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NIGK15024U Solid Earth Geophysics (part 1)
Volume 2017/2018
MSc Programme in Geology-Geoscience
- The course presents the most important geophysical methods and their application to studies of planet Earth and of structures at all scales from lithosphere geophysics to near surface geophysics.
- Emphasis is on a thorough introduction to geophysical theory and method with the ambition that the students after the course will have sufficient knowledge to follow advanced courses in geophysics, participate in geophysical projects, and carry out independent interpretation of geophysical data, both in academic and mineral exploration domains.
- The teaching is held as lectures with substantial dialogue between the lecturer and students, and practical exercises where geophysical concepts are applied.
Learning Outcome
- Principles of geophysical methods, such as seismology, reflection and refraction seismology, gravity, magnetics, and geothermics.
- Geophysical interpretation of structure and composition of the Earth at all scales.
- Understanding of physical processes in the Earth.
- Application of geophysical methods to exploration of hydrocarbon and mineral resources.
- Understanding the current state-of-the-art physical methods for studying the Earth.
- General knowledge of the structure of the Earth.
- Information on which our present understanding of the Earth is based, including limitations.
- Appreciation of the relation between structure, physical properties, and dynamics of the Earth.
- Ability to assess which methods are suitable for solving geological and geophysical tasks, including hydrocarbon and mineral resources exploration.
- Ability to document results in written and oral presentation.
- Account for the structure of the Earth;
- Have overview of the content of geophysical methods;
- Understand which physical parameters determine the results of geophysical measurements
- Be able to assess which geophysical methods may be suitable for solving specific geological and geophysical tasks, both in academic and in mineral exploration domains;
- Understand the importance of regional and local geological processes through interpretation of geophysical data;
- Communicate results by written and oral presentation.
Recommended Academic Qualifications
BSc in Geology-Geoscience, including the two courses "Introduction to Solid Earth Geophysics" and "Geophysics: Global Tectonics"or equivalent.
Teaching and learning methods
The form of teaching is theory exercises combined with ad hoc lectures. For the teaching plan, please see Absalon
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- Theory exercises
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Lochcarron Sailing Club
Commodore: Ori Woods Secretary: Jim Goodman
Membership Secretary: John Murphy
Principal: Angela Goodman
The club welcomes local residents and visitors as members. Fees for 2023 remain the same as previous years:
1. JUNIOR (under 18 on 1st March): £35
3. FAMILY (whole family but no more than two adults over the age of 18): £100
4. TEMPORARY Membership, valid for one month: Half of appropriate annual rate.
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The sailing club organises dinghy sailing, social events on the water and ashore and RYA certified training in dinghy sailing, powerboating and First Aid. The club has a Clubhouse and Dinghy Park and 26 dinghies available for the use of members.
Annual sunscriptions are due on 1st March. Subscriptions of members joining after 1st November will cover the next financial year.
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As a teenager, Laura Clarke (MA 2010) frequently wrote poetry, but it wasn't until she won a Hamilton Spectator poetry contest at 17 that she began to believe in her talents. "It gave me confidence," she says. "Young writers can often feel secretive about their work."
This spring, Clarke celebrated another win with the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, which recognizes wordsmiths under age 35 whose work has yet to be published in book form. Her offbeat series Mule Variations bested more than 130 submissions as the top entry.
In her collection, Clarke lends mules anthropomorphic qualities. She includes poems from the mule's perspective and creates imagined dialogue between the creature and other animal and human characters.
"I thought it would be an interesting concept," says Clarke, 28, of making mules – the offspring of a donkey and horse – the focus. "They are sterile, but occasionally one can miraculously give birth. The combined traits of mules lead to hybrid vigour. I found something poetic about it."
Her verses stem from an interest in the research of Jerry Leath Mills, an academic authority on the significance of dead mules in southern American literature. Clarke meditates on mule lore, reproduction and morbid suggestions for how the animals might meet their end – such as "Decapitated by an irate opera singer," a line borrowed from Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. "I took those ideas and ran with them," she says.
Inspired by Toronto's writing scene and Canadian poets, Clarke credits John Steffler's (BA 1971 UC) The Grey Islands and "every single thing ever" by Anne Carson (BA 1974 St. Mike's, MA 1975, PhD 1981) for showing her "the strange narrative possibilities of poetry as a younger writer."
Clarke's MA in English with a specialization in creative writing allowed her to stretch her abilities and grow as a poet. Literary heavyweights on the faculty, including Rosemary Sullivan and George Elliott Clarke, encouraged her to experiment with different forms and read a range of writers. "It was a bit intimidating at first, but I definitely learned a lot," she says. "They got me to step out of the CanLit box and exposed me to American and European writers."
Clarke says the mentorship component was a big part of the creative-writing program's appeal. In her second year, she worked with Griffin Prize winner Ken Babstock on her thesis – narrative poems with animal themes that continue to stimulate her work today. Clarke appreciates poets such as Babstock – known for his dynamic style – for their ability "to get totally weird."
"It makes me stop and think that maybe I'm being too safe writing another poem about my childhood trip to get ice cream at the convenience store," she says.
Clarke plans to use the $5,000 prize to fund the completion of a book-length manuscript on animals in the urban environment, which she hopes to finish by year's end.
"I like to write about what I see on the news and in pop culture, whether it's raccoons invading neighbourhoods or deer being Tasered downtown," says Clarke. "Everyone loves a good YouTube clip. I hate to say that animal videos were the inspiration for my work, but they really were the touching-off point."
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Trade Secondhand Items via Smartphone Using Carousell
We sometimes own too many clothes or sneakers to cycle its usage, so the best way to get rid of them is to sell them, secondhand. There are many ways to sell your secondhand goods, even online, but it feels like a hassle to set it up all up just to let go of your sportshoes and a geeky T-shirts. But here is an app that can help you profit from your old wares, right on your smartphone: Carousell.
Carousell lets you quickly snap and list your items for sale with your smartphone. You can also use it as an online shopping tool and browse through its categories for something to buy. The app is easy to use and feels like Instagram; let's check out all the cool features Carousell has to offer.
