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Imparfait vs. Passé Composé
The passé composé and imperfect both refer to past time, but express different ways of looking at past actions and events. The imperfect tense denotes an action as going on in the past without any reference to its beginning or end. The passé composé denotes an action that the speaker sees as completed in the past or as having happened once.
Quand j'étais en France, je parlais français.
When I was in France, I spoke French.
Hier j'ai parlé français avec Caroline.
Yesterday I spoke French with Caroline.
Completed Action
The passé composé implies that an action is complete in the past. It also may imply that the action happened once.
Quelqu'un a sonné à la porte d'en bas.
Someone rang the downstairs doorbell.
Tout à coup la porte s'est ouverte.
Suddenly the door opened.
L'avion est arrivé en retard.
The plane arrived late.
Continuous or Repeated Action
The imperfect is used for actions that the speaker sees as going on in the past without reference to the beginning or the end of the action. The imperfect may convey that the action happened repeatedly.
Le quartier devenait de plus en blus bruyant.
The neighbourhood was getting noisier and noisier.
Les enfants faisaient leurs devoirs dans la cuisine.
The children used to do their homework in the kitchen,
Tu te couchais toujours tôt.
You always went to bed early.
Background for Past Actions or Events
The imperfect often provides the background for past actions or events that are expressed in the passé composé.
Philippe lisait quand ses amis sont arrivés.
Philippe was reading when his friends arrived.
Quand je suis entrée, tout le monde travaillait.
When I came in, everyone was working.
J'ai fermé les fenêtres parce qu'il pleuvait.
I closed the windows because it was raining.


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19 participants of whom 14 are females and 5 are males attended the general coaching course conducted by FIFA instructor Ms Carolina Morace at the Rita Flynn Complex in Port Moresby.
The participants, most of whom are new to the course content, went through an intensive programme covering several topics including Training Preparation, Skills Training, reading the Game and Simplying Football.
At the end of each day of the course, the participants were given an opportunity to put what they had learnt into practice with practical sessions.
Ms Deslyn Sinui, the Captain of the Papua New Guinea Women's National Team, was one of the participant. She lauded the expertise of Morace, saying: "It has been a fruitful experience to learn from Morace over the past 5 days. I always wanted to be a coach and not only a player, and the past week was a real eye-opener for me. I am grateful to have picked up excellent tips from an expect like Ms Morace.
Papua New Guinea Football Association vice-president Linda Wonuhali has described the FIFA Women's Coaching Course as a way forward for football development in the country for young girls.
Wonuhali made the remarks while officially opening the course at the Rita Flynn Complex in Port Moresby on Tuesday.
She said the course would help women coaches especially to implement FIFA's 'Live Your Goals' programme.
"This course is a way forward for the development of football in the country for our young girls," Wonuhali said.
"Football has gained momentum as a direct result of the upcoming FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in November and we hope more women and girls will be inspired."

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September 11th, 2017
NORTH NEWTON, KAN. - A new book is out that relates to Bethel College history. It is "Shepherds, Servants and Prophets: Leadership among the Russian Mennonites (ca. 1880-1960)," edited by Harry Loewen (published by Pandora Press, co-published with Herald Press, 2003). The book is a collection of articles about 24 Russian-Mennonite leaders who had leadership in spiritual, intellectual and cultural affairs among Mennonites. The leaders were all born or lived in Mennonite settlements in Russia although many later immigrated to the United States or Canada. Two of the chapters tell about former Bethel College professors and were written by two of the college's retired history professors who live in North Newton.
James C. Juhnke wrote a chapter on Cornelius H. Wedel (1860-1910), who was the first president of Bethel College. Keith Sprunger completed a chapter on Cornelius Krahn (1902-1990), professor of church history and German and director of the Mennonite Library at Bethel College from 1944 to 1967.


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"Ugh. Girl!"
My friend's voice, laced with exasperation, came huffing through my iPhone. He was going through a lot and as a result had taken to disappearing for days at a time. This was a few months ago, and I'd been lovingly needling him about it for the past twenty minutes.
"Listen", he continued. "If I don't check in with my mama, I'm not gonna check in with you."
Kinda true, but for the most part he texted me at least once a day to let me know he's okay. It's all I asked and I appreciated it more than he knew. For reasons I haven't yet identified, I can't help but mother my friends.
Mothering my friends started when I was in high school and my parents had my youngest brother. At 14, I was definitely old enough to help out with the baby, and I spent a lot of afternoons and weekends making bottles and changing diapers. By college I was already more responsible than most other students my age, but not in a way that provided a benefit to me. I was unmotivated to go to classes or study, but I took care of others when they didn't budget for food or got too drunk. I wasn't the friend to turn to with questions about classwork, but I always had a big bottle of Tylenol and a ready ear.
