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The principle of justice holds that particular individuals, groups, or communities should neither bear an unfair share of the direct burdens of participating in research, nor should they be unfairly excluded from the potential benefits of research participation. Inclusiveness in research and fair distribution of benefits and burdens should be an important consideration for researchers, research ethics boards (REBs), research institutions and sponsors. Issues of fair and equitable treatment arise in deciding whether and how to include individuals, groups or communities in research, the basis for exclusion of some, and social justice issues such as how research differentially impacts groups and communities in society.
This chapter addresses inclusion in research of individuals and groups that might be inappropriately excluded on the basis of attributes such as culture, language, gender, race, ethnicity, age and disability. It provides guidance relevant to inclusion in research of certain groups such as women, children, the elderly, and those who lack capacity to consent to participate in research. Historically, these groups have been inappropriately excluded from research. This chapter also addresses the fair inclusion and equitable treatment of individuals and communities whose situation or circumstances makes them vulnerable in the context of a specific research project. Such individuals run the risk of being included in research in ways that may be unfair and inequitable.
Benefits of research participation may be direct, where, for example, an individual participant experiences amelioration of a health condition because of an experimental therapy or learns new information about social issues by participating in a research focus group. In a community hosting the research, benefits may take the form of information sharing, training for local personnel, the establishment of health care or similar services. Benefits may be indirect, where an individual's research participation or a study involving a community contributes to advancement in knowledge that may lead to improved conditions for a group to which the participant belongs. Such knowlege may inform other communities or society in general.
Over-protectionist attitudes or practices of researchers or REBs, whether intentional or inadvertent, exclude some members of society or communities from participating in research, and may therefore fail to treat those individuals or communities justly. For example, age has been used to exclude individuals from participation in research, particularly health research. The result of such exclusion is that insufficient research has been done to ensure treatments that are frequently given to the young and the elderly are effective and safe in these populations.
Researchers, institutions and REBs all have important roles to play in advancing that societal commitment and ensuring a fair distribution of the benefits and burdens of research. Researchers and REBs must navigate between the dangers of imposing unfair burdens on particular research participants, groups, and communities and overprotecting them.
Article 4.1 Taking into account the scope and objectives of their research, researchers should be inclusive in selecting research participants. Researchers shall not exclude individuals from the opportunity to participate in research on the basis of attributes such as culture, language, religion, race, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, linguistic proficiency, gender or age, unless there is a valid reason for the exclusion.
Application Article 4.1 is based on the principle of justice. It imposes a duty on researchers not to exclude individuals or groups from participation for reasons that are unrelated to the research. Groups have been inappropriately excluded from participation in research on the basis of attributes such as gender, race, ethnicity, age and disability.
The focus, objective, nature of research and context in which the research is conducted inform the inclusion and exclusion criteria for a specific research project or study. Some research may be focused on a certain individual (such as in a biography) or a group of individuals who share a specific characteristic (as in a study of an identifiable group of painters who happen to be all of one sex, race or religion, or of a religious order that is restricted to one sex, or research focused on certain cultural traditions or languages). Such research should not be precluded so long as the selection criteria for those to be included in the research are germane to answering the research question. Researchers who plan to actively exclude particular groups should clarify to their REBs the grounds for the exclusion.
Where a language barrier exists between the researcher and the potential participant, various measures may be used to ensure effective communication between them in recruitment and consent discussions. For example, an intermediary who may not be part of the research study or team, but who is competent in the language used by the researchers as well as that preferred by the research participant, may assist with communication between potential participants and researchers. The selection of the intermediary and the intermediary's activities will depend on the nature, context, and risks of the research.
Research Involving Women
Women have historically been inappropriately excluded from participating in some research. This exclusion of women, where unwarranted, has delayed the advancement of knowledge, denied potential benefits to women, and exposed women to harm when research findings from male-only studies have been generalized inappropriately to women, as has often been the case in clinical drug trials, for example. The inclusion of women in research advances the commitment to justice, improves the generalizability of research results where that is a goal of the research, and is essential to ensure that women and men benefit equally from research.
Article 4.2 Women shall not be inappropriately excluded from research solely on the basis of gender or reproductive capacity.
Application While some research is properly focused on particular research populations that do not include women or include very few women, women should generally be represented where there is a reasonable expectation that the results of the research will be generalized to women.
Article 4.2 rejects discriminatory and unethical use of inclusion or exclusion criteria that presumptively or inappropriately exclude women because of their gender or reproductive capacity. In considering research on pregnant or breastfeeding women, researchers and REBs shall, however, take into account risks and potential benefits for the woman and her embryo, fetus or infant.
Research Involving Children
Children have varying degrees of maturity, metabolically, immunologically and cognitively, which presents important challenges for research design and consent, depending on the nature and complexity of the research. In addition to vulnerability that arises from their developmental status, children may also lack capacity to consent to participate in research. (See Article 4.5).As well, physical or psychological harms a child may experience in a research setting may have long-lasting consequences. As a result, researchers have often simply avoided the inclusion of children in some research, especially in clinical trials testing new treatments, so as to eliminate any risks. The result is a generally poor understanding of how the results of clinical trials conducted with adults only apply to children.
As is the case with women, the inclusion of children in research advances the commitment to justice in research by improving our knowledge of, and ability to respond to, the unique needs of children throughout their development.
Article 4.3 Children shall not be inappropriately excluded from research solely on the basis of their age or development status.
Application Researchers should not automatically exclude children from research, unless there is a valid reason for doing so. When considering the inclusion of children in research, researchers and REBs shall consider a child's stage of physical, physiological, psychological and social development to ensure adequate protections for the child's welfare. Where children have not yet attained the capacity to consent for themselves to participate in research, researchers shall seek consent from an authorized third party while ascertaining the child's assent or dissent, as outlined in Chapter 3. Note that Article 4.5 equally applies to children.
Research Involving the Elderly
As the population ages, the proportion of elderly people is increasing and so is their life-expectancy. Research designed to improve our understanding of a wide range of aspects of aging and the lives of elderly people is important for ensuring that they stay fully integrated into society and maintain a continuing high quality of life. Medically, elderly patients are the highest consumers of drugs, yet many of these treatments have not been tested adequately on elderly patients. Research that takes into account the differential effects on the elderly and how best to accommodate their needs provides scientific evidence that can inform changes to policies and standards of care for the elderly.
Article 4.4 Elderly people shall not be inappropriately excluded from research solely on the basis of their age.
Application REBs and researchers should ensure that elderly people are not automatically excluded from research unless there is a valid reason for doing so. When considering the inclusion of elderly people in research, researchers and REBs shall consider their physical and social needs to ensure adequate protections. Depending on their social circumstances, elderly people may require some reasonable accommodation for mobility, transportation support, and other types of assistance that would otherwise preclude their participation in research. The principle of justice requires that such accommodations for the natural processes of aging be considered by REBs and researchers to ensure that exclusion of the elderly is not based on easily remediable issues that are not germane to the research question.Research Involving Those Who Lack Capacity to Consent for Themselves
The core principles of justice and concern for welfare entail special ethical obligations toward individuals who lack capacity to consent to participate in research. This section sets out conditions that apply to research involving those who cannot consent for themselves. It should be read in conjunction with Section C of Chapter 3.
Article 4.5 Subject to conditions in Articles 3.9 and 3.10, individuals who lack capacity to consent to participate in research shall not be inappropriately excluded from research. Where a researcher seeks to involve individuals in research who do not have capacity to consent for themselves, the researcher shall satisfy the REB that:
(a) the research question can be addressed only with participants within the identified group; and
(b) the research involves minimal risk or a minor increase above minimal risk with appropriate justification; and
(c) the research maintains an appropriate balance of risks commensurate with the potential to provide direct benefits to the participants or the relevant group to which they belong.
Application Individuals with cognitive impairments or intellectual disabilities and children may lack capacity to consent to participate in particular research initiatives. As a result, they have, historically, experienced both over-inclusion as populations of convenience for some research, and also unjustified exclusion from other research. Yet the advancement of knowledge about their social, psychological and health experiences and needs may depend on their appropriate participation in research. Their inclusion in research requires special considerations as outlined in this article.
To be ethically acceptable, the participation of those who lack capacity to consent for themselves shall be necessary and appropriate to address the research question. Researchers and REBs shall consider the level of risk to which participants who lack capacity to consent are exposed, and the potential for benefits accruing directly to the participants or to a group to which they belong. Their participation should generally be limited to research of minimal risk as defined in this Policy (see Chapter 2 for the definition of minimal risk). The prospect of benefits for participants should be commensurate with the level of risk entailed by the research.
Where the research entails only minimal risk, it should at least have the potential to provide benefits to participants or to a group to which they belong. Where the research presents a minor increase above minimal risk, it should have appropriate justification and the potential for direct benefits for the participants themselves. Where the research presents a minor increase above minimal risk but no prospect for direct benefits to the participants themselves, it should have the potential to yield generalizable knowledge that is likely to benefit the population from which the participants are recruited.
The research design should take into account factors that may affect the capacity of potential research participants to receive information, to consent to the research at some stage or to participate in it. These factors may be permanent or may vary over time. The participant's capacity to consent may fluctuate over time. Articles 3.9 and 3.10 in Chapter 3 establish other conditions regarding research that involve individuals who lack capacity to consent. This includes the involvement of an authorized third party to consent on their behalf, and adequate provisions to ascertain the wishes of the individuals concerning their participation.
The core principles of respect for persons and concern for welfare entail special ethical obligations toward individuals or groups whose circumstances may lead to their vulnerability in the context of a specific research project or study and limit their ability to fully safeguard their own interests. These may include individuals who are institutionalized, those in dependent situations, or those whose circumstances, such as poverty or poor health status, may render even modest incentives to participate so attractive as to constitute an inducement to take risks they would otherwise not take. Their situation may also compromise the voluntariness of consent in other ways. However, such individuals should not automatically be considered vulnerable simply because of assumptions about the vulnerability of the group to which they belong. Their particular circumstances shall be considered in the context of the proposed research project.
Article 4.6 Individuals or groups whose circumstances may make them especially convenient for researchers to recruit into research projects shall not be included in research solely on the basis of these convenient circumstances.
Application REBs and researchers shall carefully examine the relationship between the circumstances of the individuals and communities they aim to recruit and the research questions they aim to answer. They should not presume that these circumstances will either automatically preclude or qualify individuals or communities for participation. Researchers and REBs should recognize and address changes in a participant's circumstances that may create, heighten or attenuate their vulnerability and provide special protections or consideration. This may be the case for individuals or communities who are vulnerable to abuse, unfair treatment or discrimination.
In general, researchers should be familiar with the cultural, social and economic circumstances of prospective individual research participants or host communities. Researchers should anticipate, to the best of their ability, needs of participants and their communities that might arise in any given research project. Especially when participants and their communities have a wide range of pressing needs as a result of their low socioeconomic circumstances, these needs can present significant ethical challenges for researchers.
Researchers should also be sensitive to the expectations and opinions of participants regarding potential benefits of the research, and, where possible, they should arrive at agreements with the community about the scope and nature of the potential benefits that will be provided to participants and/or their communities during and after the research. The agreements should, to the extent possible, be explicit about the planned division of responsibilities for realizing these benefits. In many cases, benefits may be delivered most effectively in partnership with local organizations to better ensure balance in the relationship between researchers and participants and mutual benefit in researcher-community relations. (See Article 9.13 on mutual benefits in collaborative research as it pertains to research involving Aboriginal peoples in Canada).
Researchers shall ensure that any potential benefits for participants or their communities are not only commensurate with the risks of participation, but also fair in terms of the overall distribution of benefits between participants and researchers. A fair distribution of benefits can help ensure that individuals and communities are not included in research merely because their circumstances make their recruitment more convenient or efficient for researchers.
Benefits may, for example, take the form of information sharing, training for local personnel, or health care or similar services. Where applicable, these research agreements outlining expectations and other considerations, whether formal or informal, should be submitted to the REB under the auspices of which the research is being conducted and by the REB or other responsible body or bodies where such exists at the host research site or country for review. (See Article 8.3).
Since researchers are not aid agencies, REBs should be vigilant to ensure that the proposed distribution of benefits is fair, without imposing undue burdens on the researcher that would make it too difficult or costly to complete the research reliably.
Researchers should normally provide copies of publications or other research reports or products arising from the research to the institution or organization – normally the host institution – that is best suited to act as a repository and disseminator of the results within the participating communities. This may not be necessary in jurisdictions when the results are readily available in print or electronically. In all cases, researchers should ensure that participating communities are informed of how to access the results of the research that should be made available to them in a culturally appropriate and meaningful format, such as reports in plain language in addition to technical reports.
Respect for Communities and Minimizing Social Disruption
Researchers should recognize that communities, as well as individuals within those communities, can be put at risk or their vulnerability may be exacerbated by research activities. They should be aware of the implications of their research for local communities and should be attentive to social changes that might be introduced by their research projects. Researchers should also take care not to create unrealistic expectations among participants within those communities with respect to the potential benefits of the research. They should demonstrate respect for the communities they engage in research by exercising due diligence to anticipate and minimize any risk and social disruption that might be created by the research.


