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Gotcha! A Punctuation Readaloud Game
See if you can help your child get the most solid grasp possible of periods, question marks, commas and exclamation points—the four most common punctuation marks in all our sentences.
As kids get introduced to the wonders of punctuation, they will be expected to start using it, too! Kids will practice starting each sentence with a capital letter and finishing it with either a period, question mark or exclamation point. They'll also use commas now and then. At the end of the year, they may start work on quotation marks…but that will be covered much more heavily in later grades.
Here's a silly game you can play the next time you read aloud.
What You Need:
- Transparent "highlighting tape"—available at teacher supply stores.
- Pad of paper and pencil
- Readaloud book that you and your child like and have read once before
What You Do:
- First, get familiar with "highlighting tape." This is a great resource for anyone, not just teachers, but you'll probably need to find it at a teacher supply store. Available in yellow, green, and sometimes other colors like orange and pink, the tape fits over letters and words in a text, and allows you to see through to them. When you're done, the tape pulls off like an ordinary post-it.
- Take out a book that you and your child enjoy, and invite her to be a "punctuation spy." Together, go sentence by sentence to highlight how it ends. If you've got an eager reader, go ahead and highlight commas, too. Finally, if you've been able to find different colors of tape, it's wonderful to color code them.
- Before you read the book, review the rules with your child: when you read aloud, you drop your voice to note a period at the end of a sentence; raise it for a question; emphasize for an exclamation, and pause for a comma.
- Now it's time for some fun. Have your second grader watch the page carefully as you read, and don't hesitate to move your finger on the page as you go if it helps. You read aloud…but make some deliberate mistakes! For a sentence that ends in a period, try making it sound like a question…and let your second grader pounce. In fact, try putting a scorecard in his hand. Every time he corrects you, give him a point. Score of seven wins the round!
- This game should bring lots of laughter, and some good learning, too. To finish it off, though, do go back and read the whole book through correctly, so that the last memory of its punctuation is accurate. You can still involve your punctuation detective: as you reach each one, you can have him peel off the highlighter tape. He'll have a fat handful at the end of the book—a satisfying reminder of how much he really does know.


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High school student, Laney Price, is in the spotlight this month. Laney, a new piano student, studied piano during the summer at Miss Nancy Piano Studio to prepare for her arrival as a freshman at Sam Houston State University. Laney will study to be a music therapist. Best wishes, Laney!
Autumn Artist is coming October 17! Stephen Beus, award winning concert pianist will perform on October 17, 7:30 pm, at Clear Lake Presbyterian Church, 1511 El Dorado Blvd., Houston, Texas 77062.Tickets are $8.00 for students and $12.00 for adults. See me about tickets. Don't miss this opportunity to see a world class concert right in your neighborhood!
New music apps are the latest rage in improving your note reading and rhythm skills. I will be sending you individual exercises from Piano Maestro in your email. Please read the tutorial before you begin. NoteWorks and other piano apps will be incorporated into lessons, time permitting.
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Using the mouse, navigate to and click the Start button located on the bottom left of your computer screen, and a list of programs appears. Navigate to the iTunes program and double-click it. A picture of a CD and music note represents the iTunes program. After double-clicking the iTunes program, the player opens.
When your iTunes music player is open, a menu of iTunes options appears across the top of your screen. Using your mouse, double-click on the second option, which is Edit, and, in the resulting menu of options, double-click on Preferences.
From the Preferences menu, use the mouse to locate and double click on the Advanced button, which is represented by a gear. A menu of more options should appear. Double-click on the General tab.
From the General tab, navigate to and double-click the Use iTunes as the Default Player for All Audio Files option. Clicking on this option sets iTunes as your default music player.


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Hi All,
I am seriously considering buying the i20 Asta Diesel (wanted the option of projectors and DRL but missing ECM is not a good idea hence will stick to Asta)
I took a test drive of the i20 diesel recently, they did not have the latest car with projectors and AVN . Drove the car and the moment i cranked it up and shifted to first, the car stalled. I own i10 and have seen that hyundai's are really not the best for clutch feedback, but this one was really bad. Then second problem i noticed was the car was sluggish in first and second gears until the turbo kicked in. Took a little aggressive U-turn and felt quite a lot of body roll. The most disappointing for me was the steering which felt a bit too light (even more so than my i10)
Are these issues faced by many users or was this specific to test car ?
I had a few questions
1. What are the general niggles i should be aware about in this car, i tried reading as many pages i can in this thread but covering 102 pages was not easy hence the question.
2. Is diesel costlier to maintain, and what is the average cost per servicing
3. what is the real life FE we can expect, my driving involves 60% city and 40% highway.
