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This episode was almost titled "Reflective practice prompts for people who can't stand reflective practice."
Reflective practice is a term that elicits groans. And sadly, that reputation is more than a little justified.
If this echoes your feelings about reflective practice, you're not alone. Here are 12 ways to get yourself thinking that won't bore you to tears. And you might even learn something about yourself, your context, your patients, or your practice.
Hi this is 10 Minutes to Better Patient Communication. I'm Dr. Anne Marie Liebel.
I have heard "reflective practice" mentioned a few times, in the years I have been talking with physicians, medical educators, and public health professionals.
I was talking recently about reflective practice with Dr. Tasha Wyatt from the Education Innovation institute at the Medical College of Georgia. She said,
"Physicians are trained–very much so–to gather data, to make decisions. And reflective practice is a way to slow down that process."
Reflective practice is certainly a term that gets thrown around.
If I could say one thing about the term "reflective practice" in my experience as an educator…it would not be a nice thing to say. If reflective practice has largely been a waste of your time, this episode is for you.
Let me be clear: I am a reflective practitioner.
I have spent most of my time in higher education trying to rescue "reflective practice" from its own bad reputation in my students' imaginations.
That's not to say this reputation is undeserved. From where I stand, there are some punitive, reductive, top-down things going on under the guise of "reflective practice."
If this describes some of your experiences, I don't blame you for groaning.
Reflective practice is a broad umbrella term that covers many different understandings of and approaches to reflection (and practice).
In the health sector, there seems to be support of reflection as a skill.
Health professionals all require critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and reflective practice has been used to support these.
Reflection is used to increase metacognition. It is sometimes invoked as a way to connect theory to practice, or to enhance communication. Professionals reflect in classes, in continuing education, or in communities of practice; alone, in dyads, or in small groups.
One literature review points out the variation in what reflective practice means, and how it is facilitated and assessed, in medical education. This literature review finds similar results in pharmacy education, pointing out the conflicting interpretations and applications of the term 'reflective practice.'
I highly recommend both these literature reviews for references on reflective practice in health professions. Citations of course in the show notes.
Both also cite Donald Schön, whose highly-influential books The Reflective Practitioner and Educating the Reflective Practitioner describe and analyze reflection-in-action across multiple professions and professional contexts.
In Educating the Reflective Practitioner, Schön explains why this is important:
[T]he problems of real-world practice do not present themselves to practitioners as well-formed structures. Indeed, they tend not to present themselves as problems at all but as messy, indeterminate situations. Often, situations are problematic in several ways at once. These indeterminate zones of practice—uncertainty, uniqueness, and value conflict—escape the canons of technical rationality. It is just these indeterminate zones of practice, however, that practitioners and critical observers of the professions have come to see with increasing clarity over the past two decades as central to professional practice. (p. 4)
What I want to share here is a key tool in reflective practice: questioning or problem-posing as a way to begin to investigate and address the 'problems of real-world practice.'
If I hear 'what could you have done differently' posed as a 'reflective practice' question one more time, I'll scream.
So instead, I'm going to give you twelve prompts that you can ask yourself when you wish to engage in some critical reflection.
These questions are designed to get at your taken-for-granted beliefs and actions. Things that tend to slide by, invisible, barely noticed. They encourage you to question structures, processes, and practices (as these authors do), accepting current arrangements not as given or natural but as politically and historically situated (as these authors point out).
These questions are aimed at those times when you are educating—a patient, a client, or a student. But they can have broader applicability. Overall, they are designed to encourage you to take a critical view of the customary practices and conventional roles enacted during education in your practice context.
After each, there always is a follow-up question: what implications does your answer have for your practice? In other words, why might this matter to you and your work with patients, clients, or students?
Now I'm going to refer to patients but please understand I mean students and clients as well.
- Which patients tend to draw your attention? Why do you think this is? Which patients tend to escape your notice? Why do you think this is?
- Are there patients you find it difficult to get along with, or relate to, or reach? How do you feel about this?
- What information or knowledge are you assuming patients have when they meet with you? Where would they have acquired this knowledge or information? How have you responded when they do not appear to have this knowledge or information?
- What's presenting a challenge to you recently when it comes to patient education, that you did not think would present a challenge?
- Did anything a patient did or said surprise you this week? What was it? Why was it surprising to you? What would it be like if patients surprise you more often? Have you surprised yourself lately? How?
- What's going on around you that piques your curiosity this week? That you'd like to give more time and attention to, if you could?
- The next time you meet with a patient, how are you talking to this person? What do you tend to think of people from that social group? How might your conversational dynamics be reflecting some unconscious biases and stereotypes?
- If you broke down the time you spent this week on different tasks and put it on a chart or graph, what would it look like? To what extent does this match your idea of a successful or productive use of your time?
- What have you done this week that you were proud of, no matter how simple it might sound?
- Are there times you are unsure of what you are communicating to a patient or colleague? How do you deal with this?
- If you could wave a magic wand and give yourself the insights, knowledge, dispositions or skills you need in order to succeed this week, what would you give yourself?
- What clever hacks, little-known tricks, or productivity boosts have you discovered lately? What might these be telling you about yourself, or your context?
Again, the important question at the end of each set is always: what implications does this have for your practice?
Reflection is an important process for any profession. It's important to acknowledge that health care providers are held to such high expectations that reflection can seem risky, as recent events in the UK illustrate.
As Dr. Wyatt and I were talking, she wondered aloud, "Is reflection safe? If so, under what conditions? If not, under what conditions?"
Of course, no one can eliminate the stress and messiness of practice. Reflection, when critically oriented, is designed to press into the stress and messiness of practice. And not deny it.
