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7th December 2013 05:26 AM #1
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Full cream or skim milk?
My two year old loves to drink milk. I don't give him more than the recommended amount each day but I do give him full cream milk. Somebody mentioned that by age 2, you should move to giving them skim milk. Is that true? Is there any harm in giving him full cream milk?
7th December 2013 07:22 AM #2
Hi twolittleboys,
A two year old needs to have around 350mg of Calcium a day.
Firstly, I was just wondering if you breastfeed him? A two year old can still get a huge amount of nutrients, immunology properties and comfort (to name just a few advantages) from breastmilk.
Up to age 2 full fat cows milk is recommended if you are giving cows milk. Between 2 and 5 years you could give your child semi-skimmed milk (although not skimmed milk) but it really depends on their overall diet, how well they eat, how much Calcium they eat from other food sources etc. Therefore, for many, many children full fat cows milk is still the best type of cows milk to drink at age 2.
Does this help you?
Best wishes,
9th December 2013 01:51 PM #3
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No, I'm not still breastfeeding, my son was weaned a while ago when his little brother made a surprise appearance
He is not the best eater - picky like most little ones - but does like yoghurt and cheese (on occasion). If he won't eat dinner (one sultana is not unheard of) I always feel better if he will drink some milk afterwards.
I'm going to stick with the full cream milk and take it off my list of things to worry about! Thanks again LJ
10th December 2013 05:33 AM #4
Sounds like fairly normal picky eating for a toddler!
Yes that sounds sensible given his eating habits. Will be eat porridge made with full fat milk?
Best wishes,
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Sinai is unhinged; Egypt is worsening; Syria is unstable, and oh yes, there´s Iran too (ISRAEL HAYOM) Amos Regev and Yoav Limor interview, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen Benny Gantz 04/27/12)
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As Israel turns 64, the country stands before one of the most fateful decisions it has ever had to make, in a region undergoing intense tumult In a wide-ranging interview, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen Benny Gantz looks at the challenges and threats of our neighborhood, and calls on the government to enact compulsory duty for all citizens, saying "We are half-the-peoples army. It´s not sustainable."
Gantz: The IDF must use every avenue to prepare an operational alternative wherever it will be asked to take action."
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen Benny Gantz is aware of the decisive role that history has summoned him for. Unlike a number of his predecessors, he is taking pains to avoid placing himself at the center of attention by making his opinions public. At the same time, however, he has stated his opinions frankly and forthrightly when asked.
When we met this week shortly after Holocaust Remembrance Day and just before Independence Day, the period which symbolizes the days in which we recognize destruction and celebrate renewal, he was very careful not to cross that thin line separating a public servant and an elected official. But reading in between the lines of what he said, it is possible to discern clear-cut, unequivocal positions.
An Iran with a militarized nuclear capability could potentially be an existential threat, but it is not necessarily an existential threat, he said. These statements were made in the past and I think it would be appropriate to clarify them. We are the strongest country in the region, and I think that we need to make sure that the situation stays this way in the future. The problem of a nuclear Iran is much more of a global problem than it is an Israeli problem, so we need to find every possible way to make sure that the international community doesnt let up in dealing with this, and I think that it is doing this. I think that what we see in terms of sanctions and the international pressure and the statements that we hear from the Americans are all indications that the world is moving in this direction.
And what if the world doesnt succeed?
The IDF must use every avenue to prepare an operational alternative wherever it will be asked to take action; and at the last possible moment that this will be feasible given the strategic conditions that prevail. And this is what the IDF has been doing in recent years. I think we have a considerable capacity to act. In a businesslike fashion, we need to prepare to implement this capability, but we should also understand the ramifications of this type of event.
Do you believe the Americans are serious in their intentions to stop Iran?
I believe they are serious. They are simply judging the situation from a different point of view than we are. The difference between us and the Americans are found in two areas: the scope of our capacity to act, and the sense of urgency. They have many more capabilities, but, as a result, they dont feel that sense of urgency. We do feel a great sense of urgency. There is also the simple yet critical fact that there arent two giant oceans that separate us from Iran, and we are living with our civilians in a war zone.
In your meetings with them, have they tried to convince you not to attack?
In the meeting room, I hear the same things that you have heard in public, only worded differently. We havent asked for permission and we havent been given any stop signs. Israel is a sovereign state with the ability to make its own decisions, and they [the Americans] understand this as well. There are discussions and exchanges of opinion on strategic matters, but I do not ask anyone for permission, and I dont accept dictates.
If Iran decides to make a mad dash toward the bomb, how long would it take for it to manufacture one?
Its a matter of a year, two years.
And if the supreme leader, Khamenei, decided to attain a militarized nuclear capability, would we know about it in time?
I think that we will either see a major breakthrough or some integrative processes, or something else that we are supposed to see in this whole story. So we need to make every effort, in conjunction with the international community, and particularly the Americans, to make sure this doesnt happen, and to prepare for the possibility that we will have to face this challenge.
It seems to me that on the one hand it is our professional duty to prepare an operational alternative, and on the other hand to maintain a strategic dialogue where it needs to take place. From the most ethical place possible, I am telling you that we are handling this in the most professional and clear-sighted way possible. And we are not devoid of this capability. Far from it.
Is the home front ready for what is likely to happen in the wake of such an attack?
The home front needs to get itself organized irrespective of the Iranian issue. The threat of missiles and rockets present in the Middle East, with or without Iran, requires the home front to be ready. We are talking about tens of thousands of missiles deployed from the north and almost 10,000 missiles deployed in the south, so we need to continue to improve the defenses of the home front, because life in the Middle East will not change.
Depth missions
One of the most significant decisions made by Gantz in the 15 months he has been on the job was to establish the Depth Corps, a fourth army command [the IDF currently has Southern, Central, and Northern Commands] assigned to handle theatres that do not have a common border with Israel. These are areas, far away from our borders, in which terrorists hold training camps and orders are giving to carry out attacks against Israel. The goal of the new command is to combine the capabilities of units and organizations, so as to enable new forms of thinking to come to the fore and to craft new operational plans.
