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With the increasing age in childhood, along with learning about the atmosphere and other things around them, children tend to get curious about many things and want to experience them on their own without any delay. One of these things is riding on the bike. When they see other kids riding the bike, they also want to do the same to share the fun and enjoyment however, it is very important that they should wait till a particular age before trying to learn how to ride on a bike otherwise they may get hurt by falling down from the bike. In today's session of coloring, we will be including number of Bike coloring pages for kids to color in . Spend your time in coloring with these Bike coloring pages and give your feed back about how you like them.
First learning and then riding a bike is one of the most joyful experiences a kid may pass through. It's one of the joys that once you get into it, you cannot resist and want to do more and more of it alone as well as along with other kids, however there are number of things that you need to consider before learning to ride the bike and having all the fun on your part. Initially, if you have never run the bike before and don't know how to balance it, two additional wheels are installed with the rear wheels which don't let the bike fell down even when you are not able to balance it on your own. Practice riding the bike with these wheels installed on the bike. Soon you would learn to balance the bike and then will get experienced as you would ride more but there are a few precautions that must be taken while riding the bike. Though our primary aim here is coloring with Bike coloring pages but it would be very important to tell children about precautions they must undertake.
Firstly, don't try to ride a bike on the main roads, when you are new rider. Try to learn in an empty space like an open park etc. secondly once you learn the bike riding, enjoy the ride but don't race with other kids. This may result in physical injury. We want our kids to enjoy bike riding while at the same time keep them safe and sound . And when you want more of bike riding, you can enjoy Bike coloring pages, which have been added for your learning and fun. Some more segments in the category are also available like Motorcycle coloring pages, which will also prove helpful to improve your coloring experience.


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DOC SHOW AUDIO: Which is Tastier...Cheese or Chiz?
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Doc forgot to bring home cheese for the tacos so, they had to do with Velveeta wrapped singles. Freddie said that's not cheese, that's "chiz"
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Good Morrow, my darling Starshines. Speaking of Starshine, the Stars were GORGEOUS last night here in Wisconsin, and so was the company I was keeping. For last night was a splediforous overnight with Lover, and much music was made and many shooting stars were seen.
What I'd actually like to talk about today is Insomnia and how it affects people. No, this isn't going into a long rant about the Medicality (New word) of the 'disease', as some people call it. What I want to talk about is actually the perks of having it. I look around and I don't see too many people who see their insomnia as a good thing, and I can relate. I know that on most occasions, I have felt as if my Insomnia was a curse.
But the thing is, how can I cope with something when I'm constantly fighting against it in the worst of ways? You can't cure yourself by fighting yourself and the disease. You cure yourself by accepting the disease and working with it to become a happier and healthier person. When you accept the lot you've been given, you can start positively working towards a different lot to have.
After all, it would be silly to just buy a new house when the old one you lived in was just fine and you were just scared. Moving to a different home to fight the evil would not, in fact, do anything. There has to be positive reason for moving. Maybe you accepted the evil (whatever it was), and are cutting ties to it in order to move on.
Anyway, this is my acceptance blog. My: 'Yes, I have a condition' blog. My: 'Fuck, of course things hurt' blog. So let's do this.
The sweetness of Insomnia in a list of five.
1. If you fall asleep when the sun sets, you never see the stars. I love the stars. No, no, I mean I would probably have sex with a star if it weren't for the fact that a star is, indeed, a burning ball of fire that has probably already been extinguished by the time the light reaches my eyes. That's the sad thing; to look up and see the beauty of so many things that have already passed on. But I don't think about it like that. I rejoice in the impact they've had on millions of people. I guess it's cliche to aspire to that.
2. When I sleep, I dream, and no other time. I've heard people say things similar to this before, and it confuses me greatly. Laying in bed, not sleeping, my mind imagines a million colorful pinwheels of light and magic. It wanders into the murky depths of sadness, and gets caught dancing across clouds. Yes, dreaming is magnificent, and I do happen to miss it quite terribly, but I still see and feel so many things dreaming with my eyes open.
3. Save for the things that go bump in the night, all is still, peaceful, and quiet? Well, although that's glorious (and slightly disturbing) imagery, it's not quite true. Would you call crickets and coyotes and Owls things that go bump in the night? Do you ever stare up at the sky and hear a moon-song? Are you ever compelled to howl at the moon and run swiftly and quietly through fields and woodlands? There is so much more to night than anyone thinks. It's the time when beautiful creatures come out to play. Sometimes, you'll see a lone wolf, howling to the sky and listening for the cries of its brethren. Sometimes, illuminated by the stars, you'll hear the light flapping wings of a Luna Moth. The only things that go bump in the night are our fears.
4. I dreamed a dream of time gone by…Who wants to dream of time gone by? It sounds pleasant, but serves as a sore reminder that we only live one life, and that time is passing too quickly. A beautiful thing about Insomnia (when you are dealing with it correctly) is that you get so many more hours out of life than most people. You see more, you feel more, you possibly eat more. I cannot express to you how much it hurts but how good it feels to see the things I've seen, to do the things I've done. There's the pain of lying awake, missing someone, but then there's the beauty of dancing in the sudden downpour of 3 am rain.
