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eXtremeDB's streamlined design minimizes IoT system's demand for memory and CPU resources.
Code size is approximately 200K, and this footprint can be reduced to as little as 100K when features (such as support for floating point, events) are selectively compiled out using eXtremeDB's available source code. Elimination of disk I/O and caching logic significantly reduce CPU demands.
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By Oscilloscope
In case you missed the news, O-Scope will be releasing two new documentaries that caught our eye at Sundance: IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT and REBIRTH.
IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT takes a look at the rise and fall of an E.L.F. cell – the organization the FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat." Directed by Marshall Curry (STREET FIGHT, RACING DREAMS), the film won a Documentary Editing Award at this past Sundance Film Festival and will be in theaters this June.
Jim Whitaker's REBIRTH also debuted at Sundance and examines terrorism in America from a completely different perspective. Weaving the personal journeys of five people affected by the September 11th attacks over ten years with unprecedented time-lapse photography of Ground Zero and a score by Phillip Glass, REBIRTH offers hope and healing while documenting people's ability to overcome adversity and renew. REBIRTH will play select theaters in August.
For more information about IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT, check out the film's site:
For more information about REBIRTH, check out this article from the Los Angeles Times:
Until next time,
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As you race to tick another present off your list or write another batch of cards take a moment to count your blessings and remember that all we really need is shelter, warmth, food and love – everything else is a bonus.
For those of you who don't have all of those things I wish you better times ahead.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
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The London Stock Exchange is a market for securities, the collective name for stocks and shares. The main function of the stock market is to enable firms to raise capital and to provide a market for trading in second hand shares and government stocks.
NASDAQ is part of the American Stock exchange and is the world's first electronic trading environment. It allows multiple market participants to trade a company's stock through a sophisticated computer and telecommunications network making it a truly global market. The public shares offering of Freeserve raised net proceeds of over £122.9 million.
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- This is a "pointer" quest, pointing to the various different quests in Far Harbor.
- To complete it, finish two out of the following quests: Hull Breach (counts twice per completion), Blood Tide, or Safe Passage
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|Help the citizens of Far Harbor
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This programme considers how the principles and practice of effective and fair public health care can inform health policy and health care systems in national and local settings. An important focus of the programme will be the theoretical and practical principles of solidarity in health care systems. The programme analyses the principles of health systems, and makes global linkages to social, political, economic, and cultural issues in individual countries and themes. Students will gain an understanding of competition and trade law and regulation and its application to public health care. This programme is of particular interest to medical and clinical practitioners, civil servants, public health practitioners, social and political scientists, lab scientists, and NGO workers.
High quality primary health care and public health systems form the cornerstone of an efficient, effective, and equitable health system. Many countries (whether low-, middle- or high-income) are seeking to shift from a secondary care led, disease-oriented and 'reactive' healthcare system to one characterised by a strong primary care sector offering 'proactive', whole-patient care through measures such as patient education, prevention, early diagnosis, support for self-care, risk factor and chronic disease management, and systematic gate-keeping to the secondary care sector.
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There are a number of distinct features about the course which include: an emphasis on the social determinants of health; a focus on the interface between politics and policy; a concern for social justice; and a stress upon primary care acting as a platform for effective public health action.
The offers an opportunity to develop a pronounced multi-disciplinary analysis that includes sociology, anthropology, economics, law, geography as well as public health medicine. You will therefore learn from a truly multidisciplinary programme, which will give you a genuinely broad education and wide perspective.
Furthermore, the Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry is comprised of two renowned and prestigious teaching hospitals: St Bartholomew's and The Royal London. Both continue to make an outstanding contribution to modern medicine and together have been consistently ranked among the top five in the UK for medicine.
The Global Public Health Unit combines the local and the global in a stimulating and challenging research and teaching environment – we have strong links to the NHS, local authorities, third-sector organisations, policymakers in the UK and elsewhere, and leading international figures in global health.
We integrate different types of teaching delivery including small group seminars and participation in public health conferences. We have collaborations with other universities and organisations from around the world to aid research, teaching, policy development, and community engagement, and we encourage students to get involved in both our local and international work.
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Dr Elias Kondilis
Dr Kondilis is a senior lecturer in health systems. He has been involved in research on healthcare privatization policies, quality evaluation and regulation of private for-profit healthcare providers. His research now focuses on the impact of economic crisis on population health and healthcare reform in Europe. Previously he held research and teaching positions at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Professor David McCoy
Programme Director
Professor David McCoy is a senior clinical lecturer at the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health at Queen Mary University, London and head of Public Health Intelligence for Inner North West London.
David graduated from Southampton University medical school and worked as a clinician in the UK for two and a half years. He then spent ten years in South Africa, first working in a rural government hospital in South Africa for two and half years, and subsequently in the field of public health and health systems development. He was policy research fellow at the Child Health Unit of the University of Cape Town, and then worked for Health Systems Trust, a non-government organisation established to support the post-apartheid transformation of South Africa's health care system. On returning to the UK, he completed his formal training in public health medicine. He then worked as a research fellow at University College London, followed by a stint as Director of Public Health in Hammersmith and Fulham. He has an M.Phil in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Cape Town and a doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr Doreen Montag
MSc Coordinator
Dr. Montag is a lecturer in Non-Clinical Global Public Health with almost 20 years of experience among indigenous and non-indigenous people in rural and urban areas of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon. She received her DPhil in Anthropology from Oxford University. Her doctoral research, which was funded by the Radcliff-Brown Trust of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the Bamborough Fund, the Linacre Trust Fund and the Peter Lienhardt Memorial Fund from the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford University, is an ethnography of fever in the Peruvian Amazon. It focuses on how historical factors, embodied biopolitics, current environmental degradation and increase in emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases impacts upon urban Shipibo-Konibo people's experiences of fever.