The long-range threat is not something that I can ignore, Gantz tells us. The range of the weapons arrayed against us, the terror networks these are no longer the first or second line of defense, the point of contact. This type of traditional fighting still exists, but the threats hatched against us from afar are such that we need to know how to be ready to deal with them directly - with the aid of international actors in the intelligence and technological fields. Combat battalions today are not just battalions in the literal, traditional sense, but they are also Iranian forces who are operating everywhere, and Libya, which is a huge weapons cache. And who knows what will happen with Syria and Iraq. We are examining all of these areas from an intelligence standpoint, and a new command will be required to address these issues and to develop operational ideas and, if the need arises, to command these depth missions.
Will this really happen? Because there is a sense that many in Israel are fearful of such actions over the large number of potential casualties.
Our day-to-day routine, and here Im limited as to what Im able to say, doesnt mean that we arent doing anything. Besides, we are developing a combat doctrine out of the understanding that we will have to operate on a number of fronts, at great distances, all at the same time.
Obviously we will make every effort to minimize casualties as much as possible, but this will not dictate whether or not we act because we just dont have that luxury. In addition, the home front will be subject to an active, potent threat, so it would be proper for the army to take these risks.
We sat down with Gantz at the height of the scandal which engulfed the deputy brigade commander, Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner, who struck a Danish national during a protest in the Jordan Valley. Gantz received the results of a preliminary probe. After he was briefed on the final results of the investigation, he made the decision to remove Eisner from his post. The IDF chief determined that Eisner had failed to live up to his professional, moral, and military obligations that befit a commander.
Gantz believes the entire saga is not a reflection of Eisner as a person, but he is very disturbed not just by the incident but also by the fact that it took Eisner over 24 hours to report the incident. This is a failure on the command level, he said. A professional failure is how your prepare for these kinds of incidents. A failure on the command level is how you perform during the incident, and an ethical failure is how you behave as a person and an officer.
The gates of the West Point Military Academy bear the words Duty, Honor, Country. What is your motto for the army?
I cannot be around officers who do not simultaneously bring with them these two qualities: determination and wisdom that befits a commander. A smart commander who is not determined wont help me. A determined commander who isnt smart or wise also doesnt help me. And I am one of those commanders who demand both of these qualities.
I demand that my commanders lead from the front because that is the only way they will understand what is going on in the battlefield, so that they can correctly hand out orders and decide what action to take. This is because I cannot possibly see what it is that they see. Im dying to see it, but I dont see it. And this is what our commanders need to understand, and I think that ultimately they understand this.
In this incident, there was an error, and determination on its own cannot solve this. One also needs wisdom. This is what separates a commander from the regular soldier. Otherwise, the commander and the soldier would be the same thing. He is there first and foremost as a fighter, that is true, but he is also a commander and he needs to bring both [of these qualities].
I dont send a logistics officer to break up demonstrations. I send the brigade commander, the deputy brigade commander, a battalion commander. He needs to know to bring both determination and wisdom that is becoming a commanding officer, and [Eisner] didnt do this.
Are you disturbed by the fact that this incident has been turned into a political issue where the Left has taken a position against the officer while the Right is automatically supportive of him?
I judge peoples behavior, and not what it is that someone is trying to say about somebody else about this or that issue. In the complex world in which I live, there is just one solution, which is quite simple, and that is truth. This is the only immunizing apparatus that I know of. Ive been a soldier for 30 years, and I know that if you give people the truth as it is, they cannot argue with it. This is my way of immunizing myself, and it is the only way to survive in this complex world, and that is with the truth.
Perhaps this is another symptom of societal problems and disagreements over religion, politics, and international intervention?
This is a serious problem, and I will explain. On the Iranian issue, you will write whatever you write and the commentators will say what it is they know and a few former officials will talk, but the state will leave us to deal with it.
On the other hand, when we are talking about the relations between the army and society, then everybody is suddenly an expert and everyone has something to say. Paradoxically, we have an opposite scenario. That means that issues which I deal with 20 percent of the time become issues that I deal with 80 percent of the time, and vice versa. And this is because everyone is suddenly an expert.
Take, for example, the issue of how soldiers commute from their homes to the base. What is your story here? They kept us busy with this whole issue of train tickets for soldiers. The free tickets for soldiers initiative is a project that succeeded and it was introduced to aid the welfare of soldiers. Society likes to deal with things that it thinks it understand, while leaving us to deal with other things.
In his year as army chief, Gantz has been forced to deal with incidents of discrimination against women as well as the Yizkor incident, events that once again raised questions about the role of religion in the IDF. It is a question that has become more urgent given the growing influence of national religious soldiers in combat units and the senior and junior officer corps.
These are wonderful boys, Gantz said. They are patriotic, they are part of us, and I really dont see this as a problem. I dont look underneath soldiers helmets to see whats there. I do think that the state needs to ask itself how it is dealing with issues of compulsory military service for everyone, which is a critical issue.
The citizens of the State of Israel need to give of themselves to the State of Israel, because the army has been, is, and needs to continue to be the first thing that people look at as an entity of volunteers, an entity of people performing a service, an entity that is seen as addressing the countrys needs. This is because our geopolitical environment is different than the one that the Swiss army chief of staff needs to deal with. He was in my office about six, seven months ago and he bragged to me how his defense budget increased because of the problems in the Middle East. I couldnt believe what I was hearing.
So what is the solution?
Compulsory duty. Compulsory duty for all citizens of the State of Israel, no matter who they are. Its not just military service, its obligatory service.
Youre a reasonable guy. Does this have a chance of passing from a political standpoint?
