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"I loved it so much I placed your link on our school website. Thank you!"
Using JoyTunes in class
JoyTunes was originally designed to boost students' practice motivation between lessons and speed up the teaching process. However, as the project started expanding we were surprised to find out that many teachers use it in a classroom setting, creating excitement and a positive buzz around their recorder lessons. Being Smart Board compatible,this program turned out to be a great content resource for various educational and fun class activities.
We divided the activity ideas to topics (the first 2 "Basic" topics are our own entries). We hope you find some nice ideas you can use and we wish you a great time and a lot of success. Here's the place to thank everybody who shared their great ideas with us!
- Basic 1: Presenting The Game in Class (with or without a Smart Board)
- Basic 2: Homework Assignments
- New Note Introduction
- Introduction to Reading Music
- Working on a Fingering Transition
- Learning a Song
- Preparing for a Class Performance
- Team Work
- Before a long Vacation
- Special Bonus Activities
Presenting the game in class: Basic Activity 1
This is the most basic activity we can recommend in order to get your students excited and starting to practice at home. If you have a Smart Board, this activity is ideal for you – extremely easy to execute and both educational and fun. If you don't, you can use the computer room in your school, or you can bring a projector and a computer to your classroom. You'll need internet connection, a microphone and speakers - to hear the accompanying music.
- Get the students excited about studying music in school (and overcome psychological barriers regarding music and recorders).
- Motivate the students to practice in between lessons.
- Improve the quality of your students' practice sessions.
- Improve teacher-student relations- create commitment to the teaching process.
Prepare the game in advance either on your smart board or with a projector and a computer. When your students arrive, have them sit not too far away from the screen. Tell them you prepared a surprise/bonus for them and show them the game. We recommend you start from a basic level (either a fly level of a basic target level) and explain what to do if needed (usually kids understand these things much faster than us, grownups...). Have them try it one by one while the others watch. This is a great opportunity to comment on each student's poster, sound, hand and finger position, tonguing etc. while the others watch and absorb your comments and can implement them even before they actually play.
Don't forget to show them where they can connect to you (with the "Connect to Teacher" tab inside the game). When they're connected to you, you can see how they're doing between lessons using our progress reports, and can adjust your teaching accordingly.
It's very important to make it clear for your students how to start playing (=practicing) – by going to www.joytunes.com/play. You can print the fun designed link page we created and simply hand out the links to your students. Or, if you have their emails, you can send them your personal link and when they click on it they enter the game already connected to you. You can find both the printable link page and your personal link in "My Classroom".
- Presenting the game at the beginning of the school year is recommended. This way the students get excited about playing and set their practicing routines. By the way, if music lessons at your school suffer from low esteem, this game may help...
- If you have microphone issues, you can pin the microphone on each student in his turn.
- Modeling in class is very effective and highly recommended. Your students will learn a lot from hearing and watching you play.
- Improvisation is welcomed: you can accompany the students, conduct 'mini-competitions' in class, etc. For more ideas, see the other activities on the list.
Posted by the JoyTunes team
Homework Assignments: Basic Activity 2
Music educators very often have a hard time motivating their students to practice their 10-20 minutes sessions at home. There are different tricks and incentives, some work more than others. However, this is exactly what we set off to do in JoyTunes – to create a homework platform that would boost the students' practice motivation and speed up your teaching process. This is the core of our doing and we invite you to try it out.
The Principle is Simple – there's a clear curriculum of where each note or finger transition is being practiced - for instance, the "B-A transition" in world 3, producing the note "Middle D" in world 12 etc.. You can see this list in the Game Curriculum tab and give your home assignments with it. In addition, there's also a score factor – in each level your students can collect between 1-3 notes as indication of performance. So for example, after teaching the notes B and A you can tell them - "for the next lesson please finish world 3 (the B-A transition). Whoever gets 3 notes in the last level gets a "great job!" sticker". Then you can open the progress report and see how they're doing at home - who finished world 3 easily, who had difficulties completing it and more.
Another way to go at it is by using our song index, where you can see which songs include which notes. To some you can even download the sheet music and playbacks for free (we couldn't get them all because of copyrights). The easiest thing would be to ask your students to play a certain song or 2 at home and perhaps get a high score. For example – "For next lesson I want you to collect 3 notes in the song "Hot Cross Buns" in page 5 (Recorder Express). I challenge you to unlock the bonus level in page 5!". Then you can continue the work on the song in class with a smart board, or simply by downloading its sheet music and playback. Recorder Master and Express have close to 100 popular and original songs to choose from. See Song Index
Posted by the JoyTunes team
New Note Introduction
Teaching the note G
"from my experience, teaching the note G is always tricky, especially with young kids with small hands. Common symptoms: air leaks from 3rd finger, the tone cracks or jumps an octave, etc. Usually the note G is quite discouraging for the kids. So this year I decided to try something else. I showed them the fingering for G (warning them about the air leaks) and gave them homework - to play the 4th world in the Recorder Master game where they work on producing G and the G-A transition. Get at least 2 award-notes, I told them (the high score). On the next lesson I played the "Blues" playback in class (with G and A) and they loved it. We played it several times, and every time I pinned the microphone to somebody else. Almost everybody got it right and there was hardly any cracking at all. I couldn't believe it! From the progress report I saw that most of the kids practiced more than 40 minutes at home, and some of them went on to practice B-A-G by themselves."
Sheril Demsky, music educator, CA
Introduction to Reading Music
The next letter was sent from one of our recorder teachers to be posted
"Regarding your question whether I used the game in class, the answer is yes as I found it useful in several occassions. My latest use was for starting to read music.
I personally prefer first to get to the point where my students can actually play something before I teach them to read music. The Recorder Master game fits my method very nicely since it's not staff based but still provides the main principles of reading music - physical locations of the birds correlate to tone heights, "stuffy birds" correlate with half tones, etc. After a while I move to the Express game (that uses staff lines) in order to make a smooth transition to reading music - and it works great.
So, here are the details:
What I did is this - I got to the point where they can play Mary Had a Little Lamb (Recorder Master, 7th world). They learned to play B-A-G without learning to read the notes, just by listening and playing the game. I then asked them to play the same song in Recorder-Express (called "Merrily We Roll Along", page 6 in the free area). The students already knew the song from the Recorder-Master, so the only thing added here was the staff lines and having notes instead of birds. I guess that's why it wasn't a problem at all for them. They succeeded playing it because they knew it already by heart, and the transition to staff lines wasn't an issue at all. In the next lesson I formally introduced the staff lines and saw that most of them got it easily - B is in the middle, A under that and so on. After that I went on to the different note values - quarters, half notes and eight notes. For each, I introduced it first in class and then gave them home assignments from the Recorder Express. For instance:
- "Suo Gan" (page 5) to practice quarters vs. half notes.
- "Hop Old Squirrel" (Page 8) - to practice eight notes.
- "The Frog" (page 7) to practice quarter rests, etc.