Thanks in advance
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You managed to Stall a diesel i20? Are you serious?
In the entire 21000 kms of ownership, I haven't stalled the machine ever. My dad owns a Jazz ivtec and I have to give some clutch push to make it roll in uphill. But the i20 does not even require the accelerator to be pushed. Just leave the clutch in 1st gear slowly and she will roll. As cool as that.
Yup, the car feels sluggish in the 1st gear compared to the swift. This is because of the gear ratio and this is exactly why it NEVER stalls in the 1st gear. Regarding 2nd gear, ample power is there.
Regarding body roll, it is present but to be fair, it is lesser than the swift, i10 etc and more than the polo and likes. The suspension is tuned for cushioning. Thats the reason.
Steering is light, but not in the league of smaller hyundais. I am not sure with the i10 but I have driven the excent and the eon. Excent and eon gave me trembles when I drove above 80. But i20 steering tightened a lot at those speeds. Yes the steering feedback is lesser than Punto, Polo and even the swift but by a tiny margin. If you want better feedback and handling, always the punto, buy nothing else.
1. General Niggles: My car had squeaking sound from the suspension from the day I bought it. It was resolved by changing some bush free of cost. None till date
2. Diesel servicing cost. Yeah! it is a bit higher than the petrol cars. Should expect anything around 7000 per service after the free service is over. I was charged around 1700 for 1st free service and 5000 for 2nd free service. Please note that for every 10000 kms, you need to do a minor service which averages around 3500 and for every 20000, a major service which averages around 7500.
3. FE depends on the driving style a lot. The machine rewards me with 20+ mileage for my driving pattern which is 70% Highway, 30% City. For you it may be around 17 I guess.
As per me, It is a car made for the Highway and the City equally. It handles all sorts of roads with ease. I have driven cars like the Jazz and the Polo which are not at all comfy at similar situations.
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With that only found out ways to extract maximum mileage and power out of her. Still using it to see the avg mileage am getting. Are you using Torque application with it?
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Attached the mileage information(KPL). Found that it's a hearty 14.1 for city driving. My doubt was that when i check it during my drives it hovers around 12.5. But the long term average shows this high value. Not complaining at all(actually happy and cannot believe it).
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The sluggishness you say could be due to the gear ratio. The first gear is really really short - in actual sense a crawler, you need to upshift to 2nd for speed > 10kmph. As you say you have been driving the i10 (petrol), gear ratio for diesel are different and it would translate into a need of lot of change in the driving pattern.
The turbo lag is only felt prominently in may be 2nd or 3rd gear and mostly towards the time when my car needs service. Everytime, it comes out of service feels more linear for some reason. Also, when I switched over to the full-synth oil, the engine feels more rev happy and less restrained. So, given what you drove was a demo car, the upkeep could be really questionable. You should try a different showroom for sure.
Having driven both petrol and diesel variant of i20 extensively, including the previous generations - I see a very clear difference when I drive the diesel. It is much much powerful and torquey. Also, there is a major difference in how it handles now (2014 model) and how the steering feels. Actually to be honest, the suspension setup in the models with alloys (and low profile tyres) feels bumpier to me on lower speeds, but at the same time it does impart a lot of confidence on the curves and higher speeds. I have driven it extensively on the hills and curves. Everytime I take it on the highway or the curves, my love grows for the new version by a tiny bit. (coming from the older version of this car). It is nowhere like how the previous versions of hyundai used to be.
Fuel efficiency : Best that I have ever got is north of 22 when driving to Bangalore-Hyderabad (Excellent highway conditions) and worst is ~11 with lot of idling involved. (All number with 100% AC). One more observation, unlike petrol version where you would try to keep rpm on the lower side, if you drive the CRDi in the turbo zone, the mileage numbers improve. On an average with lot of city (Bangalore) driving involved, I get numbers close to 15-17.
On a separate thread: I lost the service manual unfortunately during some service, any leads on how to get a new one. I really do read the manuals !
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It would be pretty helpful if you could post the settings for the torque pro app. I had tried to get the FE meter to work but it didn't happen.
I'm assuming you drive a diesel.
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What kind of problem are you facing?
BTW, today's reading is 13.8kpl.
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As for the problem, i tried a couple of months back and I'm totally blank about what i had done. Haven't had access to my car since the past 1 month now. Maybe you could post a pic of the profile settings. Any plugins you might have added.
Btw 13.8 in city or highway ?
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Attached some part of the app settings which could be useful, but i don't remember changing more than a couple of checkboxes.
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Anyone knows anything about the security system in the i20 Elite/Active?