After college I made friends who didn't need me to make a lasagna or nurse them through hangovers. Since I was a few years older than they, I had a lot of advice on how to get through the pitfalls of the early twenties that they were all experiencing for the first time. I knew the major relationship red flags, how to get along with overbearing bosses, how to schedule a doctor's appointment – life skills like those. All the things we learn once and then, much later, wonder how we ever didn't know.
Now I'm in NYC, where everyone needs a mother (myself included), but no one needs their friend to step up as a surrogate.
Again I find myself surrounded by people who are a few years younger than I am, brimming with mid-twenties angst that looks and feels so familiar. I want to take everyone by the hand and explain that things will be okay, that heartache and long nights and tiny apartments don't last forever, that one day you'll wake up and it will all click. I want to give good, sound advice, and I want it to be heard. But as any parent knows, children don't always do as they should.
My friends are not my kids, even though sometimes it feels that way. I woke up at 7 AM today not because my alarm went off or because I had a bad dream, but because a friend had a flight to catch and I wanted to be sure he was awake and headed to the airport. I had to force myself to turn over and go back to sleep without calling him. This is who I am and this is how I love, but I know that I. Am. Not. Anyone's. Mom. My challenge is making an effort to not act like it.
When I see my friends going down a proverbial pothole-covered road, one that I've already traveled, all I can do is give my best advice and pray the fall doesn't hurt too much when I see them continuing anyway. I had to learn for myself and so do they. It's okay, I tell myself. I survived, and they will too. I don't want to be the "mom" of my friends. But I have been in that role for sixteen years – I'm not sure how to stop.
I don't ask that friend to text me every day anymore. He is climbing out of his grief, and I trust him to take care of himself. But I'd be lying if I said it doesn't help that I can usually find him online anyway.


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Gnomic: John Fuller's new prose poems make grim reading (photo credit: Paul Stuart)
John Fuller's earlier poems were almost unfailingly delightful. Many of them were songs and verse letters to friends, packed with wit, affection and the evocation of lightweight pleasures. There was often an unsettling note lurking in them — but in the playful music of the poem we got a hint that this should not be taken too seriously, at any rate while we were young.
His new volume of prose poems (an odd name), while still full of intellectual energy, is grimmer and harder to read. Fuller's prevailing themes, at the age of 77, have become far more serious. They are the difficulty of understanding with any real clarity what is happening to us in our lives, and the near-impossibility of controlling any of it. Many of the pieces are allegories of human life as Fuller now sees it. The title piece, "The Dice Cup", is one of these. It describes a game of dice played with a bone cup. It suggests that the cup is like our skull, and that the few dots on the dice, themselves made of bone, are very suitable symbols for the scanty and inadequate information that we have in our heads when we try to make any sense of the world. As for the gambling game itself, playing it represents our attempt to "control or at least predict" the circumstances that we find ourselves in. "Fine chance!" is the poet's sarcastic comment on that. This is the merest summary of the allegory, which gets taken further and further, and concludes coolly that "of course, we ourselves will in the end be nothing but bone, and not that for always". This gloomy piece is elegantly done, with a certain touch of macabre wit. But it is not a poem that instantly dazzles one with its beauty and insight.
Another section of the book is called "A Terrace in Corsica". This was exactly the sort of setting of some of Fuller's earlier pleasure-poems. He seemed to be a great and happy traveller. In one poem here, a lily on the terrace speaks to him and gives a brilliant description of her orange face, which "hangs luminously in flags and tissue like something half-unwrapped, or yesterday's celebration". That word-picture could have come from one of his books 40 years ago. But then the lily tells him that her face is not visible today, and warns him that "perhaps it is always yesterday, and you should have come then. Or tomorrrow." The poem slips away into gnomic lily-talk. It made me feel like Robert Browning where he writes, "Just when I seemed about to learn! Where is the thread now! Off again!"
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Going shopping with Nancy was an amazing experience. I tried on and enjoyed items that I never would have thought would work for me, and now I have many things that are fun for me to wear.
Something that I didn't expect to have happen that I have noticed is that I no longer seem to see myself as fat. Somehow, though my body has not changed, I am not as critical of it." ~ SC, AYOS Client


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- Budget $1.07B
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The City of Seattle's Central Waterfront Project represents one of the most significant civic projects in Seattle's history. The 26-block long project area includes a diverse range of waterside and upland parcels under public and private ownership and will incorporate high profile public open space as well as transportation and infrastructure projects. The project involves the management and coordination of the full range of design, engineering, environmental, and public outreach disciplines to deliver an integrated overall design for all project elements. The transformation of Seattle's waterfront builds on 10 years of public planning and is made possible by the pending removal of the failing Alaskan Way Viaduct and replacement of the deteriorating Elliott Bay Seawall to meet current seismic standards, protect critical infrastructure and enhance the habitat through this area. These projects open up new public space, from the Olympic Sculpture Park to Pioneer Square, for parks and paths, access to the water, places to enjoy views, vibrant public and cultural spaces, and a new urban street that will accommodate all modes of travel and provide an important connection with the City's transportation system.