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Start Buying Or Selling On Carousell
Carousell is available on the Apple and Google Play App Store.
After installing the app on your phone, create a Carousell account with your Facebook details or email address. You will need to share your current location as Carousell will use that information to find buyers and sellers who are in your area. Pick your country, state and city of origin.
Once registered, you can browse for items to buy, or start selling. Tap on the Sell button at the bottom. Upload at least one picture as the cover photo for your item's sale page. Don't worry if the photo is less than appealing, you can adjust it with the built-in photo editor.
You can add more photos or skip to adding details like the item's price, description and category for your item to improve its discoverability. Want to announce it on your Facebook and Twitter? There are share options for those two networks.
Carousell also works like a social network of sorts. You get your own Carousell profile page where all your listed items for sale are shown. You can also follow other users, comment on their listings, or like items for sale so you can view it later.
To further discuss a deal with another user, you can communicate through private messages so you won't flood your listing with comments.
Carousell is merely a venue to offer or browse items for sale. It doesn't offer a payment gateway so you'll have to meet up with the buyer/seller to seal the deal either by cash or other forms of payment. Alternatively you both can agree to do this the old-fashioned way, without meeting up: the buyer can make a bank transfer and the seller can post the item over. There is no escrow service to fasciliate this.
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Carousell is currently offered in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, and Vietnam. Thus far, the app is free to use and there are no ads to be found on the app. So if you have unwanted goods lying around, start snapping and getting it out there on Carousell.
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Cops in schools: Way to rebuild community trust in law enforcement?
With public trust in law enforcement plummeting, some believe the growth of police in schools can help restore confidence. Critics are concerned that too many children are being arrested for nonviolent offenses.
The 8-year-old boy sat in a chair, sobbing, as a sheriff's deputy handcuffed him around the biceps because his wrists were too small.
"You don't get to swing at me like that," the deputy said to the boy, who was diagnosed with ADHD, while a teacher recorded the incident in Covington, Ky., last fall.
"You can do what we've asked you to or you can suffer the consequences," the officer continues.
The video went viral, and the deputy is now facing a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The sight of a uniformed police officer handcuffing an elementary school student may be surprising, even shocking. But police presence in schools is not new. After growing steadily for decades, the trend accelerated in the wake of school shootings such as the one at Columbine High in Colorado. Today, more than 19,000 police officers are now employed full time in American schools.
Many parents and teachers say that having police in schools makes them feel safer and gives them greater peace of mind. Police say that working in schools can help give children a positive opinion of law enforcement to carry into adulthood, as well as allow officers to cultivate leads on crime that could be occurring outside the school walls. While not denying that controversial incidents have occurred, the National Association of School Resource Officers argues that those point to a need for proper training and that the presence of law enforcement in schools can offer benefits for both students and teachers.
Critics, however, are concerned that in addition to offering a deterrent to school shootings – which are extremely rare – the officers too often assume the role of school disciplinarian. And some, including law enforcement officers, believe that the pendulum has swung too far toward teachers calling on officers to step in even for nonviolent behavior.
"Police are there to, one, provide a sense of security for parents, and two, to help [teachers] maintain order," says Jason Nance, an associate professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
A growing issue with school resource officer (SRO) programs around the country is that officers – and teachers – increasingly think that stepping in to handle routine infractions is why the officers were placed in the schools.
"It's because they're there," says Emily Owens, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. "When you're in charge of kids occasionally you need to discipline them, and when you have SROs, that's who you're going to rely on. That's been the mechanical thing: They're there, so you'll use them."
The number of police in schools has been climbing, spurred by federal funding and by America's spike in violent crime in the 1980s and '90s. Later, coverage of high-profile school shootings such as at Columbine High in 1999 spurred the trend further.
In 1975, only 1 percent of US schools had police – SROs – assigned. That figure increased to 22 percent by 1997. Some 10 years later, the last year for which data were available, it had risen to 40 percent.
With the added police presence has come, perhaps unsurprisingly, a tendency to rely more on it for disciplinary issues. For every category of offense, schools with SROs refer more offenses to law enforcement than schools without SROs, according to Professor Nance, who has analyzed data from the US Department of Education.
According to his analysis – part of a paper soon to be published in the Washington University Law Review – a school with an SRO is about 1-1/2 times as likely to refer a gun offense to law enforcement than a school without an SRO. It is also about 1-1/2 times as likely to refer students to law enforcement who commit offenses like "attack without a weapon" or "threat without a weapon."
Denise Gottfredson, a professor of criminology at the University of Maryland, says police in schools seem to have a "net-widening" effect.
"What we know about young people is they engage in a lot of improper behavior, especially during early adolescence," she says, "but the typical way that is handled is through informal social control mechanisms."
By "informal social control mechanisms," she says she means "stuff done by parents and teachers and so forth."
"But when we involve the police and probation officers, it's much more likely that this behavior gets processed formally," she continues. "So kids get records, and these records can stay with them."
Records show that students have been arrested for texting, arriving late for class, violating school dress code, even passing gas in class. One student was arrested for telling another he would "get them" if they ate all the potatoes.
"I know lots of kids in my school that got into fights growing up," Nance says. "I don't think any of them were referred to police."
'Do you think this is the first 6-year-old we've arrested?'
Take Desre'e Watson. After throwing a tantrum at a central Florida elementary school in 2007, the girl was taken to the police station – handcuffed around her biceps – to be fingerprinted and have her mug shot taken before being taken to county jail. Desre'e was charged with battery, and after a brief stay at the jail was released to her mother.
"Do you think this is the first 6-year-old we've arrested?" the local police chief asked The New York Times.
These brushes with the juvenile justice system can have long-term impacts, advocates for reform say. Nance says that even if a student isn't convicted, her "life changes forever."
Even if not convicted, many report trauma, stigma, and embarrassment. Students say they are monitored more closely by school officials and teachers.
Keshaundra Neal described the impact of her arrest – for walking past a fight that broke out in her school when she was 13 – in a report for Voices of Youth in Chicago Education.
"Even though I had good grades, my teachers treated me differently after that," she said. "They saw me as someone who got into fights and got arrested."