Whether you reflect with others, or alone in your thoughts, intentional and systematic reflection is an irreplaceable, powerful tool that invites professionals to imagine other possible practices, roles, and relationships.
If you are interested in reflecting on your language, why not start with your metaphors? I have written a workshop just for you, that shows you how to break down the metaphors you use, understand their cognitive and affective aspects, and evaluate them in use. It's fast, it's On demand, and it's right on health communication partners.com.
This has been 10 minutes to Better Patient Communication. I'm Dr. Anne Marie Liebel. Thanks for listening.


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Ken Livingstone attacked David and Simon Reuben for their role in an ongoing dispute about the Stratford City development in east London.
He suggested the brothers "go back (to their own country) and see if they can do better under the ayatollahs".
The mayor made the comments during a speech at City Hall.
'Major problem'
The mayor's office said there was nothing further to add.
The mayor is understood to think the consortium behind the project, of which the Reuben brothers hold a 50% stake, is not progressing quickly enough and could be in danger.
Conservative members of the London Assembly said the brothers were not Iranian, but had been born in India of Iraqi Jewish parents.
Brian Coleman, assembly Member for Barnet and Camden, said: "This is the latest anti-Semitic remark by Livingstone, he clearly has a major problem with the Jewish business community."
The brothers released a statement saying the mayor's comments were "totally inaccurate".
"The Reuben brothers remain completely committed to the Stratford City project in its entirety as well as the Olympic opportunity," the statement added.
"They are working extremely hard to deliver the development for the long-term benefit of London and Londoners. That is what they shall continue to do.
"Mr Livingstone's comments on the Reuben brothers' role in the Paddington and White City developments are also unsubstantiated."
The row follows the mayor's four-week suspension for comparing Evening Standard journalist Oliver Finegold to a Nazi concentration camp guard.
Mr Livingstone, however, won a last-minute attempt to remain London's mayor pending an appeal against the verdict, which was handed down by the Adjudication Panel for England.

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It will be observed that most of the methods described above require one to know how the strength of shaking attenuates with distance. The amount of shaking at any point will vary with the magnitude of the earthquake, its depth, and the distance from the point to the epicentre or closest point on the rupturing fault.
Calculating this for intensity is usually not too hard as there are plenty of observational data available. But since strong ground motion recording instruments are a fairly recent development and still not widely used, finding empirical data for calculating acceleration or spectral attenuation can be difficult. This is particularly the case for low-seismicity areas, where significant earthquakes are rare anyway.
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On Why I Left Wall Street And Founded A Music Rights Startup
Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?
Hi. My name is Ken Umezaki and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Verifi Media. We are a modern music rights management services company that leverages 21st-century technology tools, including blockchain, machine learning, audio watermarking and other cloud-based technologies. We believe that enabling all rights holders and music creators to ensure that their rights data moves at the "speed of digital" is a necessary and compelling value proposition, and long overdue.
We've been in business for about 3 years, and our main clients are large B2B music recorded music industry clients. We are one of the few companies in the space that have managed to deploy a blockchain-based rights management solution for music assets. We are currently working with over 10 large music industry clients, including a global major label and a global major publisher. We are still an "early stage" startup, especially given we are incorporating new and modern technology tools to address a long-standing issue of modernizing rights data management for the music industry. We are just getting to the stage of bringing our solutions to the market. A key upcoming milestone for us is the expected launch of our first live production service, with one of our strategic clients FUGA, a major global digital distributor based in Amsterdam.
What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?
So, I'm really old :)) I have a 25-year previous career as a trader and manager of large trading businesses on Wall Street. About 10 years ago I decided to "switch trains" and focus on being an entrepreneur in the music business. I became extremely intrigued by the digital transformation that was happening in the media space, and specifically how the digital world was affecting the lives of creators. I also really wanted a more entrepreneurial experience, after working at large corporations for many years.
Music has always been an important part of my life. I grew up playing the saxophone, ran our college jazz ensemble, was a radio DJ in both high school and college, I started playing bass in a rock band in New York City over 30 years ago for fun, and I still play in a rock band today. So it seemed like a very natural transition to integrate my experiences in the financial world and apply it to an entrepreneurial setting in the music business.
During my time on Wall Street I was able to develop and build a number of key businesses for the company I was working for, including starting a derivatives trading business in Asia, and also developing the credit derivatives business in the 90s. I feel I learned a lot about the entrepreneurial experience in building these businesses, as well as other experiences I had and working with growing products within the trading business context, primarily around complicated model-driven products and risk management.
It's always surprising to me that a large majority of startups will say "we don't have any competitors". There are always competitors and the more you can explain who they are and why you are different in that context, the more credible you will be.
At one point, as part of my role as the senior business strategist for the largest division of my firm, I was the business sponsor and manager for ~1,000 technology and analytics professionals. Eventually, I was actually given an opportunity to retire from my financial firm (I told you I was old), and it seemed very natural to marry my passion for music with my business experience.
As a small-time entrepreneur in the "new music economy" I became fascinated with "the riddle" as I call it: how do we make a digital world friendlier for media creators? I often tell people it's an amazing time to be a creator, but a horrible time to get paid as a creator.
"Digital" has clearly benefited creators immensely from a more collaborative and inexpensive creative environment, as well as easy access to global distribution and fanbases, but it has made it very difficult for all but a few of the largest artists to make a sustainable living, primarily due to the advent of streaming and micro-penny level payments associated with the way music is consumed today. I felt it would be really cool to help in my own small way in solving this riddle, with a primary focus on how do we create a more sustainable business backdrop that allows the amazing creativity to thrive, specifically in music artists and songwriters.
