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The present study was conducted to determine if female distance runners who report engaging in pathological food behaviors display the psychological characteristics of clinically diagnosed female eating-disordered patients. Comparisons were made among 29 eating-disturbed college runners, 31 normal college runners, 19 clinically diagnosed eating-disordered patients, and 34 nonathletic, non-eating-disordered college students. Measures included a 3-day diet journal, questionnaires collecting both personal information and information on eating behaviors and sports participation, the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), the Setting Conditions for Anorexia Nervosa Scale (SCANS), and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Without reaching eating-disordered clinical levels, the eating-disturbed runners appeared on psychological inventories as being more concerned with food and dieting than were the comparison runners and non-eating-disordered nonathletes. Only the eating-disordered group presented with significant levels of psychopathology. Implications for the athletic community are discussed.
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Paula J. Ziegler, Srimathi Kannan, Satya S. Jonnalagadda, Ambika Krishnakumar, Sara E. Taksali and Judith A. Nelson
The objectives of the study were to determine the nutrient intakes and to examine body image perceptions and weight concerns of elite female US international synchronized skaters. One hundred and twenty-three skaters (mean age = 17.0 ± 2.1 y; BMI = 21.32 ± 2.13) representing six US international synchronized skating teams from the 1998 competitive season participated in the study. Nutrient intakes were determined from 3-d dietary records. Body image perceptions were assessed from responses to silhouette drawings. Skaters completed an emotional and physical self-appraisal. Weight concerns were assessed using a self-administered validated weight history questionnaire. The reported energy intake was 26 kcal/kg. The contribution of carbohydrate, fat, and protein to total energy intake was 62%, 23%, and 15% for younger (14-18 y) and 62%, 24%, and 14%, respectively, for the older (19-30 y) skaters. Significant differences (P < 0.001) were observed between perceived ideal and current body shapes. The greater the dissatisfaction with physical and emotional self, the larger the discrepancy between current versus desired body shape. Results suggest that sports nutritionists should not only assess nutrition factors but also examine psychosocial and emotional correlates related to body image and weight concerns of synchronized skaters.
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Eating disorder prevalence rates among athletes vary greatly because of the different ways in which researchers have measured and classified them, and the extent to which they are higher than those found among nonathletes remains unresolved. The present study examined prevalence of eating disorders, body image issues, and weight control behaviors using a valid diagnostic measure. Participants included 146 male and 156 female NCAA Division I student-athletes and a matched sample of 170 male and 353 female collegiate nonathletes. Overall, eating disorder prevalence rates and use of pathogenic weight control behaviors were lower among nonathletes than athletes. Rates for athletes in the current study were lower than previous studies. These findings are likely due to the lack of anonymity the athletes had when completing questionnaires, as data were collected through athletes' preseason physicals, whereas nonathletes completed questionnaires anonymously over the Internet. Recommendations for athletic departments' screening for eating disorders are made.
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Judo is a weight-class sport, meaning that there are weight-defined classes in competitions. Regular body weight restrictions and/or nutritional imbalances can alter growth and maturation states in adolescents. The aim of the present study was to estimate to what extent female judo athletes (age 16.1 ± 0.3 years) modified food and drink intakes 3 weeks and 1 week before competition. Our findings indicate that unbalanced dietary intakes and "weight cutting" might occur in female adolescent competitors. We conclude that dietary recommendations are compulsory in order to educate coaches and young judokas about adequate nutrition and safe weight control behaviors, as well as the dangers of rapid weight loss and dehydration during adolescence.
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The psychosocial benefits of participating in physical activity (PA) are well known; less is known about the relationship between suicidal behaviors and PA among adolescents, especially among middle school-aged youth. This study seeks to fill that gap by assessing the cross-sectional relationship between these variables.
A secondary analysis of the 2010 Tennessee Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey data was conducted among 65,182 middle school students. Items examined were PA, sports team engagement, physical education (PE) class, screen time, suicidal behaviors, drug/substance use, extreme weight control behaviors, weight status and weight misperceptions, and selected personal characteristics. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the association between PA, sports team engagement, and PE class attendance on suicidal behaviors.
Sports team engagement was significantly associated with suicidal thoughts, plans, and attempts even after controlling for other important variables. There was no relationship, however, between total PA or PE class attendance in univariate or multivariate models, respectively.
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With summer vacations now in full swing, the Ohio legislature is taking a breather after an eventful first half of 2018. The sudden resignation of House speaker Cliff Rosenberger and a contentious battle for his replacement stalled legislation for weeks. But once new speaker Ryan Smith was elected in early June, a flurry of bills passed. Let's recap what the General Assembly has (and hasn't) done so far this year on the most talked about education issues.
Online schools
Fallout from the mid-year collapse of ECOT continues to unfold. The legislature, undoubtedly sensing the need to ensure a debacle like this never occurs again and worried about its impact on the fall elections, passed several provisions aimed at improving online education. Some of them were introduced in House Bill 707 and later enacted as amendments to House Bill 87 and Senate Bill 216. Our more detailed comments on e-school policy are here, but three important provisions that passed last month are well worth a review.
First, e-schools are now required to withdraw students who fail to participate in learning opportunities without excuse after 72 instead of 105 consecutive hours. This change will result in chronically disengaged students transferring more quickly to settings with greater educator supervision. Second, the state superintendent must recommend clearer definitions for key terms in the rules for counting e-school students—e.g., "participation" and "idle time"—which are part of the full-time equivalency manual, an Ohio Department of Education (ODE) document that has been at the center of the legal fight between ECOT and ODE.[1] Third, a committee will study competency-based funding for e-schools. If done well, shifting to this approach—as other states have done for online learning—would allow Ohio to avoid the problems of using "screen time" proxies for participation (and in turn to calculate funding), and instead fund e-schools based on demonstrations of pupil competency.
The legislature also made a minor misstep and missed an opportunity. Regarding the former, lawmakers extended a "safe harbor" to charter schools whose enrollment increased by more than 20 percent as a result of accepting displaced ECOT students in the middle of 2017–18. Though likely limited to other e-schools, as they enrolled significant numbers of former ECOT students, any eligible school is partly shielded from the threat of automatic closure through 2019–20.[2] Furthermore, all displaced ECOT students will be excluded from the academic portion of charter sponsor evaluations for 2017–18 and 2018–19. While these allowances may appear reasonable at face-value, they unnecessarily weaken accountability. For 2017–18, the test scores of mid-year transfers would already be excluded under Ohio's full academic year rules. In future years, schools (and their sponsors) should be held accountable for ECOT transfers because they will have attended their new schools for an entire year.
As for the missed opportunity, legislators failed to pass an important provision introduced in HB 707 that calls on ODE to create rules that would permit e-schools to disenroll students refusing to actively participate. This is different than the consecutive hour rule because it's focused on students who attend but aren't doing academic work. Allowing e-schools, as Indiana now does, to hold pupils accountable for active participation would better ensure that online learners are working to learn the course material instead of cruising along. The legislature should revisit e-schools' enrollment policies in the coming months.
Graduation requirements
Aside from ECOT, the most talked about issue in education has been Ohio's graduation requirements. Starting with the class of 2018, the state now requires young people to pass state end-of-course exams, earn a college-ready score on the ACT or SAT, or gain industry-recognized credentials. Last July the legislature approved various alternatives to these pathways for the class of 2018, including softball options such as attendance rates or volunteer hours. Although several policymakers pushed to extend these weakened alternatives to the classes of 2019 and 2020, the legislature stood firm and rebuffed the competency-free approach to earning diplomas. The debate around graduation requirements is unlikely to cease, but this is a hopeful sign that the appetite for basement-level standards might be waning.
School accountability
For the past year, Ohio's school report cards have been a front-burner issue. Since 2013, Ohio has assigned A–F ratings on various report-card components, with an overall composite grade being included for the first time this year. After sharply criticizing this system last fall, Representative Mike Duffey introduced legislation in April (House Bill 591) that would transition Ohio to a "dashboard" system in which various academic data are displayed, but no ratings appear. We at Fordham opposed the legislation, stressing the critical importance of clear ratings for families and communities (though also noting the need to make important tweaks). As the bill began to receive committee hearings, Governor Kasich stepped up and reiterated his support for school ratings. Administration spokesperson Jim Lynch told the press, "Removing the letter grades returns to the situation where it is impossible for the public or the community to understand how well their schools and districts are doing." To his credit, the governor has halted this badly misguided attempt to overhaul school report cards—and that's good news. Nevertheless, lawmakers still need to undertake a more careful revision that retains key A–F grades but also yields simpler, fairer report cards.
Also of note with respect to school accountability, legislators spurned attempts to raise the minimum "n-size" that determines whether schools are held accountable for the performance of individual subgroups (e.g., ELL students and students with disabilities). Under the Senate-passed version of Senate Bill 216, schools would have been accountable for subgroup performance when they enroll at least thirty students in a subgroup—a higher number than what is being implemented under the state's ESSA plan, which reduces the n-size to fifteen by 2019–20. House legislators wisely removed this provision before SB 216 passed the full General Assembly. As a result, Ohio will continue to implement an n-size policy that ensures schools pay attention to the needs of children from all backgrounds.
Teacher evaluation and licensure
Known as the "Public School Deregulation Act," Senate Bill 216 aims to reduce the regulatory burdens on schools. While the passed version of SB 216 covers a number of topics (we discussed some of them here and here), the most substantial issues addressed are related to teacher evaluation and licensure. On evaluation, the legislation wisely scraps OTES—the current framework that calls for the explicit use of student test scores—with a more observation-driven rubric based on the Educator Standards Board's recommendations. OTES has been panned for its burdensome requirements, inability to differentiate performance, and the need for testing above and beyond state exams. It's yet to be seen whether trading OTES for the ESB rubric will decrease administrative burdens, better differentiate teachers, or provide educators with more useful feedback. However, the shift should at least reduce some of the more onerous testing requirements, such as developing local assessments for student learning objectives, which are now forbidden.[3] After a pilot year, the new evaluation framework will go into full effect starting in 2020–21.
As for licensure, the Senate-passed version included provisions that allow district leaders to assign educators to teach in grades or subjects for which they are not specifically licensed. Under a few reasonable safeguards, the proposal would have given superintendents greater latitude in addressing instructional needs. For example, under the initial proposal, a school leader could fill a need for a tenth grade math instructor with a math teacher licensed in grades four through nine. Sadly the House did not approve such broad flexibilities for local management, and the enacted version of SB 216 requires the state board to create a "supplemental license"—which includes several bureaucratic stipulations—that can only be issued by the state at the request of superintendents who need to fill classroom vacancies. Though this provides some leeway around licensing regulations (in a "mother may I" kind of way), the state still has a long way to go before it fully entrusts and empowers school leaders to manage their staff and build teams of excellent educators.
Finally, two issues of school governance came into to the spotlight this spring. First, the state's Academic Distress Commissions (ADCs) came under fire, with several lawmakers attempting to put a three-year moratorium on them. However, Governor Kasich, who has strongly supported the ADC model for turning around struggling districts, threatened to veto legislation that included this moratorium. As a result, the General Assembly instead tasked the state superintendent with reviewing ADC policies and producing a report by May 2019. Second, in a high-profile effort backed by Speaker Rosenberger, several legislators sought in House Bill 512 to consolidate ODE, the Ohio Department of Higher Education, and the Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation. The proposal aims to improve the alignment between K–12 and post-secondary policy, while also enabling the next governor of Ohio to wield stronger leadership in K–12 education. Vigorous debate ensued over the proposal, but the legislation was shelved after the former speaker's departure.
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In an "off-budget" year for Ohio, we've seen an unexpected amount of discussion on key education issues in the first half of 2018. Some policy developments have been encouraging; for instance, we've seen positive movements to improve online learning and to preserve critical accountability measures. But various policies remain disappointingly unsettled. Despite much chatter from legislators about "deregulation," Ohio still has hundreds of frustrating "input" based regulations—things like licensure requirements—that hamper school-level flexibility and innovation while doing little to boost student achievement. Meanwhile, governance matters such as whether and how the state should intervene in poor-performing districts remain subject to considerable debate. With the election season now at hand, the rest of 2018 may not be as exciting on the policy front. But come January—with a new governor in office and a state budget to pass—all bets are off!
[1] The consecutive-hour rule and sections of the FTE manual apply more broadly to charter schools (which include e-schools), but the impact of these provisions are more limited to online schools.
[2] If charter schools would have met the conditions for automatic closure with the displaced ECOT students omitted from the accountability calculations, they are still subject to closure. Though likely inapplicable, districts that experienced a 20 percent or more increase in enrollment due to the ECOT closure are shielded from the challenged district designation for 2018–19 and 2019–20.
[3] SB 216 still calls for the use of two measures of "high quality student data," including value-added results based on state exams if applicable to a teacher, and as defined by the state board if value added does not apply. These data points will be used as "embedded" evidence of performance on various dimensions of the revised rubric.