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I've never been a religious man. Which is why I've always wondered why so many Arabs want me to become Muslim.
I think it's because I'm a good listener. As a journalist and writer based in the Middle East since 1996, I've never adopted the approach of many other outsiders who seem to enjoy arguing with religious believers in the region—trying to convince them, it seems, that they ought to trade in their backward, uncivilized attitudes for democracy and iPods. I, on the other hand, listen to what the people I meet have to say. I show that I'm interested, because that makes people open up.
The result is that my Palestinian crime novels have great insights into the way Palestinians – including the deeply religious among them – think. Many Arabs have told me they find the books very empathetic, without losing all critical facility.
But sometimes listening so attentively gets me into trouble.
I've been asked, quite formally, to accept Islam on three occasions. Two of them I consider to have been somewhat pro forma queries from religious Muslims who simply viewed it as their duty to request that the stranger standing before them should join their faith. For example, a Hamas journalist in Nablus spoke with me at length and, on shaking my hand to say goodbye, put his hand to his heart and said: "I invite you to submit to Islam."
"Oh, well, thanks very much," I said. "That's rather nice of you. Cheerio."
Similarly, a Hamas fugitive in a Gaza refugee camp peremptorily offered me his thick, muscular hand with the same invitation, before disappearing up a stone staircase into the night, his M16 slung across his chest. He wasn't someone you'd take issue with. I told him I'd think about it.
The third occasion, however, was a closer shave. I was in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, interviewing the family of a young man who had gone to study at a religious school in Turkey, only to turn up dead on a battlefield in Afghanistan a few months later. The family didn't want to talk about their son's death, for fear of Jordan's secret police, which was decidedly unamused by migrant jihadis amongst the Hashemite kingdom's population.
So along with a local journalist named Rania, I decided to ask them about the boy's Islamic studies to draw them out. I then hoped to move onto his possible reasons for fighting against the Americans in Kabul.
I suppose I must have looked a lot more interested in Islam than I had intended, because the dead boy's 60-year-old father became rather animated.
"Perhaps you will accept Islam," he said.
"Well, perhaps," I said. Being nice.
He pushed the red and white keffiyeh back from his brow and rubbed a tear from his eye. "You will accept Islam and become our son, to replace the one who died."
Oh, dear. "That's rather good of you…"
His wife, a thick set woman who had given birth many times, appeared excited by the prospect of gaining a son without going through labor. Or perhaps she was just happy to see her husband enthusiastic about something for the first time since their bereavement. The old man turned to her. "Quick, woman," he said, "go and get the Koran!"
As the heavy lady puffed to her feet, Rania whispered to me. "We have to get out of here," she said. "They're going to get you to make the declaration of faith on the Koran."
"I don't want to be rude to them," I muttered. "But I don't really want to be Muslim, either." I've never thought of myself as a particular victim of the restraint supposedly endemic in my native land. But I realized it would be terribly British of me to accept a new faith just because I was too polite to refuse.
Rania apologized, saying we had to be back in Amman before darkness fell. She promised that we would return soon. As we left, I saw the sad, generous old man's silhouette in the blue light from his window and I almost felt sorry that I hadn't let him convert me.
There was also the time an upper-class Palestinian woman wanted to convert me to Islam, so she could get me to marry her. But I consider her motivations to have been less disinterested than the other three offers, so I don't include her here. In any case, I didn't refuse her because I didn't want to be Muslim…


