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Haverfordwest: Police appeal following serious assault in Priory Avenue
THE POLICE have issued an urgent appeal for witnesses to come forward, following an assault which took place after house party in Haverfordwest at the weekend.
It is understood that a male in his twenties suffered serious head injuries and is currently receiving treatment at The University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff.
The Herald understands that the alleged assailant handed themselves into the police on Sunday, and was arrested.
A police spokesperson told The Herald: "Dyfed–Powys Police is investigating an incident of serious assault of a male that occurred in Priory Avenue, Haverfordwest sometime between 11.30pm and 11.50pm on Saturday 10th February 2018.
"Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has any information relating to the incident is asked to contact Dyfed Powys Police on 101, quoting ref DP-20180211-186, or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111."
Have your say on the council's Gambling Policy
PEOPLE living in Pembrokeshire are being asked for their views on proposed changes to the County Council's Gambling Policy.
The policy explains how Pembrokeshire County Council handles the licensing of premises and issuing of permits for gambling.
The policy is currently under review and the County Council is keen to find out what local people think about issues such as the prevention of crime and disorder, and protecting children and vulnerable people from being harmed or exploited by gambling.
Sarah Johns, the Authority's Public Protection Manager (Public Health, Housing and Licensing), explained: "The review will give people the chance to make their views known about our policy and how we deal with gambling matters.
"We are carrying out an extensive consultation, asking a wide range of people and groups for their views including the Police and the licensed trade. All views will be considered carefully and will help shape our policy for the next few years.
"We urge people who have an opinion on this to get in touch and let us know what they think."
Councillor Pat Davies, Cabinet Member for Housing and Regulatory Services said: "This is an opportunity for businesses and residents of Pembrokeshire to respond and be part of influencing policy that will ultimately affect their communities. Please use this consultation to have your say."
The gambling policy can be viewed on the Council's website: www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/licensing
Alternatively, contact the Licensing Team on 01437 764551 to view the policy at County Hall, Haverfordwest.
Comments must be received by 5pm on Friday, September 28.
RSPCA ask public to not return unwell dolphins to sea
THE RSPCA has issued a warning about how to respond to finding unwell or beached cetaceans, after two dolphins were inappropriately returned to the sea by members of the public in west Wales in recent weeks.
Officers say 'well-meaning' beach-walkers have sought to help beached dolphins by moving them back into the water, but that this is the 'wrong thing to do for the animals, and their welfare'.
Last Sunday (Aug 5), a dead striped dolphin was found on Coppet Hall beach in the Saundersfoot area.
The RSPCA had previously responded to calls in the local area about the troubled striped dolphin – who had been beaching on a member of the public's property. Unfortunately, in seeking to help the dolphin, members of the public refloated the unwell, thin and emaciated dolphin.
An RSPCA officer inspected photos of the dolphin and could 'clearly see' that the dolphin was suffering and should not have been returned to the wild in this way.
In a separate incident, the RSPCA was alerted after a washed-up, skinny dolphin was found on a Newgale beach last Tuesday (Aug 7). The animal welfare charity arrived to find a dolphin in poor bodily condition, which had recently died. Unfortunately, well-meaning members of the public had tried on several occasions to return the dolphin to the water.
RSPCA Cymru say dolphins tend to beach for a reason – often because they have major welfare complications, or even because they are dying. A summer plea has been issued urging anyone who finds a beached cetaceans to contact the RSPCA immediately, and not seek to refloat the animal.
Ellie West, RSPCA animal collection officer (ACO), said: "In many ways, it is a source of great pride that people across West Wales love wild animals and want to help.
"But returning a beached cetacean to the sea can be hugely counter-productive. People are obviously well-meaning in doing this – but usually it is the wrong thing to do for the animals, and their welfare.
"We were called out recently to help a striped dolphin, but this was returned to the water by members of the public.
"However, pictures of the poor thing – emaciated and thin – showed how this wasn't the right thing by the animal. Later, we were alerted that the poor dolphin's fate had been sealed – found dead in Saundersfoot.
"Similarly, in Newgale, we attended an incident where a very unwell dolphin had died. However, members of the public had spent some while trying to return the body to the sea – clearly kind-hearted, but sadly doing the wrong thing."
RSPCA is also warning of the zoonotic risks of handling creatures like the dolphins found at Saundersfoot and Newgale.
The charity works with the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (CSIP) – in part funded by Welsh Government – which investigates whale, dolphin, porpoise, marine turtle and basking sharks stranded across the UK's coastline. Post-mortems to these animals can help establish a cause of death, and provide important insights into the health of populations living in the sea in a specific area.
ACO West added: "If anyone sees a beached cetacean, they should ring the RSPCA's emergency line on 0300 1234 999, and provide as much information as possible about the location of the animal, and their condition. We can then do whatever we can to help – or at least alleviate the animal's suffering as quickly as possible.
"It is a very distressing fact that often these animals are found on land with severe welfare problems, or have moved there to die. Returning them to the sea is not helping them however well-intentioned someone may be.
"There's also substantial zoonotic disease risk of handling the animals in this way. This could be serious for human health.
"We work closely with CSIP, who do very important work in deciphering the cause of death for many cetaceans and other marine mammals. This work is vital – and where a beached, emaciated, troubled marine mammal sadly has to be put to sleep, we will often work with them so the cause of death can be established, and knowledge help support the wider population in the future."
If you wish to help RSPCA Cymru, you can donate online. The RSPCA is a charity and relies on public donations.
Woman thanks strangers for helping her during County Show incident
A WOMAN who, along with her husband, was knocked down at the County Show on Wednesday (Aug 15) when a horse broke loose and went on a 'rampage' has thanked those who came to her aid.
Eight people were injured in the incident and five were hospitalised, including a 12-year-old boy and an 83-year-old man.
Jane Armitage, who was visiting Pembrokeshire with her husband and three dogs, posted a message on Facebook thanking those who helped her, her husband, and her pets.
She said: "My husband was one of those injured today at Pembrokeshire Show. He was knocked down by the horse and is now in hospital; I was also knocked down, but I got up!
"The reason for this post is to thank those people who I will probably never meet again. The local store owner who came straight out to ask if I was okay when my husband was on the ground; the paramedics who did such a wonderful job and looked after him so well; but most importantly in this post, at least, is those dog lovers at the show.
"When I fell, I was holding three labradors. Ellie the senior Labrador stayed close to me, but the two younger ones, black and yellow labradors, ran. I don't know the name of the lady who caught Lottie, a black Labrador, near the cattle rings, also the lovely lady judge who picked up Dolly, a yellow labrador, and carried her to me, she was too scared to walk.
"I don't know your names but I just wanted to say a huge thank you. Your kindness will never be forgotten.
"I also want to thank the couple who came to the paramedic's area and offered to hold the dogs for me so I could go in and be with my husband."
Despite being involved in the freak accident, Jane
"They waited with our three stressed dogs, calmed them and I can't thank you enough for your kindness at such a difficult time. We look forward to coming to the show again next year."