5. And all the people wore black, and they were dancing, and their golden hair was illuminated in the silver moonlight. The people. Great Asgard, the people of the night. A lot of people have met them; streetwalkers, musicians, drug addicts, insomniacs, prostitutes, protesters, whatever. A lot of people have shrunk in fear from the people who's eyes just seem darker and brighter than everyone else's at the same time. The raw excitement that you feel walking with them, the connection that's there. It doesn't matter if they don't know who you are or you don't know where they come from. The beauty is the companionship of the night. And yeah, I know, rapists and all that jazz, but remember that not all people are bad people, and sometimes, the true light of someone will show through when the sun isn't shining in their face.
Anyway, it's just my opinion, and you can feel free to contradict me if you'd like. Now, I will go off and spend some time with the day-walkers, because it's true, there's a brightness to both types of people, and I want as much light in my life as possible.
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New features in iOS 7 accessibility for blind and low vision users
Great article from the American National Federation of the Blind about changes in iOS 7's accessibility for users who are blind, deaf blind, or have low vision.
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Michael D. Taylor, 69, passed away Thursday, July 26, 2018 at Baptist Health Floyd Hospital in New Albany, IN. He was born May 1, 1949 in Los Angeles, CA the son of Bill Jones and Edith Osborne Taylor. He worked in the Army Corps of engineers in Real Estate. He was a member of Edwardsville United Methodist Church in Edwardsville, IN.
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Single-row deep groove ball bearings are the most common type of rolling bearings. Their use is very widespread.
In addition to open type bearings, these bearings often have steel shields or rubber seals installed on one or both sides and are prelubricated with grease. Also, snap rings are sometimes used on the periphery. As to cages, pressed steel ones are the most common.
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Lincolnshire County Council has admitted hundreds of millions of pounds of extra funding would need to be ploughed into its coffers to make a 'massive difference' to plans for repairing roads.
The authority has faced mounting criticism for failing to repair potholes - and the standard of work actually being carried out.
In a statement to the Standard, the council's Highways department said the recent injection of an extra £12m for road repairs is welcome but stresses it will take much more money to bring the county's roads up the standard it would like.
The council stressed it is campaigning for a fairer funding deal from central Government but without extra money admits the frustration for residents - and road users - will continue.
The statement said: "Recently, the council agreed to invest a further £12m in highways maintenance for this year . While this is a step in the right direction, it is nowhere near the hundreds of millions of pounds we'd need to bring our roads up to the standard we'd like.
"What is really needed is for Lincolnshire to receive fairer funding from the government, which is something we are campaigning for hard.
"If the council received the average funding for council areas in England, the region would benefit from £116 million of extra funding for services every year – some of which could be used towards highways repairs.
"That would make a massive difference."
The statement was issued following reports in the Standard which highlighted problems facing residents with potholes on roads in their area.
Last month we reported that the The Mayor of Skegness asked why it took a protest on social media flagging up a'dangerous'potholed road beforeitwas repaired.
A team from Lincolnshire County Council visited Kennedy Avenue to repair potholes that were described by one resident as looking like a 'bombed out runway'.
Mayor Danny Brookes had shared images of the road on the Skegness the Return and Skegness, Skegness Skegness Facebook pages, asking 'Is this the worst road in the country?'
He commented at the time: 'Our roads have never been this bad – this is a disgrace', claiming at the time that leader of Lincolnshire County Council Martin Hill was 'letting Lincolnshire down'.
The county council said it understands how residents feel but stresses it has to prioritise repairs.
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Resource Solutions are looking for a sourcer to join our team in Manchester supporting a new Insurance Client. The role will be a mixture of supporting the account in terms of coordination and directly sourcing candidtes from the external market. The right person for this role will have a level of direct sourcing experience and excellent coordination/orginsation experience. There are no sales involved in this role, it is focused on service and delivery for one client.
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Artificial Neural Networks. A Practical Course by Ivan Nunes da Silva, Danilo Hernane Spatti, Rogerio Andrade
By Ivan Nunes da Silva, Danilo Hernane Spatti, Rogerio Andrade Flauzino, Luisa Helena Bartocci Liboni, Silas Franco dos Reis Alves
This e-book presents complete assurance of neural networks, their evolution, their constitution, the issues they could resolve, and their functions. the 1st 1/2 the publication appears to be like at theoretical investigations on synthetic neural networks and addresses the main architectures which are able to implementation in a number of software eventualities. the second one part is designed particularly for the construction of strategies utilizing synthetic neural networks to unravel functional difficulties coming up from various components of information. It additionally describes a number of the implementation info that have been taken under consideration to accomplish the said effects. those elements give a contribution to the maturation and development of experimental innovations to specify the neural community structure that's appropriate for a selected program scope. The e-book is suitable for college students in graduate and top undergraduate classes as well as researchers and professionals.
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1. Thus, independently of the activation function in use, only two values can be produced by the network output, that is, 0 or 1 for the step function, and −1 or 1 if the bipolar step function is used. The xi inputs can assume any numeric value and depend on the problem being mapped by the Perceptron. In practice, techniques for input normalization, considering the numerical range of the adopted activation function, are also used to improve the computational performance of the training process.
