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Special educational needs (SEN), also known as special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the United Kingdom refers to the education of children with disabilities.
The definition of SEN is set out in the Education Act 1996 [1] and was amended in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Bill of 2001.[2] Currently, a child or young person is considered to have SEN if they have a disability or learning difficulty that means they need special educational provision. Special educational provision means that the child needs support that would not generally be provided to a child of the same age in a mainstream school.[3]
Some examples of SEN include:[4][5]
- A condition which affects behaviour or social skills, such as ADHD or autism
- A condition that affects the ability to read and write, such as dyslexia or another specific learning difficulty
- A condition which affects the ability to learn, such as a learning disability
- A physical impairment, including a visual impairment, hearing impairment, a chronic health condition or poor mobility.
Support available
There are numerous types of support available depending on the child or young person's disability. Some support offered includes:[4]
- Following a different learning programme from the rest of the class
- Extra help from a teaching assistant or the class teacher
- Extra supervision in the classroom or at break time
- Working in a smaller group
- Support to communicate with other pupils
- Help with personal care (such as eating or using the toilet)
- Encouragement to complete tasks the pupil struggles with
Public examinations
Some support available for children with SEN include:[6]
- Extra time to complete the examination
- Rest breaks
- Alternative formats for exam papers
- Use of a reader
- Use of a scribe
- Use of a live speaker for exams that include audio recordings
- Use of a prompter
- Use of a communication professional (a person who can translate questions into British Sign Language or International Sign Language)
- Use of a practical assistant
- Use of a word processor
- Completing the examination in a separate room or venue from other candidates at the school
- Exemption from certain parts of the qualification.
SEN legal regulations
The SEN systems vary in each nation of the United Kingdom.
England and Wales
The current regulations for SEN are set out in the Children and Families Act 2014.[7][3]Different levels of support are given to children depending on how much support is required. Most children with SEN are given school-level support, known as SEN support.[8] An Education, Health and Care plan (EHC) is given to children and young people who are considered to have complex needs. They can be used for children and young people aged 2-25.[9][10] Children and young people with an EHC plan are entitled to a personal budget.[10] Every school must have a Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator (SENCO), who is responsible for overseeing the support of pupils with SEN.[10] Children with SEN in the UK can attend mainstream or special schools, but legally, local authorities are obliged to educate children in mainstream schools where possible.[3] If a family feels that their child is not receiving sufficient support, they may take their local authority to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal to appeal any decisions the local authority have made on a child's support.[7][3]
In Scotland, the term additional support needs is used instead of SEN. As well as children with disabilities, this also encompasses children who may need support for reasons other than disability, such as children who are being bullied or who are in foster care.[11] The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 redefined the law relating to the provision of special education to children with additional needs by establishing a framework for the policies of inclusion and generally practicing the "presumption of mainstreaming" in education.[12] Children with complex needs who require support from external organisations are given a co-ordinated support plan.[13] Families who are not satisfied with the support given are entitled to take the education authority Additional Support Needs for Scotland Tribunal.[12][13]
Northern Ireland
Regulations for SEN in Northern Ireland are currently governed by the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016.[14] In Northern Ireland, there are five stages of SEN support.[15] Stages 1 to 3 are known as school-based stages. Stage 1 is when concerns are first raised about a child having SEN, and support is given within the classroom, such as differentiated work or different teaching strategies.[15] If the child's difficulties improve at this stage, the child is no longer classed as having SEN.[15] However, if they do not improve, the child will be moved to stage 2.[15] At stage 2, advice from the child's GP or the school doctor is sought and an education plan is drawn up by the SENCO, which describes the difficulties the child has and the support they need.[15] If the child does not make good progress at stage 2, they move on to stage 3. At stage 3, external specialists, such as educational psychologists are involved in the child's support.[15] If a child does not make progress while on stage 3, they are referred to stage 4. Stage 4 is also known as Statutory Assessment.[15] Children who have very significant disabilities are referred straight to Statutory Assessment without having to go through the school-based stages.[15] Stage 5 is when a SEN statement is issued. The SEN statement sets out the child's difficulties and the support they require, as well as which school the child should attend (this can be a mainstream or special school).[15]
Local authorities became responsible for the education of Deaf children and blind children in 1893. The education of children with disabilities became mandatory in the Education Act 1918. The prevailing attitude at the time was that disabled children should be sent to residential schools rather than attending mainstream schools.[16] The 1944 Education Act created provision for children with disabilities to receive "special educational treatment" in special schools.[17] Children were required to have a medical assessment to be eligible for this.[18] Some children were classified as ineducatable, and were not required to attend school.[19] The 1970 Education (Handicapped Children) Act removed ineducatable category, which allowed all disabled children to receive an education.[19][20] SEN statements were introduced in 1978 and parents of children with disabilities were given the right to appeal decisions made by local authorities about decisions on their child's education [17] The 1981 Education Act stated that children should be taught in mainstream schools whenever possible.[19] The 1993 Education Act set out guidelines for identifying pupils with SEN and assessing their needs.[17] The 2001 Special Educational Needs and Disability Act outlawed discrimination against disabled pupils in schools, colleges and other education settings.[17] [19] It also introduced the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.[17]
Prior to the Children and Families Act 2014, there were three levels of support in England and Wales:
- school action- for pupils with relatively low-level needs who can be supported with additional support provided within school, such as the use of specialist teaching materials in lessons.[21]
- school action plus- for pupils who need additional support from an external support service. For example, a speech and language therapist or an educational psychologist.[21]
- SEN statement-for pupils with more complex needs.[22]
In the English law case of Skipper v Calderdale Metropolitan Borough School (2006) EWCA Civ 238, the Court of Appeal allowed the appellant could claim against her former school for failing to diagnose and treat her Dyslexia.[23]
There have been criticisms that not enough funding is allocated by central government to schools for children with SEND. According to the Local Government Association, there is a shortfall of £536 million in local authority education budgets for educating children and young people with SEN. Anntoinette Bramble of the Local Government Association said, "We face a looming crisis in meeting the unprecedented rise in demand for support from children with special educational needs and disabilities. Parents rightly expect and aspire to see that their child has the best possible education and receives the best possible support. Councils have pulled out all the stops to try and do this but are reaching the point where the money is simply not there to keep up with demand." General education spending is also severely stretched making it hard for councils or schools to fund SEND provision out of the general education budget.[24]
Exclusions and off-rolling
Children with SEN are much more likely to be formally excluded from school or off-rolled.[25] Off-rolling is where a pupil is removed from a school's register, often shortly before GCSEs are due to be taken, which can cause the child's education to be discontinued.[26] There have been claims that children with SEN who are unlikely to achieve the national target of five GCSEs at grades 4 to 9 are being excluded or off-rolled to raise a school's position in league tables. Anne Longfield, the children's commissioner, said "I have become more and more convinced that some schools are seeking to improve their overall exam results by removing vulnerable children from the school roll...sadly this can include children with Send, who have no option but to go into inappropriate alternative provision or home education."[25]
There have been claims that affluent families will push for their child to be identified as having SEN so that the child can access additional support when the child may not genuinely have any disability. The number of children identified as having SEN has increased. Figures published in 2009 showed that 17.8% of pupils in English schools have SEN an increase from 14.9% in 2005, leading to claims that schools are labelling too many children as having SEN.[27]Lorraine Petersen, the former chief executive of the National Association of Special Educational Needs, has said "they [parents] feel a label will give the child and perhaps the family additional support that they may not get without it; access to benefits, for instance, or support with exams or a place in a specialist setting."[28] In other cases, schools have been accused of identifying non-disabled children as having SEN to hide poor teaching standards.[29]