Dr Megan Clinch
Dr Clinch is a lecturer in medicine and society. She has a background in social anthropology and has researched at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Social Science at the Open University, and the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She explores how different forms of investigation, experimentality, evidence, and evaluation are understood and managed in the development of public health interventions. This research contributes to her broad interest in the politics of evidence in contentious practice situations and the emergence of interdisciplinary research as a means of managing them. Megan teaches medical anthropology, medical sociology and qualitative research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Dr Miran Epstein
Dr Epstein is a reader in medical ethics. His research covers transplant ethics, end-of-life ethics, and human research ethics. His particular interest is the history of biomedical ethics, on which he is currently writing a book. He is a member of The Transplantation Society (TTS) and a London-based NHS research ethics committee.
Dr Valentina Gallo
Dr Valentina Gallo is a neuroepidemiologist with both clinical neurological qualifications and epidemiological background. She graduated in medicine in 2000 at 'la Sapienza' University of Rome, where she also obtained her clinical qualification as neurologist in 2005. She attended the MSc in Demography and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2003-04. Before joining QMUL, Valentina worked as research associate in the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and as clinical lecturer in epidemiology at LSHTM, working on the health effect of perfluorinated compound exposure. Valentina is currently investigating risk factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (a form of motor neurone disease) and Parkinson's disease; and has interests in environmental, molecular, and social epidemiology.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy
Jonathan's research uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods – including in-depth interviews, comparative historical methods and statistical analysis – in a question-driven process. Broadly speaking, his research can be divided into two substantive strands. The first introduces methods and theories from political economy and political sociology to analyze the political, social and economic determinants of public health. The second seeks to understand violent political conflict between the state and marginal communities in a manner that takes into account the dynamic relationship between individual actions, political opportunity structures, and socioeconomic structures. Jonathan's published research concentrates on South Asia, but he is interested in developing and transitional countries more generally. He is currently working on a project that uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative data to investigate the political determinants of polio and specifically the relationship between Islamist insurgency and polio in countries including Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Ms Sally Kerry
Sally Kerry is a reader in medical statistics and senior statistician in the Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit. She previously worked at St George's, University of London where she developed an interest in pragmatic trials in primary care and cluster randomised trials. She is particularly interested in making statistical ideas accessible to health researchers and has written a number of papers about cluster randomised trials in the BMJ. She has co-authored two books, 'Presenting medical statistics from proposal to publication' with Janet Peacock and 'A practical guide to cluster randomised trials' with Sandra Eldridge.
Dr Giuliano Russo
Giuliano Russo is a lecturer in global health at QMUL's Centre for Primary Care and Public Health. Giuliano has over 15 years of professional experience in academia, public and private sector, having worked in the past for the University of Lisbon (Portugal), the Overseas Development Institute (UK), the Government of Mozambique, the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (Mexico), as well as for SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals (Spain and the UK).
A health economist by training, his recent work has focused on pharmaceutical policy and markets in low- and middle-income countries, the economics of human resources for health, health systems in low-income settings, and on global health aid architecture, with a geographical focus on African and Latin-American countries.
Giuliano holds an MSc in health economics from the University of York, and a Doctorate in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
This MSc programme is available for study for one year full-time, or two years part-time.
In the first semester, modules develop the key concepts and research methods and analysis. These present you with relevant methodological issues and challenges while providing interdisciplinary foundations. In the second semester, you gain a more detailed understanding of areas relevant to your interests through specialist and elective modules.
Core modules
- Epidemiology and Statistics
- Evidence, Policy and Global Health
- Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health
- Health Systems, Policy and Practice
- Dissertation
Specialist modules
- Health Systems Theory, Policy and Political Economy
- Understanding and Managing Human Resources for Global Health
Optional modules
- Anthropology and Global Health
- Migration, Culture, and Health
- Gender, Sexuality and Health
- Global Health, Governance and Law
- Ecological Global Health
- Human Rights and Public Health
- Globalisation and Contemporary Medical Ethics
- Researching Global Health and Biomedicine- Geneva Field Class
- Economics of Development
- Human Resource Management in the Public Services
Undertaking an MSc programme is a serious commitment, with weekly contact hours being in addition to numerous hours of independent learning and research needed to progress at the required level. When coursework or examination deadlines are approaching independent learning hours may need to increase significantly. Each module you study is worth 15 credits. University guidelines suggest that for every 15 credits, a student will need to study for 150 hours. You will usually have one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour seminar per module, per week. You should expect to be on campus at least 3 days a week.
Our part-time study options mean you can complete this MSc over two years. This MSc programme consist of four core modules, two specialist modules and two optional modules and finally a dissertation, worth a total of 180 credits.
A part time student is required to take two of the core module worth 15 credits in semester one of the first year. In the second semester of the first year, a part time student will take the two specialist, each worth 15 credits. The first year teaching is completed by early April, and final assessments submitted by the end of May.
In the second year a part time student will take the other two core modules worth 15 credits each in semester one, and in the second semester they would take a two optional modules worth 15 credits. In the second year a part time student would research and write their 10,000 to 12,000 word dissertation worth 60 credits. This is usually submitted in August.
University guidelines suggest that for every 15 credits, a student will need to study for 150 hours. This is worth considering when thinking about studying part time. You will usually have one 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour seminar, per module, per week.
Distance Learning
This programme is not currently available as distance learning, although we hope to make this available in the future. Contact us for further information.
Entry requirements
You will normally need at least a 2.1 honours degree or GPA 3.2/4.0 or GPA 3.4/5.0 or international equivalent in a relevant subject, such as medicine, the health sciences, nursing or the social sciences. Applicants with a 2.2 honours degree with relevant experience within the field are welcomed to apply. We also welcome applications from those who have studied a less directly related subject at undergraduate level, but who can demonstrate interest and motivation in this area.
International applicants
Students from outside of the UK help form a global community here at Queen Mary. For detailed country specific entry requirements please visit the International section of our website. If your first language is not English, you must provide evidence of your English language proficiency.
Find out more about our English language entry requirements.
If you do not meet language or scholarly requirements it might be possible for you to undertake foundation or pre-sessional programmes that will prepare you for the masters programme. For more information, please contact the Admissions Office.