2. Consider an application with four inputs and two outputs. The designers of this application state that the feedforward network to be developed must present exactly four neurons in the first hidden layer. Discuss about the pertinence of this information. 3. Relating to the previous exercise, cite some factors that influence the determination of the hidden layers number of a multiple layer feedforward network. 4. What are the eventual structural differences observed between recurrent networks and feedforward networks.
Is the activation function and u is the activation potential. x1 w1 −1 {x0} θ = w0 x2 x3 xn w2 w3 Σ wn Fig. ) – – Real or binary (from the external environment) Real (initialized with random values) Real (initialized with random values) Binary Step or bipolar step function Supervised Delta rule Since the ADALINE is still mostly used in applications involving pattern recognition, its outputs can classify only two classes, which are associated to one of the two possible values produced by the adopted activation function (step or bipolar step).


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The portability of the P3500 eliminates the need for a dedicated conference room, allowing you to organise video conference calls from practically any location. Wired or Wi-Fi connectivity means the P3500 is fast and easy to set-up. The P3500 utilises H.264/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) to give smooth, high quality video streaming with automatic control of resolution and frame rate.
The versatile P3500 can be used for a wide range of video conferencing applications. For larger conferences external microphone, speakers and cameras can be connected, making this a flexible and scalable conferencing solution. HDMI* in/out connectivity also allows high quality HD conference presentation using a wide choice of display monitors. The remote control operation of the P3500 makes it easy to manage video conferences including large group sessions.
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Every single action in AdaptableBlotter.JS can, optionally, be fully audited for internal review purposes: each keystroke, menu click, configuration change and data edit. This provides you with complete oversight over everything that ever happens in the Blotter.
Information sent to Audit Log lives entirely within your systems at a destination specified by you.
Adaptable Blotter has no knowledge of where you are storing this data and what is sent. And it has no ability to access this data. Any data sent to the Audit Log is known only to you, and is accessible only by you.
For instance you can set up an alert to be informed whenever a value changes in a particular column, or if the new value exceeds set limits; or you can run reports showing a particular user's activity, or how data has changed over any time period.
Configuring Audit Log
Audit Log is enabled - and configured - when setting up the Adaptable Blotter in IAdaptableBlotterOptions.
When Audit Log is turned on, all changes are streamed automatically - both data and user / config changes. However administrators have the ability to listen only to certain categories of audit change.
They do this through setting 4 boolean properties of the IAuditOptions object when creating Blotter Options at design time (see Audit Options).
Cell Edits - provides full details of any edits made to data inside the Blotter.
Function Events - details any changes made within Adaptable Blotter functions (e.g. Advanced Search selected, Smart Edit applied, layout changed etc.)
User State Changes - logs any changes to the user's state (e.g. Conditional Style deleted, Quick Search highlight colour changed etc.) . It uses a Diff function so that only the change in the State (and the cause of the change) is logged.
Internal State Changes - logs any changes to the internal state used by the Adaptable Blotter (e.g. popup closed, cells selected). This is the most verbose of the 4 types of audit events and uses the same Diff function as the User State changes.
If all 4 options are set to false (the default) then nothing will be audited.
Audit Log is a simple stream of JSON objects sent over an HTTP channel to an internal destination that you specify and that you set. Each object contains full details of what the type of change was, the user, the time and any other related information.
AuditLog object
The Audit Log Entry object contains all the information about the type of change (e.g. edit or function) as well as user, timestamp etc.
export interface IAuditLogEntry { adaptableblotter_auditlog_trigger: string adaptableblotter_client_timestamp: Date adaptableblotter_username: string adaptableblotter_editcell?: { primarykey: string primarykey_column_id: string column_id: string previous_value: string new_value: string } adaptableblotter_function?: { name: string action: string info: string data: any } adaptableblotter_state_change?: string adaptableblotter_state_change_action? : string adaptableblotter_number_of_missed_ping?: number }
You can use any appropriate software that you like to "listen" to the message stream and then run reports, send alerts or react in any other way to the data coming in.
If the Adaptable Blotter determines that nothing is listening to the audit stream then the Audit Log will stop sending messages automatically.
When Audit Log is turned on, all changes are streamed automatically - both data and user / config changes. However administrators have the ability to listen only to certain categories of audit change. They do this through setting the IAuditOptions object when creating Blotter Options.
Using Your Own Reporting Software
Many organisations will have their own reporting and auditing software with which they are already familiar.
If this is the case then it should be trivial for you to configure that software to listen to the Audit Log stream and you will be immediately able to report on it.
If you don't have your own existing auditing or reporting software in your organisation, then a good choice is the Elastic Stack. Containing 3 associated products from Elastic (ElasticSearch, Kibana and Logstash), its a very advanced and powerful auditing suite, yet easy to use and set up. You can find more details on the Elastic website about their Elastic Stack.
The Adaptable Blotter team will be able to advise you on how to set up the Elastic Stack so you can take full advantage of power of Audit Log.
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"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair, I may bring hope - that where there are shadows, I may bring light - that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood - to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to the Eternal Life. Amen."
As beginners in meditation, we might now reread this prayer several times very slowly, savoring every word and trying to take in the deep meaning of each phrase and idea. It will help if we can drop all resistance to what our friend says. For in meditation, debate has no place. We rest quietly with the thoughts of someone who knows, so that we may experience and learn.
