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Local parent and Kingston and Surbiton CLP Secretary, Emma Francis, sets out the issues of the Conservative Government's National Funding Formula, and how local residents can support the Labour' motion to Council on 19 April 2017.
Local parents, teachers and school Governors are up in arms about the funding cuts that are about to hit local schools.
The National Audit Office has warned that schools face a funding reduction of 8% in real terms by 2019-2020, caused by a variety of factors including higher contributions to national insurance and teachers' pensions and - critically - funding per pupil not rising in line with inflation. The Government claims that more money than ever is going into education – but funding per pupil is still decreasing.
Local schools face the added challenges of outer London weighting not reflecting the local cost of living (making recruitment difficult and therefore expensive); historical lower funding than the rest of London; and the introduction of the Government's so-called 'Fair Funding Formula' will result in cuts for many schools. Kingston is estimated to lose £7,368,452 in real terms. That is equivalent to 197 fewer teachers. See www.schoolcuts.org.uk for how individual schools will be affected.
This is in the face of Government plans to spend £2 billion on buying sites for free schools and £320 million on new grammar schools. We think this money could be better spent on maintaining, expanding and improving our existing schools.
So what are we doing about it? We need to make clear to Government that our education system is not up for grabs. The Labour Group on Kingston Council has tabled a motion, calling on all councillors to come together to tell the Government that our schools need to be funded properly. You can read the motion here.
So what can you do about it? Please contact your local Councillors (click here to find out who they are) and ask them to support this motion. It doesn't matter which political party they are from - we need their support! Here's a draft e-mail/letter you could use:
"Dear Councillor [insert Cllr's name]
On 19th April 2017 the Labour Group is submitting a motion to the full Council Meeting on Government-driven school funding changes, which will result in a deterioration of the education resources available to school students in Kingston.
If we are to encourage the Government to revise their policy, it is important that the motion is passed unanimously, with all political parties and councillors united behind this motion.
Please ensure you do attend the Council meeting on 19th April and support the motion.
Yours etc"
If the motion is passed, it will send a very powerful message to Theresa May – that a Conservative-run Council has joined the many Tory MPs who are already calling for the 'fair funding' proposals to be revised. So your help in assuring its adoption would be much appreciated!
Emma Francis


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Students at Royds Hall Community School make the case for International Aid.
Students of Royds Hall Community School told a senior Labour figure about their sponsorship of a school for blind children in Ethiopia.
Shadow International Development Secretary Mary Creagh was delighted to hear about the students' views on overseas aid and their commitment to the project.
She was accompanied by Colne Valley's Labour Parliamentary Candidate, Jane East, who said she was impressed by their belief that we as a rich country should help poor people in other parts of the world.
"They estimated that the UK spends between 20 and 60 per cent of its national income on overseas aid, while the actual figure is just 0.7 per cent."
Mary Creagh said, "It was great to meet the staff and students at Royds Hall Community School. The students were very well informed and committed to helping the poorest people in the world. Their support for the school in Ethiopia will make a real difference.
"That's why I'm proud Labour has pledged to support international development and voted for the law to spend 0.7% of the UK's national income on international development."
One boy, Alphi Mbarila, said he left the Congo at the age of two. "My family had to walk for miles to get to school."
Head Girl Ella Taylor said international development was important and we need to make sure that people in developing countries have good education and health provision.
Head Boy Faheem Saeed related that the student body had held a two-minute silence to show their respect after the school attacks in Pakistan.
Ms East stressed how impressed she was by the school's ethos, in building tolerance and understanding of different cultures. "We should never doubt the determination and capacity of our young people to build a better world."

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The Math, Music, and Poetry of Interstellar
Like many this past Thanksgiving week, I went to the movies. Tuesday night, before the weekend rush actually, I saw Interstellar at a theater in Times Square. I liked the movie, and thought I'd write a few reactions.
The Math of Interstellar
Interstellar was the newest Christopher Nolan film to fold time and space atop themselves. Instead of Parisian avenues, the space adventure folds alien cloud glaciers over one another. Instead of layering time across dream levels, it layers time with Einstein's relativity.
The hours that Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway spend on the surface of an alien planet astride a black hole are decades to the outside world. In Nolan's Inception, the effect was flipped. The decades spent in the "Limbo" dream level were hours to the outside world.
The time multiples of both movies were not only similar plot devices though, they were similar numbers as well.
In Interstellar, an hour on the alien planet is equivalent to seven years on Earth (a ratio of 1 hour to 61,360.7 hours). In Inception, Leo DiCaprio says five minutes in reality are an hour in the dream world. For each dream level, that 1:12 ratio multiplies upon itself. Then for the fourth and final "limbo" level, he uses a "strong sedative" that raise that number to 1:20. So the final ratio for the protagonist's dream time is 12*12*12*20, or 34,560 dream hours to one real hour.
[Just a totally random aside here, but I find it kind of beautiful that all those ones and twos multiply into 'three four five six zero' — it's that wonderful and strange serendipity of the real, like journeying to another world for complex answers only to find a child sitting and counting. Or maybe Ford Prefect sitting somewhere inside the machine, quietly threatening it.]
So, the two Christopher Nolan movies have similar time ratios. The multiplier meant to imply a staggering amount of time in Inception was roughly 35,000. For Interstellar, Nolan upped it slightly (considering the geometric scale) to roughly 60,000. I find that similarity interesting because it implies that, in the mind of one of the finest modern directors, that region is the Goldilocks zone for our conception of time: fast enough to astound, but not so much that it confuses and obscures his message.