The state has to do this. We are half-the-peoples army, this is not okay, and this is not sustainable. You can wait another year or two, or you could make some shady, under-the-table agreement that will last three or four years, but this wont really put off the decision for another day, nor will it solve the problem.
We have no choice, we must decide to go for some kind of solution, one that is more reasonable and fairer. Its a question of fairness, and I think fairness will be an issue of tremendous significance for Israeli society in the future.
Last summers social protest pushed the IDF into a corner. On the one hand, it has to deal with a slew of defense tasks and challenges, with special emphasis on the Iranian issue and the revolutions sweeping the Middle East. On the other hand, it will have to cope with the need for cuts in the defense budget in order to free up budgets and resources for socioeconomic needs. Not only has Gantz been asked to make cuts and mull the suspension of training and a dwindling of supplies, but he has also found himself engaged in head- to-head clashes with Finance Ministry officials, and even the finance minister himself, who accused the army chief of failing to comprehend his subordinate status in relation to the civilian echelon.
If theres something that I understand well, it is the subordinate status of the army to the political echelon, Gantz says. I think that these statements were out of place, out of line, and incorrect. But this isnt the important thing. It isnt a personal dispute between me and the finance minister. The State of Israel has a prime minister and a government that has a responsibility, and I told the government that we will do whatever it decides we should do, and if it decides that we need to wage war by throwing stones, so be it, we will fight with stones.
We will not stop discharging our mission because of this issue. We will simply inform you of the consequences. Sometimes its inconvenient for people to hear these things, so they make the accusations that they do.
Is there no money?
The key question is what the multi-year budget will look like. During one of my meetings with the prime minister, I told him that my first mission as a soldier from an operational standpoint was to provide security for Anwar Sadat when he arrived in Jerusalem to talk peace. Now Im the chief of staff, and it is unclear to me who the next president of Egypt will be and what policies that country will take.
Forty years have gone by, and we are approaching a situation in which I hope will be better, one in which there will be respect for civil rights, where the street will indeed have influence on the decision makers in other countries because this would be a pretty good prelude to democracy, where womens rights will be such that a woman will not be beaten with sticks if she is caught driving, as we have seen in Saudi Arabia. All is well and good, let there be no more wars here.
But why do I have a feeling that this is not what will happen? Why do I have the feeling that in Egypt a regime is coming to power that no matter what happens we will not be in as good a place as we were? Why do I get the feeling that Sinai is coming unhinged from a security standpoint? In fact, it is already unhinged. Why do I get the feeling that Syria, with or without Assad, will not be the same stable place, even if it was an unfriendly place before, and in the best case scenario it will be unstable but not hostile to us while in the worst case scenario, it will be both unstable and hostile?
And why do I get the sense that Hezbollah is five times stronger than what it was during the Second Lebanon War? Why do I know that Gaza has 10,000 missiles, with more to come?
I dont know what is going to happen in Iraq, and I dont know what is going to happen in Iran, and we have seen the value of stable regimes. In other words, we are living in a Middle East in which I believe the window of opportunity has closed, and we cannot afford to take risks regarding future developments.
Does the treasury not understand this?
I have no problem with whatever budget they decide upon, but it should be made perfectly clear: We will have a stripped-down army. In other words, we will have an untrained, ill-equipped army that is short on supplies and one that will not be fully prepared to carry out its missions. We cannot allow this to happen, and this has nothing to do with me personally.
This is the most important organization that the state has from a security standpoint, and we are not in Switzerland. I dont think that defense is the top priority in this country, because I think education is. Still, when I look at how we live our lives here, I cannot ignore this basic fact.
The test of victory
Gantz is wont to speak in a low voice. His words are measured carefully, and his tone is calm. There are moments when he stops to think in order to make sure that his statements are accurate. At no point does he ever raise his voice, at least during our interview. Rare are the moments when he loses his cool. This is why he has often been accused of lacking sufficient assertiveness, and that he lacks sharpness from an operational standpoint. The few top generals who have followed him closely during his tenure and gained insight into the sensitive jobs he has undertaken throughout his career beg to differ with these statements. They claim that Gantz sanctifies deep thought and careful consideration, but he knows when to cut to the chase if necessary.
Still, his real test, the only one by which he will be measured, is victory, in single operations and, above all, in war. He believes that the army is still capable of gaining victory. We will win wherever we find ourselves in action, he said. Theres no doubt about it.
What constitutes victory?
You need to differentiate between victory, which is a strategic term, and dealing the decisive blow in battle, which is an operative concept. The state will not win if we dont deal the decisive blow, and we need to deal a number of decisive blows so that the state will win.
Lets be more specific. What constitutes a decisive blow in Gaza?
We can conquer Gaza. Its just a question of what price we have to pay on a national level. Its not an issue of the number of casualties, because in war there are always casualties, but its a question of administering Gaza for an extended period of time. We are capable of bringing about a situation whereby the Gaza Strip will not want to continue the war. Cast Lead established a new threshold of deterrence that was intact for a relatively limited time, but the atmosphere of that operation is still with us. If I take the Second Lebanon War, which was supposedly a less successful war, the strategic results of that war are very strong in terms of the deterrence established. So these are the philosophies and the strategies that we are promoting in order to make even more impressive gains in the future.
And what constitutes a decisive blow against Iran?
That is a much wider, and more strategic issue. It isnt on the same plane as the Gaza and Lebanon cases, because it has more to do with lets call it strategic blows.
From your vantage point, as an army general, one can assume that your point of view has changed. There was a time when you used tactical maps. Now, you look at the entire globe, right?
To say I look at a globe would be a bit of a stretch, but you could see for yourselves. I have a tiny map in front of me, but when I want to be reminded of the proper proportions, I open up another screen on the computer (he clicks the mouse, and the screen affixed to the wall shows a much larger map which stretches from Greece in the West to Iran in the East). Its important that we know how to develop general ideas, operative ideas, and even command certain missions. The way in which we perceive decisive blows and the way in which we perceive combat require us to work simultaneous on numerous fronts and at long distances.
