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Published: June 20, 2004
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For most parents, the attractions of a program like Baby College are obvious: useful information, the relief of spending Saturday morning getting to know other mothers instead of being stuck in a cramped apartment and free child care during class time. But if those aren't enough of a pull, there are raffles at the end of each class for $50 Old Navy gift certificates and a big drawing at the end of the course in which one parent wins a month's rent.
This combination of door-knocking, cajoling and offering incentives seems to work, and each nine-week session of Baby College draws a class of more than 100 parents, all of whom receive weekly follow-up visits at home. More than 95 percent of the parents -- 677 so far -- have successfully completed the course. The real test of this approach, Canada said when we spoke in February, will come when the Promise Academy opens its doors. By law, the charter school will be open to students from anywhere in the city's five boroughs, which means a lottery to choose the incoming classes from a broader pool of applicants. But the only students Canada really wants in his school are the ones from central Harlem, and especially the lowest-performing ones, exactly those whose parents, he said, are least inclined to apply to send their children to a special school.
''I will make sure that every single poor-performing school and parent in Harlem knows about this program,'' Canada said back in February. ''And if we don't get more 1's and 2's than 3's, then we haven't done our job properly.'' What that will require, Canada said, is persistent recruiting. ''We're going to have to go and force some of these parents to come and fill out the application,'' he said. Even once he finds the 1's and 2's, he added, ''their parents may say no, which means we have to go back and figure out a way to bribe them and get them to say yes. And I hate to put it like that, but that's what we'll end up doing. We'll end up saying, 'If you get your kid to apply, you'll get free movie passes.'''
The point of all of this intensive recruiting is to amass evidence -- indisputable data that show exactly what it will take to level the playing field and get poor children performing on the same level as the city's middle-class children. ''If we just end up saving a bunch of kids in Harlem, that will be good for them, but it won't mean an awful lot to me in the long run,'' Canada said. ''We want to be able to say that thousands of poor children can learn at high levels and perform at rates that are the same as middle-class children if they are given the opportunity to do so. But I want to be clear when I say we've got an answer that we really have an answer.''
The answer that Canada wants to provide is in fact very much in demand. There are plenty of examples of programs that didn't work: in 2000, for example, the Heinz Endowments abandoned as a failure a $59 million, five-year program to provide early-childhood care and education for 7,600 low-income children in and around Pittsburgh. The program's costs soared, and four years in, when Heinz pulled the plug, only 680 children were being served. What is most startling about the current study of poverty is how little conclusive evidence there is about which cures do work. There are no more than a dozen studies in the field that track how successful various interventions are over the long term, and the evidence from those studies tends to be spotty and subject to debate.
To William Julius Wilson, the Harvard sociologist who is one of the country's leading thinkers on urban poverty, this is precisely the significance of the Harlem Children's Zone. ''It is very, very important for policy makers to be able to cite examples of how you can improve the life chances of disadvantaged kids,'' he said. ''There are so many people who feel that whatever you do, it's not going to work. They want to say, 'Well, there's just a culture of poverty out there, and you can't really change it.''' If Canada's project is successful, though, Wilson said, it will ''provide the ammunition to policy makers who want to do something to address the problems of poverty.'' It will allow them to say: ''Here are kids who would ordinarily end up as permanent economic proletarians, and here is a program that has been able to overcome the cumulative disadvantages of chronic subordination. So why not commit ourselves across the nation to try to duplicate what he's done?''
Canada has a vivid picture in his mind of a judgment day to come -- 8, 10, 12 years down the road. Children who are now entering the system as infants will be taking their third-grade citywide math and reading tests, and they'll be scoring at or above grade level. Children who entered the system as Harlem Gems will be graduating from high school -- he expects that 90 percent of his students will graduate on time. It is only at that point, he explained, that he will be able to say to the rest of the country: ''This isn't an abstract conversation anymore. If you want poor children to do as well as middle-class children'' -- not necessarily to be superachievers but to become what he calls ''typical Americans,'' able to compete for jobs -- ''we now know how to do it.'' If he's right, the services he will provide will cost about $1,400 a year per student, on top of existing public-school funds. The country will finally know, he said, what the real price tag is for poor children to succeed.


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The Case for a Summer Slowdown
If you Google, "Summer break with children," you get two types of search results — a variety of activity lists or articles about the evils of summer's off. Turns out they call it "summer fade," which is a one month backslide in learning coupled with an increase in Body Mass Index (BMI) for kids.
Many parents counter these issues with a rigorous schedule of summer camps, sport practice and tutoring. While watching television all day with a box of pop tarts is obviously not good, there are some other options beyond a highly structured and scheduled summer.
When planning, or not planning your child's summer, consider the scientifically proven benefits of boredom, free play and time in nature. These research studies about children and learning support the idea of a summer slowdown.
In a recent BBC news article, Children should be allowed to get bored, Dr Teresa Belton said, "Cultural expectations that children should be constantly active could hamper the development of their imagination."