Some numbers are just too big for practical comprehension. The distance to the Moon, for instance, is a digestible 238,900 miles while the distance to Saturn (Hathaway and McConaughy's first destination in Interstellar) is stultifyingly long at over 746 million miles. That's the difference between circling the Earth ten times and circling it nearly thirty-thousand times. Even that comparison doesn't make the number comprehensible.
Finding a common number between those Nolan movies gets at the science behind the art about science. For actual science on Interstellar though, just ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He offered commentary on the reality of this space adventure as he did with last year's Gravity.
Frankly, Interstellar felt a bit like a sequel to Gravity. Wormholes and such aside, both movies aim for realism in space travel and hinge on *spoiler-ish* zero-G disaster sequences. And *more spoilers-ish* both films are fundamentally about gravity: Interstellar's drama centered on the effects of time relativity and its plot revolved around time's relationship with gravity. Maybe you'd title it Gravity 2: Time! or Gravity 2: This Time, It's About Time. Or maybe even, recalling a bit of Nolan's Memento (man, he really loves to mess with timelines!), Gravity 2: This Time, It's Chronological. Either way, the movie poster would almost certainly contort the 'Y' in Gravity to look like a '2.'
The Music of Interstellar
Perhaps the most recognizable trope of Christopher Nolan's films, more than time dilation or a big thing floating improbably over another big thing, is their music. The blare of a Hans Zimmer horn section is synonymous Nolan. Following Inception and the Batman trilogy, that blast of sound became an action movie go-to for a years. Every movie with explosions had to have a trailer with that same explosion of sound, so much so that it became a bit of a joke. In an interview with Vulture, Zimmer himself called it "a perfect example of where it all goes wrong. That music became the blueprint for all action movies, really."
Zimmer left the elephant gun behind for Interstellar's soundtrack. Instead, he borrows heavily from another composer: Philip Glass, and specifically Glass' 1982 work Koyanisqattsi. At times, the soundtrack was so similar that, sitting there in the theater, I began to wonder if Nolan had just licensed it for his new film. (He hadn't, no sense kicking old Hans to the curb when he can just borrow heavily from Glass.)
If you haven't seen or heard Koyanisqattsi, I highly recommend it. (It's free on Hulu.) Written to score a 1982 film of the same name, it's one of the masterworks of America's preeminent minimalist composer. The film is a compelling work of art. There are no characters, dialogue, or plot to speak of. Koyanisqattsi is purely music paired with image and ordered together to produce a kind of sensory history for human technology and its imprint on the world around us.
Traveling from nature to industrial to commercial to future tech, it interrogates the trajectory of human society and its place in the natural world. The music shows this evolution with each chapter — Organic, Cloudscape, Resource, Vessels, Pruit Igoe, The Grid, and Prophecies — pedaling up and down mechanically as humans reach further and further, build higher and higher, move faster and faster.
That Interstellar borrows heavily from Koyanisqattsi makes sense. Both are chronicles of human development concluding with environmental destruction and space exploration. With most of Interstellar occurring in space, its imagery has a purity of frictionless physics. Light from an alien sun angles across a spinning space station in a consistent wave, moving mechanically like Glass's score: rising and falling by all its syncopated variables. Violinists in Glass's traveling orchestra would play the same note over and over for minutes on end, varying slightly as new elements entered. The two works parallel each other in imagery, plot, and style.
That's not to take anything away from Interstellar — the similarities should only serve to complement each other. However, if Zimmer's soundtrack becomes as popular as his earlier film scores, I hope fans discover Glass and Koyanisqattsi through it. Besides its contribution to music, the 1982 film added shots to the visual language that were groundbreaking at the time, but may seem commonplace now: long exposures of taillights streaking over a highway, slow motion movements of street crowds, juxtaposed shots of waves and clouds, long sequences of empty landscape, and slow motion close shots of a spaceship taking off.
The Poetry of Interstellar
Several times in the film, Michael Caine's character quotes the famous Dylan Thomas poem "Do not go gentle into that good night." He actually uses the full opening stanza, its usually omitted second line packing a punch spoken by a dying man on a dying Earth:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
First recited in voiceover as the mission to save humanity breaks through Earth's atmosphere, the poem marks a powerful moment in a film with many deeply affecting chapters. It was gratifying for this once poetry minor to find the medium on such a large stage. Poetry doesn't break out of the ivory tower enough these days, even though it's the "news that stays news" as Ezra Pound would say.
After that opening stanza, the two famous lines repeat across four stanzas recounting the lives of "wise men," "good men," "wild men," and "grave men." I'd be more than delighted to go line by line on this wonderful Welsh work of words, but I'll focus on the 'wise men' stanza:
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Interstellar would have been well served to invoke not only the tension of that first stanza, but of this second one as well. Wise men understand that death is natural and even right, but still they fight against it with the knowledge that their brilliance still had yet to strike the heights it could. Wisdom, when facing death, is found in both accepting and not accepting the end. Interstellar broadens the 'dying of the light' to the entire planet, but doesn't broaden this essential tension along with it. The colonization of another galaxy, even done in the last gasp of a dying planet, should have its moments of pause.
Like nearly every futuristic movie, book, and television series these days, Interstellar carries a foreboding prophecy of collapse and a rebuke to the environmentally destructive ways of modern society. I have no issue with art offering worthwhile warning (though it's interesting that this message seems to have grown in Hollywood while the average American has maddeningly become more skeptical of climate change — about one in four now don't believe it's occurring according to Gallup). Interstellar's misstep in this message is that it champions the environmental message while also assuming a nineteenth-century colonial perspective. It assumes new worlds are ours to inherit.