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The blog of a Harlequin Mills and Boon Historical Romance Author based in the North East of England -- her ups, downs and in betweens as she juggles life with her fiction.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Story Values -- a McKee reprise
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Thanks for this Michelle! It makes a lot of sense. So when I ask myself how my characters are feeling now at the beginning of each new scene...that's a good thing :-)Yay, I'm doing something right.
Sue - back online :-)
- 1:34 pm
- Alice said...
Thank you, Michelle.
From now on I'll think of the story value as the viewpoint character's emotion. Then make sure it changes from what it was at the beginning of the scene. Postive to negative or negative to positive --- Hope to despair, amusement to anger, self confidence to defeat (or vice versa)
- 6:02 pm
- Michelle Styles said...
Oh good I am glad that I helped.
A useful eercise can sometimes to list all the movitations and feeling that a character might be feeling at the beginning of the scene, and then choose the last one to be the dominate emotion as you begin the scene.
Is the emotion you thought you were going to use actually the correct one to use there?
YOu can see I am doing my revisions and keep asking myself questions like these.
- 6:22 pm
- Alice said...
"choose the last one"
Because the last one will be the least predictable? (That Donald Maas thing of reverse motivation but applied to emotion too)
Thanks, again, Michelle I'll try that.
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To my darling daughter: What I can say about body image
I had been dreading it. I knew, despite my best efforts, it would only be a matter of time before it happened. And then suddenly, we were there, having that conversation – my four-year old daughter and me.
As we climbed into the car after pre-school, she touched her hair tentatively and said to me, "Mumma, do I have boy hair? The other children say I have boy hair because my hair is short and curly. But I'm not a boy, am I Mumma?"
"I wish my hair was long and straight and pretty like the other girls, so I looked like a girl."
At that moment, my brain froze. I wanted to scream. I wanted to undo time so that I could have done something – anything – differently to protect her from those words.
I took a deep breath and somehow managed to pull myself together to do what I'm trained to do – we talked about her strengths and how everyone is different, and how brilliant that is because it makes the world interesting and wonderful.
We talked about how some people have fast growing hair, and some don't (like her) and that's normal. I tried to play it cool so that it (I desperately hoped) would all be long forgotten by the time we got home.
But no. Over the last few weeks, she's repeated the statement again, and again. It's obviously something she's given a lot of thought too and, to be honest, it makes me want to cry. I'm her mum, it's my job to support her self-worth and to protect her. She's still so young. There are meant to be years before she's faced with the clutter of messages about beauty.
I've also studied and published research on body image and eating behaviours. I've run support groups for people with eating disorders. I've worked with people trying to build a sense of self-worth and I've walked alongside family with eating disorders. I've had my own struggles with eating and food and loving the skin I'm in. The body image world is one I know only too well.
And yet I can't believe, at age four, we were here already, having this conversation. And I can't believe, as a mum, how hard that conversation is.
We can do it
As parents, my husband and I have worked hard to foster a healthy body image in our children. We have been careful to encourage our children's strengths and celebrate their strong bodies for what they can do, like cycle over mountains and run along the beach.
We talk about makeup being like a costume – it's fun to wear but it doesn't change who you are on the inside. We praise our children for giving things a go – even when they fail. We talk about how different body attributes allow us to do different things. For example, as adults, we're tall so we can reach high places while the children are short (right now) so they can fit into places us adults can't reach! How helpful is that? We never talk about being fat, and we never make comments about other people's bodies.
When it comes to food, we say that eating lots of fruit and vegetables can make us go faster on our bikes. A little bit of sugar can help us too (like when we're riding) but too much sugar overall can slow us down because sugar gives us a quick rush and then makes us very tired. Importantly, there are no food labels. No food is 'good' or 'bad', 'healthy' or 'unhealthy', 'treat' or otherwise. It's just food.
We're certainly not perfect parents. I've used food as a reward from time to time, despite swearing that I would never do that before I had children. Ha-ha! As any parent knows, sometimes you get so desperate for your child to do what you've asked for the 50 millionth time that you'd happily leap through rings of fire and encourage the sky to rain sugar.
We're definitely not perfect but, as a mum, I've taken Kate Winslet's comment to heart:
"As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, "I am so proud of my body." So I make sure to say it to Mia [her daughter], because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age."
My body image story
I can remember the day I looked at the photo and realised I was bigger than the other two girls in the photo. I was twelve.
At fourteen, I can remember writing in my diary that I wished I could see a dietitian because I didn't know why I was bigger than everyone else.
Do you know what I was? Tall. And with being tall, there is (obviously) more of you so I weighed more than my friends – regardless of body shape. In my head, weighing more meant there was something terribly wrong with me as a person.
Skipping through some nightmare teenage years, I was most unwell during my time at university. I was cruel to my body and my head was in a bloody awful place. I can't even find the words to describe how hellish my thoughts were about myself. My entire world was focussed on being slim and controlling food because I thought I'd be a better person if I could achieve both of those things.
I'm purposefully leaving out much of the detail here, other than to say I look back now and wish I could give that young woman a warm, understanding hug.
My watershed moment – realising that losing or gaining weight didn't equate to me being a good or bad person – finally came in my early twenties. By then, I was living and working in Melbourne and was rowing at an elite level club (just so you know – I wasn't elite by any stretch!).
To give you a bit of context to all of this, rowing is an incredibly demanding sport. Over the 2-kilometre race course, everything burns, and you must be mentally tough to keep pushing through – even when you don't think you have it in you anymore.
At the elite level, rowing athletes race in one of two weight classes – either heavyweight or lightweight. That is, depending on your body weight, you can either race in the heavyweight class or the lightweight class.
The heavyweight women are tall, strong women with serious muscle power. It really struck me training beside these women that, for them, it wasn't so much about what they looked like but about what their bodies could do. Being fit enough and strong enough to win rowing races was the ultimate goal. It was about body composition, not about being good or bad or skinny or fat. They were like heroines, off to do incredible things.
Many of the lightweight women I knew hated the dieting aspect of the race season. Often their 'normal weight' was much higher than the cut-off point for a lightweight, so they spent the racing season trying to balance calorific intake with building muscle. Not an easy task, and many loved the off-season because they could eat 'normally' again. Again, it was about how to get the best out of their bodies so that they could win the race. It wasn't about 'being thin', because, frankly, just being thin in rowing doesn't get you across the finish line. Hell no, you'd burn out in seconds on the course. Rowing is haaaard work.
The whole focus of those women on what their bodies could do, rather than what they looked like, was light years from where I was when I started training beside them, and I will always be thankful to them for showing me a much kinder (and more practical) way to view your body.
From there, with the support of family and friends, I slowly started to change how I thought about myself and I improved my relationship with food. I learned to be kind to myself, and I learned to take care of my body in a much more nurturing and supportive way.
These days, I'm much happier with the skin I'm in but I still have my days. I wrote this post on Facebook a couple of years ago and it still rings true now:
"There are images we've used to promote our business in the past that I've looked at again and thought 'yuk, my forehead looks so big, and I'm so pale and I wish I'd had my hair done before we took that photo.'
And then I have to remind myself that the size of my head has never been an issue going for a job, being loved by my nearest and dearest, having children or doing any of the billion other things I do every day.
Same goes for my freckly skin and being pale. Sometimes I get a spray tan and it's delicious, but most of the time this is it.
I love telling this story: I was in hospital once for an elective knee operation and I heard the nurses talking after one had checked on me. The one who had checked on me said, "Oh, she's quite pale." And the other answered, "Oh no, she was like that when she came in."
Thanks guys.
Anyway, the whole point of this ramble was to say that I understand what it's like to be uncomfortable with what you look like, and the impact it can have on your thoughts, what you believe you can do, and your confidence.
The more I talk to others, women and men, and the more research I do, the more I see how many of us carry these thoughts around with us, all day, all of the time.
I wish I could wave a magic wand and say, "Tomorrow this will all be gone, and you will feel fabulous". But the reality is that learning to like the body you're in takes time, and acceptance, and a change in how you view yourself.
It's completely possible, and there are lots of amazing stories of women and men who have come to like who they are and have built inspirational lives.
For me, it was changing the focus to what my body could do. I eventually realised that you get one body, and it can do the most amazing things if you let it. It truly is incredible what the human body can do.
One of my favourite sayings that always gets me through is (and I borrowed this from an old Guinness beer ad):
Nobody's perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
I love that idea. You don't have to love every bit, that's normal, I think. But learn to love some bits, because you are terrific."
Where to from here
So where to from here? To my dear daughter, I know I can't protect you from comments on your looks for the whole of your life. As you get older, the comments will continue to come. They'll comment on all of it – your hair, what you wear, your body shape, your face, your arms…whatever.
I know the best I can do now is teach you to love your body for what it can do. I can teach you to find self-compassion when you need it. I can teach you self care and I can tell you what I know about the societal pressure to be 'perfect'.
And I can share these messages with other parents and caregivers to support them to foster the same sense of positive self-worth in their children:
- As role-models, our children are watching us, and they hear our words. We need to show our children how we love our bodies, and we need to talk about the positive things our amazing bodies can do. We can also teach them body self-awareness by positively telling them about how our bodies feel (e.g. "I had such a good sleep last night, I feel like my body is full of energy for the day!" or "my body is feeling very tired. I've asked it to do a lot today. I'm going to give it an early night so that it can rest and be ready for tomorrow.")
- Communication is key. Supporting our children to talk about what's going on in their heads can help us 'nip things in the bud' before they become problems. Most nights I lie next to my children in bed and talk about what they've been thinking about during the day. Sometimes it's mundane things like why dinosaurs eat trees, and on other days we get little gems – like when my son said recently that he felt terrified of attending a family wedding because he was worried about the people he didn't know. The next day I brought him a 'be brave' bracelet that had superpowers to make you brave. Worked a charm. It won't always work like that – of course – but at least if you can have those conversations now then you're building the foundations for those more challenging teenage years when you get puberty, social media access and significant relationships with others all tied in with body image concerns.
- Share self-compassion. We all have tough days – mentally and physically – and it's ok to tell our children when we're not feeling great. We can teach our children that, when that happens, we still know that we are enough, that we have strengths, and that we contribute something special to the world. We can teach our children positive ways to practice self care that make us feel better, and we can teach them to nurture themselves – just as they would a friend that was hurt. We can ask that golden question, "what would make you feel better, right now?" and we can help them to problem solve what that would be.
At the end of the day, it's up to us. We can't protect our children from everything, but we can build a world around them that accepts people for who they are and loves them for it. We all have a role to play, and a responsibility, to make that happen. It starts at home. It starts with us.


