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Hoop Fans are pumped up as the teams for the 2012 National Basketball Association Conference Finals are now set. The San Antonio Spurs will host the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game One of the Western Conference Final on Sunday. The Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics East Final starts Monday in South Beach. These are dream match-ups for NBA betting fans!
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After their NBA record 21st Game Seven playoff win, the Boston Celtics have advanced to the NBA Eastern Conference Final. The Celtics scored a 85-75 win over the pesky and physical Philadelphia 76ers to get to their third East Final in five years. Boston is stacked with veterans but they won't get any rest as they hit the road to Miami – their third city in five nights.
Miami should be well rested after they polished off the Indiana Pacers in six games to earn four days of rest. After losing power forward Chris Bosh (he is doubtful for the East Final) LeBron James and Dwyane Wade have stepped up their games. This new dynamic dual accounted for 197 of the 321 points the Heat scored in the final three games against the Pacers.
Series Bottom Line: Aging Celtics can't handle the Heat – in five games.
San Antonio Spurs vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Western Conference Final
San Antonio has yet to break a sweat in the 2012 NBA Playoffs as they rolled through series sweeps of the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Clippers. Those eight straight wins, added to their 10-0 season ending run, has the Spurs on an 18-game winning streak. San Antonio is loaded with veterans and they have four or five double-digit scorers every night.
Oklahoma hasn't exactly been overworked either has the Thunder sweep the defending Champion Dallas Mavericks in the quarterfinals and needed just five games to knock off the Los Angeles Lakers. If anyone can match the Spurs man-for-man, it's the Thunder who are led by Kevin Durrant. We see this being a long series – the winner takes the Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Series Bottom Line: Spurs firing on all cylinders – take it in six games.

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Karin Barile, who'll receive her award Sunday, August 30th, at The Orpheum Theatre during the 32nd annual Ostrander Awards, isn't originally from Memphis. She grew up outside of Washington, D.C., was educated in Georgia, and spent her early professional years working as an actor for the Flat Rock Playhouse in Flat Rock, North Carolina.
"I'm a transplant, but I have definitely put down roots in Memphis," says Barile, the long-serving director for Playhouse on the Square's Theatre Education & Engagement Program.
In 1979, Barile went to the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) auditions in Atlanta looking for work as an actor. While there, she heard from a friend that Playhouse on the Square's executive director, Jackie Nichols, had launched a theatre for the deaf called Show of Hands. He was looking for one more performer.
"I knew about 50 signs, and I knew the alphabet. And I thought it was such a beautiful language," says Barile, who was hired on the spot.
Show of Hands was created with the assistance of a government grant, and there was only enough money to sustain the company for two years. Barile figured it wouldn't be too long before she'd be back at SETC auditioning. She begins her 37th season with Playhouse on the Square in September.
By the time the initial grant money for Show of Hands ran out, the troupe had forged partnerships with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Memphis Arts Council (rebranded ArtsMemphis). The group was conducting workshops and performing in schools, daycares, correctional facilities, and nursing homes.
"I thought Show of Hands would be a cool experience," Barile says, remembering when she imagined Memphis to be a stepping stone. "It lasted about 19 years." She also went from being a performer to running the program.
Around 1985, Memphis actor Jay Kinney approached Nichols about starting an actor training program for kids. Kinney was in graduate school at the U of M, and was inspired following a Playhouse on the Square production of To Kill a Mockingbird.
"I wasn't being paid for it, but I started performing in shows for Jay," Barile says. And when Kinney moved on, she took over as director of a program. In 1998, the program was reimagined as Education & Engagement. It has grown to include Summer Youth Conservatories, touring companies, and after-school classes.
"I may not be the visionary, but I am the workhorse," Barile says modestly.
Barile has taken home a few Memphis Theatre Awards, but this is the first time she's been recognized since the honors were named for Jim Ostrander, an actor she worked with and admired.
When asked about the best part of her job, Barile pauses and starts to name actors and educators who came through her programs and are now giving back to the city in various ways. Prominent alumni include Jordan Nichols, who's currently performing in Buyer & Cellar at the Circuit Playhouse, and Carly Crawford who got her start in the company of Peter Pan and who recently launched Q & A, an open and accepting queer youth theatre group.
Barile is so good at creating schedules and making the trains run on time it's easy to forget what a fantastic performer she is. Favorite roles include the manic dwarf in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the wicked witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
The 32nd annual Ostrander Awards will be held Sunday, August 30th, at the Orpheum Theatre. Cocktails and gossip begin at 6 p.m. Awards at 7. Tickets are $10.
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It's Christmas time, fa la la la la. Pass the eggnog, but only if made with fake egg yokes, fat-free half and half, and Stevia raw sugar extract. Keep the brandy coming, tho guys. It's going to be a tough season.
I write this because the lone fruitcake that has been circling around the globe for the past thirty plus years has gone missing. Unless someone ate it. Wait a minute! That can't be. Fruitcake is the scourge of the holiday, the odd-man out, the little guy everyone likes to make fun of. I have it on personal authority that many a fruitcake has gone to bed sobbing each night at this sort of treatment. Fortunately, those tears are what keep it from drying out. Truly.