Seili Johnson, music educator, MA
Working on a Fingering Transition
Practicing the B-A transition:
"I teach the fingering for the note B, practice tonguing with it and then introduce the note A. Playing B and A together is always a leap and I spend several lessons finding fun ways to make that transition as smooth and clean as possible. I have several fun things I picked up over the years, but I have a bit of a weak group this year, so it was going slower than usual. A friend of mine told me about JoyTunes and I decided to try it. First, I sent all the parents a recommendation and my personal link. Then I showed the game in our next lesson, and told my students to reach world 3 (the B-A world). In the next lesson, I showed the game again in class with a projector, divided the class in two and played a level together - one group played only B and the other played the A's. First, each student played a note in his turn, and only then I let the group play unison. It worked great - my kids were so excited about it!! I look forward to trying it with G and with different songs."
Dana Mockert, music educator, CA
Learning A Song
"Songs are the main mile stones of my teaching. I want to give my kids a sense of accomplishment and the satisfaction of playing a melody as fast as I can - even as soon as they know their first 1 or 2 notes. It really drives them forward from my experience.
Your program really helped me accomplish that with my last group (thanks!!). On the very first lesson I showed them how to stand and hold their recorder (also no teeth etc.), taught them the note B, and demonstrated the game on the smart board. They were really excited of course, and it was a bit hard to control their enthusiasm. But the important thing was that I showed them where the song index is and told them that we're going to collect all these songs on the list. That made them excited and some were very eager to start. I showed them how to connect to me as my students from the game, and told them to complete the 1st world until our next lesson (I asked them not to go on to the 2nd world yet). On our next lesson we played the song "Country Ride" together using the smart board (It's only with B). First I put them in a row and each played 1 note in his turn, and then all together. That gave me the chance to comment each one, and everybody could hear and learn from it while they were waiting. I kept this format for a few lessons - giving them assignments to complete a world, and then working on a song or 2 together in class. After a few weeks, they were already playing with B-A-G together and they had all the songs of the first map unlocked. That's when I declared a "party" (I brought balloons and decorations) and we played the songs of the first map one by one "by request" (each student picked one). They were playing most of them anyway at home from the song index, so it went quite smoothly. I called the principle to come and hear it, and she was absolutely thrilled! Thanks for everything. I'll keep you posted how it goes on."
Jennifer (Jane) Flory, music educator, IL
Preparing for a Class Performance
I was already 4 months into the school year when a mom called me and asked me if I heard about JoyTunes. Her son (which is one of my students) was playing with it and she was wondering what I thought about it. Anyway, to make a long story short, I got into it and sent the link to my students who loved it. We already covered G to middle C but it was still great watching them have so much fun with their recorders. What I did find extremely useful was the song index tab, which I used to prepare for the school performance that was planned a few weeks after that. You have a pretty big selection of songs there (especially if you consider both games – Master and Express) and it was real easy telling my kids what to work on at home. We ended up playing both "Old McDonald" and the "Ode To Joy" arrangements - I never imagined I'd have enough time to prepare both. The way I went at it was to tell them specifically to collect at least 2 notes in "Old McDonald" at home (from their song index), and then I downloaded the song playback and sheets and we played it in class. It went so quickly that I decided to go for the Beethoven song as well. Just before the performance I planned a special lesson where I brought my laptop and a projector and we all played it together, which was a great preparation for the concert because they understood they have to play together or else it drives the game a bit crazy. I guess if you have a smart board that would be much easier to do.
Orrie Shifman, music educator, Texas
Team Work
This activity is a great ice breaker and a bonus activity. Along the way students also practice their timing, rhythm, hearing and general technique.
You need a projector, speakers, microphone and an Internet connection. Smart Boards are perfect of course.
- Choose a melody from the song index. Both Master and Express games work fine.
- Divide the class into groups; the number of kids in each group is equal the number of notes you want to practice.
- Each group is summoned to the 'stage' to play the game in front of the whole class. However, each player in the group is responsible for playing only one note. For example, in a group of 3, there is one who plays only Bs, one only As and one only Gs.
- The group needs to perform the melody together; each player needs to look and listen very carefully and play his/her note in the right sequence and timing.
- For example, to play 'Mary had a little lamb' you will need a group of 3 students, each plays one note but together they perform the whole melody.
- Homework assignments for "Superstars": Practice together, same format, until you are ready to perform in front of the whole class.
- To spice things and encourage the kids to practice together, you can announce a mini-competition between the groups (can create a lot of motivation, but also a lot of emotion - it's not suitable for every group)
Guy Larsson, music educator, NY
Before a long Vacation
This is something we got from a teacher who found the game especially useful when her students went on a long vacation -
"I'm very fond of this program, though I haven't used it extensively like I know others do. I introduced it once in class and I'm enjoying the progress reports since then. Other then that, I use it on the smart board every once in a while as a fun "ice breaker" activity (which works great, I have to say). But to answer your question, I was truly amazed on the first lesson I gave after the last Christmas vacation. I told them before they went away to reach page 12 in Recorder-Express, and also to choose 3 songs from pages 7-12 that they like and get the highest score in each. The result was amazing - they came to the lesson after Christmas as if our last lesson was just yesterday! Some even made a big improvement in ton quality... When I looked at the progress reports from Christmas later that day, I saw that most have spent hours of practice time during the vacation. Probably trying to unlock the bonus levels or get the highest scores I asked them to.
I never had that before. Usually the Christmas brake is a major step back. So thank you guys for this program. I'm definitely gonna do something with it on the summer vacation...
Danielle B., music educator, NY
Special Bonus Activities
Get Physical...
The following activity is called 'PM', which stands for Physical Music. You don't need any accessories, but if you want to make things nicer you can use 3-6 small poster-board squares with the name of the notes on them. The activity looks like this:
Choose 3-5 volunteers and have them stand in front of the class, each representing a note (B, A, G, etc. They can hold the poster-board squares, if available). Each time a volunteer raises his/her hand, the the whole class should play that note with their recorders. For example, when the 'G' kid raises his hand, the class plays the note 'G', and so forth.
Practice a little with the class, randomly. The kids will figure out the game in no time. After several tries, ask the group of volunteers if they can play a song with their hands. It should be an easy song, such as "Old McDonald", "Mary had a little lamb" or any other song from the song book. "Playing with hands" means that the volunteers need to figure out when to raise their hands (timing) and for how long (rhythm). The class should 'listen' to their hand-music, and the teacher can comment and correct if necessary. The next step would be to have the player/s follow the hand movement of the volunteers and play with the recorders accordingly.
The game is fun, fast and physical and can cause a commotion in class. It is great for tension release and highly activated kids, but also for "numb" classes that you want to wake up. You can also use it as fun activity in between projects or in special school activity days.