There was an accident in the office parking; a parked i20 got scraped up by another car while taking a turn but it seems no scream from the i20.
I thought the stupid horn-based siren would atleast scream. But no - not even a bit of moan from the car.
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There is no security system that comes fitted in the Elite or Active. Just an immobilizer.
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248. Thank you for being so patient. The fact
that we have kept you waiting is not meant as a discourtesy, but
because of our interest in the previous evidence. I do apologise
for that.
(Mr Grice) We listened with interest too.
249. It might be a good idea if you introduced
your colleagues.
(Mr Grice) I am Joe Grice, Chief Economist and Director
of Public Services at the Treasury. On my left is Richard Price
who is the Head of the Enterprise Team at the Treasury. On my
right is Trevor Evans, head of the policy group in the Inland
Revenue and Paul Lanser, also from the Inland Revenue, who is
the Assistant Director responsible for Analysis and Research.
Chairman: Thank you very much for coming along.
We are very grateful to you and to all your colleagues. We have
a lot to get through and we shall try to be brief in our questions.
250. Which are the principal Treasury policies,
programmes or actions, including taxation measures most directly
intended to affect enterprise, entrepreneurship and productivity
growth? What is the annual cost of each of these? Are the objectives
in each case clearly set out? What process of evaluation is conducted
in each case?
(Mr Price) It might help if I set out some of the
framework which the Treasury uses very, very briefly as there
are clearly several actions that the Treasury has at its disposal,
even though we are not in the lead on all the policy matters.
We published with the Small Business Service, at the time of the
pre-budget report in November, this documentEnterprise
Britain: a modern approach to meeting the enterprise challenge.
That was an attempt to outline the government's approach to enterprise:
why it matters, what the framework is for action and then fitting
within that the range and focus of individual measures. Your questions
recognise that enterprise contributes either directly or indirectly
to the five key drivers of productivity and it is really in that
sense that we focus on enterprise. The five drivers really form
a framework for the micro economic policy interventions that the
government operates on in order to try to close an historic productivity
gap with other major industrial economies; those five drivers
being innovation, competition, investment, skills and enterprise
itself. It is fair to say that within this framework we are trying
to give more weight to the body of evidence and economic principles
than perhaps ever before. In front of me is a pile of our productivity
papers which try to set out the evidence base and we could talk
some more about that later if that would help. Our role with other
departments is to try to make sure that the right environment
exists for enterprise to flourish and where necessary to make
sure that policies are in place to tackle specific market failures
or blockages, barriers which inhibit successful enterprise. In
practice that means that across government we have a focus on
a number of key market failures, the main ones being finance for
small business, external advice for businesses, improving skills
and training, raising levels of innovation; in addition to those,
focusing on making sure we have a strong competition framework
so that small businesses and new firms can enter markets they
might previously have been excluded from and also, importantly,
making sure that we keep low, efficient and proportionate the
system of regulation that government imposes on businesses, including
in that tax compliance costs. You have had separate evidence on
a number of these areas from DTI and DFES, so I shall turn to
my Revenue colleagues to explain how measures operating through
the tax system relate to this.
(Mr Evans) The measures I shall describe are mainly
the targeted ones. There are several more general measures, the
lower rates of corporation tax, the capital gains tax regime and
we might have the opportunity to discuss those in answer to one
of your other questions. For the moment, if I may, the principal
targeted tax measures are: the enterprise investment scheme, often
known by its initials as the EIS; the venture capital trusts,
the VCTs; the corporate venturing scheme. Broadly speaking, these
three measures all aim to provide tax incentives to investment
in small and growing companies. They address market failures which
make it difficult for small companies to get the finance they
need to grow. Allied with these three is the community investment
tax relief which is a new measure designed to encourage private
investment in small enterprises in deprived communities. EMI,
the enterprise management incentive scheme, assists small high
risk firms to offer tax advantageous share options to employees
with the key skills that those small firms need to grow. Development
tax credits for small- and medium-sized enterprises and indeed
more recently for larger companies have been introduced over the
last three years and these aim to promote innovation and competitiveness
by encouraging small firms to invest more in research and development.
You asked about the cost of these measures. To give you the flavour
of these for the year 2002-03, the estimated costs are, for EIS,
the enterprise investment scheme, some £240 million, for
VCTs £35 million, for enterprise management incentives £85
million, for research and development a total for that year of
£600 million of which around £200 million relates to
small- and medium-sized enterprises and the balance, £400
million, to larger firms.
251. You were mentioning figures there for EIS
and VCT schemes. Have they produced the effect intended? How can
you tell? How do you evaluate?