Conversely, some people argue that there is a problem with children with disabilities not being identified as needing additional support. This is said to be especially difficult for low-income families, who may not be able to afford private diagnostic assessments for conditions such as dyslexia. Bernadette John, the SEN director of The Good Schools Guide, says: "There's a good reason why middle-class parents are better able to get a special needs diagnosis for their child: cash. There is a dire shortage of educational psychologists in local authorities, and children can expect a wait of at least a year to see one for a diagnosis."[30]
See also
- Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (UK)
- Disabled Student's Allowance for university students with a disability
- Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004
- Inclusion (disability rights)
- Learning disabilities in special education
- Learning theory (education)
- Qualified specialist dyslexia teachers
- Special education
- Teaching and Learning Research Programme
- ^ Education Act 1996 1996 Chapter 56
- ^ Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 2001 Chapter 10
- ^ a b c d "The Children and Families Act 2014 Part 3: Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities A briefing from the Council for Disabled Children" (PDF). councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk. National Children's Bureau. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)". GOV.UK. Government Digital Services. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ David Imrie, "Supporting students with dyslexia: tips, tricks and tech for teachers," The Guardian, 9 September 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2018 from https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/sep/09/supporting-students-with-dyslexia-teachers-tips-pupils
- ^ Adjustments for candidates with disabilities and learning difficulties Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments. Joint Council for Qualifications. 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Children and Families Act 2014". www.legislation.gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ Silas, Douglas. "SEN Code of Practice: one year on - SEN Magazine". senmagazine.co.uk. SEN Magazine. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "Children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)". GOV.UK. Government Digital Services. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b c "Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years" (PDF). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. UK Government. January 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "What is the provision for children with special needs?". BBC News. BBC. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004". www.legislation.gov.uk. UKGovernment. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ a b "Additional support for learning: statutory guidance 2017 - gov.scot". www.gov.scot. Scottish Government. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016". www.legislation.gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Code of Practice on the Identification and Assessment Identification and Assessment of Special Educational Needs of Special Education" (PDF). www.education-ni.gov.uk. Department of Education for Northern Ireland. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ "The Right to Education - the Growth of the 'Special' School for Children with Disabilities | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d e "A history of special needs | Tes News". www.tes.com. Tes Global Ltd. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Education Act 1944". www.legislation.gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Timeline of learning disability history | Social History of Learning Disability". www.open.ac.uk. The Open University. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Education (Handicapped Children) Act 1970". www.legislation.gov.uk. UK Government. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ a b Roberts, Amelia. "Farewell to School Action - SEN Magazine". senmagazine.co.uk. SEN Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "BBC - Schools Parents - What is a statement of special needs?". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Law reports | News". Law Society Gazette. The Law Society. 31 March 2006. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- ^ Councils face £536m shortfall in Send budgets, says LGA The Guardian
- ^ a b Weale, Sally; McIntyre, Niamh (23 October 2018). "Thousands of children with special needs excluded from schools". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ correspondent, Sally Weale education (26 June 2018). "300 schools picked out in GCSE 'off-rolling' investigation". The Guardian. The Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Price, Rosa (22 July 2010). "Sharp rise in number of special needs pupils". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Vaughan, Richard (24 February 2017). "Pushy parents 'fueling special needs misdiagnoses in pupils'". inews.co.uk. JPIMedia Ltd. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ Paton, Graeme (14 September 2010). "Ofsted: schools exaggerating special needs to hide poor teaching". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "The poorest struggle most to get an SEN diagnosis | Letters". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 16 December 2018.


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"The Journey" is Living Springs' commitment to read a chapter of the Bible every day. We all follow the same reading schedule so that we can encourage each other along the way. And our pastors post occasional blogs about the readings to instruct and inspire us.
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Micah 5
Who is the ruler that will come out of Bethlehem? How long has he existed? What will he do with His flock?
Micah 6
What does God ask the people to remember? What does God want from us more than any sacrifices we could give Him?
Micah 7
How does God plead our case?
Nahum 1
Who did Nahum prophesy against?
Nahum 2
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Nahum 3
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How to Repair a Broken Co-Founder Relationship
Last November, on the day in which everything almost fell apart (again), Joshua Wenner woke up excited. It was a characteristically beautiful morning in southern California; the sun beat cheerily down on as he drove through the winding roads of Pacific Palisades, lined with gated, landscaped estates owned by celebrities and the merely uber wealthy.
He pulled into the driveway of a one-story ranch style house, ready for the day ahead. Wenner and his business and creative partner Chris Hillman were more than two years deep into a passion project, a documentary about grief. While the film featured interviews with a variety of experts, its beating heart was Wenner and Hillman's personal experience with the emotion. Both had lost a brother to a heroin overdose; Wenner's younger brother passed away in 2007, Hillman's older brother in 2009.
The house belonged to Richard, Hillman's father, who had agreed to be interviewed about his son's death. The interview itself went well—Richard spoke eloquently and movingly. Afterwards, Hillman, Wenner, and a cameraman shot some B-roll. Wenner suggested that Hillman get in the frame, so they had footage of him with his dad. Hillman didn't like the idea. The two men butted heads, with Wenner quickly standing down. By the end of the day, the minor disagreement was forgotten.
Or so Wenner thought, until he received an angry voicemail from Hillman, who clearly hadn't forgotten anything and angrily ran through litany of complaints: the unprofessionalism of the shoot, errors made by the cameraman, Wenner's inability to set a schedule and cede artistic control, and other ways "I had fucked everything up," Wenner says.
In response, "I shut down. I let it ruin my whole day." He eventually called Hillman back, and they got into a shouting match. Wenner hung up.
They didn't speak for weeks. The documentary they'd poured hundreds of hours of work into, not to mention painful memories and emotions, hung in the balance. Both men wondered if this was how their partnership and passion project was going to end.
It wasn't the first time they'd reached a breaking point.
Disagreements between business partners are so common they're a trope. Think of a famous startup, and chances are good its co-founders have fought, one very likely pushing out the other for good. (See: Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, SoulCycle, Tesla, among many others.)
While high-profile startup blow ups get the most attention—unsurprising, as millions, sometimes billions of dollars are at stake—any company or business partnership where two people are building something they care about is at risk of implosion if the relationship isn't built on a strong foundation, says Howard Scott Warshaw, a Silicon Valley-based therapist who focuses on relationship counseling between spouses as well as co-founders.
This is true even for people who have known and liked each other for years before going into business, as was the case for Wenner and Hillman who met at conference in 2007 and kept in close contact before they started filming.
A friendship and a co-founder relationship are distinct, says Warshaw. He likens starting a company or artistic project to having a baby, in that it's an exercise in self-discovery: "No matter who you've been up until that that point there are new parts of you that will emerge, that you and your partner have never seen before."
This uncertainty—the feeling that you don't really know the other person—is disquieting, particularly when it seems every wrong decision has the power to threaten the survival of the project. When the stakes are this high even minor disagreements can feel like a referendum, a dynamic that can pit co-founders against one another.
Wenner and Hillman were at an impasse. It wasn't just the Pacific Palisades shoot. Leading up to the voicemail incident, they'd had a number of disagreements and weathered a series of escalating arguments. A permanent rift seemed likely.