Masha Bikovsky, music educator, MA


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10 August 2010
Community Service #13 - The Year of Open Doors
Now for something a bit different to the 'norm', it's time to bring a little bit of culture to the blog, it's a first and probably the last time I'll feature any kind of literature on here. So why have I decided to run a feature on the The Year of Open Doors, initially it was because of the persuading powers of esteemed author Rodge Glass. Initially I was a but unsure as to why he was keen for me to do post about his latest project which brought together a collection of short stories from new Scottish writers. After meeting up with the man in person I was soon convinced, he's a very persuasive young man, so here we are. Yes it's a book and not some form of music, but there are plenty of musical links in here, there's also an audio book to go with it, featuring local luminaries including Aidan Moffat. I think it's about time that I pass you over to Rodge to give you a better incite as to what you can expect.....
Would you care to introduce yourself?
Sure. My name's Rodge Glass – I'm mostly known as a writer, of novels, of a biography of Alasdair Gray, and of short stories. But I'm also the singer in Burnt Island. We put out a mini album, Music and Maths, on Chaffinch Records in March, and are hoping to make an album in the next year or so.
So what is The Year of Open Doors?
On one level it's a collection of short stories by some of the best (mostly younger) writers in Scotland. It features a lot of the best performers of their work around at the moment – Aidan Moffat, Sophie Cooke, Tawona Sitholé, Alan Bissett – but also introduces brand new writers, some with very little experience but who show a lot of promise. It comes out of a tradition of performance, so it was really important for it to exist as an audiobook as well, and I'm really pleased it's going to.
What was the inspiration behind starting the project?
I don't know if you've heard about it, but apparently (ahem) there's some kind of recession on at the moment – and everyone in the arts knows that in these grim old times, art is one of the first things to get cut, and harshly. Which makes it tough, even in a vibrant, creative place like Scotland, to get opportunities, to get that support that turns a promising young artist into an older, great one. This book comes out of an independent, cross-arts Scottish tradition which puts art before money and doesn't wait for permission to attempt something interesting. It takes risks, and gets on with it. That's a tradition I was inspired by, and want to be part of. Being part of Ballads of the Book, the Chemikal Underground/Roddy Woomble project a few years ago, was a really positive experience for me, and since then I've wanted to curate projects of my own with a similar kind of thinking.
This is a music blog, why do you think the book would be of interest to my readers?
Fair question! Well, I think that there's a lot more crossover between art forms than a lot of people in the mainstream media realise. When I do readings of my works, there are a lot of the same folks that come to Burnt Island gigs, and I come across similar communities in both those worlds all the time. We don't live in a vacuum where we ONLY like music or art or literature….most folks with questioning minds are drawn to the alternative in ALL these forms. Also, Scottish music has a hugely impressive history of lyricists who are really poets, storytellers who deal in music. Whether it's James Yorkston or Rabbie Burns or Arab Strap or whoever in between, there's a really interesting space in between music and literature that I'm interested in exploring. There's a long tradition of this in countries all over the world. Take Leonard Cohen's best work (he was a novelist and poet before recording his first album) or nowadays someone like Willy Vlautin (the Richmond Fontaine guy who's published great books with Faber & Faber publishers in London) – there's an interesting space there. It doesn't need to be wanky or self-conscious, it is what it is. And there's people in our book who are also musicians – most obviously there's Aidan Moffat, who has done a spoken word album before and is moving more into the written word, but also Kevin MacNeil (his single 'Local Man Ruins Everything' was an NME single of the week) and Doug Johnstone, whose band Northern Alliance made three albums on Fence Records.
You seem to have brought in quite an array of people to take part in the project, ranging from household names to up and coming authors, was this a deliberate ploy on your part?
Absolutely. I'm not interested in this culture that puts certain people on a pedestal and treats them like royalty, and treats the young and inexperienced like crap. I didn't like it when I was working in pubs and cafés and daydreaming of writing a novel, and I don't like it now. A big part of the book is democratisation – saying, everyone, everywhere, here and now, is potentially as great as anyone else, anywhere else, since the beginning of time. That's not arrogant, it's hopeful. Hence all the scales on the book, and everyone's name in the same size lettering. I see the more famous folks as a way to get listeners and readers interested in new people they haven't heard of before. It's basically like one of the old mix tapes or CDs you get with a magazine…
The book is being put out through Cargo Publishing, a relatively new book publisher, how did that come about? And why did you decide to go a less well know name?
I've been fortunate in the past, being able to publish with big independent publishers for my books. But particularly in these grim old times, it's important to support the local, and particularly the youngest out there, who are daft enough to be ambitious, despite all the news and 24 hour media constantly telling folks what a waste of time young people are, and how there's no hope for jobs anyway. Cargo is run by an ex-student of mine, Mark Buckland, who is 23, very smart, from Glasgow, and very determined. He has 9 interns all of similar age just starting out in publishing, who are keen to get experience, and are much more energising to work with that some of the older, more experienced, more cynical folks I've come across over the years. It's pretty inspiring. And when I told Mark exactly what I wanted to do, he said YES. There's not much more you can ask for.
You have hooked up with Chemikal Underground to release The Year of Open Doors as an audio book, who do you have lined up for that? And when might we see it?
For me, this is part of the connection with Ballads of the Book. Chemikal is a great Scottish independent, a label that has built itself up from nothing, as Cargo is doing, and is a great example to anyone in this country interested in art-before-cash, intelligent thinking. When I first moved to Glasgow in 1997 it was the label, the only label I was a fan of, and it's still relevant today, if you look at folks like The Phantom Band, Adrian Crowley and Zoey Van Goey, as well as the many incarnations of the Chemikal originals. (My current favourite is The Unwinding Hours.) Ballads was a really good experience for Chemikal, I think, and they are interested in this space between the art forms, as we are – it's an experiment, of course, but we wanted to see whether we could persuade people to take a chance on downloading a story for the price of a song. So we've got 15 of the Open Doors authors to perform their own work and are making these available exclusively on the Chemikal site. As Alan Bissett says, 'If it's dead in your mouth, it's dead on the page' – and I think that's one of the things that marks out this generation of writers in Scotland. They're bolder about performing their work, they've come up through live nights that also feature music like Discombobulate (The Arches) Goldenhour (Forest Café, Edinburgh), Words Per Minute (Creation Studios), and they're not rocking back and forth in their garrets, waiting for cult status to come along. That makes the work more immediate, more direct, and often, more fun.
You have quite events lined up for this Edinburgh Festival, would you care to share what you have planned?
Well, we have three Open Doors events at the Festival, each featuring a different line-up of writers from the book, but I'm most excited about the final night of the festival, when we're launching the audiobook in the Spiegeltent – we've got Adrian Crowley doing a special solo set, Burnt Island, Alan Bissett and Ryan Van Winkle and Doug Johnstone doing short readings from the book, and a very special guest we can't possibly announce yet. But trust me, it's a good un. Soon as we can release who it is, I do solemnly swear to let Peenko know first…how's that? - Sounds like a good deal to me!
Lastly, what can we expect to see in the future? Do you have any other events planned? Are there any plans to do something like this again in the future?