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On the other hand, launching a content plan prematurely will confuse and frustrate readers.
In this post we'll discuss the 7 signs to look for before deploying a content strategy. While there are other factors, we've found these to be the most important to success.
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Are you seeing consistently increasing sales, a sign that your market understands your product and sees its value? Content marketing is built on credibility. You need a relevant and valuable product to be credible.
Focus on the value of your information if you don't have a product. In this case, ask "will our prospective customer see our information as relevant and valuable?" We recommend getting an third-party objective opinion since you are close to the information. Your content marketing strategy will require a lot of content, make sure that it's the right content before you start.
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Content marketing is powered by compelling storytelling. The story has three important parts: the the situation, aggravating problem, and valuable solution. Your content will be telling this story in dozens of ways in several different mediums (i.e. blog, audio, video, illustrations).
Can you tell the story of your product in a compelling way to multiple audiences?
For example, the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau has asked us to help them use content marketing to tell the story of Detroit as "The Comeback City." This story needs to be told in a relevant way to several different audiences including: families looking for a weekend activity, a young couple looking for a fun night out, or an executive needing a spot to hold their national convention.
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Content marketing is a tactic that achieves the goals outlined in your marketing strategy. Content Marketing is NOT a strategy. We see Content Marketing as a "force multiplier." A force-multiplier enhances the effectiveness of other components. For marketing, Content marketing adds relevancy to the overall marketing message. Content Marketing also provides the distribution channels, social media, for expanding your marketing reach.
You can't take advantage of content marketing until you have an aligned marketing strategy that is a logical extension of your organization's corporate and product strategy. Build the marketing strategy first and content marketing tactics second.
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Your business needs day-to-day interaction with customers to inspire topics for your content production "machine." We've found that the best content ideas come from listening to and answering customer questions. Many times we've taken questions and turned them into verbatim headlines for blog posts.
Look are your organization and identify who has ongoing contact with prospects and customers.
Your options could include:
- The sales team
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- The receptionist
- Your site's search engine logs. If you use Google Custom Search, review the queries used by visitors searching your website.
It's difficult to create enough original content to fill a weekly content calendar without ongoing interaction with customers. It's worth the time to create areas that encourage engagement.
For example:
- Encourage new subscribers to email you questions.
- Add a survey tab asking website visitors to leave questions or start a chat session.
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Your leadership team should understand the value of educating customers and establishing a credible voice in your industry. Content marketing is a medium to long-term strategy that requires patience and upfront investment. The return on investment will justify the investment, but it isn't a quick silver bullet.
Look for signs of your leadership team's commitment to transparency, education, and information sharing. These values will provide the foundation for patient and purposeful support for content marketing.
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Effective no-cost marketing tricks are an illusion at best and a con at worst. Content marketing is a powerful tactic but it does require an investment. You will need a budget for graphic design, blog writing, editing, and publishing. This budget will need to be set aside and available for use.
It helps to understand how much is available to accurately negotiate fees and know what help is available for the month. A theoretical, or "as-needed" budget prevents any effective planning and slows down execution.
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Executing an effective content marketing plan requires time for:
- Brainstorming posts
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And that's just the start.
This is not a job for the business owner. There are too many moving parts that must be done right – every time – for an already time-starved business owner to execute. It almost always makes sense to hire or contract someone to own a part of the content creation plan. This means, you may need to delay deploying a strategy until you can pay someone part or full time.
A process-driven organization can do much of the work with 1 or 2 virtual assistants. If you have the budget, a remote employee or a part-time in-house asset will work. Retain an agency If content marketing is the focal point of your strategy.
We've found that successful content marketers separate strategy and execution, keeping core strategy duties in-house while outsourcing implementation. In this arrangement, a dedicated content management is critical.
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From Interstate 635 Service Road and N Town E Boulevard, Mesquite, Texas, drive west on N Town E Boulevard toward Interstate 635 Service Road/Lyndon B Johnson Freeway. Make a U-turn at Interstate 635 Service Road/Lyndon B Johnson Freeway. Make a right turn onto N Galloway Avenue. Make a right turn onto Americana Lane. Summit Apartments will be on the right.
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POMPANO BEACH — While the public is watching the stunt planes at this weekend`s Pompano Air Fair, the city will be watching cash trade hands at the gate.
City officials are resorting to surveillance this year because of glaring discrepancies among estimates of the proceeds last year and because the show`s sponsors refuse to divulge their profits. That means the city does not know whether charities, which will net $5,000 from this year`s show, are getting enough.
``I`ll be looking at the size of the crowd,`` City Manager James Soderlund said Thursday, without elaborating on the methods the city will employ.
The city is forcing the show`s sponsors, John Becker and his son Brian, to donate $5,000 to charity. It turned out that $5,300 in donations they made last year, while touted as ``charitable,`` were actually turned over to aviation groups and clubs, the majority of which worked for the show.
If the city can get an idea of this year`s attendance, said Vice Mayor Herb Skolnick, it will have a better bargaining position when the Beckers return for permission to stage the 1986 air show. The aerial extravaganza is staged on city property at Pompano Air Park.
``Very simply, next year we`ll be in better possession of facts and figures, and the city should adjust the arrangement,`` Skolnick said.
The Beckers own Pompano Air Center, or PAC, the sole sponsor of this year`s show. Last year, the air center co-sponsored the show with the North Broward Kiwanis Club, which conceived the event as a charitable fund-raiser.
Afterward, Kiwanis estimated attendance at 20,000, but said it lost money. They later charged that the Beckers took advantage of them, controlling the gate receipts and refusing to divulge their profits.