Now, I admit the two scenarios are different. When European leaders met in Berlin in 1888 to carve up Africa, it was for the continent's resources and not because Europe was collapsing into the North Sea. Survival is a stronger standard than enrichment. That said, I think that had the movie addressed the tension inherent in Thomas' second stanza, its environmental message would have better stood out from the others and offered a richer, more complex view of what it means to survive as a species or even as a planet.
Outliving the Earth
The movie's tagline: "Mankind Was Born on Earth — It Was Never Meant to Die Here" brought up a strange memory for me. In 2006, my summer between high school and college, I worked as a 'street canvasser' for Environment California. Basically, I was one of those annoying clipboard people who raise money for polar bears and such. The job was particularly meaningful to me because California was in the midst of debates over Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32), still one of the strongest greenhouse gas bills enacted in the United States, and the money went to lobbying the bill through the conservative state senate.
As you can imagine, there are two types of people who I spent the most time talking to: people considering giving money and people just excited to have someone to talk to (people uninterested in talking or giving money tended to move away quickly). The second category was less lucrative, but definitely kept those hot summer days outside interesting. Even in California, a lot of people wanted to debate the existence of climate change with me. I missed some potential donors, I'm sure, but was was (and am) more than happy to respectfully have that debate; anyone open to debate might be open to being convinced. That said, we also got a ton of wackos.
One particularly wacko-dense canvassing spot wouldn't surprise my fellow Palo Altans: outside the Main Library on Newell Road. Honestly, I've forgotten all the crazy things I heard that summer, save one theory from a man outside that library. When prompted about climate change, he very cheerily told me that climate change didn't matter. Not that it didn't exist, that it didn't matter. I hadn't heard that one, so I (maybe ill-advisedly) asked him to explain. In his view, Earth is "a launching pad for humanity" — we're meant to leave Earth and live after it becomes a cold dead rock. Absurd as his millennia-long view felt when raising money for an immediate threat, his image of a "launching pad" has really stuck with me. The Sun will go out in about a billion years, and if that doesn't get us, Andromeda colliding into the Milky Way might. But despite that uncertainty, I think there is a human exceptionalism that exists in us all that assumes, somehow, we'll engineer our way out of it. Armageddon isn't set on the calendar; it's a fate our descendants can fight against, we believe. In other words, we agree with that guy I met outside the library on a hot summer day. Interstellar agrees with him, even sets its tagline to say as much.
Personally, I'm excited by that idea at the heart of Interstellar and enjoyed the movie thoroughly (though, as I said, I think it would have done well to complicate some of its perspectives). A scientific epic told intimately, it had scenes of both grand imagery and quiet emotional weight. Nonetheless, the truly moving moment for me Tuesday night was actually when I left the theater. I'm used to fading from the noise and fantasy of the theater to a quiet parking lot next to the Googleplex in Mountain View. Instead, I walked out into the neon light of Times Square. It was like waking from a dream and forgetting where you are in those first few seconds, only to learn the dream wasn't entirely over.
Besides the shock of the real world seeming to match the fantastical brightness and myriad colors of the movie, it struck me as strangely inspirational. I'd just watched this fable of humankind striving upward and then I emerge into just that: spires of light rising into the sky, life and energy penetrating the darkness. Times Square isn't my favorite place as a New Yorker, but it does have an undeniable power at night. There's a grandeur to its hubris and a beauty to its scale that was a moving thing to behold after leaving Interstellar. In a strange way, it felt like an affirmation of the story — an assurance that humankind could meet such a challenge one day and come out on the other side of the wormhole.


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- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The Evolving Structure of Global Trade
- Chapter 3. Global Trade and Relative Prices: A Sectoral Elasticities Approach
- Chapter 4. Conclusion and Policy Implications
- Appendix 1: A Methodology for Assessing Systemic Trade Interconnectedness34
- Appendix 2: Measures Used to Characterize Global Supply Chains
- Appendix 3: Definition of Concepts Related to Export Analysis
- Appendix 4: New Drivers of Global Trade: Key Stylized Facts
- Appendix 5: Data and Modeling Strategy
- Appendix 6: Measuring the Impact of Relative Price Changes on the Current Account Balance
Front Matter
- Nagwa Riad, Luca Errico, Christian Henn, Christian Saborowski, Mika Saito, and Jarkko Turunen
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- January 2012
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Includes bibliographical references.
1. International trade. I. Riad, Nagwa. II. International Monetary Fund.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and should not be reported as or attributed to the International Monetary Fund, its Executive Board, or the governments of any of its member countries.
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3. Global Trade and Relative Prices: A Sectoral Elasticities Approach
2. Jurisdictions with Systemically Important Trade Sectors: 1999–2009
6. Simulated Long-Term Impacts of Relative Price Shocks on External Balances Based on 2008 Trade
3. Inter- vs. Intraregional Connectedness of Major Exporters
7. Top Ten Import Origins into China and Japan: 1999 and 2009
10. Foreign Contents in Gross Exports: High-Technology Sectors
11. Source of Change in Exports of Advanced Countries: 1995–2005
14. Export Similarity Index (ESI) by Destination in 1995 and 2008: China, Euro Area, Japan, and the United States
22. Responses of Exports and Imports: Supply Chain vs. Rest of World
4. Why Has the Share of High-Technology Sectors in Japanese Exports Fallen since the 1990s?
6. Supply Chain Implications of the Pacific Earthquake in Japan
7. Impact of Exchange Rate Changes and Trade Flows—A Historical Perspective
1. A Methodology for Assessing Systemic Trade Interconnectedness
6. Measuring the Impact of Relative Price Changes on the Current Account
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Appendix Figures
A4.1. Export Composition of Simulation Countries by Destination
A4.2. Export Market Shares and Real Effective Exchange Rates, 1990–2010
This paper was prepared by a staff team led by Nagwa Riad and comprising Luca Errico, Christian Henn, Christian Saborowski, Mika Saito, and Jarkko Turunen, assisted by Tushara Ekanayake, Alex Massara, and Nick Young. The work was guided by Richard Harmsen, Ranil Salgado, and Tamim Bayoumi. Sean Culhane of the External Relations Department managed the editing and production of the publication.