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Volume I: Current Political Situation
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- Revolution in Warfare
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- Dictatorship Creation
- The Groups Facilitating the Revolution
- Their Goal is Neo-Feudalism
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- Introduction to Nonlethal Weapons
- Psychological Operations
- Introduction to Directed-Energy Weapons
- High-Powered Microwaves
- High-Powered Lasers
- Sonic Weapons
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- Microwave Hearing
- Silent Subliminals
- Use of Citizen Informants
- Chemical and Biological
- Weather Warfare
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- Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
- Control of the Medical Industry
- Another Look at Schizophrenia
- Political Considerations
- Punitive Psychiatry in Communist Russia
- Coverup Initiatives
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For years I suspected that some of my attacks originated from unseen realms. About a month ago I confirmed that I have been under psychic attack.
I probably have multiple etheric implants. At least one of these appears to be a suppressor parasite entity (SPE).
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- I'm on my knees. Can you still love me?
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- Look, I know you're gonna see this as a cop out, but is there actually another word that means "curated?" Can you think of one? Handpicked is too Pinterest. Selected is too generic. Bespoke is too twee (and isn't even exactly a synonym).
- Oh, now you don't believe me? Here's proof from an app, you inerudite jerk!
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A large nonprofit, community-based outpatient chemical health program needed a structured, cohesive curriculum for its counselors to use with their clients. While program counselors provided clients with programming, it lacked consistency and had not been specifically designed to address the needs of the target population: low income individuals who had attended numerous treatment facilities.
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DeYoung Consulting Services developed a comprehensive relapse prevention curriculum for use with individuals who are in treatment for chemical dependency. In researching curriculum content, we conducted best practices research, looking at articles and models used by similarly charged organizations. We also gathered information from staff members via focus groups and interviews. Then, using sound instructional design principles, we created an engaging, comprehensive instructor-led training program.
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A high-quality, targeted training program increased counselor confidence and overall program consistency. Counselors indicated that they felt much more prepared for interacting with clients.
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The Situation
A state agency's training team had grown rapidly over the previous year, and there was some tension between new and longer-term team members. The team's supervisor requested a series of team building efforts intended to create a more cohesive and effective training team.
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The assessment indicated that there was no clear definition of roles for training team members and some staff felt left out of the communication loop, particularly the newcomers. We conducted a series of two-hour team building workshops to addresses these needs.
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Team members created a team metaphor: Climbing Mt. Everest. The metaphor was a representation of them all joining together to reach the top. Team roles, along with individuals' desired areas of growth, were clarified and the team supervisor later indicated that team cohesion was increased.


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2019 Medical Billing Software Buyer's Guide
As practices grow and the number of patients increases, it becomes critical to streamline processes and achieve a good first-pass resolution rate: any medical practice that sees more than 10 to 20 patients a day and does not have an electronic medical billing solution in place is likely to be losing a fair amount of its revenue to unpaid claims.
Regulatory provisions are becoming more and more complex, insurance companies update rules and criteria for medical coverage frequently, and claims are being denied regularly. Medical bills now go through a complete cycle: from e-claim creation, to electronic submission, and successive denials and re-submissions, until the bill is finally paid.
A simple medical billing software is sometimes not sufficient: practices need to manage this entire cycle to increase payments and revenue. Depending on their needs and requirements, they have a few options: medical billing software solutions handle claim management and billing; Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) systems focus on the entire lifecycle of a practice's revenue and are far more comprehensive.
Medical Billing Software vs. Revenue Cycle Management
Small practices often opt for a stand-alone medical billing or RCM solution. These are often online or web-based, and very easy to acquire and use. No complex servers or databases need to be set up and managed. Payment generally is based on a percentage of collections: if no money is collected on a bill, the service provider does not get paid.
Large practices tend to acquire software solution packages that include medical billing, practice management and EHR/EMR. Two deployment options are available: on-premise solutions are purchased outright, generating a higher up-front cost and smaller recurring costs (maintenance and upgrades). Web-based solutions are more flexible; payment is sometimes calculated on a per-provider, per-month basis, or as a percentage of received payments.
Creating and managing the entire payment course of a medical bill is a multi-step process. These steps form the essential features that all medical billing solutions must have to be able to get a high first-pass claim acceptance rate. While almost all solutions will demonstrate these steps, the key lies in how well they are implemented.
Key Features of a Medical Billing Software
Patient Registration and Insurance Eligibility Check
While many eligibility checking tools are built into practice management solutions, every practice must have a means of checking insurance eligibility before the patient encounter begins. If the patient's insurance plan does not cover the requested services, the patient needs to be told upfront that they will need to cover the bill. The solution must also check during registration whether there are any outstanding bills the patient needs to clear.
