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The Kent Autistic Trust is a very well respected charity providing support for adults with autism. We are an innovative charity providing day and living support and day activity services supporting 80 people over 15 sites across Kent and Medway. We have an excellent reputation with services accredited by the National Autistic Society Accreditation Service.
We are currently recruiting for:
Role: Chief Executive Officer
Head Office based in Brompton, Gillingham, Kent
Salary: £68,000
Reporting to: Board of Trustees
We are looking for a Chief Executive Officer who will have overall operational responsibility for all of the activities...
Working for a leading Legal Firm in Maidstone you will work closely with the Partners and Associates in the Private Client Team.
The main areas of responsibility are:
*To deal with the preparation of trust and estate accounts and trust and personal tax returns and associated tax compliance matters (approx. 200 Trusts, 120 tax accounts and 12 charities)
*To provide high level advice and assistance to the Private Client team on tax planning and compliance matters
*To manage and develop a part-time Tax and Trust Assistant
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Our Client, a leading insurance group have a new opportunity within their specialist Charities insurance team for an experienced Account Handler. Proven experience within Commercial insurance is essential to be successful for this role.
Individuals who have a working knowledge of Acturis would be desirable but is not essential as training can be provided.
Working in this office based role, the successful candidate will provide customer service to clients whilst continuing to maximise client retention, enhance the revenue stream from the existing client base and undertake an active role in generating new business.
My client, an established law firm are looking to recruit a Private Client Solicitor.
This is a very busy and varied role covering all aspects of private client. Experience and knowledge is required in the following fields:
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• Inheritance Tax Planning and Investments
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STEP would be preferable although not essential.
Successful applicants will have consistent and good private client knowledge, focusing particularly on wills, trusts, estates and tax issues...
£40,000 per annum plus competitive benefits package
Do you want to work for a unique, lifestyle brand that has plans to open 30 new stores over the next 3 years?
Are you a store manager that likes to be creative and demonstrate commercial flair?
Founded in 1985, this quirky, lifestyle brand sells a beautiful range of Women's & Men's fashion & accessories, as well as gifts for the home. Obsessed with detail, their customers love the intricate embroidery and the quality of the fabric they use. This brand has an irreverent sense of humour that is seen across their stores and in everything...
£30,000 per annum plus competitive benefits package
Do you want to work for a unique, lifestyle brand that has plans to open 30 new stores over the next 3 years?
Founded in 1985, this quirky, lifestyle brand sells a beautiful range of Women's & Men's fashion & accessories, as well as gifts for the home. Obsessed with detail, their customers love the intricate embroidery and the quality of the fabric they use. This brand has an irreverent sense of humour that is seen across their stores and in everything they do. A people focused business, they look after their teams...
We are working on behalf of a leading Charity to recruit an experienced Home Manager with a naturally caring nature for their 38 bed residential care home in Wateringbury, specialising in the provision of care and support to frail elderly people and people with parkinsons.
This position offers an opportunity to become part of a caring, fast-growing organisation. You will need a proven track record as a Home Manager, the ability to ensure the highest standards of specialist care needed for older people, motivating a team, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You will need to establish and maintain good communication...
A successful nationwide training provider is recruiting for an experienced Functional Skills Tutor for their centre in Basildon. This client is looking for a candidate that can deliver Functional Skills Maths, English and ICT up to level 2 to learners on apprenticeship programs.
The post holder will deliver and assess against a caseload of learners on Functional Skills courses in groups and one to one.
-Deliver Functional Skills up to level 2 (Maths, English, ICT)
-Prepare, deliver and review lesson plans for all group sessions
-Identifying individual needs of learners
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Zachary Daniels Retail Recruitment are exclusively recruiting for;
Operations Supervisor NIGHTS!! - Men`s & Women`s Fashion Retailer.
£27,000 basic + benefits.
Help create an unforgettable lifestyle experience for customers and your team with this distinctive, high-profile High Street Brand.Because, for the last six years, they`ve managed to make the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to Work for!
This well-established, high-profile fashion retailer has a solid reputation for its colourful - but not brash! - distinctive, authentic product range and for being different, making a difference and making the world a little happier,...
We are looking for an experienced Facilities/Estates Manager. This is a newly created role overseeing in excess of 30 Properties including registered care homes, supported living projects, offices and four charity shops. Our services are based currently in West Kent, East Sussex and the London Borough of Bexley, as well as leading a team of a Estates Manager, 5 maintenance workers and 2 estate workers. A part time administrative assistant provides back up support. As our Facilities Manager you will be responsible for all property and estates within the organisation which will be wholly owned property or managed property...