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Homecoming week in Hill City is next week.
As is customary, there are plenty of events taking place during the week.
The school, too, is requesting that people bring in candy to be thrown out during the homecoming pep rally, which has become customary.
The candy can be brought in and dropped off with Mary Skillingstad. Bite-sized Halloween candy is appreciated.
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Dentists disapprove of recent CQC report
Last week the Care Quality Commission (CQC) released a report on the state of the health and adult social care in England, detailing where improvements need to be made and highlighting a general overview of the industry.
Despite the review, dentists have criticised the CQC in a report published by the House of Commons Health Select Committee. Criticisms have occurred due to the CQC reportedly expecting small dental practices to implement processes only feasible by large hospitals and creating unrealistic implementation dates.
MPs have also criticised the report over the poor handling of registering dental professionals. The CQC prioritised the administrative task rather than focusing on the core function of the report, inspecting health institutions.
As Dr John Milne, Chair of the BDA's General Dental Practice Committee, further explains:
"This report is a damning indictment of the debacle that has been the registration of dentists by the Care Quality Commission. It reflects the BDA's own criticisms, pointing to flaws in the timing and methodology of dental registration, and begs serious questions about a farcical process that dentists have been forced to endure."
The full Care Quality Commission's report is available at: http://www.cqc.org.uk/stateofcare2010-11.cfm
The full House of Commons Health Select Committee's report is available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmhealth/1430/1430.pdf


