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When you stay at Protea Hotel Aishi Machame in Machame, you'll be close to Machame Gate. This hotel is within the region of Moshi Golf Club.
When you stay at Protea Hotel Aishi Machame in Machame, you'll be close to Machame Gate. This hotel is within the region of Moshi Golf Club.
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Blunt. Funny. Awkward. Honest. Important. Eye-opening. And definitely not sugar-coating how men treat women in our society.
A series of essay by one of the US's prominent feminist voices. It's an uncomfortable read that reminds me just how lucky I am to either have not been exposed to or not noticed what a lot of women do experience daily. The things there that I have experienced or relate a bit more directly to make me angry and this is probably the first book of this type that allows the reader to feel hate and resignation. It's certainly not as upbeat as other works but that's okay and just as necessary.
There are several powerful essays here. The final third perhaps having the most. The book's end inclusion of a sample of Valenti's emails and twitter mentions is also horrifying and rage inducing. It's hard out there being a woman, on the internet or not, and no one deserves that kind of vitriol thrown at them.
Five fat stars for honesty. Her experiences as an adolescent in New York City makes me ever so grateful for my small-town childhood. New York - you can take your culture and energy and fantastic food and all of it along with the disgusting subway experiences and street harassment. I'll stroll down main street in my little village of 1000 people and read all about you at my public library.
What unites all women though are our experiences with men who think women exist for their convenience and pleasure. I was reminded of things in my youth - the inappropriate comments from that one creepy dad, the much older, equally creepy dud that asks you out the month after you turn 18.... but what separates me from Valenti is the intentional relationships with deplorable men or at the very least uninteresting men. Was this because of her struggles with mental illness? Is there some parallel between substance abuse and these pitiful relationships? It made me very sad. And after reading Sweetbitter and Love Me Back, two memoirish novels, Valenti isn't the only young woman deserving of so much more than they themselves allow.
"All women live in objectification the way fish live in water."-Catherine A. MacKinnon
I hesitate to review this because as a white, straight male, my collective voice is too often drowning out conversations on race, gender, sexuality, and just about everything else. So please take this review with a grain of salt. I had decidedly mixed feelings about "Sex Object." Jessica Valenti wrote "Full Frontal Feminism," is a columnist for "The Guardian" and founded the website Feministing.com. Her new book joins a growing number of feminist memoirs/essays, which also includes "Shrill," "Bad Feminist," "Men Explain Things to Me," and "The Argonauts." Of those, Valenti's is the most autobiographical (It is billed as a memoir) and also the most flawed. As someone who is not really a fan of the memoir, perhaps I'm not the right audience. I appreciated her insights about gender and the constant and noxious sexism she's dealt with, but I was less interested in some of the graphic details of her sex life and drug addiction. Despite its flaws, an important read for anyone concerned about these issues.
A must read for every woman or girl. I loved her humor as she discussed growing up as a teen in the wilds of NYC. It tackles big subjects like harassment, objectification, and motherhood with humor, candor, and originality.
Reading it but found nothing remarkable so far; sex is sex, not particularly rewarding when used as a bargaining chip later on. Use of the "F" word makes me think the author's angry about something, could it be sex while still a child? Would love to read her memoirs when in her 70s especially.
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Our last week of serving was probably the most fun. Lots of friends and families came in for dinner which made it more interesting.
On Monday, my crazy friend from the cafeteria came in for dinner. I made a little side bet on how many drinks I could sell him, and I managed to get him to have three. I'm terrible. N and F's families came for dinner, and then we ended up going for drinks with F's sister afterwards.
Tuesday, A came in with some curling friends and a friend from university. I also had a table with my sous chef from Rogers Arena. It was a busy night, but much more fun serving people that I knew.
On Wednesday, my cousins came for dinner. It was a little weird serving them, but I think they really enjoyed their meal. We went out that night and ended up dancing at Republic. The best part was meeting Ronnie the Dancer. Haha.
Thursday the restaurant was closed for a private party. I worked the bar that night, though I wasn't really bartending - I was the cashier. I handled the money when people ordered drinks, kept tabs, and counted up the drinks. It was a little stressful before dinner started because the bar was so busy and so many people wanted to set up tabs, but it was a lot of fun. And the best part was we made $50 in tips. It was great.
Our last night was a buffet night. A came in again to try the buffet and said it was really good. The other A was on the bar, so I was super busy bringing drinks to my table. I think everyone had a good night. We tried to go out with the Block 11 class because it was their last day of school, but we lost them. We had a quiet night at our usual spot instead.
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Keith Lemon The Film Trailer. Paul Angunawela's Keith Lemon: The Film (2012) teaser trailer stars Leigh Francis, Laura Aikman, Verne Troyer, Kelly Brook, and David Hasselhoff. Keith Lemon: The Film's plot synopsis: "Celebrity Juice host and international ladies' man Keith Lemon is making the leap to the big screen with Keith Lemon: The Film which follows Keith in his dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur, just like his hero Richard Branson. He comes to London from Leeds, becomes an overnight billionaire then an over day failure before finding the road to redemption."
Hilarious. Loved Kelly Brooks' line at the end: "Allrright. I'll let you smash my back doors in."
Keith Lemon: The Film also stars Kevin Bishop, Tina Tancakova, Lee Nicholas Harris, Mike Parish, and Chonradee Kulthap.
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Hi Bee's,
Has anyone ever been a 'victim' of or witness to dress snobbery?
I am getting married in a private ceremony in Mauritius in November, it will be around 30-35C (86-95F) and we're getting married on a beach. After trying on many dresses, I settled on a gorgeous light chiffon gown, drop waist, fitted bodice, strapless sweatheart neckline. It's actually a bridesmaid dress, it fitted well, is very comfortable and I think perfect for an intimate beach wedding, as well as being very reasonably priced! However when I have told people (who have asked) about the dress, I have had a lot of 'oh, it's not actually a wedding dress', 'you're getting married in a bridesmaid dress!!??', 'that's very simple, don't you want something special for your wedding?'. To be honest, I don't care too much, and yes I could have lied and said it was a wedding dress etc, but I love it, I'm comfortable in it and I think it's special, I just find it really strange how people react! Not having been involved in the planning of any weddings before and this being my first (and only I hope hehe) I had no idea people felt this way!!
Just interested to see people's opinions and if you have had the same?
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Sir Elton John's 17th annual AIDS Foundation Oscar viewing party pulled a splashy group of celebs to the Pacific Design Center Sunday night, including Kate Beckinsale, Victoria Beckham, Sharon Stone, Quincy Jones, Claire Danes, Taye Diggs and Russell Simmons. They all kept their energy up as they watched the four-hour ceremony by making good use of the party's chocolate and candy bars.