I thought this "ethos" would be fun and challenging, and I would enjoy looking back on the journey when I'm "really" retired and in my rocking chair, where I could say "wow, I had a small part to play in that transformation!"
Take us through your entrepreneurial journey. How did you go from day 1 to today?
Although I had a lot of experience in finance, I had virtually no experience in the music business, nor any significant industry connections when I first started down this path 10 years ago. After taking a few music business courses to get a feel for what was happening in the industry, I decided that a great way to learn about the "new stuff" in the music industry would be to invest directly in promising music technology startups as an individual investor. So I set up a company, Digital Daruma, and got started! I have probably looked at over 600 company business plans in the last decade or so, and I have invested in ~10 companies at that time.
Although it may seem like an "expensive" way to be educated on the music business, participating in the experiences and life cycle of the startups as they navigated changes that were occurring in the industry was extremely informative. Almost all of the companies I invested in had something to do with trying to make the artist lives better in this "digital jungle", as this was obviously my focus.
The last decade has been a very important decade for the music business, as it fully transformed itself from a product business (CDs if you will) to a data access business (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) which had immense ripple effects to all, including artists. The companies I invested in gave me a "front-row seat" on how this transformation affected their business, their clients, etc.
I also decided to invest directly in a highly select number of emerging songwriters and music artists, in a similar way to how I invested in startups ("venture investing" if you will), to test out whether or not alternative capital (relative to traditional label deals, for example) would be helpful to artists. I'm currently invested in one band, The Stone Foxes, based in the Bay Area, and also currently working with a songwriter/performer named STOLAR based in New York and LA. The artist investing has certainly given me a first-hand look at the life of a creator in today's digital music world, and I'd like to think I've been helpful and moving their orbit to a different level in their music careers.
As a CEO/founder, you should expect to spend consistently a lot of time on fundraising
Artist investing an independent investing in music tech startups was a relative niche activity, and as a result, I was often asked to speak about my experiences at industry conferences, to investors who are interested in music, students, as well as artists and managers of all levels. This enabled me to increase my network within the music and media worlds over time.
"Verifi" as we call it is the third company that I co-founded, together with four other people. Here's an introductory video regarding our company, and what we are up to. The genesis for starting the company was a conversation I had with my original co-founder, where we were discussing how having a much better way to manage ownership information in a world where creators can create new media with simple tools almost immediately would be a compelling value proposition. We were originally called "Dot Blockchain Media," and we recently renamed our company "Verifi Media," which we felt better describes our corporate value propositions.
When we were forming our company, we asked ourselves 3 questions: 1) Is it the right time to build something like this? 2) what modern technologies make sense to use (such as blockchain and machine learning)? and 3) would anyone in the industry care? Obviously we answered yes, and off we went.
My original role was to focus on business aspects of Verifi, but as our clients and product development pipeline grew (which now include a major label, a major publisher, and a major digital distributor) it made sense for me to step up as the CEO of the company given my management experience, including leading large complicated technology projects in my past. I've been CEO of the company for about a year now, and it is very exciting to see the progress we are making in modernizing in addressing a fundamental need to make sure the right people get paid at the speed of digital.
How are you doing today and what does the future look like?
So running a small start-up is a full-time job, obviously, so I am solely focused on my activities associated with Verifi today. I would characterize our company's current state as "pre-beta" as of the summer of 2019. We are expecting to have our initial full-stack solution available in the market by the end of this year, which is a truly significant milestone. We believe, to date, we are the only modern rights data management service that leverages enterprise blockchain technology that has real clients, with real data, really being used by music businesses and artists. So it is truly an exciting time for our company. We've learned a lot over the 3 years: we spent the first year really thinking through the rights management complexity, to derive a thoughtful approach towards a modernized framework for rights data in media. We then were fortunate to have an opportunity to start working with a number of large music companies, all of who were interested as "early enablers" of a different approach to managing rights data. Our "ethos" is to work with clients to work on problems and issues they feel are important to resolve, so it's been great to have the opportunity to work with clients to solve problems together.
Our client acquisition plan is a deliberately unusual one for a startup. We decided to partner with the largest B2B global music organizations as our primary path to adoption. Given that our products address both the data sharing needs of multiple parties, as well as using a new technology base to manage that data and communicate that data, we felt the best way to introduce this approach would be by working with the largest organizations in the industry.
This approach generally takes longer (as opposed to "build a beta and they will come" approach), but thankfully we have made significant progress on this front over the last 12 months, which will allow us to broaden our services to a much larger universe of businesses and creators, hopefully over the next year to 18 months. Thankfully, our co-founders, board members, and staff were selected in part to having the connections and credibility with these large B2B organizations within the music industry. It's very clear to me that, especially with new technology based solutions, that without a deep "Roladex" of relevant people targeting larger organizations is an extremely difficult hurdle for startups, which we hope we thought through from the beginning of our company.
Through starting the business, have you learned anything particularly helpful or advantageous?
To be "captain obvious" building a startup business is very difficult, and the odds of a successful outcome are extraordinarily small. Not only do you need to properly execute a real value proposition within a chosen market, but you need to do it with severe bandwidth and resource limitations, certainly in the early days. As others have said: "it takes twice as long and twice as much money" relative to what you're thinking to get anything significant done.
I also feel strongly that starting a company should not be taken lightly, specifically as it relates to the problem and or opportunity you're trying to address: "solve a really large problem" if you will. I personally feel Verifi exemplifies both the struggles of a resource-limited startup and the large opportunity set that is available in the music space today. It's exciting for me to balance these elements as we grow our business.