I say, wake up, America! We are losing one of our natural resources! Fruitcakes are an endangered species! I mean, when was the last time anybody served a fruitcake at a holiday party? And with pride?
I used to make fruitcakes all the time. It takes weeks. Then you store them soaked in booze for months. I started mine in early October. They were delicious. Everyone loved them. Truly.
Then I don't know what happened. It's always the little things at first that set the pattern.
"No, thank you, I'm trying to watch my weight." Said after devouring five chocolate chip cookies.
"No thank you, I don't drink." Come on now! Something soaked in six or seven cups of brandy just heighten the experience! Truly.
"I've never really liked fruitcake," said one friend. She has since been written off my gift list. I knew from the first, tho, this comment was the death knell of the holiday fruitcake.
I don't bake fruitcake any more. A lot of work and it's an ungrateful world out there. Now I order them online from Harry and David's. And when I eat them, I wait until everyone has gone to bed then sneak out, and hide in the back of my larder. These fruitcakes are fabulous, a lot like mine, but not quite as much brandy. That's okay. You can't have everything.
Happy Holidays!
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It's been quite awhile since I've had some fruitcake. I like the ones that are loaded with nuts and not as much fruit.
What an appropriate place to sing the praises of fruitcake! Where better than a Muser's blog? Because all of us are fruitcakes! And proud of it!
Heather, you've made your own fruitcakes? Amazing!
I really like a slice of fruitcake now and then, even without the brandy – as long as it's not the one you pushed under the bed after receiving it LAST year!
I haven't had fruitcake in a coon's age! Maybe I'll make one next year. I have a great recipe for one with candied pineapple and macadamia nuts. Carlajo
I loved this blog. Very entertaining. The pic is a hoot too. I confess I'm a fruitcake hater, but only because no one has ever given me one soaked in Brandy lol. That has possibilities.
Truly, I love fruitcake! I am one, so it seems logical enough. As for H&D, they make great stuff, but there's really nothing quite like a homemade fruitcake by someone who knows how to do it right. Truly!
You're a nut…that's why I love you. I've always avoided fruitcake like the plague…except for Harry and David's…now those guys know how to make a fruitcake.
The last thing that comes to my mind at Christmas is fruitcakes, except when I use that term to describe an offensive seasonal shopper. Yet, thinking back to my behavior prior to H&D, I feel so guilty at being someone who caused the tears of those little fruit and nut-filled, booze-soaked cakes, but what's a person to do if they detest those glazed fruit bits and really don't like the taste of rum?
Since these crap-tasting cakes are nearing extinction, perhaps that's a positive thing. Too many bad recipes mixed in with the good, and anything endangered usually becomes illegal to house or own, so maybe the world will be absolved of one more problem. Think?
Oh but you CAN have everything! Buy the fruitcake one week in advance; turn it upside down; souse it with brandy… tralala! I loved this blog. I usually get a couple of them from friends-who-bake. The solution is to cut them up, combine them with chopped nuts and yes, more brandy, roll them into small balls, and shake in a screw-top jar filled with cocoa powder. Then, re-gift in a nice to-keep bowl from the $ / £ / € shop, covered in cellophane and decorated with a bow.


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A business's legal classification is extremely important. There are different business structures available and each structure has both negative and positive attributes depending on your organization's specific needs. But choosing which is best for you can be confusing.
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16 Jade Street v. R. Design Construction Co., LLC. is a recent business law case that discusses the imposition of personal liability on business members. This case involved the construction of a four unit condominium project. A homebuilder named Carl Aten (Aten) owned R. Design Construction Co. LLC and acted as the general contractor in the project. Unable to fund the project, he sought financial assistance from a colleague's business called 16 Jade Street. Upon the receipt of the initial funds, Aten designed the project and hired subcontractors from Catterson & Sons Construction.
It was later found that Catterson & Sons Construction had negligently developed the portion of the project. Aten was responsible for the supervision and maintenance of the project, but he and the subcontractors left the job without completing it or fixing the flaws. Upon hiring a new team of workers, 16 Jade Street had the construction site evaluated by a structural engineer who found over sixty flaws in the work produced by Catterson & Sons under the supervision of Aten.
Thus, left with a flawed and incomplete construction project 16 Jade Street sued Aten, R. Design, Catterson & Sons Construction, and Catterson. 16 Jade Street sued all four parties under theories of negligence and breach of implied warranties. With any construction project, there is an implied warranty that the project will be completed diligently and properly, and 16 Jade Street alleged that the defendants had breached this implied warranty.
The question then became whether a member of a company can be held personally liable for any of their negligent actions where they are acting to further the business interests.
First the court analyzed the type of businesses that were involved in the case, limited liability companies. This type of company is a hybrid between corporate structure and partnership structure. As to the fact of liability, a limited liability company generally protects company members from personal liability that arose from the member's job related activities. State law dictates that a company member cannot be held liable unless that member breaches a fiduciary duty, such as by commingling personal funds with business funds. In this case the court found that neither Aten nor Catterson commingled personal and business funds or breached their fiduciary duties in any other way.
South Carolina law indicates that members and managers of an LLC are generally protected from personal liability when their actions are motivated by the furtherance of the business. Because of the dictates of the statute, Catterson was shielded from personal liability for any negligence.