Now couple that reality with studies connecting time in nature with increased learning and emotional capabilities. The positive results of being outdoors for children are vast as seen in this PDF of a decade of Scientific Studies on this topic. Some highlights include:
- "When children engage in authentic play in nature-based outdoor spaces, they develop skills in a variety of domains simultaneously." – Miller, D.L., Tichota, K,.White, J. (2009).
- "Sullivan has revealed that the symptoms of children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are relieved after contact with nature. The greener the setting, the more the relief." – Taylor, A., Kuo, F. & Sullivan, W. (2001).
- "Children who regularly have positive personal experiences with the natural world show more advanced motor fitness, including coordination, balance and agility." – Fjortoft, Ingunn (2001).
In addition to the learning benefits to boredom and time in nature, there is also the issue of free play. This article from Parenting Science explores over a decade of studies about the benefits of unstructured play time. The author is careful to note that free play does not mean physcial education classes or sports. Free play is just that. Unstructured play time, which is proven to help math skills, language development, and creative problem solving.
- "Play and exploration trigger the secretion of BDNF, a substance essential for the growth of brain cells."
- "Psychologist Edward Fisher analyzed 46 published studies of the cognitive benefits of play (Fisher 1999). He found that "sociodramatic play"—what happens when kids pretend together—'results in improved performances in both cognitive-linguistic and social affective domains.'"
And finally, before you schedule a summer of busy stimulation, consider this article and advice from Simplicity Parenting writer Kim John Payne. He says:
"[When Google is hiring they say] 'we're less concerned about grades and transcripts and more interested in how you think.'"
If we rewind to a childhood that makes an adult like that, what do we see? Is it racing around from one prep course to another? From soccer to piano to Mandarin? A childhood on the clock and filling up the gaps with zoning on the iPad and obsessing about making more friends on Facebook?
I don't think so.
When we really look at what happens for a kid when they slow down, tune in to themselves, take space and get busy in serious play, we can see that what they are learning is how to be create a kind of inner structure that will serve them (and us) well in the world ahead. … Play provides a deep and wide-reaching domain for kids to experiment with the real work of the real world."
Head, Heart & Hands in Waldorf Education
What does it mean when we say, in Waldorf, that children learn through their "head, heart and hands?" It references multidisciplinary teaching and the balance built into Waldorf education curriculum. Why do we focus on a balanced education?
Our world thrives on balance — ecosystems, economies, and governments all perform most optimally when things are allowed to ebb and flow yet stay ultimately centered, not through force but through compromise. This balance is key to stable growth and transformation.
Education is transformation of a generation and an individual. The task at hand is to guide young people as they grow and change, so that they may contribute meaningfully to a growing and changing world. This is no small task. When you consider the vital role that education plays within society and within the individual, then you can understand why balance in education is so essential. In order for the world to thrive, it needs to be filled with balanced individuals.
Waldorf education's founder, Rudolph Steiner, a philosopher in the early 20th century, understood balanced education to mean the integration of the arts across the curriculum, the inclusion of movement and nature in everyday learning, and a focus on more subjects than just "the three Rs."
Here in the 21st century, the comprehensive approach of Waldorf education has been supported by modern science. One might notice how Waldorf schools focus on fostering each of the multiple intelligences Howard Gardner identifies in his book Frames of Mind. Gardner, a developmental psychologist and professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, addresses the need to teach children thoroughly in each of these intelligences: verbal / linguistic, logical / mathematical, body / kinesthetic, visual / spatial, musical / rhythmic, interpersonal / intrapersonal. and naturalistic.
He, like Ken Robinson in this popular TED talk on education, argues against judging children's intelligence on only one or two of these areas — a philosophy embodied in this Einstein quote: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
Children who enter adulthood understanding their strengths, having been shown them through a balanced education, can contribute to the world in a fulfilling and meaningful way.
How do we realize balance within Waldorf education? Here are some examples:
Verbal / Linguistic – Teachers tell story, myth, and history by reciting poems, singing songs, and playing games. The complex vocabulary and imagery found in these oral activities bring verbal language to life and give depth to a child's understanding of and desire to engage with written material. Children also make their own textbooks as an alternative to Chalk and talk note taking. And students begin to learn foreign languages beginning in first grade, when their brains are most primed to absorb this information.
Logical / Mathematical – Waldorf students learn math in many ways — intervals through music, geometry and measurement through woodworking and drawing, and math facts through holding and counting items. Logic is ever-present in the immediate apprehension of cause and effect inherent in science, music, and nature.
Body / Kinesthetic – Developing this intelligence goes beyond gym class for Waldorf students, who constantly learn through movement. Examples include time outside for recess, nature walks, gardening, the study of movement in eurhythmy and dance, and in-class movement through acting out stories, tapping sticks to math, or throwing balls while reciting multiplication tables.
Visual / Spatial – Whether it is creating a diorama of an animal, knitting and other handwork, sculpting with beeswax or clay, or taking a year to turn a log into a chair, Waldorf students learn much in the visual and spatial realm in their woodwork, handwork, gardening, and main lesson classrooms.