A 2015 analysis of juvenile incarceration in Cook County, Ill., found that an arrest by itself can decrease a juvenile's likelihood of graduating from high school by 13 percent and increase the likelihood of adult incarceration by 23 percent.
"If you go into the juvenile system, even if it's just probation, it makes it more likely you'll end up in juvenile incarceration down the road," says Joseph Doyle, an associate professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, and a coauthor of the analysis.
"If you lock kids up when they're young, they're more likely to end up locked up as an adult. So it looks like tough-on-crime doesn't really work, it just leads to more crime," says Professor Doyle. "That's why when I see police in schools, I do worry."
One South Carolina county's experience
A desire to protect children after mass shootings, like the massacre at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., may have led to an evolution in SRO roles toward offering security, rather than community building.
Mitch Lucas, the assistant sheriff for Charleston County in South Carolina, says he first saw SROs deployed in schools in a non-security capacity, acting as a community resource for teachers and students, even teaching some classes.
"After a couple things happened with Columbine and other events like Sandy Hook, it shifted to security as the main focus," he says. "We had that extreme, and now we've flown to the other extreme of when anything happens, [teachers] call the officer over and they want an arrest for anything that happens in schools."
After the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012, Charleston County, S.C., responded the same way that many jurisdictions did. Two months after the massacre, the mayor of North Charleston had a full-time police officer in every elementary school in the city. The city of Charleston assigned six teams of police officers to patrol public and private schools at random and check security issues.
Since the Sandy Hook shooting, there has been one shooting at a K-12 school in South Carolina. During the incident at Royal Live Oaks Academy charter school in Hardeeville in January, no one was injured or killed.
In Charleston, The Post and Courier reported in 2014 that parents' reactions to cops in city schools were "generally positive."
"I have been extremely pleased," said Larry Thames, who spoke to the paper while he was picking up his grandson. "I feel the children as a whole are much safer."
Officer Eric Jourdan, who patrolled the area for years, told the paper he came out of retirement to become a cop at Burns Elementary School.
"It's been the most rewarding job that I've had," he said.
According to The Post and Courier, incidents at Burns dropped from 35 in the first half of the year to five in the second half, after Mr. Jourdan started work at the school.
"We're extremely fortunate to have him, because our community overall has such a poor perception of the reason for law enforcement," Principal Lynn Owings said. "It's worth the investment. Building that relationship with students when they are young will change their lives forever."
Officers were first introduced into schools in the 1960s precisely to improve police relations with their communities, Professor Owens says. And in this era of fraught police-community relations, that can be a helpful role.
"That's a good idea behind SROs," she says, "help officers become more of a normal, positive presence in the lives of kids."
Owens says she thinks that dramatic examples of students being arrested for petty infractions mischaracterize the work done by the majority of the officers.
Many, she says, are doing the important and difficult job of improving community relations with the police by befriending children at an early age and earning their trust.
"On average the story is complicated. None are all good or all bad," she says.
Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers, says that the No. 1 goal of an SRO is "to bridge the gap between law enforcement and youth."
Given the current widespread distrust of law enforcement around the country, SROs are "low-hanging fruit" for critics of police to target, he says. NASRO, a nonprofit organization formed 25 years ago, gives SRO training to between 2,000 and 3,000 police officers every year, and Mr. Canady believes that properly trained SROs can be great assets to schools for security, mentoring, and education.
"The majority of SROs we work with are going into this job not with the idea of seeing how many kids they can arrest," he says.
Surveys have found that the typical police officer spends half his or her time on law enforcement activities, 25 percent on mentoring or counseling students, and 13 percent on teaching, according to a Gottfredson study. Canady also points out that between 1994 and 2009, the number of juvenile arrests has decreased by almost 50 percent.
But the case of Charleston County, which had the most juvenile arrests of any South Carolina county in fiscal year 2013-14, highlights another worrying trend that some experts link to the rise of police in schools: That year, black children made up 77 percent of juvenile referrals in the county, compared with 22 percent for white children. Of those cases, just 4 percent were classified as "violent/serious," according to state data. As of 2009, 32.5 percent of children in the county were African-American.
These racial disparities exist nationwide. The US Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection finds that, although African-American students make up 15 percent of the students in the database, they comprise 35 percent of students who were suspended once, 44 percent of students suspended more than once, and 36 percent of the students who were expelled from school.
Alternative justice
Several school systems around the country have been trying out alternative justice systems, at least partly in an effort to help minority and other at-risk students.
Six New York City schools serving at-risk students, for example, have eschewed SROs for a focus on "promoting dignity and respect" among all members of the school community. Each school reported above-average attendance and graduation rates, and below-average suspension and crime rates.
West Philadelphia High School, which implemented restorative justice practices in 2008, saw a 52 percent decline in violent offenses in the first year. The method, which involves both victims and offenders, tries to mediate a resolution that offers restitution for the victim without putting a juvenile behind bars.
States like Illinois have adopted other policies and technologies – including electronic monitoring and well-enforced curfews – to serve as a substitute for incarceration.
Proponents of finding alternatives to incarcerating nonviolent juvenile offenders point to the price tag: On average it costs $150,000 a year to detain a juvenile. It costs $12,400 a year on average to send a student to public school, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
The cost of incarcerating juveniles, says Nance of the University of Florida, "dwarfs the average amount our nation spends to educate youth in our public schools."
For his part, Nance believes that the goal of improving community relations can be a good incentive for improving policing in schools. In particular, he thinks police departments should enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with local school districts, establishing ground rules for what SROs can and can't do.
"If we're going to have police in schools, they need to receive more training, they need to understand adolescent behavior better, they have to understand how to de-escalate situations better, they need to understand how a student thinks, and really the serious consequences [of] arresting and incarcerating a juvenile," he says.
Canady of NASRO agrees, saying that MOUs are "critical to a successful program."
"The problems come when you have law enforcement placed in schools and they're being placed with the wrong strategy, and that is happening," he adds.
In particular, he says, very few city agencies send officers to his organization for training. The majority of schools with SROs are in urban areas, according to Gottfredson's study.