Claim Generation
As the patient is seen by the physician, a superbill is created - either on paper or electronically. This is transferred to the medical biller, which creates a claim and checks for a number of potential errors. Good medical billing solutions will sometimes use millions of rules to check that the claim meets the requirements of various insurers. Some solutions update their list of possible errors every time an insurer denies a bill, and so create a huge knowledge base of errors to check for. Naturally, these solutions will get better as their library of errors grows. Billing agencies also need to follow HIPAA guidelines; ensuring this is critical.
Claim Transmission
HIPAA guidelines require that all practices transmit their claims electronically. Manual claims are permitted under some special circumstances. Check that both methods are possible.
Use of Clearinghouses
In some cases, billers can send claims directly to a paying agency such as Medicaid or Medicare. In others, the claim is sent to a clearinghouse, which in turn sends it to the insurance after ensuring that it is in the correct format, as demanded by different agencies. In many cases, using a clearinghouse can help improve the first-pass claim ratio.
Claim Follow-up
Your billing solution must be able to follow up on individual claims to track their progress with the insurer. In case of undue delay, a query should be raised or the claim must be resubmitted. Claims can be accepted, rejected or denied. In case of rejection—often caused by an error in the bill—the solution must support claim correction and resubmission. Efficient solutions will go through that process within a day. In case of denial (the insurer refuses to process the claim due to the medical procedure not being covered in the policy or due to a pre-existing condition), appeals are filed. The solution must support all these actions.
Even when claims are approved, insurance will only pay the amount that is specified in the policy. The remaining amount can be recovered from a secondary insurance (if the patient has one) or from the patient. The software must be capable of handling this process.
Patient Statements Creation
Depending on how much the insurance company has paid, a statement is created and forwarded to the patient so that the balance can be recovered. The software must automatically reconcile payments received. Depending on patient preferences, it should send statements to patients by email or post.
Statement Follow-up and Collections
It is important that bills sent to patients are properly tracked and that the billing solution generates reminders and sends follow-up bills. When a bill is overdue beyond a certain point, a collection agency may have to become involved. Your practice should be able to customize these actions and decide how many reminders are to be sent, what the messaging should be, and when a collection agency takes over.
Reporting Features
While most medical billing solutions offer similar features, there can be wide disparities in their reporting capabilities. Reporting features are capital to good revenue management processes: practice administrators must know how their practice is doing. Any reports that the solution provides should be completely customizable without requiring any advanced programming knowledge.
Below is a list of the most critical reports:
- Accounts Receivable: this report indicates the number of days accounts have been unpaid. Ideally, all claims and bills must be cleared within 45 days, but you should be able to set this figure. The software must red-flag any claims pending beyond this point.
Key Performance Indicators: KPI reports track the following over a specified period (weekly / monthly etc.):
- total patient encounters
- total charges
- total collections
- total adjustments
- Carrier and Insurance Analysis: these reports give insights into the top insurance companies paying your practice, accounts receivable per company, rates different insurance companies pay you for the same procedure, etc.
Users should be able to email reports, export to MS Excel or PDF files, and drill down to individual items or data points. Report generation and sharing should also be restricted to specified users only.
Using an External Billing Service
Medical practices have the option to generate and handle their bills in-house, or to opt for a third-party billing service. Many small practices that have limited staff opt to outsource their billing to a third-party medical billing service provider. There are several advantages to this approach:
- Greater focus on core activities: practices that outsource medical billing can devote more time to patient care, rather than following up on the financial side of their practice. Using a billing service also reduces the need for administrative staff.
- Reduced billing errors: professional billing agencies have highly experienced staff focused on medical billing alone, to ensure your e-claims have a very high first-pass claim acceptance rate. Experienced staff know exactly how to prepare claims to minimize denials and rejections. They can even provide tips on maximizing revenue.
- Pay only for results: typical billing agencies charge a percentage of the claims that are paid. This can be much cheaper compared to handling billing within the practice with a dedicated workforce.
- Patient satisfaction often improves with accurate statements from the billing agency and from the reduced burden on clinical staff.
- Better compliance and improved revenue.
The only possible disadvantages to outsourcing your medical billing is the feeling of loss of control, or a fear of letting your revenue details be known outside of the practice. However, if you select a reputable service provider, the security and privacy of your data will be protected, and the service will help you bring your billing back in-house should you ever wish to.
All medical practices need excellent administration if they are to stay viable. A practice that does not use any electronic claim and billing solutions is quite possibly losing a lot of its revenue. One option is to outsource billing to a third-party service provider. Alternatively, practices can use online or web-based medical billing solutions to handle claims in-house. Almost all medical billing solutions have similar features, but the difference lies in the way they are implemented. Therefore, careful selection is important. A good solution, well implemented, will make a major difference to your revenue in just a few months.


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Gang Land From footsoldiers to kingpins – the search for Mr. Big by Tony Thompson
• H&S Non Fiction
• 9781444706857
• $35.00
• Paperback - C Format
• August 2010
• 352 pages
• True Crime
Tony Thompson, bestselling author of GANGS, returns to the killing streets and takes us to the heart of UK gang culture.