There's gonna be a whole tour through the summer and autumn, taking in Edinburgh, Dundee, festivals all over the place, Kirkintilloch (of course!) – and look out for the Platform event – that's the fantastic new venue in Easterhouse that Alun Woodward is involved with these days. We'll be doing something really special there on September 12th, and will be featuring some of the best of the new writers we have, Tawona Sitholé is amazing, Anneliese Mackintosh who is one of the best performers around, as well as Allan Wilson and the one and only Alan Bissett. Whether he'll be pretending to be a tough woman from Falkirk is as-yet-unknown....
Thanks to Mark at Cargo Publishing I can share a couple of extracts from the audio book with you all. The first clip is from the legend that is Aidan Moffat, followed by extracts from Alan Bissett and hugely talented up and coming author Allan Wilson.
Aidan Moffat - The Donaldson Boy (extract)
Allan Bissett - Celebrity (extract)
Allan Wilson - The End (extract)
The Year of Open Doors is available to buy now over on Amazon and directly through Cargo Publishing. Cargo have also posted their latest podcast which is all about The Year of Open Doors, you can listen to it here.
Cargo Publishing
Rodge Glass
Chemikal Underground
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The Keys – Bitten By Wolves
aaamusic | On 25, Apr 2011
They Keys' debut album 'Bitten By Wolves' has a clear identity, evoking the essence of classic bands such as The Charlatans and The Coral , they have managed to conquer both the acoustic and amplified sounds of nineties guitar music and share it with us.
The heavily lethargic nature of the album sounds as if the entire band were suffering from heatstroke – but in reality their 'relaxed' sounds are motivated by heavy chord patterns, the wide drum patterns and the syllables of the lyrics that elongate themselves across their choruses like a sunned cat.
I really wish I could say more. The album is pretty straightforward, it's traditional in respect to structure, chilled in respect to its sound but one key point is that the album sounds as if the songs were created for the album not an album created for a collection of singles, from the frightening howling wolf sounds that open up 'heads of the valley' to the haunting instrumental track, 'transformations', there is a strong sense of cohesion.
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Father Cassilly discusses two more characteristics of true friendship: the desire to be in the presence of the beloved and the desire to make sacrifices for the beloved.
As to the first, he draws upon the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, who regarded the nature of friendship such that "friends are impelled to seek each other's company, for the heart desires the presence of the object it loves."
Father Cassilly adds: "Friendship is best content when basking in the sunshine of the friend's countenance. It is but pain and duress, said Buddha, to be separated from what we love. Yet, almost irresistibly as one is drawn to the presence and conversation of a friend, this propensity does not constitute the essence of friendship, which is rather to rest in the well-being of another."
Regarding the desire to makes sacrifices for one's friend, he writes: "It is characteristic of friendship to make, and wish to make, sacrifices for another. Sunshine friendship, the idle sport of a summer day, endures only so long as it is pleasant and agreeable, and cannot weather the storms of adversity. When the halcyon days of prosperity are gone, and dark clouds shut in the horizon of the soul, and chilling blasts freeze the heart, then is the time when the cheer and warmth of friendship are needed most. To love as long as convenient is but another name for selfishness. But to come to the assistance of another, when it means the sacrifice of ease and comfort, the risking of property, and the braving of the world's obloquy—this is the part of friendship loyal and true."
"The inspired writer tells us he is a friend that 'loveth at all times, and a brother is proved in distress' (Prov 17:17). Nor does it matter that the object of affection be poor and outcast, but rather the more helpless and pitiable he is the more attentive and solicitous is the friend. And in such circumstances is friendship proved as gold in the furnace."
"Friendship is everywhere, but it reaches its perfection of growth only in generous natures. Splendid examples of it are scattered through history, and are conserved in sacred and profane literature. Jonathan's soul was knit to David's, Ruth would not leave Noemi, and Paul never forgot his spiritual son, Timothy."
Quotations from Francis Cassilly, A Story of Love, 2d ed. (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1917).


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This workshop will aim to identify how to create affirming spaces for the LGBTQ and allied community. There has been some advances in the equality of the LGBTQ community however there are still disparities, misunderstandings and outright prejudice. This workshop will define what sexual orientation is as well as gender. We will also discuss the importance of using the proper language while working within this community. We will also discuss the best practices of working within this community. Finally, resources will be provided.
Monday May, 13
Port Jefferson
• Identify what sexual orientation is and what it isn't.
• Discuss what Gender is and what it isn't
• Explore Socioeconomic disparity between people who identify as LGBTQ and the larger community
• Discuss the importance of language in the LGBTQ community
• Identify Best Practices for creating affirming spaces for Clients, Workers and Allies of the LGBTQ Community
Michael Chiappone, LMSW


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The aim of this study was to analyze narratives of violence and explore how this relates to one's own violence. By means of the theory of differential associations and social learning theory, the development of violent behavior was understood and interpreted. Through a hermeneutic approach, seven life stories from the Stockholm Life-Course Project, were interpreted, where child maltreatment and own use of violence had occurred. The main results showed that the individuals experienced that the childhood had characterized their lives and that they developed a behavior of violence. The violence has been interpreted for strategic purposes but also of pure instinct. The results were problematized with the previous research. The study's conclusion is that exposure to child maltreatment constitutes a risk factor for developing violent behavior. However, the relationship is complex and no causal statements can be made based on our research method and our sample.
Socialstyrelsen presenterar en katastrofal ökning av psykisk ohälsa bland unga och tolkar det som en reell ökning av psykiska sjukdomar. Vilket leder till rubriker med ord som epidemi. Men slutsatsen håller inte rent vetenskapligt. Vi måste ta signalerna från unga på allvar, men risken för en medikalisering av normala livserfarenheter är uppenbar, skriver tre forskare.
SLUTREPLIK DN DEBATT 22/5. Olivia Wigzell och Thomas Lindén från Socialstyrelsen har kommenterat vårt inlägg när det gäller psykisk ohälsa bland barn och unga. Det framkommer inte något nytt i deras svar som i stort sett repeterar innehållet i myndighetens rapporter i ämnet under senare år, skriver forskarna Ingemar Engström, Sven Bremberg och Sofia Wikman.
The aim of the study was to investigate how officials of the social services and the police perceived inter-organizational collaboration. More specifically inter-organizational collaboration as a method in the work against intimate partner violence. The study also aimed to examine how they perceive the authorities' roles in such cooperation. In order to investigate this, semi-structured interviews have been carried out with officials from both authorities. The interviews were conducted both in the preliminary stage and after a collaborative project against intimate partner violence. The study's result showed that the idea of cooperating against this type of problems has a strong support among the officials of both authorities. Factors that are perceived as the most important for effective collaboration are a clear division of responsibilities between the actors; to have the collaboration on an institutional level, instead of interpersonal, administrative coordination and ensuring that the collaboration has sufficient resources. The result also showed that the officials of the two authorities had a clear conception what constitutes as their professional role. That clear conception can create an uncertainty within the actor when he or she is expected to act in a manner that is not in line with his or her perception of the role.