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S Sreesanth's name cropped up in the famous Indiani Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal in 2013, along with two other players from his franchise, Rajasthan Royals -- Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Sreesanth received a life ban was arrested after he was guilty of underperforming in return for money from bookies but was released on bail in a month. Kerela High Court recently lifted the life ban on Sreesanth in August 2017, but BCCI challenged it. He took to Twitter to vent his anger at the Indian cricket board in a series of tweets
Everyone remembers slapgate! But, five years after the infamous drama, S Sreesanth has now claimed that the entire incident was planned, that he was never slapped and that Harbhajan Singh is a 'backstabber'. In picture: Kings XI Punjab bowler VRV Singh (left) consoles S Sreesanth after the Mumbai-Punjab tie at Mohali during IPL-I, on April 25, 2008. Sreesanth was infamously 'slapped' by Harbhajan Singh after the match, following which the former cried like a baby
Australian captain Ricky Ponting lashed back at Sreesanth for sledging five Australian batsmen during India's eight-run one-day win in Chandigarh during October 2007. Pic/ AFP
Sreesanth had an eventful series in October 2007. He targeted the Australians with his strange behaviour, and had a heated argument with Andrew Symonds. Pic/ AFP
Sreesanth's famous impromptu dance after he had hit South African pacer Andre Nel for a six during the first Test in Johannesburg in December 2006. Pic/ AFP
Sreesanth and Graeme Smith were involved in an angry exchange of words on the pitch late on Day 3 of the second Test at Kingsmead in December 2010. Pic/ AFP
The undisputed king of controversies, the temperamental pacer was involved in a mid-air fracas last year. A co-passenger on a Bangalore-Delhi flight alleged that the cricketer had indulged in 'boorish behaviour' on board the aircraft. The co-passenger, T R Ravichandran alleged that Sreesanth got into a 'childish argument' with flight attendants when he was asked not to sit near the emergency exit. Sreesanth denied the charges
In April 2013, Sreesanth was handed a warning by the BCCI for raking up the 2008 'slapgate' issue through a social networking website. The Rajasthan Royals paceman was told that if he does something similar again, he will be issued a show cause notice, according to IPL sources
In October 2009, the BCCI and Kerala Cricket Association issued separate warnings to Sreesanth for indiscipline on the cricket field
In 2011, Indian skipper M S Dhoni revealed that he had a stern word with fast bowler Sreesanth, letting him know the limits he cannot cross
Former Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth, who turns a year older, is no stranger to controversies. Here's a look at some of them


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CD 12 Conversations with Councils goes to Ride On Therapeutic Horsemanship Center
Posted by Councilmember Englander on April 28, 2017 at 5:24 PM
On Thursday, over 40 representatives from the ten Neighborhood Councils throughout Council District 12 took part in what has become an anticipated tradition in the North West San Fernando Valley – the CD12 Conversations with Councils.
Designed to provide the CD12 Neighborhood Council membership the opportunity to expand their repertoire of information regarding relevant social and political issues and provide access to the respective City agencies and departments designated to address these challenges, this regular meeting has become a cornerstone in providing understanding of complex topics for our Neighborhood Council membership.
Thursday's event was hosted by Ride On, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing care and teaching adaptive horseback riding to children and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities and providing physical, occupational and speech therapy specializing in using the movement of the horse to improve specific medical conditions.
The Neighborhood Council members were treated to an engaging dialogue that touched upon keystone issues in the City involving the Los Angeles Police Department. Thank you to Deputy Chief John Sherman of Operations Valley Bureau, Captain Bryan Lium of Devonshire Division, and Captain Maureen Ryan of Topanga Division for an informative discussion of vital issues which effect our communities. A special thanks to Bryan McQueeney, Sara Jones, and the incredible Ride On staff for their time and commitment. It was undeniably a powerful event that will not soon be forgotten.
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OK, maybe now that it is on Fox News all the idiots will believe it as well.
WASHINGTON ? It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever.
The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the "recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia."
A panel of top climate scientists told lawmakers that the Earth is heating up and that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."
Can I get a big "No Shit Sherlock"?
Speaking of global warming, have you seen this?:
…haven't yet myself, but hearing good things about it!
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The Times of Israel reports: A massive manhunt was underway Sunday for a Palestinian prisoner who escaped from a hospital in central Israel where he was undergoing a routine medical examination.
The 32-year-old prisoner from the West Bank village of Damon escaped IDF custody while receiving care at Emek Medical Center in Afula. Large numbers of police have been deployed to the areas adjacent to the hospital.
Police circulated a photo of the escaped prisoner and appealed to the public for help in locating him.
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Click on the title. Keith and Joe are taping in my home town...Hudson!!! The studio was pretty unknown when they arrived, but hit the paper in a large article just Sunday...The inside of the church is beautiful with solid wood everywhere. And the SOUND in the main room is just amazing and i am not talking about MUSIC, i didn't hear any...but the sound of my VOICE was clear and amplified...an amazing place. Glad to see Keith and Joe a couple of times.....now i am off to follow neil around the northeast usa in an ice and snow storm...figure, huh????
Anyway, visit Grizzly Circus' blog....see pictures of my hometown!
"It's like a warning to me...... Stay still, Shakey, and you'll turn to rust and dust....... So I keep on moving" -Neil Young
Hi! I am Marilyn, a singer/songwriter in Hudson, NY. You have landed on my personal website/ blog/ calendar, and you will find here all kinds of things about my musical life. Look around! My blog is below, but over in the right column under 'Pages', you can see links to videos, show schedules, song lists and the other musical projects I am working on. I really hope you will consider getting to a show or even have me (and my friends) come and entertain you at your party or event. People enjoy having us play for them!
When the music calls, I *will* be there....
Thanks to WGXC and Tom Roe, I have this complete version of my song, Something We Can Do.
Enjoy it.
But even more.... talk to each other in love, forget hate.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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Indonesia, which is home to world's largest population of Muslims, has seen a resurgence in radicalism and is taking steps to stem a growing presence of the Islamic State. On Friday, Indonesian authorities blocked access to Telegram, noting that the app had several forums that were "full of radical and terrorist propaganda".
Pavel Durov, founder of the app, claimed that there had been a miscommunication with authorities and he was no aware of a request to take down certain channels. "Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists," Durov said.
On Saturday, Communications Minister Rudiantara told Reuters that Telegram had not processed the government's requests to take down "radical" content quickly enough. "We are trying to support their business but we also need their cooperation in addressing our concerns i.e. in addressing negative content," he said.
Telegram says it has now taken steps to block channels reported by the Indonesian government containing terrorism related content.
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Artist's description:
I feel very blessed to have every corner of my life filled with art.
The art I create always comes from a very free place. I tend to be inspired by people, kindness, emotions, warm fuzzy moments. The bits of life that are golden and make you smile inside and superheroes..... what girl doesn't love a hero ??
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Sleep well (2018)
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- Style: Organic
- Subject: Flowers and plants
This artwork is sold by Katy Barnfield from United Kingdom