"Very few metropolitan agencies come to us for training, and that's where I hear whatever these horror stories are coming from," says Canady. "Whenever we get the chance to train with urban departments, I get pretty excited."


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It's the curse of the debut album: the artist, unsure of who he/she is or what he/she ought to sound like strikes out in all directions — a power ballad here, a blues grinder there, a piano pop-tune way over yonder. The artist can be forgiven for their somewhat schizoid aim since the label has put all the weight of the company, as well as one's own career path, down on their freshman shoulders. With that in mind, W. Axl Rose is the oldest freshman in the history of music, as his magnum opus Chinese Democracy has finally seen the light of day. The good news is that it isn't the unmitigated failure we expected, yet it is far from the triumphant return from exodus his handlers would like you to believe.
It is the equivalent of time travel wrapped in aluminum, or vinyl if you so desire, as songs that gestated through the 15-year span in between it and the previous covers album The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) have not been updated to any semblance of modernity. Rose's flirtation with industrial rock in the early nineties, plainly NIN-fluenced, are left intact and instantly dated as are the tracks that are NU-fluenced. Korn should be proud to hear the presence of down-tuning, hip-hop loop beats and scream chants on a GNR album, but even Linkin Park jumped that train and caught a taxi to emo-town. I suppose we dodged a Rose-colored, mascaraed bullet on that.
But there are a couple songs that I didn't mind listening to. In fact, if "Better" came on the radio, I might not turn the dial. It has a semblance of the old attitude the band once had, and not too much of the stylistic shout-outs that bog down the rest of the album. "Shackler's Revenge" survives a disheartening opening to reveal itself as one of the stronger tracks, and because I do have a soft spot for proggish bombast and consider "November Rain" my favorite GNR tune, "There Was A Time" survives the time trials. But where I finished Metallica's Death Magnetic and thought, "I'll still listen to Justice and the black album more, but I'll revisit this occasionally too," I can only bring myself to clicking off my favorites in Chinese Democracy's jumble and dumping them into a hard-rock mixtape. The rest of the album is skip-fodder and, considering the majority of my music listening happens in my car, I'd rather play a different CD and keep my eyes on the road.
What the hard copy of Chinese Democracy truly lacks is the mythology that surrounded it. That's what kept it sought after, what gave it interest, what ultimately turned it into a punchline for a very long joke. As ever, people want most what they get the least or not at all. The fabled 'lost record' has always been, for as long as pop music has been, and has by-and-large always produced less than revelatory results. From Prince's "black album" to Neil Young's Chrome Dreams, once the reality comes to fruition, be it in a legitimate form or a prized bootleg version, a lot of the luster immediately vanishes. As much as I like Brian Wilson's Smile, it is not the album the Beach Boys could have made in the late '60s even if it was a note-for-note shot at that glory. Smile became iconic because of "Good Vibrations," mostly. We wanted, needed to know what the rest of the story was, and the wanting informed the legend.
Now that Rose has finally relinquished the item, it can be said the legend is less than the sum of its pointedly backward-looking chapters. We gain closure but lose the spark generated by the wait and, in that, having Chinese Democracy out is even more disappointing than had it arrived more than a decade earlier.


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Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, which collects almost everything Capcom has released so far, including hundreds of costumes and around 40 characters, is also adding some returning fighters to the roster. Street Fighter 3's Gill was revealed when the new edition was announced, and at the Capcom Cup another old boss was unveiled: Street Fighter 4's Seth.
Seth's a genetically engineered villain with muscles in places I never even knew existed and looks more than a bit like Dr. Manhattan on steroids. He was created using fighting data from the world's best fighters, so his shtick is that he can copy the special movies from other fighters.
While his pronouns are he/him, Seth doesn't have a gender, and one of the changes in the new version is his ability to switch from a male to a female appearance. It doesn't look like Seth can swap mid-battle, however, but he gets both male and female costumes.
Seth will be available along with the Champion Edition on February 14.
The Capcom Cup itself was an exciting one. The USA grand finals saw Punk, the number one seed, take on iDom, the 23rd seed. To win, Punk just needed three victories, compared to iDom's six, and after winning the first two it seemed like it was going to be settled quickly. But then iDom came back for his third game and turned the tables on the favourite. And then he did it two more times, resetting the bracket. In the second set of matches, Punk managed another victory, but the rest went to the seemingly unstoppable iDom, this year's Capcom Cup champion.


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The Soundweb London BLU-101 offers a fixed configuration of 12 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs, configurable signal processing, AEC processing, and a high bandwidth, fault tolerant digital audio bus.
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The Soundweb London BLU-101 offers a fixed configuration of 12 analog inputs and 8 analog outputs, configurable signal processing, AEC processing, and a high bandwidth, fault tolerant digital audio bus.
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In July 2017, Hockey India had decided to withdraw both the men's and women's national teams from the competition.
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Lausanne: The Indian men's hockey team will join the FIH Pro League next year after pulling out of the inaugural edition, which began in January.
Welcoming India back in the league, the international hockey federation (FIH) said the move has been supported by other participating countries.
"...India's men team will join the FIH Pro League from 2020 on, as was unanimously supported by the other participating National Associations," the FIH said in a statement after its Executive Board meeting.
In July 2017, Hockey India had decided to withdraw both the men's and women's national teams from the competition.
HI never gave any official reason for the decision but it was speculated that the inferior ranking of the women's team prompted India to pullout from both the competitions as there was no option to take out just one team.
Hockey India also believed that the country had better chances of qualifying for the Olympics via the Hockey World League.
In the inaugural Pro-League which began in January, nine teams are competing in a round-robin tournament with home and away matches till June. The top four teams will earn a ticket to the FIH's Olympic Qualification events.
"It is great that India will join the FIH Pro League already next year. There is such a passion for hockey in the country that it will add a lot to our newest competition," FIH CEO Thierry Weil said.
"Furthermore, FIH would like to thank all participating National Associations who, by agreeing on a common scheme for the 2020 and 2021 calendars, have once again shown the solidarity of the global hockey community and their utmost will to grow the sport together."