text: After we finished our bowls of fabada—a saffron-scented white-bean soup containing blood sausage, freshly ground chorizo, and cubes of braised pig trotters—one of the cooks stood up to announce the second course. "We're going to have a Hector salad," he said. "We sautéed up some Hector liver, and there's some Hector bits, as well as confit pork that wasn't from Hector, though he came from the same litter."Naming the pig we were about to eat sat ill with me, but I understood the impulse. Most of us about to dine on this animal had watched him die the day before.At 9:30 on a cold, clear Sunday, I arrived at a Port Orchard farm and felt my ribs start to constrict. All week I'd been slipping the day's excursion into conversation as nonchalantly as I could. What are you doing this weekend? Oh, going to a party on Saturday and a pig slaughter on Sunday. Most people, even vegetarians, expressed more interest than revulsion, but all of us treated my attendance as an unpleasant duty. No one asked if they could come along.But I was attending the slaughter out of a sense of obligation as much as curiosity or appetite. Organizer Gabriel Claycamp was calling the event a "Sacrificio," a re-creation of the Iberian tradition in which an entire village turns out to kill a pig and make sausages, hams, and other forms of preserved pork while feasting on more fresh cuts. (You can read about an authentic sacrificio in Anthony Bourdain's A Cook's Tour.) Slaughtering a pig for winter is still as common an experience in many parts of the world as attending a Super Bowl party is here.Seattle has certainly seen animals killed for pig roasts, barbecues, and other private celebrations, and several local butchers do sell live animals for that purpose. Last February, underground-restaurant organizer Michael Hebberoy and Portland chef Morgan Brownlow invited a dozen Seattle chefs to a Vashon Island farm for a private master class in whole-hog slaughter and butchery. But Claycamp's Sacrificio may have been the first combination slaughter, butchery class, and dinner held for the public. "First and foremost," he said later, "I wanted people to walk away feeling like it was a respectful celebration, and that the animal was as far as possible from the polystyrene packages people pick up in the supermarkets."To me, attending the Sacrificio was part of my evolving relationship with meat. The fact that I, like many of my friends, talk about an "evolving relationship with meat" represents a cultural shift in itself. My parents both grew up in the country, killing chickens and rabbits for dinner. My dad worked in a butcher shop throughout high school, and our family (with the exception of my sister) never anthropomorphized animals or expressed distaste for meat. I think that as a society, though, we're developing a schizoid approach to meat: As we grow more and more distanced from the realities of meat production, and as we long more and more for an emotional connection to it, we've inflated the killing of an animal for food, something that one or two generations back was simply a practical necessity, into a cathartic, therapy-requiring event. Especially in Seattle, especially after the publication of Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma, urban diners are feeling the need to be more "conscious" of where their food comes from. A host of food trends—the explosion of farmers markets, the incessant labeling of farms and artisanal producers on restaurant menus, the growing concerns about raising and killing domestic animals humanely, the ascendancy of pork, chefs' recent love affair with offal—were all coming together in this one event.My own relationship with meat shifted three or four years ago, when I promised myself that if I was going to eat it, I would do it as consciously as possible. That meant two rules. One: Accept the idea that I'm a predator eating the flesh of a dead animal. I eat, and enjoy, as many parts of the beast as I can stomach (including the stomach). I do not hide from reality by eating boneless, skinless, antiseptic chicken breast and justify my consumption as simply a means of adding "protein" to the meal. Two: Recognize that I eat more meat than my body needs and that meat doesn't need to be central to every meal. When I'm off work, these days I only cook meat a few times a month, mostly for family members who love it more than I, and my daily meat consumption rarely exceeds 3 or 4 ounces.Somehow, though, that wasn't enough.Claycamp is not a man to make a small gesture. The chef and cooking instructor, who showed up to the event coiffed in tiny, barrette-sculpted braids, is the guy behind underground restaurant Gypsy, famous for its 16-course dinner parties, page-long application for mailing-list supplicants, and spot on Bourdain's Travel Channel show. (I reviewed Gypsy's more casual, public sibling, Vagabond, in July 2007.) Above ground, he and wife Heidi run Culinary Communion, a six-year-old cooking school that teaches everything from how to boil water to how to break down a whole (dead) pig, and Claycamp's most popular classes are his charcuterie series teaching the fundamentals of curing and smoking meats.There were probably 20 people milling about the farm when I arrived, including a gaggle of 6- to 10-year-olds. Most of the people in attendance appeared to be Gypsy/Culinary Communion regulars who swapped stories of feasts and trips to New York, contributing to the event's vibe of a big work-party barbecue.Claycamp, the farmer, and a handful of volunteers were setting up the cooking tents and waiting for the Washington State Department of Agriculture–licensed mobile slaughter unit to arrive. I wandered down to the pen. A couple of wide-eyed goats were meandering around the small crowd, nibbling at zippers and camera cases. And there, in a chain-link-enclosed square of grass, rooting in the ground and snorting like a giant pug with sinusitis, was Hector. All 350 pounds of him.While we waited for the butcher, who was about an hour late, I alternated between studying Hector and listening to Claycamp talk about his plans for the pig. We were going to turn Hector into two prosciutti—which would then hang for two years before being ready—as well as pounds and pounds of French-style saucisson sec and Spanish chorizo. The chef also had plans for the liver, ears, lard, loins, trotters, blood, and the rest—which he would cook up in a special meal for us the next night.Most of us were making chitchat by asking each other why we decided to come or whether we were nervous. No one admitted to being wracked with dread, though anyone likely to be would probably have stayed home. I asked one of the fathers how he prepared his kids for the death. "Oh, they were excited about it," he said. "I don't know how they'll actually respond when the pig is killed, but when we told them we'd be eating lunch at the farm but it probably wouldn't be Hector, they got upset."Farmer Joe's mobile butchery unit—a large truck with a hoist in the back—finally arrived, and backed into place as 40 of us gathered around the pen. Claycamp came down to meet the pig dressed in waders and a yellow raincoat. The butcher, clad in a rubber apron with a metal knife holder hooked onto his belt, guided the winch hook into the pen.I listened in while another man told his 6-year-old what was going to happen. "First Gabe is going to shoot the pig in the forehead," he explained calmly, as the boy watched Hector snuffling. "That will stun it, but it's not going to kill the pig because they need his heart to still be pumping to get out all the blood. Then they're going to be hoisting the pig up, and the butcher is going to slit his throat. He's going to be thrashing some, and all the blood is going to drain out of his throat. That's what will kill him." I experienced a small wave of discomfort watching Hector lift his head to sniff at the hook, and noticed for the first time that pigs have eyelashes.Finally, everything was in place, and Claycamp spoke to the crowd. "We want to give thanks for the life and demise of Hector," he said, then turned to the pig and thanked him personally. By now the pig was clearly nervous, though we weren't sure if he knew of his death or was simply feeling the tension of the crowd. His flanks were twitching, his heart was beating harder. Some part of me wanted to go up to the animal and put my hand out to comfort him, but that seemed disingenuous, to say the least. I wasn't his friend. I was his killer.Claycamp, his eyes brilliant with adrenaline, picked up the rifle and moved into position. The farmers dumped some choice slop—melted ice cream and hamburger buns—into the pen as a final meal to reassure Hector. The crowd closed in, tense and curious. The rest happened so quickly I didn't have time to react. As I was moving to get into better view, there was a crack, and when I saw Hector, a small red hole had appeared in the center of his forehead. He flopped down and began to twitch. The farmer's crew quickly looped a chain around one hoof and hoisted the pig up, and the butcher darted in with a knife and stabbed deep into the pig's neck. Blood began pumping out, and the unchained leg bicycled hard, pumping out the