(Mr Evans) Evaluation schemes have been or are in
the course of being set up for each of these. It may be helpful
if I briefly outline where we are on the evaluation for each of
those schemes. A research study of EIS and VCT was carried out
in 2002 by Public and Corporate Economic Consultants (PACEC).
This comprised surveys of investors and participant companies,
economic analysis and literature review. The study showed the
schemes to be broadly meeting their objectives of expanding access
to finance for these smaller higher risk businesses. Treasury
and the Small Business Service are presently carrying out a review
of small business finance. As you will have probably seen, a consultative
document was published at the time of the recent budget. Other
evaluation schemes are in the process of being set up. The Treasury,
Inland Revenue and the Small Business Service will begin work
shortly on designing a way of measuring the success of community
investment tax relief. We are committed to a full evaluation of
enterprise management incentives in 2005. This commitment was
made when EMI was introduced. It was a commitment made in the
regulatory impact assessment which was issued at the time that
scheme was introduced in 2000. We are also in the preparatory
stages of designing an evaluation process for research and development
tax credits. You will appreciate that some of these reliefs have
been introduced very recently, therefore it will take time for
the effects to become apparent and for a proper evaluation to
be carried out.
252. Let us talk about corporation tax and capital
gains tax. Has there been any impact at all on the level of entrepreneurial
activity? I am talking about the changes in corporation tax.
(Mr Evans) Perhaps I could say something about the
evaluation. We have not carried out an evaluation of the impact
on UK entrepreneurial activity of the changes in the rate of corporation
253. Will you?
(Mr Evans) No, in the sense that we make an assessment
of the overall effect of tax changes on revenues and the numbers
affected, but we have not attempted to assess how changes impact
on entrepreneurial behaviour. This is a general change. The corporation
tax rates are general changes which apply across the board and
we focus our evaluations on the more targeted measures which are
the ones I outlined for you at the beginning.
(Mr Lanser) Mr Evans mentioned the evaluation of the
policies which have been introduced very recently like EMI. Although
we will not be doing a very significant amount of work until later
on when the policies are fully up and running, 2005 in the case
of EMI, we are already planning the evaluation and doing preliminary
work which will help us to undertake a full scale evaluation when
the data becomes available and when the schemes are mature enough
that it is actually worth doing some proper evaluation work on
254. You have none at the moment. Is there a
special unit?
(Mr Lanser) At the moment we are doing some preliminary
work specifically on EMI. We are doing some qualitative research
to understand what sort of questions we will be able to ask when
we eventually come to do full-scale survey work of the sort we
did with the EIS and VCT study. I did not want to leave you with
the impression that we were leaving it all until 2005-06. A lot
of work has to be done before we undertake a full-scale evaluation.
On the corporation tax, which you also asked about, these are
general tax measures which are not very susceptible to evaluation
in the same way as much more targeted measures such as EIS, VCT
, EMI, research and development tax credits are. What we do with
general measures such as this is monitor them very closely, we
look at the number of companies which are in the group affected
by the zero per cent rate, for example, how much tax is involved
or how much tax is not collected as a result of this particular
policy change and the number of companies involved. We monitor
them quite closely, but we do not evaluate them in the same way
as we would evaluate a much more targeted scheme. On capital gains
tax, we have a commitment to evaluate the introduction of taper
relief in 1998 and the changes which were made to taper relief
in 2000. We are not evaluating capital gains tax in its totality,
we are evaluating the specifics of the introduction of taper relief,
which was the measure introduced to encourage enterprise and to
promote entrepreneurial activity and hopefully more investment
and greater productivity growth. In that case, where we have a
specific measure and a specific objective that we can have a look
at, we do evaluate that measure.
255. In a former life as a humble provincial
chartered accountant I seem to remember filling in forms years
ago claiming investment grants for client after client and if
a capital acquisition was made you could claim an investment grant
and people could see real cash. I am trying to think which of
my old clients would have been able to benefit from all these
measures which we are hearing about now. I wonder whether any
of them would. I do not feel as though I have a handle on this
and it would be helpful to know. When an initiative is introduced,
I suppose some sort of assessment must be made as to what the
cost of that initiative is going to be. Is it realised or are
you well below what you thought when such an initiative was introduced?
We are asking, for example, what the costs of these initiatives
are, but is that cost what was envisaged when the Chancellor announced
that or is it substantially less than that? Do you have a way
of assessing that?
(Mr Evans) The capital gains changes are a good example
of this. To answer your implied question, a lot of your former
entrepreneurial clients would be very pleased by the capital gains
tax changes.