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Sports Funding
What is Sports Funding?
Primary school sport is set to be improved further with additional funding from the Government to help primary schools improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils.
This means at Holtsmere End Infant & Nursery School we will receive approximately £9,000 over the course of the year.
Please read the information below which gives you details of our Sports funding.
PE & Sports Premium Impact Statement 2017/2018 (PDF 413KB)
Sports Funding 2015/2016 (PDF 243KB)
Sports Funding 2014/2015 (PDF 293KB)


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When scientists at the Meander Medical Center ran a CT scan on a Buddhist statue from the 11th or 12th century, they were blown away by what they found inside.
The sculpture, on exhibition at the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, houses a full mummy of a Chinese Buddhist monk.
The scientists were fairly certain that they'd find a mummy inside, but they had yet to see any evidence up close and personal. Through the CT scan, the skeleton of the monk can be clearly seen, with his organs replaced by ancient Chinese scrolls.
They believe the body belongs to a monk named Liquan, an ancient master of the Chinese Meditation School. Earlier this month, another team of scientists discovered a 200-year-old mummified monk in Mongolia. It was believed by some Buddhists that this monk was still living and in a deep meditative trance.
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Steamboat 700 traffic plans get review
Planning Commission to provide specific feedback tonight
February 21, 2008
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What: Steamboat Springs Planning Commission pre-application review of Steamboat 700
When: 6 p.m. today
Where: Centennial Hall, 124 10th St.
Call: City offices at 879-2060 for more information
Steamboat Springs — The Steamboat Springs Planning Commission will continue its review of the proposed Steamboat 700 development tonight, with traffic concerns set to be a major focus.
Steamboat 700 principal and Project Manager Danny Mulcahy said his traffic consultant, Bill Fox of Fox Higgins Transportation Group, will give commissioners a brief traffic and transportation presentation. Tonight's hearing is a continuation of a meeting held last week that Fox did not attend. Commissioners are expected to wrap up the two-part consideration of Steamboat 700's pre-application for development with specific feedback and policy recommendations.
If developed, Steamboat 700 would have a major impact on local traffic and transportation. In addition to the automobile trips its thousands of homes and hundreds of thousands of commercial square footage would generate, the development also is proposed to include construction of some major new roadways.
Using national average automobile trip generation rates, Steamboat 700 would generate about 27,600 automobile trips a day when fully developed, according to the developers' initial submittal.
But the developers are projecting that because of its community planning, Steamboat 700 could actually generate only about 14,000 off-site automobile trips a day when fully developed. Applying a number of trip reductions leads to that nearly 50 percent discount. Those reductions are based in part on assumptions that the development will rely heavily on public transportation and that it will include enough commercial services and other amenities to eliminate the need for residents to travel off-site.
Mulcahy said the city's West of Steamboat Springs Area Plan calls for such aggressive assumptions, but city planners are concerned by the calculations.
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"We have some concerns about the assumptions made," City Planner Jason Peasley said. "We'd like them to get to that, but their proposed land use may not let them get to that."
Fox has boasted that 60 percent of the development would be within a quarter-mile of a transit stop, but city planners believe the development should go even further to comply with the area plan's transit-oriented policies.
"A land use plan which results in almost 40 percent of the units without convenient pedestrian access to transit is not consistent with this policy," a staff report reads.
Steamboat 700's application materials estimate that about 80 percent of the off-site traffic the development creates will head east toward Steamboat Springs, an area where U.S. Highway 40 is already very congested. Steamboat 700's submittal notes that the portion of U.S. 40 east of Elk River Road is already carrying 25,000 vehicles a day, which is 5,000 more than traffic engineers typically consider to be the capacity of a two-lane road.
Steamboat 700's submittal notes the need for off-site capacity improvements, but developers have not yet addressed the construction and financing of those improvements.
Other items likely to be discussed tonight include affordable housing, Steamboat 700's proposed expansion of the urban growth boundary and the process by which the development application and annexation request move forward.
At last week's meeting, former City Councilman Towny Anderson continued his calls for the city to negotiate a pre-annexation agreement before engaging in such a detailed consideration of the development application. Negotiation of a pre-annexation agreement is a requirement of the city's Community Development Code, but the point at which it should be entered into has been a source of differing interpretations.
"It's not about what the developer wants to do," Anderson said last week. "It's about what the city needs. : If you focus on development, you're only reacting to what the developer wants."
Mulcahy said he believes the process he and the city are currently following – one that won't see the pre-annexation agreement enter into consideration until after the pre-application review – is appropriate.
"Over the next few months, we'll take all that feedback and incorporate it into a pre-annexation agreement," Mulcahy said Wednesday. "And then we'll be off."
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When: 6 p.m. today
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My name is Adam Jůva and I am 23 years old mobile apps and games developer from Czech Republic.
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Schedule: Edit Day Window
The Edit Day window in Schedule Setup lists all provider and employee time blocks scheduled for one day. From here you can add, edit, and delete time blocks, as well as add holidays, staff vacations, and days the office is closed.
To open the window:
Date: The upper left corner shows the selected day. Click the arrows to move forward or back one day.
List tab: Show all provider and employee time blocks as rows (start/stop time, operatory and any notes) and any practice notes. The list is sorted first by practice notes, then by provider, then by employee. Double click a row to edit.
Graph: View a graph representation of provider and employee time blocks. See Schedule Graph View.
Use the panel on the right to add time blocks, notes, and holidays, and select a default provider for operatories.
Clinic: When adding a time block, holiday, or clinic note, first select the clinic the time block applies to.
Providers: Lists providers who have access to the clinic. When adding a time block, first highlight the providers it will apply to. To select multiple providers, click and drag, or press Ctrl or Shift while clicking. The number of providers currently selected appears in parentheses.
Employees: Lists employees who have access to the selected clinic. When adding a time block, first highlight the employees it will apply to. To select multiple employees, click and drag, or press Ctrl or Shift while clicking. The number of employees currently selected appears in parentheses.
Default Prov for Unassigned*: Select a default provider schedule to use for operatories that have no provider assigned. If no operatories have an assigned provider, this provider's schedule is used to indicate the office's open hours on the appointment schedule.
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Delete: Remove a time block. The design of this feature is intentional so users can quickly schedule without multiple confirmations.
Clinic/Practice: Holidays and notes show as their own row under Edit Day and will only show on the schedule window if Show Practice Holidays and Notes or Show Clinic Holidays and Notes is also selected. Practice = Headquarters. See Holidays, Vacations, Office Closed.
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Jerome Mitchell is a young African American man, born and raised in Boston by his single father. Jerome graduated from a Boston high school and started working at TJ Maxx, earning close to $10/hour with no benefits. As part of his training at BEST, he spent a week job shadowing at the five-star InterContinental Hotel. After graduation, he was hired by the Fairmont Copley Hotel as a Public Area Attendant. His duties include walking the hotel dog, Katie Copley, and tending to the bees in the rooftop hives. The hotel loves his smile and work ethic. He is making more than his father ever has, enjoys paid vacations and full benefits, and walks with pride and a sense of accomplishment. "This program," Jerome says, "helped me see the future. I can now see myself 20 years from now … and I am a hotel worker."
Katrina Hines graduated from BEST on August 7, 2015. The following Monday, August 10, she met Lisa Brandi, Starwood Regional Talent Acquisition Manager at our Job Fair. On August 18, she was asked to apply for a housekeeping position at the Sheraton. She started working there in September, at the rate of $19.36/hour. For Katrina, moving from unemployed to employed changed her outlook on life: "As a young African American woman growing up with different jobs like working at Save-a-Lot and other retail stores, I developed a frustrated and negative outlook. I used to be a negative thinker, full of self-doubt. Now I have the confidence and tools to do what I need." Katrina says her job has impacted her daughter: "We're doing a lot more things now and situations that used to stress me out don't anymore. I can tell she notices. And she's reaping the benefits."
Margarida Jurgensen came to the United States in 2007 for a "better life for her kids". She worked at a fast food chain for five years, earning $9.50/hour as an evening shift supervisor. We first met Margarida when she interviewed for the BEST Room Attendant Program. In her interview, she broke down in tears and told us, "This isn't a better life." Margarida completed BEST's Room Attendant Training in 2012. She obtained a job at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where she makes $20.28/hour and her employer pays an additional $9.41/hour into her benefit plan. She is actively looking to buy a house with the $10,000 first-time home buying grant that is part of her benefits program. When asked about BEST's training, Margarida said, "It was like going from zero to 100."