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Henrico-based "Choose.It" recently won second place in the Tech Challenge Hanover, a state-wide competition that invited startups to compete for a chance at a $10,000 first prize and tenancy at the Dominion Resources Innovation Center in Hanover County. The company offers customers the ability to request deals they want, as opposed to receiving non-targeted offers from "deal-of-the-day" websites. Choose.It will receive a $500 co-pay for Kauffman FastTrac classes provided thru InnoVA, as well as free, ongoing consulting services from William H. Daughtrey, Dominion Resources Innovation Center's entrepreneur-in-residence.
River Of Life Community Church in Henrico is launching a new day care service called "Tiny Steps at Lakeside" in January for preschool-aged children and their families. Rev. Fred Driscoll, assistant pastor of the church, is the day care's director. Tiny Steps at Lakeside, located at 7700 Woodman Rd., is accepting enrollment applications for children ages six weeks through four years. For details, call 266-6080 or visit http://www.tinystepslakeside.com .
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Thanks to a first-place win in The American Protege International Vocal Competition 2014, Glen Allen High School student Matija Tomas will travel to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall in December.
At the first-place winners recital in Weill Hall, Matija will perform Giacomo Puccini's opera aria, "Chi il bel sogna di doretta." She will perform with other vocalists from around the world and have the opportunity to win other awards and scholarships.
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The John Rolfe YMCA and Gayton Baptist Church have partnered in an effort to bring greater health and wellness opportunities to the community.
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The Urban Tavern opened in August, replacing the former Shackelford's space at 10498 Ridgefield Parkway in Short Pump. Because of local and longtime devotion to Shackleford's, Urban Tavern has some big shoes to fill.
Without any background information, I headed to the restaurant for dinner on a Wednesday night, two months after its opening.
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'Alexander' provides uncomplicated family fun
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Judith Viorst's 1972 picture book isn't exactly overflowing with movie-worthy material. Boy has bad day. Boy is informed that everyone has bad days sometimes. Then, the back cover.
In the film, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad-ness is blown up to more extreme size. Alexander Cooper (Ed Oxenbould) has a bum day every day, while the rest of his family (Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey) exist in a constant bubble of perfection and cheery optimism – to the point that the family is so wrapped up in their own success that Alexander's being ignored.
So on the eve of his 12th birthday, Alexander makes a wish: just once, he'd like his family to see things from his perspective; to experience the crushing disappointment of one of those no good, very bad days. Once he has blown out the candle on his pre-birthday ice cream sundae, his family's fate is sealed: one full day of crippling disasters for all of them. > Read more.
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Infants learn earlier than thought
Scans of young brains by UW researchers show infants are far more aware of their surroundings than they may appear to be.
The (Vancouver) Columbian
Until recently, humans could safely view their brains as fatty, spongy masses of electrifying wonder. Brains are, in a sense, a secret place no one else can tap into unless we let them; they are our memory banks and central control centers that dictate how we behave and reason and interact with others.
But in the past decade, neuroscientists across the world have started to peer into the young brain to determine exactly how we learn. Examining their findings, researchers say that learning starts at birth, and perhaps even earlier.
"It's too late to wait until the age of 5 and expect that teachers in schools are going to be able to catch them," University of Washington professor Patricia Kuhl said.
Kuhl is co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Science in Seattle (ILABS).
"Children who are behind stay behind."
Currently, researchers at ILABS secure babies with nylon caps with suction-cuplike electrodes that can read their neuronal activity. Next year, ILABS researchers will be the first in the world to use a $2.5 million machine to test the faint magnetic fields that emanate from a child's brain.
The money for the magnetoencephalography machine came from the state's Life Sciences Discovery Fund, which includes the tobacco-settlement bonus.
The nylon cap brain scans show that infants are far more aware of their surroundings than they may appear. Within days, little ones can recognize familiar faces and sounds. Soon after, they start mimicking vowels. And at 6 months of age, babies can distinguish between the sounds of all languages (the adult brain cannot).
The MEG machine will be able to identify precisely what part of the brain is stimulated when an infant interacts with her mother, for example, as opposed to a stranger.
Danielle Kassow, researcher at Thrive By Five Washington, a public-private venture that aims to increase early education across the state, says that improved brain research has confirmed older empirical research and pushed lawmakers to fund early-education programs.