Musical / Rhythmic – Music is part of each day and each subject in Waldorf school. Song and rhythm are integral parts of the young child's classroom. Layered onto this ever-present choral influence are musical instruments: flutes and recorders are introduced in younger grades, violins and other strings for students in the middle grades, and finally instruments of a child's choice in the upper grades.
Interpersonal / Intrapersonal – Social skills are not left to chance in Waldorf education. Teachers spend much of their time in the early years helping children develop their interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. One of the most important contributors to cultivating these two intelligences is the structure of the main lesson classroom, where students remain with the same teacher throughout all eight grades. Learning to work together as a whole is not optional, but essential and teachers focus on developing a harmonious and balanced classroom through providing time and structure for social interactions as well as time for reflection.
Naturalistic – Unlike many of their public school peers, Waldorf students still get recess, so they are out in nature, many times a day and in all seasons. They are also taught many academic lessons outdoors, such as botany and geology through nature walks and gardening. Older children often have main lesson class time outdoors, and gym class is held outside when weather permits.
Though developed by Steiner nearly a century ago, current research demonstrates Waldorf education's ability to educate children intellectually, creativity and socially, prepares them to make meaningful contributions to our ever-changing world throughout the course of their lives.
Waldorf and Music Training
Facebook has been abuzz lately with articles about the benefits of musical training on the brains and learning abilities of our children. The influence of music training on learning has long been cultivated in Waldorf Education, where musical instrument training begins in Grade 1 with pentatonic flutes and moves to stringed instruments by Grade 4. Students also receive choral training, study music reading and notation, and learn Solfege.
This latest round of internet excitement comes from a new study released by researchers at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. They found that children between age 6 and 18 had both physiological and behavioral benefits from musical instrument training.
According to this Washington Post article, Music Lessons Spur Emotional and Behavioral Growth in Children, James Hudziak, Director of the Vermont Center for Children, Youth and Families, says, "What we found was the more a child trained on an instrument [the more it] accelerated cortical organization in attention skill, anxiety management and emotional control." When children played and practiced playing an instrument, it thickened an area of the brain related to "executive functioning, including working memory, attention control, as well as organisation and planning for the future."
This new study is also layered on top of three additional studies published late in 2013 by The Society for Neuroscience. According to the press release, those finding show that "[l]ong-term high level musical training has a broader impact than previously thought. Researchers found that musicians have an enhanced ability to integrate sensory information from hearing, touch, and sight" (Julie Roy, abstract 550.13).
The age at which musical training begins affects brain anatomy as an adult; beginning training before the age of seven has the greatest impact (Yunxin Wang, abstract 765.07).
Brain circuits involved in musical improvisation are shaped by systematic training, leading to less reliance on working memory and more extensive connectivity within the rain (Ana Pinho, MS, abstract 122.13).
Music Training at SGWS
Here at Spring Garden Waldorf School, musical training is seen as a layering of abilities. What is taught in the early grades is built upon each year, as more and more is expected musically from the students. Children are given regular opportunities to perform their music, at monthly Assemblies and also at Concerts and Festivals.
Grades 1 & 2:
In the early years, music is an expression and embodiment of imagination. In Grades One and Two, children learn music from the pentatonic scale both in song and on their flutes or recorders.
Grade 3:
In Grade Three, during the nine-year change, children are ready to begin learning the language of music. A diatonic scale is introduced with a new recorder, notes are named by letter, and children learn basic music notation such as the scale and clef. Third graders also begin Solfege – a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing.
Grade 4:
Grade Four brings fraction studies, and fractions bring quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes, which then leads to teaching rhythms, rounds, and some simple harmony. Now that the language of music has been introduced, children begin to play musical instruments, starting with the violin.
Grade 5:
Students in Grade Five are ready for three parts in choral music. Accidentals are also introduced in this grade, and new keys are taught beyond the key of C. Students also continue to master the violin with regular training and performance.
Grade 6:
In Grade Six, children can choose to expand their instrumental repertoire by selecting a different stringed instrument to master beyond the violin. They also learn and master written music from the Medieval period, aligning music with the Main Lesson curriculum. Acoustics are also studied this year.
Grade 7 & 8:
Middle School layers skills and practice upon all that has been learned before. Ensemble choirs read music and sing in harmony and rhythm. Sight singing also begins and Solfege study continues, and Orchestra is part of every student's curriculum. Students can also begin training on woodwind instruments in the upper grades, if they so choose, or they can continue to master their stringed instrument choices.
Sleep Well; Learn Well
Waldorf educators teach in a three day rhythm: presenting information or an experience the first day; discussion, review, and recall the second day; and doing something physical with the information the third day, such as expressing the information through writing or art. What is the commonality in this three day approach? The importance of sleep.
Why poor sleep leads to poor academic performance
We all know sleep is important, especially for our children's emotional well-being, but what about their academic well-being? Research shows that good sleep is essential to learning, especially influencing specific types of memory, high level cognitive functioning, and achievement motivation.