Can we deal a decisive blow against Iran?
I dont think that we need to aim for a decisive blow. I think that we need to deal with Iran.
And what of the terrorism in Sinai?
When it comes to Sinai, we need to provide an operational response that will be predicated on intelligence-gathering capabilities as well as defensive capabilities while preserving, to the highest degree possible, our cooperation with Egypt in order to prevent the region from spinning out of control and to be ready for bad days ahead that I hope do not come.
Do you think the solution for all of these fronts is for Israel to live underneath a ceiling that protects us from missiles?
On a fundamental level, the State of Israel, particularly its large urban population centers, needs to live under a defensive ceiling. It is by no means hermetic, and it wont provide the ultimate solution in the future. This defensive means is needed to allow the army to exhaust its offensive capabilities and its ability to deal a decisive blow.
From a strategic standpoint, we cannot continue to ensure our existence here strictly from a defensive posture. Can my soccer team send all 11 players on offense and leave just one goalkeeper behind? No, this is impossible. I need to also have defensive players back there. But wars have always been decided by offensive campaigns.
Gantz, makes no effort to conceal his optimism. When we asked him about those who wonder if the State of Israel will survive, his answers are emphatic.
The people of Israel can be proud and confident, but they must also be sober-minded, because I dont think that the environment in which we live is one devoid of challenges. But we need to be balanced and to know how to provide the appropriate solutions, with an eye toward history and not in a way that suggests hysteria.
We should remember from whence we started, he said on Independence Day. We should remember where we are now, and what a long way we have come. I really think that we have a lot to be proud of. I think that ultimately we should look at ourselves and say, If well be okay, then things will be okay.
Gantz points to two framed pictures that sit on the bookshelf behind his desk. One picture is that of David Ben-Gurion, and the other is a framed picture of a poem written by Zeev Jabotinsky. Next to the two pictures is a glass that is halfway filled with wine, which for him symbolizes what is really important.
In the 1980s, my mother was lying in a hospital in Bonn, Germany, he says. She had just gone through a surgery that was just incredibly difficult, awful. Shes barely alive at this point. She puts a flower and this glass of wine on her. The hospital ward director comes by in the morning to see how Frau Gantz is doing. So she says to the director, Listen, the surgery was difficult and all that, but Im still alive, so Im looking at the glass half-full.
The doctor was a Palestinian who was born in Gaza, worked as a dishwasher in an Israeli hummus joint in order to save money for medical school, and ended up treating the mother of a battalion commander of the paratroopers who in 30 years would become the chief of staff.
What is the lesson here?
The strategic reality around us keeps me quite preoccupied, but I know that I cant really impact it, because I cant set things straight in Egypt or Syria. I need to be ready for the outcomes in these places, and to propose solutions that will work toward coping with these kinds of events.
But Im also disturbed by the budget issue and by ensuring that the army is not stripped down, and that it will be able to continue to blossom and develop. These things which either do not depend on us or are insoluble still need a solution.
The only thing I know for certain is that we are here. Can I say that I can sit in one room with a woman, an ultra-Orthodox man, a religious person, a rightist, and leftist, a Jew, and a non-Jew and say that this is one state? As officers in the IDF, its out of our hands. These arent questions that are dealt with in my work environment. But I do hope for a happy ending.
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In terms of water quality in Long Beach, NY, it's fine. I know many people who have gone in and have had no problems; I went in today and it was fine. Yes there is some debris especially on the eastern end but for the most part the water is clean.
I contacted the EPA recently and inquired about the water quality - they stated that although there is partially treated sewage flowing into reynolds channel (which by the way, never makes contact with long beach), The recent tests state that the water quality from the plant would actually be deemed safe for swimming (this is because the water is still being chlorinated and solids are being removed). They also stated that although it is impossible to know for sure, in general the ocean dilutes a lot of these materials fairly quickly - It's the bays and such where these water quality problems would arise.
As of yesterday there's still an advisory in Mantaloking, Lavallette, Seaside, and a bunch of other towns not to use their water supply for drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, pets, etc. because they haven't assessed their systems or had the opportunity to start monitoring water quality.
I'm not saying, "don't go surfing." I'm saying there are a lot of unknowns and with that comes risk. Keep in mind that the water quality testing done recently by the EPA and DEP, results here: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/wms/bmw/s...nticocean.html ...showed no excessive levels of bacteria in nearshore waters. They were looking for a plume, and the results from samples taken at that time did not indicate a plume exists. Looking at the results, you'll see the highest readings are at the mouth of Sandy Hook Bay, and in the Lavallette/Mantaloking areas... no shocker there... and a complete lack of testing for quite a stretch, with known sewage facilities in that area. And we also don't know how and when the samples were taken, regarding tide, wind, wave action, currents, etc. Was it a worse case scenario or a best case scenario? Again... not saying the water's unsafe. Just saying there are a lot of unknown variables.
I rode Monmouth County NJ during Athena (Thurs, Nov 8). It was fun, I've never ridden a swell with so much north in it in NJ. It looked like all the floating debris had washed up and had been bulldozed into big piles away from the water. I didn't see any floating debris during my session. The water was the color of a jersey shore lake; chocolate brown. By Sunday night I was feeling like I had a cold and I've been dealing with a pretty gnarly sinus infection since. I never get sick. I'd recommend to wait it out longer if the water is still cloudy brown.