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Office Drop In visited Wooga here you find the photos of their amazing office.
Wooga was founded in 2009, and has become on of the top developers of mobile games in the world. Wooga's headquarter is in Berlin. Wooga created hits such as Jelly Splash, Diamond Dash and Pearl's Peril.
Thank you Wooga Team for the photoshooting!
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RADCOFLEX manufactures and supplies a wide range of flexible expansion joints in metal, fabric, rubber and PTFE materials. Wherever pipework is expanding, contracting, misaligning, vibrating or moving, a RADCOFLEX expansion joint can be installed to restrict or absorb that movement and relieve stresses on the pipework.
The ability to supply in this broad range of materials enables our customers to obtain from one source an expansion joint for their needs whether it is conveying water, steam, gas, air, oil, chemicals, flue gas or dust.
The range compliments each other as each has its advantages for the application for which it has been developed or engineered. A broad outline includes:
Metal Joints – for higher temperatures, corrosive and abrasive industrial applications
Fabric Joints – for low pressure flue duct gas and acid service at moderate temperatures
Rubber Joints – for civil applications such as water supply lines at relatively low temperatures
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Pipework movement can generally be described as:
Axial – a longitudinal movement of expansion or contraction
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Angular motion is in general the least severe of the three and lateral motion is the most severe.
Whilst expansion joints can be engineered to resist torsional loads, they cannot tolerate torsional (twist) movements, nor absorb pressure thrust forces.


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Shanghai - As is often the case, the Groz Beckert stand at ITMA Asia + CITME was a constant throng of visitors eager to explore the company?s range of textile systems and services which cover a range of sectors from knitting to nonwovens, weaving and sewing.
Groz Beckert?s Birte Kleefisch explained how the theme of the company?s stand was productivity and in particular, showing how the interplay between different products, once combined, could help boost textile companies overall productivity.
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Creating PDF files from Word documents is now possible in just few mouse clicks with Kernel for Word to PDF, an expedient file conversion tool. The software is designed to simplify the task of converting Doc to PDF online. Using this software both .doc and .docx files can be easily converted to PDF files, which means the software supports all versions of MS Word. Supported versions of MS Word include Word 2010, Word 2007, Word 2003, Word 2002,...


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We're looking for a mid-to-senior level .NET Developer who is proficient with .NET and C#.
The ideal candidate for this position is someone who:
- has strong, clear communication and collaboration skills;
- is able to give/receive constructive criticism;
- constantly improves own productivity;
- is passionate about creating experiences that delight end users;
- follows new technology trends and loves learning new things;
- has good background in math;
- produces high quality code (understandable and maintainable) and cares about performance and memory usage.
You will work on a team of 10 developers and use the latest versions of C#, Xamarin, Visual Studio and ReSharper.
You will develop high-performance mobile application using internal frameworks distributed as git repositories (linked as submodules) or internal nuget packages.
The main framework is cross-platform Monosyne Engine (which uses the latest computer graphics techniques): the most similar framework which you can see to understand the main idea is MonoGame https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame.
Other frameworks provide higher level abstractions for building application logic: networking, work with managed/unmanaged resources, navigation and UI elements, commands, 3rd party platform-specific libraries and many others.
Required Qualifications:
- software architecture principles (OOP principles, SOLID, KISS, DRY, IoC/DI, design pattern);
- asynchronous programming experience;
- data structures and algorithms deep understanding;
- performance and memory usage tuning and analysis;
- experience connecting applications to multiple APIs (http/https, sockets).
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- Test Driven Development (TDD) as it pertains to unit testing (xUnit, NUnit, Moq, Automock);
- graphics/rendering experience (DirectX/OpenGL ES);
- experience with game engines such as Unity, Unreal, MonoGame/XNA or any custom;
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LONDON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Cardiff City maintained their 100 per cent record after five matches to go three points clear at the top of England's Championship (second tier), coming from behind to beat Queens Park Rangers 2-1 on Saturday.
Ipswich Town, the other side who had won their first four games, were surprisingly beaten 2-0 at home by Fulham.
Leeds United, last in the top flight in 2004, went into third place by winning 2-0 away to Nottingham Forest.
It was a bad day for relegated Sunderland, beaten 3-0 at Barnsley and dropping into the bottom six.
Brentford and Bolton Wanderers are the only clubs still without a win. (Reporting by Steve Tongue,; Editing by Neville Dalton)