Both men couldn't believe they'd gotten to this point.
In the project's heady early days, Wenner (who lives in NYC) and Hillman (LA) were in constant communication, excitedly running ideas by one another via texts, calls, and emails. "Sometimes we would talk for hours, just kind of, you know, feeding the the fire," Hilman says. The documentary was a relief to both of them; having a partner lessened the fear of approaching a subject they had both been circling, alone, for a long time. Within a few months, they hired a crew and met in LA to begin filming. Progress was periodic. Over the next couple years, they would meet up for one to two weeks to film, slowly converting their ideas into footage.
At first, these meetings were largely conflict-free. From the outset, their roles were clearly defined: Hillman was responsible for nailing the artistic details. Wenner was the "big picture" guy; outgoing and friendly to Hillman's sometimes prickly personality, he was also responsible for recruiting outside collaborators and experts.
What's more, the two men had a strong mutual respect, borne of a shared loss and the understanding that came with it. For very long time, the importance of the work they were attempting—to help viewers work through their own grief by examining their own—kept disagreements from derailing forward progress. "Because of the emotionality of what we were pursuing was so deep, we had a jail get out of free card," Hillman says. "Our vision and mission was so intense that I think we got away with certain aspects of our respective behaviors."
But problems, instead of being talked out and resolved, were simply papered over. As the project dragged, tensions grew more frequent and harder to ignore.
Both began to recognize unsavory traits in one another that they had only seen in flashes. Hillman's temper grated on Wenner: "He would get mad and yell and scream. Little things would set him off, and he would get mad at himself and take it out on me."
Meanwhile, Wenner's penchant for stewing rather than addressing problems frustrated Hillman, as did his tendency to view neutral comments as attacks. Before they began filming, "I had only experienced him as this warm engaging person who puts himself out there," says Hillman. Wenner's defensiveness and fear of direct conflict "made me start to doubt him a little bit."
These issues first came to a head a few months before the Pacific Palisades shoot when Wenner forwarded Hillman an email, in which a prominent researcher on grief who initially seemed interested in participating declined to be interviewed. Hillman responded by asking questions about how Wenner had approached the researcher, which Wenner read as criticisms. He responded with angry defensiveness. Hillman, who was traveling at the time, dramatically escalated the situation, responding with a curt, emailed: "Fuck you bro."
They eventually smoothed things over without talking through any of the underlying issues. For Warshaw, that's a red flag. "Founders who can't communicate well and form a good bound — that can guarantee failure," he says. When a shared history is fraught enough and there is no system in place to address conflict, seemingly minor misunderstandings are capable of reopening old, nasty wounds.
"It's often not really about what's happening in the moment, but the weight of accumulated resentment," Warshaw says. "What people tend not to do is take responsibility for the resentments they created by miscommunicating in the first place."
Miraculously after the voicemail incident, Wenner and Hillman were able to do exactly that. After a week, Hillman extended an olive branch. The gap between the actual issue at hand and their response to it scared them both enough to take action. The film was too important for them to continue on like this.
And so each combed through past conflicts with a critical eye to his own behavior, uncovering unsettling truths. Wenner noticed a passive aggressive slant to the way he handled conflict: "I wasn't telling him how I really felt. I was holding everything back, and my story was, oh he can't handle it, he can't hear the truth when really he needed that more than anything."
Hillman, in turn, saw an anger problem. He had a tendency to lash out when frustrated or challenged, and Wenner was often on the receiving end of his temper. Tension erupted into full-fledged fights when Wenner, after weeks, sometimes months, of swallowing his feelings, stood up to Hillman or tried to set boundaries. Hillman pushed back, which triggered an outpouring of resentment from Wenner, which set Hillman off further, causing Wenner to retreat. It was a vicious cycle that lead to long stretches of time when the two men stopped speaking, halting production.
They went through past conflicts, analyzing their interactions to identify breakdowns in communication and what they needed to be aware of and change going forward. It was a valuable exercise. Wenner now tries to work past his discomfort to voice his concerns, even minor ones, before they can morph into potentially schedule-stopping disagreements. He also stops himself from immediately reading Hillman's blunt style as a critique. For his part, Hillman keeps tab on his temper and takes a breath when he can feel himself spiraling out of control. He also takes pains to encourage Wenner to voice his opinions and refrains from steamrolling them with his own. "Eighty percent of our fights is because one of us doesn't feel heard," Hillman says. "What we are fighting about becomes irrelevant."
There is still conflict, especially now, as work on the documentary winds down and they prepare to enter it in festivals. Neither men are completely transformed: Wenner still tends to repress his emotions, Hillman remains a hot head. But both say they have a better understanding of how the other communicates, which means misunderstandings can be caught before they can turn into something more insidious.
"We've learned to talk through it," Wenner says. For a different project, both say they might not have reached this point. Honest self-reflection isn't a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon, nor is a process that ever really ends. But for two people who want to work together to build a partnership and product that lasts, it just might be essential.


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Mullins Man Dies after Sustaining Injuries in a Car Accident
A Mullins man who was injured in a car accident on U.S. 501 Thursday morning died Sunday morning from injuries he sustained in the accident. The Horry County Coroner identified the man as James Douglas Davis, 58. Davis was driving north on U.S. 501 when the 4-door car he was driving ran into the back of a garbage truck. The truck was stopped on a pickup route about two miles south of Marion. The driver of the garbage truck was not injured in the accident.
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Read Literary Fiction; Become a Better Person →
Pam Belluck, writing for the New York Times' 'Well' blog:
[a study published Thursday in Science] found that after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.
She goes on to write:
The idea that what we read might influence our social and emotional skills is not new. Previous studies have correlated various types of reading with empathy and sensitivity. More recently, in a field called "theory of mind," scientists have used emotional intelligence perception tests to study, for example, children with autism.
But psychologists and other experts said the new study was powerful because it suggested a direct effect — quantifiable by measuring how many right and wrong answers people got on the tests — from reading literature for only a few minutes.
Good thing my debut novel, Whitney, which comes out tomorrow, is literary fiction. Buy it; read it; watch your life improve.
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text: Flannery (The Future Eaters, not reviewed), a mammologist at home in the field, reports on his researches in a distinctly remote patch of upcountry New Guinea, which is about as upcountry as you can get. This is natural history in the raw, where personal comfort and safety take a backseat to the thrill of trooping about in those rare blank spots on the zoological map. Flannery, who has carried out scientific work throughout Oceania, concentrates here on Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya, lands that routinely serve up new species of mammals to expeditions. In a vaguely old-fogey tone ("My first memories of Port Moresby are still vivid" and "There is one case I will never forget"), he recounts slogging and slashing his way toward Goodfellow's tree-kangaroo, which dwells in the treetops of New Guinea's oak forest, or a King of Saxony bird of paradise (Flannery may be a mammologist, but it's with birds that he finds his most evocative encounters). He casually drops comments like, "I was recovering from cerebral malaria at the time"; he carries out rude surgery in the wild; he makes the obligatory visit to an outhouse full of colossal hairy spiders. A python throws its coils around him ("I watched in amazement as my hand became miraculously attached to my knee"), and he is mortally threatened more than once by natives who resent his presence. Flannery paces his narrative well, and makes his book that much more valuable by detailing the quirks and everyday lives of the local people he works with. He ends the book with an intelligent, well-versed, and scathing critique of Indonesian malfeasance in Irian Jaya. A chronicle of fieldwork in places so untouched they feel out of time. How salutary it is to learn simply that such landscapes still exist! (16 pages color photos, not seen) (Author tour)


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"The wages for sin is death." (Rom 6:23)
"When sin reaches maturity, it gives birth to death." (James 1:15)
Neither of those verses are from today's readings, but they both came to mind as I was pondering the promise of punishment made in Amos 3:2:
You alone have I favored,
more than all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will punish you
for all your crimes.
more than all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will punish you
for all your crimes.