256. Yes, I accept that.
(Mr Evans) Yes indeed, an assessment is made of the
cost of introducing the business assets taper and as you will
remember it has been made progressively more generous from the
original ten years down to four years and now an effective ten
per cent rate after just two years. There are all kinds of changes
in capital gains tax and the cost of a capital gains tax measure
particularly does depend upon asset values and asset values do
change after the measure has been introduced. In that kind of
area in particular, it is very difficult to separate out what
has been as a result of the capital markets changing, the cost
of shares changing, what is from the introduction of the taper
relief itself.
257. I accept that all these things are related,
but capital gains in itself is not an entrepreneurial thing. It
is at the end of entrepreneurship, is it not? Much of what you
were talking about were schemes where, in order to set up shop,
as it were, incentives have been raised or there are incentives
for businesses to go further forward. That is what I was actually
more interested in, whether you are seeing that as being realised
in terms of the various schemes you mentioned or whether there
is a disappointment in that and whether it is getting through
and the intended participants are joining in and jumping for these
(Mr Lanser) Other schemes are performing as intended,
as we now know. We know more about things like EIS and VCT because
we have done more research on those and we have more external
information to compare it against. Broadly speaking that did operate
as we intended, although it was not perfect and there are lessons
to be learned, some of which are wrapped up in the consultation
document on small business finance. On R&D tax credits, you
must remember that we introduced a small company relief in 2000
and a large one in 2002. We have no information on the 2002 introduction
yet, because we just do not have the returns in. We have some
information on the small company relief and that is pretty much
in line with our expectations. You must remember that what we
also did with research and development tax credits was put significant
effort into publicising them at a number of road shows, consultations.
We made quite a big publicity push with those and that has helped.
On the other ones, EMI, pretty much in line with what we expected,
however you must realise that part of the cost of EMI is when
people actually exercise their share options. Although someone
could have been granted a share option, if they have not exercised
it yet, we will not yet know what the tax loss was, what the cost
of the scheme has been. It is quite difficult to say that.
258. On the evaluation side I am not entirely
sure what your answer was to Lord Fearn on whether there is an
evaluation unit. By and large the responses you have given are
all about costs and on the evaluation side I am at least as interested
in outputs, what the effects of these things are. I would not
really expect Inland Revenue to be stuffed full of people who
are experts in assessing the effect on enterprise, entrepreneurs'
growth and so on. Maybe you are. Maybe you are going to surprise
me. Is there an evaluation unit in the Treasury? Who is looking
at these things and saying these things are costing money, this
is what the government wants to achieve? The Chancellor is in
the same party as I am, so I have some sympathy with what he is
trying to do here. The Chancellor has certainly adopted some very
definite economic policies. He is not just doing things as a tax
and spend Chancellor, he is doing things to achieve outcomes.
This is the starting point, it seems to me. I assume that the
Treasury is as concerned with the output as it is with the old
concern with cost and loss of revenue. Is there an evaluation
unit? Who is looking at these things? Who is looking at outcomes,
outputs, is really what we want to know.
(Mr Grice) There are two elements to this question.
One is generally how do we approach these issues of evaluation
and establishing clear targets and evaluation and so on and we
can certainly try to talk you through on what we do on that. If
you are interested more specifically in the evaluation of these
issues relating to enterprise, that is something Mr Price can
help with.