My other learning, which relates to both my Wall Street and music industry experiences, is to surround yourself with a great, dedicated team that shares the company's vision. First and foremost, in my view, success at a startup is a team sport. In rare instances, you have strong founders that have multiple skill sets that lead to great startup success, but more often than not a great team can drive the desired outcome far more effectively. In Verifi's case, you may feel that 5 co-founders are a lot, but we felt it was extremely important to bring multiple disciplines and multiple backgrounds that can connect and build the company in the right way.
What have been the most influential books, podcasts, or other resources?
A few of my favorite references for entrepreneurship include:
- Innovator's Dilemma: Clayton Christensen
- Crossing The Chasm: Geoffrey Moore
- The Long Tail and Free: Chris Anderson
The first 2 books have guided me on how to frame the complicated decision-making process a startup entrepreneur is faced with and provide case studies and context to help you think through issues you may have.
Chris Anderson's books and writings helped me understand how democratized content, thanks to the internet (relevant for music as well as other business areas), affects business models and pricing.
For blogs, I frequently find Seth Godin's blog, very informative.
And as it relates to keeping up with music industry news, I find Music Business Worldwide very comprehensive, and Midia Research does a great job on topic-based deeper dives.
Advice for other entrepreneurs who want to get started or are just starting out?
Besides the "solve a big problem" and "build a great team" suggestions, another thing I see new entrepreneurs struggle with often is describing their "place in the universe": This manifests in 3 ways:
- An evangelical belief that you are the only person/company that has the solution to a problem. Actually there is a really good chance that others have attempted, if not succeeded at tackling your business proposition.
- Not knowing who your competitors are. With my investment evaluation hat, I always ask "who are your competitors" and it is always surprising to me that a large majority of startups will say "we don't have any." Or try to explain how their company is so unique that any other company that others may view as competitors are not really "in their space." I have found that this rationalization is false most of the time. There are always competitors and the more you can explain who they are and why you are different in that context, the more credible you will be.
- Lack of or incomplete analysis of the market that you are in. Not everyone is a financial modeler, I get it, but a majority of serious potential investors in a startup will demand accountability for delivery. Part of that is being thorough about your analysis of the size of the opportunity you are pursuing in client, product and financial terms.
Lastly, the investment landscape for startups is very complicated and time-consuming. As a CEO/founder, you should expect to spend consistently a lot of time on fundraising. One factoid to keep in mind is that only 0.5% of companies that pitch to venture capital firms get funded. "Threading the needle" is an understatement.
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Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity.[1] There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.
Bobby stood pressed against the wall beside the door, careful not to be seen through the window from the house. Rick filled his pad with the cool stuff Mom banned. Ray always stayed with Rick above the garage whenever he came home from the Army. Rick owed him. Ray softened up the folks and Rick got the benefits.
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If Bobby didn't show, Nate would tell Bertie who would make sure Bobby caught it. Bobby wouldn't give Bertie the satisfaction. With one final glance out the window, Bobby took a deep breath, shoved the stuff up his shirt, slipped out the door and scurried down the stairs.
Rick always went behind the workshop, and Ray too, that one time they made a rancid sweet sort of smoke from Ray's tiny cigarette. Rick snapped and told Bobby to get lost, but Ray laughed and sent him to raid the refrigerator. Rick got angry. He said Bobby was the smart one. Ray quit laughing.
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Bertie took charge of the cigarettes. He tapped the Marlboro on its end like they did on TV, then took it in his lips and flicked the lighter. Bobby wondered what Nancy would do if she saw her precious Bertie smoking like a pro. Bertie looked about to hurl, but he enjoyed watching Bobby squirm. If he or Nate chickened out, Bertie would never let them live it down.
Bobby jumped at Bertie yelling murder in dirty words to scald Nancy's ears. Bobby saw first the scuffed leather boots, then the faded Levi's, the length of fat link chain clipped onto a belt loop, attached to the black leather wallet Bobby knew in the back pocket, to the garden hose in the grease-stained hands, and the pressure nozzle shooting water past him. He looked beyond the frayed denim jacket and dirty work shirt, into Rick's stern face and that shaggy mop of hair. Those fierce-looking eyes pretended to see nothing but Bertie.
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For as long as you could remember, popcorn has always been associated with movies. It's the staple snack in the movie house and it's also a favorite treat even when people opt to watch movies at home. Have you ever wondered why this is so? It actually stems from history.
Popcorn Used to be Barred from the Movie Theater
When popcorn was brought to North America, it was an instant hit. The popping corn kernels were considered quite amusing and popcorn thus came to be known as an entertaining snack, great for accompanying fun and enjoyable activities. Popcorn carts became very popular and were always found in circuses, sports events, fairs, and many more.
However, this snack wasn't allowed in movie theaters because they had a smell and could be messy. After all, at that time, only silent movies were being shown. The crackling sound of popcorn would definitely cause distraction, not to mention take away the sophisticated ambiance that the theater owners wanted to create and maintain.
The Great Depression Paved the Way for Popcorn
During the time of the Great Depression, more people flocked to the movies for entertainment and recreation. Theaters eventually became a regular source of amusement for many. Soon popcorn vendors started selling their snacks in the streets. Theater owners became more lenient about letting people bring in their popcorn because movies already had sounds by then.
Later on, theater owners saw that selling this snack could actually boost their business profits. However, at first, they couldn't incorporate the old popcorn making machines into their theaters. This is why in time, movie houses became built to house provision for popcorn. As time passed, other snacks were also added. Nevertheless, popcorn remained to be highly associated with movies, even now that more people are simply streaming movies through the Internet and watching them at home.