Learning and teaching
As a student at Queen Mary, you will play an active part in your acquisition of skills and knowledge. Teaching is by a mixture of formal lectures and small group seminars. The seminars are designed to generate informed discussion around set topics, and may involve student presentations, group exercise and role-play as well as open discussion. We take pride in the close and friendly working relationship we have with our students. You are assigned an Academic Adviser who will guide you in both academic and pastoral matters throughout your time at Queen Mary.
Independent Study
For every hour spent in classes you will be expected to complete further hours of independent study. Your individual study time could be spent preparing for, or following up on formal study sessions; reading; producing written work; completing projects; and revising for examinations.
The direction of your individual study will be guided by the formal study sessions you attend, along with your reading lists and assignments. However, we expect you to demonstrate an active role in your own learning by reading widely and expanding your own knowledge, understanding and critical ability.
Independent study will foster in you the ability to identify your own learning needs and determine which areas you need to focus on to become proficient in your subject area. This is an important transferable skill and will help to prepare you for the transition to working life.
Assessment takes a number of different forms including coursework essays, assignments and presentations, and examinations. Students must achieve an overall pass in the taught element in order to progress to their dissertation, which must also be passed for a degree to be awarded.
You will also be assessed on a supervised 12,000-word dissertation.
Tuition fees for Home and EU students2019/20 Academic Year
Full time £10,440
Part-time study is not available for this course
Tuition fees for International students2019/20 Academic Year
Full time £17,100
Part-time study is not available for this course
There are a number of sources of funding available for Masters students.
These include a significant package of competitive Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) bursaries and scholarships in a range of subject areas, as well as external sources of funding.
Queen Mary bursaries and scholarships
We offer a range of bursaries and scholarships for Masters students including competitive scholarships, bursaries and awards, some of which are for applicants studying specific subjects.
Find out more about QMUL bursaries and scholarships.
Alternative sources of funding
Home/EU students can apply for a range of other funding, such as Professional and Career Development Loans, and Employer Sponsorship, depending on their circumstances and the specific programme of study.
Overseas students may be eligible to apply for a range of external scholarships and we also provide information about relevant funding providers in your home country on our country web pages.
Download our Postgraduate Funding Guide for detailed information about postgraduate funding options for Home/EU students.
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Dr Janakan Ratnarajan- MSc PT Blizard Institute, Global Health Systems Theory and Policy- Graduating December 2018
Why did you choose Global Health at Queen Mary?
After qualifying as a GP, I realised I wanted to be more involved in health system planning. I found a number of universities which catered to part-time students. What attracted to me about Queen Mary was the explicit intentions of universal health coverage and equality. This was vital to me as it chimed with my own values and objectives. There was a wide range of courses available and the mandatory courses were well selected to give a targeted but varied foundation.
As a part-time student the course provided many adaptations to accommodate my work schedule. Including first selection of modules to being open to interact and adapt to allow us maximum exposure. The administration ensured that I could study and continue working. It was really appreciated.
What are you most enjoying about your degree?
Firstly, and most importantly it has changed the way I think about not only health, but the world in general. Core modules were distinct but built upon learning in other modules. Selective modules covered all my interests and were delivered with diligence and enthusiasm. Secondly, the professors were all friendly, and approachable. It was clear that they had passion for health equality. We were treated as colleagues and encouraged to challenge. Thirdly, there is an incredible breath of nationalities and experience. Fellow students shared how health is managed, and the challenges they face in our interactive weekly seminars was an unexpected and special bonus.
How would you describe this degree to someone who knew nothing about it?
If you believe health is a right, then this is a great course for you. It is a demanding course, which needs good time management. But if you are driven by improving health for others, the reading, lectures/seminars and assignments will provide you with the tools to move forward.
What do you plan to do after your degree?
This degree reinforced my desire to enter into health planning. It has opened opportunities to work in local CCGs in the summer break (only for part time students). Over the coming months I will weigh up my options on how to enter health policy. This could be a governmental level, 3rd sector or independent think tanks.


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WORK: Family Home Evening
This is a short lesson to do before doing a family project like yard work.
"When We're Helping," Children's Songbook, p. 198.
Use sticks or toothpicks to demonstrate the following story. Even asking your kids to break the single stick and then to try to break them when they are tied into a bundle.
Aesop was a wise philosopher who would use sticks to illustrate the point of work. He would hold up one stick and ask one of his listeners to break it— which could easily be done. Then he would hold up two sticks, and repeat the process. Then three, and so on until the little bundle of sticks couldn't be broken, no matter how hard his student tried.
"Alone, we are weak and easily broken," Aesop would explain, "but together, we are strong."
Ask your kids to pretend for a minute that the job you are about to do together was a job only for them to take care of. Would they like that? Ask them if they would like help. If they approach the job with the mindset that it is their job and everyone else is there to "help" them, it changes the way they work. They are happy to have the help vs complaining that they "have" to help you.
What would the world be like if no one worked?
How does work help people?
Read Moses 5:1 & Genesis 3:19
How was Adam's curse–to eat "by the sweat of his brow"–a blessing?
Discuss tasks or skills family members have completed or worked to develop in the past year. (Such as playing an instrument, eagle scout project, reading, tying shoes, etc.)
Discuss the good feelings that come from completing a task & working hard.
Would there be growth if we were rewarded first?
"When man is industrious and righteous, then is he happy" -Brigham Young


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Save Your Wet Cell Phone
Can something as simple as rice save your wet cell phone? According to Popular Mechanics it is that easy. Well okay, there are a few more steps. Like most importantly, do NOT power up your phone to see if it still works.
The most convenient choice is uncooked rice. Just leave the phone (and its disconnected battery) submerged in a bowl of grains overnight. If you're worried about rice dust getting inside your phone, you can instead use the packets of silica gel that often come stuffed in the pockets of new clothes. But acting fast is far more important than avoiding a little dust, so don't waste time shopping if you don't already have a drawer full of silica gel.
For step by step instructions on saving your phone click here.
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Photograph from the series 'Forget Your Past' by Nikola Mihov (C).
Anthropologists in Art in collaboration with
Marie Bromander, LAPS and Cultural Analysis (UvA) present:
Socialism's Material Residue and Beyond...