We live in OCNJ also and house was flooded throughout first floor. It has been a tough few weeks and I am only starting to have time to think about surfing again. Many people have said that if you have any immune issues, you should probably hold off. It is heartbreaking, because this time of year, before the water gets too cold, is usually the big reward. Frustrating. Either way, I have heard the sea bottom is very different that you may expect - va con cuidado.
the 90th street surfline cam is back up intermittently and i saw a guy out. looks totally different with no boardwalk and i think it's a right now(!). as far as water quality? i'm waiting until they sort out the reynolds channel treatment plant stuff before i go back in anywhere in the rockaways. december is a pretty flat month anyway so probably won't miss many sessions..
ethically, i don't feel comfortable traveling to a community that's not returned to some semblance of normal life just to surf. if anyone does surf, it should be locals, but to each his own. really, i don't think anyone should judge from the outside of these damaged communities.
Wait sooooo was I not supposed to go out at all? I surfed the day after the storm no problem in Long Branch. Had perfect head high+ waves to myself. National Guard was not letting anyone in my hometown. So it was Allll mine. Probably one of the best swells I ever surfed. It was world class. Jay Bay type waves
^No debris, didn't smell funny, seemed actually cleaner than most days. (Not that you can see the bacteria)
Are any of those posting to this thread about surfing in LB coming from the city? I've read a few reports of locals being unhappy with people heading there for a surf, and I'd hate to ruffle feathers in that way, but missing all these swells is driving me nuts. I've been volunteering and giving money to the relief effort, but don't expect someone who's lost their home to give me much slack for that ...


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Founded in 2006 in memory of Dr Jean Ginsburg by the Jean Ginsburg Memorial Foundation
At Oxford Dr Ginsburg did her preclinical work and an honours degree in physiology. Dr Ginsburg was one of the first women to graduate from St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London. In 1954, two years after qualifying, Dr Ginsburg took a research fellowship in physiology and medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. Here Dr Ginsburg worked in the Sherrington School of Physiology under the famous Henry Barcroft; her main interest was the circulation and she was a pioneer of venous occlusion plethysmography.
In 1961 Dr Ginsburg became a research fellow and senior lecturer in the obstetrics department at Charing Cross Hospital, where she developed the interest in women's health that determined her future career. In 1966, Dr Ginsburg was appointed senior lecturer and consultant endocrinologist at the Royal Free Hospital, where she remained, pursuing research to the end of her life. After she retired from clinical work she became an indefatigable medicolegal expert.
Jean Ginsburg was the author of many research papers and wrote one book, The Circulation in the Female from the Cradle to the Grave (1989) and co-edited two more, Drug Therapy in Reproductive Endocrinology (1995) and Sex Steroids and the Circulatory System (1987).
1. An award known as the Jean Ginsburg Memorial Foundation Scholarship may be awarded to one student each year over a ten year period from 2007/08 to 2016/217.
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This Guide text comprises three chapters. The first provides a general picture of the issues and principles involved in designing and/or improving curricula, and of pedagogical and didactic approaches which open the way to fuller realisation of the general aim of plurilingual and intercultural education. The next two chapters look more closely at two basic questions raised in the first: How can the specific content and aims of plurilingual and intercultural education be identified and integrated within the curriculum, while also respecting the specific content and aims of teaching individual languages? How can curriculum scenarios be used to project the spacing-out in time of this content and these objectives? Finally, several appendices provide tools and reference lists. All of this can also be supplemented by consulting the ancillary documents available on the above-mentioned platform.
Guida per lo sviluppo e l'attuazione di curricoli per una educazione plurilingue e interculturale
The Languages in and for Education project has at its centre a commitment to an integrated approach to language teaching and learning. This means that in a school context all teachers, whether of the language of schooling taught as subject, second/foreign languages or other curriculum subjects, have a vested interest in and a responsibility for the pupils' development of language competence. This paper discusses the aims of language as subject and foreign language teaching, and considers aims as they relate to the teaching in/of minority languages and language in other subjects, stressing the need to identify common goals.
A guide for the elaboration of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education cannot do without an introduction on the notion of curriculum. The authors of this study are convinced that a curricular perspective has a lot to offer, both in a conceptual approach of educational problems as well as in how to address concrete development activities. Their aim here is to 're-invent' a broad curriculum perspective, illustrating the broad curriculum perspectives with applications for language learning and for plurilingual and intercultural education.
Whatever the subject, all knowledge building in the school context involves working with language. The purpose of this text is to suggest a general approach enabling different levels of specification of these language dimensions to be classed in transversal descriptive categories. The aim is to describe the process leading from units for analysis of actual uses to the identification of linguistic forms and mechanisms appropriate to those uses. It is aimed not only at the authors of curricula and textbooks and the designers of tests, but also at teachers, and especially teachers of subjects sometimes quite wrongly described as "non-linguistic", to draw their attention to the language components of work in their subject. It is also relevant to teacher trainers, particularly those responsible for the teaching of disciplines other than languages taught as a subject.
Lingua e discipline scolastiche – Dimensioni linguistiche nella costruzione delle conoscenze nei curricoli
The purpose of this section of the platform is to provide an overview of a range of issues related to the use of descriptors, particularly in the languages of schooling, when used either as a focus for assessment or to support teaching and learning. The discussion also provides an introduction to concrete examples of descriptors provided by different countries and regions.
The European Language Portfolio (ELP) was introduced as a concept in 1997 and formally launched in 2001. It has been taken up in almost thirty Council of Europe member states and 107 models had been accredited by the spring of 2010. The ELP is concerned with the learning and use of second and foreign languages (L2s), which is just one focus of the Languages in Education/Languages for Education (LE) project. But can the LE project benefit from the pedagogical experience that has accumulated over ten years of ELP implementation?
This satellite to the Guide for the Development and Implementation of Curricula for Plurilingual and Intercultural Education focuses on assessment aspects. First, a brief overview is given of the various aims of assessment in plurilingual and intercultural education. The authors' understanding of assessment is then briefly outlined. Finally, the assessment of selected competences having to do with core aspects of plurilingual and intercultural education is presented and discussed.