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Ah'Kiell Walker died on July 31 2016, approaching just the fourth month of his life.
Found wet, cold and naked at his parents' house in Gloucester, the baby was seriously ill and unresponsive. Attempts by the paramedics to get him breathing again were futile.
Rushed to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on the warm summer's day, the baby was worked on by doctors.
Dr Abitha Kujambal told the trial it took 18 minutes to get a pulse and four adrenaline doses. An anaesthetist got tube down Ah'Kiell's throat to assist with breathing and fluid came out from the lungs.
Profile: Hannah Henry
Name: Hannah Henry
Age: 22
Address: Archdeacon Street, Gloucester
Where from originally: Chelmsford
Family: Mother Tracey Buckingham has given evidence. Separated when Henry was about one. Two of her grandparents came to support her in court
Background: Got into trouble as a teenager and ended up being kicked out of home. Lived at friends' houses. Has convictions for shoplifting and in 2011, possession of class A drug, cocaine. Pleaded guilty to all.
Employed? No. Not worked since Ah'Kiell was born. Previously worked as a care assistant with patients with dementia.
Profile: Alistair Walker
Name: Alistair Walker
Age: 27
Address: Sheldon Court, London
Where from originally: Stockwell, London
Family: Told the court he has eight siblings. Alistair is the second child of Jacqueline Reid and bears her maiden name. She got married to his father nearly 15 years ago. Three of Alistair's siblings are younger than him and his mum said he was "very over protective, loved them" when the family were living in a three bedroom house
Background: Moved out when he was 16 to live in Wimbledon Park Road. Moved back when 19. Has lived in Kent, Plymouth and Swindon- where he was when he moved to Gloucester in 2014. Was in Gloucester for about a month when met Hannah.
Employed? No, but he believes he may be able to earn money in the future as a rapper. Henry said she used to give him some of her benefits, about £100 at a time.
The court heard a CT scan showed the brain had been deprived of oxygen. Ah'Kiell also had rib fractures and he was transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit at Bristol's Children's Hospital.
Nothing could be done to save him and he died the next day.
By that stage his parents had already been arrested and before the matter came to court, they pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16.
Hannah Henry and Alistair Walker: The verdicts
Hannah Henry
Manslaughter: Not guilty
Causing or allowing the death of a child: Guilty
Cruelty to a person under 16: Guilty
Alistair Walker
Manslaughter: Guilty
Causing or allowing the death of a child: n/a as convicted of manslaughter
Cruelty to a person under 16: Guilty
Sentencing will take place on June 1
Ah'Kiell Walker: The full timeline
July 2014
July 2014: Hannah Henry and Alistair Walker meet through a friend and get together, splitting from their partners
February 2015
Walker breaks Henry's jaw by punching her in the street
May 2015
Henry has a miscarriage with Walker's baby. Walker admits around this period he wasn't faithful to her
July 2015
Ah'Kiell is conceived
April 3 2016
Ah'Kiell is born healthy. Henry posts regular pictures and videos on Facebook
Between May and June 2016
Four of Ah'Kiell's ribs are fractured with "excessive force" according to Dr Alan Sprigg. He also had a fractured shoulder, which the witness judged to be more recent.
June 13 (In middle of timespan Dr Sprigg said ribs could have been broken)
Walker's phone used to carry out search 'Think baby's belly popped'. Others were found such as 'Losing your temper with a baby can be OK' and 'shaken baby syndrome'- which was looked at for one and a half minutes
Mid-June 2016
Henry tells a friend she wants to leave Walker
July 16 2016
Walker and Henry have a long messaging conversation. He tells her that the other girls mean nothing and claims she's 'needy'
July 24 2016
Police attend the home of Walker and Henry to reports of a disturbance. Screams heard by a neighbour. Henry said Walker dashed a lighter in her face and smashed an ashtray, but he dismisses it as a minor argument. Officers found nothing wrong and left
Morning of July 29 2016
Henry said she gave Ah'Kiell a bath while Walker was at the gym
Afternoon of July 29 2016
Walker and Henry goes to The Money Shop in Gloucester and get £120 for a gold chain. Henry appeared desperate for extra money according to the shop worker and pleased for another £2. Walker took the money to the betting shop and lost £60 of it.
Night of July 29 2016
A neighbour hears a child screaming from the house, not as intense as the previous evening. Henry said thus is when she had a bath and shaved her legs
July 30, 2016
Walker says he is upstairs with Ah'Kiell throughout the morning, mostly asleep, while Henry said she was downstairs for much of it messaging her grandmother about money
July 30, 2016, around 4am
Walker checks Ah'Kiell after sex with Henry and gives him a bottle. She says she did not see this happen
July 30, 2016, 8.22am
Henry sends a message to her grandmother Margaret saying: 'I cant do another day.'
July 30, 2016, 8.56am
Phone searches are made for obtaining credit
July 30, around 10am
Henry is alerted to something being wrong with Ah'Kiell by Walker
July 30 2016, 10.05am
Henry makes a 999 call. Paramedic Gary Mills is first on the scene
After their arrival: Paramedics try different apparatus to get Ah'Kiell breathing. They have little success and he is rushed to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Walker goes in the ambulance. Henry gets her things ready and walks there. Baby is transferred to the paediatric intensive care unit at Bristol Childrens Hospital
July 30 2016, 12.35pm
DC Ashley Bailey went to the family room at the hospital, met with Walker and Henry. He invited them to come outside and they were arrested in the back of a vehicle
July 31
Ah'Kiell found to have an unsurvivable brain injury. Henry and Walker were taken to see him and they were told the machines were going to be switched off. Ah'Kiell died that day at 1.44pm
August 2
Walker and Henry appear in court charged with child cruelty
January 6 2017
Walker and Henry appear at Bristol Crown Court charged with manslaughter
June 7 2017
The couple go on trial but the case is adjourned
April 12 2018
A new trial begins at Bristol Crown Court. Walker and Henry plead not guilty to manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a child and cruelty to a person under 16
May 9 2018
Verdicts are delivered against both defendants
The five-week trial at Bristol Crown Court came to its conclusion today, May 10.