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Overcast skies and rain showers meant that only one
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Aviaition Museum … but the chilly weather didn't stop more than 20 MVs
supporting the event.
A plaque to mark the 100th anniversary of the
RAF and the 90th year of Sywell Aerodrome was donated by 378
(Mannock) Squadron, Air Training Corp and a crowd gathered to watch its unveiling.
On show were 12 Willys, Ford and Hotchkiss Jeeps (one carrying
a Welbike), Land Rover TAC-R2, Land Rover 110, Land Rover Lightweight, Land
Rover Ambulance, Renault Saviem, Dodge Weapons Carrier, Plymouth Sedan, DAF
T244 and GAZ 469.
Land Rover TAC-R2 with the museum's Hawker Hunter and Canberra
Recently-acquired Renault Saviem ambul- ance will be converted into a camper
Air cadets unveil their plaque
Ben Brown's Jeep with Welbike
Spot the dummy . . .
Plymouth Sedan with Dodge Weapons Carrier
Vintage Songbird May Blossom finds a stage in the back of an ambul- ance
Tony Patrick's Gaz 469 arrived towed behind a Jeep but he soon had the faulty fuel pump sorted
MVTSEM secretary Neill Elliott used the occasion to plug our Lancaster pilot talk on April 5
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Legal guardian · Foster care
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Contact (including visitation)
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Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor who has been made a ward is placed in the private home of a state certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent".
The state via the family court and child protection agency stand in loco parentis to the minor, making all legal decisions while the foster parent is responsible for the day to day care of said minor. The foster parent is remunerated by the state for their services.
Foster care is intended to be a short term situation until a permanent placement can be made:[1]
Children may enter foster care via voluntary or involuntary means. Voluntary placement may occur when a biological parent or lawful guardian is unable or unwilling to care for a child. Involuntary placement occurs when a child is removed from their biological parent or lawful guardian due to the risk or actual occurrence of physical or psychological harm.
The policies regarding foster care as well as the criteria to be met in order to become a foster parent vary according to legal juristiction.
In the United States, foster home licensing requirements vary from state to state but are generally overseen by each state's Department of Social Services or Human Services. In some states, counties have this responsibility. Each state's services are monitored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services through reviews such as Child and Family Services Reviews, Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility Reviews, Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System and Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System Assessment Reviews.[2]
Children found to be unable to function in a foster home may be placed in Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) or other such group homes. In theory, the focus of treatment in such facilities is to prepare the child for a return to a foster home, to an adoptive home, or to the birth parents when applicable. But two major reviews of the scholarly literature have questioned these facilities' effectiveness.[3]
A law passed by Congress in 1961 allowed AFDC (welfare) payments to pay for foster care which was previously made only to children in their own homes. This made aided funding foster care for states and localities, facilitating rapid growth. In some cases, the state of Texas paid mental treatment centers as much as $101,105 a year per child. Observers of the growth trend note that a county will only continue to receive funding while it keeps the child in its care. This may create a "perverse financial incentive" to place and retain children in foster care rather than leave them with their parents, and incentives are sometimes set up for maximum intervention. A National Coalition for Child Protection Reform issue paper states "children often are removed from their families `prematurely or unnecessarily' because federal aid formulas give states `a strong financial incentive' to do so rather than provide services to keep families together."[4]
A grand jury investigation in Santa Clara California found;
The Grand Jury heard from staff members of the DFCS and others outside the department that the department puts too much money into "back-end services," i.e., therapists and attorneys, and not enough money into "front-end" or basic services. The county does not receive as much in federal funds for "front-end" services, which could help solve the problems causing family inadequacies, as it receives for out-of-home placements or foster care services. In other words, the Agency benefits, financially, from placing children in foster homes.[5]
There are some children in foster care who are difficult to place in permanent homes through the normal adoption process. These children are often said to require "special-needs adoption." In this context, "special needs" can include situations where children have specific chronic medical problems, mental health issues, behavioral problems, and learning disabilities. Governments offer a variety of incentives and services to facilitate this class of adoptions.[6]
In 1997, President Bill Clinton signed a new foster care law, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA),[7]) which reduced the time children are allowed to remain in foster care before being available for adoption. The new law requires state child welfare agencies to identify cases where "aggravated circumstances" make permanent separation of child from the birth family the best option for the safety and well-being of the child. One of the main components of ASFA is the imposition of stricter time limits on reunification efforts. Proponents of ASFA claimed that before the law was passed, the lack of such legislation was the reason it was common for children to languish in care for years with no permanent living situation identified. They often were moved from placement to placement with no real plan for a permanent home.
Opponents of ASFA argued that the real reason children languished in foster care was that too many were taken needlessly from their parents in the first place. Since ASFA did not address this, opponents said, it would not accomplish its goals, and would only slow a decline in the foster care population that should have occurred anyway because of a decline in reported child abuse.[8]
Ten years after ASFA became law, the number of children in foster care on any given day is only about 7,000 fewer than when ASFA was passed[9]
The Foster Care Independence Act of 1999, helps foster youth who are aging out of care to achieve self-sufficiency. The U.S. government has also funded the Education and Training Voucher Program in recent years in order to help youth who age out of care to obtain college or vocational training at a free or reduced cost. Chafee and ETV money is administered by each state as they see fit.