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Today's assignment – Holiday Depression – is a very real one for many people, although we may not immediately notice it. It has a wide range- everything from the person who has nowhere to go on Thanksgiving to people holding off on filing for divorce until after Christmas and everything in between. I cannot pretend to have any kind of solution to the problem – things like impending divorce have layers of causes and problems that will not be solved in a brief blog paragraph – but I can speak to the typical seasonal depression that many people here in New England have at this time. My own winter blues lasts from roughly the end of September to May – my body has never adjusted back to living in the north :).
There is a physical aspect to holiday depression. It is cold and we are either indoors or getting feeble sunlight while outdoors. Vitamin D levels plummet and depression kicks in. You can read more about Vitamin D here. This is not the be all and end all of holiday depression, but keeping up Vitamin D levels has benefits beyond just feeling not bad around Christmas.
Tangent: I wonder if there is holiday depression in Australia, which has a huge Orthodox population? In Australia Christmas falls in the summer, and Easter is in late fall (from what I understand).


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New Selectman in town: Pamela Sparkman
DARIEN — Infrastructure, education and environmental conservation; these are the three core topics Democrat and incoming Selectman Pamela Sparkman wants to focus on throughout her first term.
"My number one thing is making sure parents feel comfortable going to work and leaving their children here in town and their schools," Sparkman said.
For Sparkman, the town's infrastructure goes hand in hand with a family's safety and well-being.
"(Things we could address can be) as basic as pedestrian safety, lighting at the train station for parents to walk to and from work at night. So much of the basics of Darien life stem around some of the infrastructure that we can support here in town."
Her 7-year long professional role as a local childcare consultant at Cultural Care Au Pair, an organization that matches youth from other countries with local families in a cultural immersion program, points to her family-centered work.
Sparkman, a Rowayton native, graduated in the last class of the all-girls Low-Heywood before it merged with the Thomas School. She ventured west to attend the University of Washington in Seattle while working as an international flight attendant and in a medical evacuation program in Alaska.
Though she started out wanting to major in occupational therapy, Sparkman eventually decided on visual arts. After working in San Francisco as an admissions director, she pursued a master's degree in Arts in Education at Harvard, which she obtained in 2002, a topic that has since remained a central aspect of her personal, and now political, life.
"I would say the majority of us that move here in the last decades have all come for the schools, having some of the top schools in the state, probably in the country."
Sparkman returned to Darien in 2009 for her husband's work along with their two children. She became involved in the Representative Town Meeting education committee in 2016 for District 5.
"To support the schools in the community has really been my goal which is why I started on the RTM's education committee - I think it's the selectmen's job to work with other local legislators to really fight for money to come back to our town. We can't be the piggy bank for Connecticut."
Sparkman's time in California inculcated her with the importance of environmental conservation particularly when droughts ravaged the state.
"I'm concerned about the environment," she says, worriedly. "In California, there was public information about how to conserve water and there were conscientious social efforts. It's not like that here."
"We need to educate ourselves and our kids about conservation and our kids just as we do about their safety. I had a nice meeting with Jayme and Susan last Friday and said I'd love to be the liaison for the recycling center. These are things that aren't going to be expensive."
Asked about bipartisan relations for the upcoming years, Sparkman emphasized collaboration over party.
"You realize that we're all just friends and neighbors and we all are doing this. There is no stipend, we are volunteering because we all love Darien. Susan I've known over the last year through the Bar Method and Kip and my mother worked at the same office for 30 years (Kip said closer to 19 years) so it's the next generation."