In Washington, where kindergarten teachers say fewer than half of their students are ready on Day 1, that work began in 2006 with the launch of Thrive and the state's Department of Early Learning. In Clark County school districts, curriculum directors have started using brain studies to pick textbooks and help teachers hone instruction.
The role of parents
That children soak up their surroundings isn't groundbreaking. An oft-cited study from 1995 showed that there's a gap of 32 million words between children on welfare and children from affluent homes.
Children from impoverished families are more likely to hear directives, Kuhl said, in the form of "do this" and "do that."
In educated families, she said, "Conversations are more varied — what you dream about, what you can imagine, what other people think — more complex thoughts that provide the kinds of stimulation that kids' brains need."
Acquiring a rich vocabulary isn't like cramming for the Graduate Record Examination, however. Professor Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University writes in her 2007 book, "Proust and the Squid," that words inform concepts that enrich a child's understanding of the world. If those concepts are learned, she argues there is "less ability to infer and to predict."
Genetics lay out our neurological blueprint, but parents wire our brains, Kassow says.
Babies develop signals to get an adult's attention — they might cry, look at the adult, coo or reach out their arms. When the adult responds, the baby is soothed by the attention, as evidenced by the reduction in cortisol levels, known as the stress hormone. Researchers who study child attachment have argued this for years, and brain-scan research confirms their work.
Studying language
In 2008, ILABS studied how 9-month-olds process language spoken to them. One group was placed in front of a television where another language was being spoken. Another group spent time with an adult who spoke that language, and a third stayed in the native English-speaking environment.
The UW group found that children who learned from adults were on track to becoming native speakers. Brain scans of children who were supposed to be learning from the television showed no advancement. Those infants appeared transfixed by the television but hadn't learned a thing.
"Babies need people to learn a language," Kuhl said, which may help explain why autistic children are linguistically delayed. Autistic children are less interested in interacting with their parents, and therefore aren't getting the same language inputs as non-autistic children.
Read to your child
The bottom line, scientists say, is that no amount of teacher training, brain scans or curriculum research can trump the parent-child connection.
They say that parents should start reading to their child in utero. And when the child is born, keep reading aloud, as it introduces the baby to the cadence of written language.
"You can read an 8-month-old racing results, stock prices or Dostoyevsky," Wolf writes in "Proust and the Squid," "although an illustrated version would be even better."
Wolf says that connection between being read to and feeling loved is the best prescription for developing a vocabulary, learning concepts and, ultimately, learning how to read.
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McCain site cooks up a recipe for trouble
Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken...
Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad as you peruse the recipes on her husband's campaign Web site.
Or you could have until Tuesday, when that part of the site was taken down after bloggers revealed that several of the "McCain Family Recipes" were copied word for word from the Food Network.
Cindy McCain's tuna recipe was developed and submitted to the Food Network by cookbook author and former "Cooking Thin" host Kathleen Daelemans. The recipe for farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms was a "quick pasta classic" from the TV show "Everyday Italian." That old McCain standby — rosemary chicken — was a creation of TV chef Rachael Ray and was lifted, with few changes, from the same Food Network site.
All three were listed on a McCain Web page titled "Cindy's Recipes."
"Apparently a Web intern added Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds deadpanned Tuesday.
A blogger for the Huffington Post, freelance writer David Weiner, reported the plagiarism, mocking the incident as "Farfallegate? The Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?" He attributed the discovery to Lauren Handel, a New York lawyer who had been searching the Internet for recipes and found identical ones on the Food Network and McCain campaign sites.
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"Am I offended?" asked Daelemans, a Democrat. "Absolutely not. I'm flattered. I'd love to cook it for them personally."
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DS 6 would like a motorbike
Started by my4beautifulboys , Jan 18 2013 03:51 PM
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 03:51 PM
Hi, Ds will be turning 6 next month, he is really keen on motorbikes, we have recently been to a shop for something else and he's seen a small two wheeler (50cc)that he loves. We live on a rural property, so he would have plenty of space to ride around, perhaps too much space? I'd have to limit the areas he was allowed to ride. To me 6 seems very young to have a motorbike, so i'm still a little unsure? Does anyone else with a 6 y.o own a motorbike and is it ok for them?
Posted 18 January 2013 - 03:55 PM
My boys dont have one but my hubby was riding at 5 on his own in the bush!!!!
My eldest is 5 but has CP so he wont be riding a motorbike for a long time but my 4 soon to be 5 year old may get one when he is 6..