The court did make a distinction as to Aten. Because Aten has a home builder's license, civil liability attached to his licensure. Where a licensed homebuilder is negligent, the limited liability aspect of the LLC of which he is a member may shield him from personal liability; however, he can be found to have violated his civil obligations as a license holder.
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A beautiful Solstice to all!
As the light begins to return, we have important work to tend to.
The Council has decided to revisit the moratorium issue TONIGHT.
What: City Council Meeting
When: Tonight, Monday, December 21st at 7 p.m.
Where: South Portland City Hall.
It remains crucial for as many South Portlanders as possible to be present to oppose having large quantities of propane gas in Rigby Yard. Because the opposing side keeps showing up in solid numbers, which impacts City Councilors who remain on the fence, we must fill the Chamber with neighborhood voices who can affirm the need for more time to examine this proposal.
Please come tonight to support the moratorium.
What: So. Portland City Council Workshop
When: Monday, Dec. 28th at 6:30 PM
Where: So. Portland City Hall
Please join us next week as the City Council meets to consider critical fire code amendments to meet risks emerging from large scale propane development at Rigby Yard. The need to update and amend our fire code is critical at this point. While we are fully aware that our Council always works hard to balance the concerns of South Portland residents with an increasingly complex industrial environment, right now we need to continue to remind them that the health and welfare of our citizens depends on their careful assessment of our fire code.
We commend the Council for considering the fire amendments, and urge them to make a thorough assessment of South Portland's ability to deal with more complex and often more dangerous technologies and practices.
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In a far away land and a parallel time, I became an expert on sex.
When I was young I was a naive and ignorant kid. Nobody helped me understand that I was drop-dead gorgeous. I was petrified of men and of sex. I lived in the countryside, where to be a gay man was to be a freak and there wasn't any possibility of being a lesbian woman. Unsurprisingly I failed to realise that it isn't a natural fact that women are more beautiful than men; if you think that you probably want to sleep with them.
I went to university and tried sleeping around, thinking that lots of sex equals sexual freedom. (Sometimes I was just lonely and wanted someone to cuddle me.) I had lots of bad sex and felt even more trapped. I had lots of gay men friends because I was still frightened of sex and they were the only ones I could safely flirt with. They are so lovely to me. One of them helped me go to London to live and others took me to gay clubs where I would sometimes see a gorgeous bird in a dress and think: Wow! another woman, and then:Whoops, not a woman after all. Gradually I got in with a set of black and Asian lesbian women. They were also lovely to me and we learnt feminist anti-racist politics not through books but through practice. I went on marches against Section 28, worrying that the police would take my photo and that one day I might be imprisoned for standing up for sexual freedom. I read and talked about whether sado-masochism is a re-enactment of slavery, of child abuse we experienced, or whether it's just good dirty fun.
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One fine day I managed to go back to university and do my PhD. I read and wrote about issues of identity I'd struggled with for decades as a young woman, including sexuality.
Academic thinkers from Freud to Foucault argue that it's in sexuality that we form and continue to formulate our identities. This is the realm in which we engage with our core selves and with others (society) at a visceral level, making a persona. This isn't the self-absorbed one-on-one activity that we tend to think it. We can only do this within the available ideas which society provides to us about who we might be and how (Foucault calls this discourse).
So what is the current discourse available to us to formulate our selves within?
Like "Joe Blow", I notice the huge interest in 50 shades of grey. I haven't read the book and don't intend to since reviews suggest it's badly written and I suspect it isn't even an accurate account of the Bondage and Sado-Masochism world (BDSM). What intrigues me is that mums at my daughter's swimming class are avidly reading this account of a billionaire tortured by yearning to play out his sadomasochistic desires on a young virginal girl. What are they getting out of it?
In our society, women are not encouraged to be sexually pro-active. I was outraged recently in talking to a young student of mine about her essay on intimacy when she revealed that she thinks it would be wrong to approach a man she likes and ask him for a date. I thought that sort of ridiculous sexual code of conduct had long gone. I was cross because I suffered tortures at times, thinking, Shall I say something? about someone I fancied - lesbian women are worst off here since they're mutually shy and sometimes just glare at each other before going shyly off home alone (in fact come to think of it, maybe my grumpy rugby team mates actually fancied me? What a missed opportunity!). Once I did say to a man who had been flirting with me, Are you serious, how about it? and he said, Oh no! which was embarrassing but we are still friends and I could get on with life. Too embarrassed to say anything, I once snogged a man on a train who was failing to make a move on me although I wore skimpier and skimpier outfits to our office, and I'm still with him ten years later. Imagine if I'd felt I really must wait for him to make a move, I'd still be waiting wistfully at home alone. I'm good looking so people are often too intimidated to make a move on me but as I only recently realised this I would just think they didn't like me after all if they were too shy to come and say, How about it?
Instead of going up to a bloke and saying, I like you and I want you at this time, in this place and in this way, women are obliged to fantasise about some man who'll come and force us to enjoy pleasure, a man who'll enjoy us having sexual delight rather than a man who'll join us in an equal pleasurable partnership, a man so knowledgeable and experienced (although where he learned it all is a bit obscure) that he'll just know how to please us without us having to say, I like having my toes sucked. Women avidly read BDSM fantasies although they don't really want to be tied up and beaten, they just wanna have fun but they think they need a man to order them to do it.