Since the publication of Gangs five years ago, the landscape of organized crime has changed beyond all recognition. Youth violence, the drug trade and rising levels of gun crime are rarely out of the news. The country also continues to experience an influx of powerful foreign criminal syndicates who are establishing operations here in order to take advantage of our global connections. Beginning on the troubled streets of the inner cities, Gang Land takes its readers on a journey up through the underworld hierarchy until it finally reaches the very highest levels, occupied by elusive and shadowy Mr. Big characters. Written using a mix of personal experiences, undercover work, primary research and cutting edge investigation, Gang Land sheds new light onto this highly secretive, often terrifying and utterly fascinating world.
Tony Thompson is the bestselling author of GANGLAND BRITAIN and GANGS, and is widely regarded as one of Britain s top true-crime writers. He has twice been nominated for the prestigious Crime Writer s Association Gold Dagger for Non-fiction, winning the coveted title in 2001 for his book THE INFILTRATORS. He is the former crime correspondent of the Observer and appears regularly on both television and radio as an expert on matters of crime.
Previous Books:
GANGS (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005); GANGLAND BRITAIN (Hodder & Stoughton, 1995); The Infiltrators (Michael Joseph, 2000).
Gang Land is an account of the criminal underworld of the United Kingdom and their international reaches throughout other cultures.
Thompson's portrayal of the shady underworld is quite detailed and concerning. How much of it is fact and how much is fiction is a mystery that the reader will never really know, without becoming part of this culture within the UK. Some of the events that Thompson details are extraordinary and hard to believe could really happen, but then again, fact is often stranger than fiction.
The hierarchy and structure of organised crime is incredible and Thompson goes to great length to show the reader just how complex and organism these entities can become, with almost more unwritten rules than there are written policies within a government organisation.
I've not read any of Thompson's previous True Crime books, but will be keeping an eye out for them now.
A very interesting read that will educated the general public about this society within society.
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Revd Libby Lane – the Church of England's first woman bishop
It had been announced that Libby Lane was to become the Suffragan Bishop of Stockport on 17 December 2014. The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, called her appointment "historic" and "an important step forward for the Church towards greater equality in its senior positions."
Consecration at York Minster
Bishop Libby was consecrated at York Minster on 26 January 2015 by John Sentamu, Archbishop of York. When the archbishop asked the congregation if Lane should be consecrated as a bishop the service was briefly interrupted by a priest, Paul Williamson, who exclaimed "It's not in the Bible" and called Lane's being a woman an "absolute impediment". There was no opposition when Sentamu – having carefully explained the legality of the act – asked a second time.
Click here for a link to the BBC News article about the Consecration Service.
Installation at Chester Cathedral
Bishop Libby was installed at a packed Chester Cathedral on Sunday 8 March 2015 (International Women's Day). A number of our congregation were able to attend the ceremony.
Describing the service of installation like a "homecoming", she said: "I continue to feel deeply grateful for the honour of this calling and the privilege of exercising it in this place. Expectations are high, and I too am excited by the possibilities and challenges ahead."
Veronica congratulates Libby on her new appointment on the day it was announced at Stockport Town Hall (Picture by Kippa Matthews)
Before the service at St Paul's Cathedral in May 2014 to celebrate 20 years of ordained women's ministry, Veronica invited Archbishop Justin to "come and meet Libby Lane", which he duly did. Libby is on the right of the picture below, with Jane Maycock on the left together with the only man in the group picture. Jane and Libby and were at Cranmer Hall Theological College, Durham together.
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The early years are critical for later life. For years, scientists have known that what happens — or doesn't happen — during the first few years makes a big difference in a child's later life, and that babies who do not get enough love and attention in infancy are less likely to be well-adjusted adults.
Today, scientists are continuing to learn more about how important the early years can be. Thanks to brain imaging technologies, we now have a clearer understanding of how the brain functions, both before and after birth.
Wiring the Brain
A baby is born with about 100 billion neurons, the basic brain cells responsible for all major functions that happen in the body. Neurons exist throughout the central nervous system. Thinking, feeling, breathing, walking, and all other functions in the brain happen because these cells communicate.
During pregnancy, the fetus develops more neurons than will eventually be needed as a safety measure, but most of the extra neurons are eliminated before birth. The number of neurons remains fairly constant from birth on, but the number and complexity of connections among neurons changes dramatically throughout the child's life.
During the first year or two, neurons make many more connections than the baby will use. The developing brain is a little like a fertile garden. When we plant a garden, we plant more seeds than needed to ensure that some of them grow and thrive. When too many seeds sprout, there is not enough room for the healthiest plants to thrive. By weeding out some plants, we allow more room for the crops to grow.
The brain has a similar "weeding" process, called pruning. Pruning is a normal part of brain development that creates more space for the most important networks of connections to expand and helps the brain conduct signals more efficiently. Different areas of the brain undergo pruning during different sensitive periods. Some pruning begins during pregnancy, but the most rapid pruning happens between ages 3 and 16. When pruning does not occur, developmental disorders may result. The most common of these is Fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes severe cognitive delays, especially in boys.