Title: They are searching for the holes in their bodies and souls – desistance from violent Islamic extremism, a qualitative approach. This essay aims to provide a deeper understanding and insight into why individuals choose to leave violence-promoting Islamist environments. The choice of method has been qualitative. The essay consists of four semi-structured interviews with key informants. The interview material has been transcribed and coded individually by both authors. The study has taken an integrated theoretical approach where the main framework consists of a life course perspective supported by Hirschi's theory of social bonds, Merton's theory of strain and Sutherland's theory of differential associations. The main findings show that possible turning points with regards to desistance related to violence-promoting Islamist environments primarily consists of aspects related to belonging and social contexts. In other words, this essay shows that social relations are an integral part with regards to desistance. The findings closely correspond to those of previous studies within the field. The findings are supported by the study's theoretical framework where pro-social community interactions strengthen the social bonds to society through differential associations, this in turn leads to a decreased amount of strain.
Previous research illustrated that the laws regulating involuntaryplacement and treatment of persons with mental health problems arevery diverse across countries. International studies comparingsatisfaction levels between countries are rare. We compared the opinionsof professionals and family members about the operation of the nationalmental health law regulating forcibly admission and treatment ofpsychiatric patients in eleven countries: Ireland, Iceland, England &Wales, Romania, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway andIndia. An online survey design was adopted using a Mental HealthLegislation Attitude Scale (MHLAS). This brief 9-item questionnaire wasdistributed via e-mail to psychiatrists, general practitioners, acute andcommunity mental health nurses, tribunal members, police officers and family members in each collaborating country. The levels ofagreement/disagreement were measured on a Likert- scale. Data wereanalysed both per question and with regard to a total MHLAS 'approval'score computed as a sum of the 9 questions. We found that respondentsin England & Wales and Denmark expressing strongest approval for theirnational legislation (76 and 74% respectively), with those in India andIreland expressing the least approval (65 and 64% respectively). Almostall countries had a more positive attitude in comparison with Ireland onthe admission criteria for involuntary placement and the way people aretransferred to psychiatric hospitals. There are significant variationsacross Europe and beyond in terms of approval for how the nationalmental health law framework operates in each country.
The aim of this research has been to investigate how during 2018 media have described causes of female prostitution and how these descriptions relate to earlier research on female prostitution. In order to fulfill the aims of the study a qualitative content analysis was carried out on 17 articles from Aftonbladet and DN. The result of this investigation has shown that newspaper articles express several different reasons for female prostitution that can be related to earlier research on prostitution. However there is an overstatement of causes with compelling character. Based on the sensational journalism theory, it is understood that these types of articles are overrepresented as they contain greater measure of sensation and higher news value. The results of the study are discussed from the theoretical agenda-setting perspective. It has been interpreted that the public's beliefs about causes of female prostitution are affected by reports in media about compelling causes.
This article is based on an evaluation of the crime prevention work that is being done in partnership between municipalities and the local police in Stockholm county. The purpose was to provide an overview of the work and point out focus areas for further development. The evaluation is based on quantitative content analysis of official documents written for the local crime prevention work and interviews with the local police and the crime prevention coordinators at the municipalities.
One of the most prominent results was that analysing the causes of crime and establishing measurable goals for the effect of crime prevention is found difficult. The municipalities in the form of political self-governing agencies were also found difficult to collaborate with. Decisions, which are made at the top levels, take a very long time since it's a very bureaucratic organisation. However, effective communications within the organisations helped spread knowledge, which strengthened the work. The conclusion was made from the prominent results that these factors all had the ability to affect the works legitimacy.
This current study investigated priests, in the church of Sweden, working in custody and/or prison. Do priests experience any change in the prisoners' lives during the time they are held in prison? The qualitative study consists of semi structured interviews with five priests. They were interviewed during summer 2019. The study shows that all of the priests experienced that many of the prisoners changed attitudes concerning their lives and their situation. They expressed the desire of another kind of life. Unexpectedly the study also shows the change the priests undertook, working with the prisoners. The priests expressed feelings about deeper spirituality and a sense of rich meaningfulness. The study shows that the priests experienced that almost all of the prisoners had a strong wish of living a non-criminal life. The road to this life is the one which consists of many new and constant contacts with a socially accepted environment.
The aim and purpose of this study was to investigate how the newspapers portrays and constructs the victims and offenders in the case of Lisa Holm. The collected material came from articles gathered from two of Sweden's leading newspapers. A critical discourse analysis was used through Faircloughs three-dimensional model to analyse text, discourse practice and social practice. Then the results were analysed with help of Christies theory of the ideal victim. The results and conclusions drawn showed strong indicators that Lisa Holm can be recognized as an ideal victim and that Nerijus Bilevicius to a certain degree possesses, according to the theory's framework, an ideal offender.The family and relatives, in addition, have influence over the strengtheningof the constructed roles, most importantly regarding Lisa Holm's role as a ideal victim. The results are in line with previous research, which shows that the articles reproduce discourses about victimhood, stereotypical offenders and offenders with different ethnic backgrounds.
Construction of culprits within criminal policy programs: A critical discourse analysis.
The purpose of this study was to make visible discourses within criminal policy before the elections of 2018 through analysis of the established political parties ́ criminal policy programs. Method qualitative content analysis was used to bring out categories, later analysed with Fairclough ́s critical discourse analysis. Constructions of culprits as "foreigner", "in gang", "organized", "young", "male" and "non-ethical Swedish" emerged. Other groups were crime victims identified as "children", "juveniles", "elders", "females" and "entrepreneurs/business owners". The crimes observed were honor crimes, terrorism, crimes of violence (especially domestic violence), sexual offences and internet-based crime. The constructions may create a skewed interpretation of criminality and feelings of "us and them". This may lead to "them" labelled as the criminals and "us" as their potential victims. The discourses in the programs therefore risk sustaining unequal power configurations in society.
Background: Understanding how formerly imprisoned drug users perceive the possibilities and problems associated with entering the job market is important as it could help the reintegration of these individuals into society. The aim of this study was to explore formerly imprisoned polydrug users'narratives about unemployment.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 former prison inmates with extensive prior drug use. The interviews were coded and analysed using a categorical-content, narrative analysis approach.Results: The interviews revealed that although the respondents did not regard themselves as having been unemployed, some mentioned stress during periods in which they lacked a legal occupation. The participants also talked about the importance of being committed to one's work and described that it was not only employment in itself that was important, but also being able to value or appreciate their employment. Most respondents argued that they had never been dismissed from work because of their drug use, but descriptions of workplace deviance were common in the interviews, e.g. stealing, selling drugs, burglary, using drugs at work.
Conclusions: The respondents seemed to lack an identity as either unemployed or employed, which may constitute a problem when they enter the job market in the future.