blood, clipping Claycamp in the ear hard enough to draw blood. The pig's tongue was flickering in and out of his mouth as bright-red blood coursed past it. Claycamp's apprentice was trying to catch as much as he could in two buckets, whisking kosher salt into the blood to keep it from coagulating.It lasted less than two minutes. A perfect shot, a perfect cut, a clean death, with no screaming or squealing. In fact, the death felt remarkably anticlimactic: The pig was alive. Then the pig was dead. None of us moved, not even the kids, until the butcher gave the signal to hoist Hector's dead carcass over the fence."That'll do, pig. That'll do," Claycamp said. My eyes rolled.It took another hour to clean the carcass by burning off the hair with a flame thrower and scrubbing off the outer layer of scorched skin. The only time I got skeeved out was when the butcher used a meat hook to pry off the pig's toenails. Otherwise, the process seemed familiar to me as the animal got closer to the big cuts of meat I've broken down in the kitchen. When the body was clean, the butcher cut around the tail, then gently, as if slicing through marshmallows, slit the belly, catching the intestines as they bubbled out from the cut. The offal filled up a plastic dish tub. There was no smell.He plucked out the rest of the organs—each unbloodied and beautiful—and revved up a chain saw to saw the body in two. Without even washing it, the cavity was clean and pale pink. When one of the children saw the brainpan and the rows of teeth in the separated halves, he let out a loud "Ewwwww," which the other kids echoed. We all laughed, a tension breaker. It was the first and last time anyone expressed disgust.After that, the slaughter turned into a cooking class and party. Another 20 to 30 people showed up, including a bluegrass band. Some of the participants prepared lunch, while the rest of us watched Claycamp lecture on how to break down a pig. The chef's color had gone from excitement-flushed pink through post-slaughter pale green and had finally returned to human. He moved into teacher mode, describing cuts and muscle groups, remarking how different it felt to be working on a just-killed, gently steaming animal as he cut into it. Like most of us there, he had never seen or cut into flesh that had not gone through rigor mortis, the stiffening of the muscles that occurs soon after death. The food-processing literature refers to rigor mortis as "muscle conversion to meat," and even the charcuterie-cookbook authors Claycamp had consulted in the weeks before the event said they'd never worked with pre-rigor pork.We'd been asked to bring our knives and to sign a release form, taking responsibility for any cuts we should incur, and a third of us picked up our cutlery and volunteered to help out. Others mixed spices for the cures, helped tenderize the hams by pounding on them, or just hung out, eating and drinking wine. I took a turn cutting up the meat, and it did feel different: At body temperature, the fat was still translucent and gelatinous, not hard, and the flesh still had its jiggle. The carcass was harder to cut up, but not unpleasant, smelling mostly of singed hair with a little barnyard underneath. Someone cooked up the tenderloin and passed it around, and the meat tasted wonderful—almost beefy—but I didn't enjoy how the pork looked well done but felt raw between my teeth.As we munched on our pulled-pork sandwiches—not from the same pig, of course—it seemed to me that eating this next to the carcass of a pig we'd just killed, and only a few hundred feet from his mother, was a little obscene.The friend I shared my thought with disagreed. "I think eating pork but refusing to see the pig die would be truly obscene," she replied.I partially agree. To me, the event had all the ceremony of a ritual. We were all there not to help kill an animal but to witness its death, to test our own resolve, to reify our ethics, to fill a void in our consciousness about one of the most mundane, but unacknowledged, aspects of our lives. "That's why we called it 'Sacrificio' rather than 'Slaughter,'" the chef told me later. "'Slaughter' is something that someone else does. Here we were all culpable. No one could wash their hands."The Sacrificio made me think of the scapegoat, a symbol much discussed by 19th-century and early-20th-century writers on religion who saw the "primitive" act of animal sacrifice as presaging the ultimate sacrifice at the core of Christian belief. But in our ritual, the symbolism was inverted. Instead of projecting our sins onto the sacrificial animal and ridding ourselves of them through its slaughter, we made the animal's killer our scapegoat. We, the community of urban meat eaters, were projecting all of our doubts and insecurities about killing animals for food—our sins of participating in factory farming, our guilt over not being able to claim the moral purity so many vegetarians trumpet—onto Claycamp, who was absorbing them for our sakes and becoming the ultimate sinner.But if the act absolved me, I couldn't sense it. Perhaps, because of the death I witnessed, my relationship to meat may someday evolve again, but for the moment, nothing has changed. Of course, this was the cleanest death possible. Participating in a humane death of a humanely raised animal was like taking the state-sponsored tour of North Korea and reporting back that everyone looked happy. Having seen Hector die doesn't stop my discomfort with factory farming from growing, nor my resolve to find ways to opt out whenever I can. But I'm also not going to eat, or enjoy, meat any less.In fact, the next day, as we were tucking into our roasted Hector loin with romesco sauce, prunes, and figs, the table conversation segued into how we felt as if we'd made our peace with the slaughter long before the rifle shot. I mentioned to the woman sitting next to me, "I keep forgetting that I'm eating a pig I watched being slaughtered. I thought I should be feeling a more personal connection to this piece of pork, but it's just a good meal." She laughed.But when we bit into our mincemeat pie with a flaky lard crust, the woman suddenly exclaimed, "Now I'm feeling a personal connection to Hector." She sounded choked up.I turned, concerned. "How so?"She moaned. "Mmmmmmmmmmm."Note: This story has been changed to correct the spelling of Mr. Claycamp's name. firstname.lastname@example.com


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Otolaryngology is a specialty devoted to the evaluation and treatment of ear, nose and throat (ENT) disorders as well as head and neck, hearing and communication problems. We understand how ENT conditions can affect hearing, learning, speech and sleep and impact development. Our teams provide care that takes your whole child, not just the condition, into account.
ENT conditions in children can range from recurring ear infections and enlarged tonsils, to sinus diseases or a complex craniofacial anomaly (irregular or abnormal growth of head and facial bones). Nemours ear, nose and throat doctors, called otolaryngologists, are board-certified ENT surgeons who are highly trained in the latest minimally invasive and endoscopic surgery techniques.
The most common procedures our surgeons perform include:
- tonsillectomy (removal of the tonsils)
- adenoidectomy (removal of the adenoidal tissue)
- myringotomy with tube placement (removal of fluid from the middle ear and insertion of ear tubes)
Nemours surgeons are also skilled in advanced reconstructive techniques and often work with other specialists to try to combine one or more surgeries during a single hospitalization, which helps reduce the number of times your child needs to receive anesthesia.
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When you bring your child to the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, you can expect top-level care from our highly skilled and experienced Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) teams. In fact, our physicians have been named among the "Best Doctors in America®."
Our ENT physicians work closely with a team of specially-trained pediatric anesthesiologists and audiologists to offer medical and surgical treatments to children with special problems of the ears, nose, throat, mouth, and sinuses. Common problems include infections in the ear, nose, sinus, and throat; hearing loss; airway problems; foreign body aspiration; and head and neck masses.
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We want you to know that you are an important part of your child's care team and we encourage your active involvement in the decision-making process. Our commitment to family-centered care is also reflected in the attention you and your child will receive from our warm and welcoming staff, and in our efforts to make sure that you have an appointment within 5 days whenever possible.
Making Your Appointment More Convenient
If your child is being seen for ENT issues related to speech, hearing, or ear discharge, we will work to set up an Audiology appointment on the same day as your ENT appointment. This collaboration helps us provide the optimum care for your child and convenience for you, since our specialists are all under one roof.