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SACRAMENTO – The California Chamber of Commerce, or CalChamber, announced this week that Senate Bill 601, by Senator Mike Morrell (R-Rancho Cucamonga), is one of its top priority 2019 "Job Creator" bills.
SB 601 would help local economies recover after a federal or state-declared disaster by allowing state agencies and departments to waive or reduce fees for businesses or entrepreneurs having to replace licenses within one year following their displacement.
"It is critical to get businesses up and running as soon as possible after a disaster," said Morrell. "Rebuilding lives includes both homes and livelihoods. As those costs increase, SB 601 aims to provide financial relief from government fees that business owners have already paid. It would be one less hurdle they have to overcome as they work toward once again becoming economic engines in their communities."
According to the nonpartisan Institute for Justice, California is among the most onerously regulated economies in the nation. The average amount spent on licensing fees in California is $486 and many occupations require a physically displayed license in the workplace.
SB 601 is sponsored by the R Street Institute, a nonpartisan policy research nonprofit that focuses on free market issues. In addition to CalChamber, the bill is also supported by the Rebuild Paradise Foundation, the California Board of Accountancy, and the Southwest California Legislative Council.
The bill has unanimously passed the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization as well as the Senate Committee on Business, Professions, and Economic Development. It is currently awaiting consideration by the Senate Committee on Appropriations.


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October 5, 2019
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Every day, in every village and neighbourhood, at every workplace and school, in every forest and every field and even in every army barrack people build dignity for all, justice for all and prosperity for all living beings.
We must stick to this simple fact, depite the wars, the genocidal imperial capitalism and the ecological crisis. The most important force for change are the daily struggles that engages billions of individuals in their common lives. People everywhere are keeping alive old and creating new cultural values that place solidarity, truth and joy ahead of competition and greed. It is true that the present world order is such that our egoistic drives and our aggressive impulses are often easier to make true than our desire for friendship and search for conviviality. The dream of consumer paradise has invaded and shaped the imagination of almost all people of the planet. But that is not the whole truth. We are also struggling to find ways out of this state of degradation. We are saddened and angry at ourselves and others, but we are also hopeful and creative.
Everywhere mothers hold on to their babies, men passing by give their hand to strangers in need, there is love that overcomes all fears, millionaires secretly give way to their burning desire to serve the poor, the oppressed stand up together and fight, people celebrate their victories and share their grief in moments of defeat.
There is a culture of resistence, struggle, joy, solidarity, and change that makes a green, socialist, feminist century a reality, even if partly only, this very day.
Cultural struggle needs as its arms and legs common action and organisation, politics by people and technologies and economies for democracy and self-reliance.
The politics we need will be a nonhierarchial, multipolar politics of truth-force, satyagraha organised as comprehensive democracy at all levels from family and neighbourhood to the regions and the globe and in all dimensions of life, including democracy of gender, ecology, politics, economics, culture and knowledge. — We see it emerging in the increasingly non-competive relations between on the one hand new local and global movements, such as the movement of peasents, landless rural workers, feminists, environmentalists, zapatistas and indigenous people, and old political organisations such as the Confederation of Free Trade Unions and national socialist, communist, green, social-liberal and agrarian based parties.
This movement of movement has a common problem and many different answers. The answers do not form a coherent whole, but an intense process of joint learning has started for which the World Social Forum may be the single most important experiment so far.
This new historical force is young and it is still unnamed. We should have no illusions about its strength. But it may be growing as can be seen on every global women's day, 8th of March, and on every global peasent's day, 17th of April, and on every worker's and student's day, 1st of May and on every day of September 11th, the day we commemorate the birth of satyagraha as a new political tehcnology for our times that happened in Johannesburg in South Africa on 11th September 1905.
Welcome green, socialist feminist century – we are eager to hear your real name.
Thomas Wallgren
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, Finland
This article by Thomas Wallgren first appeared in a paper published by Friends of the Earth Sweden in association with Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Network. The paper was mass distributed at the Malmö European Social Forum in 2008 and at the World Social Forum at Belem, Brazil in 2009.
The essay has also been published in the book Sustainable Futures: Replacing Growth Imperative and Hierarchies with Sustainable Ways. Ed. by Marko Ulvila & Jarna Pasanen. Helsinki. Ministry for Foreign Affairs (2009)


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Pumps With Pneumatic Switch
Some pumps come fitted with a pneumatic switch, the reason the pump may have this switch is to allow remote operation from an Air Button.
If your system does not require the use of an air button and is controlled via a electronic control box which operates the pump by switching its supply voltage on or off then it important to know that the Pnematic switch will need to be turned and left on for the pump to opertae corretcly
If your pump does not run in the first instant please check to seeif the pnumatic switch is turned on.
If the switch is off it can be tunred on by blowing into the pneumatic switch (normally mounted next to the supply cable)


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Last week Christeyns invited the 1st and 2nd grade of local primary school "De Vlieger" at its headquarters in Ghent on the occasion of the International Day of the Fire Department. The kids were allowed to perform a few experiments and take a ride on our intervention vehicle to get to know the duties of a real firefighter in a playful way. It became an afternoon full of adventure!
Christeyns celebrates International Day of the Fire Department