A Lecture & Discussion on the (re)use of art and monuments in the public sphere
Joost de Bloois (Cultural Analysis - UvA)
Jeroen Boomgaard (LAPS- Gerrit Rietveld Academy)
Nikola Mihov (photographer)
Krassimir Terziev (Univ. of Sofia - visual anthropology / artist)
The lecture will be held at:
WM Gallery: Sunday 25th of November 2012 from 15:00-17:00
Location: Elandsgracht 35, 1016 TN , Amsterdam
About the lecture:
Four speakers will present their views in short lectures; ranging from tantalising artistic research concerning the re-appropriation of socialist monuments in Bulgaria to the significance of this discourse surrounding public monuments in other societies as it pertains to spatial use and re-use. Taking Bulgaria's post-socialist situation as a starting point, this lecture makes the connection to other realities, such as The Netherlands, where the relation between art and politics and art and monuments in the public space will be addressed. In this way, the theme of the exhibition ´Socialism´s Material Residue - legitimacy and (re)appropriation of Bulgaria´s socialist monuments` will be given a broad treatment.
Questions that will be addressed are, amongst others: Can the current discussion in Bulgaria regarding the fate of socialist monuments be translated to other social realities and used as a case-study in the discourse surrounding the use and re-use of public art and public space in other societies as well? What meaning can we get from contemporary artworks that deal with re-appropriation and re-use of monuments in the public sphere? If art takes the role of politics, what kind of politics do we want art to take part in?
About the guestspeakers:
Dr. Joost de Bloois achieved his PhD at the Utrecht University in 2003 and has since then been assistantprofessor at the University of Amsterdam, departments of Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis. He has published widely on the nexus between art and politics in magazines such as Metropolis M and Simulacrum, as well as publications on the work of philosophers/authors Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida and essays on the impact of philosopher Gilles Deleuze on the contemporary thinking on art. Lately de Bloois has been working on the work of philosopher Alain Badiou and co-edited (with Ernst van den Hemel) a publication on Badiou Alain Badiou's Inesthetiek: filosofie, kunst, politiek that was published just recently. De Bloois has taken part in public programmes of lectures in reknown institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2011, and De Appel 2012.
De Bloois lives in Utrecht and works in Amsterdam.
"For the sake of the poor century which is opening, we must, and thus we will, declare the existence of what no longer exists in art: the monumental construction, the project, the creative force of the weak, the destruction of established powers". Thus writes the French philosopher Alain Badiou in his Manifesto of Affirmationism. In his political philosophy Badiou advocates a renewal of 'communism' (albeit at a distance from 20th century state communism). What can Badiou's peculiar plea for a new monumentalism in art and a new communism in politics mean precisely when communist monuments are left to decay, like so many embarrassing reminders of a failed utopian project? Do not the works exhibited in Socialism's Material Residue precisely demonstrate that, under the rule of triumphant neoliberal capitalism, the socialist monument can only be reduced to a mere historical oddity or, perhaps at best, a kitsch object for hipster art?
Starting from Badiou's reflections on the political significance of (contemporary) art, Joost de Bloois will show that the political significance of remaining socialist monuments may well reside in their anachrocity: it is perhaps as a 'vanishing term' that they may indicate to new forms of radical emancipatory politics.
Dr. Jeroen Boomgaard is an art historian and art critic, and currently Professor of Art and Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, head of Master Artistic Research at the Universiteit vanAmsterdam and also directs the research group Art & Public Space (Lectoraat Kunst en Publieke Ruimte). In his work, Boomgaard examines the role of art in the public domain, and the bridge between art and research. He regularly writes articles about art and public space for publications such as Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain. In 2008 he edited a collection of essays on art in public space, High Rise – Common Ground, Art and the Amsterdam Zuidas Area. He also co-edited (with Bart Rutten) the book The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970–1985 (2003). In 2011 he published Wild Park: Commissioning the Unexpected with essays on the quality of art inpublic space.
Boomgaard lives and works in Amsterdam
Boomgaard examines the role of art in the public domain, and the bridge between art and research. In Boomgaard´s presentation we will see if the current discussion in Bulgaria on the re-use and reappropriation of socialist monuments in a post-socialist era can be translatable to a different reality, The Netherlands for example, where instead of public monuments executed during a period of totalitarian ideology, the effectiveness and role of public art is a more common subject of discussion.
Krassimir Terziev (1969 Dobrich, Bulgaria) is a trained painter who also produces photographs, installations and computer mediated works. However, it is the moving image that has proven to be his most expressive artistic idiom. He is acclaimed for his works in experimental film and video art, and is co-director of XFILM festival for Experimental Film, Video & New Media in Sofia. Terziev's work has been shown on television, media art festivals (Impakt, Utrecht and Video positive, Liverpool), Group shows (NEW VIDEO, NEW EUROPE, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and TATE Modern London & ST. Lois MOCA, etc). Terziev will be showing his video work "MONU-MENTAL" (2011): an observation of a public space that is popular among the youth in Sofia.
In his artistic research, Terziev investigates the role of public (urban) space in the cultural and socio-economic practices and structures, and the spatial practices of the inhabitants of the city.
Those monumental constructions of the communist era in Bulgaria are usually seen as mute shapes of stone and metal. Directed towards eternity, they are meant to be an expression of common memory, guarded by rigorous rituals. Despite that common notion, after 1989 wesaw them as sources of passionate conflicts, ironic art interventions and political fights. It seems that they died together with the old political system, only to return as undead in various new scenarios full of love and hate. There is a process of reappropriation not only by artists but by various power positions as well: local and central authorities are not less creative in adapting these symbolic sites for the new realities. In Krassimir´s presentation some of the peculiar top-down interventions that he has encountered around the country will be addressed.
Nikola Mihov (1982 Sofia, Bulgaria)
Nikola Mihov was born in Sofia in 1982. In 2002 he moved to Paris, where he became interested in photography. Since 2006 he has taken part in a number of international exhibitions and festivals. He received the award of the Phodar International Biennial of Photography in Pleven, Bulgaria (2009), and was nominated the "Zooms" award of Salon de la Photo in Paris (2012). Nikola is a co-founder of SOCMUS - the virtual museum of the socialist era graphic design in Bulgaria (www.nikolamihov.com).