"I love it; it's so exciting, to be around this energy," said Elle Macpherson, digging into some white chocolate.
But sugar couldn't cure everything. Concern about a potential actors' strike was on the minds of some at the event, where security was so tight that some journalists approved to cover the event were escorted out to have their credentials re-checked.
"A strike would not be good, not in this economy – I might have to drop another album," said R&B artist Tyrese Gibson. "I'm over my cell minutes, I've got to pay that bill."
Tyler Perry said he spent the evening hours before the fete at home in his pajamas, and said any looming strike wouldn't affect his upcoming production plans. "I'm not worried, I already have a deal, but that's not the same for everyone," he said.
Guests like Sir Ben Kingsley, who came over after appearing on stage at the Kodak Theatre, also acknowledged the dire economic circumstances. "We're lucky to be here. I'm so happy to see such a talented group, but that doesn't mean we don't see the larger picture," he said.
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Inaccuracies in your credit history can hurt your credit score. Learn what to do and what to expect if you encounter a credit report error.
In theory, a credit report should contain every statistic that pertains to an individual's finances, along with basic identity information. In the U.S., each of the three independent credit bureaus (Experian, TransUnion, Equifax) compiles credit reports based on information supplied by banks, credit unions, credit card companies and other businesses that sell goods or services through credit accounts. Credit bureaus also get credit information from collection agencies and public records pertaining to court judgments on financial issues (divorce, bankruptcy, liens, etc.).
Mistakes can creep into credit reports. When this happens, the credit scores derived from credit report details can be adversely affected. If your credit scores drop, this may hurt your chances of qualifying for a low-interest loan and other financial benefits. That's why financial advisors recommend keeping track of your credit scores and checking your credit reports.
Credit scores are easy to check using monitoring services like PrivacyGuard. A useful feature of this service is an alert setting that automatically contacts you of certain credit-related activity that has been added to your credit report.
What causes credit report errors?
Some credit report errors are caused by reporting mistakes on the part of a bank, service provider or creditor. For example, an incorrect social security number may have been given in association with a new credit account. In other cases, the consumer is responsible. It may be an innocent mistake for an individual to open bank or credit accounts in two names. But William Smith's credit activity may not be recorded on the same credit report that holds Bill Smith's information, even if they are the same person.
Some credit report errors are simply small oversights, but they can manage to hurt your credit score anyway. For example, if you make a final payment that falls short of the total payment due by just a small amount (like a $3.75 interest charge), the creditor could potentially report the account as overdue. Even a small accounting error like this has the potential to hurt your credit score, because it can show up on your credit report as an overdue payment.
Identity theft is another cause of credit report errors that deserves mention. If someone gains access to your social security number, address and other personal information, he or she can open an account or multiple accounts in your name, resulting in false information being added to your credit report. The credit problem is exacerbated if the thief runs up expenses in your name. If your credit scores change unexpectedly –without significant financial or credit activity on your part—this can be an indication of identity theft.
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It's important to correct errors on a credit report, but unfortunately it's not easy. The Fair Credit Reporting Act makes it a legal requirement for credit bureaus (sometimes referred to as credit agencies, credit reporting agencies or CRAs) to investigate credit report mistakes when requested to do so by a consumer. Despite this legislation, such investigations rarely happen in a timely fashion.
So how can a consumer speed up the process of correcting a credit report mistake?
Of course, the first step is to order a copy of the credit report (or reports) that you suspect of being inaccurate. You are legally entitled to see a free copy of your credit report every 12 months from each of the three major CRAs. The next thing to do is to check for identity errors, the easiest ones to find. On a photocopy of your report, highlight a name variation, unknown address, incorrect social security number or other error when you find it. Follow this work with a thorough check of all your bank and credit accounts. Again, it's important to highlight a mistake clearly. In some cases, a mistake will be basic enough to explain in the margin. In other cases, you'll need to write a longer explanation on a separate document, and include documents that back up your claim.
Experts point out that you may get faster results if you go directly to the business or institution that is the source of the error. Since banks make regular reports to credit bureaus, it's best to approach the bank if that's where the wrong information originated. The same goes for a collection agency, landlord, cell phone service or utility company that provided inaccurate information.
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If you attempt, as I recently did, to describe the events of the first two episodes of the new season of "Lost" to someone who hasn't watched the show in a while, you will find it a humbling experience. So much cool stuff happens it is difficult to articulate properly -- rescuers arrive, except chances are they aren't actually rescuers. And anyway, Locke (Terry O'Quinn) killed one of them last season, so he's probably smart to heed the words of the long-lost Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) and high-tail it with as many as will join him to the compound that once belonged to the Others. After all, Charlie's last words were "not Penny's ship," which means whoever is communicating with the survivors via that weird walkie-talkie, they definitely aren't who Jack (Matthew Fox) and Kate (Evangeline Lilly) et al. think they are, as the ever-creepy Ben (Michael Emerson) surely knows.
Even if you could explain such things in an orderly fashion, you would still sound absolutely insane. And you will see this reflected in the face of your friend as he or she slowly, carefully, edges toward the door.
Not that it matters. At this point with "Lost," you're either in or you're out. Which doesn't mean you can't enjoy this season just because you've missed what's happened before. For one thing, ABC is nicely recapping things before tonight's season premiere. For another, what happened is not nearly as relevant as you might think, because "Lost" is the ultimate postmodern television show -- all about living in the moment.


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I picked up my first camera back in the late 1980's and I've been hooked ever since.
I love that photography has taught me to see things others don't normally see and that a great image can give you pause to stop and think. That's what I strive for with my photography. It's still a learning process for me, but one that I thoroughly enjoy.
Photography has me boarding planes to places others don't typically have a chance to visit and it has me continually looking for that perfect image, it has me seeking it out in unlikely places, and it pushes me beyond my comfort zone.
It grounds me and allows me to see beyond the every day. Things calm down for me when I step behind my lens. It's just me, my camera, and what I'm focusing on. And because of that, my camera has become an extension of me. It goes everywhere I go.