259. Talk us through the general approach first.
(Mr Grice) Broadly, there was a big change to the
way we deal with public spending in particular, five years ago
now, at the time of the 1998 comprehensive spending review. Our
approach did change very substantially and I have been around
the Treasury for a long time. We made a quantum move from the
primary concern with inputs which we had had before, whether that
was cash or numbers of people or whatever. We moved away from
inputs quite decisively towards outcomes and outputs, just as
you implied. This is pretty crucial for public spending as a whole
and public finance as a whole. The chosen means by which we tried
to ensure that we do have clear objectives on which evaluations
can be pinned are the public service agreements, the so-called
PSAs. What they do is to set out for all the key areas of activity,
all the key areas of spending, what the objectives and targets
are. They do so very specifically. They do focus on outcomes,
whether that is better health, or better public services, or educational
attainment, or, in the context of entrepreneurship and enterprise,
the extent to which the money is actually intended to add value
in promoting entrepreneurship or enterprise, productivity growth
for that matter. The important pointers which are an integral
part of the spending reviews themselves, are really a two-way
compact between the Treasury and to the extent that they are interested
in the priority programme, the Prime Minister has to agree to
these as well, on the other side the departments which are actually
using those resources. It is that kind of two-way understanding
which gives a great deal of clarity and a great deal of transparency
that we did not have to nearly the same degree before. Each of
the PSAs has an aim, which is the high level statement of what
the money is intended to achieve. It then has a set of objectives
which in more specific terms is what the money is intended to
achieve and going with those in each case is a set of performance
targets which are intended to be as smart, in the jargon, as possible,
measurable and verifiable. One of those targets is always a value
for money target and each department within each of the PSAs has
to have a target for improving the efficiency and the effectiveness
of the resources which are being spent. Also, very importantly,
in each case there is a statement of who is responsible and who
is accountable for achieving those objectives, those targets,
so someone actually has accountability for it. In each case we
try very hard to build in a very heavy evidence-based approach
to the PSAs. It is one thing to have a set of targets; at least
as important is how you are going to achieve them and the means
by which you are going to achieve them. We have done a lot of
work over the last few years to make a reality of evidence-based
policy making. The PSAs themselves are published and available
on the Treasury website, but associated with each one, underpinning
the PSAs, available only on the Treasury website, not published
in hard form so far as I know, are the so-called service delivery
agreements and the technical notes which go with them, which explain
in considerable detail how the department concerned is setting
about achieving those objectives. There is also another Treasury
website called the Evidence for policy choice website,
which sets out the evidence base corresponding to each of these
PSA targets and that is a very important and increasingly useful
piece of information which is available and which sets out what
the evidence base is. It is open to challenge in a sense and that
is also important. One other thing I might just mention in this
context, because it is relative to some of the other issues you
may wish to raise later, is that we have the evidence-based policy
fund which is the fund which finances research to repair gaps
in the evidence base when they are apparent and need to be filled.
All of this is publicly available. Because this is all part and
parcel of the spending review, as a matter of course, every two
years at the minimum, these PSAs and the service agreements which
go with them will be examined in great detail and updated and
progress noted, lessons learned and rebuilt into the design and
the re-design of policy to underpin these agreements and the delivery
of what we want a policy to achieve. The only other thing I should
perhaps say in this context, and we feel the PSAs give a very
firm basis for a systematic programme of evaluation, if we have
clear objectives and clear targets then that gives at least the
first stage in this process, is that the Treasury also produces
a document called the GREEN BOOK. It has been around for
many years but it was fairly comprehensively revised and republished
in April of this year. That followed quite a comprehensive consultation
exercise which we carried out last year. What it does is to give
a guide to what we believe is best practice in the field of evaluation,
also appraisalappraisal and evaluation; appraisal of policies
when they are announced and their subsequent evaluation. We do
not feel that any document of this size can cover every circumstance,
so it is intended to be only the general principles which apply.
Nevertheless, we would want those principles to be applied wherever
possible and that is reflected in the fact that this GREEN
BOOK has the status of so-called binding guidance. All accounting
officers are required to be aware of it and while there may be
good reasons in specific circumstances why the guidance should
not be followed literally, nevertheless in those circumstances,
there should be a good reason for a departure which an accounting
officer would be able to explain if called upon to do so. That
is the basic approach we have. We think we now have a framework
which does mean we have a great deal of clarity about objectives
and about means of delivery. We tried also to facilitate making
accessible best practice in the field of appraisal and evaluation
which means that departments would be able to go away and set
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Call me crazy, but I'm still holding out hope that the humongous energy ball we're orbiting could someday play a larger role in satiating our voracious appetite for electricity. But to get there, we're going to need a lot more resources like Cambridge's new Solar Tool, a web application that gives Cambridge residents and business owners a wealth of information on how efficient a planned solar setup might be for their home or business–and, most importantly, how much money they stand to save.
Even as more affordable photovoltaics and government incentives for adopting renewable energy sources have made solar a financially attractive alternative in some areas, it can still be hard to find accurate, easy-to-understand information to help make the leap. The Solar Tool, developed by the Sustainable Design Lab at MIT and Boston-based design workshop MoDe Studio, aims to solve that problem for the city of Cambridge. Simply enter your address, and a comprehensive satellite map of Cambridge shows you how efficient your own rooftop is for soaking up the sun's rays, from excellent to poor, down to the square meter.
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We've seen some similar tools before, but Cambridge's could well be the most complex–and genuinely useful–yet. As Eduardo Berlin, co-founder of MoDe Studio told me, "no tool is quite like ours." For one thing, the algorithms and simulations Dr. Christoph Reinhart and his team at MIT's Sustainable Design Lab designed to power the map are unprecedentedly precise. "It computes actual roof slope," Berlin explained, "adjusts performance according to air temperature, considers shading from trees and neighboring buildings, and even reflections from neighboring structures."