The Importance of Experience
From the moment a baby is born, every experience taken in by the five senses helps strengthen the connections that guide development. No two brains are alike! Each child's brain creates individual pathways of connections based on specific experiences. A child with normal hearing builds complex networks of connections related to oral language; in contrast, the brain of a child with a hearing disability does not get the experience needed to strengthen those pathways. Similarly, a child who learns to play baseball will develop networks of brain connections that a child who never plays baseball may not have.
The kind of care a child receives plays a big role in how the brain chooses to wire itself. Parents who talk and read to their babies are helping them strengthen important language connections, and parents who respond sensitively to their baby's cries are building the emotional connections that lead to healthier relationships.
What Can You Do?
Parents and other caregivers can help nurture positive brain development. Here are some important ways you can help your baby's brain develop:
- Remember that brain development begins before birth. Nutrition provides the foundation for brain development even before the baby is born. Women who are pregnant should eat nutritious foods, avoid alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and have regular prenatal checkups to help ensure that their babies are born healthy.
- Make sure your baby's world is safe and secure. A baby feels stress when the environment is dangerous or when caregivers do not respond to him, and that stress can slow brain development.
- Remove any safety hazards from the environment. Respond lovingly and consistently to your baby's cries. Give her attention.
- Talk to your baby. When he makes a sound, repeat it. Smile at him. Talk about the things you're doing together. Interacting face-toface builds the brain connections needed for both language skills and a healthy emotional bond.
- Read to your baby beginning at birth. Hearing adults read helps the brain develop language connections. It also gives parents and babies a chance to spend time together. And reading aloud helps your baby start building a lifelong love of books.
- If you use child care, ensure that it is high quality. Babies need sensitive, loving care and stimulating experiences, in child care as well as at home, to ensure healthy development. Choose a child care provider who will interact warmly with your baby one-on-one. Look for a safe and clean environment, a low baby-to-adult ratio, a caregiver who understands how children grow and develop, and a rich variety of age-appropriate toys.
- Get the information you need. If you have questions about your baby's development, there are many places you can go for answers. Ask your doctor questions during check-ups. Have your librarian recommend good books on child development. Contact the Family and Consumer Sciences agent in your county Extension office for more information on parenting. Check out the Better Brains for Babies website (bbbgeorgia.org) for more information on supporting healthy brain development.
Selected References
Bales, D. W., Falen, K., Butler, T., Marshall, L. E., Searle, L., & Semple, P. (2012). Better Brains for Babies Trainer's Guide, (2nd ed.).
Healy, J. M. (2011). Your child's growing mind: A practical guide to brain development and learning from birth to adolescence. New York: Doubleday.
Knudsen, E. I. (2004). Sensitive periods in the development of the brain and behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1412-1425.
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (2007). The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture: Working Paper No. 5. Retrieved June 1, 2014 from http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/ reports_and_working_papers/working_papers/wp5/.
Shonkoff, J. P. & Phillips, D. A. (Eds.) (2000). From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early childhood development. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
For more information about brain development, visit www.bbbgeorgia.org.
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Armed Security Officers – Defense Against Active Shooters?
There is always debate after a tragic school or workplace active shooter incident about whether the organization should consider hiring armed security officers as the first line of defense against active shooter incidents. Companies and other organizations should have workplace violence policies, which prohibit their employees from bringing guns on the property, or even locked in their car in the parking lot. So where should a prudent workplace violence policy draw the line regarding arming security officers?
I can present real world arguments both for and against. Practically speaking, an armed security officer would probably be able to get to the shooter's location faster than the responding public law enforcement. They might find the active shooter and be faster at getting an accurate defensive shot off as opposed to the active shooter seeing the officer first and shooting them with no hesitation. There are some harsh realities about firing a weapon accurately in a tense 'combat' situation. The average armed security officer does not have sufficient, or frequent enough, training to effectively engage a hostile shooter under the typical active shooter 'combat' conditions. Given current training standards, they might hurt an innocent bystander or co-worker, or getting themselves killed. Mindset is also critical in this combat situation, and the armed security officer may not be able to muster the will to kill if necessary. There are several dangers created by the armed security officer being asked to take this protective action.
Let's look at some of these realities and further dangers. You can shape your opinion.
- Do all states require armed security officers to complete sufficient combat shooting training to prepare them for the adrenalin rush, fear, tunnel vision, panic and confusion which will characterize an active shooter rampage?
- This type of defensive shooting is even a challenge for law enforcement officers who do such training
- Law enforcement officers have the benefit of a 16-week law enforcement academy (average time) versus the armed security officer having maybe a week of training (again, average time)
- What liabilities exist for the company, the security officer, and the contract security company, if they engage a duty weapon defensively but miss and hit an innocent person nearby?
- If the weapon is to be used in an active shooter incident, it will have to be carried on duty at all times.