The Fostering Connection to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 is the most recent piece of major federal legislation addressing the foster care system. This bill extended various benefits and funding for foster children between the age of 18 and 21 and for Indian children in tribal areas. The legislation also strengthens requirements for states in their treatment of siblings and introduces mechanisms to provide financial incentives for guardianship and adoption.[10][11]
In Canada child and family services are run by the specific province or territories social services or its equivalent. The child welfare system does vary slightly by province or territory, with the majority based on the Child and Family Services Act. All of the provinces and territories have a few things in common with each other when it comes to child welfare a few of these features include the best interests of the child must be considered when a child is found to be in need of protection, the parent's primary responsibility for child rearing is respected, the views of children are important to take into consideration when decisions are being made that affect their futures, and cultural heritage should be respected, especially for Aboriginal children.
In Canada every city or municipality has a child welfare agency that is responsible for investigating allegations of abuse, and or neglect, and then taking the appropriate actions to protect the child. Each province or territory in Canada is responsible for coming up with their own legislation around child welfare. The only exception to this rule is when it comes to Aboriginal children in which there is a federal responsibility under the Indian Act.
In Canada once a child has become a "Crown Ward", or permanent legal responsibility of the court, there is a possibility that the child can be adopted out. Many young people never get adopted though and they remain in foster care until they age out of the system at 18. In some cases it is possible for these young people to apply for an extension to their care agreement so they can stay in school or work. This extension often called Extended Care can last up until the young person is 25.
There are a couple of national programs in Canada in regards to youth in care and they are the Kid's Help Phone, which is a confidential helpline for children and youth. The helpline staff, which includes counselors, provides referrals and information to children and youth across Canada.
There is also the National Youth in Care Network which consists of youth ages 14-24 who are current or former youth in care. This group strives to open up the communication lines between young people and the adults that care for them.
Home-based care, which includes foster care, is provided to children who are in need of care and protection. Children and young people are provided with alternative accommodation while they are unable to live with their parents. As well as foster care, this can include placements with relatives or kin, and residential care. In most cases, children in home-based care are also on a care and protection order.[12]
In some cases children are placed in home-based care following a child protection substantiation and where they are found to be in need of a safer and more stable environment. In other situations parents may be incapable of providing adequate care for the child, or accommodation may be needed during times of family conflict or crisis.[12] In the significant number of cases substance abuse is a major contributing factor.
Respite care is a type of foster care that is used to provide short-term (and often regular) accommodation for children whose parents are ill or unable to care for them on a temporary basis.[12] It is also used to provide a break for the parent or primary carer to hopefully decrease the chances of the situation escalating to one which would lead to the removal of the child(ren).
As with the majority of child protection services, states and territories are responsible for funding home-based care. Non-government organizations are widely used, however, to provide these services.[12]
There is strong emphasis in current Australian policy and practice to keep children with their families wherever possible. In the event that children are placed in home-based care, every effort is made to reunite children with their families wherever possible.[12]
In the case of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in particular, but not exclusively, placing the child within the wider family or community is preferred[12] This is consistent with the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle.[13]
Individuals who were in foster care experience rates of depression twice as high (20%)as the general population (10%). In a study of adults who were in foster care in Oregon and Washington state, they were found to have a higher incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than combat veterans with 25% of those studied having PTSD. Children in foster care have a higher probability of having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and deficits in executive functioning, anxiety as well other developmental problems.[14][15][16][17]These children experience higher degrees of incarceration, poverty, homelessness, and suicide. Recent studies in the U.S., suggests that, foster care placements are more detrimental to children than remaining in a troubled home.[18][19][20]
Foster care has been shown in various studies, to have deleterious consequences on the physical health and mental wellbeing of those who were in foster care. Many children enter foster care at a very young age. The human brain doesn't fully develop until approximately the age of twenty, one of the most critical periods of brain development occurs in the first 3-4 years.
The processes that govern the development of personality traits, stress response and cognitive skills are formed during this period. The developing brain is directly influenced by negative environmental factors including lack of stimulation due to emotional neglect, poor nutrition, exposure to violence in the home environment and child abuse.