The EB also approved the 2020 and 2021 FIH Pro League match schedule principles. The League competition will be held within the first six months of every year and all these matches will remain 'home games'.
The away games will be kept too but will now be split over two consecutive seasons and work according to the following example: In 2020, Team A will host Team B twice within a couple of days, and in 2021, Team B will host Team A twice within a couple of days.
"This scheme reduces by half the travel of the teams compared to the current format, therefore decreasing costs for teams, benefitting athletes' welfare and reducing the impact on the environment," the FIH said.
As India are not playing in the FIH Pro League this year, they are banking on the Hockey Series Finals to qualify for next year's Olympics. Bhubaneswar is hosting one of the three Hockey Series Finals in June.
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CHICAGO – Winning games is the bottom line for Jake Peavy. As strong as his pitching has been, he still wants to improve.
Peavy pitched his second straight complete game but was outdueled by Jon Lester and the Red Sox bullpen as the White Sox lost 1-0 to Boston on Saturday night — Chicago's fifth straight defeat.
The former Cy Young winner was masterful again, limiting a Red Sox offense that had scored 20 runs in the first two games of the series to just four hits and one run.
Peavy (3-1) struck out seven and walked one, retiring the last 12 batters he faced to lower his ERA to 1.67.
"It's just frustrating to lose," Peavy said. "I'm at the point in my career where I want to win. My team wanted me to do a little bit more than I did, it just didn't happen."
The only blemish came in the fourth inning. Ryan Sweeney led off with a bloop double down the right-field line, just beyond the reach of a charging Gordon Beckham.
After Dustin Pedroia lined out to third, Adrian Gonzalez sent a 2-2 pitch though the infield to plate the only run of the game.
"I just have to make a better pitch to Gonzalez there," Peavy said. "I made good pitches to him most of the night. You make a mistake to him and he's gonna make you pay, and he got on top of a ball that ran back to the middle and got a big hit for them."
Peavy failed in his bid to win a fourth straight start for the first time with the White Sox, but threw a complete game for a second consecutive start for the first time in his career. He hasn't had more than one complete game in a season since 2006, when he was with San Diego.
Peavy shut out Oakland on Monday in his last start, a 4-0 win in which he faced four batters over the minimum.
The run ended Peavy's string of 17 straight scoreless innings.
The White Sox offense couldn't get going against Lester (1-2), who made big pitches when he needed to. Chicago went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position and stranded eight on base.
"You can look back and see little things, you had opportunities," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "You tip your hat to Lester for getting out of those situations.
"Any time he got into a bind, he found a way out of it."
Lester picked up his first win of the season, snapping a career-worst streak of five straight losses and going eight starts without a win dating to Sept. 11. He gave up five hits and one walk, striking out seven.
"Sometime, either yesterday or today, he asked what he had to do. I told him to pitch like an ace," Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine said. "Tonight, he pitched like an ace."
Lester had allowed 12 runs over his previous two starts.
The Red Sox won their sixth straight to even their record at 10-10 after a miserable start.
Franklin Morales and Vicente Padilla held the White Sox scoreless in the eighth. For Morales, it was his 22nd straight scoreless road outing, most ever by a Boston left-hander.
Alfredo Aceves pitched the ninth for his fifth save in seven chances.
The low-scoring win was a departure from the rest of Boston's streak. The Red Sox scored 44 runs over the first five games of the spree.
Paul Konerko doubled twice and walked for Chicago, and now has six multi-hit games over his last eight outings.
NOTES: In his second rehab start, Red Sox RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka (Tommy John surgery) struck out seven batters in 4 2-3 innings for Double-A Portland. He gave up one run on three hits and walked two. ... LHP Andrew Miller (hamstring) gave up a two-run homer and struck out three in one inning of relief for Triple-A Pawtucket. ... Konerko's two hits tied him with Eddie Collins for fourth place in White Sox history with 2,007.


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Overleigh Mansion : Big Bill 'Tilden": "Big Bill" Tilden
The sky had been dark throughout the cool September day. Rain fell on the grass courts of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York City. The weather postponed the final match of the 1920 U.S. National Championship, and Bill Tilden sat at a small table, patiently playing bridge. Although nearly two months earlier, he had won Wimbledon, considered the world championship, he had not yet won the U.S. national title. Many still believed his Californian rival, Bill Johnston, to be the better player, despite Johnston's loss before the two met at Wimbledon. Johnston's many fans believed that Tilden's victory was a fluke and that in a match between the two, Johnston would easily win.
Today's weather brought back memories of the previous year's finals match at Forest Hills, when it had rained for two full days before Johnston defeated Tilden in three quick sets to win the national title. Sportswriters said that Tilden lost because his feet sank into the sod of the soaked court and prevented him from using his notoriously powerful serve. Tilden, however, knew that his weak backhand stroke had cost him the match, and he practiced it every day during the following off-season. The stroke helped him win at Wimbledon, but if Tilden could counter Johnston's offensive game here, he would know for certain that his hard work had paid off.
The rain slowed to a halt and the two players were called to the lawn, but the sky was still dark and gray clouds loomed over the scene. Bill Johnston walked onto the court with two rackets in hand; his rival came with an armful. Ten thousand spectators cheered for Johnston from the grandstands. Tilden was unfazed and claimed the first set, 6-1, but Johnston won the second with the same score. Play became closer as each player tried to break away from the other. Tilden won the next set 7-5, but Johnston rallied himself again and won the fourth set 7-5. Rain began to sprinkle over the players.
The roar of an engine hung over the grounds as a military plane flew over the match for a photo-opportunity. After three passes overhead, the engine failed and the plane plowed into the ground, missing a full grandstand by only 200 feet and killing the pilot. The umpire feared a panic in the stands and asked the pair if they could continue play. Johnston said yes without hesitation and strode back onto the court. The umpire turned to face Tilden and asked him again. He responded, "I'm ready," and took his place on the opposite side of the net. The tension of the match kept the audience seated. Bill Tilden won the final set, 6-3, and became the undisputed champion of the world at the age of 27.