Children need, according to SleepFoundation.org:
- 12-14 hours for children between 1 and 3.
- 11-13 hours for children between 3 and 5.
- 10-11 hours for children between 5 and 12.
- 8.5 -10 hours for teens.
The Research
Numerous studies on sleep and academics have found that sleep deprivation and low sleep quality leads to lagging achievement. Two such studies were summarized in this SleepFoundation.org news article, Improve Your Child's School Performance with a Good Night's Sleep. In one quoted study, researchers found that children who had difficulty falling asleep and woke up at least once a night were significantly more likely to have school achievement difficulties. A different study of high school students noted that those with higher grades slept around 30 minutes longer per night, went to bed earlier, and had less variation in their weekend schedules.
In a study of Dutch school children between the ages of nine and fourteen, Time in bed, quality of sleep and school functioning of children (Journal of Sleep Research 9:I2, p145), researchers found that children with better sleep quality (those who felt rested and had regular bedtimes) performed better in school, and perhaps most interestingly, were more open to the teacher's influence and more motivated to do well.
This University of Pittsburgh study, The impact of inadequate sleep on children's daytime cognitive function, published in Seminar of Pediatric Neurology (March 1996, Volume 1, p.44) found that inadequate sleep in school children resulted in difficulty focusing, irritability, emotional instability, and a lower threshold for frustration.
The Reason
Two Harvard Education articles review Harvard research to best answer the question, "Why does sleep affect learning?" They each point to the affect poor sleep has on both memory and higher level cognitive functioning.
In this article, Sleep, Learning and Memory, from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, researchers declare that, "the general consensus is that consolidated sleep throughout a whole night is optimal for learning and memory." More specifically, they look at a function called memory consolidation, which takes place during sleep, which seems to help students to process what they learned the previous day. The current hypothesis is "that slow-wave sleep (SWS), which is deep, restorative sleep, also plays a significant role in declarative memory by processing and consolidating newly acquired information."
This is particularly interesting to Waldorf Educators, who adhere to a main lesson block learning style that taps into a rhythm of learning a topic, stepping away from it, and returning to it a day later – a concept Rudolph Steiner believed allowed children to absorb and process the information more thoroughly.
Good sleep is essential not only for memory but also for higher cognition. In this article from the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard, Sleep, Performance, and Public Safety, researchers also found that sleep deprivation led to a decline in the subjects' ability to access higher-level cognitive functions. "After a period of sleep deprivation, there are noticeable changes in brain activity, as measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG)."
Researchers found, in particular, that the prefrontal cortex, responsible for many higher-level thinking was particularly vulnerable to a lack of sleep. "As a result, people who are sleep deprived will begin to show deficits in many tasks that require logical reasoning or complex thought. … In addition to the feeling of sleepiness and changes in brain activity that accompany a night without sleep, other measures of performance are noticeably altered. Concentration, working memory, mathematical capacity, and logical reasoning are all aspects of cognitive function compromised by sleep deprivation."
What to do?
First and foremost, consider eliminating screen time before bed. Waldorf parents limit screen time more so than most, but it is important to remember that screen time around bedtime is potentially the most detrimental.
As recently reported on in Businessweek's article, Kids Who Sleep Near Their Smartphones Get Less Shuteye, a study published in Journal of Pediatrics, joins many others in reporting that televisions, phones and tablets in children's rooms and beds negatively impact sleep.
Next to consider is consistent bedtimes. Organizations like the SleepFoundation.org are going so far as to label it "Sleep Hygiene," recognizing that the habituation of a sleep routine is as important in maintaining children's physical health as bathing or brushing their teeth. As the studies above have noted, children who go to bed at an earlier time and consistently (weekdays and weekends), get more sleep, wake feeling rested and do better in school.
And finally, consider educating older children about the importance of sleep. With third party evidence and scientific research supporting your family's bedtime "hygiene," a teenager may be more willing to comply and adopt healthy sleep habits once outside the home.
Get a good night's rest for better learning tomorrow!
Waldorf Perspective on Child Development
On November 19th, Spring Garden's current Grade Six teacher, Michael Gannon, hosted a lecture titled Child Development 101. During this Coffee and Conversation, he explored the Waldorf perspective on child development through the different classes and ages.
According to Gannon, "Waldorf education strives to see the child for where they are, right now, understand how they are developing, and then work to support that in the classroom."
Gannon began by explaining Rudolph Steiner's understanding of child development, which was very forward thinking at his time. A contemporary of Freud and Piaget, Steiner's training as a philosopher inspired him to look beyond brain development and into the corresponding realms of the social, physical, and spiritual development.
He felt a child's development was an Epigenesis — a cognitive, social, spiritual, and physical process through distinct stages— leading to a differentiated state of adulthood based on how these elements were influenced. And, of course, one of the primary influences is education.
Steiner divided child development into three distinct stages and labeled them based on the primary force driving a child's experience in the world. Ages 0-7 are defined by Will, ages 7-14 by Feeling, and ages 14-21 by Thinking. Through each phase, the child works to understand and eventually utilize these forces.