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For the past ten years, Cheng-Cher "C.C" Huang and his collaborators have been exploring properties of liquid crystals with a technique called resonant x-ray scattering. This is the most reliable and effective method for getting to the specific liquid crystal states that Huang and his group are researching. Liquid crystals, a phase of matter between a liquid and a solid, have been used in technologies from high-resolution camera viewfinders to large-area "liquid crystal displays" used in monitors
Resonant x-ray scattering is the most reliable and effective method of studying liquid crystals, but it requires the use of synchrotron radiation at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Because of the group's success with this method they have been given a prime slot at the lab which amounts to 10 days a year. "If we do not do preliminary studies," Huang says, "we won't get any physics out of that time."
In order to optimize their results at Brookhaven, Huang and his group have come up with alternative methods of exploring liquid crystals in his laboratory in-house. Huang has developed a series of optical probes, which are elaborate laser/refractivity experiments set up on large stability tables in his labs. The light moves through various optical elements striking the sample to provide information. In one set up there is no light emanating through the sample. This is called null transmission ellipsometry and the goal is to find out the effect of the film the orientation of polarized light and how the film reacts to two simultaneous stresses. From this experiment Huang and his group can learn about the molecular packing of a free standing film.
In another set-up light moves through a polarizer, then through the sample of liquid crystal, and is collected and recorded by a CCD camera in a process is called depolarized reflected light microscopy. The sample of liquid crystal looks like a simple soap bubble on a slide. Huang uses the soap bubble analogy to explain liquid crystals since the structure is similar, but the components are different. In a soap bubble as in a liquid crystal there is movement similar to a liquid, but there is also a crystalline structure which makes the shape of the bubble. Liquid crystals of course are not soap and water, but are unique materials manufactured to exhibit certain properties. Huang is investigating the orientational order of liquid crystals because that is an important area with many unknown variables. As liquid crystal devices become more widespread, the need for understanding all phases and their reaction to electrical field, heat, light, etc. becomes more important.
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- Wedding: September 2016 - Our Castle
As per the heading we have had to change our venue due to costs. Instead of being at "The Castle" it will now be at "Our Castle"..
It was proving to restrictive and costly to do what we would have liked so we are changing it to our new home (Yet to be Built).
We would save on Transport, Equipment hire, catering equipment, time and I can supervise the set up the night before and even look out my bedroom window to see part of the decorations..
The size is almost the same and we will already have shelter in the large covered patio attached to the back of the house as well as a near enclosed courtyard and lounge areas inside.
My Big sister is encouraging but cautious and posed the question of having ppl drunk at my new house etc and my main reply is i wont be inviting anyone im not comfortable or confidant they will behave themselves in our new home. and her concerns with napkins etc is plinly that i have two years to take advantage of sales and specials.
Any other Bees had backyard weddings that would like to share their advice?.
Oh and i plan to purchase or hire my tables and chairs.. Wait till i get the chance to post on my new decor centre piece..


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excellent news for you! Hopefully one day we will be able to withdraw money from our accounts again.
and yes Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas!!!! Also had good luck getting my password/account renewal done last week, no problem.
I tried this home page but still cannot loggon yet does it work for you W.i.h.
THX for the good news,this is very promising,got myWarka shares buy request ready anyway hurry up and bring it on.
Also 6 monthly account interest paid in 9 days.
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thanks WIH. Nice to see website back up, though still get expired security certificate error for online banking. Can bypass and login with Chrome
Maybe Warka is getting ready to open for business again


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Annarbor.com reported on Monday February 4th that as early as fall of 2013 Ann Arbor may have a bike sharing program in place. Clean Energy Coalition, the developers of the bike sharing program, will partner with the city of Ann Arbor, Downtown Development Authority, University of Michigan, and Ann Arbor Transportation Authority to put this program into action.
The Bike-Share Program
The bike-share is different than renting a bike. In and around downtown Ann Arbor, kiosks and bike racks filled with bikes will be placed so that anyone with a credit card can pay at the kiosk to use a bike. When the person is done using the bike, he or she can drop it off at any of the participating bike racks.
This program will make Ann Arbor the 10th city in the United States to have a bike share program. Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington D.C., Miami, Boulder, Madison, New York, and Portland already participate in a bike-share program.
Goals of the Program
The program is meant to
- Ease car traffic in the downtown area.
- Offer students an alternative way to travel around and off campus.
- Offer residents an alternative way to commute to work.
- Act as a supplement to the bus for bus commuters whose destinations are not close to bus stops.
Overall, the bike-share should make downtown commuting easier for everyone.
The Benefits
Bikes Belong is a U.S. bicycle industry sponsored organization. Their goal is to simply put more people on bikes. According to their website, www.bikesbelong.org, bike-share programs offer many more benefits.
"It delivers all the benefits of bicycling: by replacing car trips, it helps the environment, road congestion, the economy, parking, mobility, and traffic safety. In addition, bike sharing has unique advantages. It is more convenient and affordable than bike ownership for many residents; it helps overcome barriers to using a bike in a city, such as theft and storage; it generates revenue for municipalities and private companies; it creates new jobs; it motivates cities to improve bike infrastructure; it both connects to and relieves pressure on transit; it provides branding for a city; and it introduces new audiences to bicycling."
The site also reported statistics to back up their claims. 43% of Denver bike-share users replaced their cars for bikes. Further benefits may include a stronger, healthier Ann Arbor community.
What do you think of the bike-share program? Will it ease downtown traffic? For bike businesses owners, what type of impact will this have on your business?


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Teaching Criminal Procedure "Objectively"
The new semester is a little over a month away, and I have begun reflecting on whether I'd like to change certain teaching techniques from last year to this year. One of my main objectives as a professor is to foster a classroom environment where students feel free to disagree respectfully with each other and with me. One of the main ways to achieve this objective, I had believed, was to express my own personal opinions as little as possible.
This proved to be a difficult task, especially when teaching Criminal Procedure. Criminal Procedure is designed around assertions of constitutional rights based in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. The Court's most impassioned (and possibly compelling) language usually focuses on fears of an oppressive government and the importance of privacy rights. From Katz to Miranda to Brown v. Mississippi, students are exposed to police abuses and the need to prevent them. Of course, the importance of effective law enforcement is also highlighted, and the goals of law enforcement and the protections of the Constitution are not always in tension, but the course is very individual-rights centric.
I attempted, nonetheless, to be objective. I critiqued both majorities and dissents. I exposed vulnerable logic regardless of the outcome of the case. Students debated issues, and many took controversial positions. Often, a student's views on a particular case were refreshingly unpredictable. Yet, two of my former students bumped into me in town after class was over and grades were in. During our discussion of the class, they were able to pinpoint some of my views about criminal procedure.