"Big Bill" Tilden, as he came to be known, was an unconventional player. Lanky and broad shouldered, he weighed in at 155 lb. and towered over his opponents at 6'1", well above the average height at the time. His small eyes and ears almost disappeared on his tall, boxy face. Tilden's clothing was just as unusual. The cheap suits that he wore never seemed to fit him and were constantly dirty. Whenever he played tennis, however, he was spotlessly clean. Tilden's athleticism seemed unaffected by his chain smoking and unusual eating habits.
Tilden's game was tremendously versatile, but he was most famous for his extraordinarily powerful "cannonball" serve. In a 1921 article, Philadelphia's Public Ledger called it both a "hurricane drive" and a "whiz-bang service." Even when Tilden was well into his late 40s, he "[outhit] the hardest hitter in the game," as Al Laney reported. Despite his great power game, Tilden preferred to rely instead on his fantastic stamina. His game was well-rounded, and he had "three different versions of just about every stroke" (Deford). The London Times reported that "there [was] no stroke Mr. Tilden [could] not do at full speed."
Bill Tilden worked on his mental game as much as his physical game. He wrote a number of books that described his conclusions about the sport's psychology. In one of his more enduring works, The Art of Lawn Tennis, he wrote that "tennis is played primarily with the mind." Among other things, he explained the strategic differences between singles and doubles games, how different surfaces affect gameplay, and the role that confidence plays in one's game. He also analyzed individual players from around the world.
Critics praised Tilden's unrivaled strategy and his adaptability during matches. The Public Ledger wrote that his 1920 victory at Wimbledon was "characterized by experts as the soundest and brainiest ever seen on English courts." Late in his career, Tilden once played a match against René Lacoste in France. Tilden had lost the past four matches that the two had played together, and Lacoste pulled ahead to an early lead in this one. Tilden abandoned his style of play after he lost the first set and instead imitated Lacoste's. Tilden swept the rest of the match and left Lacoste dumbfounded. His confidence shattered, Lacoste slouched in the locker room and lamented, "Two years ago I knew at last how to beat him…Is he not the greatest player of them all?"
Bill Tilden was born in Germantown on February 10, 1893. His mother was the daughter of a prosperous textile manufacturer, and she married William Tilden Sr., who became her father's partner after the two wed. Tilden Sr. became a prominent member of society and once even considered a bid for Philadelphia mayor. The family's wealth allowed them to move from their small Germantown home to the Overleigh Mansion at 5015 McKean Avenue shortly after Bill's birth. Bill spent his early life at the mansion, but moved into a room in his aunt's row house in the same neighborhood while he attended the Germantown Academy. He frequently returned to his room at 519 Hansberry Avenue as late as the 1930s.
Bill's older brother, Herbert, was a prolific tennis player and encouraged his brother to play the game as well. The family's home was down the street from The Germantown Cricket Club, and the two played there often. Bill was more interested in music and theater, but tennis became a defining part of his life. Herbert played on the University of Pennsylvania's varsity tennis team and won the state championships in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Bill attempted to follow in his brother's footsteps, but he lacked the skill and could not even make the tennis team at Penn, where he also attended. His mother's death in 1911 unnerved Bill, and he left the school. He had not fully recovered when his father also died in July of 1915. Only two months later, his brother contracted pneumonia and died.
The only surviving member of his family, Bill became visibly depressed. Trapped by his grief, he spent most of his time in his room in his aunt's small row house. His cousin, who lived in the house with him, heard Bill's footsteps through the ceiling when he got up and paced his room. Faint opera music passed under his door after he replaced one record with another. She eventually approached him and encouraged Bill to find focus in his life. He took her advice and dedicated himself to tennis in 1916.
Tilden's early tennis career did not take off immediately. When he first entered the U.S. National Championship at Forest Hills in 1916, he failed to make it pass the first round. Returning to the tournament each subsequent year, Tilden made it to the finals in 1918 and 1919, but lost both times. After revamping his faults during the winter of 1919-1920, he claimed the 1920 Wimbledon title and cemented his championship status by winning at Forest Hills. Tilden won both championships again the next year. He won the U.S. National Championship consistently until 1925, and once more in 1929, but declined to compete at Wimbledon again until 1927. His international acclaim was already so great that neither Tilden nor his opponents felt that he needed to prove himself across the Atlantic. The USLTA ranked Tilden as the number one player in America from 1920 to 1929 and as the greatest player in the world until 1925, but his popularity long outlasted his top ranking.
Tilden was as famous for the drama that he brought to tennis as for his great playing skill. He wrote that "the player owes the gallery as much as an actor owes the audience" and acted to fill the part. At times, Tilden intentionally lost early sets to prolong a game and make a dramatic comeback. Other times, he challenged calls that were clearly correct. The Philadelphia Record reported that during his 1930 play at Wimbledon, "the crowd howled jeers at [Tilden] like baseball fans at an umpire" when he "had the audacity to question linesmen on their decisions." On multiple occasions, he walked off the court before finishing a match.
The drama that Tilden brought to the court stemmed from his lifelong interest in performance. His fame brought him to Hollywood where he befriended many celebrities, including Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. Tilden took up acting and wrote his own plays. He memorized entire plays and silently mouthed other performers' lines on stage. Despite his passion, he lacked the talent needed for professional theatre. He himself admitted that the critics were justified in calling him "the world's worst actor." He found more success as an author. He wrote tennis-themed fiction, but the many instructional books and videos that he produced were much more popular. He wrote tennis columns for the Philadelphia Public Ledger Syndicate and, for decades, he listed his occupation as a newspaperman because he preferred writing over tennis.
Tilden reveled in the high life and committed most of his money to it. He was irresponsible with his money and dined out for every meal. He frequently held a suite at the Algonquin luxury hotel in New York City's Theatre District, staying for months at a time and usually failing to check out when he left, sometimes forcing friends or others to pay his bill. Tilden's extravagance fed his ego and when photographed by paparazzi or journalists, he even told the photographer how to take his picture.