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The Telligence business model means that we are only rewarded if we deliver bottom line results for you. We don't take any upfront fees which means that we invest in your success right from the outset. This gives us a strong incentive not only to deliver for you, but to deliver fast.
We build our consulting teams based on your specific requirements and objectives. We deploy our consultants within a proven and transparent methodology delivering insight, a crucial 3rd party perspective, market intelligence and negotiation to deliver significant realisable and sustainable savings.
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New idol group released tipToe. released two promotional videos today. In this first one, "Yumebiyori", the girls dance in an empty school, presumably after all the students left for the day. Laced throughout, we also get solo dance shots and our girls decorating chalkboards around the campus. Firstly, this location looks right out of the picture book of perfect Japanese schools. "Yumebiyori" exudes beauty because of this locale, and also because each shot is well-composed and processed. The girls are very cute: you can see they are still new to this business, a bit shy, and counting their steps carefully. In many ways I want to say that this PV is remarkable with its unremarkableness … which to my ears sounds like it's a job well-done. When even the commonplace is imbued with an amount of magic, something special is born.
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|is the law the way of life a group of people who share simalar beliefs and customs
|people who share distinct culture
|Ethnic Group
|sharing info and communicsting it can be verbal or non verbal
|help people answer about life meaning a belief system
|what people do on the regular basis is like a rotinely.
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|rules set forth about the way laws are made and carried out. example are democracy/ republic dictators/ monarchy (oligarchy)
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These are the benefits:
- You get a basic understanding of web development
- You'll get a basic understanding of how key technologies work.
- We'll connect the dots between design, frontend, backend and databases. Doing so, you get the big picture and build up your IT dictionary.
- You'll understand technical jargon and be able to put new terms, tools and technologies into context.
- By writing actual code, programming will no longer feel like rocket science. As a result, you'll feel more confident talking with developers.
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What you'll learn
Get an overview and basic understanding of programming concepts and technologies
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Go through the process of creating a website
Get an overview of: HTML, CSS & Javascript
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How you'll learn
Hands-on: Input sessions in the mornings, hands-on coding sessions in the afternoons. By the end of the week you will have coded 4 projects from start to end.
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For people who want a basic understanding and overview of coding and web projects. In this intensive week on campus you'll code your first web application from scratch.
Das Coding Bootcamp klingt bei mir immer noch nachhaltig nach. Die Woche gibt einen guten Einblick in die vielen Sprachen, deren Existenz zu kennen eigentlich allgemein Wissen sein sollten. Wir haben hands-on ein paar davon anwenden können und erste Schritte an der Lernlaufhilfe gewagt. Es hat richtig Spass gemacht!
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Coding always seemed like rocket science to me - until I joined the Women in Tech Bootcamp taught by Master21. The training was a great experience and I learned so much to help me communicate better about IT-related projets. Yet the main lession I learned for both business and life was to overcome my reservations to approach new topics with more confidence. The cherry on top was to do this whilst meeting this group of amazing, inspiring women.
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In my everyday live I am surrounded by developers. Master 21 helped me to understand their needs, their way of thinking and their problems. And as I understand the logic of certain frontend languages now, I have a deeper understanding of websites. I do not want to become a programmer, but I really enjoyed coding during these two days. The coding weekend gave me insights and hands on practice in a fun way.
How has my view on what developers do changed due to the course? Now, I totally get the fascination of code. Furthermore and even more importantly I understand why developers have the patience to work on one single solution for ages. It took me forever to find the fault in my code ;) I felt like a unicorn when the magic happend and my code transfered to an actual landing page - only for this feeling it is worth going.
Jenny Zehnder, Lead Marketing and Communication
Master21 taught me the skills to be creative with code. Now my product ideas are no longer just ideas, I can actually prototype, test and create them. Coding is of course still a challenge, but seeing the results is rewarding and fun.
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Code Week gave me a real boost – I'm able to speak more «tech-lingo» while talking with the developers of my client. The team realized the uplift of my technical skills and the quality of exchange significantly put us all to the next level for the projects. It's even more fun working together now! Next: a 3-month coding bootcamp, yay :-) Thank you Master21 and coaches for firing up my initial motivation.
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Title Fight are streaming their new album 'Floral Green' in full on NME.COM, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear the record.
The album is the Pennsylvania hardcore band's second LP and contains a total of 11 tracks, including new single 'Head In The Ceiling Fan'.
Speaking about the album, bassist Ned Russin said: "I really strive to be honest in my writing, but that is something I always struggle with. I think this is by far the most straightforward stuff I've written. I'm really proud of that, but at times I'm worried about people knowing how I feel."
Guitarist Shane Moran added: "This record is a time capsule of where we're at in our lives and the world we come from. We want to put all that out into the world because it's those things that set us apart and make us interesting."
He continued: "We feel a responsibility to the kid somewhere out there who by seeing Title Fight will have their eyes opened to something more — and I don't mean just by becoming a fan of Title Fight, but by going beyond us, to dig deeper into the music they listen to and hopefully discover something that's really meaningful and really special to them."
'Floral Green' is the follow-up to the band's 2011 debut album 'Shed and is formally released on Monday (September 17).
The tracklisting for 'Floral Green' is as follows:
'Numb, But I Still Feel It'
'Like A Ritual'
'Secret Society'
'Head In The Ceiling Fan'
'Make You Cry'


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Hello lovelies! I haven't got a very structured post for today, but thought I'd just pop in for a quick chatty catch up! If you haven't already seen it plastered all over my social media, this week has been super exciting for me as I started my YouTube channel! I feel like I've wanted to start creating videos for SO long, but to be honest was just a bit nervous to actually start. I've finally plucked up the courage though and my first video went live on Monday. It's a collaboration with a gorgeous monthly subscription company called Peachy Packages. If you're one of my OG blog readers you may remember me working with Peachy Packages before on my blog (if not you can read the review here) and I absolutely loved the box, so I was so so excited to be working with them again. The box includes so many gorgeous stationary bits, gifts and tasty treats, all of which are so high quality and the box itself is curated beautifully.
If you're interested in watching my FIRST VIDEO, and seeing me unbox the March Peachy Package, i'll leave my YouTube link below. Would genuinely mean the world to me if you like/subscribe because I'm so new to YouTube, kinda winging it, and your support means everythaaaang! (Also feel free to let me know your YouTube channel names as I need as much inspo as I can get and would love to subscribe to some new channels!)
Talking of support, I'm already so overwhelmed by the support I've received from so many of you, and it's made me take a little step back and notice how far I've come the last few years. Never in a million years did I think my blog could grow into this little community which it has, I'd be starting YouTube, and get the opportunity to work with so many amazing brands/companies! So I just wanted to say a HUUUUGE thank you to anyone who has ever supported, read, liked, commented, subscribed, retweeted, messaged, shared or interacted with me through my blog or any of my social media because without you none of this would of been possible and I would of probably given up so long ago without your support! Love ya x
Also, as a little thank you, and as an exciting start to my YouTube channel, I'm working with Peachy Packages to host a giveaway for the April box! So, if you like what you see in the March unboxing over on Youtube, make sure you head over to my Instagram (@CarriePendle) find the giveaway post, and follow the rules over there! It's not one of those giveaways where you need to ruin your feed by re-posting the picture (don't worry I'm all about Instagram aesthetic so I know the struggle with this type of giveaway) it's just a simple like, follow and comment! The April box is worth £35 and I'm sure will be full of lots of amazing treats… so don't miss out, the competition closes on Monday at 7pm (9th April). If you don't have Instagram (or just fancy an extra entry) you can also head over to Peachy Packages Facebook page [linked here] and comment on the giveaway post! Good Luck!
The final final thing I just wanted to write about is Pinterest! At the moment I am really trying to get into Pinterest but its failing slightly and I keep forgetting to update it and stay engaged… but I' m hoping after writing it down I may actually start to do it… Law of attraction amiright? I've always loved Pinterest being an art student, but I've suddenly seen so many bloggers talking about their growth through using it! So, if you use Pinterest either follow me on the [link here] or let me know your username so I can follow you and spread some love! And to be honest, If you have any other social channels I'm always looking for new bloggers to follow so feel free to pop me a message or comment with some of your social links and I'll definitely check them out!
That is everything.. finally. If you made it this far, firstly congratulation, and secondly thank you for persevering with the most rambly and oddly combined post I think I've ever wrote on here. Thanks for reading! X