Negative environmental influences have a direct effect on all areas of neurodevelopment, neurogenesis (creation of new neurons), apoptosis (death and reabsorption of neurons), migration (of neurons to different regions of the brain), synaptogenesis (creation of synapses), synaptic sculpturing (determining the make-up of the synapse), arborization (the growth of dendritic connections , myelinzation (protective covering of neurons), an enlargement of the brain's ventricles and can cause cortical atrophy. Most of the processes involved in healthy neurodevelopment are predicated upon the establishment of close nurturing relationships and environmental stimulation. Foster children have elevated levels of cortisol, a stress hormone in comparison to children raised by their biological parents, elevated cortisol levels can comprimise the immune system. (Harden BJ, 2004).[21] Negative environmental influences during this critical period of brain development can have lifelong consequences.[22][23][24][25]
Epigenetics is the effect environmental factors have on gene expression. Negative environmental influences such as maternal deprivation[26]have been shown to have a profound effect on gene expression including transgenerational epigenetic effects in which physiological and behavioral (intellectual) transfer of information across generations not yet conceived is effected.[27]Many physiological and behavioral characteristics ascribed to Mendelian inheritance is due in fact to transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. The implications in terms of foster care and the cost to society as a whole is that the stress, deprivation and other negative environmetal factors many foster children are subjected has a detrimental effect not only their physical, emotional and cognitive well-being but the damage can transcend generations.[28][29]
It has been suggested in various studies that the deleterious epigentic effects may be somewhat ameliorated through pharmacological manipulations in adulthood via the administration of Trichostatin A (TSA); "TSA can be used to alter gene expression by interfering with the removal of acetyl groups from histones", L-methionine an amino acid and nerve growth factor-inducible protein A
Children in foster care have a higher incidence of Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).In one study (Dubner and Motta, 1999) 60% of children in foster care who had experienced sexual abuse had PTSD, and 42% of those who had been physically abused fulfilled the PTSD criteria. PTSD was also found in 18% of the children who were not abused. These children may have developed PTSD due to witnessing violence in the home.(Marsenich, 2002).[31]
In a study conducted in Oregon and Washington state, the rate of PTSD in adults who were in foster care for one year between the ages of 14-18 was found to be higher than that of combat veterans, with 25 percent of those in the study meeting the diagnostic criteria as compared to 12-13 percent of Iraq war veterans and 15 percent of Vietnam war veterans, and a rate of 4% in the general population. The recovery rate for foster home alumni was 28.2% as opposed to 47% in the general population.
"More than half the study participants reported clinical levels of mental illness, compared to less than a quarter of the general population".[32] [33]
Hyperphagic Short Stature syndrome (HSS) is a condition characterized by short stature due to insufficient growth hormone production , an excessive appetite (hyperphagia) and mild learning disabilities. While it is believed to have genetic component, HSS is triggered by being exposed to an environment of high psychosocial stress, it is not uncommon in children in foster homes or other stressful environments. HSS improves upon removal from the stressful environment.[34][35][36]
Food Maintenance Syndrome is characterized by a set of aberrant eating behaviors of children in foster care it is "a pattern of excessive eating and food acquisition and maintenance behaviors without concurrent obesity", it resembles "the behavioral correlates of Hyperphagic Short Stature". (Tarren-Sweeney M. 2006). It is hypothesised that this syndrome is triggered by the stress and maltreatment foster children are subjected to, it was prevalent amongst 25 percent of the study group.[37]
Bulimia Nervosa is seven times more prevalent among former foster children than in the general population. [38]
A study by Dante Cicchetti found that 80% of abused and maltreated infants in his study exhibited symptoms of disorganized attachment.[39][40] Children with histories of maltreatment, such as physical and psychological neglect, physical abuse, and sexual abuse, are at risk of developing psychiatric problems.[41][42][43][44] These children may be described as experiencing trauma as the result of abuse or neglect, inflicted by a primary caregiver, which disrupts the normal development of secure attachment. Such children are at risk of developing a disorganized attachment.[43][45][46] Disorganized attachment is associated with a number of developmental problems, including dissociative symptoms,[47] as well as depressive, anxiety, and acting-out symptoms.[48][49]
Children in foster care experience high rates of child abuse, emotional and physical neglect. In one study in the United Kingdom "foster children were 7-8 times and children in residential care 6 times more likely to be assessed by a pediatrician for abuse than a child in the general population".[50]
Nearly half of foster kids in the U.S. become homeless when they turn 18.[51][52]Most foster care children should be placed in adoptive homes. "One of every 10 foster children stays in foster care longer than seven years, and each year about 15,000 reach the age of majority and leave foster care without a permanent family—many to join the ranks of the homeless or to commit crimes and be imprisoned.[53][54]
Three out of ten of the United States homeless are former foster children.[55]According to the results of the Casey Family Study of foster Care Alumni up to 80 percent are doing poorly with a quarter to a third of former foster children at or below the poverty line, three times the national poverty rate.[56]Very frequently, people who are homeless had multiple placements as children: some were in foster care, but others were "unofficial" placements in the homes of family or friends. Individuals with a history foster care tend to become homeless at an earlier age than those who were not in foster care and Caucasians who become homeless are more likely to have a history of foster care than Hispanics or African Americans. The length of time a person remains homeless is prolonged in indiviuals who were in foster care.[57]
Children in foster care are at a geater risk of suicide,[58] the increased risk of suicide is still prevalent after leaving foster care. Those who spent time in foster care have a higher incidence of suicide than the general populatiion. In a study of Texas youths who aged out of the system 23 percent had a history of suicide attempts.[59]
Children in foster care have an overall higher mortality rate than children in the general population.[60]
Foster care has been proven in innumerable studies to not be conducive to academic performance. In a study conducted in Philadelphia by John Hopkins University it was found that; among high school students who are in foster care, have been abused and neglected, or receive out of home placement by the courts, the probability of dropping out of school is greater than 75%.[61]
Among the statistics compiled by the Northwest Alumni Study which was conducted in association with the Harvard Medical School, in regard to high school completion and post-secondary education among those formerly in foster care it was found:
Throughout the 1990s, experimental HIV drugs were tested on HIV-positive foster children at Incarnation Children's Center in Harlem. The agency has also been accused of racism, some comparing the trials to the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, as 98 percent of children in foster care in New York City belong to ethnic minorities.[62]
An estimated 150,000 British children were sent to overseas colonies and countries in the commonwealth such as Australia. This practice was in effect from the beginning of the nineteenth century until 1967. Many of these children were sent to orphanages, foster homes and religious institutions, where they were used as a free source of labor and many were severely abused and neglected. These children were classified as orphans although most were not. In the period after World War II the policy was dubbed the "Child Migrants Programme". The prime consideration was money as it was cheaper to care for children in commonwealth countries than it was in the United Kingdom. This program was carried out with the complicity of the Methodist Church, the Catholic Church snd the Salvation Army among others. At least 10,000 children some as young as 3 were shipped to Australia after the war,[63][64], most to join the ranks of the "Forgotten Australians", the term given for those who experience care in foster homes and institutions in the 20th century. Among these Forgotten Australians were members of the "Stolen Generation", the children of Australian Aborigines, forcibly removed from their homes and raised in white institutions. In 2009 Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd apologised to the approximately 500,000 "forgotten Australians" and in 2010 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown issued a similar apology to those who were victimised by the Child Migrants Programme.[65][66] [67]
The negative physical, psychological, cognitive and epigenetic effects of foster care have been established in innumerable studies in various countries. The Casey Family Programs Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study was a fairly extensive study into various aspects of the psychosocial effects of foster care noted that 80% of ex-foster children are doing "poorly".