The punishment at hand is enormous. When we stare the fruit of our sin (death) in the face, there can be roughly 3 responses. The first is feigned ignorance– choosing to disregard the effects of willfully pursuing ways of life outside of loving God and neighbor with our whole heart. The second is despair– to believe that our sin is too great for the love and mercy of our Lord, and to give up either on ourselves or on God. The third option is possibly the hardest, but inevitably the path we must take– to know both the gravity of our sin, and the endless faithfulness of our Lord, trusting in mercy but never ceasing in our desire to be perfected.
When we find ourselves in the third camp, there is nothing to fear. There are no storms of our soul, no matter how great, that are not calmed by the love and mercy of God. We do not fear for our bodies, because we know that bodily death is not the end. We do not fear for our souls, because we have entrusted ourselves entirely to the mercy of Jesus. When Jesus asks his disciples, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" he is not mocking them. Hidden within the question is an essential truth: "I care for you so deeply that I will not let you perish. Please trust my love for you. Please trust my mercy. I am doing everything, everything, even becoming man, to show you how much I love you." Beyond an intellectual understanding that God is greater than sin, Jesus invites us to give Him a gift– the gift of trusting Him.
-Katrina Boos


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Niche.com, a company that is purportedly "transforming the way people make big life decisions," recently released a list ranking the best school districts in the San Francisco metro area (the San Jose metro area is not included).
According to the list's preamble, the report "ranks 8,738 school districts based on dozens of key statistics and 4.6 million opinions from 280,000 students and parents." These statistics are broken down into factors — such as academics, health and safety, student culture and diversity, teachers, resources & facilities, extracurriculars & activities, and sports & fitness — and graded on a A to F scale.
You can read more about Niche's methodology here.
There are concerns with the report's findings, though, such as the fact that the top ranked districts are almost entirely within white, English-speaking, upper-class neighborhoods. Furthermore, the numbers are influenced heavily by Niche users.
Like just about every other ranking authority on the Internet — or, well, just about everything on the Internet in general — these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt.
In the gallery above, we've arranged the five lowest-ranked districts, districts in and near San Francisco, and the top five districts, according to Niche. Again, these rankings are concerned with what Niche has determined sits within the "San Francisco Metro Area." Districts closer to San Jose appear in the San Jose Metro area list, which you can find here.
For the full San Francisco district rankings, click here.
What do you think of the rankings? Let us know in the comments below.


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The Utah Royals FC have had a bit of a rough start to their inaugural season. They haven't been able to win a game yet, they have been the victim of some rather questionable officiating, and they have some key players coming off injuries. But that doesn't mean that they haven't had their moments of greatness either—they opened Rio Tinto Stadium to over 16,000 fans for their home opener, they've had many hard-fought draws against major competitors, and we have seen flashes of brilliance from their individual players. What the Royals need to do now is make all of their fabulous moving parts fit together. And they will. The tide will turn in their favor. The wheel will spin. And they just might end up on top when all is said and done.
Here are just five reasons why:
1. Their Roster Is Pretty Great
When looking at the Royals' roster there aren't a lot of holes that need filling. Unlike other teams, who may need to look to acquire more support in their midfield or defense, Utah is pretty solid all the way around. Sure, they don't have as many 'big' names as some other teams, but they have quality position players that know what their roles are for the team. Of course they have Becky Sauerbrunn and Kelley O'Hara from the USWNT, but they also have players like Desiree Scott who will gladly provide a tough tackle, or Gunny Jónsdóttir who adds creativity to their attack. So a team like Utah does not have to hang their hat on a few individual players for its success. It is the collective whole that will allow them to be a force going forward into the season. And that is something that only a few teams are able to say this season.
2. Their Draws Have Been Heartbreaking But Promising
So it's true that Utah has not won a match yet this season. But they have only lost one. And the four draws that they do have on their record have been real heartbreakers. But they have also shown every other team in the league that the Royals are a force to be reckoned with. And let's not lie to ourselves—the match against Orlando should have been a win, because Becky Sauerbrunn's face is definitely not a hand. But another thing to consider when evaluating these draws is who they have been against. Sure, the second one against Houston was unexpected. But they also drew against North Carolina and Portland, who have arguably two of the strongest rosters in the league. Honestly, not having a win yet can be discouraging, but their draws haven't been the worst.
3. Some Players Still Getting Back To Full Health/Form
Although the majority of Utah's players are able to take the field, that does not necessarily mean they are up to full form yet. For example, Kelley O'Hara is currently battling a bit of a hamstring issue. She has still been performing decently, but she hasn't been playing a full 90 minutes. She is getting back up to that, but there is still reason to play her cautiously. Another example is Amy Rodriguez. She is just now getting up to form after tearing her ACL in Kansas City FC's season opener last season. She had a marvelous goal in Utah's last match against Portland, but she still has a little ways to go until she is in top form again. She will undoubtedly get there. And once that happens—once key players are fully healthy and up to form—well, Utah is going to be something to shake a stick at.
4. Harvey Will Not Let Them Lose
Laura Harvey is the NWSL's most winningest coach. She is great at what she does. She is involved. She is focused. And damn if she isn't the kind of coach that players want to win for. But Laura Harvey is also more than just a coach. She is an orchestrator. And the thing that she likes to orchestrate most is greatness. We can see it when a call or a result doesn't go her way. She is never satisfied. And she will look at all her options available to change the outcome the next time around. So Laura Harvey is not just going to sit around a allow a team with the talent that Utah has lose. Sure, some losses are unavoidable. Sometimes teams just get outplayed. But Laura Harvey will look to ensure that she produces the best version that her team can be.
5. Time Is On Their Side
It's early. And that is a great thing for the Utah Royals. They have time to figure it out. They have time to tweak their game. They have time to make this season truly historic. While other teams could peak a bit too soon, Utah is on the uphill trajectory that allows them to strengthen throughout the climb. They are only five matches in. They have 19 left. And a lot can happen in 19 matches, not just for Utah, but for other teams too.
So I am of the belief that Utah just needs to keep calm and carry on. They are on the right path. The pendulum will begin to swing their way. And when it does, they are primed to take it into their hands and not let it go. Their players will get up to full form, their draws will become wins, and with Laura Harvey at the helm of the ship, the team has little to fear. Sure, it has been a slow start, but this still very well may be Utah's season.


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Chelsea Manning said she was "honored" to be disinvited as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
For Jim Pershing, who aspires to a career in international relations, studying at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government was a chance to immerse himself in a heady ecosystem where power players from the top echelons of the state, the nonprofit sector, the military and the media all converge.
"In terms of government and policy practitioners, Harvard draws the biggest names," said Mr. Pershing, 25, a student here.
It was the collision this week of some of those prominent names that thrust the Kennedy School into an uncomfortable controversy over whether it should confer its prestige and honor on people who have broken the law.
