different tax rates over the prior year budgeted amount. Except for the Basic Tax Rate, the Debt Service Tax Rate and the Judgment Recovery Tax Rate, if the new budget year sum of the Certified Tax Rates* is more than the prior year, the district must go through the "truth in taxation" process.
The Certified Tax Rate is defined as the total rate that the school district would levy-excluding the Basic Tax Rate, the Debt Service Tax Rate and the Judgment Recovery Tax Rate-so that the district would receive the same dollars as was budgeted in the prior year, plus new growth.
Property taxes may be levied by the State of Utah and most of its political subdivisions, including counties, all cities and towns, all school districts and most special service districts. Authority levy depends upon enabling statutes.
School districts had the authority to levy thirteen different taxes to collect funds for the education of students. Effective January 1, 2012, there are only six tax rates a school district can levy.
School District Tax Levies Descriptions
Tax Levies in Effect After January 1, 2012
A list of the school districts' estimated assessed valuations and their final tax rates.
The following references will help to further explain the taxing process for the school districts.
Voted and Board Local Levies
Defines the calculation to determine the amount of state aid a district might receive for the various programs.
Levies and Proposed/Certified Tax Rates | Certified Tax Rate Formula
Payments in Lieu of Taxes (or PILT)
United States Department of Interior
Federal payments to local governments that help offset losses in property taxes due to nontaxable Federal lands within their boundaries.
Public Education Property Taxes
Lists of the Six Property Taxes a School District May Levy.
Final Tax Rate Proceeds.
Redevelopment began in Utah in the mid 1960's with the Utah Community Development Act. Its original intent was to fund the revitalization of downtown areas of communities through Tax Increment Financing (TIF). Tax Increment Financing allows the tax dollars collected for a redevelopment project area that are in excess of a "base year" tax amount to be paid to the redevelopment agency for purposes of "alteration, improvement, modernization, reconstruction, or rehabilitation...of existing structures in a project area" rather than the taxing entities.
Statutes require that each year a certified tax rate be calculated. The certified tax rate is the rate which will provide the same amount of property tax revenue as was charged in the previous year, excluding the revenue generated by new growth. The Minimum School Program (MSP) levy is exempt from the calculation of the certified tax rate.
If a school district determines that it needs greater revenues than what the certified tax rate will generate, statutes require that the entity must then go through a process referred to as Truth in Taxation. The Truth in Taxation statutes require an entity to go through a series of steps which include proper notification of the proposed tax increase to the tax payers and a public hearing.


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It's not a diet.
It's not a diet because I've never been particularly good at restricting what I put on my plate, the amount of butter I put on my toast, or the incredible amount of popcorn I sometimes eat for dinner. It's not keto or paleo or a diet with any classification. This is an exploration.
With the new year coming into focus I've been thinking a lot about what I want to play with in my kitchen, what I want my baking to taste like, and how I want to stretch myself and my ingredient list. But the thing is… I'm always thinking about you and your pantry, your time and your wallets when I develop recipes. I want this to be a place where the recipes feel both accessible and reliable – where you know what you're getting yourself into.
You know by now you're getting yourself into a lot of butter – that remains the same.
This year I'll be experimenting more often with the following ingredients. All good, wholesome, delicious ingredients. These might be ingredients already found in your pantry, or it might be an adventure for you. Either way, I I hope you'll bake along with me!
• I've dabbled in Almond Flour and Maple Syrup in a handful of baking recipes in my own kitchen, but I've become absolutely SMITTEN since baking from the Sweet Laurel Cookbook. The book uses almond flour and maple syrup (along with coconut oil) and I've found this Chocolate Raspberry Layer Cake to be one of my favorite bites of last year.
• Flax Seeds are incredible little things that can simulate eggs, find their way into banana muffins, and add a nutty, healthy fat that translates very well in the oven.