The human brain however has been shown to have a fair degree of neuroplasticity.[68][69][70]Adult Neurogenesis, has been shown to be an ongoing process.[71]
"... all those experiences are of much significance which show how the judgment of the senses may be modified by experience and by training derived under various circumstances, and may be adapted to the new conditions..." - Hermann von Helmholtz, 1866
While having a background in foster homes especially in instances of sexual abuse can be the precipitating factor in a wide variety of psychological and cognitive deficits such as ADHD,[72]and PTSD[73][74] it may also serve to obfuscate the true cause of any underlying issues, there should be no automatic assumptions, it may have nothing to do with, or may be exacerbated by having a history of foster care and the attendant abuses.
Foster care is a term used to describe when a child is living and looked after by a family which is not their own. The child may be put into foster care because their own parents are not able to look after them. There may be several reasons why this may happen. The parents may be very ill or unable to control their own lives, perhaps because of alcoholism or drug addiction. They may be in prison or the children may be threatened with violence in their own home. They are put into foster care so that they are safe and can live a more normal life in someone else's home.
When a child is fostered there has to be an inconsequential legal agreement. The person who looks after them instead of their own parents is called a "foster parent". The child is made a "ward" of court, which means that power is given through the court of law to the foster parent to look after them. The foster parent(s) is in "loco parentis", meaning: "in the place of the parent". They can make decisions about the child because the real parent(s) are not able to do this.
The laws about fostering children are, of course, not the same in different countries around the world.
In most Western countries fostering can sometimes be a long-term arrangement, perhaps until the child has become an adult. However, in many cases the child may be able to return to their own family later if their family life has changed.
Foster parents are paid by the state to look after the children.
Adoption is different to Foster care. Adopt is to take into one's family (a child of other parents), especially by a formal legal act.[1]
Fosterage is not the same as Foster care. Some societies have arrangements whereby children are brought up in other families. This is a social matter, not a legal matter. This can be described as "fosterage".


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Stamford man gets 5 years for accidentally shooting friend
A 20-year-old Stamford man was sentenced to five years behind bars today for accidentally shooting and killing his friend when they wrestled with a gun.
Dozens came to the courthouse to show their support for Franklin Emilcar, who pleaded guilty to reckless manslaughter in the death of 16-year-old Danny Villeda. During the sentencing, Emilcar apologized to Villeda's family in the courtroom. Villeda's mother told News 12 Connecticut she forgives Emilcar, calling her son's death an accident.
Emilcar will be on probation for five years after he completes his sentence.
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Fundraising campaign set up to help family of west Belfast woman who died in Turkey reaches £8,000
AN online fundraising campaign set up to help the family of a mother-of-one who died while on holiday in Turkey has this morning reached £8,000.
Séaneen McCullough (37) from the New Barnsley area of west Belfast, died on Wednesday morning.
There were reports the nurse, who had been on holiday with her partner and young son, may have fallen from a balcony.
A police investigation into the circumstances of Ms McCullough's death was continuing last night.
The online campaign has been set up to raise funds to help her family "with travel costs, funeral costs etc".
Yesterday, the JustGiving page - which has a target of £2,000 - had raised just over £1,900.
Ms McCullough's friend, Colleen Catney, who is also from New Barnsley, set up the page following her friend's tragic death.,
She said close friends had initially wanted to donate however "friends and neighbours" then started texting asking about donating money, so she set up the page.
Ms Catney said the response so far had been "amazing".
"It's times like this the community come together," she said.
She described Ms McCullough as someone who was "bubbly all her life and had an infectious personalty".
"She just had the most amazing laugh. Everybody is just shocked and everybody is heartbroken. It is just so tragic".
Another friend, Mary Maxwell said the community was "shocked and stunned" by the tragedy.
"She will be unbelievably missed," she said.
"The world was a better place having Seaneen in it. I don't think she realised the impact she had on people.
"She idolised her wee boy. t's just a terrible situation."
Tribute was also paid by the Unison Mater Hospital Branch Committee.