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BBNaija: Mercy reveals what Biggie secretly told her after fight with Tacha
Big Brother Naija, BBNaija Season 4 winner, Mercy, has disclosed what transpired in the diary room after her fight with Tacha.
Mercy was crowned the winner of BBNaija' Pepper Dem' edition on Sunday after she scored the highest votes to defeat Mike, Frodd, Omashola and Seyi.
Speaking on Tuesday during her interview with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Mercy revealed why Biggie called her into the diary room during her fight with Tacha, which got the latter disqualified.
Mercy told Ebuka that Biggie called her into the diary room to calm her down and the situation from escalating.
According to her, " Biggie called me inside the diary room while I and Tacha were arguing for me to sit for a while and calm the situation
"I just told Biggie I was fine and said I wouldn't say a word after I leave but I failed him."
Mercy added that though she blamed herself for Tacha's disqualification, but she is, however, open to be friends with her.
"I blamed myself for Tacha's disqualification because I wanted her in the finals. She has her moment but she's a nice person.
"We both understood each other and there is hope for a friendship with her."
ND REPORTERS recalls that Big Brother had disqualified Tacha over act of provocation and violence.
Tacha was sent out following her face-off with Mercy which saw both housemates hurl insults at each other.
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Toronto Film Festival Round-Up
Toronto Film Festival Round-Up -- With big-buzz films like ''In the Wild'' and ''Elizabeth" on the bill, the Oscar race kicks into high gear
At the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, director Ang Lee barely had time to walk the red carpet for the Sept. 7 gala of his new Chinese-language film, Lust, Caution, before quietly jetting back to Venice to pick up that festival's Best Picture prize. So why did Lee show up in Canada again two days later? "What can I say? It starts here," Lee laughs. "Toronto is the kickoff for Oscar season."
While the first half of this year's festival saw no Brokeback-level breakouts (and virtually no major acquisitions, as most of the bigger movies already had distributors), it did yield some serious awards buzz for several films. Positively received screenings of the George Clooney legal drama Michael Clayton, director Sean Penn's wanderlust adventure Into the Wild, and the Coen brothers' Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men gave all of the films nice bumps. Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg's Russian Mob thriller starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, stirred interest, as did The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which screened the same day Brad Pitt scored a Best Actor award for Jesse at Venice. And then there was Atonement, director Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's WWII epic novel, which arrived with solid word of mouth from Venice and quickly drew kudos for Wright and stars Keira Knightley and James McAvoy. "I hate all of that Oscar talk," says Wright (Pride & Prejudice), explaining that "however firmly my feet are on the ground, my head still kind of goes, 'Whoa, wouldn't that be cool?' And I hate that because it's a waste of energy."
Of course, Toronto can also dampen a film's Oscar hopes. Letdowns this year included Rendition, the war-on-terror drama with Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, which underwhelmed critics and audiences, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which festivalgoers panned even as they praised Cate Blanchett's reprisal of her Oscar-nominated performance as the Virgin Queen. "That's the nerve-racking thing," says Blanchett. "When there are expectations [from 1998's Elizabeth], you get worried that a film's getting built up."
Perhaps the biggest surprise was Juno, a whip-smart teen-pregnancy comedy starring X-Men: The Last Stand's Ellen Page, Superbad's Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman. The Fox Searchlight entry drew Little Miss Sunshine comparisons and emerged as this fest's top they laughed, they cried audience pleaser. "There's a lot of heavy s— going on in the world, and it's been a movie year of very somber material," mused director Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking). "Our audiences so far seem excited to be at a movie that makes them feel good."
As of mid-festival, all was relatively quiet on the acquisitions front. On Sept. 8, THINKFilm picked up the mother-daughter dramedy Then She Found Me right after its premiere, much to the delight of its star and director, Helen Hunt. "I knew if I had to fly home with nobody interested in the movie, it would've been a pretty sad experience," Hunt says. "There were people saying, 'It'll happen that night, or it won't!' So it's a relief." And at press time, Warner Independent Pictures and Red Envelope Entertainment were close to finalizing a $1.25 million deal for Alan Ball's disturbing directorial debut, Nothing Is Private, about a 13-year-old girl who is molested by her Army-reservist neighbor (Aaron Eckhart).
If Toronto had an MVP award, it would probably have gone to Tommy Lee Jones, who had people marveling over his performances in both No Country for Old Men and Paul Haggis' Iraq-war drama, In the Valley of Elah. ("It's embarrassing to even talk about it," the actor grumbles in response to the double-Oscar chatter. "What the hell do I know?") His No Country costars Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem, meanwhile, just soaked in the good vibes. "At our party last night, Javier and I had huge smiles on our faces," says Brolin. "We actually walked away from everybody else and [he said], 'It feels really good to be in a good movie, doesn't it?' F—, yeah!" </p


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Several great players remain unsold during the IPL auctions that make great replacements adding an unexpected twist of events by the end of the season. With Chris Gayle doing an exemplary job in IPL 2011, there is much need for these players to fill in the shoes of the original player who withdraws due to injury or some other reason mid-season. So here's a list of the few promising players that remained unsold in this year's IPL auction that could benefit the playing XI as replacements.
- Thisara Perera
Having played with Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rising Pune Supergiants, Mumbai Indians, Kochi Tuskers Kerala, and Kings XI Punjab, the Sri Lankan all-rounder is truly a dark horse with his immense experience in the IPL. The highest wicket-taker in the ODI tri-series (with Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh), Perera can be of great advantage to any team given his experience on the field.
- Hashim Amla
The South African opener had an outstanding 420 runs at an average of 60 with a strike rate of 145 in IPL 2017, even though his performance in the recent series against India was dismal. Hashim still has proven himself as a quality player of spin and would make an excellent replacement for any team that chooses to engage him as an opener.
- Mitchell McClenaghan
With his brilliant performance with Mumbai Indians in the past seasons, his ability to bowl cutters and change his pace, and his lower-order hitting, Mitchell McClenaghan has proven his worth as a marvelous player time and again. Even though he did not have a great Big Bash League with the Sydney Thunder, there's no doubt that any team would be lucky to have him in their franchise.
- Joe Root
The English player has a lot to contribute to any team in the T20 format with his phenomenal batting, his skill as an off-spinner and a gun-fielder. Root may turn out to be an excellent IPL player, especially in the Gautam Gambhir mold. With his solid batsman skill, he can be used as the anchor to hold the innings together. The player is, without doubt, one to look out for.
- Unmukt Chand
With a fifty in one of the two innings that he played in the domestic T20 tournament, Unmukt Chand has been compared with Virat Kohli early in his playing years. Even though the player has had less than average performance in IPLs and middling domestic seasons in the past few years, he has still had a good run in the Vijay Hazare Trophy with 316 runs. The teams, although it seems unlikely, may take upon the cricketer thanks to his best domestic season in the past few years.
With an overload of work on the playing XI, it is a matter of necessity that new players be brought in and these five are the crème of the crème in any cricket field.