During the last three years, in his photographic series Forget Your Past, Mihov has traced the fate of the most important communist-era monuments in Bulgaria, from their construction to their present state today. Taking his work as the basis for his input, this part will have the character of a case-study.


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Cool Ice breakers Warm Up for Choirs - Singing People's Names
Directing a choir can be a really cool experience. In a choir rehearsal, there are a few avenues where you can inject some creativity and variability into the rehearsal outside of the set music repertoire that needs to be accomplished. In this hub, I wish to give you a cool suggestion or idea for warm ups that you might want to use with your choir.
Singing people's names
If your choir is meeting for the first time, or if you need to break the social cliques, this might be a cool way to break the ice and create friendships - by singing people's names. How do you do this? You could sing people's names by going up the scale, and coming back down again (do re mi fa so la ti do.... ti la so fa mi re do). You could do the entire scale, or you could just sing up to the fifth - or any note! It's really up to you.
I'd suggest you have one round of introduction, and then afterward you could sing people's names - you could sing those with two syllabi eg. Amy, Jason, Arthur, Michelle, then switch to triplet rhythms with those who have names with 3 syllabi eg. Cassandra, Katherine, Jonathan... and you could even change the stress of the beats according to the stress of the names eg. caSANdra, or KATHerine....
Jazzing up a simple warm up
If your choir is game, you could go up to four syllabi names, and add in the surnames. From my experience, the more laughter there is during a choir rehearsal (particularly at the start), the more productive it will be.
Sometimes, some names are just inherent tongue twisters, and those names can be a fun challenge to sing - you could turn it into a tiny competition or game to see who can sing a particular tongue-twister name as fast and accurately as possible.
Another nice thing that I like about singing people's names for warm up, is that it provides a great opportunity to stress the importance of good diction and articulation. So often we forget to sing the consonant sounds - using warm ups to cultivate the habit of making the 'CHHH' or 'SH' or 'T' or 'ST' sounds is a cool, subtle and effective way of highlighting the importance of singing the consonants.
The other tactic that you might want to use when singing names, is to choose those names with a particular vowel that you want to sing and unify - for example, if you are singing the word 'Amen', you might want to highlight the possible pronunciation of 'Aaah-men', or 'Aeeeee-men'. For the first, the name 'Artis', or 'Arthur'.. have the same Aaaah vowel sound. While for the latter pronunciation, the names 'Amy', 'Damien'.. 'Hazel' have the same 'aeeee' vowel sound. Singing these names can help the choir to have a better idea and better memory of which sound they should pronounce.
A little piece of advice
Just make sure that as the conductor, you treat all these precious names with respect, as they belong to your precious choir members.
Another piece of advice that I might give would be to start singing the names of someone who is quite confident and fun-loving first. In fact, I would encourage you to use your own name to start of this warm up - just so that you can model a 'natural' reaction towards singing a name, and to show that you are a good sport, fun-loving, and intentional in getting a good vocal workout from your name.
Most people will find it funny or cool, but there are a small handful of choir members (depending on the culture you come from) that might be a little shy or self-conscious, and so they might be unable to sing at all if you choose their name. If they might just squirm in their seats if you look at them during the warm up. I suggest you choose their names toward the end of your warm up - or perhaps not choose their names at all.
How do you break the ice with your choirs? Leave a comment!
More Hubs about Choirs
- Effective Vocal Warm-ups For Singers and Vocalists
Stop! Do not sing any song without first warming up your voice and here are some of the most Effective Vocal Warm-ups for Singers and Vocalists.
- How to be a Good Choir Accompanist? Tips and General Guidelines for Pianists working with Choirs
Being a choir accompanist can be a most enjoyable job to some, while it can be excruciatingly stressful for others. Here are some guiding principles that all accompanists should abide by, no matter what kind of choir they are accompanying.
- How to Be a Good Church Choir Pianist? Tips and Advice For Accompanying The Singers
Music has always played a big role as part of the corporate worship in churches. If you are in a church choir pianist, what are some of the things to look out for that are particularly pertinent in a church choir setting?
- How To Have Effective and Fun Childrens' Choir Rehearsal
Conducting a childrens' choir offers so much opportunity to inspire and make lifelong impact on young lives. This hub offers some advice on how to make choir rehearsals enjoyable and effective for both you and your choir.
- How to Be a Good Choir Pianist? A Glimpse Into Accompanying Professional and Semi-Professional Ensem
Accompanying a University choir, or a professional singing ensemble can be a most fulfilling and enjoyable job for an accomplished pianist. This hub gives a peak into what accompanying such great singers might entail.
Hi StellaSee,
What a great idea. Never thought of that!
I myself have experience since 2000 when I started out conducting as an 18-year old boy. I collected a lot of exercises eversince and put them together for everyone to know. Maybe you'll like them too. You can find them at http://www.warmupyourchoir.com.
Great hub you've got here. Keep on the good work!
Ahhh reading this reminded me of my high school choir teacher.. she was anal about our diction too. For instance the 'kh' in key or 'buh' in butter or 'peh' in penny. And we had to sing up and down the scale to words like 'me-meh-mah-mou' to emphasize our vowels. Ah~ good times... :)
I like you idea. I am sure your choire must truly enjoy their time at practice. I used to sing in a group when I was a teen and we would just warm up traditionally with the notes on the piano octaves.
What an excellent article for breaking the ice for new choir members. Good detail. Well written. I am so impressed. I will pass this on to my choir-conducting class students. Thanks, Charlotte. Would love to be in your choir. :) Voted up and across!


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Case studies
This case studies series provides a snapshot of each of the 25 projects delivering in the Realising Ambition programme.
Each case study outlines the project's achievements against Realising Ambition's five key ingredients of successful replication and highlights the outcomes achieved through their service delivery.
These case studies have been written by the Realising Ambition consortium in conjunction with the project upon completion of their delivery in the programme.