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Tiny SBC runs Linux on Allwinner V3, costs $6 or $8 with WiFiMar 10, 2017 — by Eric Brown 12,020 views
An Indiegogo campaign is pitching a COM-like, 44.6 × 25.5mm "LicheePi Zero" SBC for $6 or $8 with WiFi that runs Linux on a 1.2GHz, Cortex-A7 Allwinner V3.
A Chinese development team led by a "Wu Caesar" has gone to Indiegogo to sell a LicheePi Zero SBC that goes head to head with the Raspberry Pi Zero and recent, WiFi-enabled, $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W. The LicheePi Zero similarly offers a single-core SoC with WiFi and minimalist I/O, but for only $8 for the WiFi version or $6 without.
LicheePi Zero, front and back
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The campaign has barely made a dent in its $5K funding goal, but it's flexibly funded. You can get a pair of boards plus two OTG converters for $12, or $16 with WiFi, with shipments in May. Alternatively, you can pay $12 for a rush order of the WiFi-enabled ZeroW due in April that ships for $12 for a single unit.
There are also single-unit versions of the ZeroW with shipments in either May or June that add a dock and OLED display ($19), VGA module ($20), HDMI module ($21), speakers and OLED ($25), 5MP camera, OLED, and battery ($34), handheld version with 2.4-inch TFT display, keyboard, joystick, and battery $35, and a mini-laptop version with 5-inch 800 x 480 display, keyboard, etc. But wait, there's more! Other packages ranging from $40 to $79 offer features including LoRa wireless, mic array, LVDS with 10.1-inch LCD, and two even more feature-rich mini-laptops.
LicheePi ZeroW with WiFi module plugged into microSD (left) and soldered to board
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None of these prices include shipping, which according to the CNXSoft post that alerted us to the campaign, costs only $5. In December, CNXSoft also covered an Allwinner A13 based, Linux and Android ready Lichee Pi selling in China in versions from $5.60 to $24.
The LicheePi Zero and ZeroW instead use a 1.2GHz, Cortex-A7 based Allwinner V3s SoC with Mali-400 GPU, which is typically aimed at the action camera market. The only RAM on the LicheePi Zero is the 64MB of DDR2 integrated on the V3s SoC itself.
LicheePi Zero plugged into breadboard (left) and Allwinner V3s block diagram
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The LicheePi Zero's only real-world ports are a micro-USB OTG port that can be used for power in lieu of an onboard 5V header, and a microSD slot. The latter can be used for booting the Linux 4.10, or you can boot from onboard SPI flash.
There's an FPC-40 RGB/LCD connector for directly connecting to an LCD without a cable, as well as a touchscreen controller. The same FPC-40 link can connect to other peripherals, as well. A separate audio interface can connect to a headphone or mic.
LicheePi Zero pinout diagram (left) and dock block diagram
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Despite the Pi name, there is no RPi expansion compatibility here. You get 30x "frequently used" 2.54mm pins that can plug directly into a breadboard. Another 30x "unfrequently-used" pins output via 1.27mm half-holes. Low-speed peripherals include GPIO, UART, SPI, I2C, ADC, and PWM, and high-speed I/O includes USB OTG, MIPI-CSI, EPHY, and RGB LCD. (See the full pinout in the diagram above.)
The LicheePi ZeroW version is identical except that it includes a customized TF WiFi Card. The card can plug into the microSD slot or can be soldered to the 2.54-pin connectors (see photos farther above). The Indiegogo page has a lot more detail on all the peripheral packages, and loads of photos.
Further information
The LicheePi Zero and LicheePi ZeroW are available in packages starting at $12 or $16 for two-packs, not including shipping, with shipments in April through June. Many more packages with various peripherals and form-factors are mentioned above, and are detailed in the LicheePi Zero Indiegogo page.


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However, they were still functioning independently. The old system handled if you became addicted to drugs. The new system handled withdrawals from drugs.
Under the old system pretty much anytime you took a hit from anything you became addicted. Under the new system any time you took a hit you would get withdrawals.
The old system had the ability to NOT make you an addict when you took a hit but the score you would have to roll was very high. I have reduced the score needed to not become an addict.
The old system also took into account how much of the drug you had been taking before deciding to make you an addict and now that the score is lower, you will usually not get addicted the first few times around, depending on your stats.
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The market reports are out and the data are clear: Americans are slurping down yogurt faster than factories can squirt it into little plastic cups and send them winging down their conveyor belts. Rich with protein and smacked with compelling labels that promise digestive health, weight loss and bone-building, this creamy dairy product has become the portable snack of choice for millions. Add to this exotic flavors like pomegranate, black cherry and chocolate mousse, and you have yourself the most irresistible "health foods" of our times. But as people gleefully load up their shopping carts with cases of assorted yogurts, a key point remains unrecognized: supermarket yogurt doesn't often live up to its mind-blowingly beneficial claims. Plus, did know you can save money and make a much more nutrient-dense version of yogurt right in your kitchen?