Hilarious fun though it might be to be tied to the bedposts and have my toes sucked, I think we do need to talk about the possibility of an equal partnership and mutual pleasuring in sex. That has to be a sexual pleasure based in the ethos of equality that is feminism. Feminists argue that submissive women and dominant men is an inefficient and unbalanced mode of production, that we could all get more out of a world where there is diversity and sharing of responsibilities and activities.
I'm not an expert on BDSM but I imagine that the pleasure in it comes not from the total domination or submission of one over and under another. My ignorant impression is that what's really exciting and wonderful about BDSM isn't so much the dominatrix sex, it's that one person holds the other in their power and doesn't abuse them, that within an adrenaline fuelled world in which power is nakedly acknowledged, the dominant partner controls the subordinate and manages the pleasure they share with absolute love and care. Absolute love and care - who could resist. Gimme that blindfold!
It's of course more difficult to negotiate absolute love and care when you and your partner are from the ordinary world of people thoroughly fucked up by our mums, dads and the rest of society and you are attempting to come together in mutual pleasure naked in each others' arms. Tempting to manage it all with the whips and bonds - and the leather, chains, feathers, lace and other fetishistic accoutrements have their own sexy appeal of course. But I think the feminist mode of lying together and figuring it out in an egalitarian way is worth working towards. The International Planned Parenthood Federation describe sexual rights as human rights, linking issues of gender politics and the right to choosing when to have family to the right to enjoyment of your sexuality.
Actually I think that sexuality is not just fun and games, that when you have sex with someone it isn't just about a quick thrill or wham, bam thank you and come again next Friday, Ms. Plumber. Sometimes it can be but I think that after a while, when you go and lie naked and caressingly often with someone you like, parts of you from way deep down come up asking to be loved. Most of us have not been brought up in a confident loving belief in ourselves as people deserving of the tenderest love and affection so when some small part of us from way down, sometimes some part of us which was badly hurt in the past, comes surging up asking for affection, the prospect that we might not get it can become so scary that we will behave in all sorts of strange ways trying to push that part of us back down again.
Recently I started doing research on Sex and Relationships Education (SRE). Now I realise why it is that my poor student is still stuck in thinking that some knight in shining armour with the karma sutra hard-wired into his brain has to come and get her instead of her saying to a bloke with a cute twinkle in his eye: I quite like you, how about it? SRE is still obsessively focussed on SEX!!! People are terrified of sex so instead of saying, Let's approach this gently, they become hysterical and just give slide shows on how to do it with sessions practising putting condoms on bananas. Well, I suppose there will be fewer banana babies in the world at least.
What SRE doesn't do is provide lessons on relationships. Young women and men aren't told, You're a beautiful and funny person who will be loved. They aren't given advice on how to treat someone who is probably as ignorant, shy and vulnerable as they are with respect and tenderness. Young men and women are taught to put a condom on a banana but they don't learn to have the respect for each other that would mean they offer to put a condom on before having sex.
Where do these young people go to for advice about how to conduct sexual relationships? Well, I expect nowadays they turn to the internet. Here they will find raging debates about whether it's contrary to freedom of speech to publish fictional stories about incest, bestiality and non-consensual sex with children. This is an important debate but in the furore about this, a debate about how to provide young people - and many of us ill-educated older people - with a set of stories suggesting how you might go about respectful, tender, loving sexual relations with someone (or more than one person) you are attracted to, is completely absent.
So again, I think we need a feminist erotica, a means of marking out fiction about which we can say: Um, take a look at this, when our kids are growing up and looking about them for examples of how to do it. Sure, if you think you might like being tied to a post and smacked then you can get some stories about that and consider it. But here is something about a man who treated a woman with tenderness and love and enjoyed that, about a woman who was confident and knew what she wanted and asked for it respectfully.
Babette Cole has written the hilarious children's stories about Princess Smartypants, who turned a dreary old Prince into a warty toad when she wanted to carry on playing with her dragons and not have to get married. (If you are having to talk about the birds and bees with a much younger child, check out her hilarious Mummy Laid An Egg.) One day Princess Smartypants will grow up, she already knows that arrogant bastard Princes are not the only option - there are the lovely old dragons, but do Princes know that they are allowed to be gentle and affectionate, that having 20 pictures of naked girls' breasts on their smartphone is not the best way of demonstrating your virile masculinity.
For my daughter's sake, I hope we can write an erotica that will tell them so.


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At these meetings we discuss everything involved with running the club, what has happened since the previous meeting and what we plan to do or work on in the future. Almost all major decisions are discussed at these meetings and voted on by the membership. We also discuss the club's finances, elect our Officers and Trustees, appoint committees, and vote on new members. All current and prospective members are welcome and encouraged to attend.
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Year 5 2017/18
Welcome to Year 5
We have a busy term ahead with lots of new routines to be learnt.
Things to remember!
Homework Diary checked and signed by an adult at home. Hand Homework Diary in at school!
Outdoor PE kit needed
Times table test day
Indoor PE kit needed
Reading Record checked and signed by an adult at home. Hand Reading Record in at school!