On Wednesday, the school's Institute of Politics announced that it had accepted Chelsea Manning, a former United States soldier jailed for seven years for leaking classified information, as one of its visiting fellows.
The invitation set off an uproar, with many people complaining that Ms. Manning was a traitor to the country and should not be honored with a Harvard fellowship. Just after midnight Friday, the Kennedy School dean rescinded Ms. Manning's fellowship, prompting another round of complaints by others who saw a vaunted institution buckling under political pressure.
In inviting people from all ideologies, including some considered odious to the opposing side, Harvard had hoped to provoke discussion across party lines in a campus setting that would keep hyperpartisanship at bay.
Others on the visiting fellows roster include: Sean Spicer, President Trump's former press secretary; Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager; and, from the media world, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC.
But the ivory tower ideal of the campus as an arena for the free exchange of ideas — one being challenged at colleges across the country — exploded over the Manning episode. And Harvard is being attacked not only by conservative commentators but by the very government-media establishment that the Kennedy School depends on and has a revolving-door relationship with.
One of the classes offered here is called "From Harvard Square to the Oval Office." The dean of the school, Douglas W. Elmendorf, is the former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Many students here intend to run for elective office some day. Others, like Mr. Pershing, who went to the University of Notre Dame and served in the Peace Corps, are creating their own areas of specialty, in his case, a combination of national security and crisis management. Many politicians and other well-known figures end up at the Institute of Politics during a pause in their careers.
Kennedy School alumni and former Institute fellows include many marquee names: Jeb Bush, the former Republican governor of Florida and unsuccessful presidential candidate; Ed Rendell, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania; Raymond W. Kelly, the former New York City police commissioner; and Bill O'Reilly, who received a master's degree from the school before becoming a top-rated host on Fox News and then losing his job in a sexual harassment scandal.
The backlash to Ms. Manning's appointment began Wednesday morning, when a news release announced her fellowship.
It billed Ms. Manning, who was Pfc. Bradley Manning in the Army, as the "first transgender fellow." The release went on to describe her as a former Army intelligence analyst and advocate for queer and transgender rights.Her conviction, for leaking classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, was mentioned at the end, almost parenthetically. She was released from prison this year after President Barack Obama, in his last days in office, commuted her 35-year prison sentence.
Harvard was inundated with complaints, many of them from the right. But the lid blew off on Thursday when Michael J. Morell, a deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Mr. Obama, resigned from his fellowship in protest, saying the invitation "honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information."
That was topped Thursday night by the current director of the C.I.A., Mike Pompeo, who did not show up at a scheduled Harvard forum and cited Ms. Manning's fellowship as the reason. "Ms. Manning betrayed her country," Mr. Pompeo, who graduated from Harvard Law School, wrote to a Kennedy School official.


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Understanding Cohort Analysis
What is Cohort Analysis and why use it?
Cohort Analysis may sound a bit tedious, but it is one of the simplest ways to compare different entities based on shared characteristics. We group these entities by the shared characteristic, each group is called a cohort, and we analyse them alongside other cohorts. This gives us a look at how different factors impact these cohorts, and for businesses who have cohorts of customers, it can help improve customer relationship management.
Who uses cohort analysis?
Since it gives focussed information on the growth or performance of different subsets, cohort analysis is pretty widely used by researchers and analysts in academic and business settings. Pretty much any data with a chronological component can be subject to cohort analysis – but it's important to be able to identify variables that make sense as cohorts. You'll have to identify variables that you know you can impact through some decision or action.
Why should SaaS and content organisations use it?
It is widely used by SaaS and content organisations to understand the how different aspects of their service impacts users and user retention. By understanding this, they are able to modify their service, or otherwise take action and improve the relationship and retention.
Analysing Cohorts
You can analyse cohorts in pretty much any statistical software, and there are ways to do it in just MS Excel as well, but we're going to use R and MS Excel together to analyse some cohorts in our data.
We've created some sample data of subscribers of a video-on-demand service organisation, and we're going to calculate their user retention rate. You can download the sample data used from here. When working with R, be sure to have the following packages installed and loaded:
· 'lubridate' – to deal with date and time variables
· 'plyr' – to manipulate data
· 'dplyr' – to manipulate data
· 'xlsx' – to save to an excel file
Preparing the Data
Our data has three columns which tell us about each of our users:
· Subscription.Id – the unique subscription IDs for the users
· Date.Subscribed – the date on which each user subscribed to the service
· Date.Cancelled – the date on which each user cancelled their subscription to the service (if they've cancelled)
If you're working with real data, you must have the similar columns for your users, and any other columns you may wish to create cohorts from, e.g. lead source, subscription plan, or country.
First, we read our data and ensure the two columns with dates are the 'Date' type. We're using lubridate to work with dates and side-step some of the less friendly built-in date functions.
We'll look at the summary of our data to see if there are any inconsistencies.
From our summary we can see that there are many NAs in the Date.Cancelled column – we expected this because we have many users who are still using the service, so obviously no cancellation date exists.
However, for some of our calculations we cannot use NAs, so we'll set all NAs to the furthest date we have '2018-07-01'. This date from the future (we're in September 2017) exists because sometimes people subscribe to annual packages – so these would be people who subscribed some time in 2017, chose not to auto-renew subscriptions, and have their packages ending in 2018.
We use this future date as a cut-off because when we can't have analyse users with unknown lifetimes.
Creating Key Variables
Now we get the data in chronological order of subscription, and create the cohorts we'll be working with – the month of subscription. If you have another variable you'd like to use as cohort, ensure that it is categorical, e.g. countries should be 'India', 'China', 'Brazil', 'Singapore', etc.
If you have other cohorts, you'd add those to the above code, for example using countries:
Also find out the interval from subscription to cancellation, this is required irrespective of your cohort as it will help us calculate the retention. You cannot find these intervals if there are NAs in your data, which is why we removed them earlier.
Cohort-wise Lifetime Months
And we get to the most important variable we're going to be working with the lifetime month.
Calculating the cohort-wise lifetime months tells us the number of subscribers we have for each cohort over the period we're studying (i.e. subscription month to July 2018). The code here gets the sum of users with lifetime months over the selected months – it gives a cohort-wise breakdown.
If you want to analyse based on other cohorts, then simply add that column name along with Cohort.Month, e.g. .(Cohort.Month, Subscriber.Country).
Here's the output:
Taking the first cohort, subscribers who joined in November 2015, we see that 78 people subscribed that month (M0), but then by the next month (M1) there were only 72 left. We can also see that 10 months down the line (M10), i.e. September 2016, this has fallen to 49.
It's important to remember that for every column Mx, x represents the number of months since subscription and not any particular month of any year. So M10 for the first row represents September 2016, but for the second row represents October 2016, and so on. This is how cohort analysis works, it compares chronological change based on the number of units and not the units themselves. We're going to be working with '12 hours later' or 'in the following 5 years'.
Determining User Retention Rate
Now let's get the ratio of customers retained each month after subscription.
We can now see that in the month after subscribing in November 2015, 92.31% of users remained. Ten months in (M10) we see that the percentage has dropped to 62.82%.
Due to the way the code works we have a lot of 0's and false ratios along a diagonal, these represent months from July 2018 onwards, so let's get rid of those as they will be inaccurate (since we manually set unknowns to that month). At the same time let's round all the ratios to four decimal places so we can get percentages to two decimal places in Excel.