Tilden held a strained relationship with the USLTA throughout his career. The organization represented a conservative, gentlemanly style of tennis that characterized the sport until recently. Tilden wrote simply, "It annoyed me." The USLTA disapproved of Tilden's flamboyant tennis persona as much as he disapproved of their steadfast traditionalism. They feared that the controversies that he and his personal life created would defame the sport. Although it was only rumored in the public, Tilden's peers knew that he was gay, although he never admitted to it. The USLTA considered Tilden a danger to the sport's reputation and tried to dissociate with him on multiple occasions.
The USLTA first attempted to rid itself of Tilden in 1924 by banning players from writing tennis articles about tournaments that they were playing in. This move targeted Tilden specifically because his passion for writing was well known, and the USLTA hoped that he would quit tennis rather than writing. After a public outcry, and a charge led by Tilden, the group compromised and instead prohibited players from writing opinion articles about these tournaments. Although the USLTA rarely enforced the rule, and other players broke it regularly, the group succeeded in using it to ban Tilden in 1928. Their ruling met tremendous national and international pressure, but the group stood its ground and consented only to a short postponement of the ban. The ban forced Tilden to turn professional in 1931 when he was almost forty years old. His professional tours brought him to Cabaret, Germany, where he witnessed an openly gay community for the first time. After this visit, his sexuality became increasingly noticeable.
His career eventually ended in scandal. On the night of November 23, 1946, Bill Tilden's Packard Clipper swerved on the streets of Beverly Hills. A police car flashed its sirens and directed the car to the side of the road. The driver's door opened and a young boy stepped into the street. Police arrested Tilden and he admitted to touching the boy. The boy's parents brought charges against Tilden and the State of California indicted him for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A psychiatrist who investigated the case said that Tilden was neurotic and that he should be treated, but a trial commenced anyway. Tilden believed that his status and Hollywood connections would save him from prison, and he pled guilty. The judge sentenced him to a year in prison, but he did not serve the full term. Arrested again in 1949 for violating his probation by being alone with a minor, Tilden lost most of his remaining friends, and the tennis community shunned him.
Out of jail, Tilden was impoverished but hoped to resume his tennis career. He entered the 1953 U.S. Professional Championships at Ohio's Lakewood Park. On June 5, the night before he was to leave for the tournament, he suffered a heart attack in his apartment and died with less than $90 to his name. He was cremated in California and is buried at his family's burial plot at the Ivy Hill Cemetery in Germantown.
External Links
- Frank Deford, Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs and the Tragedy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975).
- International Tennis Hall of Fame, History of Philadelphia Tennis 1875-1995 (USA, 1995).
- The Germantown Cricket Club, 100 Years of the Germantown Cricket Club (1954).
- William T. Tilden II, Me—The Handicap (London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1929).
- William T. Tilden II, My Story (New York: Hellman, Williams & Company, 1948).
- William T. Tilden II, The Art of Lawn Tennis (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922), http://ia600304.us.archive.org/29/items/theartoflawntenn01451gut/tenis10.txt.
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MBA can be a craze currently. Many youngsters expect to do MBA after their graduation. However very few of which fully realize just what it exactly is and what you should do to make most out of their investment. Most of these ignorant fellows finish up wasting huge money on an inferior institution that can them nowhere in reality. Here are some things which you got to know before opting for an MBA.
1. Nomenclature:
MBA, abbreviated from Master in Business Administration is an internationally recognized PG course covering various business-oriented subjects, for example, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources
2. Origin:
Originated from the United States inside the late nineteenth century, were only available in India in 1961 with IIMS which are unauthorized to make available MBA degrees and were issuing PGDM (Post Graduate Diploma in Management).
3. First b-schools of India:
IIM Calcutta was the first person to be established while using a collaboration of MIT Sloan School of Management. Next to follow was IIM Ahmadabad, in initial collaboration with Harvard Business School. In 1955, the University of Delhi initiated the Faculty Management Studies (FMS) and during 1968, first launched the MBA program for graduates.
4. Course to get selected
from i) Full time and Industry Accepted ii) Regular 2 years iii) One Year Part-time for executives iv) Distance Learning online by weekends v) Open University vi) Finishing School Concepts.
5. Specialization Subjects:
General MBA provides options for Marketing, HR, and Finance. IIMs and other top b-schools give you some electives that do not attract students. Job prospects marketing 70% finance & HR 10% and balance 10% covers all specialization. Don't get lured by cheap programs offering new specialization.
6. Special Courses:
Select institutes marked 'specialized' for specialized courses. Choose to join IIFT for Foreign Trade or IRMA for Rural Management. Other specialized in International Business, Entrepreneurship, Media Management, Healthcare, NGO & Rural Development, Tourism, and Travels, etc. Private institutes charging fees less than Rs 6-7 lakhs can't provide high-quality specialized courses.
7. Self-Interrogation:
Sort out the pros and cons intended for the course and institute you are going to select. What are your motivations such as prospective job openings or establishing your business? Thinking of in-country education or abroad? Low budget course or visible institutes? Financial resources available or aiming to avail of study loans. Which course in doing what investment gives you the optimum Return on Investment?
8. Selection procedure of foreign b-schools:
The base is GMAT or Graduate Management Admission Test, TOEFL or Test of English like a foreign language and IELTS or International English Language Testing System. Letters of Recommendation and personal interviews are other methods of selection. Join just the high-ranking ones.
9. Ranking of b-School
s conducted by Bloomberg Business Week, US News & World Report, Eduniversal, the Economist and. D& B gives a list of all b-schools in India and interviews associated () Leading Business Schools. Ranking around the top ten could be authentic whilst the rest could be manipulative, favoring a particular institute.
10. Qualifying Ability:
You are to attain the minimum cut-off marks in Common Admission Test or CAT. Check your past academic performance at matriculation or +2 levels. Your earlier good performance in mathematics and basic knowledge of Economics, and Quantitative Techniques, good communication skills in English, both written and spoken, involvement in extracurricular activities and perseverance will assist you to better as soon as you join any b-school of your liking.


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The SciPy conference proceedings are finally available online:
http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/SciPy2008 .