Executive Summary
The past few decades have seen important shifts that have reshaped the global trade landscape. As a share of global output, trade is now at almost three times the level in the early 1950s, in large part driven by the integration of rapidly growing emerging market economies (EMEs). The expansion in trade is mostly accounted for by growth in noncommodity exports, especially of high-technology products such as computers and electronics. It is also characterized by three important trends: the rise of EMEs as systemically important trading partners; the growing role of global supply chains; and an ongoing shift of technology content toward dynamic EMEs. These developments in global trade have been associated with increased trade interconnectedness and carry important implications for trade patterns, in particular in response to relative price changes. The aim of this paper is to outline the factors underlying these changes and analyze their implications for the outlook for global trade patterns.
Several factors underlie the expansion in global trade and increased interconnectedness. Although trade liberalization since the early 1950s has certainly contributed by lowering trade barriers first in advanced economies and more recently in many developing countries, an equally important factor was the growth in vertical specialization in production and the emergence of global supply chains. Technology-led declines in transportation and communication costs allowed the fragmentation of production processes along vertical trading chains that stretch across several countries. Intermediate goods therefore cross borders multiple times before being transformed into final products, as each country specializes in particular stages of a good's production sequence. Regional production networks thus emerged whose reach eventually became global. An important implication of this phenomenon is that countries that are part of a global supply chain are expected to have a higher share of imported content in their exports because their exports rely on importing intermediate inputs from other supply chain partners. The extent of imported inputs in a country's exports is a useful indicator of whether it is "downstream" (i.e., engaging heavily in assembly and processing activities) or "upstream" in the supply chain (i.e., hub).
Advanced countries and EMEs play different roles in global supply chains. Advanced economies tend to be upstream in the supply chain. This position is reflected in relatively small foreign contents in their exports and relatively large contributions toward other downstream countries' exports. In contrast, EMEs tend to be downstream in the supply chain, with relatively large shares of imported content in their exports. The extent of foreign content in exports of advanced countries and EMEs has important and contrasting implications for the sensitivity of trade patterns to relative price changes.
The Asian supply chain is more dispersed compared to those in North America or Europe. In the Asian supply chain, goods-in-process cross borders several times, including through the hub (Japan), before reaching their final destination. In contrast, in other regions, almost all foreign input is imported directly from the hub—the United States in NAFTA and EU15 in Europe. The greater dispersion of production in the Asian supply chain renders it potentially more vulnerable to disruptions of trade flows, whether policy induced, such as preferential trade agreements, or naturally caused, such as the recent earthquake in Japan.
The emergence of global supply chains has allowed EMEs to enhance the technology content of their exports, including as inputs embedded in high-technology exports of advanced countries. The share of high-technology exports has increased remarkably in China since 1995, boosted by processing trade and with significant imported contributions from Japan and other Asian countries. China is also moving upstream in the value added chain, with imports from China contributing significantly to advanced countries' high-technology exports. Moreover, with China and other EMEs increasing their presence in sectors traditionally dominated by advanced economies, the similarity in export structures has increased over time and so has competitive pressure. Given ongoing product and quality upgrading, the quality level of exports in several EMEs exceeds that expected based on their GDP per capita. Analysis based on Hausmann, Hwang, and Rodrik (2007) suggests that dynamic EMEs with higher-than-expected income value of exports can expect another growth push in the future.
In addition to rebalancing effects, changes in relative prices result in important adjustments in sectoral trade patterns. A partial equilibrium approach is used to examine the impact of relative price changes on trade structures of four key players in global trade, namely China (downstream country), the euro area, Japan, and the United States (upstream countries). The results suggest the following. First, a downstream (as opposed to upstream) position in a supply chain cushions the impact of a relative price change on both exports and imports. This reflects the higher foreign content in the downstream country's exports, which mitigates the impact of exchange rate changes because the appreciation also implies that imports become relatively cheaper.
Sectors that respond the most to the exchange rate changes differ across countries. An appreciation induces an increase in the share of high-technology exports in China and (to a lesser extent) the euro area, whereas a depreciation results in an increase in the share of medium-high-technology exports in Japan and the United States, largely driven by changes in the auto sector. This result again reflects the relatively higher proportion of imported inputs in high-technology products compared to medium-high-technology products which have higher domestic content. Finally, adjustment in the trade balance takes place mainly outside of the supply chain, as exports to supply chain partners are more resilient to relative price changes. This likely reflects two interrelated factors. First, the cost of breaking up a trade relationship may be particularly large in a supply chain, which expresses itself in relatively lower substitution elasticities in supply chain countries. Second, the simulation countries are dominant players in their regional supply chains in terms of both volume and value of their exports going to these destinations, which makes substitution for their trading partners more difficult.
The growing role of global supply chains is associated with increased trade interconnectedness. Network-based analysis illustrates several trends taking place over the past decade, most notably the emergence of China, along with the United States, as major systemically important trading hubs. This not only reflects the size of trade but also the increase in the number of its significant trading partners. Importantly, there is almost a perfect overlap between countries hosting both systemically important trade and financial centers. These countries could constitute a natural focus for risk-based surveillance on cross-border spillovers and contagion.