I realized that, even if I try to keep my politics and my views about a particular case out of the classroom, my approach to the law will seep in, either deliberately or unconsciously. Moreover, isn't this what I'm being paid for? Students ostensibly felt free to express contrary views, so perhaps the fact that my own biases were more transparent than I realized wasn't as corrosive to the learning experience as I feared. Or perhaps I should try harder next time, and see how that goes.
I know blogs in the past have confronted the topic of how neutral professors should be, but I think these issues are particularly salient in criminal law and constitutional law, where policy is often incorporated into legal analysis and where philosophies of jurisprudence (the most abstract approach to the law), views about particular amendments, and personal politics (the crassest form of opinion about cases) are strongly held. I may decide on a balance where it's more acceptable to reveal my views about and approach to the law the more abstract they are. I'd love to hear any thoughts.


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Thanks for this battle report.
This long fight was pretty much intense, the amount of adrenaline boost was huge on this one.
Really nice experience.
Quickly summing up this one, we (ARISE) were trying to catch the dropped sov in NZW before AAA & friends could form up, but at this point we weren't able to hold anything since they brought something like 150-200 pilots.
They came in, destroyed our 3 TCUs, anchored their POS and TCU then left the system to EON pilots.
20:30 ET, We formed up a 60 pilots fleet and were able to get help from a RA fleet, wich jumped in with a few Carriers, at the very beginning of the fight (20:50 ET). Our goal was to take down their onlining TCU.
AAA & friends cynoed a total of ~130 (from two or three waves) while we showed up with RA a 100-110 pilots fleet : honestly kinda even.
I think we did well until both AAA Titans started to work on our BSs. Nicely done, we suffered a lot.
Then they jumped their SCs and we bailed out, leaving RA carriers behind us :/
Note that we did not manage to kill the TCU
Well done, interesting fight, no smack except the usual surrending french stuff: a pleasant evening for me ! Thanks to the friends and foes involved.


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As part of Valparaiso University's "Proud to Be Valpo" Day of Giving last week, the athletics department held the first-ever Athletics Alumni Challenge, and the response was tremendous, as 325 former Valpo student-athletes donated upwards of $41,000 to the athletics department. The football and men's tennis programs each won a $5,000 challenge grant, boasting the greatest number of alumni to make a gift and the highest percentage of alumni to make a gift, respectively.
"We are proud that so many of our athletics alumni made the choice to give back to Valparaiso University as part of the Day of Giving last week," said director of athletics Mark LaBarbera. "The response we got from alumni across all our teams truly demonstrates the impact that Valpo has had on their lives. The number of responses is a tremendous encouragement. We are thankful for all the donations as we continue to strive to produce quality student-athletes."
More than $26,000 in sport-specific giving, spread over every team that the Valparaiso athletic department sponsors, was raised out of the $41,000 in total donations. Football raised the greatest amount of money – just over $8,500 – while five other teams also raised at least $1,000 that day.
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Young scientist workshop: Multidisciplinary approaches to socio-cognitive development
Socio-cognitive development is investigated with very different methodologies and, consequently, from very different perspectives. These reach from observational approaches in natural or standardized settings and the comparison of behavior across different cultures or species to experimental and neuroscientific approaches, including the analysis of gaze behavior or neuroimaging. Students and experts often focus on one or a few approaches and possess only a rudimentary knowledge about alternative methodologies and their potential benefits in advancing the field. This workshop aims to bridge this epistemic gap between young researchers of different disciplines and to develop first ideas, how combined, multidisciplinary approaches may further our understanding of socio-cognitive development. In each of four thematically coherent sessions there will be an expert talk as well as different presentations by PhD students. Furthermore, there will be organized meetings between experts and students ("Meet the expert") and a panel discussion (e.g., "How could combined, multidisciplinary approaches advance our understanding of socio-cognitive development", further proposals welcome).
Date: Friday, October 28th – Saturday, October 29th, 2016.
Venue: University of Münster, Institute of Psychology.
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Call for papers: Interdisciplinary workshop on the development of body bnowledge in humans and machines.
19th September 2016, Cergy-Pontoise / Paris
held in the framework of ICDL-EPIROB 2016 conference:
Following the previous workshops on the development of body representations in humans and robots at ICDL-EPIROB, we have the pleasure to announce a forthcoming workshop in Cergy-Pontoise / Paris on the 19th September 2016
The aim of this workshop is to spark collaboration between roboticists and developmental psychologists in order to address the origins of the sensorimotor maps that underlie own body representations in both infants and robots. The development of infants' body knowledge is a primary object of discovery starting before birth. This construction ultimately enables the infant to efficiently interact with the environment. The specific goal of the organizers is to explore the possibility of developing robotic models inspired by the development of human infant body representations.
Presentations will consider body knowledge acquisition from sensorimotor, neural and computational perspectives. After the presentations, the discussion will aim at establishing an integrative framework for understanding a) the development of body knowledge in infants, b) the mechanisms that underlie body knowledge acquisition and c) how robots can be used to replicate developmental patterns and progressions that have been found in human infants. On the one hand such robots can become new modeling tools for empirical sciences – expanding the domain of computational modeling by anchoring it to the physical environment and a physical body. On the other hand, robot controllers endowed with multimodal whole-body awareness typical of humans should increase robots' autonomy.
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Electronics output decreased by 2.2% in 2015 and compared to the previous year's decline of 0.5% the on-going weakness in the US PC market combined with a sharp fall in mobile phone production for the second consecutive year which was partly offset by growth in LCD TV output. With similar trends expected to continue throughout 2016 electronics output is expected to show a further decline of 1.4% for the year as a whole. Computers, peripherals and parts accounted for 37% of production in 2015. After growth of 6.4% in 2014 weakness in the US and other export markets resulted in output declining by 1.5% in 2015 and by a further 1.5% in 2016. In the medium to longer-term developments in the Mexican electronics industry will continue to be influenced by the US, the country's main trading partner but also from growth in the domestic market. Production will remain focused on the 3C segment of computing, consumer (TVs) and communications although it is expected that industrial will increase its overall share of production it will remain under 10% of the total over the period to 2019.
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C. K. Williams was born in New Jersey in 1936 and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently teaching in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, and lives part of the year in Paris.
Mr. Williams' most recent volume of poetry, Repair (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 1987 Farrar, Straus and Giroux published Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1992 FSG published A Dream of Mind, and in 1996 The Vigil, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Mr. Williams is the author of four other volumes of poems: Lies (1969), I Am The Bitter Name (1972), With Ignorance (1977), and Tar (1983), which are collected in Poems: 1963–1983 (1988). In 1994 FSG published his Selected Poems, which includes three decades of his poetry, and Collected Poems was released in 2006, spanning his entire career. Mr. Williams is the author of three works in translation: Sophocles' Women of Trachis (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and The Bacchae of Euripides (1990).