I hope you enjoy them. I find it great to have this set of excellent
articles talking about works done with, or for, Python in science. For
me, it is a reference to remember what was said at the conference. I hope
it can also be interesting for people who were not present at the
I apologize for being so slow at publishing them. In addition to the
round trip between authors and editors taking a while, I have been
travelling back home and spent way too much time last week finishing off
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Come On In! Yards and Outdoor Spaces
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Such an amazing yard, Andrea!!ReplyDelete
The pergola with lights and ferns is just beautiful!!
And I have major sandbox envy :)
Goodness! I love, love, love your backyard! My favorite part? How your boys can just run outside and play while you watch from that gorgeous kitchen of yours! I also love your neighborhood :).ReplyDelete
Girl!!! You have been BUSY!! Your yard looks fabulous!! It's like a kid's dream! haha!ReplyDelete
I don't have yard pics to post - mostly because we have done NOTHING to our yard since we moved a year ago - need to get on that! BUT I just had to laugh at your gnome picture. My husband has had a yard gnome since college. He insisted that it move with us after we got married. I'll admit it - I hated it. After Hurricane Katrina gutted our house, the last thing we worried about was that darn gnome. Anyway, long story short (or long), 3 years after the storm and long after we had our sold our house and moved back to Texas, we drove through NOLA and decided to stop by our old house and see how it was doing. Darned if the new owner didn't have the yard gnome displayed prominently in her front yard (we knew it was ours b/c of a chip it had on it's hat). So my sweet, law-abiding husband jumped out of the car, made sure the lady wasn't home and threw that bad boy back in the car with us. Now the gnome is home. And back in our front yard. Sigh. Longest comment ever but had to share :)ReplyDelete
I love you yard. The flags, sandbox, play house, knome, the lights and the tool box. It all looks great. Hitting up trade days is on my summer bucket list!ReplyDelete
ANDREA!!!!!! It looks AMAZING!!!!!! Wow! Invite me over and I will bring Starbucks. The boys can run around like crazies and we can quietly sip on our drinks. Ahhhhhhh.................ReplyDelete
Love love love! And the garden gnome named Pablo has me cracking up! Haha. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
I love that big pot!! & I love your love of thrift!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 7:50 AM
Thus backyard feels welcoming and comforting... but it's also enchanting. It reminds me of a book I read years ago about creating outdoor living spaces for children. I feel like your house does that-- when you look at it there are so many possibilities for imagination and creative play there. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful space! I'm in awe at how lush everything grows there. It's just beautiful and I can picture sitting out back under those lights. You've done a great job at creating an outdoor family paradise;)ReplyDelete
I love this beautiful space you've created! I'm just in awe at how lush everything is where you live. It must be the heat and humidity. It's gorgeous! You've done an amazing job at creating a family paradise in your back yard:)ReplyDelete
Holy transformation since March, wow! Your backyard looks beautiful....such a fun space!!!!ReplyDelete
I love your backyard! It looks like such a welcoming and fun place for kids to play in.ReplyDelete
I can't even tell you how much I adore your yard!! Gorgeous! Our house needs major work and the yard is awful. On the one hand I'm excited to have a blank slate....on the other hand, wow, overwhelming. I'm going to save this post for inspiration :) I HAVE been working on our lower patio and love how it's turning out!ReplyDelete
I love your outdoor space, Andrea...it is gorgeous and family friendly! The pergola with lights is awesome! I love the before and after pictures :)ReplyDelete
Your yard looks fantastic! I can tell you've put in a lot of hard work, and it sure paid off! Did y'all build to pergola yourselves? The tealights hanging are a perfect added touch!ReplyDelete
Love your back yard area! I would love to incorporate more lighting in our back yard, and I love how you have all kinds of candles and lights all around.ReplyDelete
I love your Trades Day's tool box. Your backyard looks like a relaxing place for adults AND an absolute blast for the kids. The Come On In has been such a fun series! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Everything looks great!! We have very similar lots...we're on a corner with the big trees and side yard, too! Except, we've not been able to get our groundcover to spread like yours in the beds!! Come tend to my yard,please. OK, thanks. ;)ReplyDelete
What an amazing outdoor space! And you rock for being such an active part in the transformation! Looks like such a fun neighborhood!ReplyDelete
Your backyard is a gorgeous living space! I love how green it is! Totally envious!ReplyDelete
The pergola looks amazing!! So so nice.ReplyDelete
I for one, love all the flags :)
Your yard is gorgeous!!! I cannot wait to finish up my blog so I can start linking up for awesome posts like these!!!ReplyDelete


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Hi all how are your Holidays going?
I am in spring clean mode , and home cooking, when you have the hustle of managing work and hospitals and schools you don't always get the time to keep up with everything there are sometime just not enough hours in the day, you tend to make very quick meals , Or get one small job In Between those in and out the house.
I have had the added work of the book which I love.
Yesterday was the first stage of cooking the Greek food. Pasitio a pasta base with mince and topped off with a creamy sauce. We always like too eat it with fresh bread and salads, and trimmings like olives and homous and Taramasalata dips.
Fresh ingredients really inexpensive if you shop around , and it makes plenty.
I had to make a slightly different version replacing meat with Quorn mince and veg stock instead of beef.
Niki still doesn't eat meat but for now still is ok with eggs being used in cooking.😀
Hayley and Niki Results
Today I am working with Hayley going to give her some little Easter things to do, she likes art alot.
Will be checking with doctors today for her scan results.
Plus Niki's results should be in tommorow. Then we should know where we are as far as medication goes.
Jake immunisations and dentist
Friday Jake has his injections in the morning , so dip, tentnus and polio booster, Plus his meningitis Jabs.
He is ready to get it over with now, still there is an apprehension on wether it will be a straight in and out thing or whether the anxiety will appear, but still going, we have been preparing for months now.
Dentist in the afternoon he is ok with check ups now and at this appointment we are going to ask for that referral for the orthodontis, we have held off till he is more comfortable with dentists and while he learns to be able to be Able to not miss bits of teeth when brushing.
He is more affected now by that one tooth that is set slightly back in his mouth.
Any way that's it for now off to work soon
Have a beautiful Day