HUbby wants them both to start young
Posted 18 January 2013 - 03:58 PM
Gosh my DH wants to buy my girls a dirt bike - I think he's crazy. We're not even on property.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 03:59 PM
My son who is 7 in June got his first bike last week. I like peewee 50's as the parts are easy to replace and they last forever.My son has to wear his helmet, armour, gloves and goggles or he doesn't get on. Even thought he has a bleeding disorder I still had no hesitations in getting him his bike.Safety gear is a must!
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:05 PM
I think you are crazy for even entertaining the idea
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:08 PM
DS will get one as soon as he can (around 4/5) DH and I grew up on property's and riding and still go out with the DS on the quad with us. I think if you encourage boundaries and safety you will be right. You can also buy moto training wheels if you feel you want a bit more security until he gets use to it.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
Please don't. Kids that age have no impulse control and no understanding of consequences. It's a serious injury waiting to happen.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:09 PM
my boys are grown now, but had motocross bikes when they were 4 & 6 yrs. We did have a farm property at the time, but got them into local club days & bigger events as they got older. My DH had ridden motox when he was younger too. The safety gear is important to have - accidents do happen - & as they grow of course the gear/boots/helmets will need to be upgraded etc. Our kids have had loads of fun with their various bikes & at 22 & 25 yrs old now, they own their own bikes & race competitively in various spots here in NZ. Loads of good friends from the sport too.
its like any sport for our kids, if they are keen & you are able to support (financially & physically) them in their interests its all good.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:10 PM
I would consider it if I was sure I could provide suitable supervision.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:14 PM
yep, my 6yo does. He also has very mild CP.
He rides it really well, and isn't crazy at all. He loves being able to be like everyone else, where his disability goes unnoticed!
Our kids have every full protective gear though, not just a helmet! Not a cheap exercise when you have three that ride!
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:15 PM
My kids were on theirs at that age.
Ours has a speed limiting device. DS is 8 and we're still using it. He can't go too fast.
Speed limited, safety gear and a nice clear, open paddock, go for it!
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:20 PM
My best friends husband once said "teach them to stop first" which would have to be the best safety advice ever. And I mean it. I wish he had told me this before I told him my story, his son is learning motorcross in a controlled and authorised environment.
My son was about 7 when my DH put him on a Quad bike against my wishes, suffice to say we are lucky he is alive today without any paraplegia - it was on acreage and he wasn't able to control the brakes/accelerator and went straight into the trees - flipped the quad over and it landed on his little tiny body, I was so terrified I couldn't even scream and then to see the petrol running out all over him I thought my baby would be gone forever, burned alive, broken spine etc.
No, no, no.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:25 PM
I think it's too young - starting kids on motorbikes when they are so small just makes them seem like toys instead of real vehicles which travel at speed and can cause a hell of a lot of damage if something goes wrong.
I have to say though that I'm coming from the position of having learnt to ride at about 9 or 10 and thinking motorbikes were great until my cousin was killed at age 12, so I'm pretty anti-bikes for anyone, but particularly children who don't have enough maturity to understand the risks they are taking.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:28 PM
Does anyone else on the property ride?
I'd let him have one but would limit him to a small area unless someone else rides with him for the time being. Motorbikes are great fun for kids. One of my brothers has a bike for himself, one for his partner and one for each of the kids. They go out riding as often as they can. Have done since the youngest was 5 or 6.
If your boy is not prone to being utterly reckless then I have no problem with it.
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QUOTE (liveworkplay @ 18/01/2013, 05:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I think you are crazy for even entertaining the idea
And also, if a 6 year old gets a motorbike, then where else do you go from there in the present giving stakes? A BMW for his 12th birthday?? OMG, I would have been stoked with a pair of rollerskates at that age......
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:32 PM
My two boys both received a pee wee 50 for Christmas along with all the appropriate safety gear.
I don't have an issue with it.
I was ridin motorbikes at their age and my partner had his own from when he was 3.
Accident waiting to happen? Maybe but welcome to life. at least they are outside doing something.
Oh and we paid the extra and got them with training wheels to start off with and now they both ride without.
I would be more concerned about buying them 4 wheelers now they are dangerous.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:33 PM
My kids won't be having one until they are at least 11-12 if ever, if I can get my own way. DH has been at me to buy one since our first son was born but it won't be happening. They just don't understand of the risks etc.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:40 PM
QUOTE (librablonde @ 18/01/2013, 05:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And also, if a 6 year old gets a motorbike, then where else do you go from there in the present giving stakes? A BMW for his 12th birthday?? OMG, I would have been stoked with a pair of rollerskates at that age......