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My name is Christina Kusek and this is why I walk to end lupus now (link to her walk page). I have been living with Lupus for over 11 years. I consider myself one of the lucky ones! I am lucky to have been blessed with a disease that teaches me more about myself every day and forces me to nurture my body mind and spirit. One day I hope this will lead me down a path to help others as they work on their own personal healing. In 2002, I was diagnosed with SLE, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, with Thrombocytopenia. Being diagnosed was not easy to hear or understand as I was 22 at the time. I am lucky because having supportive loved ones and a great network of doctors who helped me rise up from the "why me" syndrome. It's time for me to share how I overcame tough times and learned what works for my condition as others do the same for me.
Until now I have been very private about my condition. I only talk openly about what I go through with close friends and family. As the active state of my Lupus is ever changing, it has taken me on a journey that has influenced the type of person I am today. I've basically been pushed into having to educate myself on a disease I had never heard of and study remedies for ailments that I refuse to let debilitate me. Besides seeing my regular specialists consistently, coping with my symptoms has opened up opportunities to discover the fascinating world of homeopathic nutrition and energy medicine. I use to think I can't help others if I am still learning to help myself and people would look at me differently if they knew that I had Lupus. I realize now that speaking out is helping others while I am taking care of myself. Someone may hear my story and realize that they can share that they have Lupus too, or can relate because a close friend or family member has Lupus.
I do not know what the future of my disease has in store. I'm currently fighting to keep my spleen or not have monthly IVIG (infusions of gamma globulin to give me more platelets) or go on other medications that could possibly have more side effects than I'd be comfortable with because of my Thrombocytopenia. I know I can do this, I am prepared for this fight but I walk for all others that have a greater fight for their kidneys, heart, other organs and quality of life. I feel like it's not so bad when I've been blessed to give life to my daughter Stella who is now 17 months old, when I know of others that have lost theirs due to this terrible disease. I intend to be here for her and watch her grow into a strong, beautiful woman. I want to show her that any obstacle she faces in life can be approached with grace, strength and passion to succeed. I started by finally joining the Lupus Foundation of America and becoming a Captain of Team Nina's Lupy Lupus for the first Walk To End Lupus Now (link to our walk general page that lists all 3 walks) in Southwest Florida on February 23. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story. I was so excited when I found out about the walk happening here in Naples, FL! It inspired me to finally take action, speak out and get involved in the Lupus Community.


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Many style of the plus size wedding dresses for you
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! This is such an exciting time in your life. Now the search begins to find a plus size wedding dress. As you probably know, it can be difficult enough to find regular clothes you like in plus sizes, let alone lace wedding gowns. This article will give you suggestions on how to find that plus size wedding dresses. It's your special day, and you deserve to get the dress you've always dreamed about.
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Piercing fashion, the beautiful Elsa frozen me sleeps and goes to a private lounge for piercing. We also included here as the game Elsa frozenme body piercing are doing. In the first stage of the game to come against us else is frozen. Here, the three arrows mark the girl's navel,nose and ears shows. Select one of these piercings determine where you are going to do. After selection of the materials required for body piercing to do is to come to the bottom. She's using the material as indicated by the arrows in her body piercings are doing our chosen area.If we use all preferences, we completed our goal of reaching the stage. 're Getting help from the mouse in-game controls. Elsa we're Frozen Piercings Have fun in the game.
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Yes girls, Are you ready to experience the beautiful game? The answer is yes, of coming up to my ears. Since she is so ugly game on our site to activate it offline. Games able to play with the Turkish language support. For this option at the top left of the main screen from the Turkish we have to choose what is written. Preferences in the middle of the screen, then 'Play' button, we are launching the game. More precisely, the game does not start, promotional images are faced with. After the promotional images for the care of the ugly girl more beautiful than before undertaking it are trying to make a case. In-game controls to ensure you're getting help from mice. We wish you good luck.
Anna Frozen Spa
Watched a cartoon character loved by girls is one of the Frozen Anna is preparing to come up with a new game. Today we add up all the Anna Frozen him in the game were trying to do the required maintenance. Now we have activated our new game if it will provide relief massage. Our successful game to play with mouse control, you will be given a set of materials. Using these materials, respectively, given her a massage can make, you can leave the game successfully. Massage Parlor named Anna was the first to play our game, you can log the installation wait. Immediately after completion of loading, which will appear in the menu screen you can log in by clicking the play button. In this fun game good luck to all of you, we wish you a pleasant game.