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Definition of Chief of staff
1. Noun. The senior officer of a service of the armed forces.
Generic synonyms: Military Officer, Officer
Definition of Chief of staff
1. Noun. The senior officer of any of several services of the armed forces of several nations. ¹
2. Noun. The head of any of several political departments in several nations. ¹
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1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"... CB, DSC (Chief of Staff to Chairman, British Defence Stalf, Washington). ... (Chief of Staff to C.-in-C., Home Fleet). PU Bayly. DSC (PO. Sea Training). ..."
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3. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
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Hello, friends! I know I went silent last week – I had to go out of town for work and under anticipated how little free time I would have in the evenings. I always do that – I take magazines to read, TV shows to catch up on, and guess what – I didn't even turn on the TV the first time all week! I did get to take Carter with me thanks to my mom being available to go so that's a huge blessing and I'd rather spend my free time with them any day. I took Carter swimming two nights in the indoor pool at the hotel and he has a blast! The water was so much warmer than the pool where we go for swim lessons. I think he was worn out from the trip, his Saturday swim lesson and his new found ability to belly crawl everywhere because last night he SLEPT! Most nights we struggle with him waking several times for either wanting to nurse, needing his paci, or just being ready to get up, but not last night! I actually had laid him down for his second nap at 5:45 and an hour went by.. then two.. and then it became the conversation of "do we wake him up or not?" He didn't have his pjs on, no dinner, no night bath, nothing! But we decided to let him sleep. He didn't wake until 12:40am! I nursed him and he went straight back to sleep until 6am! Nursed him again and he slept for another hour. We've NEVER seem him sleep like this. He was in a great mood today and took two naps. No two days are the same around here. 🙂
Something I've wanted to share is our "baby command station" we have in our master bedroom. When we first brought Carter home from the hospital, I thought changing him on our bed (on a changing pad) was going to be the easiest option. Around day 2, Adam was changing him and right when the diaper came off, Carter had a massive explosion and pooh went EVERYWHERE! Comforter, changing pad, Adam, cream rug under bed, bassinet stand, WALL – it was bad. I quickly decided that wasn't happening again. We then started fully utilizing the changing/baby area I had set up in our master bedroom.
Both of these pieces I have had for years – I bought the 6-section basket table when I first moved to TN 9 years ago at Hobby Lobby I think. The tall skinny basket stand I also bought at Hobby Lobby and have seen them there still recently. The changing station is something I should have shared when we had Carter's thing in as a newborn and then again now as a 10-month old since some of the items have changed.
The top shelf holds his winter hats and mittens. As a baby, I had his house slippers and shoes up here.
The next shelves have always held the wipe warmer and diapers, lotion, water wipes, and baby aquaphor.
Moving on down we have burp cloths and extra changing pads.
We have a diaper dekor pail in our room and another in his nursery.
In the top baskets, I keep lightweight pants, house shoes that are still a little big and onesies. As a newborn, these were both full of onesies.
I like to keep them folded the same and in color order so I can quickly find whatever I'm looking for.
The next baskets down hold blankets and shoes. As a newborn, I had his sleepwear in these drawers but we've since moved those things to his nursery.
The bottom drawers hold his swim wear, sunglasses and sun hats. All his swimming trunks were being washed when I snapped this pic. Obviously the other drawer has little baby socks.
We are never too far from a paci and toy! Moose continues to be a favorite.
Hope this gives you some ideas for a baby changing station – it's been a game changer for us. Have a great week!


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Travis Campbell leaves Far Bank Enterprises
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After eight years at the helm of Far Bank Enterprises Inc., owner of the Sage Manufacturing, Redington and RIO Products fly fishing brands, Travis Campbell is leaving the company.
He has been named as the next President of Smartwool, a subsidiary of VF Outdoor, owner of brands that include North Face, Timberland and Eagle Creek.
A report on the Angling Trade website says that Larry Barrett, Far Bank Vice President of Operations and a member of the Board of the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA), will serve as Interim President until a successor is named.
Campbell is quoted as saying: "Few opportunities could be compelling enough to lure me away from this wonderful place. But those who know me well know the allure of living in a mountain town. The chance to do that at Steamboats Springs, Colo., while also experiencing career advancement in the outdoor industry, is just too special to pass up."
Barrett expressed gratitude for Campbell's leadership and confidence in Far Bank's future. "We have an incredibly strong management team. Our company is experiencing record success and we have every reason to expect that to continue. We can be proud to work for a business that grows leadership talent that companies like Smartwool want to hire."
Stanley McCammon, CEO of the Joshua Green Corporation, owner of Far Bank since 1994, said: "Thanks to the leadership of Travis and the organisation's stellar executive group, the business is in great shape. Far Bank delivered record revenue and profitability in 2016 and even better results are expected this year. We are full steam ahead."


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FORT SMITH (KFSM) — At a Board of Directors study session on Tuesday (Aug. 28), the Fort Smith Department of Sanitation proposed its objectives for the upcoming year.
The department put forth five objectives, three which involved improving recycling.
- Begin an education and outreach program to teach the importance of recycling.
- Increase the customer base/market share of the industrial/Commercial collections divisions.
- Initiate citywide recycling ordinance for city facilities.
- Evaluate Dial-a-truck and cart delivery and maintenance.
- Free recycling drop off at the landfill.
Improving recycling within the city has become a big concern following a scandal that showed the city the city dumped nearly 90 percent of collected recyclable materials into the landfill from October 2014 to June 2016. The city didn't notify residents and continued running recycling trucks, which cost nearly $53,000 a month, according to a lawsuit filed against the city.
First, the department looks to develop a partnership program with local schools to teach students how recycling works and why it's important. They say the thought is that the students would then take the information home and apply it at home. The department says they need to start attending various HOA meetings, church meetings, etc. to talk about the state of recycling in the city.
The department would also like to initiate a citywide recycling ordinance for city facilities. Their plan includes providing a recycling service to all city facilities and departments and putting recycling bins and dumpsters in parts of the city with easy access for residents.
Another goal is to offer free recycling drop off at the city's landfill. The goal is to help residents living in multi-family complexes have access to recycling. Staff at the landfill would scan the load to make sure it was all expected materials in the recycling stream. Once full, recyclables would be hauled to Third Rock Recycling.


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I tend to nickel and dime my grocery expenses in order to save up for the next motorcycle to add to my collection. So I am very attuned to grocery prices and sales. As an example, I bought a nice supply of TP last year when it was selling for 25 cents a roll, paper towels were 50 cents a roll and tissues were $1 for a box of 250. I have been buying apples for 80 cents a pound and oranges for 50 cents a pound, along with 24 ounces of bread for $1.59 a package (when I decide not to bake my own bread), eggs for 99 cents a dozen, etc.
But ever since the virus hit and panic buying started, it was not surprise to me that prices for groceries and sundries started shooting up, sometimes as much as 50% in just a week. When that happened I really started to cut back on my trips to the local grocery stores, especially when I started seeing long lines of customers waiting to get in due the social distancing requirements. But what concerns me is that most people seem to be buying just about anything without even looking at the shelf price - which many times doesn't match up with the price you pay at the register anyway, as the staff is reloading the shelves without updating the prices nearly as fast as the people programming the store's computer.
Considering how people are going to be financially hurting this summer when their savings and the stimulus money starts running out, I really feel sorry for people who are going to have a tough time just affording food, especially as the stuff that goes a long way, such as rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, flour, etc. are being bought out as fast as they hit the shelves. Until people start to go back to work again and the economy starts inching upward, I foresee a really tough summer for many people. Already, nonprofit food pantries are being mopped, which is really tough for them as many of their volunteers are being kept away due to social distancing regulations and a reduction in donations due to the drop in the economy.
I am reminded of my grandfather, who worked in Oakland, CA, during the Great Depression and walked to work as he couldn't afford a car. He told me that he carried a pistol with him in case someone tried to rob him. He said that so many people were desperate to feed their families that they would rob and steal if they could, which was something that they would never have thought of doing before the depression. I really hope that things don't get that bad, but I guess it could happen.