A 6 year old is not looking at the bike thinking wow mum spent 2k on me this Christmas wonder what I will get next year.
My just turned 5 year old today received $60 grabber truck thing, he was estatic as he had been asking for it for weeks.
Ds1 has asked for a garbage truck for his birthday not a BMW.
It may be differen when they get older but for now we are happy that we bought them. We know they can be dangerous, hence all the safety gear and proper supervision. They also have a speed limit control which is in place.
The odd thing is my sons both spent nearly a week when we were in holidays riding them with not many incidences. Ds1 then jumps off takes three steps falls over on the gravel and took a massive chunk of flesh out of his knee!
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:41 PM
I'd be happier with a motorbike than a quad.
Really, really don't like quad bikes.
As for motorbike, peewees - if that is your lifestyle, there is constant and vigilant training and supervision and if your boy is relatively mature enough to handle it and the responsibility - maybe.
Don't look for consensus, or what his dad did or anyone on here has done - trust your judgement - you know your lad best - can he handle it?
Can you handle it?
If there is any doubt - then don't do it
There is always next year.
For my boys - not a chance.
Not mature enough - they would be doing the crusty demon thing.
But they are soft, city boys
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:44 PM
My 2 oldest boys (from my first marriage) have been riding motorbikes since they could walk. I didn't want them to ride... but my husband is a motorbike rider and aparently I had no say what they did when they were in their Fathers care.
Now the Boys are 18 & 17 and still ride, both have motorbike licences to ride on the road as well as still racing Motorcross.
Injury wise, the oldest has had 3 broken wrists ( 2 at the same time!) and the younger one has had a broken collar bone, and he also fell from about 12 feet in the air jumping a tabletop jump and landed straight on his feet and snapped one leg clean in half
That involved setting the leg then 18 months later it had to be re-broken and pinned and screwed, not fun!
I have a younger son from my second marriage who is 6, and despite the older boys wanting to take him out on the pee-wee 50 for some "fun" I am digging my heels in. I couldn't do anything to stop the older ones racing/riding... but I sure can stop the little one doing it!
My vote is a No... But I have been told in the past I am a spoilt sport for being too sensible.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 04:45 PM
QUOTE (librablonde @ 18/01/2013, 05:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
And also, if a 6 year old gets a motorbike, then where else do you go from there in the present giving stakes? A BMW for his 12th birthday?? OMG, I would have been stoked with a pair of rollerskates at that age......
I was given a horse one christmas when I was young. I didn't expect something more expensive the following year. My brothers didn't expect it either when they got their motorbikes for christmas.
Honestly, I don't know where this idea comes from. Most kids are not Dudley Dursleys.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:01 PM
My DS turned 6 four weeks ago and got one for his birthday. Plus all the safety gear, inc pants, shirt, boots, knee guards, elbow pads, chest guard, helmet, googles, and gloves.
We looked at the Yamaha peewees but because he was 6 we found him too big for their frame so purchased a different brand, 50cc bike with bigger frame. It has gears but no clutch and a speed limiter on the throttle.
We got the training wheels which he managed to break after 6 days so he decided to just ditch them and has never looked back. He is starting lessons with a professional coach so he knows how to ride safely around other kids, corner, etc. He can't wait to do motocross races.
And my DH and i have spent hours and hours watching him go round and round and round and round and round. He is not allowed on it if we are not watching him. We follow him around on it or an adult on a bike follows him around.
I do think it depends on the child though. My son has been driving a little 12v car since he was 3 and he taught his little sister to drive it when she was about 1.5. He has since leared to drive a large amount of farm machinery, so a 50cc bike was nothing compared to what he had been driving.
Ps, my 3 turning 4 dd will most likely be getting the Yamaha pee wee for her birthday this year.
Edited by marley*and*me, 18 January 2013 - 06:42 PM.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:07 PM
My answer would be "when hell freezes over" but I am not a fan of a young child on 2 or 4 wheels propelled by a motor.
Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:09 PM
Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:11 PM
QUOTE (Jack's Mummy @ 18/01/2013, 02:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Accident waiting to happen? Maybe but welcome to life. at least they are outside doing something.
Welcome to life? Maybe.