- This, however, represents a more significant risk for accidents involving the weapon on a daily basis during normal duty time
- Just ask any contract security company if they have had such accidents and how often
- What if another type of workplace violence incident, or crime, leads to the officer being overpowered and losing the weapon?
- I will tell you that the responding police officers, who already have limited information about the suspect(s), and are nervous themselves coming into this emergency, will not like the fact that armed security personnel are searching the facility as well
- Personally, if I were a duty security officer, I would like to have my 9mm with me. However, I also feel confident in my training and level of shooting experience with my prior law enforcement and protective operations background.
Companies and organizations need to develop proactive weapon restrictions as part of their workplace violence prevention policy. I think that the employer has the duty, for the safety of their workplace, to keep the weapons out of the building and, if possible, off of the property. This includes security officers until state standards of required training are grossly improved and standardized in every state.
For the benefit of your employees and other occupants, an active shooter response plan should be part of your workplace violence prevention program. The active shooter response plan should dictate that the first reaction priority is to get out of the building during such an incident. The second response option, if you are trapped, is to hide quietly in a safe, locked and barricaded place. Only as a last resort should you engage the shooter in a fight for your life.
Granted, having a sufficiently trained, armed security officer who is well disciplined and prepared might save lives; but what would that cost? That is an entirely different discussion. The necessary changes in training would significantly drive up the cost of either maintaining a proprietary armed guard force or contracting one. It is not an easy or cheap proposition.
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The cylindrical shapes and linear slopes of Bristan's Pisa collection make it stand out in any bathroom. This contemporary collection features contemporary lever handles and a sleek chrome finish, it's a modern classic.
Choosing Your Bathroom Taps
Basin Taps
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As a veteran long-form journalist and the deputy editor of Leafly, a marijuana-focused news organization, Bruce Barcott closely tracks the states and municipalities legalizing cannabis and the various issues that come along with it. Barcott will be the guest speaker at an event in Grand Rapids on Friday, April 20 hosted by marijuana consulting firm Canna Communications LLC. Prior to his talk, Barcott spoke with MiBiz about several of the industry trends he's watching, as well as what states should be doing when it comes to regulating recreational marijuana, an initiative that's likely to appear on Michigan's November ballot.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I could never get bored of photographing terns. They are very interesting birds that form some great postures when stood and always graceful and elegant in flight. Earlier this year I joined up to a local nature reserve which provides a temporary summer home to large numbers of terns particularly Common Terns.
So I recently paid a couple of visits to the reserve with the specific goal of photographing some of the birds before they dispersed southward.
It really is an excellent place for photographing the birds as the opportunities to puts birds in front of the lens from one of the hides is so numerous. They form some interesting postures when they land in display to other passing birds.
What I was really after was some good flight photos but was this required a morning visit with a south-easterly to get the birds coming in the right direction which never really happened. The sun was also typically fleeting as it has been recently. I still managed some flight photos but not the image I have in my head. I admit I messed quite a few flight photos up with ends of wings out of the frame. Then again when you see the length of the wings that comes as no great surprise!
However, a few flight photos did come my way...
The birds are already starting to disperse from the reserve so I will probably leave them for now but am already planning for a mini-project with them next year although hopefully on a day when conditions are perfect.
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- Azahari Reyes @ Jason a.k.a horukuru said...
Excellent capture !
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- holdingmoments said...
These are stunning Richard. Perfect. Love the flight one with the water droplets.
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- The Watcher said...
Stunning photography.
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- Lee Harrison said...
Hay Rich I'm a massive fan of you photography, its truely amazing, I have my own sight on blogspot and I have been trying to get my pictures large on the screen like it is on yours but I am really strugling, I wondered if you might be able to help if you can please emale mw at firstname.lastname@example.com ..
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- David Álvarez said...
Great series!!and without perfect conditions? I couldn't imagine your results when the conditions are perfect.
- 12:10 pm
- Rich Steel said...
Thanks for the replies. Looks like I will have to wait until next year now to have another go at the terns as they have dispersed now. They are always a great joy to photograph and I am looking forward to that already.
- 7:48 am
- T and S said...
Truly amazing images of the Tern. Exceptional quality. WOW...Thomas
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Easter is the first extended weekend in spring and a well-deserved break for many Swedes. Depending on where you live in this long-stretched country, if it is an early or late Easter holiday as well as depending on what mood Jack Frost (in Swedish "Kung Bore") is in Swedes can enjoy both warmth, sun and snow on this holiday.
Many Swedes have what they call summer houses, a getaway outside of town where they spend summer holidays and weekend breaks and some take advantage of this long weekend escape the city and do a spring cleaning of the cottage.
Others might take the chance to take the boat out for the first time or stay at home and just enjoy some precious free time with the family.
When I was a child Easter meant going to the Swedish mountains and enjoying some skiing. Easter in the Swedish mountains is usually very special with the spring conditions that offer icy hard slopes in the morning, lunchtime on a sunny terrace and some slushy afternoon turns. The days after a long dark winter are getting longer again and the light-deprived Swedes are soaking up the sun as much as they can. What is your most precious Easter memory?