Let's save this as an Excel file and format it so it's easier to understand and present.
Formatting and Presenting in Excel
First thing to do is remove the '#N/A' values that have appeared when we removed the 0's and false ratios. We can just use Find and Replace (Ctrl + H), and keep the replace box empty.
Now convert it all to percentage (Alt + H + P) with two decimal places (Alt + H + 0, twice) and add a row at the bottom with the averages (=AVERAGE (B$2:B$21)). Also add some formatting if you like, we've added some borders.
Selecting just the retention rate and the averages, apply colour scales form the conditional formatting menu (Alt + H + L + S + Enter). You now have a users' retention rate heat map to help you understand how well you retain users from each cohort.
Selecting just the retention rate and the averages, apply colour scales form the conditional formatting menu (Alt + H + L + S + Enter). You now have a users' retention rate heat map to help you understand how well you retain users from each cohort.
You'll notice that for our sample data, on average we've lost nearly 50% of users by the time they've been subscribed for 5 months – but that on average the largest drop in users tends to happen by the month after subscription. Maybe we have a 30-day trial or something which is sufficient for a lot of users to take a look at the service and decide it isn't for them.
That's a Wrap
So this is a pretty simple and quick way to do cohort analysis, and it's just one of the uses for it. With insights from other useful variables we could probably make out more useful info, like country-wise cohorts could tell us whether campaigns in those countries are successful or need to be changed. Maybe subscriptions plans could tell us if users tend to stay when they have the flexibility or feel they're getting better value for money. And once we have these numbers we can use them to calculate other key metrics like lifetime value, lifetime value vs. acquisition costs, and more.
This article was written by Kaushal Rao, RAP (Redwood Apprenticeship Programme) Intern, Redwood Algorithms


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Well it's official, fall has begun and so has one of our Life Long Learning Groups; The Truth Project. We will be using this blog to discuss some of the the things that we have been talking about in class in the coming weeks. Look for new posts throughout each week and feel free to share what you are unsure about, questions you might have, or exciting new discoveries that you are making. Let's make sure that this is indeed a discussion and not an argument. We are all on a journey and all of us are striving to understand God better and allow his word to transform us as we pursue him and his truth. So with that lets talk about week one.
As you might have guessed, Truth is central to what this class is all about. We will be taking a worldview tour with this class and the truth is what at the core of what should make up our worldview. So this week, since it is THE foundational piece of this class, we looked at Truth and what truth is.
What I will be doing each week is posting a list of several questions that should spark some good discussion and I am encouraging you to field some or all of the questions with any thoughts you might have and I would also love for you to use this as a place to post some of your own questions. The goal of this kind of class is to draw closer to God and begin developing a truly biblical worldview as opposed to a mixed or even a primarily secular worldview.
So with that here are some questions and thoughts to get us started:
1. Jesus stated plainly that He had come into the world "to testify to the truth" (John 18:37). Exactly what did He mean by this, and how is this claim connected with those other aspects of Jesus' Mission - For example, forgiveness, salvation, redemption, and healing - that we more naturally associate with the ultimate purpose of His advent?
2. How does one's concept of truth affect or determine one's concept of faith?
3. What is the key point of distinction between the biblical concept of truth and popular cultural ideas about truth? And how is this point related to the concept of insanity?
4. Read 2 Timothy 2:24,26 and Colossians 4:5,6. Why does Paul advise believers to be "gentle" rather than "quarrelsome" in their dealings with outsiders? How does our understanding of the Cosmic Battle affect the way we relate to non-believers?
5. Dr. Tackett poses the question, "Do you really believe that what you really believe is really real?" How can we know what we really believe?
I am very excited to see where the conversation takes us over the next several months. I hope that this class will inspire us to pursue God like we never have before, and that we will develop our worldviews in a way that is God honoring and ultimately helps us to point others toward Christ. Here's to the journey.


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JeeMagazine: EU citizens will no longer be given priority to live and work in Britain in a radical overhaul of immigration policy after Brexit, Theresa May has said, admitting Britons may in turn have to apply for US-style visas to visit and work in Europe.
Theresa May said the terms of the final deal with the EU could include mobility concessions, but said this would be within the control of the British government.
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, said the government might consider dropping the cap on high-skilled visas altogether, a move recommended by a Migration Advisory Committee report.
Announcing the policy overnight, May said it "ends freedom of movement once and for all", and that British tourists and workers would also be likely to face restrictions travelling in the EU, depending on the final outcome of the Brexit talks.
However, when questioned during a morning tour of broadcasters about the difficulties UK citizens might face when travelling to Europe, she would only say it was "part of the negotiations".
She did not rule out Britons having to apply for US-style visa waiver forms to visit the EU after Brexit, saying she expected arrangements to be "reciprocal".
Under the policy, she said, highly skilled workers who wanted to live and work in Britain would be given priority, while low-skilled immigration would be curbed, though the final terms are expected to be subject to the Brexit negotiations.
May said, she was not ruling out mobility concessions as part of a future Brexit deal, and that tourism and business travel were a component of the negotiations.
"In any trade deal countries do, there are normally parts of that which are about things like movement of business people, and so forth," she said. "But if we do a deal like that with the European Union, those elements will be open for trade deals with others as well."
Current government policy is to allow 20,700 high-skilled workers into the UK each year on tier 2 visas. Speaking at a fringe meeting on Tuesday, Javid said he would be looking at "better ways" of controlling migration than a restrictive cap. "I will consider that. We've not made a decision yet," he said.
May said the government wanted British people to fill the vacancies in areas such as hospitality and social care, which rely heavily on EU migrants, effectively ruling out an exemption for certain sectors.
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The spin is that all of this is done for YOUR benefit, right? The advertisements are for things you are looking for, not irrelevant products and services that you don't care about. This is the contradiction of modern internet usage: to be the most useful and HELPful, a service needs to know you, and your habits, and preferences, intimately. Helpful, sure. But if you think about it, also creepy, if the people who know you so well (perhaps better than you know yourself!) are complete strangers whose goal is to make money off your information. One side effect of eliminating such intrusion (part of the price you pay for privacy) is that your searches will no longer be as directly relevant to your life, your individual preferences, your history, etc.
What can an ordinary person do? Use a search engine that doesn't track you and sell that information? Do any even exist?
StartPage is one of these search engines based in the Netherlands (in compliance with EU privacy laws). Their companion email product StartMail, "is based in the Netherlands, outside of US jurisdiction, where it is not subject to US mass surveillance mandates. What's more, the Netherlands protects privacy by law." Bottom line is you still have to trust StartPage is actually doing what they say. Better than just trusting them blindly, you can refer to their external audits by privacy organizations, examine the audit report for yourself.
I asked Liz McIntyre, a privacy consultant and advisor to StartPage, why we should believe that StartPage is any different: one of the more compelling ones is that it has been audited by an external security agency who verify the claims made by StartPage. I also asked, how it can be funded if they don't sell the search results – there are ads on your page but they are based on your search session, without building a history linked to your identity. Every search starts fresh so you don't get trapped in the "filter bubble" where your search engine produces information that only confirms your bias and eliminates other points of view.
You can change your default search engine in your browser by following simple instructions posted on their site. Happy (private) searching!