In my family it was welcome to death. Obviously that is (thankfully) going to be rare and unlucky, but I wouldn't take the risk. Not with a 6 year old, no matter how much he wanted it.
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During the cavalcade of April Fool's spoofs here on /., one submission stuck in my mind as fascinating and enjoyable -- and a complete scam. It was about an alleged anti-gravity disc, made from a 12" superconducting ring that looked not unlike a brake pad. As luck would have it, I was reading the book Voodoo Science at the time and thought once the April Fools hoopla had died down that I'd do a review of it for Slashdot, so read on if you care to.Perhaps I should have posted the story, but in the end that sort of pseudo-scientific chicanery doesn't even deserve the attention that /. would bring it on April Fool's day.
The short review of Voodoo Science is that this is not a book that would make a good birthday gift for Alex Chiu or for that matter Deepak Chopra.
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While fun, this isn't a perfect book. It is organized a little strangely, with subheadings throwing off the flow of reading, and at a little over 200 pages it seems too short.Park's mission with this book was not to dissect the great scientific frauds of all time, but I thought he could have spent more time on the issues he did bring up and less on trying to understand the Alex Chius of the world. Mr. Park is probably just trying to be polite, but in my reading of Voodoo Science he comes off as being too soft on the very targets of the book.
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I'd recommend Voodoo Science as a good gift to a younger reader, as it describes foundations of science in an accessible way. As you've probably gathered, an appropriate name for this book might be "The Laws of Thermodynamics and those that thought it didn't apply to them." As such, the book serves as a decent introduction to critical thinking about the physical world around us.
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But when an evil white person with a history of mental instability shoots up a school, killing 20 children, most of whom were white, the media is suddenly concerned with gun control.
Perhaps that's because the media is racist. Or perhaps it's something else. If the media pays attention to the shootings in Chicago, it will have to talk about the fact that Chicago is heavily gun controlled. It will have to discuss the fact that guns are illegally flowing into areas of heavy gun violence. And it will have to talk about the impact of social ills like single motherhood, gang recruitment and poor public education.
Instead, the media focuses on Sandy Hook, Aurora and Columbine. Focusing on such statistically aberrant scenarios rather than the more widespread gun violence that plagues our cities allows the media to target one of its most hated groups: the National Rifle Association.
This is what the left does: they pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. They use individual cases as a baton to wield against groups they hate. The Trayvon Martin case was used as a club against the American Legislative Exchange Council for their support of "Stand Your Ground" laws -- even though George Zimmerman never claimed "Stand Your Ground." The war on women was used as a club against Komen for the Cure -- even though Komen cares for more women than Planned Parenthood ever will. The left uses specific cases to destroy important institutions. It makes their future battles far easier.
That's what they've done here. The left's attack on the NRA is ludicrous. Neither the Sandy Hook massacre perpetrator, Adam Lanza, nor his mother, Nancy Lanza, was a member. The state of Connecticut has long rejected the NRA's legislative influence. The NRA takes zero -- (SET ITAL) zero (END ITAL) -- tax dollars. Yet somehow, the NRA has been targeted as the root of all evil.
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The ultra-talented Parker believes the Cavs will pass on him for someone else, and he will end up a Milwaukee Buck, according to ESPN's Heather Cox.
.@JabariParker just told us he thinks he will be the #2 pick #nbadraft
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Go Pretzel goes beyond classic salted dough
Everybody loves a good, warm, fresh-baked soft pretzel.
The dilemma, though, is figuring out exactly when to eat it. If you're headed to a ballgame, sure, that's perfect. But what about during the workweek• Is it a heavy snack, or a light meal• Is it a lunch, or something to keep hunger at bay until dinner?
"It's all of the above," says Rob Day, who just opened Go Pretzel, Downtown. "We thought it would be a good, nice quick on-the-go lunch Downtown. Sometimes, you just want a quick snack -- pretzels are good for that. It's (for) people who are in between meals. It's (for) people who just don't have enough time to get a meal. It's (for) people who want to get a snack anytime of the day. It's (for) people on the go -- people getting on the bus. Maybe, they're hungry before the ride home."
Day also runs the Pittsburgh Popcorn Co. with his wife, Genalle, which conveniently has a location right across the street along Liberty Avenue. It's largely a takeout operation -- although you could stand there and eat your pretzel, if you want -- in a small space, formerly occupied by Dozen bakery. The Downtown space is too small for pretzel production, so they're made across the street at the Pittsburgh Popcorn Co.