Expert General and Specialized ENT Care
Nemours otolaryngologists are board certified and specialize in pediatrics. This means that our doctors have expertise in treating a wide range of ENT conditions in children.
Our program is also unique in that each of our ENT specialists also concentrate on specific areas such as:
- cochlear implants
- ear anomalies
- vestibular and balance disorders
- voice evaluations and treatment
- drooling and aspiration
- Skeletal Dysplasia
- preventions and treatment of aspiration and ingestion of small objects
- head and neck tumors
- tonsil and adenoid disease, otitis media, and breathing and hearing disorders
- swallowing problems
- sinus disease
- airway disorders
Pioneering New Techniques for Treating Tonsil Problems
Every year Nemours ENT surgeons remove thousands of swollen tonsils from children because of chronic tonsillitis (infected tonsils). However, apnea (pauses
in breathing during sleep often caused by enlarged tonsils blocking a child's airway) has become the most common reason for removing children's tonsils (tonsillectomy).
Nemours ENT surgeons use a new technique called intracapsular tonsillectomy to remove enlarged tonsils. This method involves removing most tonsil tissue while leaving a thin patch of tonsil to protect the underlying muscles. In some studies, this has been shown to result in less postoperative pain and a quicker return to a normal diet. The traditional tonsillectomy procedure is associated with a 2% to 5% post-operative bleeding rate, while the intracapsular method has brought that rate down to approximately 0.6%. Our doctors have treated close to 7,000 children with the intracapsular tonsillectomy technique.
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In addition to tonsillectomies, our surgeons also perform:
- adenoidectomy (removal of the adenoidal tissue)
- myringotomy with tube placement (removal of fluid from the middle ear and insertion of ear tubes)
Our ENT surgeons perform thousands of surgeries a year and our teams approach every procedure with the utmost care and attention to detail, choosing the least invasive procedures to help speed recovery and enhance the well-being of your child.
Providing Specialized ENT Programs for Children
A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device for children with severe to profound hearing impairment who receive reduced benefit from hearing aids. We offer the devices, the surgery, and a comprehensive auditory rehabilitation program. Our Cochlear Implant and Auditory Rehabilitation Program provides ongoing therapy and long term support to patients and families, both before and after cochlear implant surgery.
Ear anomalies are differences from the norm in the size or shape of the external, middle or inner ear. These anomalies may affect the cosmetic appearance of your child's ear and/or hearing ability. Our Ear Anomalies Program evaluates and treats a wide range of ear anomalies in children.
Our interdisciplinary team has extensive experience in caring for children with ear anomalies, and includes specialists from the hospital's otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat), plastic surgery and audiology departments. We provide coordinated appointments and comprehensive services including:
- hearing evaluations
- hearing loss options, including hearing aids and bone-anchored hearing assistive devices
- ear reconstruction, including cartilage, MEDPOR® implants and prosthetic techniques
- ear canal reconstruction surgery
All care options are state-of-the-art and customized to your child's specific needs.
Typical ear anomalies we treat include:
- microtia (underdeveloped external ear)
- atresia (absence of ear canal)
- anotia (absence of external ear)
- constricted ears
- cryptotia (upper portion of the ear hidden under the skin)
- ear canal stenosis (narrowing of the ear canal)
- protruding ears
Nemours offers a Pediatric Voice Program specifically designed for children whose voice quality is affected by medical or behavioral problems. The most common symptom we see is chronic hoarseness, typically the result of calluses (called nodules) on the vocal cords. Our clinic team is comprised of members from ENT, Speech, Gastroenterology, and Pulmonlogy and offers special diagnostic testing that can assess voice box and vocal cord function and determine the cause of your child's voice problem.
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is the term for breathing difficulties that occur during sleep. This can include anything from frequent loud snoring to obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which involves repeated episodes of partial or complete blockage of the airway during sleep.
Our program for children with sleep disordered breathing is the first of its kind in the Delaware Valley. The Complex Sleep Disordered Breathing Clinic (CSDBC) is a collaboration between our specialists in pulmonology and otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat, or ENT). The clinic allows for clinical decisions regarding your child's care to be made in a team-oriented fashion, since ENT and pulmonology staff members are seeing your child and your family the same day, in the same clinic.
For some children, sleep apnea can disappear after their tonsils and adenoids are removed, but not for all. For many in this latter group, a procedure called "drug-induced sleep endoscopy," (or DISE), may be recommended. This involves the use of a flexible tube with a tiny camera (endoscope), which is passed through one side of the nose as the child begins to snore and experience some blockage of breathing. The doctor can then observe the potential blockage of breathing in the palate, tongue and throat regions. The most appropriate treatment plan can then be made — medical, surgical or a combination of the two.
Our Pediatric Vestibular team offers advanced testing and treatment for balance problems (dizziness, falling or the sensation of falling, disorientation, or nausea) as part of our Vestibular and Balance Disorders Program. Our state-of-the-art and child-friendly equipment helps pinpoint both the cause and the most effective treatment for balance problems in children.
Working as a Team to Care for Your Child
Whether your child's ENT problem is straightforward (such as a chronic ear infection) or much more complicated (such as deafness), we practice medicine in a way that brings together skills and talent from different areas of expertise.
Members from different specialties collaborate to create solutions to treat and meet your child's needs.
Health professionals who may be involved include:
- surgeons from other areas, such as oral or plastic surgery
- audiologists
- speech and language pathologists
- behavioral health experts
- deaf educators
- neurologists (doctors who treat problems of the nervous system)
- physician assistants
- pediatric fellow and residents
We also strive to make things as easy and convenient as possible for you and your child. For example, because our doctors and therapists are all under one roof, your child can often have multiple appointments scheduled in one day.
Our doctors and teams provide advanced ENT care that takes your whole child, and not just the condition, into account.
We address conditions and areas that include:
- tonsil enlargement/infection
- sinus/nasal diseases
- auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
- adenoidal enlargement or disease
- balance (vestibular) and dizziness disorders
- voice disorders
- airway problems and diseases
- drooling and aspiration
- ear drum abnormalities
- ear anomalies
- foreign bodies of the ears or nose
- foreign body aspiration (inhaling food or objects into the airway or lungs)
- growths and tumors of the head and neck, including thyroid tumors
- hearing loss
We also work together to address ENT-related concerns associated with other conditions, such as Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, cleft lip and palate, and skeletal dysplasia.
If your child needs surgery to correct tonsil or adenoid disease we're pleased to offer access to an online educational program about the procedure.
Created by Emmi® in conjunction with KidsHealth.org, the easy-to-use EmmiKids animated program will help you better understand the details of
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With fossil fuel the major source of greenhouse gas emissions from powering vehicles, ethanol is the logical substitute, Dineen writes in a guest column for The Hill. There's no other alternative fuel "at scale today that matches ethanol's ability to improve overall environmental quality," Dineen wrote.