"Séaneen was a nurse in Ward C in the Mater Hospital and a valued member of the staff team.
"On 11th July, Séaneen sadly passed away following a fall from a balcony while on holiday in Turkey with her son Eoin and partner Paul.
"Séaneen was a very out going and fun loving person and a great friend to many. Séaneen was a nurse in Ward C in the Mater Hospital and a valued member of the staff team".
Details of the fundraising campaign can be found at: justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ourbeautifulfriendseaneen.


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We are implementing the Forces4Change Charter to deliver personalised positive outcomes to the internal and local veterans communities. At the Launch on 20 April 2018 our Chief Executive, Sue Harriman, herself a veteran of 16 years in the Royal Navy, we affirmed our commitment to the Charter and to delivering real value to the veterans who work in the Trust and also to working with the wider local veterans community.
So, what are we doing to deliver such positive, personal value?
Internal Veterans Network: Under the Chair of David Noyes, also ex Royal Navy, and now Solent Chief Operating Officer, we have set up a Veterans Network. The inaugural meeting on 20 April was attended by 24 people, with many more expressing an interest in being involved. The IVN is planning to offer the following support.:
Community Network: We will be reaching out to the broader, local veteran's organisations and community to create a broader Community Network in support of the values and aims of the Trust. We are currently in contact with the Veterans Outreach Service, the Association of Drop-In Centres (ASDIC) and The Armed Forces and Veterans Breakfast Club and the Regular Forces Employment Association.
The broader community approach is also seeking to improve the engagement of veterans who would benefit from improved access to Solent services.
Continuous Professional Development: We have committed to pilot the training being developed by ExForcesNet in support of the veterans community. Under the Charter, there is a curriculum of training which is seeking CPD accreditation to provide people with additional and relevant skills to support them in delivering the aims of the Charter.
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Under development is also a package of training that will support service leavers in understanding why they are different to their civilian colleagues. This is a piece that has been missing in existing programmes and some level of awareness will support in reducing the impact of culture shock, and support in the management of expectations.
Employment, Placements and Volunteering: We are seeking, not only to support people in getting permanent roles across the business, but also to provide placements for service leavers who are not fully sure of what career path they would like to take. Placements will support an organisation in filling short term gaps of up to 20 weeks while a service leaver is in resettlement leave. The value that the service leaver gets is a toe-dip into a prospective second career, and also, a sound reference should they apply for a role. One of the biggest barriers to success is that they have little or no experience in a particular field.
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Carcar City is Gov's Cup South champion
Carcar City was crowned as the South Division champion in the Governor's Cup 18-Under Inter-cities and Municipalities Volleyball Tournament after defeating Argao, 25-21, 25-21, 24-26, 25-22, in the deciding Game 3 of the division finals on Sunday night at the Carcar City Sports Complex.
Carcar will next face the winner of the Northern Division Finals between Mandaue and Catmon, whose own best-of-three series is tied at one game apiece. The North Division Finals is slated Monday at the Mandaue City Cultural and Sports Complex.
The North and South champions will face off for the overall crown of this tournament.
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Meet The Crew: Reginald
Meet Reginald. He hasn't always lived on a spaceship. In fact, in the distant past, he was one of the most promising apprentices at the Butler's Academy of Excellence on Soren IV. Destined for a life of elegant uniforms and gentle chastisement, Reginald was about as far away from the life of a mercenary you could get without being dead.
Completing his training as a butler with distinction, Reginald graduated into the service of Lucas Colren, a young nobleman with a penchant for mischievous antics. The two quickly became friends, as the calm and level-headed butler proved an efficient deterrent to some of Lucas' more outrageous schemes, whilst aiding and abetting where he saw fit to humour his employer.
However, this life was not to last, as after several years of service, Soren IV was raided by a sizeable fleet of Marauders led by a certain 'King Blackheart'. Much of the planet was destroyed; its population slaughtered. Reginald, however, was spared for his skills as a butler and taken aboard the Marauder's flagship to serve their King.
Life aboard the Marauder vessel was a far cry from his ordered, tidy life on Soren IV – law and order was barely maintained, and whilst his position as a servant of Blackheart protected him from much of their depravity, he could never feel completely safe. Ambitious marauders would often try to use him as a way to get at his master, often threatening to kill him if the King wouldn't accede to their demands. King Blackheart never showed any interest in agreeing, and so it was up to Reginald to find his way out of those situations, his training as a butler putting him in a surprisingly good stead in navigating the Machiavellian politics of life as a space pirate.
Just as he was beginning to settle into this new life, and was starting to make 'friends' amongst the rampaging pirates, his world was thrown back into the proverbial blender when the Admiralty caught King Blackheart's conglomeration of ships with a fleet of their own. Whilst the Alliance was unable to completely destroy the Marauder fleet in battle, many of the disparate ships scattered and fled the battle on their own, returning to their own petty brigandage.
The flagship, though was surrounded by the Admiralty's ships, and stormed by their soldiers, with King Blackheart taken captive and executed for his myriad crimes. Reginald was found in the galley, unsure of his fate, by the crew of an auxiliary ship that had been attached to the Alliance fleet for this engagement. That crew, tired of eating tinned meat and beans, took Reginald back to their ship, and introduced him to its Captain…


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