"We thought Downtown Pittsburgh needed a place for a good soft-baked pretzel," Day says. "We've visited a lot of cities -- Philly, D.C., Chicago. Whenever we go there, we always look to see what they have that Pittsburgh is sort of lacking."
That just happened to be pretzels, at least, Downtown. The classic, no-frills Original ($2.69) is Go Pretzel's best-seller so far, a bit less salty than you'd get at the ballpark, but, otherwise, familiar. The Cinnamon Sugar ($2.79) also does well.
From there, the menu gets a little creative/weird.
"We kind of brainstormed about what would go good with pretzels," Day says. "There's a lot you can do with it. You can do some savory stuff. On the sweet side, we have Toasted Almond. We just made a Pumpkin. We have some savory stuff all the time: Jalapeno & Cheese, Pepperoni & Cheese.
"We did an Olive. At this point, we're experimenting with our menu, experimenting with our flavors. We did a Sour Cream & Onion for the first couple of weeks. We'll probably do a Garlic and Parsley before the week is over, and a Ranch..."
Most of the pretzels cost $2.79. For 79 cents, you can add a dipping sauce -- everything from hazelnut Nutella to Dutch Chocolate, Cheddar Cheese and Dijon Mustard.
Then, there's the Pretzel Dog ($2.99).
"I'm not sure where that idea came from," Day says. "I feel like Pittsburgh is a big hot-dog town. It's an all-beef Eisenberg frank, with a pretzel wrapped around it."Additional Information:
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As soon as I saw this bird fabric I knew I had to BUY IT ALL. How could I not? It matches my tattoos! So I bought it and then it languished. That is, until I got Hollywood Pattern 855 and I knew it was a match made in heaven. I did a LOT of modifications as I'm not even CLOSE to having a 30" bust or 33" hips. But it was worth it in the end. I get a lot of compliments whenever I wear this one out, even from people who do not wear vintage.
This is definitely some sort of polyester blend but since the print is so pretty, we'll forgive it for that, yes?
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Fraud and groom: Jail for part-time accounts clerk who stole £200,000 to fund lavish wedding (but was rumbled when the boss she invited along wondered how she managed to pay for it all)
- Kirsty Lane, 29, had an award-winning chef, free bar and personalised fireworks display at her lavish wedding to Graham Lane, 36
- But she is arrested within days after her boss becomes suspicious about how she paid for it
- Judge describes fraud as a 'cynical exploitation' of her company
- All the bridesmaids were given jewel encrusted iPods to take home
A bride who stole almost £200,000 from her boss to fund a lavish wedding was jailed for 20 months yesterday.
Kirsty Lane, 29, was caught out after she invited managing director Peter Sutton to the expensive event.
He became suspicious when his part-time accounts clerk laid on a harpist, personalised fireworks, food by an award-winning chef and a free bar for 100 guests at her nuptials in a mock-Tudor banqueting hall.
Fraud: Kirsty Lane stole up to £200,000 from her company to pay for her lavish wedding to Graham Lane, 36, and was today jailed for 20 months
A closer look at the accounts then revealed she had been ripping off his firm for more than two years.
Yesterday Lane, who was arrested before she had a chance to leave for her honeymoon in Mexico, was jailed after admitting ten counts of fraud.
Afterwards Mr Sutton told how her 'unbridled greed' had almost ruined his video conferencing business.
'I trusted her implicitly and this was how she repaid us,' he said. 'The wedding was the most lavish thing I've ever seen.'
Lavish: The Great Hall at Mains near Blackpool, Lancashire where the wedding was held - paid for with money stolen from the company
Preston Crown Court heard that as Kirsty Rimmer, the bride-to-be had worked for four years for Pure AV in Leyland, Lancashire, earning less than £15,000 a year.
All the directors were invited to her wedding to Graham Lane, 36, who she also kept in the dark about her crimes, in January last year.
The event at the Great Hall at Mains, near Blackpool, cost up to £40,000.
Guests were served canapés with Buck's fizz before a wedding breakfast provided by celebrity chef Paul Heathcote's firm.
Sealed with a kiss: The couple's lavish wedding took place at Mains venue in Little Singleton, near Blackpool
Indulgent: Kirsty Lane, pictured with husband Graham, planned her dream wedding at a Tudor-built hall and laid on a free bar for guests along with two bands and a fireworks display
The bridesmaids were given jewel-encrusted iPods to take home, while
they and Mrs Lane even had matching black Ugg boots to protect them from
the cold when photographs were taken outside.