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You girls have some good news to the very, very high-quality prepared one more game on my site. So if you enjoy this game, skin care, make-up and dress-up stages there. but all these have to be done before the introduction to the game. For an introduction to the game installation preparation for graduation Ellie process, then click on play button on the main screen. We start the game with this click, ourselves, we're going to find inside the skin care phase. Here, with help from the mouse controls whether Ellie and the skin of the maintenance problems we solve. Thus we have completed the game. Second stage makeup, while the third stage separated from each other by making choices between the nice clothes, Ellie are completing preparations for the ' s. It is provided with all the controls in the game mouse. Have a good time.
Tom and Angela Haircuts
Talking cat, Tom, we know as the newest games with us. Moreover, in this game, accompanied by her cute cat named Angela. First of all, we need to choose between Angela and Tom. After the game, the selection in the menu on the left and right sections of w using our character, cutting off their hair in such a way that we want, we're doing a beautiful design. We want to shape their character's hair right after the painting by using the menu and are completing the first stage of the game.The second phase includes the option to utilize her glasses and tie accessories, such as general appearance by wearing it to be good and we provide them. In order to complete the game in under the right hand side of the screen click on the pink button next. Tom and Angela have a fun game of the haircut. Tadya.com
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No doubt the most famous game character Hazel is a baby. Girls by much-loved character, its popularity increasing every day reaches more fanbase. Hazel is one of the biggest causes of the character also draws attention with the educational games can be. Now our active will be loved very much in the game, with the trainers. All this together is learning and successful as both will have fun and you complete the game. At the end of the game you will do there will be proof of that in the picture. Hazel baby colors in the game of learning the controls being installed at the entrance to the game when supplying with the mouse, after the transaction takes place by clicking on the play button. Have a good time.
Tadya Ice Cream Shop
Hello Sweetie. After waiting impatiently for you Tadya Ice Cream Shop game to start the installation process active in the website, click the play button on the main screen. Then 3 empty slots will appear. By clicking the button printed on the bottom of the new game slot games we take our place on the trails open your own listing. The first section shows all the things you do. Following receipt of your order from the customer first before the ones shown. Then continue to follow those shown in order to enter into the car by moving in the direction given by the client tried to prepare him. $ 5 after gaining customers by delivering managed to prepare the order and you show the success of the first phase of completion. You are trying to complete the section in the second stage of trying to reach a higher money. We wish you good luck.
Selena Gomez Haircuts
Selena Gomez Haircuts when you begin to play with the girl at the person to check the required maintenance will be decorated by doing. The game is played with mouse controls first, you are not going to wash her hair. Using a variety of shampoos her hair you can switch to the other phases of the game if you wash. The other phase, you are being asked to shape the first girl from. Scissors and similar products, you can help shape their girl's hair. Thus we continue with the steps that you can spice up your girl's hair. This part of the game is hair painting fun game you can complete successfully. Have Fun!
Elsa Frozen Haircuts
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The most prominent character in the land of snows again from the screen with a great makeover game now Anna Frozen to your future. To be able to make the entrance to the game PLAY, you need to click to the post. Then when the game starts first encounter skin care. After doing makeup and skin care got into your player dress up with you will continue the game. Anna belongs to the great hairstyles, dresses, fur coats, collars, accessories and shoes. I'm sure you will have so much fun when you dress her up. With the help of the mouse your selections within the game. Tadya.com
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The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday met with the leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in his residence.
The Office of the former President in a statement said the HIA leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and several other government officials and political figures participated in a gathering in the residence of the former President Hamid Karzai on Saturday.
The statement further added that the party participants discussed regarding the ongoing situation of the country, peace efforts and its importance for the country.
Hekmatyar arrived in Kabul earlier this month from Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, almost a week after he appeared before the media and people in 20 years.
The Afghan officials are optimistic that the conclusion of peace deal between the Afghan government and Hezb-e-Islami is a major step towards reconciliation and stability of the country.
During a meeting with the tribal elders and influential figures of southern Kandahar province last week, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said the peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami is based on four main principles, including goodwill, determination, judgment, and legality.
President Ghani further added that the conclusion of peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami has encouraged some others to participate in peace talks as well but did not elaborate further in this regard.
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25km north of Kuusamo, Ruka village (Western Ruka) 2.4km. Apartment in a motel, built in 2003, alcove: bunk bed (lower bed 120cm, upper bed 80cm), living room: convertible sofa. Combined kitchen/living room. Shower and toilet in the apartment. The price is for 2 persons, but apartment accommodates up to 4 people. Extra person 11,11 eur/day. Please call to our number +358 306 502 502 (Mon-Fri 8.30-17) if you want to make a booking for more than 2 persons. 13-apartment apartment hotel situated close to Highway 5. Private restaurant Willi's West Saloon in the same premises. Possibility for breakfast for additional fee.
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