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This EASY and delicious recipe is now posted! Enjoy!
Tag Archives: healthy
Choosing Cocktails
Do you know how much you could be sabotaging all your positive gains from a healthy week by indulging in your favorite cocktail on the weekends? Do you know the "goods" and the "bads" when it comes to mixing drinks while trying to be healthy? I do! That's why you often see me ordering…. well most of you know my drink of choice! 😉
I keep it simple with my liquor of choice with a diet soda. Check out the graphic below to find out why!
Have Your Mugcake and Eat it too!
The "What's" and "When's" of Eating
One of my new favorite ways to eat oatmeal?!??
Call them ProOats! Protein meets oatmeal!
Instead of sweetening my oatmeal with stevia, sugar, or honey, I've been stirring in anywhere between 1/2 a scoop to a whole scoop of flavored protein powder into my oats then topping off with my favorite fruits! This works well whether you make your oats on the stove, in the microwave, or overnight in the refrigerator!
I'll be posting some of my favorite combos under my "recipes" tab VERY SOON! Keep an eye out!
Also, please share some of YOUR favorite combos with me!
Creamy Avocado Pasta Sauce
I love zucchini noodles! One of the new ways I've been preparing them is with a creamy avocado sauce! It's rich and so much healthier than any alfredo sauce or boring tomato sauce.
Here's a super simple clean recipe:
1 ripe avocado
A splash of almond milk (creamier than skim milk, but skim milk also works fine!)
Salt (to taste)
Pepper (to taste)
Minced garlic (to taste)
Juice of a lemon
Mix it all in your food processor and you'll get a creamy delicious sauce in minutes!
This is my creamy avocado zucchini noodles with ground turkey and some red pepper flakes!


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Lovely Langdales
Snow covered hills with brilliant visibility was forecast so an early start saw Paul and Ruby at Dungeon Ghyll then off up into the Langdales. This was Ruby's first foray into the snow and she loved it although she was pretty tired that evening.
Ambleside Xmas Lights
This is the procession in 2013, watch out for this year weather permitting.
Para-kiting on the Old Man
Stunning day so headed up the Old Man – what a view and surprise. Para-kiters enjoying themselves. Ruby and I did too – we didn't get back until after 6.00pm.
Ruby's retrieving
Second day shooting for Ruby and I. It was partridges near Brampton and just as last time we started off with a lovely double rainbow. First drive she was raring to go and second / third drives she was finding and bringing the birds back herself. What a star! She also found a new friend/mentor – the black lab.
Getting a bit better and still only 9 months!
Drink problem
Went shopping at Booths and was amazed to see they stock 44 different kinds of Gin. Couldn't make my mind up so bought one of each….
the mist/fog with blue sky above looked as though there may be a chance of an inversion again.
So off up Loughrigg with camera before breakfast….. No inversion but nice walk.
Cloud Inversion
took Ruby up Brant fell before breakfast and got a real treat there was an inversion but unfortunately I didn't have a camera or even an iphone. A friend supplied these pics to give an idea of the spectacle.
Picking berries
never done it before but we've been out collecting sloe berries and blackberries. Why? Sloe gin, blackberry vodka and hedgerow gin with the left overs….
Ruby's first shoot
Today she was in at the deep end. On a shoot with everything happening. I think it may have been sensory overload for her with all of the dogs, the guns and the birds. She was absolutely mesmerised and never missed a thing. To say she loved it would be an understatement….
Missing the lakes
Only been a week since we came back to newcastle but seems like a life time. Ruby thinks she's in prison.


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Yesterday, on the second Patch Tuesday of 2016, Microsoft provided 13 security related updates for supported Windows systems plus two Cumulative Updates for Windows 10.
You can read a summary of the security related updates over on our sister site Windows IT Pro.
At this point we would normally tell you that the updates provided improved functionality for Windows 10.
In the past, updates for Windows 10 only carried that vague statement instead of details about the areas addressed in the patch for the seven-month old operating system. Since the release of Windows 10 last summer users have been clamoring for more information about these updates.
Well that all changes with this month's Patch Tuesday because, as Rod Trent has learned, Microsoft has finally launched a Windows 10 updates resource page that actually provides greater detail on what is being addressed in these updates.
Although the Windows 10 update history page is intended for Enterprise customers and IT Pros it can be used by anyone to see what the latest Cumulative Updates contain for Windows 10.
As you go visit the new update page you will find that they are providing update information for two branches of the new operating system. Although most consumers on Windows 10 will already be on the November Update for Windows 10 (Version 1511 Build 10586) some Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education customers may still be on the July release of Windows 10 (Build 10240) for stability.
Today's Cumulative Update, KB3135173, does include the standard quality improvements along with security updates but there are no new features.
Here are the main changes/fixes listed from Microsoft:
- Fixed issues with authentication, update installation, and operating system installation.
- Fixed issue with Microsoft Edge browser caching visited URLs while using InPrivate browsing.
- Fixed issue that didn't allow simultaneous install of apps from the Windows Store and updates from Windows Update.
- Fixed issue that delayed the availability of songs added to the Groove Music app in Windows 10 Mobile.
- Improved security in the Windows kernel.
- Fixed security issues that could allow remote code execution when malware is run on a target system.
- Fixed security issues in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 that could allow code from a malicious website to be installed and run on a device.
- Fixed additional issues with the Windows UX, Windows 10 Mobile, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, and taskbar.
- Fixed additional security issues with .NET Framework, Windows Journal, Active Directory Federation Services, NPS Radius Server, kernel-mode drivers, and WebDAV.
This Cumulative Update brings Windows 10 Version 1511 to Build 10586.104.
If for some reason you are still running Windows 10 Build 10240 you can see details about that update in KB3135174 or on the Windows 10 update history page. KB3135174 will push that version of Windows 10 to Build 10240.16683.
What are your thoughts about Microsoft finally delivering more details about the Cumulative Updates for Windows 10?