The evening ended with a fireworks display featuring the couple's initials illuminated as the centrepiece.
Almost ruined: Lane's former boss Peter Sutton (pictured) said that her 'unbridled greed' had almost ruined his audio visual business
They left in a white limousine for a 'minimoon' in the Lake District before their honeymoon in Mexico.
But within days of the wedding Mr Sutton was alerted to a problem with an invoice.
On investigating, his suspicions aroused by the lavish wedding, he discovered that Lane, who has a daughter from a previous relationship, had been using real invoices to existing suppliers to create extra payments into her own account.
The hearing was told she made 122 payments to herself between December 2008 and January 2011.
Around £122,000 went into her own account, with £70,000 going into her future husband's account and a further £6,000 paid into a third account.
Kirsten McAteer, prosecuting, said: 'Once she started stealing money, she couldn't stop. She was afraid Mr Lane would leave her when he found out the truth.'
The court heard that Mr Lane, who met his wife in 2007, was acquitted of any wrongdoing at a trial in May. He believed the money was from savings, her salary and bonuses.
As well as the wedding, Lane spent the cash on other luxuries including a 52in TV, a Tag Heuer watch and a jewel-encrusted case for her iPad.
Jailing Lane, Judge Pamela Badley said her behaviour was 'fraudulent from the outset', adding: 'This was a cynical exploitation of the small company for which you worked.'
Two people lost their jobs as a result of the firm's 'cashflow' struggles following Lane's fraud.
Mr Sutton said that, due to added tax and VAT payments, she had cost the company, which employs 18 staff, a total of around £300,000.
He added: 'How it didn't sink us I don't know. It is only through the sheer determination of the rest of the team that we are still here.'
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Forbes names top African tech start-ups
BUSINESS| Feb. 11, 2012, 9:02 a.m.
South Africa and Kenya dominate this year's Forbes Africa list of top 20 tech start-up companies in Africa.
The list of best African tech start-ups is published in the February issue of Forbes Africa magazine.
They include:
1. MXit mobile instant messaging service – South Africa
2. Yola web building and hosting – South Africa
3. Dropifi tools for better messaging and analytics – Ghana
4. Cobi Interactive mobile software development – South Africa
5. Flocash money transfer – UK
6. Obami learning management system – South Africa
7. Bandeka social network – Ghana/Nigeria
8. Jobberman job placement site – Nigeria
9. Motribe mobile platform – South Africa
10. Pesapal payment platform – Kenya
11. Synaq open source messaging and security – South Africa
12. Rupu group discount site – Kenya
13. Bongolive mobile and SMS – Tanzania
14. Skyrove WiFi hotspots – South Africa
15. Njorku recruitment platform – Cameroon
16. Ushahidi software - Kenya
17. SMSGH bulk SMS solutions - Ghana
18. Hummba social and travel site – South Africa
19. 10Layer news CMS – South Africa
20. Sembuse mobile social network – Kenya
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Team up with Pinnocchio from his humble beginnings as a wooden dummy in Casey's imagination, through PleasureFaire where he's magically turned into a jackass, and into the guts of Hugestro the shark. If he saves his allowance, you'll even see the Blue Wizard turn him into an authentic dummy!
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Juicy Journals with Andrea Chebeleu
Presented by A Work of Heart Studio at A Work of Heart Studio
October 11, 2009
Big tables, tons of art supplies... what could be more fun? You will learn some amazing techniques to turn flat blank journals into juicy journals for your words, poetry, collage, photos, lists, mantras, ideas, songs, prayers, intentions, stories, notes and dreams. When all the techniques are covered it will be time to turn on the music and let you run wild with your journals. Bring a journal of your choosing. (If you need a journal, one can be provided for an additional fee of $14.)
Andrea Chebeleu is the creative director and owner of A Work of Heart. She started the business in 1998 in response to requests for help making scrapbooks. Andrea travels in and around the Bay Area to offer workshops and classes on handmade books, art journals, scrapbooking, mixed-media collage and soldering. Combining her love of found objects and lettering, Andrea offers wildly exciting workshops on handmade journals, textile arts and jewelry making that are layered with rich textures of stained papers, painted sewn fabric, ink drawings and free style lettering. Her studio has been featured in local magazines and creative arts fairs. Andrea is a wife and mother of three wonderfully creative children.
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30th birthday gift. The back is a kid's sheet with rivers and rocks.
Also free motion quilted.
Cotton and sheets
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