Maths homework due in
Spelling homework due in
Fortnightly topic homework due in (please see sheet in your child's book for due dates)
Homework Diaries
Your child will be a given a yellow Homework Diary and we will support them to write down details of homework and when it is due. This is to help prepare them for Year 6 and beyond! Please check your child's diary weekly and sign it. We check these every Monday. Please feel free to write comments or questions about the homework if you are unable to pop in to see us and we will do our best to help you!
Guided reading sessions will take place three times a week when your child will read a set text and complete related work. During this time an adult will read with your child at least once a fortnight. Adults will hear your child read at other times in the week too. Please continue to read regularly with your child at home, discussing the book and new vocabulary. Please sign your child's BLUE Reading Record at least once a week. We check these every FRIDAY and your child gets a Reading Token for every three signatures which is entered into a termly prize draw.
Tips for Reading with your Child
Make time to share books with your child. Listen to them read, listen to audio books together and try to chat about reading
Have a range of reading materials available - books, websites, magazines, newspapers, apps
Be a role model and show how reading can help you follow your interests
Read between the lines. Talk about what you have read to help your child understand what they have read in different ways.
Talk about the issues/themes, are there other things happening underneath what the author is saying? What is the author not telling us?
Research things together. Use the internet, the library as well as books. Talk to them about what information will you use and how you know you can trust your sources
Questions to ask . . .
Have you read any other stories with a similar theme?
Have you read any other stories that have openings like this?
What makes you think that?
What words give you that impression?
Do you agree with . . . . . opinion?
What do you think the writer intended?
How has the author used . . . . (e.g adjectives)
What do these words mean?
Why do you think the author chose to use those words?
Why do you think the author chose this setting?
What evidence is there to support your view?
What does the word . . . (e.g. slam) imply?
Why did the character behave like that?
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One of the best ways to support your child with Maths is to have regular practise of number bonds and times tables. We will have a times tables test every THURSDAY. Please help your child to revise the week's times table. Play maths games either online or board games like Snakes and Ladders. Use the Purple Mash website – your child has their own log-in. Maths homework will be set weekly – either online using the Abacus website or paper homework. It is set on FRIDAYS and due in the following Friday.
Some websites for you to try...
At the beginning of each term your child will be given that term's spelling booklet. Please help them to learn each week's words ready for the test each FRIDAY. Year 5 children also need to write a sentence using each word in context (in their yellow spelling homework book) which needs to be handed in every week. The more imaginative and interesting sentences the better! Copies of the spelling booklets can be found on the links below.
PE Kits
Outdoor –trainers, t-shirt in school colours, shorts or joggers/leggings in school colours, sweatshirt/hoodie in school colours. Spare hair bobble and spare socks are also a good idea. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD'S NAME IN ON ALL KIT! PE can be left in the cloakroom in a suitable bag. (Again please with your child's name).
Indoor - plimsoles, t-shirt in school colours, shorts in school colours. Spare hair bobble and spare socks are also a good idea. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD'S NAME IN ON ALL KIT! PE can be left in the cloakroom in a suitable bag. (Again please with your child's name).
'What's in the News?/Poetry Choice
On a rota basis, your child will get the opportunity to share a poem at Circle Time on Fridays. Please help your child choose one and practise reading it aloud. Also in Circle Time we discuss current affairs and the children are asked to bring a piece of news to share. (A grid is provided.)
Hopefully your child should find their homework supports and consolidates learning from their lessons. If you have any queries about homework please pop in to see Year 5 staff (Miss Bridge or Mrs Priest).
Please feel free to come and see us at any time if you have any questions!
Art/DT project
Our first DT unit will focus on the skills of weaving. Any donations of wool would be gratefully accepted – many thanks!
Year 5 Homework Email address:
Maths Homework
Measuring in Maths
Year 5 Girls in Science
Cooking in Year 5
Spring Homework
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CityVision – The Visitor's Channel is seen in the city's finest hotels 24 hours per day by potentially 200,000 plus hotel guests each month at a cost that is significantly lower than local print advertising and local television or cable advertising.
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- 72% of hotel guests surveyed said that their reason for watching visitor channel programming was to seek out information about local restaurants and shopping options 37% were looking for information about area nightlife.
CityVision airs around the clock in over 55 fine Birmingham Metropolitan Hotels. That's more than 7,700 hotel rooms in Jefferson and Shelby Counties.
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All In Media Radioplayer – First off the mark again!
Radioplayer, the listening platform for radio, is one of the first apps to be approved for the launch of the new Apple Watch. Offering hundreds of stations at a tap of the wrist, the new Apple Watch Radioplayer app keeps radio right at the forefront of digital innovation.
Listeners using the Apple Watch can easily see what's playing on Radioplayer. Four simple icons give users access to their Favourites, Recommended, Recent and Local stations, with just a tap needed to switch.
The Apple Watch integration builds on Radioplayer's place as the first UK radio app available on Apple CarPlay, and their work to integrate with Android Wear.
Managing Director, Michael Hill said: "Radioplayer's proud to be a digital pathfinder for the radio sector, and we'll share what we're learning with others building radio apps for Apple Watch. Collaborating on technology makes our thriving industry even stronger."
Radioplayer partnered with All In Media to develop the Apple Watch interface. The Radioplayer app can be downloaded from the iTunes Store – with versions available for Android devices, Amazon Fire and Windows Phone.