All Stars (Barnardo's Northern Ireland)
This case study shows that well-established evidence-based programmes can be successfully delivered as intended and at the same time be adapted for delivery to beneficiaries with different needs.
Read the Barnardo's Case Study
Winston's Wish (Switch)
Winston's Wish's experience shows that a programme that had previously been a universal offer, in that it was available to all bereaved young people on demand, can be adapted to specifically target a demographic that has not historically accessed it.
Read the Winston's Wish Case Study
Trelya (friends of the children)
Trelya's experience illustrates that when delivery organisations establish long term and intensive relationships with young people and their families, significant focus is required to maintain beneficiary engagement with a programme.
Be Safe (Children's programme)
Be Safe's experience illustrates that the ability of the most tightly defined, highly targeted and replicable services to achieve anticipated reach may sometimes be subject to external factors over which the service has no control.
Plusone Mentoring (YMCA Scotland)
This case study demonstrates that an affiliation-based model of replication enables reach over a wide geographical area to be achieved quickly.
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Safer Schools Partnership (Remedi)
This case study shows that adapting replication models to save costs may lead to some loss of fidelity in delivery.
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Anne Frank Schools and Ambassadors Programme
This case study demonstrates that if an organisation invests sufficiently in building a business case for its services and is adaptable to a changing political and social environment, then funding can be sustainably secured.
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Boy's Development Programme (Working With Men)
This case study shows that the investment required to prepare a programme for replication can be demanding for small organisations.
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Early Intervention and Family Support Programme (Malachi)
This case study illustrates that smaller organisations can effectively introduce and build sustainability into grant-funded services that are replicated in new geographical areas.
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Early Intervention Mentoring (Chance UK)
This case study demonstrates that although a service may be readily replicable, the context in which new replications are delivered is important to achieving anticipated reach.
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Functional Family Therapy (Action for Children)
This case study examines the impact of the wider commissioning environment on further replicating and sustaining a service.
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Glasgow Children's Parliament Community Initiative (Children's Parliament)
This case study explores Children's Parliament's experience of replicating its rights-based initiative, and how Realising Ambition supported the organisation to become more outcomes focused.
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It's Not OK! & CyberSense (Ariel Trust)
This case study shows that a dissemination model of replication enables scale to be achieved quickly. However, it is still important to adapt to local and national policy contexts and to engage the right local stakeholders who can champion a programme in a replication area. These activities are key to gaining traction for a programme.
Read the Ariel Trust case study.
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LifeSkills Training (Barnardo's)
This case study examines the many factors involved in replicating across different geographical areas.
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Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence (Ambition)
This case study highlights how important it is for an organisation to adapt their business model to account for external funding factors.
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Multi-Systemic Therapy (Extern)
This case study explores the importance of understanding the local context in which you are replicating. Following a number of inappropriate referrals, Extern put a significant amount of work into building relationships with local referral agencies and other stakeholders to ensure its service was reaching the right people.
Read the Extern case study (Welsh version).
PATHS Plus Programme (Barnardo's)
This case study shows how replicating programmes delivered simultaneously across all four UK nations requires robust management to embed them, ensure they are delivered with fidelity and sustain them.
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Positive Assertive Confidence Skills (Kidscape)
This case study highlights the range of challenges that using external delivery partners can pose to organisations replicating with this model.
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Realising Ambition (Shelter)
This case study explores why and how adaptations may need to be made to a service when replicating it in order to best meet local need.
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Respect Young People's Programme (Respect)
This case study highlights the large amount of investment required by developers to ensure that external partners deliver programmes with fidelity. It also demonstrates that delivery organisations can be vulnerable to external factors, like funding cuts, but delivery through multiple partners can offer solutions to this challenge.
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Roots of Empathy (Action for Children)
This case study shows how important the context of delivery is for the sustainability of services, even with the most highly evidenced services.
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Stepping Up (The Bridge Foundation)
This case study shows that it is difficult to replicate a programme that offers combinations of services that are chosen specifically to meet each child's interests and needs, meaning the service differs significantly from child to child.
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Strength 2 Strength (BANG Edutainment)
This case study examines the great demands placed on organisations of honing interventions and how they can respond to these challenges.
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Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (UK) (Oxford Brookes University)
This case study explores how developing a sub-contract model enables scale to be achieved, but this requires investment in the model's management if a complex programme is to be delivered with fidelity.
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The Co-operative Primary School (Success for All-UK)
This case study highlights the need to ensure that organisational capacity and supporting infrastructure are sufficiently developed if services are to expand rapidly. It also demonstrates that services which do not rely on direct delivery may be scaled quickly.
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It's heartwarming that several of America's major online financial media networks have quoted from my book, The Wolf at the Door: Undue Influence and Elder Financial Abuse. The latest story comes from TheStreet.com, one of our country's leading online financial websites. Brian O'Connell, a business/finance writer, who regularly covers business news and trends, particularly in the financial, health, internet and technology sectors, wrote an interesting article, "My Stepmother Stole My Inheritance."
The article quotes a number of authors and explores the idea that the "issue of warring stepfamilies after the main breadwinner passes is generating some heat in estate inheritance circles, as adult children accuse step-spouses of grabbing the lion's share of the estate." The article quotes from a study "that parents with stepchildren 'were about 30 percentage points more likely to be planning unequal bequests than those with genetic children only.'"
It doesn't take long before the battle lines are drawn. The is where our law firm, Hackard Law, is regularly retained by stepchildren in cases where undue influence resulting in elder financial abuse was exerted by a stepparent against their biological parent. We represent abused beneficiaries, heirs and victims of elder financial abuse throughout most of California's major urban areas, including Los Angeles, Riverside, the Bay Area and Sacramento. You can call us today at 916-313-3030. We look forward to hearing your story.
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Today's Everyday Fashion: Cobalt Blazer x 2/
|Inspired by: Club Monaco
Top look: I loved the cobalt/yellow/mint color combo from the inspiration photo so I tried it with my own clothes. I'm also holding my Easter present - a buttery soft light yellow Coach bag I found for a steal at the Coach outlet. I'm fickle about purses, so the jury is out on whether or not I'm keeping it. (Trying it on with different outfits in my room seems like the best way to decide!) I was originally wanting a blush purse a la my shopping picks below, but the yellow is tempting.