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The ELYTS Stylites DVD was recently uploaded in full on Youtube, so we're posting up the sections here on ISB for anyone that hasn't had the chance to see them on DVD yet. Mitch Baldry and BenJ Friant both had solid sections. Mitch's whip to bar game was on lock, throwing them out of manuals, fakie, and over all kinds of stuff. And BenJ, well he really needs no introduction, you know he delivers.
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Hyundai Motor Co. earlier this week began production at its new assembly plant in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The plant, operated by Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Russia (HMMR), will make the Solaris sedan, which is designed for Russia's climate and drivers, according to the company.
"This is a historic moment, not only for Hyundai, but for Russia, as we are the first foreign automaker to operate a full-cycle manufacturing plant here," said Gui-Il Chun, general director of HMMR, a fully owned subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co. "We are now truly part of Russia and we will focus on supplying customers with the best products at the best time."
The plant employs more than 1,300 workers. In September, the automaker said it aims to create 5,300 jobs at the facility by 2012, together with 11 parts suppliers.
|Hyundai's new assembly plant in Russia will produce the Solaris sedan.
The automaker noted that the Russian facility is its sixth and most modern overseas plant, boasting a high level of automation in the production process. At several stations, for example, 85% of the welding is automated.
The Russian facility is part of Hyundai's strategy to build assembly plants in the so-called BRIC countries. The automaker began construction of a third plant in China late last year and plans to break ground later this year on a plant in Brazil.
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The first full day of school for Pleasant Hill Students is: Thursday, August 30, 2018. Before that, each Kindergartner, First Grader, and Second Grader will have an initial appointment/meet their teacher on either Tuesday, August 28, 2018 OR Wednesday, August 29, 2018. The August Building Tour day/times for Pleasant Hill are: Wednesday, August 22 from 9:30-10:30am OR 1:30-2:30pm.
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I'm at home now. My body is slightly warm, there's a dull pain in my lower abdomen and back, and I've been totally concussed since last night.
It all started at dinner. I was eating as usual when I suddenly lost my appetite. Just couldn't put another spoonful of food into my mouth. And I had only eaten half of my normal amount. I also felt tired, so thinking that it was the late nights catching up with me, I went to nap for an hour. Then I got up, bathed, and went back to bed.
And then I had this familiar feeling in my stomach. You know, the type where there's only one solution: run to the toilet and face the bowl. Puked out twice. Flushed the toilet, washed my mouth, and went to sleep. About an hour later, it was back to the toilet. Puked twice again, this time spewing more stuff. Flushed, washed up, went back to bed.
Then throughout the night, I couldn't find a comfortable position to sleep. My usual position is to lie on my front, but given my stomachache, it was too uncomfortable. Lying on either side didn't help again. I piled two pillows and it felt better, but that didn't last long. Lay the pillows at an angle, e.g. like a hospital bed that thas been raised slightly. Still no good. I basically tossed and turned for hours.
Finally, I got up, thinking that a sitting position would help to relieve the pain. Instead, that familiar queasiness returned and I puked for the third time. My abdomen now was aching, less from whatever was causing the vomitting, but more from the muscles exerting themselves to puke.
Went back to bed to sleep. It was another round of trying to find the best position. Then my alarm rang: 6:30am. I got up as I normally would on a workday, washed up, changed, shaved, then went to eat breakfast. I took one bite of the sandwich and couldn't eat anything else again. My abdomen was aching, my skin felt hot, my whole body felt lethargic. At first, I thought that I could go to work, and if I didn't feel better, I'd take the rest of the day off and see a doctor. Now, I knew that I wouldn't even be able to step out of the door.
I gave up on that one-bite sandwich and went to my room. Messaged my colleagues to say that I wouldn't be at work. Then went to bed. Woke up again at 11am, when my mum brought me to see the doctor. He took my temperature, listened to my abdomen through his stethoscope, asked me a few questions, then said that it was probably a virus. He prescribed some medicine for vomitting, cramps and fever/pain.
Came home, slept till 1:30pm, then had porridge for lunch. And it's back to work tomorrow.
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Quotable Paris
I (Martine) have spent the last four days in bed with the flu. In between sleeping, coughing and drinking my weight in tea*, I've made a big dent in my reading. I feel I know a great deal more about pre- and post-Revolutionary Paris now!
The Last Great Dance on Earth by Sandra Gulland is the final book in the Josephine B. trilogy, a series about the life of Josephine Bonaparte. Written as a diary, it combines fact with historical embroidery, and is impossible to put down.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser. An oldie but a goodie.
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss. This book is a swashbuckling portrait of General Alex Dumas, the son of a black slave who led more than 50,000 men at the height of the French revolution. This is another tome I cannot put down, and I blame my sister Ariane whose review sparked my interest.
*Ginger tea is a life-saver: thinly slice unpeeled ginger until you have one cup. Put into a pot with 8 cups of water. Brings to a boil, then simmer for 25 minutes. Strain and drink all day, with or without honey. Sometimes lemon is good in it, too, and honey or maple syrup.


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Published May 11, 2017
The Good Silver, the name for the new tavern replacing Kangaroo Boxing Club, started out as a joke. Owners Josh Saltzman, Chris Powers, Adam Fry, who also run Ivy and Coney, and their new partner Carrie Dzwil were having trouble coming up with what to call the Columbia Heights spot, so they started riffing.
"Chris and I were joking in the car one day about wanting it to be comfortable, like, 'It's your living room but grandma brought out the good china because guests are over,'" Saltzman says. The pair immediately seized on "The Good China" as a name, but ended up rejecting it because they worried customers would assume they were a Chinese restaurant. They also dismissed "The Good Crystal" because "there's no bad crystal." Then Fry proposed "The Good Silver," and it stuck.
The restaurant and bar opened earlier this week at 3410 11th St., Northwest, around four months after the owners closed Kangaroo Boxing Club. Saltzman says their previous business wasn't making as much money as they wanted, and they were eager to try fresh concepts.
Among the changes to the menu are a selection of shrub-based cocktails. That set off another series of inside jokes: "Somebody quoted [Monty Python] and said, 'We are the Knights Who Say Ni, and we require a shrubbery!'" chuckles Saltzman. "We were talking with our PBR rep and asked, 'Do you want to help us put up our mural? We want to do the Knights Who Say Ni,' and he was like, 'For real?"'…read more here.


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Tilapia with Trumpet Royale Mushrooms and Pernod
Serves 4
- 1 ½ pounds of tilapia
- 8 ounces Trumpet Royale mushrooms, sliced
- ¼ cup sweet white onion, diced
- 4 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup fresh tomato, diced
- ¼ cup Pernod or other anise flavored liqueur
- ¼ cup dry white wine
- 3 Tablespoons meyer lemon juice
- Smaller mushrooms may be sliced lengthwise, larger ones should be cut on the diagonal. Sauté Trumpet Royale™ and onions in olive oil over medium-low heat until mushrooms are almost cooked through, stirring frequently. Add diced tomato and cook three minutes more. Add Pernod and wine and simmer until liquid is reduced by half.
- Finish with meyer lemon juice and season to taste with salt and pepper. If meyer lemon is not available, substitute 2 Tablespoons lemon juice and 1 Tablespoon of fresh orange juice. You can also eliminate the citrus and add 1/3 cup of heavy cream and some minced tarragon. The two preparations (citrus or cream) are distinctly different, and both are delicious. Keep mushrooms warm while cooking the fish.