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BOB User Stories: Drawing Art from 602Sqn_Puff and Canuck51
Posted by Alex on May 22, 2018
This is an archived post resurrected to pay full respects to the efforts of the individuals behind the work for BoB. We honour everyone that has dedicated time to our projects and credit them to the fullest extent, as without them this project would not have taken off as well as it did. You inspire us, so thank you. Gentlemen, Well this isn't exactly a...Read More
BOB User Stories: Attack Height 50 Meters Final Episode
Posted by Alex on Apr 9, 2018
Attack Height 50 Meters Final Episode Read Attack Height 50 Meters Episode I and Episode II here. One could see the place where the rudder had touched first. There was a skid mark stretching out from that point and some tiny fragments, some glinting, some with the camouflage paint still on them. The driver kept to right side of the runway and accelerated...Read More
BOB User Stories: A Celebration with Friends Final Episode
Posted by Alex on Mar 5, 2018
A Celebration with Friends Final Episode Read A Celebration with Friends Episode I and Episode II here. The freezing surface of the deepening snow crunched with every labored footfall as the two men began slowly making their way across the considerable distance between themselves and their destination, Farmer Wilson's barn. The newly grounded German...Read More
BOB User Stories: Battle Of Britain Movie Memorabilia
Posted by Alex on Feb 15, 2018
Since the release of the movie, way back in 1969, a lot of people still are fascinated about the making, history, etc. of this epic drama. As you may remember we had these 'cards' on our old site. Now they're back! Plus a couple of other pictures from the movie. Have fun! Lobby cards Other cards Hope you enjoyed...Read More
BOB User Stories: A Nasty Surprise Final Episode
Posted by Alex on Feb 3, 2018
A Nasty Surprise Final Episode Read A Nasty Surprise: Episode II here. Werner and his men in their agile 109s are climbing out to head triumphantly for home after delivering a surprise attack upon an unwary British airfield somewhere near the southern coast of Britain. At this precise moment, a dozen vengeful Spitfires fall mercilessly upon them. Werner and his...Read More
We want your feedback
Posted by Alex on Jan 20, 2018
We always want to find new problems or issues or bugs that have been plaguing the game at any time during your play experience. While the game runs relatively bug free as of lately, we still anticipate minor bugs to be out there. We also want new features to work with, depending on whatever the community wants. During the development process, we look for the...Read More
BOB User Stories: A Celebration with Friends Episode II
Posted by Alex on Dec 8, 2017
A Celebration with Friends Episode Two Read A Celebration with Friends Episode I here. Just as the German Major was abandoning his stricken fighter to plunge into the icy void, down below, and nearly a mile to the East, James Herriodd, a much loved country vet, was having his own set of troubles. Jack Wilson's old Clydesdale, Bob, was down with a fatal twisted...Read More


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The Perfect Corporate Gift
Corporate gift giving can be a very serious affair. As part of a well-planned campaign, giving gifts can help establish and maintain critical relationships. If you want the gift giving campaign to succeed there are many issues to consider. This article describes a few.
If we look at who would normally be on the receiving end of a corporate gift, it would undoubtedly the companies big clients, after that would be the employees of the company, and lastly the prospective clients. The first two reasons send out the same message: affirming relationships and enhancing connections between the gift giver, and the recipient.
Gifts could take the form of food, or useful items in the office or home. The type of gift is dictated by the meaning, and occasion.
A gift is not an incentive. An incentive has the precondition of performance.A gift is not an advert. It should not have blatant advertising or promotions all over it.
Even so, there is still some bottom-line benefit to be derived from giving out corporate gifts. It should still form part of the companies marketing strategy - if done correctly it is a very cost effective way of building relationships.
Here is an interesting statistic:The Promotional Products Association International has conducted surveys of corporate gift givers and recipients. The statistics show that vendors who gave gifts were twice as likely to increase their chances of being contacted by customers as those that didn't have a gift campaign.
Is it ethical? Always check with the receiving company regarding their gift accepting policy. Some medical, insurance and financial service companies have very strict policy regarding gifts. Take care not to give gifts that might embarrass your client.
The best gifts are heart-felt, and they show it. Special care should be taken in preparing the gift. Invest in some nice wrapping paper, or give it in a well made gift box. Take the time to compose a personal, handwritten card. This can be as important as the gift itself, since your message to the recipient conveys your intentions and sincerity.


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Island Rhythms Festival, Saturday, Sept 30
Saturday evening concert, Summerside, PEI at the College of Piping and Performing Arts of Canada. Tickets go on sale September 1.
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For audiences coming to see the Barra MacNeils for the first time don't expect to see them play the same instruments every song. These are musicians known for their mastery of a variety of instruments including accordion, tin whistle, flute, bouzouki, guitar, keyboards, piano, bodhran, banjo, percussion, fiddle, Celtic harp and mandolin. And to round it off, they sing and do a bit of step dancing.
Read the whole article: http://www.thespec.com/whatson-story/7345898-celtic-group-returns-to-perform-with-the-kitchener-waterloo-symphony/
The Barra MacNeils are about to launch into a very busy St. Patrick's Day weekend! Since cloning is not yet a viable option, everyone involved had to get creative to make major overlapping symphony concerts work.
Lucy MacNeil is lending her stellar vocal talents to Symphony Nova Scotia's "Flying On Your Own: A Tribute to Rita MacNeil" at Halifax's Rebecca Cohn Auditorium for two shows, March 18, at 7:30PM and March 19, at 2PM.
Lucy's brothers, and the balance of the Barra MacNeils: Kyle, Stewart, Sheumas and Boyd (including bassist Jamie Gatti) are all spending an evening in concert with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Ashley MacIssac on March 17 at 8PM.
After a sold-out 2014 tribute that one audience member called "simply wonderful," Symphony Nova Scotia once again pays homage to Cape Breton's Queen of Song. Join our orchestra and long-time Rita collaborators Scott Macmillan, the Men of the Deeps, Lucy MacNeil of the Barra MacNeils, and Rita's niece Katriona MacNeil for an encore performance of Rita's most loved music. Highlights include We Rise Again, Flying on Your Own, The Ballad of Springhill, Working Man, Home I'll Be, and many more.
Hogman-eh! with The Barra MacNeils! Join Master of Ceremonies Bill Welychka as The Scottish Society of Ottawa hosts its fifth annual "Hogman-eh!" – New Year's Eve Scottish Style! in the Aberdeen Pavilion, Lansdowne Park, Ottawa, Ontario. It's free! Doors openimage1 at 5 p.m. Ring in the New Year twice. The first time is at 7 p.m. (midnight in Scotland) when the "Kids Zone" festivities reach their peak with a piper led march of the kids to the main stage balloon drop.
So what can fans in Brockville expect from Sunday's performance? A little of everything, he says.
"The show features a lot of Lucy's big, big ballads that a lot of people have come to expect each year," as well as plenty of energetic audience and family favorites, he said. "There's a lot of really upbeat traditional Cape Breton sounds…and there's always a good dose of story and some dance."
With the days growing shorter and darker through the month, Stewart says he hopes the show "brings a bit of light to the season."
The Barra MacNeils will be finishing-up their legendary cross-country Christmas tour at home in Nova Scotia. Tour dates include two shows at the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay on December 18, and the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax on December 19 and 20. Celebrating over 30 years of music, the five siblings inject new life and energy into the sights and sounds of the holidays with Christmas in Concert with the Barra MacNeils – showcasing their unique stamp on family favourites and fresh new songs for the season.