But what about the Easter traditions? Apart from celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the end of Lent, 40 days of fasting, Easter in Sweden also means eating lots of eggs, herring and salmon, as well as giving away sweets wrapped up in beautifully decorated paper eggs (see picture) and "påskris", birch branches decorated with brightly colored feathers.
For the children this holiday is an opportunity to dress up as Easter witches ("påskkärringar"), wearing ragged clothes, paint their faces, bring an old broomstick and ring the neighbor's doors asking for treats. This tradition is supposed to derive from the witch trials in the 17th century and the Easter witches are said to use their broomsticks to fly to "Blåkulla", a legendary meadow where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbath. For more peculiar Easter traditions around the world, check out this link: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1889922_1890008_1889927,00.html
Easter is of course also a time to think about those less fortunate and share some of your fortune with others. This Easter I will make a donation for Barncancerfonden, http://www.barncancerfonden.se/stod-oss/ge-en-gava/, an organization that supports research for children with cancer and work towards better treatment and an improved quality of life for these children. Who will you be thinking of this Easter? Share your thoughts with us.


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There are times – usually after I've just exited a biennial-sized smorgasbord of all the weird and wonderful things that contemporary art has to offer – when everything I happen upon feels like an undiscovered artwork waiting to be discovered, appropriated, and/or replicated. The city surveyor's spray paint marking out sewer routes on snowbanks? That's a piece. The iPhone voice memo recording of a three year old chanting, "Dracula eats blood" for two long minutes? That's a piece. The dumpster full of shattered concrete and one half-eaten apple? That's a piece. Now the difference between me and an artist is that I leave it at that, whereas the latter follows through with the moment of inspiration. And thank the gods they do, because otherwise I wouldn't have anything to write about.
Mathieu Latulippe, The Fall, 2013, digital print on Hannemuhle paper
Mathieu Latulippe, who is currently exhibiting a wide range of work at Division Gallery's Toronto location, is the type of artist who follows though with every burst of inspiration. While such creative momentum is something to be applauded, it doesn't mean that every stray thought should be realized. A Sol LeWitt sculpture splattered with faux bird poop might sound good on paper, but when witnessed in person it comes off as bratty (particularly when it is titled Shit Happens #1). A picture of Niagara Falls with a mushroom cloud rising from it is just a variation on the same theme (natural wonder + atom bomb = Minimalism + poop). And grainy screens shots of indiscriminate landscapes taken from scary movies should be tossed along with any other student work.
That said, Latulippe transcends his sources with a weathered birdhouse plus TV combo running a loop of unpopulated scenes from the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. It's the type of seemingly random conjunction of disparate parts that can't be explained, but once it exists is hard to forget. I felt a similar compulsion to keep looking at his obscurely titled print No. 3 (Blue, yellow, orange on deep black). What seems to be your standard starry night sky is revealed on further examination to be a constellation of tiny satellites that are barely visible but – and this might just be my failing eyesight – eventually congeal into an impressive array of distinct devices for telecommunication and surveillance. That neither of these works can be reduced to a one-liner is a good indication of where the artist should continue to find his muse.
Lyse Lemieux, Wall Drawing 6 - Toronto, 2015, felted wool
A cleansing tonic from the surfeit of content and reality in Latulippe's work can be found in Lyse Lemieux's free floating gestures on view at Katzman Contemporary. While there are hints of things represented – particularly in her endearing suite of profile portraits reduced to a thick squiggly line tracing nose-lips-chin plus black-grey watercolour washes that shadow the eyes and brain – the dominant pieces are three floor-to-ceiling drawings of the barest sense of figuration rendered in strips of felt. One looks to me like a baby whale, another like someone with an eggbeater in their mouth, but given enough time I'm sure I could come up with far greater visions. Lemieux manages the difficult trick of opening the door just a crack and then leaves it up to the visitor to identify the results. This subtle manner of art-making can fall apart into meaningless marks or easily be dismissed as insubstantial or, worse yet, simply not noticed; however, as I learned years ago from a wise jazz man who more often than not held his trumpet in his hands rather than at his lips, it's the notes you don't play as much as it is the notes you do.
Division Gallery: http://www.galeriedivision.com/toronto/exhibitions
Mathieu Latulippe: Back to Paradise Lost continues until April 18.
Katzman Contemporary: http://www.katzmancontemporary.com/
Lyse Lemieux & Meryl McMaster: in-between-in-between continues until March 21.
Terence Dick is a freelance writer living in Toronto. His art criticism has appeared in Canadian Art, BorderCrossings, Prefix Photo, Camera Austria, Fuse, Mix, C Magazine, Azure, and The Globe and Mail. He is the editor of Akimblog. You can follow his quickie reviews and art news announcements on Twitter @TerenceDick.
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