So how could some environmentalists "gang up on American ethanol" and side with Big Oil against the biofuel, when ethanol is both renewable and much cleaner than gasoline? Dineen is particularly perturbed with Scott Faber, vice president of government affairs at the Environmental Working Group, for lambasting biofuels in his own recent blog post on The Hill.
No other alternative fuel "matches ethanol's ability to improve overall environmental quality."
Faber would like to see changes made to the federal RFS biofuels mandate, and criticized RFS along with efforts to increase gasoline to 15 percent ethanol (E15). Dineen found Faber's arguments confusing and contradictory – for backing up Big Oil's grain ethanol attack; for stating that RFS is failing to bring cellulosic ethanol to market; and that there's a costly infrastructure investment needed for fuel pumps and flex-fuel vehicles.
While Faber represents an environmental group, there's more to the story behind the scenes, according to Dineen. Prior to the Environmental Working Group, Faber was vice president for federal affairs at the Grocery Manufacturers Association. That trade association has been working with the American Petroleum Institute to repeal RFS.
Dineen thinks that there is hope for environmentalists who aren't being duped by these powerful lobbying groups. "For the great majority of rank-and-file environmentalists who aren't beholden to Big Oil or Big Food, ethanol's environmental advantages over gasoline are clear and compelling," he writes. Do his words strike a chord?


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THAT Agency, a Florida-based Web design and marketing firm, launches the newly re-designed MEMadrid.travel. ME Madrid, an experience resort located in the heart of Spain, joins a long list of Sol Melia properties THAT Agency has been retained to develop and re-design, and showcases the firm's creative-depth and versatility. As ME Madrid is an experience hotel, so is their new website--combining lush, sensory-engaging elements with extreme function.
"When we approached the design of MEMadrid.travel, we wanted to create something that not only served its branding and monetary duty, but also recreated the stylish atmosphere and the provocative experience of the hotel itself," said THAT Agency President, Bill Teubner.
Visitors of the page will recognize a new degree of fluidity to on-site interaction, as THAT Agency employed AJAX to produce a photo-gallery, homepage slider, and social network portal that all operate in smoother transitions. Lightboxes were also introduced to allow videos and websites to open directly within pages.
Cinematic elements have been woven into the new design; Flash storylines and other Flash elements that are careful not to overwhelm the senses, but rather facilitate a refreshing on-page experience, giving MEMadrid.travel's visitors a taste of the hotel's inspiring atmosphere. PHP and XHTML coding develop the backbone of MEMadrid.travel, serving as the figurative skeleton to the entire design.
To reach a growing and essential demographic, THAT Agency supplied ME Madrid their necessary translation services that now see visitors experiencing the new site in Spanish as well as English.
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Korea travel: There's an app for that – March 2012 edition
A WHILE back, I wrote a post on the apps to make life in Korea a little more interesting. A few other apps have been reviewed here as well, but I thought it was time to take a look and see what's new or been updated. Without further ado, here are several Korea travel apps worth checking out.
QUICK NOTE: Please ensure the app is compatible with your device – iPhone versions typically work on iPads and iTouch devices, but not always.
Jihachul – the best Seoul subway app around (iPhone version, iPad version – both free)
Sometimes the best thing about an app is that it doesn't change much. For as long as I've used Jihachul (the word for 'subway' in Korean), the interface and functionality hasn't changed one iota. The app is continually updated whenever the subway gets longer or a new line gets added, and the timetables, while not completely perfect, are a good reference point when on the train. The maps 'pinch-and-zoom' perfectly, making any station easy to read.
The only real disadvantage is a weird one: when it's time for an update, it HAS to be downloaded and applied before you can even use the app. For people running a wi-fi only version of the iPad or the iTouch, this is a potential issue I hope the developers fix soon.
MediApp – official medical tourist assistance (iPhone, free)
Having invested plenty of money in the infrastructure to make people better (or at least prettier), an app released by the Korea Tourism Organization offers information on Korean medical care and hospitals. The target market is the people considering a trip to Korea for 'medical tourism' – a field Korea would love to compete in alongside other Asian countries. While not as useful for residents or other categories of tourists, it's a great starting point for learning about Korean medical tourism. Note that there's only an iPhone version; iPad users are left with the scaling-up mode.
mycoex: your mall has an app (iPhone, free)
Although most of the features requiring an Internet connection, this app enables you to know almost any piece of public knowledge about Korea's biggest mall. The two most-commonly used sections – the location and amenities searches – are decent 'pinch-and-zoom' style maps. The other sections don't offer much of anything new, although instructions for the City Air service might be helpful to some. Note that there's only an iPhone version; iPad users are left with the scaling-up mode.
Seoul Travel Mate – a fast, but oddball, program. (iPhone, free)
Seoul's main strength is it's speed – never something to underestimate when you're on the go and seconds count. It's a straightforward subway map and address locator for the entire Korean peninsula, the latter feature bringing up a Google map search for that address. The gu's and dong's for each city come pre-populated, so the only slowdown is when the program uses the internet to get the Google map. It's simple, straightforward, and speedy, but lacks some of the eye candy seen in other programs.
GLORY (글로리 – KORAIL app) – tells you all about the trains, but in Korean only (iPhone, free)
While not designed for the tourists, it's great if you know enough Korean to navigate the menus. Korail, the national provider of trains across the country, allows the user to search train schedules and buy tickets from your iDevice. Just like the MediApp, it's an interesting niche app, but limited in its usefulness. If you're willing to give the app a try, check out the Qi Ranger's post where he translates and guides you through the main functions.
KorTaxiMeter – an exercise in virtual uselessness (iPhone, free)
Anyone with an iPhone or a long memory might remember the 'I am Rich' app, which simply displayed an image showing the user's financial status (or lack of intelligence). This app feels almost as useless, personally. Its main function – keeping track of your taxi fare within Korea – is completely duplicated by the in-taxi readout. Even if there happens to be a discrepancy, I can't see a tourist winning an argument with a taxi driver… The history function offers a central place to record your taxi rides, although I see no feature to upload them to another service. You can set your region in an options screen, which provides an interesting comparison in taxi rates across the country.
HE Dictionary English to Korean – excellent English and Korean dictionary (iPad ONLY version, both free)
An excellent English-to-Korean dictionary, and vice versa. The app is completely usable offline, except for a few online dictionaries which seem perfectly suited off the main screen.
As an app to use in the classroom, this is great. Type in the search one time, and tap through the tabs to get the Korean translation(s), a thesaurus, and the etymology of the word. The VOA Word Book is also built in, giving a simple definition where the WordNet options gets complicated quickly.
Seoul Taxi Guide – a database of Seoul's sights and places. (iPhone, $4.99)
A little shameless self-promotion here – I played a role in the creation of this app. Disclosure aside, there's names, addresses, hours, and phone numbers for over 3,000 points of interest around Seoul or the surrounding area. Information spread across dozens of websites is brought together in a logical and easy-to-read way. The app's intended highlight, the taxi card, is an easy way to show the taxi driver (or anyone trying to help you out) where you're trying to go. Even if you can't read the hangeul, or Korean alphabet, you can bring up the menu options to show the local language to someone else.