Mr. Williams has received the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1989), a Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award (1992), the Harriet Monroe Prize from Poetry magazine (1993), the PEN/Voelker Career Achievement in Poetry Award (1998), the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin (1998), and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (1999). He has also received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Interested in the long-term investment opportunities that might arise from disruption? Watch these emerging trends in the coming decade, says Morgan Stanley Disruptive Change Researcher Stan DeLaney.
It's hard to think of an industry that won't be touched in some way by technological disruption over the next decade. That's why Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Growth Team has Stan DeLaney. As their Disruptive Change Researcher, DeLaney works with the portfolio managers to detect the big ideas and emerging trends with far-reaching implications for economies, industries and social behavior.
Whoever owns the data will own the technology because machine learning is only as good as the data that gets fed into it.
"Disruptive change is so pervasive that our team looks at all of our investments through a disruptive lens," says DeLaney. "Our disruptive analysis effort is really about supporting the Growth Team's strategy of long-term investing, finding companies with a sustainable competitive advantage, and making sure that we aren't holding companies that could be left behind."
Here are five big disruptive trends that DeLaney is currently working on, as well as the industries that could be affected and what he thinks investors should watch out for:
1. Machine Learning
"Machine learning has the potential to be one of the biggest disruptors over the next decade," says DeLaney. The transportation and medical industries are likely to be first in line for disruption, "If we think about what machine learning really is, it's pattern recognition. We might see radiology and scans detecting cancers earlier than they're detected today. And it's possible that in the future we can also use machine learning to scan for genes that might predispose us to certain kinds of diseases."
To keep abreast of the change ahead, investors should "follow the data," says DeLaney. "Whoever owns the data will own the technology because machine learning is only as good as the data that gets fed into it."
One of the biggest investment risks is regulation. "Industries that could be disrupted might seek new regulations and other protections against disruption. Investors should watch this especially in already regulated fields such as medicine and transportation."
2. Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous driving will be facilitated by the data-processing capabilities of machine learning, but its disruption capabilities are so widespread that Delaney considers it a separate category.
"With autonomous vehicles, we think that transportation can largely be converted to ride-sharing," says DeLaney. "Cars are typically the most expensive purchase after a home and are costly to maintain. With 90% of accidents caused by human error1, regulators and consumers are also expected to be interested in autonomous vehicles as a potentially safer alternative."
Other industries may be indirectly affected, says DeLaney. "On average, a commuter spends 55 minutes a day driving2, so that's time they get back. One of the things they are likely to do with all that time is to use mobile web services, which we think could be big beneficiaries."
Investors should also carefully watch what the incumbents in the car industry do. "Are they acknowledging this disruptor on the horizon? And what are they planning to do about it?" asks DeLaney. "Some have made strategic moves, but some have not." As with other disruptive changes, regulation will also play a role in determining where and how soon autonomous driving becomes a reality.
3. Augmented Reality
"This is an exciting technology that will likely have multiple applications," says DeLaney. "We can see this being useful in education and training because it basically overlays virtual images onto reality." Augmented Reality (AR) can simulate real-world scenarios. "That allows orientations or training to take place in a safe environment vs. a real-world environment that can be more dangerous. Surgeons will be able to practice complex procedures before operating on patients, for instance." AR might also have entertainment value, by enabling consumers to enjoy unique experiences like sitting on the field at a sporting event or traveling to exotic locations.
AR is in the early stages of development, so the full potential will unfold over time, says DeLaney.
4. Blockchain
In theory, Blockchain could disrupt any transaction that requires sharing a document or contract. Financial firms are most likely to see disruption because Blockchain's shared-ledger approach could dramatically affect the time, cost and complexity around how transactions are recorded and how custodial business is done, says DeLaney. Mistakes, such as instances where ownership claims have been made on more shares than a company has issued, will be relegated to the past. "That won't happen if blockchain software is developed and trade data is kept on one shared ledger, which is encrypted and updated in real time and openly available to participants in the transaction," says DeLaney.
He believes that the real-estate market could also benefit from Blockchain, especially in certain emerging markets where centralized record-keeping can be subpar. Investors should keep watch on regulations that might impact Blockchain's use. "Here, I think the big risk is institutional pushback. There are many people in organizations whose jobs can be eliminated with the adoption of Blockchain."
CRISPR is a new tool for genetic research that allows scientists to locate specific segments of DNA and then easily replace or delete them. "This could cause huge disruption to the way healthcare can be delivered today," says DeLaney. "It offers the ability to cure a disease at the genetic level. For investors, it has the potential to create new industries and disrupt existing medical treatments."
Investors should watch research and development in the healthcare industry. "The companies that are spending money on research and development, rather than concentrating on short-term return of capital, like share buybacks, are the ones to focus on," says DeLaney. He adds, however, that investing in biotechnology is difficult, even for professional portfolio managers. "Biotechnology is probably the riskiest of all disruptive technologies to invest in. These companies are usually early-stage companies, with no proven cash flow. It's also very difficult to know what to invest in, unless you have the expertise in a specific area of biology. Even then, it can be very tricky to anticipate which companies will receive Food & Drug Administration approval and a path to success."


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As part of its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday event this week—at which Microsoft unleashed a record 17 security fixes addressing 40 separate vulnerabilities—the software giant also announced that it will be backporting an Office 2010 security feature to Office 2007 and 2003. The feature, called Office File Validation, helps protects against binary file-format attacks using Office documents based on older document formats.
"First released in Office 2010, Office File Validation provides a check of file-format binary schema as each file is being read," a blog post by Microsoft Senior Response Communications Manager Carlene Chmaj reads. "If it detects an issue, it opens the file in Protected View. This helps prevent unknown binary file-format attacks using Microsoft Office 97-2003 file formats for Word, Excel, Publisher, and PowerPoint."
Hackers often target older versions of Microsoft Office document files because they're less secure than more modern Office document formats. So Microsoft built Office File Validation into Office 2010, providing protection against maliciously formatted legacy Office documents. Files that are found to contain suspicious code load in a new Protected View, in which the document can still be read but not edited. This view prevents suspicious code hidden in the document from running, Microsoft says, protecting the user from potential risk.