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Show season ends, Cairo doesn't try to kill herself for a couple months and I become a blogging slacker! I can't believe I didn't post a photo of Cairo's marble.
Oh, did I mention Cairo had a marble to keep her from going into heat? Well, she did, but since when spring hit, Cairo came into heat like a hurricane so I decided to have it removed since it wasn't doing much.
We went up to Dr. Jack Root, who stands her daddy Baquero, and is the vet who put it in. His ultrasound was being slow, so he decided to palpate and next thing you know, he pulls out a pretty, big blue marble.
I pondered keeping it, but he was all about sterilizing it and reusing it, because apparently it was a good marble.
So the good news is I don't need to worry about the marble causing any problems. The bad news is that for two months in the spring and a couple weeks in the fall, Cairo is still a demon hussy. Regumate? I don't know, but I'll tell you right now, all the raspberry leaves I stuff into her have no effect!
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"This Apprenticeship Programme represents a step change for the Funeral sector. Creating development pathways through sustainable and accredited learning to ensure a robust talent pipeline has been challenging and rewarding . This work has further strengthened our employer brand and ensures that our customers continue to receive exceptional service."
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Director of Group Talent and Organisational Capability
Name of Project
Development of an Apprenticeship Framework for the Funeralcare Industry and both Intermediate and Advanced levels.
Brief description of project
The object of the project was to create an Apprenticeship Framework in Funeral Services and Operations at both Intermediate and Advanced Levels that served the needs of the Funeral Services Industry.
We developed an Apprenticeship Framework for our Funeralcare Business that is now available to all within the industry. This was developed to ensure we could use Apprenticeships as the means by which we could bring onboard new talent into our organisation. There was apprenticeship Frameworks available that suited the needs of all our other family of businesses, but not for the Funeralcare business.
What was the rationale?
The Co-operative Group Apprenticeship Academy was launched in May 2011 with a remit of creating 2,000 Apprenticeships over 3 years. The Academy forms a major part of the Group's drive to inspire young people and support their future life goals and ambitions.
As an employer in the funeral sector The co-operative were aware that customer demands were changing and expect a high level of service. In order to remain sustainable it needed to continue to improve the skills and knowledge of its employees with an Apprenticeship, knowing that service was delivered, supported by a framework of approved standards.
As there was no Funeral Apprenticeship The Co-operative looked to get a Framework written that fitted the needs of the business and would be available industry wide.
The Co-operative approached the National Apprenticeship Service and Skills Funding Agency to propose that a new framework was required. After investigating that there was no such framework in existence, NAS and SFA allowed the development of this framework to be pursued.
A working group was created and invited various employers to attend. This was accepted by East of England Co-operative and Midlands Co-op as well as representatives from EDI. The Co-operative provided specialist support to this working group in the form of 2 Funeralcare specialists, Roz Milligan Resourcing and Development Manager within Funeralcare and Lloyd and Alys from The co-operative Apprenticeship Academy who had vast experience of the creation and implementation of Apprenticeships. This group met regularly to create Apprenticeship Frameworks at Level 2 and 3.
What was the methodology?
The framework was first proposed in September 2011, with an expected completion of approximately 8 months. A full project plan was formulated to include:
• Initial e-mail consultation
• Consultation interviews
• Steering Group meetings
• Up to 6 workshops to agree unit content and assessment guidance
• Prepare units for Steering Group sign-off
• Sign off milestone outputs
• Assign level and credit to units
• Develop draft rules of combination
• Final Steering Group meeting to sign off project outputs and agree the way forward
How did you engage the stakeholders and how effective was this?
Any new framework that is being created needs to have consultation from employers. The Co-operative asked for consultation from a range of employers both large and SME's. Those employers that accepted this request were East of England Co-operative and Midlands Co-operative. The Sector Skills Council that helped to write the qualification was Skillsmart Retail Ltd and EDI were the awarding body who ensured the qualification was fit for purpose and Specification for Apprenticeship Standards for England (SASE) compliant.
The project team that worked on this framework were:
Lloyd Thomas (Co-operative Apprenticeship Manager) overseeing project
Alys Reeves (Co-operative Apprenticeship Specialist) experience in Writing Frameworks
Rosalind Milligan (Funeralcare Resourcing and Development Manager) Funeralcare expertise
Cheryl Bott (Education Development Executive EDI) Awarding Body consultancy
Jo Woolfenden (Qualifications Quality Assurance Manager Skillsmart Retail) Sector Skills Council Quality Assurance and Unit Combination
Cara Taylor (Apprenticeship Manager Skillsmart Retail) Created overall Framework Components and ensured Framework is SASE compliant
Funeral Director, other Employers and Industry Specialist Consultation: Mark Brown, Kate Edwards, Chris Doggett, John Cheesman, Matthew Barber, David Butcher.
We were disappointed that there were no SME on the project team, but understood the time commitment would make it difficult to be involved.
The group met at Skillsmart offices in London at least once a month. The input from the Sector Skills Council and Awarding Body were vital to ensure the framework was fit for purpose and met the needs of all. The industry expertise was also imperative to ensure the qualification content met the needs of the Funeralcare industry and would produce a suitably qualified Funeralcare Apprentice.
How difficult was it to implement?
Once the framework was in development, a cohort of 10 apprentices were employed, additional to headcount to pilot this qualification. The vacancies were advertised through National Apprenticeship Service and over 1,800 applicants were received. Recruitments strategies had to be amended to cope with the amount of applicants received.