- Lightly salt and pepper the tilapia fillets. Brush top with olive oil and broil until the thickest part of the fish will flake with a fork. 8-12 minutes. Cooking time will vary depending on your broiler. This preparation is also excellent with salmon, true cod and petrale sole.
- Reserve twelve large slices of mushroom as garnish. Top the fish with the tomato and mushroom mixture. Fan three slices of the reserved Trumpet Royale on top of each serving.


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Customer Centric Outcomes
If you are following my "12 Steps to Begin Developing and Executing a Basic Digital Marketing Strategy," you've defined a customer challenge, tested hypotheses, conducted voice of customer, & analyzed your competition. Now it's time to develop customer centric outcomes.
An outcome is the measurable result a customer will experience when they buy your product or service. Will they see a 15% increase in productivity? A 10% reduction in operating expense? It's the total value and experience you provide. If you have a cleaning service, it's not just a clean house. It's the full experience the actual value to your client.
What if you not only provided a clean house, but also a free home organization assessment? The outcome of a clean AND reorganized house could tremendously impact your customer's life. This would be easy to do, just link up with a local home organization consultant. The consultant would probably say "yes" because then you get them in front of more clients. Free for you, free assessment for your customer, added value, and a differentiated experience. Marketing and selling based on customer outcomes will set you apart from your competition. You become more than just another supplier. You are a strategic supplier.
Why are outcomes important?
In the Competitive Analysis post, we discussed using the Internet enables you to keep a watchful eye on your competition. This allows you to develop differentiation strategies. In this same way, customers are more empowered, prudent, and a bit skeptical. Customers are no longer concerned with features and benefits. They want outcomes.
Outcomes aren't a new concept. But, they aren't used enough. If you truly want to differentiate yourself and become a strategic supplier, you need to develop outcomes.
"People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want to buy a quarter-inch hole!" - Theodore Levitt
Most decision makers no longer have time to learn about your products and listen to your feature / benefit pitch. You and your competition just repeat the same old crap time and time again. Just envision Charlie Brown's teacher, "wah, wah … wah." Boring as hell and not helping you. Your customers simply want outcomes, and measurable end results.
How do you develop customer-based outcomes?
To develop outcomes we need to shift your mindset a little. Move away from the old school 4P's of Marketing: Product, Place, Promotion, and Price. Instead, let's use a different set of P's. Scott Santucci of Forrester defines the new set as:
Problem: What are the customer's problems?
Pattern: How will your solution solve their problems?
Path: How will it be purchased and can you help facilitate the decision cycle?
Proof: What is the quantified value the solution will deliver?
Develop Measurable and/or Quantifiable Outcomes
If you are following the "12 Steps to Begin Developing and Executing a Basic Digital Marketing Strategy," we've started covering the first 3 P's: Problem, Pattern, and Path. To develop outcomes, we need to quantify the value our solution can deliver. Remember, a feature / benefit is Product X costs runs on an open platform and costs only $5. A solution is Product X integrates your Marketing Automation Programs into one platform. An outcome is Product X increases your email marketing team's productivity by X%. It saves you $Y in legal fees by cross-verifying opt-ins. This ensures your team is compliant with the new email marketing regulatory requirements.
Outcomes are metrics for success that help clients meet specific and measurable goals. It's no longer just the solution. It's the end result.
Customer Satisfaction
Increased Revenue
Decreased Cost
Increased Market Share
Measurable, Strategic, and Specific to your customers
I challenge you, no matter what product, service, or offering you plan to market / sell, you can find measurable outcomes. If you cannot think of any, this is a perfect time to reconnect with your customers. Why not ask them? Any information they provide you specific to outcomes is data. The more data you get, positive or negative, the more you can improve. If your product is currently in development, this is a perfect time to have an outcomes conversation with potential customers. Dig deep. Find out what desired outcomes are important to them. Test and pilot your beta product. Use the Lean Startup Principles – Build, Measure, Learn – Preserve, Pivot, Iterate.
Next week we'll discuss developing Customer Personas. You can also sign up for my newsletter to receive these posts in your email.
I hope this post helped. As always, I welcome feedback and comments. If relevant, please share it with your friends and network. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Back to Blog >4 Years of Married Couples in California45th Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, a Case for Marriage EqualityAFER in the News: Leaders Discuss Future of the Prop. 8 CaseTed Olson on Face the NationReactions: AFER's Leaders in the Media about Obama Marriage Equality Support
Ted Olson
June 14, 2012
Closing arguments concluded in the Prop. 8 trial two years ago Saturday. The day also marks the four-year anniversary of marriages in California. Del Martin and Phylliss Lyon became the first gay couple to legally marry in San Francisco after over 55 years together.
June 11, 2012
Tuesday marks the 45th anniversary of the case that overturned states' bans on interracial marriage, a landmark decision that set the stage for today's quest for marriage equality. AFER lead attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies talk about how the case's legacy on marriage equality for gay and lesbian Americans.
June 6, 2012
Yesterday marked a huge turning point in our case for marriage equality. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it will not rehear our case. Here's a round-up of interviews quoting people involved with AFER's case for marriage equality in reaction to yesterday's decision.
May 14, 2012
AFER lead co-counsel Ted Olson appeared on Face the Nation to discuss President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality.
May 10, 2012
President Obama's announcement yesterday that he supports full marriage equality for gay and lesbian American is nothing less than historic. For the first time, a sitting U.S. President has come out in strong, full support of full equality.
Are 'Family Values' Outdated? The New York Times Guest Contributors Debate.
April 25, 2012
As The New York Times points out, the ideal of family has played a prominent role in Republican campaigns, but is it still a worthy goal for public policy? Within the past several years, especially since Ted Olson and David Boies came together to bring AFER's lawsuit challenging Prop. 8, no longer is the debate about marriage for gay and lesbian couples an issue that divides our country, but a value that brings it closer together.


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Getting back on track for the last few weeks of mindless eating, wild abandon for anything that was made out of ice cream or potatoes…was interesting to say the least.
I did a wee bit better with the not snacking because I'm bored/stressed/thirsty. I pulled a trick from my old playbook.
Drink some water, change up my tasks, take a second to stop…. am I still wanting something to eat? No? Well, whouda thought?
That's the biggest problem with me and food.
I don't really know how to describe it except that sometimes I mistake those little things as being hungry?
I know I don't have the best relationship with food. Especially junk food. I'm a comfort eater. If I'm bored, I'll go to the fridge. If I'm stressed, I want high carb kinda foods.
And we can all agree that I am stuck between some weird limbo of "always stressed or always bored." There isn't a middle ground for me.
So this last 10-ish days, I've really tried getting back on track with that.
Of course this wasn't 100%. There is no way it could be 100%, I'm just not built like that. I'd love to just wake up one morning and be like "oh hey, this is easy!" But it's not. So I chip away at it. And yeah, there were still some mindless moments of eating. I definitely didn't hit any water goals. And my intake was all over the place.
But mentally, it helped. That focus I'd lost for those several weeks did have their shining moments where it was almost like my body remembered and was like "hold the ropes, lady, something's off" and other moments where it was just "yeah, you have yogurt in the fridge, but you know what you really want? Cornbread."
But it definitely helped.
Last weigh in: 200.8
This weigh in: 200.2
Total lost: .6
Total lost from highest: 64.6
Yeah, yeah… It's not even a pound. But it's half a pound. And, it's moving forward, which I'm not complaining about one little bit.