Microsoft says that it will ship a software update for users of the older Office 2007 and 2003 versions sometime in the first quarter of 2011, providing them with the same Office File Protection functionality. Like the current version, it will work with Office document formats like .doc, .xls, .ppt and .pub files; Microsoft replaced these legacy formats with newer, XML-based document formats in 2007.


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TARZANA – A dramatic, nearly 10-hour standoff between the Los Angeles SWAT team and a gunman who shot and wounded a woman in a domestic dispute ended Sunday afternoon when the barricaded suspect surrendered.
The 39-year-old man, whose name was not released, barricaded himself around 4 a.m. inside one of the 115-unit condominium complex in the 18500 block of Hatteras Street in Tarzana after firing five shots at officers during a standoff that began just before dawn.
The victim, described by police as a white female in her 40s, was believed to have been the gunman's wife or girlfriend. She remained hospitalized late Sunday in critical but stable condition from multiple gunshot wounds.
The man was taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder, police said.
No officers were hit by the gunman's shots.
Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese, the San Fernando Valley's commanding officer, said police who negotiated the surrender were aided by relatives of the gunman.
"The (suspect's) family contributed immensely," Albanese said. "Despite the tremendous expertise of our people, it is amazing what will turn the key sometimes, so we are very appreciative.
"We use any tool in the toolbox to get it done. The last thing we want to use is force."
The early morning shooting led to street closures and the evacuation of hundreds of residents from that complex and nearby condominiums, with dozens of those evacuees milling for hours beyond police lines – some still in pajamas and robes.
"I think every cop in Los Angeles is here today," said Carla Sharpe, a resident of a condominium across from the suspect who spent her 62nd birthday Sunday stranded on a nearby corner as SWAT officers descended on the area.
Sharpe and her son Eric chose to remain in their neighborhood while many other residents crowded into buses to be transported to an evacuation facility at Birmingham High School in Lake Balboa.
"My friends were going to take me to a birthday brunch in Malibu," she said, "but I can't do that if I can't get back into my home. I didn't even have a chance to put a brush through my hair. Some birthday."
Several residents of nearby condos said they were awakened around 4 a.m. by the sound of gunshots and kept awake by the noise from police choppers that began flying overhead soon afterward.
By noon, patience was wearing thin and frustration high on some of those residents waiting out the standoff from nearby streets.
Police said they will hold a community meeting in the coming days to explain to residents what happened and why the widespread evacuation was necessary.
At least one fender-bender involving those residents took place, while others wondered why officials had not dispatched the SWAT team earlier or fired tear gas into the unit where the suspect barricaded himself.
"I think it has to be what happened in the Randal Simmons thing," said a resident who would only identify himself as Ricardo.
Simmons became the first SWAT member of the LAPD killed in the line of duty in the Feb. 7, 2008 entrance into a home in Winnetka by a man who had already shot and killed his father and two brothers.
LAPD spokeswoman Karen Rayner said the gunman's surrender came after hours of negotiations between police negotiators and the suspect.
Rayner said it is LAPD policy to see if a situation like Sunday's can be resolved peacefully.
"We feel that time is always on our side," said Rayner, "and if we can wait it out, it's always best … to err on the side of caution."
Police also said Sunday that they were exploring the use of tear gas and other tactics just before the suspect surrendered.


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Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer shows making of live-action "Defy" film
Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag publisher Ubisoft has released a trailer that goes behind the scenes of the game's live-action clip 'Defy'. It shows sets being built and developers lending their insight into the production.
If you missed the 'Defy' clip, you can watch it again here.
What do you think?


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All the videos with the tag Talking While Cuckolding.
Hearing your partner moan with pleasure or tell you that they are really enjoying can be a big signal that you are doing the right thing and can give both more encouragement going forward to be a bit more daring or adventurous.
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Houghton College student Julian Cook '13 performed in the professional Cedar Rapids Opera production of "The Merry Widow" this past January in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The show, based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, presented two performances on January 13th and 15th and was broadcast live on Iowa Public Radio. Cook played the role of Kromov, a military councilor from the fictitious land of Pontevedro.
As a music major with a vocal emphasis, Cook was thrilled to have the opportunity to perform with and learn from the opera's many professional and talented singers, including the show's stars, Austin Kness (of the San Francisco Opera) and Laura Pederson.
"It was one of the most exhilarating artistic experiences I've ever had," said Cook. "It was a total experience – educational while being intensely motivational."
Cook auditioned for and was accepted into the Cedar Rapids Opera Young Artists Program while he was home in Chicago, Ill. last October. It was through that program that he was chosen to play the role of Kromov. Rehearsals for the opera began on December 27, 2011 and continued until the show's closing.
His performance in "The Merry Widow" was a first step for Julian in his plan to make a career in opera music. He is thankful for his time at Houghton College and for the faculty of Greatbatch School of Music "for preparing me for such a role and such an experience."


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The Yellow-Tailed Scorpion (Euscorpius flavicaudis) has managed to set up at least one thriving colony in an isolated area of England Despite the generally cool and mild climate here in the UK . These scorpions have occasionally been found at several coastal towns across the south of England over the years but the best known and most successful site is on the Isle of Sheppy in Kent where the dock-land town of Sheerness. This Yellow-Tailed Scorpion population has an estimated size of up to 10-15,000 specimens! This population was the first ever recorded in the UK way back in the 1860's. The Yellow Tailed Scorpion has been living in the south-facing walls, rock crevices, abandoned buildings and railway sleepers of these docks for well over 150 years now. It is widely accepted that they originally found there way into the UK accidentally amid shipments of Italian masonry.
Although the majority of the Sheerness scorpions live within the relative safety of the private docks some can be found on the South-facing wall that surrounds the docks. Other reported possible sightings of these scorpions have come from Harwich docks, Pinner, Tilbury docks, Portsmouth docks and Southampton docks as well as Ongar Underground Station but none have populations as long established and successful as Sheerness. The scorpion population at Ongar Underground Station was featured in a report by the BBC back in the 1970's but this is now reported to have been a hoax orchestrated by the station foreman who deliberately released scorpions bought from a local pet shop.
During the day these scorpions can be almost impossible to find as they hide themselves away in the smallest of gaps and cracks in the rocks and bricks that they make their home.
The Yellow-Tailed Scorpion is fairly small reaching sizes of around two inches in length (including tail and claws) but they are often smaller. It has large pincers for its size and a small stinging tail. This tail can only deliver a very mild sting to a human. The Yellow-Tailed Scorpion is usually very reluctant to use its sting and the effect is said to be comparable to that of a mild bee sting at worse and usually poses no threat to healthy adults although medical advice should be sought if you feel unwell following a sting. I have handled several of these scorpions with bare hands and have never experienced any signs of aggressive or defensive behaviour from any of them.