Bottom look: Here's another way to wear this blazer (and show your team spirit). I wore the second outfit to the Orlando Magic game a few weeks ago!
Which outfit do you like better? Would you rather have a light yellow or a blush handbag?
Blazer: Forever 21, $30
Shirt: MJR Sales c/o, $14
Jeans: Gap c/o
Shoes: Enzo Angiolini/Piperlime, $32
Purse: Coach, $120
Necklace: Windsor Store c/o (similar)
Blazer: Forever 21, $30
Shirt: H&M, $15 (similar)
Shoes: Colin Stuart c/o MJR Sales, $24 (similar)
Purse: Michael Kors, gift
|J. Crew / Marc Jacobs / Botkier
Cambridge Satchel / Anthropologie
Guess / Calvin Klein / DKNY


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Play at Gulu
Gulu-Gulu Café presents live performances four nights a week.
Due to the overwhelming amount of booking inquiries we receive, we are not able to respond to every request. We will, however, contact you if we feel your band or idea will be a good fit at Gulu.
Due to the size of the room and our restaurant operations, we do not allow amplifiers. All equipment must be plugged directly into our PA. No exceptions.
Our equipment consists of two powered speakers, 2 monitors, a PA with 12 inputs, and 3 microphones with stands. Should you require additional equipment, please bring it along with you including cables to connect to our PA.
Our stage is 11 feet wide by 8 feet deep. For the safety of our staff and our patrons, all equipment and performers must fit on our stage.


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5 Reasons Interns Beat Bosses at Social Media
Recently, writing on The Business Insider War Room, Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media, charts a middle way. She argues that while social media shouldn't be left in the unsupervised hands of your lowest paid employees, the college students at your office are probably far better at interacting online than the higher ups. So even if you don't hand them the keys to the social media castle, remind yourself to act like them. Why?
- Interns are chatty. Good luck trying to get a CEO on the phone. You'd have to call in a bomb threat. And even then they'd only be on the phone to try and get off the phone. It's hard to have a conversation or make a connection with someone who really isn't listening... Interns, on the other hand, are so happy not to be photocopying something that they'll talk about anything. They're chattiness may be destructive to office productivity, but the chatty mindset can help you see success in social media.
- Interns are the gatekeepers of the dirt. When you want the real story about a company, you don't ask the executives. You ask a grunt. Because the grunt has his ear to the ground. He knows the back story for the argument that went down in the conference room, and he knows that layoffs are coming based on all the closed-door meetings. While you'd rightfully fire anyone for sharing any of this information (hello, employee social media guidelines), the intern reminds us what we can learn when we're paying attention to the interactions going on around us. As we get higher up the food chain we stop seeing what's in front of our eyes. Interns can spot the dirt.
- Interns are excitable. Most CEOs are as interesting as Bill Marriot. Which, is to say, they're not very interesting at all. It's hard for customers to relate to someone who's so far out of the day-to-day that all they can talk about are loose sponsorships or the highlights of the meeting they were just in. No one likes your CEO and blogging like a CEO is going to result in a lot of dead air. Interns are the ones with the juicy stories. They hold the stuff that people want to hear and that they can relate to.
- They understand their weaknesses. Your CEO has been in business for 20 years. That means he knows everything. And he's gotten really good at shoving off the blame and focusing on making himself look like the hero in every situation. Your intern, on the other hand, is about twenty seconds old. She knows she doesn't know everything and everyone is okay with her admitting that. This is the attitude that your customers want to see coming from your business â€" one of humility, grace, and constant learning. When you land on social media pretending to be God's gift to the Internet you turn everyone off and assure they're not listening to you.
- They take chances. The higher up in the ladder you are, the less likely it is you'll take a chance. And why would you? You're likely to get in trouble, to get fired, to miss out on a promotion you've been working toward. Don't get me wrong, I get it. However, that kind of attitude is detrimental to any kind of social media campaign. The idea behind social media isn't new, however, the tools relatively are. That means to get the most out it, sometimes you need to act with a little reckless abandon. Your intern still has that young optimism. He thinks he can do everything better. Now, he's probably wrong. But the fact that he's willing to try and fail is what will propel your company forward.
- Interns: Play Social Media Oracle to CEOs
- Gen Y "Enslaved" by Explosion in Unpaid Internships?
- 6 Tips to Get the Most Out Of an Internship


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Good coffee is as much a staple as bread for a big part of the Portuguese population. Coffee beverages come in many shapes and forms, all of which will eventually be checked upon with our Words of the Week segment.
For today, I brought you [o] galão, a hot drink made with expresso and hot milk mixed together and served in a glass (the proportions may vary, but the ratio is usually one quarter expresso to three quarters foamed milk). It's a typical breakfast food (to be accompanied by a sandwich, croissant or pastel de nata), so it's a word you'll run into when looking at menus or simply by observing Portuguese people in their natural habitat!
Related words/useful sentences:
- [o] café/[o] snack-bar: snack-bar (place where coffee and small meals are served)
- [o] empregado [de mesa]: waiter
- [a] empregada [de mesa]: waitress
- Quero um galão e um pastel de nata. I want/would be a galão and a pastel de nata.
- Pedi um galão ao empregado há dez minutos. I asked the waiter for a galão ten minutes ago.
- Neste café servem-se galões ao pequeno-almoço. Galões [pl.] are served in this snack-bar at/for breakfast.


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Sat Apr 22
Elana Cooper, Violin
4th Year Solo Recital
11:00 am, Barnett Hall
Please note: Student Recitals are subject to change / cancellation without notice.
Solo and chamber music recitals are presented by UBC Music performance majors as part of their degree requirements.
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Later Event: April 22Amanda Pang, Viola - 3rd Year Solo Recital


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IT IS WITH JOY IN OUR HEARTS TO THE LORD to share with you that on Sunday, Sept. 8, Tim Norton was installed to serve as missionary at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Navajo, N.M.