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January 2014 - Alzheimer Awareness Month - Early diagnosis keeps your life from unravellingAlmost half of Canadians with Alzheimer's disease are waiting too long to be diagnosed. This year, the Alzheimer Society wants to cut those numbers.
January is Alzheimer Awareness Month. It's the Alzheimer Society's annual effort to increase understanding about the disease - and reduce the stigma that keeps people from talking about it – and talking to their doctors.
Getting the information you need helps you live the life you want today, and stitch together a stronger future.
If you think you might have symptoms of dementia, learn more on the Alzheimer Awareness Month website and see your doctor.
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A quick reference guide to get you going with Angular development. It uses Angular v4 with TypeScript.
Learn some effective error handling strategies that you can use in your .NET projects.
Learn how Behavior Driven Development (BDD) works with a real-world example of how to use it.
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in C# using SOLID principles, with challenges and solutions.
Learn about a few JavaScript frameworks, and which one will be a good fit in your ASP.NET MVC apps
Every once in a while, you have text that you need to translate. I ran into this recently where the user would login, go to a specific page and be able to type in text and have it translated on the fly. After some research I found that Microsoft had a service called Microsoft Translation Service. This is an online service which can be accessed via AJAX, HTTP or SOAP. Because I wanted this to run on the client, I stuck with AJAX. I'm sure there are other services out there which can do this just as good, but I used Microsoft's product and found it to be good. And here what I found.
Creating Your AppID
Before you can do anything you'll need to create a Bing API AppID. The ID is passed as a parameter to the translation service to identity you. Without it you won't be able to do anything. You'll need to visit this site and follow the instructions to create the AppID.
Let's get started. I'm using MVC 3 in this demo but there's nothing stopping you taking the same code and dropping it into a Web Forms application.
The translation service can run purely through JavaScript. This is a bonus as I don't want to touch server code. The URL of the service is:
The parameters that you pass to the service are outlined below.
The entire JavaScript is below. I've used closures in this example as I always try to use this technique when working with JavaScript. Find out more about closures here.
Once the DOM has finished loading, I'm setting up the functions to handle the event when the user submits the form. I'm doing this as I want to send the form via Ajax and want to avoid the page refresh.
When the user submits the form, the JavaScript function text.translate is invoked. This calls the translation service and passes the data to it. This injects a script tag into the head of the document. If you're using Firebug, you'll see the script tag that is injected into the page whilst the service is being called.
Once the service has finished, the injected script tag is removed from the DOM and the oncomplete function is invoked and the results are displayed to the user.
It didn't take long to get this working. This was an easy way for the users to translate text when they needed it on the fly. Thanks Microsoft!!
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Teacher- and Learner-Centered Approaches
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We had the chance to cross paths in the early to mid 90s when you were at the AF Lab in San Antonio. Spent a summer session together at U of Minn if I recall correctly.
I liked the distinction you made about teacher and learner centered approaches not being mutually exclusive. I suspect one of the misrepresentations you mention above is confusing teacher centered with content centered as it applies to the delivery of the lesson. Content centered is often identified by teachers' comments such as "I covered the materials," or "I didn't finish covering the material." The significant impact of the design is critical to the very useful distinction you draw above. My current role is in job-skill training in financial services. Complex job-skills, as with your example above, often need the skilled teacher (expert) offering feedback along the way.
Thanks for the comment. Always good to reconnect and catch up. I appreciate your comment and agree that the design is critical.ReplyDelete
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You said that the student-centered approach and teacher-centered approaches are not conflicting. After reading your explanation and the diagram, I totally agree. However, a question occurred to me with regard to this sentence: "The question is which kind of approach is likely to be successful for the particular goals". I also agree this sentence. But, the context in my country may suggest something different. My question is whether the two approaches are sometimes in conflict, which is what I have experienced in Taiwan.ReplyDelete
About 75% of K-12 students in Taiwan go to private learning association after school. In particular, the 12th grade students are the majority. It is widely believed (by students and parents) that the private learning association can support students to get high grades in the national exam for the entrance of university. The teaching style in these associations is very structured, directive, and certainly teacher-centered. All the students (about 150-200 people) from different senior high schools sit in a big classroom to listen a specific subject taught by an instructor for 3 hours. It is very rare that students ask questions. On average, students have 2-4 subjects to learn each week in this manner. I was ever one of those students. So, I understand the torture of a highly structured and directed learning approach to a student, but I also admit the effectiveness of this approach after getting satisfactory grades on the national exam.
Many researchers in Taiwan criticize that kind of teaching. Many parents also think about the problem because their children complain. However, they still send their children to the private learning association after school because they think their children's future is more important than the so-called torture of highly structured, highly directive, intensive teaching in those classes. In this situation, it is recognized that the teacher-centered approach is a successful way to reach a goal (enter a good university). In addition, it is almost impossible to blend a less structured and less directive student-centered approach with this kind of teacher-centered approach because of the time factors, the number of students, and the pressure from parents (and students) to perform well on the national exam. Parents and students do not want to waste time exploring and inquiring and developing deeper understand because they pay so much money to the private learning association for the single goal of getting a high score on the national exam.
Unfortunately, the situation in the school is not much better now than when I was a student in Taiwan. Teachers may design some activities to support inquiry but this is not the regular teaching approach. Students have too many exams and teachers feel obligated to simply impart knowledge as much as possible before the exam. It seems that if the goal is to get high grades to enter a good school, such a highly structured and directive teacher-centered approach is useful.
To be continued...
The example in my country may somewhat explain why so many people are inclined to separate student-centered and teacher-centered approaches. The reason is that they are thinking about a certain kind of learning environment that is highly structured and highly directive as opposed to a learning environment is more open-ended and supportive of inquiry-based learning. The difference is really in the type of learning environment. I agree that a teacher-centered approach can be less structured and directive and can support student-centered inquiry activities. But, is that feasible in my country? I am still considering the problem. If people's desire for high test scores and admiration of the academic diploma from a top university (the goal) does not change, the learning environment in schools and the private learning association will not change. In my opinion, this is not only the problem of what kind of approach teachers choose in the classroom. It is also the problem of beliefs deeply rooted in tradition and culture. These cultural and traditional beliefs in Taiwan about education (based on authority) and learning (based on test scores) makes a highly structured and highly directive teaching approach dominant and restricts the development of more open-ended, inquiry-based learning approaches.ReplyDelete
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This publication contains an authentic diary of life aboard Captain Harry Rodrique's Bluff based vessel 'Kekeno' during New Zealand's last open sealing season in 1946. There is also an overview of sealing in NZ waters from 1790, with much never before printed information. The diaries are very precise containing graphic detail of 'man against the sea.'