0-7: Will
Every action of an infant is done from their own will — a will that strives to survive, to crawl, to walk — all with little to no encouragement from the outside world. This intense desire to do their will continues far beyond infancy. According to Gannon, before the age seven, the child works from instinct converted into impulse and desire, which can then be harnessed into learning and behavior.
That is why, ideally, children during this stage spend as much time as possible learning to master the use of their bodies. It is best for them to do this on a schedule, using their will in a constructive way, as opposed to being told to subdue their will for a specific task. Imitation of the behaviors they see is a natural process for children of this age, and providing healthy models for that imitation, without intellectual explanation, allows the will to develop more fully.
This is also why the day moves between work and play in Waldorf early childhood classes. The work, a channeling of the young child's will, happens through imitation of meaningful tasks versus an authoritative coercion to understand concepts. At this stage, children will develop their physical, cognitive, and social skills from unstructured play as their will and desire runs up against the forces of the outside world.
7-14: Feeling
After age seven, a child's world expands beyond the self, and with this expansion, they develop a great subtlety of feeling. Gannon explains that children's feelings dominate their world in this stage as they move between joy and sadness and learn to manage these different emotions within the greater, more expansive world now open to them.
The healthy feeling life of the child is supported by providing a context of beauty for all things, from simple movements to complex ideas. By appealing to their natural imaginative capacities, children can be encouraged to use these active feelings to connect to learning as a process.
It is at this time that children are ready for academic instruction, as long as it continues to appeal to social and physical realms and, even more so, the realm of feeling. This is why Waldorf grade school lessons are taught through engaging stories of trial and triumph. Children who sympathize and relate to a story in these years are moved to carry the information and process it in a deep and meaningful way that persists as they grow into a more conceptual and thinking way of being.
14-21: Thinking
By the time they reach high school, children are ready to work with their thoughts and beliefs. They are ready to think critically and evaluate the world around them. Where they first learned to manage their will and then work with their feelings, they now learn to work with their thoughts.
According to Gannon, children at this stage become immersed in the world of ideas and have the capacity to think abstractly and critically, seeing both sides of a story, which can then be broken down and criticized. Steiner believed that, along with their search for knowledge, children at this age also search for truth as they work to make their lives their own. He believed that teaching through a sense of idealism and justice was essential for the health of the young adult, who, if not given role models of hope, would succumb to cynicism.
This is why older children in Waldorf Education are often engaged in service to their community and encouraged to contribute their gifts to the world in a meaningful way.
It is with this understanding of child development that Waldorf educators work to support and teach children. Incorporating and addressing these stages of development, every day and within every subject, allows Waldorf schools to educate the whole child by teaching
the right subject matter at the right time, in the right way.
Waldorf Education Subjects & Multiple Intelligences
Ever known a math whiz who can't jump rope? Or maybe you know the world's most competent linguist who is tone deaf or cannot balance his checkbook. Our daily experiences demonstrate that "smart" is not defined by a single measure. Howard Gardner, American developmental psychologist and Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, developed the theory of multiple intelligences that has revolutionized the way educators think about learning.
The idea of one "general" intelligence ruling someone's abilities has become an outdated notion since Gardner published his theory of multiple intelligences in 1983. Waldorf educators, following the impulses of Austrian scientist and philosopher Rudolph Steiner, have been focusing on the education of the whole child since the late 19th century.
Recently, Jeff Tunkey at http://www.movementforchildhood.com/ created this comprehensive chart about how Waldorf schools' subject classes help develop multiple intelligences in our children.
We at Spring Garden Waldorf School have created a detailed blog series discussing how each of Gardner's eight intelligences is fostered in the Waldorf classroom. Read more on how each of these intelligences are developed at Spring Garden Waldorf by clicking the links below:


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Adelaide defender Daniel Talia wins AFL Rising Star award
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- September 05, 2012
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ADELAIDE'S Daniel Talia, who was today named the 2012 Rising Star, sees his win as a victory for defenders - and former Collingwood player Simon Prestigiacomo.
The 20 year-old won the prestigious award, which also carries the Ron Evans Medal and a $20,000 investment portfolio, after been voted the best young player by a panel of nine judges.
From the vault: Hardboiled picks Talia on June 28
He polled 43 votes, to defeat Greater Western Sydney's Jeremy Cameron (35) and Western Bulldog Mitch Wallis (19). The 23 players nominated after each round of the home and away season represented 12 clubs, while The Giants had the most players nominated - eight.
Young Giant Toby Greene would have been the raging favourite but he was ineligible to receive votes after being suspended on a rough conduct charge on Brisbane Lion Jed Adcock in round eight.
Talia, who is a grandson of Footscray's 1954 premiership ruckman Harvey Stevens, was this season pitted against big name forwards of the league, including Hawthorn's Lance Franklin and Jarryd Roughead, West Coast's Jack Darling, North Melbourne's Drew Petrie, Richmond's Jack Riewoldt and St Kilda's Nick Riewoldt.