These scorpions hide themselves away for most of their lives becoming active only to feed and breed usually on warm evenings although I have seen them active in February in small numbers. They feed on insects and spiders that come within range but because of their incredibly slow metabolism it is thought that they may only need to feed as few as 4-5 times a year during the summer months.
Scorpions are easiest to find at night once it is dark. Under a UV lamp scorpions glow bright turquoise and can easily be spotted hiding in rock crevices. It is not understood exactly how scorpions could benefit from glowing under UV light but it is known that the fluorescence is caused by the accumulation of a chemical called beta-carboline in the exoskeleton, which glows under UV light. One theory is that this florescence may help to shield scorpions from harmful UV rays emitted by the sun by converting UV light into harmless visible light. Another possible theory is that this emitted glow from UV light could attract moths and other insects that scorpions prey upon.
As scorpions grow they periodically shed their hard exoskeleton in one complete shell. The few hours following a shed of the old exoskeleton is quite a dangerous time for the scorpion until the new soft shell hardens up. The old discarded shell still glows under UV light however the new shell will not glow immediately but the fluorescence slowly returns as the scorpion ages.
Scorpions are not insects. They have eight walking legs and are classed along with spiders in the Arachnida class. They are very basic creatures and early fossil records show that scorpions have been walking on the earth for over 400 million years!
Despite the dangerous reputation that scorpions have due to their venomous sting out of the 1000+ species of scorpion across the world it is thought that only about 25-40 of these species pose a serious threat to humans if stung.
Yellow-Tailed Scorpions are not generally a communal species and cannibalism can occur if keeping more than one of these scorpions in the same enclosure. Following mating the gestation period of the female scorpion is between 10 and 14 months depending on the temperature and the quantity and quality of food available. The female then gives birth to live scorplings ranging from 4-30 individuals that are born soft and white.
Scorpions have a very basic digestive system. All prey is caught using the powerful pincers and then brought to the jaws where it is effectively chopped into very fine particles and reduced to liquid form that can be sucked up into the mouth of the scorpion. As with snakes the venom of the scorpion not only stuns or kills its prey but also aids with the digestion process.
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ALLENDALE, MI – Brian Kelly isn't the only Notre Dame coach with ties to Grand Valley State.
When the Irish face Alabama tonight for the BCS National Championship, there will be four others besides Kelly with Laker roots.
No. 1, of course, is Kelly, who coached at Grand Valley for 13 seasons and posted a 118-35-2 record, three consecutive national NCAA Division II national championship appearances and back-to-back titles in 2002 and '03.
After later stints at Central Michigan and Cincinnati, Kelly took over at Notre Dame in 2010, where he succeeded Charlie Weis. Now 51,
Kelly will coach No. 1-ranked Notre Dame against Alabama in Monday's BCS National Championship game, with the Irish seeking their first national title since 1988.
Brian Kelly memories: GVSU director looks back on the making of champions
Read the national stories about Kelly, his early years at GVSU and his legacy at Notre Dame
Here are four other coaches to note, as collected by Grand Valley State:
Chuck Martin, offensive coordinator
Martin took over at GVSU when Brian Kelly moved on to Central Michigan, and is now the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Notre Dame. In six years as the head coach at GVSU (2004-09), Martin led the program to three national championship game appearances (2005, '06, '09) and two national championships in 2005 and 2006. During his tenure, GVSU also won an Division II record 40 consecutive games.
Related: Chicago Sun-Times story on how Martin simplified the Irish offense
Mike Denbrock, outside receivers, passing game coordinator
Denbrock played for the Lakers in 1984-85 and was a graduate assistant with Kelly in 1987. After coaching stints at Michigan State and Illinois State, he returned to GVSU and joined Kelly's staff from 1992-98. While at Grand Valley, Denbrock moved up from wide receivers and quarterbacks to offensive coordinator.
Bill Brechin, offensive graduate assistant
Brechin started at cornerback during GVSU's back-to-back title runs under Chuck Martin. After he finished his playing career, Brechin became a graduate assistant at GVSU for two years before joining Notre Dame's coaching staff.
Pat Welsh (offensive graduate assistant)
Welsh joined Chuck Martin's coaching staff at GVSU in 2008 as a student assistant. After graduating from Grand Valley, Welsh became a graduate assistant for Matt Mitchell in 2010. He then joined Notre Dame in the spring of 2012.


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The Heritage at Loretto is the first residential program in Central New York created especially to care for those with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. Located on the main Loretto campus, this historical building was built in 1926 it was the home to the original Loretto Rest nursing home.
Operating since 1992, The Heritage has the experience, the knowledge, and most importantly the commitment to provide the quality of care and safety you want for your family member or loved one. Particular attention is give to the safety, security, and emotional needs of our residents and their families.
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It is time to start valuing maternity care for the women worst affected.
Rosalind Bragg is the director of Maternity Action
The Royal College of Midwives' e-petition calling for 5 000 more midwives has put the resourcing of maternity services on the Government's agenda.
At the time of writing, over 70 000 people had signed up. That is a phenomenal expression of concern.
While the baby boom is one factor driving the call for more midwives, the harsh impact of the recession and austerity policies is also playing a role.
There is little argument that women dealing with poverty, domestic violence and other forms of disadvantage face worse maternal health outcomes than other women. In 2006-8, 12% of all maternal deaths were to women who experienced domestic abuse.
The maternal death rate for women whose husbands or partners were not employed was six times higher than those whose husbands or partners were in employment.
The experiences of vulnerable migrants rate a particular mention in the triennial reviews of maternal deaths. Black women have maternal mortality rates three times higher than White women.
In 2003-5, asylum seeking women made up 12% of all women who died during pregnancy and maternity despite comprising less than 0.5% of the population.
All the evidence demonstrates that the number of women with complex social needs is increasing. Unemployment has reached 2.61 million. Housing costs remain unaffordable in London and across the UK, at the same time as Housing Assistance payments have been capped.
There are indications that pregnancy discrimination has increased since the economic downturn, forcing many women out of the workforce.
Cutting the Health in Pregnancy Grant and restricting the Sure Start Maternity Grant to first babies has left low income women with less in their pockets. More restrictive benefit entitlements and a harsh sanctions regime have placed many families in unexpected financial difficulties.
Providing maternity care to women with complex social needs requires time and expertise. To refer women on, midwives need to be informed about the services which are available in their area. Midwives need the time and space to provide letters of support, liaise with services, and attend meetings.