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The 2019 All Wales Boat and Leisure Show
Anglesey Showground. 30th May – 1st June 2019
The All Wales Boat and Leisure Show is a celebratory festival of water-based and leisure activities and Welsh produce. Now in its sixth year, this show is unique to North Wales.
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Interns are a wonderful idea—in theory. You get to lessen a little bit of the old workload and the intern gets to ease that crushing transition into the real world. Yes, it would be a wonderful situation if that was actually ever how things played out.
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35 Years of Growth and Change at Abby's House
On June 7, 1976, Abby's House opened its doors to homeless and abused women, with or without children, for temporary, emergency shelter. Thus began an amazing journey that through the years, transformed Abby's into a multipurpose organization offering a variety of services to women in central MA. Abby's today is one home with four buildings, where on any given day, you experience not only the painful realities of women who are abused, homeless, or mistreated but are witness to their courage and resiliency. Despite everything they have been through, the women of Abby's have hope.
Below is a summary of just a few of the historical events that have transformed Abby's House into the organization it is today:
1973-1975: A Task Force of Women is formed to study the need for shelter for women with or without children in
1975: Major meeting of about 40 women results in a coalition dedicated to making the shelter a reality.
1976: The coalition rents 23 Crown Street to use as a shelter.
June 7, 1976: Abby's House opens its doors to their first guests.
1982: Abby's starts its largest fundraiser, the Tag Sale, which becomes a city tradition. They also begin Abby's Food Pantry and a 24 hour hotline.
November 1989: Pins by Lucinda Yates becomes a hot and on-going fundraiser for Abby's.
April 1985: Abby's House Celebrates its 10th Anniversary!
September 1993: Completion and celebration of 19 Crown Street, Abby's first building, offering affordable housing to women.
March 1994- June 1995: Rehab and completion of 77 Chatham Street, Abby's second building, offering affordable housing to women with children.
April 27 1996: Abby's House's celebrates its 20th Anniversary!
September 2000- August 2001: The Sisters of Mercy approach Abby's House with a proposal; that they consider taking over 52 High Street (formerly
May 2001: Annette publishes her first book, Wearing Smooth the Path: 25 Years at Abby's House, an Unfinished Memoir.
May 2004: Worcester "Women in Wine" sponsors the 1st annual wine tasting fundraiser for Abby's House. The event raises over $9,000 for Abby's House!
March 2006: Abby's House celebrates its 30th Anniversary!
September 2006: Members of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette give their time on
January 2007: Abby's House becomes a member of the CHAIN Initiative (Comprehensive Homeless Assessment and Intervention Network)
May 2007: One of our residents receives her nursing degree from Worcester State College
April 2008: College of the Holy Cross celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the S.P.U.D Program (Student Program for Urban Development). Women students from the Program have volunteered at Abby's for 33 years!
April 2009: Citizen's Bank names Abby's House a Champion in Action for excellence in affordable housing, providing a $25,000 grant, media coverage, and volunteer promotional support.
October 2010: Abby's goes through a Rebranding Initiative to update our logo, website, and communications. We also organized the first Annual Benefit 5K run/walk , entitled HipHipHerRace. This event raised over $8,000!
This is just a short list of accomplishments Abby's House and its staff, guests, and volunteers have made possible. In the words of Darleen Gadt, published author and longtime member of Abby's House Women's Center,
"About twenty years ago I was a struggling sister who arrived…and I have been a part of the struggles since, a member of the sisterhood and I've seen Abby's grow."
To paraphrase the words of founder, Annette Rafferty, Abby's is the same, yet so very different than it was 35 years ago. Perhaps life was much simpler in 1976. The staff and volunteers at Abby's have become much more than shelter providers; they are landladies, supportive service providers fundraisers, and public relation experts; but most importantly, they are dreamers, creators, and believers in the power of women and community; Maybe next year, or in 5 years, or in another 35 years, homelessness will be a thing of the past. Until then, we will continue drawing inspiration from Abby Kelley Foster and our mission, providing shelter, housing, and advocacy to each woman who walks through our doors.


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Vanessa Hudgens sometimes finds herself singing the High School Musical songs.
The 27-year-old actress shot to fame starring as Gabriella Montez in the first Disney Channel movie back in 2006, before reprising her role for 2007's High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year in 2008.
Vanessa has now moved on from the franchise, but often finds herself humming some of the films' catchiest tunes.
"(I sing them) every now and then. Sometimes, someone will be like, 'We're all in this together,' and then I'll be like (starts singing), 'We're all in this together!'" she laughed to Entertainment Tonight, referring to the finale song from the first movie. "It's like reflexes."
Vanessa's next role sees her starring in NBC comedy Powerless, which tells the story of an insurance firm who are left with the task of cleaning up the messes of superheroes.
And she has also been using her High School Musical past to influence karaoke nights with her new castmates.
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We are an outreach ministry based out of Broomfield United Methodist Church (BUMC) in Broomfield, CO.
What do we do?
Simply put, we do whatever we can to connect our community through raising awareness, education, prayer, and fundraising. As a faith-based organization, we believe in coming alongside people and organizations to provide hope, funding, and love.
Vision: End human trafficking through developing a community network designed to protect, empower, and rescue those trapped in a trafficking situation.
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There are 27 million slaves in the world today - a greater number than at any time in our history. Men, women, and children are enslaved right now in our local community, but this issue is complex and is often under-reported.
Modern-day slavery, or human trafficking, is defined as commercial sex acts or labor or services that are induced through force, fraud, and coercion regardless of whether or not transportation across borders occurs. (www.polaris.org)
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Colorado received a "D" in a recent report card for anti-human trafficking laws and standards.* We can do better.
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When WFSS Founder Salva Dut was invited to the Wheelock College international conference exploring global issues, challenges and opportunities, he knew that this was a can't-miss opportunity to have WFSS be visible to another globally-focused audience.
From June 19th-22nd, the world visited this small but powerful college on the outskirts of Boston, MA. Wheelock was the perfect setting for such a collection of intellectuals, politicians, policy makers, advocates and activists. The institute of higher education, attended by roughly 750 students annually, is a small school with a proud 125 year history of global impact. It may be small in numbers but the college has a big voice in a big city and that voice speaks for human rights and change.
Dut was one of four speakers on a panel entitled, "A Dwindling, Precious Resource: Access to Clean Water and its Human Rights and Health Implications." With over 600 attendees from dozens of different nations, and eight keynote speakers whose collective resumes would fill a city phone book, you couldn't take in the conference all in one day.
On Saturday afternoon, after four days of insightful, thoughtful and provocative dialogue, hundreds of weary but inspired participants from around the world said goodbye to their newly made connections and friends. They left with hope and intent for the opportunity for future collaboration to share ideas and work together on the global issues of education, health, and human rights facing children, youth and families.
Water for South Sudan gained valuable visibility on a world stage, set the foundation for future conversations and partnerships, and left feeling optimistic but realistic in a world that faces so many serious problems and issues. WFSS is also motivated more than ever to stand with so many other individuals and institutions to work on these issues together.