Yogurt Before Containers
There is no doubt that yogurt is a very beneficial food. This fermented dairy product has been cherished for generations by the peoples of Greece, Israel, Lebanon, and India among other nations for its unique strength-giving properties and enjoyable tangy flavor. Made from milk cultured with beneficial strains of bacteria, yogurt has a high protein, mineral and vitamin content that is unrivaled by other foods. Because it is fermented with probiotic bacteria, the bio-availability of vitamins is enhanced and some of the more difficult to digest components found in plain dairy products (such as milk sugar lactose and the protein casein), are broken down so that critical nutrients are more easily assimilated by your body. Nutrition experts such as Chris Kresser have even suggested that yogurt, in tandem with probiotic supplements, can help to reverse common cases of lactose intolerance by restoring healthy flora in your gut.
Yet in the scurry of industrialized mass production, many of the precious nutritive qualities of traditionally prepared yogurt are lost. Most varieties of commercial yogurt are fermented for very short periods of time (some for only about an hour), preventing the probiotic bacteria from reaching adequate strength and thwarting the breakdown of irritants. What's more, thickeners must then be added to give yogurt its familiar look and texture. As one final blow, manufacturers will often heat-treat yogurt to extend shelf life- a process that kills off any lonesome strands of cultures that may have survived the other assaults. If you are shopping for commercial yogurt, it is crucial to find one in which the live cultures have been added after heating. Look for words like "active yogurt cultures," "living yogurt cultures," or "contains active cultures." Don't be fooled by claims of "made with active cultures"- just because the cultures were there in the beginning, doesn't mean that they remain in the final product. Also look for a whole fat yogurt- the fat in dairy is appetite stabilizing and nourishing to people of all ages. It helps in the absorption of the other beneficial components, and there is certainly no need to skim such a health-promoting nutrient out.
Making your own Yogurt
By Kayla - Radiant Life
Making yogurt at home allows you to control for the quality of ingredients and the length of time you ferment it for. It is so gratifyingly simple that I still have a proud "wallah!" moment every time I finish off a batch. While there are many variations of yogurt recipes, I like this one adapted from The Naked Foods Cookbook. If you haven't checked it out yet, this honest, real- food cookbook by Margaret Floyd and James Barry is one to add to your collection- it is bursting with flavorful recipes and refreshing wisdom to inspire a healthy reconnection to food.
The Players:
3 1/2 cups organic, raw milk
2 tablespoons room temperature organic plain yogurt or yogurt from previous homemade batch
Selecting Your Milk
The best milk to use is organic, raw whole milk from a local farm. This milk is rich with proteins, healthy fats, minerals and the numerous cofactors and enzymes needed for their absorption. In most states, supermarket milk is exclusively pasteurized through a process that significantly alters the structure of the milk itself and destroys valuable nutrients, leaving free-radical producing rancid fats and oxidized cholesterol lurking in its wake. Most milks have also been homogenized- a purely cosmetic process that prevents the fat content of the milk from separating, resulting in the uniformly white glasses we are used to seeing. The high pressures and heats used during homogenization break down fat globules and restructures the milk even further, compromising it's natural stability. If you cannot find raw milk near you, the next best option is organic non-homogenized milk, which will also make a delicious and healthy final product!
Preparing the Starter
Each time you make yogurt you will need a starter culture to introduce the healthy bacteria that will begin the fermentation process. Eventually you can just use a few tablespoons of homemade yogurt from your previous batches to do so, but for your first round you can either use a commercial starter culture (available refrigerated in most natural food stores) or a high quality store bought yogurt. Remember to find a yogurt that contains "live cultures"- otherwise this recipe just won't work. It is best to warm the starter yogurt to room temperature before you begin, allowing the active yogurt cultures to "wake up" from the dormant state brought on by refrigeration.
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Heat: In medium saucepan, warm yogurt to 180° F, which is just before the boiling point. Use a food thermometer to gauge the temp. This step sterilizes the milk. Although some of the enzymes are lost at this temperature, this process is important in creating a healthy environment where beneficial cultures flourish.
Cool: Pour warmed milk into a large bowl and allow to cool to 110° F. This could take over an hour depending on the average room temperature in your home. It is not advisable to place in the refrigerator, as this will cool the milk too rapidly. Don't be alarmed if a skin starts to form atop the milk- this is a natural part of the cooling process.
Culture: Add the starter yogurt or culture to cooled milk and stir thoroughly.
Incubate: Pour mixture into a quart sized mason jar, cover and place in warm environment. The ideal temperature for incubation is between 95-100 degrees F. This can be achieved by using a commercial yogurt maker (pictured here), food dehydrator, in a gas oven with just the pilot on, or an oven heated to its lowest setting (150 degrees F) and then turned off, with the door closed. Keep warm at least overnight, but preferably for 12-24 hrs. Once fermentation is complete, chill yogurt in the refrigerator prior to serving.
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Sprecher gesucht (and a few nasty problems)
#1, by
Wednesday, 27. November 2013, 21:34
10 years ago
Hi ich bins mal wieder.
Das erste Kapitel meines Spiel "Project Otherworld" nähert sich langsam der Fertigstellung und da bräuchte ich jetzt ein paar Leute, die sich gerne als Sprecher versuchen würden. Erwartet jetzt nix großes, das ganze ist ein Hobby und Lernprojekt mit grade mal 7 Kulissen und 5 Charakteren.
Hier wäre mal der Trailer zu dem Spiel:
Ich würde mich trotzdem freuen, falls nen paar Leute Lust dazu hätten, selbstverständlich werdet ihr auch in den Credits als Sprecher erwähnt. Der Umfang ist aufgrund der Größe des Spiels auch nicht so riesig.