La valutazione delle competenze plurilingui e interculturali
Consult Box "Language(s) of schooling" on this Plateform (Contributions from member states):
Nederlandse Taalunie
Descriptors developed under the auspices of the Nederlandse Taalunie for ISCED Level 0. The objectives are described at three levels – macro (fields), meso (language acts/tasks) and micro (elements).
Descriptors from the curriculum for Basic Norwegian for language minorities (trranslated from Norwegian into English) - ISCED 1


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Mini Mart Robbed at Gunpoint
A man covering his face with a multi-colored scarf and armed with a long-barrel black revolver stormed into the Sunoco A+ Mini Mart on Exchange Street early Tuesday morning and robbed the place, according to Colonie Police.
It happened at 2:52 a.m. and the clerk gave the man the money from the register – less than $100 – and he took off on foot and may have gotten into a vehicle last seen headed west on Exchange Street, police said.
No shots fired and the clerk, who was the only one in the store at the time, was not injured.
The Albany Police Department was notified about this robbery as it appears to be the same suspect as a robbery they are investigating that occurred on Monday.
Suspect description: White Male, 6'0", 215 pounds, grey-hooded sweatshirt with a gold zipper and a multi-colored scarf covering his face.
Anyone having information about this robbery is asked to contact the Colonie Police Department at 783-2744.


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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at East Rock commemorates military personnel of several eras. Period re-enactors participated around the Monument this month.
Sports & Recreation: Swimming, Adult Aerobics, Football, Soccer, GolfRanger ProgramsEast Rock - Spring Walks, Bird Walks, Trail Work, Lectures Edgewood - Nature and Senior Walks, Nature Pals, 13th Annual Art Walk Lighthouse Point - Climb the Lighthouse, Sea Creatures Touch TanksWest Rock - Who Eats What!, Hikes: Star Gazing and Sunset, Introduction to ArcheryOutdoor Adventure - Kayak Clinics, Canoe New Haven Mill River Flyers & Registration FormsWhat's New Downloads Page Special EventsSoldiers and Sailors Monument Celebration
Lighthouse Point Park The beach season is about to begin! Get your parking pass now!! Parking registration stickers are now available at the park office! Bring your car registration. Non-Resident fees will be $10 per day with out a sticker.$50 for a season pass$75 for a bus parking New Haven Residents- No Charge
Here are few pictures of the event!
May 5 , EveningLecture: Extreme Monument Makeover. Learn from designer Gary Sorge of Stantec Engineering how the
makeover of the 100+ year old Soldiers and Sailors monument was
envisioned and implemented. From initial assessment to installation
of a new spiral staircase, follow the process and multiple phases that
brought this New Haven icon back to its original splendor.
- 5:00-5:30 - Reception with light refreshments
- 5:30 - Lecture to follow. Event is free to the public
Info: For more information, call (203) 946-8027.
May 22, All DayCommunity Picnic: Monument tours, music, Canoe & Kayak Rentals (9-1) on the Mill River with the New Haven Park Rangers. Info: Contact Outdoor Adventure Coordinator Martin Torresquintero
For Information Contact or Visit: www.cityofnewhaven.com/Parks/news/whatsnew.asp and The Parks Office, 720 Edgewood Avenue
Download the Application off of the website or pick up an application at 720 Edgewood Ave., New Haven, CT 06515Director's Note: The New Haven Department of Parks, Recreation and Trees has beenworking hard to put together an interesting, enjoyable and exciting series of programs to help keep you busy throughout the summer. Successful programs from past summers and new offerings and opportunities are presented throughout the booklet to make this summer one of the best yet.
It seems like just yesterday that we were zipping up our winter coats and trying to stay warm; but, now, summer is right around the corner along with warm sunny days.In addition to the program information contained here, be sure to visit our website on line at www.cityofnewhaven.com/parks to get locations of city splash pads and pools as well as playgrounds and parks city-wide. New Haven has a wealth of beautiful outdoor facilities and properties that can help to provide a wide array of opportunities for family summer fun. Discover your city and become a parks expert by visiting your beautiful park system.
Robert D. Levine,Director
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The Greenhouses are almost full of beautiful flowers! Neighborhood residents have volunteered their time on Wednesday mornings to plant 260 flats of annuals so far, with 36 in each flat we have a total of 9,360 to be planted in our Parks and throughout the city. There are also 400 pots of perennials so we know that the city will be blooming with a wonderful variety of spectacular color this spring and summer! For more information contact Doreen Larson-Oboyski 2039462203 or firstname.lastname@example.com
13th Annual Artwalk
Westville Artwalk which will be held on May 7th through 9th will feature flowers planted in barrels in front of the businesses in Westville Village and at the Mitchell Library. Some of the volunteers in our greenhouse planting crew are from Westville.
Please join the celebration in Westville and take a look at the flowers - and the great artwork on display.
For more information see their website westvillect.org.
Learn about pruning your trees and other important information about the care of trees at the
Westville Library on May 13th.
For more information and to RSVP – contact URI at 203-432-6189.
New Haven is Passionate for Perennials
If you are dividing your perennials and would like to donate some of them to the Parks Department, please contact Doreen Larson-Oboyski 203-946-2203 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com. Your perennials will be planted throughout the city.
The objective of the Positive Risk Adventure has been to help reduce the onset, and prevalence, of violent behavior, including childhood aggression and conduct disorder, delinquency, and/or drug use among youth in New Haven. Likewise, it is also designed to improve and reward academic attendance. This newly created program is the result of a partnership between the Department of Parks Recreation and Trees Outdoor Adventure Program, and the Board of Education Department of Student Services.
Since the implementation of the this program in February 2010, the program has provided unique alternative opportunities that have fostered a new level of appreciation and respect for nature and parks land, to many youth from schools such as Wilbur Cross, Hill House, New Horizons, Dixwell New Light, and Urban Youth. The program has begun to connected participants with nature, and have provided them with a way to decompress, raised their eco-consciousness as well as their self-confidence.