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Data is leaking out of your organisation by hook or by crook: but how much of it is really worth worrying about? Plus: Win Kaspersky Internet Security software worth £40 in our competition.
Just when organisations felt they were gaining the upper hand in their defence against external IT security threats, comes a rise in problems caused by internal risk factors.
Often termed the 'enemy within', malicious hacks on the enterprise system launched from the system itself remain in the minority compared to instances of data leakage - the unintentional and/or illicit loss of secure information into an insecure environment.
According to research by Trend Micro data leaks have become a top source of headaches for UK, US, German, and Japanese companies; and it's not just publicised breaches like the mislaid HMRC CDs, or the lost MoD laptop last January that are fanning the flames of concern. Organisations that bother to check are finding that considerable quantities of data are trotting out through the staff entrance.
Trend's Corporate End User Study 2008, which surveyed 1,600 corporate end-users, found that the loss of proprietary company data and information was ranked as the second most serious threat at work, following viruses. Respondents considered this to be 'more serious' than most other threats such as spam, spyware, and phishing.
Many blamed and shamed when it comes to corporate data leaks. While 6 per cent of end-users admitted to having 'leaked' company information, 16 per cent believe other employees caused data leaks.
The reasons why data leaks out of an organisation vary. Sometimes the data leaves as part of standard business practice, sometimes it is misappropriated on the off-chance that it might have some value to the filcher or to competitors; some data is probably filched just because it is there.
The rise could also be partly due to the fact that many organisations have started to take data leakage more seriously since the headline stories of data loss over the last two years. The headline scandal stories may also be turning the heads of staff who hitherto would not have thought of using their access to corporate data for illicit purposes.
What is sure is that staunching internal data loss poses as big a challenge as attacks by outsiders. "The risk-split used to be 80-20 in external's favour," says Andy Jones, principle research consultant at industry body the Information Security Forum (ISF). "Now I'd say it's more 50-50."
The proliferation of technologies that enable easy data transport makes misappropriation a doddle. Lost laptops and optical media (CDs and DVDs) are well publicised (although wider awareness hasn't halted the laptop problem - research by the Ponemon Institute suggests that 175,000 laptops go missing in Europe's major airports each year); the potential for storage devices like USB sticks and MP3 players to be used for data theft poses bigger problems for IT security administrators.
Mobile risks
And don't forget Web email, which enables employees to attach unprotected files from insecured corporate drives to external mail accounts accessed via company browsers. Just like external threats, internal data leakage is a confluence of different and often disassociated factors at play.
With the rise of the mobile enterprise and working practices that leave employees spending less time tied to the base office, levels of data leakage are bound to worsen, predicts Gil Sever, CEO at Safend. And the problem does not stop just because people are on vacation.
"More and more corporate workers - from senior execs to office administrators - are making 'disconnected holidays' a thing of the past, and no longer leaving productivity tools at home, making themselves accessible and business-aware even while traveling," he says. "As the number of vacationers taking their laptops and devices poolside increases, so does the risks to corporate data."
Faced by this panoply of potential breaches, data owners "have to be realistic", says the ISF's Andy Jones: "In truth they should expect data to leak. So many routes out of the building exist that it's impossible to stop it. Addressing the problem lies in deciding which data loss you can live with, and which data loss hurts the business."
Rather than expend expensive resources in lockdown procedures, organisations should first apply a value to their data assets, so that their 'crown jewels' can be identified and be most protected. Then values can be applied to surrounding data by association. But, adds Jones, most organisations are remissive toward classifying their data: "The state of the art is poor. Data classification is not that sexy, to be honest, and it can prove difficult to get colleagues excited about a business case for valuing data. There's just too much of the stuff, and the task is too daunting."
When this happens it's easier to address the problem by focusing on technological palliatives, argues CA's Mike Small, because data leakage should be seen as a business problem to be addressed by business processes - and not by the IT function. "Take access privileges. Discriminating between mandatory access and discretionary access is a business issue: yet often it is the IT administrator who assigns status."
Staff access
Tackling internal risk management issues such as controlling senior staff's previously unchallenged access to critical information and also privileged access for company administrators is difficult: "These are often not properly managed but both are a potential risk to the business," Small avers. "Data leakage happens at all levels [of the corporate hierarchy]. You have to decouple access from status."
An associated thorny issue to beware of is 'entitlement creep', where staff change role within an organisation, but their existing entitlements remain, allowing continued system access to data which is no longer pertinent to their new role. CA's Small says that IT departments could do much to reduce data leakage by shoring-up internal IT security procedures with the practice standards of ISACA's COBIT IT governance standards, as well as those of an ITIL IT service management documentation. "Implementing these tools would go a long way to staunching data leakage," he believes.