ABSTRACTFires in school buildings are a major problem in Sweden. However, there is lack of research about juveniles? attitudes to this phenomenon. The aim of this study was to investigate how high school students in Sweden discussed arson and firesetting. Semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews were conducted with 32 high school students (aged 14?15). It was found that although most students argued that playing with fire were common phenomena in their schools, deliberate firesetting was said to be less common. In contrast to previous research the students in this study argued that both girls and boys were equally involved in firesetting and fire play. There was a consensus that arson was a serious problem and a problem that should be prevented.
The purpose of this study was to examine what experience Swedish police officers have of traffic stops and on which premises they decide to control a vehicle in traffic. Through semi structured interviews with five police officers, it appeared that they generally had difficulties in answering questions regarding their experience of traffic stops. The results indicate that these experiences seem to facilitate the work for the policemen, simultaneously the experiences appear to result in unwanted behaviour. Their experiences are that the work have developed through the years. Beyond delinquency, there seems to be no clear premises regarding decision making in traffic stops. Despite that the participants stated similar premises, among others; traffic violence, intelligence information and the feeling that something doesn't feel right. Associated with traffic stops the selection for decision making is done by general profiling and something that police officers refers to as building blocks. However, there were different opinions regarding what have formed their premises.
The aim of the study was to examine the importance of salvation in desistance from crimein a group of criminals, and what keeps them from turning back to crime. In order toanswer the study's questions, semi-structured interviews were conducted with redeemedand non-redeemed prisoners and former prisoners in Colombia. Based on the interviews,a thematic analysis was made covering the underlying causes of crime, the reason forsalvation and the reason for not turning back to crime. All interviewees agreed thatsalvation became a turning point in their lives as they decided to change. Financial andsocial support in various forms and God is described by the interviewees as the reason fornot turning back to crime. In conclusion, it seems that a combination of God and materialthings are required for not turning back to crime, and that the interviewees made an activechoice to stop committing crimes.
The purpose of the study was to find out if the influential arrangements that is given to convicted delinquents between 15-17 years old is practised because they have evidence or if it is based on other grounds. The research questions were answered with the help of a questionnaire and interviews. The questionnaire was sent to all 290 local authorities whereof 52 answered the questions. The result indicated difficulties to get information regarding which arrangements that is being used, the local authorities have various ways of working and the programs and/or routines they use make it hard to access statistics. The most common influential arrangements were programs made by the local authorities themselves, which brings difficulties with the evidence of treatment effects. Interviews were carried out with three persons from social services who work with delinquents. The results showed that the choices were made on the basis of guidelines if there were any available, otherwise out of a feeling or experience. The conclusion was that there often seems to be a consideration regarding the evidence of treatment effects when arrangements are chosen, but that the choice many times still occur based on other premisses.
The controversy over gender differences in exposure to domestic violence (DV) seems to be a never-ending story. Researchers on one side of the debate argue that men and women are equally victimized (gender symmetry), while researches on the other side of the debate argue that women are victimized to larger extent, and with greater severity (gender asymmetry). Evidence for gender symmetry is based mainly on quantitative data from a plentitude of surveys measuring gender differences in perpetration and exposure to intimate partner violence. The asymmetry perspective, on the other hand, emphasizes investigation of contextual factors (e.g. the impact and meaning of violence) but have been based on studies that to a lesser extent include both men and women. Hence, there are conceptual and methodological differences between studies that find gender symmetry and those that propose gender asymmetry. We will present a survey performed to measure the prevalence of exposure to DV among men and women in the municipality of Gävle, Sweden. The presentation will highlight the significance of coercive control, temporal aspects, and impact of violence in measurement and understanding of gender differences in exposure to DV. Results from the survey suggest that women had been more exposed than men to all types of violence measured (psychological, sexual, physical, economicalmaterial, latent violence and negligence), that female exposure were more often repeated, and lead to more severe consequences than did male exposure to DV. We also found that having children with the perpetrator, which was more common among women, was a stronger predictor of negative consequences than any single type of violence. We will also present results concerning children of DV victims and experiences of help seeking and reporting violence.
This population-based time-trend study examines gun violence rates among males in Sweden during the years 1996 to 2015 and compares the rate in Sweden to other Western European countries. Data were collected from six registries and are presented descriptively per 100,000 inhabitants. The risks among males in Sweden increased considerably in both lethal and non-lethal gun victimization and perpetration. Among males aged 15 to 29 there was a five-fold increase in risk for victimization in lethal and non-lethal gun violence during the 20-year observation period. In a comparative perspective the rate of gun homicide victimization among males 15 to 29 years was higher in Sweden compared to other Western European countries, while the risk for males over age 30 was at an average level. Based on the results of this study we conclude that gun violence among young males in Sweden has been on the rise and is at a high level compared to other Western European countries. The development of gun violence in Sweden can be characterized as endemic, prevalent in both population and socially vulnerable areas.
The aim and purpose of the study was to investigate how the newspapers portrays and constructs the victims and offenders in the case of Lisa Holm. The collected material came from articles gathered from two of Sweden's leading newspapers. A critical discourse analysis was used through Faircloughs three-dimensional model to analyse text, discourse practice and social practice. The results were analysed with help of Nils Christie's theory of the ideal victim. The results and conclusions drawn showed strong indicators that Lisa Holm can be recognized as an ideal victim and that Nerijus Bilevicius to a certain degree possesses, according to the theory's framework, an ideal offender. The family and relatives, in addition, have influence over the strengthening of the constructed roles, most importantly regarding Lisa Holm's role as an ideal victim. The results are in line with previous research, which shows that the articles reproduce discourses about victimhood, stereotypical offenders and offenders with different ethnic backgrounds.
The purpose of this study was to examine whether interrogators within the various police departments experienced legal certainty in using interpreter at interrogation. The material for the study was collected through six qualitative, semi-structured interviews with interrogators who had experience in interrogation where interpreter participated. The result was presented through a qualitative content analysis. Previous research within the current subject, communication theory and Merton's theory of strain formed the basis for the analysis of the interview material. The results showed that the experiences of the interviewees were that legal certainty is affected by police interrogations where an interpreter participates. Furthermore, we could deduce this into five different aspects. These were thematised to the interpreter's role in the interrogation context, the interpreter's way of attending, the interpretation of the interpreter, the lack of communication, and the background of the interpreter.