• I sure did get a bag of Oatmeal for Christmas and I was genuinely stoked! Oatmeal is incredibly versatile. It's breakfast with caramelized bananas, obviously. But I also like to whirl it into milk (I use it the same day so it doesn't get gloopy), and add it to crumbles. I love the rustic quality oatmeal adds to crumbles and the tenderness that oat flour adds to baked goods so… let's play!
• While almond flour and oatmeal can be gluten-free options in the kitchen, I'm still a supporter of glorious gluten, especially if it's super fresh and flavorful. I'm fortunate enough to have a bakery that mills their own flour right here in New Orleans (Bellegarde!) so I'm going to be experimenting with Fresh Milled Flour in everyday baking. The moisture absorption might be something to get used to, but the flavor and depth will be undeniable. See about fresh milled flour in your area!
• Bless the sweet, raw Cashew for the nutty creaminess it adds to soups. Cashews also make the most wonderful nut milk for baking, for golden milk, for hot chocolate. It's one fine nut and totally worth stocking up on this year!
I hope you find a few things to add to your next grocery list!
More from my kitchen soon!
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The company, which specializes in natural and organic meats, developed the bacon for sugar-conscious consumers seeking a product that does not list sugar as an ingredient. The product is sourced from pigs that are humanely raised, and the bacon maintains a hickory smoke flavor, the company said in a statement.
"With a growing demand for sugar-free options, we're excited to deliver a bacon that supports the needs of those looking to reduce their sugar intake, while upholding Applegate values — making products with humanely raised meats and simple ingredients," said Nicole Glenn, Applegate vice president of marketing. "Providing worry-free meats people want to eat is vital to us and this new bacon is a product we're proud to offer."
Applegate offers meats that fulfill the criteria of sugar-free, in addition to the brand's standards of no antibiotics ever, no artificial ingredients, and no chemical nitrites or nitrates in its effort to serve consumers trying to avoid those ingredients.
Applegate Naturals No Sugar Bacon will be available at select retailers, such as Fresh Market and Hy-Vee beginning in August, with a suggested retail price of $5.49 per 8 oz. package. In addition to being sugar-free, Applegate Naturals No Sugar Bacon is gluten free and casein free.


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Fox & Cubs Print
Lush Designs' classic fox and cubs signed digital print on heavy, textured paper.
This bold print would look great in a simple frame in any room that needs Une Touche de Rouge.
If you love this print, you might like to see all our other foxy gifts and homewares.
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Zombified Death Metal / Co. Antrim
Official Facebook Biography…
ZOMBIFIED are a Belfast based death metal band, originally a one man project that became a full line up at the start of 2010. We have released two EPs, a split with 4 other UK Death Metal bands, a single and are now preparing to record our 1st full length album. We have headlined many shows across the UK and Ireland and supported a variety of the worlds finest Death and Grind bands such as Suffocation, Decapitated, Desecration, Extreme Noise Terror,Napalm Death, Malevolent Creation, Cerebral Bore,Putrid Pile.
ZOMBIFIED released their debut album "Whom The Gods Notice They Destroy" in May 2019.
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- Jamie McCleneghan - Guitars
- Adrien Crozet - Guitars
- Gary Beattie - Drums
- Chris Brady - Bass/Vocals
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- Willie 'Biscuits' Hanna - Bass
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Novak Djokovic's stay at a detention hotel highlights how things should change, migration experts say.
The 'medevac' law provides protection from people who do not recognise the legitimate medical needs of asylum seekers, UNSW's Kaldor Centre will tell a Senate inquiry on Monday.
A proposed permanent ban on some refugees would entrench the separation of families, says a UNSW joint submission to a Senate committee hearing today.
Australia already has an extensive suite of anti-terrorism legislation, and the government hasn't clarified what gap, if any, this new bill would fill.
Australia is proposing some of the toughest citizenship stripping laws in the world as it steps up efforts to curb extremist attacks - but the proposed law could run into significant legal hurdles.
Australia's Migration Act allows for ministerial discretion in cases such as the controversial granting of tourist visas to four au pairs - but there remain questions around responsible government.