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Originally posted by meticulous
Is this HAARP Status website legit? It could just be another crackpot who colors in areas people are talking about and claiming they are targeting the area.
I was just wondering the same thing.
Originally posted by PatriotGames2
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Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
The question then becomes.. who the hell is pulling our chain? Must be someone reading websites like these and figuring out who's talking about what so they can scare the crap out of people.
It seems that whoever is running the site is just watching for developing weather patterns and consequently assigning his fake 'HAARP' signals over these already existing patterns. So he must be aware of the EQ swarms and is targeting that area to freak people out specifically.edit on 14-9-2012 by PatriotGames2 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by zeeon
I live in San Diego. I'm not worried. They have many, many trained and qualified experts working for the USGS in Southern California. I love a good conspiracy, but on this I'm going to go with the experts.
I just don't see how they would allow millions of people to perish by not giving as much warning as possible.
If there were significant indicators of activity or impending doom I feel confident that our local, state and federal agencies would notify us. If a super volcano or some other natural disaster were about to strike I feel confident they would tell us.
One thing people always overlook when talking about disasters...that us - people (humans) - are our most valuable resource. You can have all the money, land, buildings, infrastructure etc etc etc but what good is it all if nobody is around? It's this reason that keeps me feeling safe that, in this context, I think our Government would do everything in its power to assure our safety.
Just my .02 cents.
Originally posted by EllaMarina
I keep recalling the movie Dante's Peak. In it, the main character described the "boiling frog" phenomenon. Supposedly, a frog slowly boiled will die without doing anything, but if it is dropped into the hot temperature all at once, it will jump back out. The town refuses to evacuate until it's too late, because their baseline for normalcy keeps rising along with the slowly building occurrences.
Does anyone else suppose that the situation in California could eventually qualify as such?
Originally posted by Twilightgem
The RSOE page links to descriptions of the event in Yosemite. It is a virus carried by rodents and their droppings.
I heard of this virus before watch a study on it, very deadly as well when it blooms with population growth cycles greatly occurs every 7 years.
recall the lady down in new mexico who came down with the virus and lived.
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I was asked whether one of my recent landscape pictures had used any filters - having broken the bank buying Lee Filters it was reasonable to assume I would be getting my money's worth out of them. I answered with some glib response about how I hadn't but used Lightroom CC and its Merge To HDR function along with some other editing controls to produce the final image. When the response was along the lines of 'What did you do??' I suggested a tutorial which was warmly received. So here it goes. The landscape (or seascape if you prefer) in question was one of my recent barge project pictures.
It started, as many of my pictures do, with a load of bracketed exposures. The above image is actually made up of six images in total although two of them were the same exposure. The Fuji X-T1 can take three bracketed images with one press of the shutter. I took two sets of bracketed exposures with shutter speeds ranging from 1/15th second down to 1 second. You can see the image details in the screen shot below. Bracketing exposures basically means taking additional images either side of the 'correct' metered exposure to get one or more slightly under-exposed images and one or more slightly over exposed pictures.
The next stage in Lightroom CC is to merge the six images into a single High Dynamic Range (HDR) image. Dynamic range refers to the number of stops of light from the brightest areas through to the darkest areas. The higher the dynamic range the more stops of light you capture. This can now be done directly in Lightroom instead of needing a third party piece of software like Photomatix or using Photoshop. Select all of the images using CMD click on a Mac or Control click on Windows, then right click to get the context sensitive menu and select the Photo Merge -> HDR option.
Lightroom will then attempt to merge the selected images into a single file. The real beauty of using Lightroom to merge the files is that it creates a raw image final which maintains much more file information than a JPEG file would if you were using something like Photomatix to create your HDR image. This will be important after we have merged the files and use the Lightroom Exposure, Shadows and Highlights sliders.
After Lightroom has merged the files it will show you a combined preview image as shown below.
Clicking on Merge will cause Lightroom to merge the files together and create a new file in your Lightroom library. By default the file name will be the filename of the first file in the merged set with -HDR appended to it and it will be an Adobe DNG raw file. Double clicking on the new file in the Library module will open it to full screen mode.
We now need to start work on our merged image so we need to click on the Develop tab to move into the Lightroom Develop module.
The first thing we need to do is bring the overall brightness down. The image was taken at night but Lightroom has assumed we want a much brighter image using the full range of brightness from our six individual images. Use the exposure slider to take the overall brightness down.
The problem now is that we have lost a lot of detail in the barge but because we are working with a raw file we can recover that detail using the Shadows slider. We are going to push it all the way up to 100.
Note that the position of the Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks sliders will vary depending on how Lightroom merges the images. You can adjust them as much as you like to suit your personal taste - because the image is a night time shot I could take the whites down more to darken the image further but Highlights is already at -100 so cannot be reduced.
The sky is still to bright compared to the original scene but if I reduce the exposure anymore the barge will become to dark and detail will be lost. I have already pushed the Shadows to its highest setting. I want to apply quick darkening of the sky so to do this I will use the Lightroom Graduated Filter tool. This is the rectangle in the middle of the tool bar just below the histogram display.
Click at the top of the image and drag the centre line down. The top line marks the full effect of the graduated filter and the bottom line marks the end of the graduation - no effect. Now move the Exposure slider to the left to darken the sky. You can also apply effects like colour saturation. When you are happy with the effect click on Done.
The raw images a camera produces will not include information like scene modes which apply in-camera colour saturation, sharpening etc. Consequently the colours can seem a little flat. Using raw files allows us to make decisions about how much saturation and sharpening we want to apply to the image instead of taking what the camera gives us. To boost the colours (either to render them as we remember the actual scene or to apply some 'artistic license') we can use the Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation sliders.
The clarity slider will boost the edge contrast giving a sharpening effect. Push the clarity to the right to increase it. Be careful not add too much clarity because it can make the edges look a bit unnatural.
The Vibrance slider will boost colour saturation on the softer more pastel like colours before boosting saturation all over.
The Saturation slider will increase saturation across the whole image the more you push it to the right.
Lightroom is non-destructive, this means that we have not affected the original image in anyway and we can always reset our changes and start over. Also we can go back and change any of the settings we have applied including things like the graduated filter. I think there is still some scope to darken the sky down some more. Clicking on the Graduated Filter tool will bring the original gradient up (click on the small dot to select it) and I can adjust the exposure slider more to darken the sky.
Okay, finishing touches. We are going to open the image in Photoshop and apply a textured background to give it that 'canvas feel'.
Open the image in Photoshop by right clicking gone the image and selecting the Edit In->Edit in Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 (or whatever version).
When Photoshop opens click on the New Layer icon on the bottom right (next to the waste bin and looking like a piece of paper with the corner turned over. Make sure the new layer (probably Layer 1) is selected and then click on the Paint Bucket Tool. Use the Color swatch on the right of the screen to select a light brown colour.
Now in the Photoshop menu go to Filter->Noise->Add Noise and select Gaussian and an amount of about 12.5% and click on OK.
Double click on the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette to bring up the layer style dialog. Select Bevel & Emboss and the Texture options and click on OK.
This should create a basic texture as shown below.
Change the blend mode from Normal to Multiply and reduce the opacity down to about 40%
This applies the texture to the image but the multiply blend mode and colour toning also has the effect of darkening it. Use a Brightness/Contrast layer to brighten the image.
Adjust the brightness to suit and we are done!
I hasten to add this worked example is a slightly different texture to the one posted on my website and at the top of this blog. Also I have used slightly different settings in Lightroom for exposure, shadows, highlights, clarity, vibrance and saturation but this tutorial should show the basic methodology I used to get to my final image.
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