New Haven's kids had a great time this year during April Vacation Camp! Camp activities were centered in two locations in the city: Edgewood Park Coogan Pavilion and East Rock Park Trowbridge Environmental Center. The City of New Haven's Parks Rangers took them fishing at Lake Wintergreen, hiking at Sleeping Giant Park, played tennis at Edgewood Park courts, bike riding, rock climbing, archery, practiced team building and much more! Check out more pictures in the photo galleries on our website!


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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated nine films for best picture, with the '70s crime caper American Hustle and the lost-in-space tale Gravity leading the pack with 10 nominations each and the antebellum drama 12 Years a Slave following closely with nine. Also nominated for best picture are Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Her, Nebraska, Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Master limited partnerships, or MLPs, are high-yield dividend stocks with a lot of appeal. This class of investment mainly focuses on natural resources, such as petroleum and natural gas. MLP investments combine the tax advantages of a partnership with high dividends and the liquidity of common stocks.
Some examples of MLP investments include Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP), Plains All American Pipeline LP (NYSE:PAA) and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (NYSE:BWP) to name a few. As you can see, the LP for "limited partnership" after the name helps tip you off.
However, master limited partnerships do come with their own set of rules — particularly at tax time.
That's why Don sent in this question:
"If I go on eTRADE and purchase so many shares of an MLP, does that obligate me to remain in the stock for any predetermined length of time? Also, will I automatically get a K-1 form for tax purposes?"
First, the easy answers:
You have no obligation to hold for a set period of time. However, like a dividend stock you will not get paid unless you are a unitholder of the MLP within its disbursement period. Don was particularly interested in Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (NYSE:BIP), and that MLP's last distribution was on Dec. 30. So anyone buying now but bailing out in six weeks later won't qualify for the next payday.
And frankly, what's the point of buying an MLP if you don't get the juicy dividend payout?
For the tax form, yes, unitholders automatically get the K-1 mailed to you — normally in February or March though, not promptly after the turn of the year.
Now for the tough stuff: MLPs each specify a different percentage of their distributions that are shielded from ordinary income taxes. This doesn't just vary MLP to MLP, but can vary from distribution to distribution within the same company!
You see, a portion of MLP payouts can be tax-deferred, and it is subtracted from one's cost basis. And when you sell your units, some of the gain that comes from certain deductions (such as depreciation expense) will be taxed as ordinary income.
Hopefully you have a tax man to work through all this for you, because as you can see there are a lot of moving parts.
That said, don't let this tax complication scare you off of master limited partnerships. They are great income investments even if they are a bit of an oddity.
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Tornados release 2011 Women's Soccer scheduleJune 1, 2011
BC will host eight games at the BC Soccer Field
Brevard, N.C. - Coach Shigeyoshi Shinohara has released the Brevard College Women's Soccer schedule, in conjunction with the BC Sports Information Department.
The Tornados have a full 17 game slate set for the 2011 season as Brevard looks to improve on their previous seasons in their fourth year as full members of the NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference.
Brevard will host eight regular season games at the BC Soccer Field, while the Tornados will be on the road for nine contests in the 2011 season.
Brevard will open the preseason with a three game slate, with an exhibition on August 18th in Central, S.C. against Southern Wesleyan, before hosting a pair of scrimmages against the Carolina Elite Soccer Academy and Limestone at the BC Soccer Field on August 21st and 27th.
The Tornados will remain home to open the season as they take on a pair of non-conference opponents in Erskine and King (Tenn.) at Brevard, N.C. The Tornados will take on the Flying Fleet on September 1st, while hosting the Tornado on September 3rd.
Brevard will make a trip to Aiken, S.C. to take on the Pacers of USC Aiken on September 7th, before returning home to take on Bluefield at Brevard, N.C. on September 10th in the first contest between the two teams since the Tornados took part in the Appalachian Athletic Conference back in 2006.
The Tornados will head back on the road as they take on Montreat on September 13th, before opening South Atlantic Conference play on the road at Carson-Newman on September 17th.
Brevard will remain in conference play for the next four games as they host Lenoir-Rhyne on September 21st, before taking to the road for back-to-back games in Tennessee against Lincoln Memorial (Sept. 24) and Tusculum (Sept. 28).
BC returns home to open the month of October as they host Mars Hill on October 1st, before jumping out of conference again as they travel to Belmont Abbey on October 4th.
The Tornados travel to Wingate as they return to conference action on October 8th and remain in SAC play as they host Anderson on the 12th.
BC hosts Young Harris College in their final stretch of the season, before heading to the road for two games against Newberry (Oct. 22) and Converse (Oct. 26).
The Tornados wrap up the 2011 regular season at home as they host conference opponent Catawba for Senior Day at the BC Soccer Field on October 29th.


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Reading 1, Second Kings 5:1-15
1 Naaman, army commander to the king of Aram, was a man who enjoyed his master's respect and favour, since through him Yahweh had granted victory to the Aramaeans.
2 But the man suffered from a virulent skin-disease. Now, on one of their raids into Israelite territory, the Aramaeans had carried off a little girl, who became a servant of Naaman's wife.
3 She said to her mistress, 'If only my master would approach the prophet of Samaria! He would cure him of his skin-disease.'
4 Naaman went and told his master. 'This and this', he reported, 'is what the girl from Israel has said.'
5 'Go by all means,' said the king of Aram, 'I shall send a letter to the king of Israel.' So Naaman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold and ten festal robes.
6 He presented the letter to the king of Israel. It read, 'With this letter, I am sending my servant Naaman to you for you to cure him of his skin-disease.'
7 When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes. 'Am I a god to give death and life,' he said, 'for him to send a man to me and ask me to cure him of his skin-disease? Listen to this and take note of it and see how he intends to pick a quarrel with me.'