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Sustainable food systems and health: The convenient truth of addressing climate change while promoting health
Cristina Tirado-von der Pahlen, UCLA, International Union of Nutritional Sciences - Climate and Nutrition
Feeding the world sustainably and promoting good nutrition and health under a changing climate is one of the main challenges of our time. Climate change has a negative impact on food security, nutrition and the health of millions of vulnerable people, particularly poor women and children. According to the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), if current trends continue, it is estimated that an additional 1-3 billion people will be affected by water scarcity and 200-600 million will suffer from hunger by 2080 particularly in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
The global food system will be further challenged over the coming decades with increases in the human population, environmental degradation, changes in diet, urbanisation and greater demands on energy and water resources. Projections show that feeding a world population of 9 billion people in 2050 would require raising overall food production by some 60 per cent. High food output achieved in the past has placed great stress on natural resources and the agriculture sector specifically is a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The expansion of livestock and biofuel sectors plays a major role in deforestation and land degradation and globally about one third of food produced for human consumption per year is lost or wasted, both contributing further to GHG emissions.
Currently more than half of the world's 7 billion people are affected by a form of malnutrition. While there are still 795 million people that go hungry everyday and the health of 2 billion is compromised by nutrient deficiencies, 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese. Changes in dietary patterns towards greater production and consumption of meat and animal products present a set of complex challenges for climate change mitigation, for agriculture, for health and for achieving food security and nutrition.
The Rome Declaration, adopted at the FAO and WHO Second International Conference on Nutrition in 2014, offers an to address the impacts of climate on undernutrition and at the same time to promote the co-benefits of sustainable and healthy dietary patterns to health and the environment.
A brief on "Sustainable Food Systems and Health: The convenient truth of addressing climate change while promoting health" will be launched at COP21 at an event on December 7th.
Key messages of the brief include:
Sustainable and healthy diets can contribute to both a reduction in GHG emissions and improved public health and nutritional outcomes. The IPCC AR5 report highlighted the opportunities to achieve co-benefits from actions that reduce emissions and at the same time improve health by shifting consumption away from animal products in high-meat consumption societies, toward less emission intensive healthy diets.
Enhance sustainable food systems by developing coherent public policies from production to consumption and across relevant sectors to provide year-round access to food that meets people's nutrition needs and promote safe and diversified healthy diets. Policy coherence needs to be ensured through institutional and cross-sectoral collaboration.
Promote integrated implementation of sustainable patterns of food production and consumption, respecting the carrying capacities of natural ecosystems. This requires consideration of all the aspects and phases in the life of a food product, from production to consumption, and includes such issues as sustainable lifestyles, sustainable diets, food losses and food waste management and recycling, voluntary sustainability standards, and environmentally-friendly behaviours and methods that minimise adverse impacts on the environment and do not jeopardise the needs of present and future generations.
Nutrition-sensitive climate adaptation and mitigation have many co-benefits for both health and the environment and there is a need to address food and nutrition security in the National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action Plans (NAMAs). A combination of nutrition-sensitive, climate-smart strategies and technological development, nutrition-smart investments in the agriculture and food sectors but also in social protection, education and community-based disaster risk reduction areas can contribute to ensure food and nutrition security in a changing climate.
Adopt a multi-sectoral approach and good governance. Reaching and sustaining food and nutrition security in a changing climate requires a multi-sectoral food system approach involving nutrition, agriculture, health, trade, education, water supply and sanitation and social protection – as well as taking into account cross-cutting issues like gender equality, governance, and state fragility.
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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by T-hug, Mar 26, 2009.
looks like a nice RPG from the screenshots i looked at ... ?
wtf there is just an english version from earlier times
Yeah the (U) version has been out for awhile. It's a really classic PS1 RPG, and very awesome. I suggest everyone to give it a try.
i suppose this is still missing the extra shit from the japanese version?
I know that you're out there and I'm waiting for you!
I found the cutscenes cute and enjoyable, but the actual dungeon crawling is easy, tedious and boring.
it's way to easy and only for absolute beginners.
The game is in french language too.
good 4 u bad 4 me ^^
Yeah, does anyone know if the Euro version has the content that was removed by NISA for the US version?
I didn't know there were removed content in US version.
what is missing, other than the US/JP language choice ?
Anyway, I don't like the cursor sound on DS, it makes a horrible metallic and reverb sound.
And I don't like the new RPG turn base system, I'm nostalgic to the Tactical RPG grid battle the game used to be on PSX.
It's a good game for people how don't know Nippon ichi yet
I hope nippon ichi will allow the next episodes to be adapted to DS and translated too.
After you beat the game an option to play Cherie's scenario from Angel's Present should appear. Also, there is a side quest in the main game involving a girl named Eri (who's from La Pucelle) that was removed too.
so is this still going to be a bugged up version just like how NISA made it... other than the removed content
At first I thought it was a game like Guitar Hero with Rhapsody of Fire tracks.
I'm so disappointed.


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It is generally acknowledged that much of Matt Molloy's approach to playing dance music on the flute is borrowed and adapted from uilleann piping. A listen to Molloy playing alongside a piper, Liam O'Flynn (on 'The Fire Aflame', but also with Planxty) or Paddy Keenan (on 'The Bothy Band' recordings) for example, illustrates the striking similarity, even though the pipers could be said to have different piping styles (but that's another matter). A listen to Michael McGoldrick's flute playing double-tracked with his own piping is another good example.