Våld och hot i arbetslivet är inte enbart ett arbetsmiljöproblem utan även ett demokratiproblem. Hantering av arbetsrelaterat våld och hot regleras i arbetsmiljölagen och Arbetsmiljöverkets föreskrifter. Arbetsgivaren är ansvarig för det förebyggande arbetet som ska utföras i samarbete med skyddsombud och medarbetare. En utgångspunkt i arbetsmiljölagen är att kartlägga de risker som finns i verksamheten. Betoningen av den stabila, formella sidan av arbetsmiljöarbete sker dock ofta på bekostnad av en utveckling i form av arbetstagarmedverkan. Styrning som inte tar kontextuell hänsyn till arbetstagare eller klienter medför negativa konsekvenser. Strategier som inte harmonierar med det faktiska arbetet och regler som hämmar kreativitet och anpassning innebär en begränsning - inte bara för de scenarion vi i förebyggande syfte kan föreställa oss, utan också för att vi berövas en källa till tillit, diversitet och innovation. Den här artikeln beskriver hur två perspektiv hämtade från fältet "resilience engineering" kan komplettera kriminologin för att användas för att analysera hur arbetsmiljölagen implementeras på olika arbetsplatser i syfte för att förebygga hot och våld.
"Research on preventing violence at school is about simple things, such as safeguarding relationships and making sure that both yourself and others are doing well. According to the research, there is support that a systematic work environment work in everyday life can prevent violence ", writes Sofia Wikman.


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Miss Manil Wearakoon demonstrates how to wear a Sari - she has a large collection.
Short Summary
London. Sent for rewashing - dirt on neg. Will be retransferred.
L/S of woman standing in a room with large swathes of fabric decorating the walls and floor. She is wrapping a piece of fabric around her body. The narrator speaks of the "art of dress" and the Sari of India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Miss Manil Wearakoon (or Maniel Weerakoon?) has a collection of over 300 Saris. She explains how to wear a Sari over a shots of her wrapping the Sari around her waist and over her shoulder. Good C/Us of her attaching the fabric around her waist and of her face as she concentrates on her task.
She ends her description by saying that the Sari is "Simple, comfortable and extremely feminine."
See separate explanation record CP 001: 'International Pictorials'.
- Film ID:
- 25.10
- Media URN:
- 15477
- Group:
- Colour pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 10/01/1955
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Colour
- Duration:
- 00:00:45:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:21:18:00 / 01:22:03:00
- Canister:
- CP 002 Dom


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The Lords and Ladies of Connacht threw a festival in Oyama last weekend, drawing commoners from throughout the village who were eager to escape the drudgery of the working week.
Swords clashed as knights and their squires faced off in battle, artisans crafted trinkets, and minstrels filled the air with music.
The Duchy of Connacht is the Okanagan chapter of the Adrian Empire, an eclectic group of individuals who share a common interest in all things medieval.
"Without a doubt our biggest attraction at these events is our swordplay," said His Grace Ruaidhri Silverhand, Duke of Connacht.
Silverhand carried on adding that all kinds of interests are represented in the 45 member Duchy. Weaponsmiths and armorsmiths are a natural fit to support the needs of combatants. Other members choose to focus on medieval sciences or arts. The group in Oyama on Saturday night included luthiers, a harpist, a glass bead maker and more.
The Adrian Empire is a North America wide organization with an estimated membership of 1,500 to 2,000. It is organized into duchies, arch-duchies and kingdoms depending on the membership size of its regional groups.
The Empire distinguishes itself from similar groups in that the sword fighting is unchoreographed. New members that want to learn to fight are taken under the guidance of accomplished knights who have studied the same combat texts that knights in medieval times learned from. Squires, as the knights-in-training are called, start off learning the techniques using a wooden practice sword and depending on their commitment can expect to work their way up to steel weapons in a year or so.
To find out more about joining the Adrian Empire visit www.connacht.ca.
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Shama (WR), May 17, GNA, - Mr Joseph Amoah, District Chief Executive for the Shama district on Thursday inaugurated a new kindergarten block for the Shama Catholic school.
The school block solely funded by the district has three classrooms, a staff common room, washrooms and toilets.
Mr Amoah underscored the importance of education, stressing that, it was the foundation for the development of every country.
He said the assembly considered education as an essential part of development and has therefore made it a priority.
The DCE said the assembly has renovated the Essaman and Assorkor schools while that of Aboadze and Inchaban were ongoing.
Mr Amoah said the renovated schools would enable school children to have access to quality education and also help to improve teaching and learning.
He said the assembly had provided about 1,300 dual desk to various schools in the district, adding that, government was doing its best to improve education and called on stakeholders to as a matter of urgency help to achieve this.
Mrs Efua Amoakoah Quansah, the district Director of Education said education brings a lot of benefits for the development of a country and must not be taken for granted.
She mentioned inadequate infrastructure to facilitate teaching and learning as a major challenge in the educational sector.
Mrs Quansah pleaded with the beneficiary school to take good care of the new school block to ensure that its life span.
Mr. Joseph Isaiah Mensah assembly member for Etsifi electoral area, in a welcoming address, commended government for completing the project on schedule.
He said the new school block would go a long way to improve upon teaching and learning and also ensure that the pupils stayed in school.
Mr Lawrence Oscar Gaisie, headmaster of the school thanked the assembly for the new school block, which he said would help reduce congestion in many of the classrooms and pledged that everything would be done to maintain it.
Mr Gaisie said the school lacked infrastructure and appealed to philanthropists, cooperate bodies, churches and individuals to help the school yo realise its dreams.


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Read our review below about Nail Renew Fungal Nail Renewal Treatment, a topical fungus formula that is intended to eliminate the fungal agents that are responsible for destroying your nails. It combats fungus that develops at the surface and underneath your nail by penetrating the bed of your finger and toenails.
- Aloe Vera
- Peg-8 (Polyethylene Glycol 8)
- Compound Blends
Aloe vera has properties that help inhibit fungal growth. It's natural properties are full of nutrients and vitamins that are easily absorbed by the body, and help to provide relief and soften the infected area. Peg-8' purpose is to penetrate the nail bed and deliver antifungal properties to the source of the fungus. The compound blends also contribute in targeting the agents that develop the fungus. The above ingredients are disclosed on the manufacturer's website. However, on one of the third-party retailers website the ingredients are different. It is stated that the active ingredient in this product is Tolnaftate, which is confusing.
The recommended application is 1 to 3 drops two times a day to fingernails or toenails. It is also mentioned that some users might need to apply it more frequently during the day to speed the results. It is suggested that you first clean your nails, cut the excessive infected nails, file them, then apply the formula and allow it to dry.
You can purchase this product through the manufacturer's website at varying prices. One bottle costs $59.95. However, you pay $39.95 per bottle if you buy three bottles at once, and you do not pay the shipping costs. You pay $35.95 if you buy 5 bottles, and you also do not pay for shipping.
Guarantee & Feedback
The manufacturer offers a 60-day money-back guarantee for the consumers. This is good because it assures the consumers that the manufacturer cares about their satisfaction. Money-back guarantee means that you can return the product anytime within the stipulated period if you somehow are not satisfied with the product, for a refund. There are only 11 reviews on this product, which is not good and not enough to help prospective consumers in making their purchasing decisions.