The training provider who were chosen to deliver the apprenticeship was LearnDirect (formally JHP). As this was a new framework there were no suitably qualified staff to asses it. It was finally agreed by the Awarding Body that Health and Social Care assessors could be used, if they had suitable care home management experience. After the External Quality Advisor approved each assessor they then undertook intensive funeral training within the Funeralcare Business, attending courses such as 'the day of the funeral' and 'bringing the deceased into our care'. They also spent time working in a Funeral Home, giving them a better understanding of the job and what it is like to work in this sector.
Within Funeralcare, mentors had to be selected and trained to support the apprentices. Specific training had to be written to ensure this happened consistently and they had the skills to equip them to be able to take on this role.
If any important lessons were learnt, what were they? How closely did your project match real needs?
Towards the end of the original project plan it became clear that not enough time had been allocated to getting the framework funded. It took a further 8 months beyond the estimated timeline to get the qualification on the Learning Aim Reference Application (LARA) with funding attached. The Co-operative Funeralcare employed 10 Apprentices additional to headcount to pilot this new qualification. They were employed in April 2012, to co-inside with the end of the project plan. The start of the Funeralcare element of their qualification had to be delayed, but the Functional Skills, PLTS and ERR components of the framework were undertaken first, so that their development was not delayed.
What was the impact?
Developing this framework was an investment of over £200,000 and a major investment in terms of time and commitment from the project team.
The pilot of 10 apprentices have proved to be a great success, with half of the group already securing Funeral Director roles. They have also been an integral part of promoting the Funeralcare Industry to a younger demographic through media activity, with coverage for National Apprenticeship Week on television, radio and various national and local newspapers. One of the young apprentices fronted a poster campaign and has since become the face of Funeralcare, with her image being used on a national advertising campaign. One of the young apprentices has also been elected as chair of the newly formed Apprentice Ambassador Group, who's remit it is to promote the benefit of apprenticeships both to Co-operative's and to the wider community.
Due to the success of the pilot of 10 apprentices and the appetite from the Funeralcare business there are now over 150 apprentices enrolled onto this qualification, almost 10% of which are under 25. All new members of staff within the Funeralcare business have the opportunity to study this apprenticeship, and it is hoped that other employers within the Funeralcare industry adopts this strategy to encourage young people to look at Funeralcare as a career choice.


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Hemet Police Chief Brown sends out a "Call To Action" for all citizens
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Aric Bell & James Anderson / Hemet Valley Incidents
HEMET – With the City of Hemet experiencing a 50% increase in violent crime since 2010, Hemet Police Chief Dave Brown is calling for all citizens to come out to the next city council meeting and have their thoughts, complaints and issues heard and addressed.
In an independent community survey last year, crime and safety were viewed as serious problems by citizens who live in the city. The priority of the survey was to obtain feedback about public safety in Hemet and what residents feel the biggest public safety priorities are. Over 1,000 residents have provided feedback so far, according to city officials. 81% of respondents described crime as being a serious problem in Hemet.
According to a recent press release from the City of Hemet, those respondents who felt crime was a growing problem in the city of Hemet are correct.
Crime and fire statistics recently revealed the following:
- Violent crime is up 50% since 2010.
- There are 25% fewer police officers on the street today than there were in 2006.
- Last year, Hemet Fire Department responded to 16,171 calls for service.
- Gang members and drug dealers continue to enter Hemet from Los Angeles and other communities to commit crime.
- The number of parolees and sex offenders being released into Hemet is increasing.
That same survey showed that Hemet residents felt the most important immediate public service priorities included:
- Increasing the number of sworn police officers
- Maintaining 911 paramedic and emergency response services
- Tracking sex offenders and parolees
- Maintaining and enhancing police anti-gang and anti-drug units
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"It's no secret, Hemet has a serious crime and public safety issues."
In a press release from the City of Hemet, officials admitted, "It's no secret, Hemet has serious crime and public safety issues."
One Hemet resident, Wigsby Mendoza recently spoke about the increase in crime and other problems the City of Hemet is experiencing, "The police cannot do it alone, but we need more involvement by the community. We can't solve our problems by merely getting angry or posting negative comments about our valley online, or even cyber fighting. It's catching up fast."
On the City of Hemet's website, Hemet Police chief Dave Brown and Hemet Fire Chief Scott Brown said, "The bottom line is crime is a big problem and our community clearly understands it; and wants something done to fix it.
"It's not just crime though. Public safety also requires quick 911 emergency and medical response by our firefighters and paramedics," Hemet Fire Chief Brown said. "Paramedics are needed at every one of our fire stations to ensure rapid response by our city's Paramedics, Firefighters and emergency medical workers who are the first to respond to fires and medical emergencies. This is critical to saving lives."
"As Hemet's public safety chiefs, we work hard to address our community's safety issues, such as crime prevention and investigation, anti-gang and drug programs, fire protection, or 911 emergencies and medical response," the press release stated. "We are extremely concerned about having the necessary number of sworn police officers patrolling city streets and firefighter/paramedics on duty to keep our city's residents safe."
"The fact is, we're not getting a handle on it."
Police Chief Brown continued, "The fact is, we're not getting a handle on it. In spite of being one of the highest rated police departments in the county, the loss of 30% of our police force has put us at a distinct disadvantage as we deal with thousands of criminals being released from state prison and county jail".
"Hemet Fire Chief Scott Brown and I will present an aggressive plan to take our city back and improve your safety, security and quality of life," Police Chief Brown said about the upcoming meeting.
"Please come and hear the plan. Voice your concerns to your city council. Your presence will make a difference. This may be the most important meeting in the city's history. If you want to help, the time is now,"
"This is a chance for our voices to be heard."