He has been dubbed ``Presti'' by his teammates after the dour work in defence of ex-Magpie Prestigiacomo. Talia has also been dubbed iron-fist and the blanket in reference to his spoiling tactics which has seen him concede only 23 goals this season.
As for the "Presti'' tag, Talia said he had not gone close to what Prestigiacomo achieved in his 233 games.
Talia is expecting another big job in Saturday's qualifying against Sydney and while he says he hasn't been assigned an opponent yet, he wouldn't be surprised if he lines up on Adam Goodes, Sam Reid or minded resting ruckmen Shane Mumford and Mike Pyke.
He said he was nervous going into his first final.
"I get nervous for every game, but I'm more excited,'' he said after receiving his award at Crown.
"I really can't wait to experience September at the highest level and play on really good players.''
Talia, who will celebrate his 21st birthday next month, attended Assumption College and was recruited from the Calder Cannons by the Crows in 2009 national draft.
He has overcome a knee reconstruction, hamstring and achilles tendon injuries.
Daniel Talia (Adelaide) 43 votes
Jeremy Cameron (GWS) 35 votes
Mitch Wallis (Western Bulldogs) 19 votes
Adam Treloar (GWS) 15 votes
Steve Motlop (Geelong) 11 votes
Tom McDonald (Melbourne) 7 votes
Josh Caddy (Gold Coast) 3 votes
Stephen Coniglio (GWS) 2 votes
Vote now: Who was the best first-year player?
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5 – Daniel Talia
4 – Jeremy Cameron
3 – Adam Treloar
2 – Mitchell Wallis
1 – Tom McDonald
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5 – Jeremy Cameron
4 – Daniel Talia
3 – Mitchell Wallis
2 – Tom McDonald
1 – Stephen Coniglio
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4 – Jeremy Cameron
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@Titan: Well, I haven't been paying the 10% borrow fee, but I am now strongly considering it. Buying a few puts probably is not a bad idea either. Based on what you just told us, CGA will be halted and delisted shortly. Of course, I prefer to have a proof that it is a complete fraud (like I do with its competitor YONG), but your answers so far will do too. Thank you!
CCME hired a Big 4 auditor too, and so did WATG, and I am sure there were a few others I can't recall now. How did those turn out? So, looks to me, one should stay short a fraud not just until it is halted and delisted, but until its common is canceled.Apr 25, 2012. 10:32 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
@Titan: Yes, it is too late now for saying and writing. You need to start posting copies of the documents I mentioned. Based on what you have presented so far, the stock will be halted and delisted shortly.
Why was Madoff standing for 7 years after the 2001 accusations? CGA is selling at low forward P/E because the market does not believe the cash and that forward E - in other words, the market believes that CGA is a fraud. As I said, somebody is short and is willing to pay more than 10% a year to stay short, which would be a great trade if CGA is a complete fraud and going to zero within a year.Apr 25, 2012. 06:43 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
@Titan: If Kabani is so great, why would naming a Big 4 audit firm really help the company achieve a more normalized valuation? I mean, didn't Kabani signed the statements of the fraud Bodisen, who pretended to be selling the EXACT SAME organic fertilzers that CGA now claims to be selling?
Kabani have not gone over any documents from what I can tell. Of course, if you present to us the SAIC documents, the bank statements, etc, then we, the potential investors, will be able to go over them and determine whether there is a chance that CGA is not a complete fraud.
You don't have to do anything. Your failure to present any evidence to the contrary indicates (even though it does not prove) that CGA is a complete fraud.Apr 25, 2012. 05:42 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
@Titan: So, if someone is ignorant of costs (etc), then that someone is long?
What intense scrutiny? I am unaware of any intense scrutiny of CGA. Has the SEC investigated CGA formally? And, if so, what was the result of the investigation?
Who is Kabani? Who pays him? What is the penalty if Kabani just collects the money and does no real auditing work whatsoever?
Nobody cares what you have to do, and whether you stand or sit while you are making unsubstantiated statements. All the evidence that you have shown actually points to CGA being a complete fraud. If you want to convince your readers that CGA is poised to move higher (rather than poised for a halt and delisting), you have to do better. So, where are the SAIC filings, bank records, etc? Present them here so that we can do our own DD!Apr 25, 2012. 05:01 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
@Titan: The Madoff allegations surfaced in 2001, yet his firm continued to thrive and grow until late 2008. His firm went through numerous audits and excellent performance reports without a hitch. The SEC investigated his firm several times and found no wrongdoing. The evidence seemed to indicate that the allegations were without merit.
So, you have to do better. Copies of SAIC filings (with chops), copies of bank statements, videos/pictures of the operations, explanation of the various issues raised by Alfred Little, etc, etc, etc. Because right now CGA seems to be nothing more than a complete fraud.
People are willing to pay over 10% a year to stay short the stock. Why?Apr 25, 2012. 04:32 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
I don't understand. I see nothing in this article that shows that CGA is not a complete fraud. Did I miss something?