Our Conclusive Review about Nail Renew Fungal Nail Renewal Treatment
Nail Renew Fungal Nail Renewal Treatment seems to be a promising product for combating fungus on your fingernails and toenails. The manufacturer supports this claim with a money-back guarantee, showing that they are confident on the effectiveness of the product. We like that they are honest on their website by stating that results may differ per individuals. Moreover, they are prepared to refund you within 60 days if it does not work for you. This is all good, however, we have few concerns. We discovered that the information on the ingredients posted on one of the retailer's website are different to those posted on the manufacturer's website, but the product is exactly the same. This is a huge concern because it is important that information regarding ingredients is clear, to ensure consumer safety. Some individuals might be allergic to certain ingredients. We are also concerned that there are only 11 reviews on this product, because that tells us that there are few people who have bought it. It is difficult for us to recommend something that its effectiveness has not been confirmed by many. The confusion on the ingredients is also another issue. We recommend that you rather look for something else.


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Public support for the Exeter Community Library has always been appreciated, but never more so than during the Quarter Bid Raffle, one of the library's largest fundraisers. In the last event, the quarter bids brought in over $6,600 in support of the library.
According to Linda Strain, the event's coordinator and one of the emcees, the Quarter Bid Raffle is unlike any other fundraiser in Berks County. Participants are encouraged to bring rolls of quarters and bid on items as they come up for raffle. Attendees receive numbered paddles, but in order to participate, they must do more than raise their assigned number. They must also toss one, two, or three quarters (as designated by the emcee) into a pot at their table. If they've raised their paddle, paid their quarters, and their number is called as the winner, they've won the item on stage.
Essentially, bidders can win items for anywhere from 25 to 75 cents. Prizes include gift cards, baskets, jewelry, admission to amusement parks, ghost tours, baseball games, a tour of the state capital, and over 150 other items. The event not only generates funds for the library, but lots of laughs for attendees as they vie for their favorite items.
This year's Quarter Bid Raffle takes place on Sunday, April 28th at the Reiffton School Cafeteria at 4355 Dunham Dr. in Reading, 19606. Admission for the raffle is $15 per person, but attendees must be 18 years of age or older to bid on items in the raffle. The event starts at 1 p.m., but lunch is available for purchase at noon when the doors open and attendees can preview the items up for raffle. Admission tickets are available at the Exeter Community Library's circulation desk and can be purchased through April 27th.
The Quarter Bid Raffle is one of the events offered to the public with the help of many volunteers and local businesses. For more information, visit www.berkslibraries.org/exeter or the Exeter Community Library Facebook page. Through its varied programs, the Exeter Community Library aims to serve the community as a center of learning, accessible recreation, practical tools, and nearly 500 free programs designed for children and adults to participate in throughout the year.


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Gor'drek wants you to gather 4 Dusts of the Fey Drake. After doing so, return to him at Thunderlord Stronghold in the Blade's Edge Mountains.
The Alliance has recently moved in to the west, using their elven magics to grow a town and grove in a short matter of time. We must keep their defenses weak so that they do not also grow a spine. I have a plan that will do that and more. I want you to traverse the bridge to the southwest, which crosses over Bloodmaul Ravine and leads into the Living Grove. Attack their fey drake defenses in the Living Grove and bring back the magical dust that sometimes can be found upon their wings.
It would seem that the Alliance is determined to follow us wherever we go. Let us teach them that we are not intimidated by their presence. Do you have that which I have requested?
Not only have you weakened their defenses, but we're going to put this dust to use in bolstering our own defenses against the Alliance.
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
- 11300 XP (or 6 78 at level 70)
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All forms of quackery are reprehensible but the exploitation of the potentially terminally ill, and the dissuasion from pursuing actual medical treatment is especially heinous.
On Tuesday the 15th of August at a Holiday Inn conference room in Liverpool two of my colleagues from the Merseyside Skeptics Society and I attended a talk entitled "Censored for Curing Cancer". Also in attendance were around 70 members of the public – some of whom were cancer patients.
The talk had been promoted as a tell-all in spite of censoring and was open to any member of the public through Eventbright ticketing for £20 in advance or for a cost of £30 on the door. The speaker, Patrick Vickers runs the Northern Baja Gerson Centre clinic in Mexico where, as Patrick described it, "we're treating advance terminal diseases. Not just cancer but virtually every single disease we're successfully treating, and we're doing it with Gerson Therapy".
I heard about the talk through social media, the poster was shared around by alternative medicine proponents with promises of an…
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Scrambler motorcycles are getting popular globally and after Ducati, it is Triumph Motorcycles that will be expanding its Scrambler range with a larger capacity engine. While the upcoming Triumph Scrambler 1200 was spotted testing earlier this year, UK-based Visordown now reports that there might not be one, but two iterations of the Scrambler 1200 when it goes on sale. Much like the middleweight Triumph Street Scrambler 900, the upcoming 1200 cc version will be sharing its underpinnings with the Bonneville range, while the motor in question is the 1200 cc parallel-twin shared with the Triumph Speedmaster, Thruxton and Bobber motorcycles.
The report suggests that there will be a high-spec version of the Triumph Scrambler 1200, and an entry-level version will also be a part of the line-up. The rumour does have weightage considering that's the strategy the bike maker has opted for with its recent offerings including the Thruxton and Thruxton R, Street Triple S and RS, as well as the Speed Triple S and ₹
There is likely to be a Scrambler 1200 'R' variant, which will sit as the range-topping variant and will gets a premium suspension setup and braking components. The previous spy shots revealed the motorcycle to get longer travel Ohlins USD forks up front and Ohlins twin shocks at the rear with remote reservoirs dual springs. There were also radial brakes from Brembo. In contrast, a simpler suspension from KYB and braking setup from Nissin, is likely to be offered on the standard Triumph Scrambler 1200, and should come at a more affordable price point.
In terms of design though, the upcoming Triumph Scrambler 1200 will mimic its 900 cc sibling sporting the minimal bodywork, flat handlebar, bash plate, knobby tyres with a larger 21-inch front tyre and high mounted dual exhausts.
With the upcoming 1200 versions, the Triumph Scrambler family will be offered in three versions - 900, 1200 and 1200 R - catering a different customer base respectively. The Triumph Scrambler 1200 is expected to be revealed towards the end of this year, possibly an EICMA debut and it is likely that Triumph Motorcycles will bring the model to India as well. The Triumph Street Scrambler is already on sale here and is priced at ₹ 8.60 lakh (ex-showroom).
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Quick Look: Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Jeff simulates the drifter lifestyle, hopping trains from town to town and trying to avoid bees.
I Love Mondays 06-03-2013
We prep for E3 the only way we know how: with a downright illegal quantity of strawberry gummy candy.
You Know, Maybe It Is Time for Another Animal Crossing
I haven't touched one of these games since the GameCube era, but the itch is starting to return. Must...cut...down...trees.
Animal Crossing for 3DS Gets a New Subtitle, New Trailer
It might be called "New Leaf," but let's be real about this: that's some Animal Crossing ass Animal Crossing right there.
E3 2011: Animal Crossing 3DS
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