Ich bräuchte:
- Spielcharakter (Männlich, relativ jung und normal klingende Stimme (also nicht kindlich, so wie nen Anfang 20 Jähriger vielleicht)
- Gastwirt (Männlich, freundlich, evtl eher teifere Stimme?)
- Stadtwache (Männlich, genervt/gelangweilt klingend)
Die Eigenschaften sind nicht soo wichtig, nur ne grobe Idee, ich bin froh wenn überhaupt jemand Lust dazu hat
Second part in english for everyone:
I still have a few nasty bugs in my game and no ideas how to fix them:
- I made a loading/save menue simliar to the one in the GlenFX tutorial. However, when I load a saved game, the inventory disappears.
I have set the actions to "load savegame" and after that "show inventory", but it doesn't help.
- Is there a way to use "ä" "ö" and "ü" with visionaire? Do i have to create an entirely new font for that?
-When the game is finished, I want to show the credits as a video. To do so I set the action after all conditions to finish the game are true to "play movie" and selected the creditsmovie. This does work, but there's no "transition" between that, it's a very hard and quick cut, is there a way to blend the current scene out and blen the playing video in so the transition is a bit smoother?
That's all for now, thanks for your help
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#2, by
Thursday, 28. November 2013, 00:18
10 years ago
I'm not sure about the save thing... could be something you have done wrong or it could be an object you created has corrupted or something else entirely... have you checked the messages.txt & visedit.txt files found in your project files root folder (where you've saved the .ved project file) to see if it lists any errors?
you just have to add the letters to the font area for your text in same order as your text/font image thingy. check the vs demo game font setup as that has the "ä" "ö" and "ü" letters.
as for the video thing...
you could just create an overlay (animation) that is same size as your game default resolution & just fade it in/out as required? or alternatively a much simpler method would be to create a new (menu) scene & change to that for playing videos. it will automatically fade in/out & you can also - if you want - change transition effects & timing via action parts too.
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#3, by
Monday, 16. December 2013, 21:55
10 years ago
I'd like to push this thread with a new question/problem:
Changed the save/load system, now using autosave, the the inventory-doesnt-show-when-loading-problem is no problem anymore. But of course theres a new one:
Im using a startmenue with music playing.
For the first scene in the game theres other background music, which is carried on on all other screens.
No the problem: when i do the load autosave and i'm not in the first screen, it continues playing the startmenue music (of course, since I said it should continue the previous music)..
So how would you say visionaire, that it's supposed to continue the music for every new screen except when i'm coming from the startmenue?
Thanks alot
Btw, still looking for (german) voice actors..
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#4, by
Monday, 16. December 2013, 22:58
10 years ago
instead of using the carry on music from previous scene option just assign the same music file to each of the scenes that use that music; if it is the same music file as previous scene then it will carry on playing the music without restarting... currently this is best method.
in the upcoming version of VS, we have some new Lua script options for the new sound engine which allow you to control the audio more dynamically... amongst these scripting options is one to get & set the offset (current playtime in ms) of x sound which means that technically you could save the name of the currently playing track/sound, as well as the playtime, volume level & balance etc into variables or values that you can resume from on game load.
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#5, by
Monday, 16. December 2013, 23:07
10 years ago
Thanks a lot, works fine
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#6, by
Monday, 16. December 2013, 23:14
10 years ago
no problem
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#7, by
Tuesday, 17. December 2013, 19:16
10 years ago
Next question:
I want to show the names of all objects I can interact with on the current seen while I'm holding the space key.
Tried it with the general key assignment, but I don't find the right action part for it...
Finetuning right now
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#8, by
Tuesday, 17. December 2013, 19:21
10 years ago
you mean show the names over the objects same as you would do for an hotspot icon?
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#9, by
Tuesday, 17. December 2013, 19:22
10 years ago
Yes exactly, but only while the space key is pressed
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#10, by
Tuesday, 17. December 2013, 21:34
10 years ago
game tab > key input: "space"
scene > fade "snoop" animations in/out (fade in)
game tab > key input "space (released)"
scene > fade "snoop" animations in/out (fade out)
you assign the hotspot animation to each object by clicking on the object & then going to the "effects" tab & then you need to link to an animation to be used for the hotspot icon for that object & then set the position of the icon on the scene below.
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#11, by
Tuesday, 17. December 2013, 22:53
10 years ago
I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing..
I don't want to show an icon, only a text, for example in a scene where's a rock and a tree, while pressing space there should just be a text "rock" and a text "tree" below (or somewhere else, not as important as the text itself for now) the actual object, so you know which things you can interact with.
In "The book of unwritten tales" they use a similar system.
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Morrowind, the new chapter add-on to The Elder Scrolls Online launches today for PC gamers in early access. If you qualify, you can download the new chapter add-on this afternoon and travel to Vvardenfell. Here you can download everything from Morrowind.
Morrowind, the first chapter addon to The Edler Scrolls Online comes out today, May 22, for pre-buyers. Anyone who is qualified for the download can download this new chapter in the story of The Elder Scrolls Online this afternoon.
The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind – Early Access Prerequisites
Just two weeks before the official launch of Morrowind on June 6, selected Elder Scrolls Online players will be able to gamble the first major addon to ESO. However, early access is only valid for a certain part of the game. You must have pre-ordered one of the following versions of The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind:
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- Physical Collector's Edition. This must be enabled by a detour. You can find out how exactly, under the given link on the official ESO page.
Very important: The early access applies only for the PC version of Morrowind. Players on the Playstation 4 or the Xbox One must unfortunately wait until 6 June.
The Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind – 7.5GB Early-Access Download Started
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