Aric Bell and James Anderson, of Hemet Valley Incidents, spoke about the importance of attending the next city counsel meeting. "It's time to voice some concerns this Tuesday at the Hemet public library. We will be attending and recording the session, but this is a chance for our voices to be heard," Anderson said.
"Anyone who can not make it and has a concern you would like addressed, feel free to comment and share you thoughts and feelings so we can share that information with police and fire officials," Anderson said.
Anderson continued, "It is very important that we are heard as a strong and united community to show our interest in saving our town, lowering crime rate and supporting our law enforcement that do such a great job with such little help. Let's take our town back."
Echoing Anderson's thoughts about the dramatic rise in violent crime over the last few years, Bell said, "My thing is the city council can once and for all clear up some long standing issues regarding crime and criminals in our city."
"We need to hear from you"
"The simple truth is we need to deal with public safety immediately," the city's web site explained. "Criminals from outside the city will not stop coming into our community to commit crimes and 911 emergency and medical response times must remain fast to save lives."
"We need to continue to hear from you," according to city officials. "The Hemet City Council will be holding an important discussion about Hemet's public safety priorities, problems and challenges, and potential plans to address them, as recommended by ourselves as Hemet's Police and Fire Chiefs, and the Ad Hoc Revenue Committee at the February 23rd City Council Meeting at 6 p.m. at the Hemet Library, located at 300 E. Latham Ave., Hemet. The meeting is open to the public."
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Nashoba's Key still undefeated
EmailARCADIA, Calif. - Nashoba's Key is going to the Breeders' Cup as a perfect filly. Saturday at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting, Nashoba's Key extended her unbeaten streak to seven with a hard-fought win over favored Citronnade in the $400,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes. The Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon was Nashoba's Key's fifth consecutive stakes win, fourth straight win in a graded stakes, and first Grade 1 win on turf. The brilliant 4-year-old filly is scheduled to make her next start in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. Ridden by Joe Talamo, Nashoba's Key ($5.40) ran 1 1/4 miles on turf in 1:59.73. Throughout the race, she was a pesky presence behind pacesetter Citronnade, the even-money favorite. Talamo had Nashoba's Key a length behind Citronnade through a slow early pace of 24.04 and 48.31 seconds for the first half-mile. Nashoba's Key stayed within range of Citronnade on the backstretch and through the final turn. With a two-wide rally in early stretch, Nashoba's Key drew alongside Citronnade, took the lead in the final furlong, and won by three-quarters of a length. "She has so much heart all you have to do is urge her," Talamo said. "I knew Citronnade was running easily, but Nashoba has such a big kick. Once she gets going, she's like a big train. The way she's been running is just unbelievable." Citronnade, the winner of four graded stakes earlier this year, held second, finishing a nose in front of Black Mamba. "That's a very good filly that beat us," said David Flores, who rode Citronnade. "I could feel she was right behind me the whole way. When I asked my filly to go, I was hoping to open up quick. Maybe I could have gotten away with it." Memorette, Imagine, and Mauralakana competed the order of finish. Nashoba's Key has earned $863,460 for owner-breeder Warren Williamson and trainer Carla Gaines. The Yellow Ribbon was her first start on turf since she won the Fran's Valentine Stakes for statebreds at Hollywood Park in April. Oak Leaf: 'Cry and Catch' by a nose Cry and Catch Me ($4.80), making her stakes debut, won the $250,000 Oak Leaf Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. Ridden by Mike Smith, Cry and Catch Me was always near the front, and held off a late threat from 5-1 Izarra to win the Grade 1 Oak Leaf by a nose. Owned by Stetson Land and Cattle and trained by Bob Baffert, Cry and Catch Me ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.91. Cry and Catch Me raced near the front throughout, tracking The Golden Noodle through early fractions of 23.03 and 46.55 seconds before taking the lead with a half-mile remaining. She fought off a threat from Gentle Audrey and Tasha's Miracle before being challenged by Izarra. Runforthemoneybaby, a 37-1 outsider, finished third in the field of 10.


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Repurpose An Old TV Cabinet Into A Kids Play Kitchen
Even on sale, some bigger kids toys can be a bit pricey or out of the budget entirely. Fortunately, there's tons of great ideas out there on how to repurpose something old and done into something new and fun (thanks Pinterest). Like this amazing video that shows you how to repurpose an old TV cabinet into an awesome kids play kitchen.
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Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), has taken delivery of equipment worth N8m donated to the institution by Flour Milling Association of Nigeria (FMAN).
The Rector, Dr. Margaret Kudirat Ladipo, who thanked the donor for the gesture, used the opportunity to seek more support from corporate bodies and industrialists so as to continue to fulfil the mandate of the institution.
In attendance were: a representative of Dangote Flour Mill Mr. Kwaku Boateng; Yabatech Deputy Rector (Academics) Dr. Olufemi Oyelola and his counterparts (Administration), Mr. Taofeek Omobayo Raheem; Registrar Ms Charity Amakapabo, Librarian Mrs. Taye Adebowale, among others.
Ladipo said: "We need the support of well meaning people at a critical time like this so that our goal to produce graduates for the global market and entrepreneurs would be fully realised.
"As an institution, Yabatech has continued to forge ahead in improving skills development through the adoption of best practices and teaching methodologies in advanced economies," she added.
Ladipo noted that the commissioning of the items, which coincided with the ninth graduation of participants at the 'Master Bakers' course run by Yabatech Department of Food Technology, is a sufficient signal that the items would improve the institution's internally generated revenue.
Managing Director Honeywell Flour Mills Plc. and FMAN vice chairman Mr Lanre Jaiyeola, said the donation formed part of the association's corporate social responsibility.