• The government's Family Planning Summit must aim higher 10 Jul 2012
And above all, midwives need time to sit down with a woman and provide her with sensitive care and support. This can't be done in the space of standard antenatal appointment.
Austerity policies have increased the pressure on midwives. At the same time as needs have grown, cuts to services have resulted in many key agencies closing down or reducing services. Advice agencies have lost an estimated 100 million per year.
Services supporting migrants and asylum seekers have been cut. The Refugee Council , for example, lost 60% of its funding. Funding for violence against women services has fallen by more than 30%. In the absence of expert support, it is left to the midwife to help the woman resolve her situation.
Surprisingly, women with complex social needs rate very little attention in the recently released commissioning guidance on maternity. As a key document to inform commissioners in the new NHS structures, this is a worrying omission. Commissioners need to be aware that standard antenatal appointments aren't sufficient to meet the needs of this group of women. Attempting to shoe-horn these women into this service model is likely to result in poor care for these women as well as impacting on the time available for other women.
The marginalisation of these women is reflected in maternity service restructures. Maternity services are under financial pressures as the NHS seeks to produce 20 billion in 'efficiency savings' within four years. Maternity Action is aware of maternity services which have sought to reduce costs by cutting senior posts supporting high needs women.
In the laissez faire world of local commissioning, there is a risk that this form of cost cutting will become more widespread. The impact of these decisions will become visible in declining health outcomes, but it will be some years before this is evident.
While there is no question that committed midwives will do their best whatever the environment they are working in, the resources need to be in place to ensure that midwives can provide high quality care to the growing number of women who need additional support.
If the NHS is serious about supporting women with complex social needs, then we need to see more midwives in post across the NHS. We need senior midwives with specialist knowledge and sufficient time to sort out problems as they arise. We also need training for all midwives to give them the skills and knowledge to provide the best possible care to the growing number of women who need more help.
With the decade of pain barely begun, it is time to start valuing maternity care for the women worst affected.
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Dame Sybil Thorndyke, along with Erno Goldfinger himself. Yesterday all the children, plus the Mayor of Hammersmith & Fulham - Cllr Frances Stainton, Cllr Helen Binmore and invited guests assembled in the hall to watch an informative and entertaining film, made especially for the children by school governor Andrew Meeson, of twentieth century historian Alan Powers telling us the story of the Greenside mural and the architecture of the school. The school earns the star on its listing because of this exceptional mural by Gordon Cullen, influential artist and architectural illustrator, famed for his book The Concise Townscape.
Gordon Cullen Mural in the context of the Erno Goldfinger building to the benefit of the whole school community and enrich the Learning Environment." Or, you might say, simply to love it again. They have kicked off a campaign to raise funds to renovate the mural that is showing signs of 60 years of wear and tear.
Queen of Hearts, who we met through the Askew Business Network.
James Russell on Tuesday, 24th April in the school hall. There will also be an opportunity to see the film made for the children and to view the mural.


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Alec Baldwin's Donald Trump Talks Firing James Comey in 'SNL' Cold Open - Watch Now! (Video)
Alec Baldwin is back as President Donald Trump in tonight's Saturday Night Live cold open!
The 59-year-old actor mocked Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey earlier this week.
In the clip, Alec's Trump sits down for an interview with NBC news anchor Lester Holt – portrayed by SNL's Michael Che – and admits that he fired James due to his investigation into Trump's ties with Russia.
"And you're just admitting that?" Michael's Che asks. "But that's obstruction of justice."
"Wait, so did i get him?" he says into his headpiece. "Is this all over? No, I didn't? Nothing matters? Absolutely nothing matters anymore?"
In real life, Trump claimed the termination was due to how James dealt with the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Trump has also praised James for how he handled the same investigation in the past.
Watch the hilarious video below!
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London: Blackburn Rovers said it was the lure of the Champions League that sealed the transfer of teenage defender Phil Jones to Premier League champions Manchester United.
United announced that they had agreed terms with Rovers for Jones, with the 19-year-old due to sign a five-year contract upon his return from the ongoing European Under-21 Championship in Denmark.
United thought Jones was heading to Old Trafford last week, only for old foes Liverpool to intervene with a reported £20 million (USD 33 million) offer.
However, Jones is understood to have told Rovers he only wanted to move to United and that has left Blackburn having to accept an offer believed to be in the region of £16.5 million (USD 27 million).
"Much as we would love him to stay on with us -- and we made all efforts to convince him to stay -- Phil has to finally follow his heart," said a statement on behalf of Venky`s, the Indian-based poultry firm that owns Rovers.
Blackburn manager Steve Kean said Rovers were prepared to make Jones the highest-paid player in the club`s history but the prospect of playing in the Champions League meant that there was little they could do to prevent the defender making the short journey across Lancashire to Old Trafford.
"The offer we made him was staggering for a 19-year-old, but it wasn`t the money," Kean told reporters. "Phil wants to play Champions League football now and we`re not at that level."
"I`m sure we will be in the coming years, and we gave it a real good try and made him a fantastic offer, but I understand why he wants to go now."
"He goes with our blessing and it`s an opportunity for us to invest in other young players across other areas of the pitch."
"We were hoping he was going to be captain of our club and captain of England, he`s a fantastic prospect and I`m sure he`ll be an England regular very soon," Kean added.
A United statement issued earlier on Monday said: "Manchester United is delighted to announce it has signed an agreement with Blackburn Rovers for the transfer of Phil Jones.
"The player passed a medical in Manchester last week and has agreed a five-year contract."
"The deal will be completed once the player returns from international duty."
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is looking to rebuild the team following their defeat by Barcelona in this season`s Champions League final and the retirement of such stalwarts as ex-England duo Gary Neville and Paul Scholes.
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TEL AVIV, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Israel Discount Bank reported a 66 percent rise in third quarter net profit on Wednesday, boosted by bond sales, higher commissions and lower expenses.
Israel's fourth-largest bank by assets said it had a net profit of 313 million shekels, up from 188 million a year earlier.
It had been forecast to earn 251 million shekels, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Net interest income rose 1.7 percent to 1.207 billion shekels, while operating expenses dipped 4.1 percent. The bank had credit loss expenses of 187 million shekels, compared with 141 million a year earlier.
The bank's tier 1 capital adequacy ratio, which measures equity capital as a percentage of total risk-weighted assets, was steady at 9.8 percent. (Reporting by Tova Cohen, Editing by Ari Rabinovitch)