8 When Elisha heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent word to the king, 'Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, and he will find there is a prophet in Israel.'
9 So Naaman came with his team and chariot and drew up at the door of Elisha's house.
10 And Elisha sent him a messenger to say, 'Go and bathe seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will become clean once more.'
11 But Naaman was indignant and went off, saying, 'Here was I, thinking he would be sure to come out to me, and stand there, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the spot and cure the part that was diseased.
12 Surely, Abana and Parpar, the rivers of Damascus, are better than any water in Israel? Could I not bathe in them and become clean?' And he turned round and went off in a rage.
13 But his servants approached him and said, 'Father, if the prophet had asked you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? All the more reason, then, when he says to you, "Bathe, and you will become clean." '
14 So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a little child.
15 Returning to Elisha with his whole escort, he went in and, presenting himself, said, 'Now I know that there is no God anywhere on earth except in Israel. Now, please, accept a present from your servant.'
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4
2 I thirst for God, the living God; when shall I go to see the face of God?
3 I have no food but tears day and night, as all day long I am taunted, 'Where is your God?'
3 Send out your light and your truth; they shall be my guide, to lead me to your holy mountain to the place where you dwell.
4 Then I shall go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy. I will rejoice and praise you on the harp, O God, my God.
Gospel, Luke 4:24-30
24 And he went on, 'In truth I tell you, no prophet is ever accepted in his own country.
25 'There were many widows in Israel, I can assure you, in Elijah's day, when heaven remained shut for three years and six months and a great famine raged throughout the land,
26 but Elijah was not sent to any one of these: he was sent to a widow at Zarephath, a town in Sidonia.
27 And in the prophet Elisha's time there were many suffering from virulent skin-diseases in Israel, but none of these was cured -- only Naaman the Syrian.'
28 When they heard this everyone in the synagogue was enraged.
29 They sprang to their feet and hustled him out of the town; and they took him up to the brow of the hill their town was built on, intending to throw him off the cliff,
30 but he passed straight through the crowd and walked away.
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This morning there is much excitement in the media and on twitter about the launch of Raspberry Pi. A small computer developed to help children to learn how to code.
Rory Cellan-Jones talks about how it will offer "every child in the country a cheap computer on which they can learn to programme". There's no doubt it's brilliant, long overdue in a country where our education system (with a few exceptions) has largely confined classes featuring computers to learning about how to use word processing packages, rather than what's under the hood.
I went to school in the early 80s, when learning to programme really was something for the hardened coder. It didn't even feature on most people's radar as being relevant or interesting or something that was worthwhile. But as we know now, the geeks shall inherit the earth, and programming is officially cool. Largely thanks to the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Steve Wozniak et al, everyone appreciates the opportunities that can come from being a good programmer. And now there are so many resources available for anyone to teach themselves, with initiatives like Codecademy aiming to make it as accessible as possible.
So middle class parents, striving to give the best to their children, will no doubt be rushing out today to buy their Raspberry Pi's to help give their child a head start (they may have to wait actually, stockists are already showing as sold out, presumably because vast swathes of middle aged men have already snapped them up…). And I think it's fantastic to develop this kind of knowledge in children, I certainly will with mine. But I also worry that there will, inevitably, be a whole section of the population who will be left behind.
Martha Lane-Fox has long championed the need for digital inclusion, and Race Online 2012 is an admirable attempt to make a real difference to getting previously marginalised sections of society online. With the launch of Raspberry Pi, we need to ensure that as well as encouraging people to get online, we also ensure that all children have access to these tools. Because actually, programming is one of the few skills that really allows you to make a name for yourself with very little but your brains and dedication. You don't need friends in high places, or a daddy's connections but you do need to have access to the tools. Let's hope Raspberry Pi really does make a difference.
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We recently caught up with Es Devlin, the designer behind the epic set for Les Troyens.
In this short film the designer talks in detail about the process of designing an opera and why model boxes are made for every main stage production. She also explains why clear design is essential for the teams who build the sets and props as well as the director.
Es has designed several sets for operas at the Royal Opera House, most recently for David McVicar's production of Salome, which returned to Covent Garden earlier in the season. She also designs stage shows for the world's top pop and rock, recently working with the likes of Kanye West, Take That and Rihanna.
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President Bush Returns Historic Governors Island to New York
GSA Announces Transfer, Preservation of National Monument
January 31, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced the return of Governors Island to the City and State of New York for educational use, ending the 202-year federal ownership. The island's National Monument, which consists of Castle Williams, Fort Jay and 22 adjacent acres, was transferred to the Department of Interior's National Park Service.
"The transfer of Governors Island is a significant accomplishment for GSA, one that involved strong working partnerships among our agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Department of Interior, and the State and City of New York," GSA Administrator Stephen A. Perry said, after participating in signing the documents at the White House. "We are very proud that, working together, we could meet the President's vision."
Half the 172-acre island, a 20-minute ferry ride from Manhattan's southern tip, has been designated a historic district. Some of the island's 225 buildings date to the 1700s, when British troops surrendered it to American forces in 1783. The State of New York assumed possession until 1800, when it ceded the island to the federal government. The U.S. Army occupied the island for 150 years, turning it over to the Coast Guard in 1966. After nearly 30 years, in 1995, the Coast Guard announced it, too, would relocate.
GSA, which handles federal property disposals, assumed responsibility for Governors Island disposition in 1995. Two years later, in 1997, Congress directed GSA to sell it at a date after Oct. 1, 2001 and to give the City and State of New York right of first offer.
GSA is a centralized federal procurement and property management agency created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. It acquires, on behalf of federal agencies, office space, equipment, telecommunications, information technology, supplies and services. GSA, comprised of 14,000 associates, provides services and solutions for the office operations of over 1 million federal workers located in 8,300 government -owned and leased buildings in 1,600 U.S. communities.


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