According to him, improving the capacity and efficiency of master bakers would directly improve FMAN's business.
"We recognise the good work Yabatech is doing and as you continue to improve, we will do more. This is just the beginning. It is our prayer that Yabatech continues to soar higher, so that we are encouraged to render more assistance. We are a national association, and as such, we plan to repeat this feat in other geopolitical zones," he said.
Group Managing Director (GMD), Flour Mills of Nigeria, Mr. Paul Gbededo, said bread, a staple food in Nigeria, has come to stay because of its popularity.
"It is therefore important to train users of flour on the best practices because if not properly prepared, flour could turn to poison."
Gbadedo, an alumnus of Yabatech, charged the alumni association to reach out to old students of the institution for support.
Head of Department of Food Technology, Mr. Peter Okolie, thanked FMAN for the donation, promising to put the equipment to judicious use.


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A Bridge by Any Other (including a new) Name
So the new bridge will have a new name or a partially-new name: the Governor Mario Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge? No one is renaming Westchester or Rockland counties or the Hudson River. We (the United States) are late to the cable-stayed bridge party, which began long ago (decades, to be exact) in Europe.
Can you imagine folks 60-some years ago scratching their heads as four towers began rising from the river? Would it have been possible to even build those towers? As the first floating concrete batch plant arrived on the scene (no pun intended) in 1956 and was patented in 1966 (U.S. patent #3,251,484), imagine the caravan of supply trucks heading to the water.
The new bridge is nothing like the one that withstood 61 and one-half years of vehicles, trucks, vans, motorcycles, accidents, upgrades, repairs, attention, suicides, the elements and criticism.
Yet it also got a new name somewhere along the line as early on it was known as the Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project. Say that three times fast.
"People don't like change, do they?" the technician who wheeled my dad into the room for a CAT scan asked. "At least, they don't at first, and then, all of a sudden, they come around, and realize change is good." He looked up at the TV on the wall, and then looked at me. I nodded.
His words stayed with me. I'd like to know what you think.
Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2017
Lane Closed on 9W in South Nyack This Week; One Lane Closed Part of Thursday Nr Tarrytown
Last Friday I Tweeted Snoopy doing a happy dance because I sailed (not really) from the Sprain to I-287 to the Thruway, across the bridge to Nyack, and didn't hit traffic until I was approaching Exit 12 at the Palisades Center. Not so bad, and it lightened up as I approached Exit 13S.
Saturday was a different situation starting with the Sprain approach. So. Much. Traffic. It was nearing 1 p.m., and I wondered what traffic announcements I'd missed. I post about them so I ought to know, right? There were none.
Maybe it was weekend traffic heading for the country, to pick up or take kids to camp or for-whatever-reason traffic.
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Alert to motorists per the latest press release from project officials:
One right northbound lane near Exit 9 will close from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. August 6.
In Rockland, southbound Route 9W (Hillside Avenue) in South Nyack, between Shadyside Avenue and South Franklin Street, is closed from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Friday, reducing the road to one lane. Tappan Zee Constructors, LLC (TZC) flaggers will direct traffic, alternating north- and southbound traffic as needed. Watch for added signage and other safety measures in place.
I'd like to know what you think.
Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2015
Exit 10 Southbound Detour Next Two Nights
Tonight's the Nyack Classic Car Night so I need to take Route 59 in Nyack for the Thruway southbound since the Exit 10 on-ramp is closed tonight and tomorrow night from 8 p.m. until 4:30 a.m.
I will forget.
And since today is Throwback Thursday, here's a look at what the Visual Quality Panel was discussing two years ago.
I'd like to know what you think.
Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2015
Guest Blog: Your Voice Counts at the New NY Bridge Meetings
From David Aukland, Village of Tarrytown Liaison to the Replacement Bridge ProjectFolks, please spread the word about this meeting, and come yourselves if you can. The NNYB team is working hard to build a great new bridge for us, so they want both to share the good news on plans and progress, and to seek comments, questions and ideas from everyone affected by it during construction and as future users. The design work for the bridge itself is mostly done – "engineering is 97% complete" – and attention is now turning to connecting it with the community.
This is the opportunity to voice your views on the shared use path for cyclists and walkers across the bridge, and ways to bring visitors from the bridge to the many and varied destinations in our village.
Families, friends and neighbors: come one, come all!
Meetings will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. both days:
Tuesday, May 12, 2015, at Washington Irving Middle School, 103 S. Broadway in Tarrytown
Thursday, May 14, 2015, at Nyack High School, 360 Christian Herald Rd. in Nyack
Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2015
Happy Anniversary: Two Years of Blogging
This year it was lemon cake on my birthday with coffee, milk no sugar. Nearly six months later marks another celebration: two years since I started this blog.
Suggestion took hold. Sure, why not. Blog about the Tappan Zee Hudson River Crossing Project. Say that three times fast. New NY Bridge. Easier to pronounce.
Observations, meetings, factoids, history, unturned nooks and crannies. Curious.
"Why don't you rename it?" people asked me. "What does it mean?"
Look into a kaleidoscope, twist it various ways, and check out the amazing colors and designs. No two images are the same, and the picture constantly changes as you move the tube in your hands.
Committees, subcommittees, subgroups. Scenarios. Decisions. Moving parts that stopped and formed pictures. And different each time. My first interpretation of New York State's monumental undertaking.
So I named it Kaleidoscope Eyes. Another year of questions, different and some are the same. New answers, more information. And still more questions to ask.
Thanks for following me here! I'd like to know what you think.
Copyright © Janie Rosman and Kaleidoscope Eyes 2015


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