Apr 25, 2012. 04:00 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Here is a recent "audit" of the single-superhuman-partner "auditor" Kabani:
It reads: failure, failure, failure, failure...Jul 22, 2011. 03:33 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Dear Titan:
Please provide a link to the corrected version of CGA's FALSE, MISLEADING, AND FRAUDULENT press release! Why should CGA be more careful? Didn't Ernst & Young do their job as "an internal audit department?"Jul 22, 2011. 12:06 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Dear Titan:
GAAP is GAAP. Even if all the Big 4 together served as "an internal audit department" of CGA, the statement "VAT Payment is an expense account entry on income statement" is clearly false. Any PRC or US CPA will tell you so. Your strong SUSPENSION is very amusing - who has suspended you?Jul 22, 2011. 11:20 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
Dear Titan:
Thank your for bringing the fraud CGA to my attention. I personally reviewed one of the CGA's "responses" ( news.q4websystems.com/... ) and I can confirm that anybody with basic understanding of financial reporting can immediately recognize that the following statement there is false: "VAT Payment is an expense account entry on income statement." Therefore, CGA is a fraud (and the perpetrators are rather unsophisticated, as they don't even know GAAP - PRC and US!).Jul 22, 2011. 10:27 AM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Dear Titan:
WATG engaged a Big 4 auditor, which promptly caused a halt. It is very difficult for a fraud to "clear up its reputation."Jul 21, 2011. 08:19 AM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
But dear Titan:
If it weren't for Mr. Wu and other people who have exposed CGA and other frauds like it, you would not have lost the money you have lost. So, you should definitely sue him! Right now! And shut him up once and for all! Otherwise, he will continue to tell the truth and cause you insufferable pain!Jul 20, 2011. 03:52 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
But dear Titan:
Mr. Wu is causing YOU to lose money, by exposing CGA's fraud, so it is you that should be suing him for damages. CGA management could not care less - they already got the money and left you holding worthless stock. Any other sound advice you could offer?Jul 20, 2011. 03:23 PM | 1 Like |Link to Comment
Dear Titan:
Instead of advising Mr. Wu, why don't YOU sue him for "falsely and publicly accusing" your "investment" of fraud and causing you insufferable pain? Then you can keep the "big sum of money," if you win, for yourself!Jul 20, 2011. 02:46 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
WATG was making simple parts for cars. How did that turn out? CMFO is clearly a fraud, the others are probably too.
Say, what is more simple than diluting 20 parts of regular cheap NPK fertilizer in 70 parts water and adding an extra 5 parts of water-soluble humic acid and 5 parts of fluff? That's what YONG claims to do, yet it is still a complete fraud:
docs.google.com/viewer...Jul 20, 2011. 01:58 PM | 0 Likes |Link to Comment
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Hey everyone. Another painting to share with you guys.
I'll post some story bits later. Need to sleep.
I'll post some story bits later. Need to sleep.
You never posted story
even though there're guys with guns, this pic is really peaceful.
Looks cool! Love the trees and sunlight patterns. Keep the updates coming!
Why do yer art and designs have to be so epci? love it
Yet another incredible piece. Delicious.
Looks awesome. Love the forest setting.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Aug 30, 1988
|Filing date
|Feb 3, 1987
|Priority date
|Jun 10, 1986
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Victor Hymanson
|Original Assignee
|Seldoren Limited
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (44), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to a finger guard for use with a storage tube for a hypodermic needle.
Disposable needles for hypodermic syringes are commonly supplied in sealed storage tubes. When required for use to inject a patient the needle is removed from the tube and after use the needle is inserted back into the tube for disposal. Having regard to the relatively small size of the tube it is not uncommon for a person accidentally to prick a finger whilst trying to insert the used needle back into the tube, and there is the danger that this may transmit infection from the injected patient to the person disposing of the used needle.
An object of the present invention is to provide a guard to protect against such accidental pricking of a person's finger, and preferably a finger guard which is suitable for use with a range of sizes of storage tubes.
The invention provides a finger guard for use with a storage tube for an hypodermic needle, said guard comprising a body having a bore therein and adapted to fit securely yet removably around said storage tube when the latter is received in said bore, said body having a finger grip portion and a guard portion disposed in front of and projecting transversely beyond said finger grip portion.
With this arrangement, with the finger guard body fitted around the tube, the tube can be held in a person's hand with the person's fingers gripping the finger grip portion behind the guard portion. In this position, when inserting a used needle into the tube, if the needle misses the tube it can strike the guard portion rather than the person's fingers.
The bore may be a through bore.
The finger grip portion may be a tubular structure and the guard portion may be an annular structure.
The finger guard may be formed in one piece e.g. as a moulding of a plastics material.
Said guard may comprise a tube gripping portion comprising flap means extending radially inwardly of said body and deformable axially thereof by a storage tube when received in said bore whereby said flap means resiliently grips said storage tube.
Said flap means may be disposed rearwardly of said body and may comprise a plurality of flaps disposed circumferentially of said body.