A new bill gives the immigration minister unprecedented control over the process to acquire citizenship, writes Sangeetha Pillai.
The immigration minister's scope for discretion in the proposed legislation to strip dual nationals involved in terrorism of their Australian citizenship is cause for concern, writes Sangeetha Pillai.
Recent national security proposals and the ongoing focus on asylum seekers have raised questions about what it means to be an Australian citizen, write Gabrielle Appleby and Sangeetha Pillai.
Proposed changes to Australian citizenship will likely be limited in effectiveness, challenging to implement and possibly counter-productive, writes Sangeetha Pillai.


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Love the cooler weather!
I am so loving the cooler weather, I have all my fall and Halloween pumpkins out now. Emily reminded me one day last week when she was visiting that I hadn't put out my Halloween pumpkins! The cooler weather is so making all my babies frisky and naughty! The kittens are now climbing the tree where all my bird feeders are and Rosie and Thorn are not far behind them trying desperately to learn how to climb trees with them. Our trail cam is picking up some wonderful pictures, I am still so addicted to it!! Tim and I are going to put up another one up by the house and see what we pick up. One of the pics on the cam was of a hog, he was really ugly and hairy looking so I have named him Hairy Potter!! That's his picture below! Things have been so busy, we are now beginnng to repair fences, its so fun! LOL! Thank goodness there is always something to do in the house when this is going on! Have a great day!!
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Melrose Oils Apricot Kernel 500ml
Melrose Fresh Oils are your best guarantee of freshness, purity and quality. Melrose Fresh Unrefined Oils have a more distinct flavour and aroma, just like any other whole food which has not been denatured or processed. If you are used to denatured, refined oils, it may take some time to become accustomed to fresh unrefined oils. Besides the nutritional benefits, unrefined oils will impart extra aroma and flavour.
Melrose Apricot Oil (Refined) is a straw coloured, light fine quality oil pressed from the Apricot kernel
About Melrose Fresh Oils
Melrose have oils for specific needs and uses. For instance, it is not generally known that it is only in Extra Virgin and Virgin Olive Oil that the antioxidant polyphenols and squalane are present. In "Pure" and "Light" Olive oil, these natural ingredients have been removed in the refining process. Always use Extra Virgin Olive Oil for optimum health and always check the label and the chart which explains why particular oils are best suited to your needs.
John Finnegan (Author of The Facts about Fats) says: "Good quality oils need to be expellor-pressed at temperatures below 45 degrees C and not solvent extracted. They should not be subjected to high heat temperatures, to deodourising, bleaching, alkali refining or winterising processes. They need to be produced by light and oxygen excluding methods, bottled in containers that prevent the further exposure to light which causes rancidity and where possible, they should be produced from organically grown seed."
Key Benefits:
- GMO Free
- Gluten Free
- Suitable for Vegetarians & Vegans
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While we were hit recently with the terrible report that Hara, Seungyeon, and Gyuri were leaving DSP Media and (probably) KARA, the upside is that we get the absolute FACT that Youngji is now literally KARA.
KARA is a one-membered South Korean girl group who debuted under DSP Media in 2007. pic.twitter.com/uEH1k2S7r1
— Ms. Heo Youngji (@cxtallena) January 2, 2016
HEO YOUNGJI -leader -main vocalist -main dancer -maknae -oldest member -tallest member -kindest member -most rude me pic.twitter.com/TzUVNmx6hG
— Ms. Heo Youngji (@cxtallena) January 2, 2016
Anybody who says this is just a meme will be banned for lyfe.
After all, it is confirmed by fucking Google.
IT SHOWS UP ON GOOGLE LMFAOOO pic.twitter.com/vO10ZAZXCm
— Ms. Heo Youngji (@cxtallena) January 2, 2016
A group whose bond can never be broken. A group you can trust. KARA.
Rumor has it that KARA all sleep together and even use the bathroom at the same time. KARA bond is NO joke.
— Shady KARA Facts (@ShadyKARAFacts) January 2, 2016