Matt Molloy's rhythm is very subtle and allows for an unhindered use of decoration — slides, cuts, triplets, short and long rolls abound. There is also reason to believe he may have been the first to popularise cranning on the flute, a kind of punchy roll on bottom D and E, which is a standard, but tricky, decorative technique amongst pipers. Years ago a friend who was an accomplished whistle-player took a Molloy record and played it at 16 rpm on an old turntable in order to listen more closely; he reported back with despair that Molloy appeared to do something to each and every note!
Piping has its own traditions and complexities and I don't wish to explore them here. From a flute player's perspective however, pipers do not add emphasis to tunes in the way that flute players, fiddlers, box and banjo players can i.e. by varying the volume. Consequently, many pipers play very evenly with no rhythmic emphasis beyond the use of accompanying regulators. An alternative is adding a slight dotted rhythm, emphasising notes on the beat by holding them for a fraction longer than might be expected and shortening the following note.
While Molloy plays with piping decoration, he also plays very evenly, with a very subtle use of rhythm: it is noticeable that he chooses to emphasise the start or key parts of a phrase rather than a constant foot-tapping dancer's rhythm. The emphasis can take on many forms: variation in volume, strong decoration or holding a note, sometimes bending it (see below), for a part of a phrase would be the most common approach. Flute players who delight in speed tend to adopt this model for rhythm in order to help emphasise interesting parts of the tune.
Interestingly, there are some exceptions to these observations on Molloy's playing. 'Live at Matt Molloy's' features Molloy in a near-session environment playing with a more dance-like rhythm, perhaps because he is choosing to fit in with the other, more rhythmic flute players he is playing with. His recording of 'Paddy Rafferty's Favourite' on 'Shadows on Stone' with lilter Paddy Rafferty sees him employing a steady rhythmic pulse in his playing in order to match that of the lilting. I have also heard a recording of Frankie Kennedy in a session choosing to play at a more moderate pace and with more rhythm than when playing with Altan.
Blue notes
As well as speed and dexterity, Molloy's playing also features "blue" notes (for want of a better expression) -- that is, note-bending or changing the colour or tone of a note. As I understand it, Molloy was the first player to adapt this technique to playing dance music, but as bands play ever faster and some of the subtleties of the melody and rhythm become less prominant, flute players have found the use of "blue" notes very suitable for their needs. This was a strong feature of Frankie Kennedy's playing with Altan, helping create the atmosphere for which they are well known.
The playing of blue notes originally borrows from the singing and slow air traditions, although not exclusively, and generally involves holding the note a little longer than usual and flattening it by a quarter tone or semitone. To a certain degree this feature can be seen in uilleann piping, particularly in smearing or sliding into notes from below. Older fiddlers have used a similar technique, usually to slightly sharpen a note and lift a passage rather than to hold and flatten it for a more mournful effect. See the analysis of Paddy Canny's use of a 'mobile' C by Bernie Stocks on his fiddle page for more information on this.
A good example, but by no means the only one, of a flute player employing this technique is Molloy's recording of 'Jenny's Chickens' on 'Heathery Breeze', where he introduces a flattened B into a Bm/F#m reel to unexpected and startling effect.
There are different ways of doing this: the ones which offer the most control are by altering the shape of the cavity of the mouth and the back of the throat with the tongue and also by adjusting the air speed and direction. Other ways include rolling the flute in, sliding down into a half covered position below with the fingers, using the keys, altering the shape of the embouchure (the shape of the lips). These can all be used in conjunction with other techniques to great effect.
The relative ease with which notes can be bent on the flute is both a boon and a burden. The adjustments required to alter the note are so tiny that the beginner can find aspects of these methods hampering good pitch and tone as a matter of course. A fair degree of control is required and, as with other decorative techniques, employment is a matter of taste.
Recent developments
A recent development within traditional flute playing is to extend the feature of blue note playing and marry it with the jazz idiom. Brian Finnegan and Michael McGoldrick with Sarah Allen (Boehm system) in Flook!, Niall Keegan and Garry Shannon are some who are the forefront of this style. This mirrors what is happening elsewhere in Irish and Scottish traditional music (e.g. Niall Vallely and Simon Thoumire, anglo and english concertina respectively) and a general interest in other flute playing traditions, such as some of the Breton flute playing of Jean-Michel Veillon.
The bedrock for this would appear to be the piping style, with its scope for speed and fluidity and essentially melodic approach. Use of keys for dramatic chromatic runs and shifts, vocalising and chopping up time signatures are common features. The exponants of this development are undoubtedly gifted and knowlegable musicians, but in essence this can really only remain a solo or performance-related style since it depends upon accompanying musicians being aware of arrangements or directions of improvisation, much as jazz does.
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Flute players who play in this style include:
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Just started class at Second City Hollywood improv 3 level with amazing teacher Michael Anastasia. Loving the camaraderie here! Not the parking.
Excited to be taking improv classes at UCB starting November 8. Finding out what all the fuss is about. Hmph!
Excited to be learning mucho at Killian's Commercial Workshop. My mind was blown after the first day. Little things make a BIG difference in a Commercial Audition. Get it, SON!
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Check out his classes.
Marc started class at John Rosenfeld Studios.
Catch Marc performing Improv at L.A. Connections Improv Studio in Sherman Oaks Friday nights at 7pm
Returning to the ever-so-delightful madness of The Clown School: What Kind of Fool Am I? Taught by David Bridel and Zach Steel.
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