The invention will now be described further by way of example only and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic sectional view showing one form of a finger guard according to the invention fitted to a hypodermic needle storage tube,
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of a second embodiment of finger guard fitted to a storage tube;
FIGS. 3 and 4 are opposed end views of the guard of FIG. 2, and
FIGS. 5 to 8 are a longitudinal section and an end view respectively of other embodiments of finger guard.
As shown in FIG. 1, a hypodermic needle 10, for example a disposable needle to be used in dentistry, has an integral mounting member 12. The needle 10 is supplied in a storage tube 13 which has an open end 14 and a closed end 15. The mounting member 12 fits tightly in the open end 14 and the tube 13 is sealed with an end cap 16 which fits over the open end 14.
In use, the cap 16 is detached, and the needle 10 is removed and attached to a syringe (not shown). After use, the needle 10 is detached from the syringe and inserted into the tube 13; the tube 13 is then closed with the cap 16 and disposed of.
As the used needle 10 is inserted into the tube 13, the tube 13 is held with the assistance of a finger guard 17. This comprises a one-piece plastics moulding having an elongate finger grip portion 18 and at one end a circular head portion 19 which projects transversely beyond the finger grip portion 18. A central passage 20 extends through the head and finger grip portions 18,19.
The passage 20 is shaped to correspond with the profile and cross-sectional dimensions of the tube 13 adjacent the closed end 15 so that the guard 17 can easily slide onto the tube 13 at such end. The tube 13 tapers slightly so that the cross-sectional dimensions increase towards the open end 14 whereby the guard 17 wedges and is held securely in position close to the open end 14.
The guard 17 and hence the tube 13 can be held in a person's hand by gripping the finger grip portion 18 whereby the person's fingers are protected against accidental pricking with the used needle by the head portion 19. When the used needle 10 has been safely inserted into the tube 13 the guard 17 can be removed and re-used.
Referring now to FIGS. 2 to 4 there is shown a hypodermic needle 10 with an integral mounting member 12, together with a storage tube 13 and cap 16 as in the previously described embodiment.
To assist in the replacing of the needle 10 in the tube 13 a finger guard 11, which is generally similar to the guard 17 previously described, is used. The guard 11 comprises a one-piece plastics moulding having an elongate, tubular finger grip portion 18. At one, forward, end of the finger grip portion 18 is flared annular guard portion 19 which projects transversely outwardly of the finger grip portion 18. A central bore or passage 20 extends through the guard 11 and finger grip portions 19,18 to receive the storage tube 13 extending therethrough.
In order to accommodate storage tubes 13 of differing diameters within a range of diameters, the guard 11 is provided with a tube gripping portion 21 comprising four flaps 22 which when not in use extend radially inwardly of the body of guard 11. The flaps 22 are deformable axially of the body of guard 11 by the tube 13 and resiliently grip the tube 13 during use.
The guard 11 and hence the tube 13 can be held in a person's hand by gripping the finger portion 18, whereby the person's hand is protected against accidental pricking by the used needle 10 as it is inserted into the open end 14 of the tube 13. When the needle 10 has been safely inserted into the tube 13 the guard 11 can be removed and re-used.
Other embodiments of guard in accordance with the invention will be readily apparent to persons skilled in the art. For example a number other than four flaps may be provided, and the flaps may be disposed at any axial location relative to the finger gripping part 18 instead of being at the rear end thereof remote from the guard portion 19.
An alternative embodiment of guard 23, which is similar in construction to guard 11 described above, is shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, corresponding parts being identified with the same reference numerals as those used in relation to the guard 11. In both cases the flaps 22 of guards 23 and 11 are formed by providing radially extending slits 24 in an otherwise closed end 25 of the guard 11,23. This embodiment, as shown in the upper halves of FIGS. 5 and 6, may be moulded of any suitable resilient material such as rubber or an elastomeric plastics material. Alternatively this embodiment, as shown in the lower halves of FIGS. 5 and 6, may be moulded of any suitable material, such as papier mache or polypropylene having little resilience. In this case the slits 24 are extended along the finger grip portion 18 as shown so that the guard 23 will deform, in the manner of the embodiment of FIG. 7 described below, to allow insertion and retention of the storage tube 13 in and by the guard 23.
Another alternative embodiment of finger guard 26 is shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. In this case the guard 26 is of a relatively cheap, disposable design, and comprises a coneshaped combined finger grip portion 27 and head portion 28. The guard 26 is made of a stiff paper or paper like plastics material such as polypropylene. The finger grip portion 27 has slits 29 therein extending from the apex of the cone whereby the conical formation of the finger grip portion is deformed by the storage tube 13 on insertion thereof into the ground 26, as shown in broken lines in FIG. 7, such deformation serving to provide a degree of gripping of the tube 13 as well as forming the finger grip portion 27.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jun 24, 1987
Owner name: SELDOREN LIMITED
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:HYMANSON, VICTOR;REEL/FRAME:004726/0376
Effective date: 19870116
|Apr 1, 1992
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|Aug 30, 1992
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|Nov 3, 1992
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 19920830