The service was well attended by the Navajo community, members of Trinity Lutheran Church in Gallup, N.M., as well as seven clergy from the circuit Tim is now part of. Rev. Gary Bickner was the liturgist, Rev. Peter Spallek led the installation and Rev. Dr. Don Johnson offered the message.
Tim and his family settled in Gallup in late July. Aside from his ministry activities in Navajo, Tim also is enrolled in the Cross-Cultural Ministry Center (CMC) program through Concordia University, Irvine, Calif., which leads to his ordination.
Tim Norton attended Concordia University, St. Paul, Minn., earned his Director of Christian Education (DCE) degree at Concordia University, Portland, Ore., and his Master of Arts in Mission and Evangelism from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Mass. Prior to coming to Shepherd of the Valley in Navajo, N.M., Tim and his wife, Heidi, served LCMS congregations in Portland, Ore., and Fresno, Calif. They served as church planter/leadership developer to the Maninka people in West Africa through LCMS World Mission.
We welcome Tim, Heidi, and their children, Philip and Leslie, to Lutheran Indian Ministries in Navajo.


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What is consent?
It seems that we are still in the process of having a national conversation about consent in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Consent is a fundamental requirement for many things, including any type of sexual activity, but it's still shrouded in confusion for many people. Part of the reason for the confusion is that sex and sexuality is still such a difficult topic to discuss for many people.
One way of thinking about consent is the Affirmative Consent model, which is the idea that "yes means yes." In more depth, this means that "consent is a voluntary, affirmative, conscious, agreement to engage in sexual activity, that it can be revoked at any time, that a previous relationship does not constitute consent, and that coercion or threat of force can also not be used to establish consent. Affirmative consent can be given either verbally or nonverbally." (source)
For vanilla communities, this model may initially seem cumbersome and perhaps even unsexy, but there communities that have been using the affirmative consent model successfully - Kink and LGBTQ+ communities.
It has been suggested that there is less of a taboo around discussing sex in kink and LGBTQ+ communities, in part because these communities are outside of the mainstream and have had to create their own models of communication about sex. Consent is all about communication, and people who are into kink understand that communicating with sexual partners is part of sexual activity itself. Consent is not something to only discuss outside of a sexual encounter (although it is important to discuss limits and negotiate before scenes), it is an integral part of sexual activity itself.
In the kink community, consent is paramount. Consent is never implied - it is generally understood in the kink community that consent is an important discussion between partners and that it is ongoing. Saying "yes" to one activity does not imply a "yes" for all other sexual activity. It is crucial to negotiate consent before a scene and go over each participant's limits and to check in during the scene as well.
Of course, this is not to say that the kink and queer communities are infallible when it comes to consent. There are perpetrators of violence in every community, and there are folks who are inexperienced or ignorant of the importance of consent during sexual encounters. However, the openness of communication around sex in the kink community is admirable and can teach us a lot about communication, consent, and boundaries in all sexual relationships. Folks outside of the kink community can use this as a jumping off point to have their own discussions about sex and consent with their own partners.
Tips About Consent from Kinky Spaces
1. Know your own desires and limits, and communicate them
Communication is key when it comes to consent, and in order to communicate your desires and limits, it helps to explore exactly what those are. One way to explore what you're into is to make a yes/no/maybe list. This is a list of sexual activities, and you can categorize them based on what you'd like to try (yes), what you would not like to try (no), and what you aren't sure about (maybe). These lists are commonly used in kinky spaces to negotiate scenes but can be applied to any type of relationship.
2. Be curious about your partner's desires and limits and ask about them
Once you've figured out what you want out of your sexual relationship, you can then communicate them to your partner(s) and learn about their desires and limits as well. You can compare your yes/no/maybe lists and see where things overlap as a starting point for the conversation.
3. Keep Checking in Regularly
Consent is an ongoing process, not just one conversation. Checking in frequently about what your partner(s) are into can make sure that everyone involved is up to date, and it can help make sure you and your partner(s) have an enjoyable encounter.
4. Establish shared language to talk about desire and sex before, during, and after sex
Sometimes terminology can be unclear, or you might not be sure what something means or entails. Part of open communication around sex and desire includes making sure everyone involved understands what is being discussed. If there are terms you prefer to use, they can be included in your discussion of consent. You can determine safewords and/or signals to use during sex that can communicate your wants, needs and limits to each other.
5. Encourage and normalize shifts in desire and shifts in consent
What you're into sexually can change, and that's perfectly normal! This is part of the reason that checking in about consent frequently is ideal. In that same vein, consent can change as well. Just because someone has consented to something in the past doesn't mean they consent to it forever.
6. Reflect on power dynamics and roles and how that impacts communicating consent
Power dynamics are important to consider when negotiating consent. Some power differentials to consider are age, gender, socioeconomic status, and race. In these situations, it's even more crucial to understand and give space for everyone's desires and boundaries. Coercion does not equal consent, and if there is a power differential between partners, it's important to discuss so everyone is on the same page.
In light of the recent political turmoil centered around sexual assault, you may be feeling triggered every time you read a bit of news or scroll through social media. Please know that there are resources out there to help survivors - you can call RAINN's national sexual assault hotline at 800-656-HOPE (4673) or live chat here.


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Alliance Youth welcomes all Middle and High School students to attend the 20th Anniversary of KingsFest! The finale for this three day Christian concert will feature artists such as MercyMe, Rend Collective, We Are Messengers and Social Club Misfits, and various Christian retailers will be on site selling all sorts of your favorite book, jewelry and clothing "merch." There are over 60 thrill rides, shows and attractions to keep you busy throughout the day, and a 20 acre water park "Soak City" to help keep you cool while you're on the move!
All day tickets for full access to the entire park and concert lineup are only $65, and ticket purchase and permission slips must be submitted by the close of this Sunday's gathering. We suggest all attendees bring an additional $25 (at minimum) for souvenirs and refreshments, and perhaps even pack some snacks to carry along with them. Rides will be provided by Youth Leaders, but parents and guardians are welcome to attend and personally transport should they choose to do so. If a ride is necessary for your child and/or you need additional information regarding this event, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
There's truly no better way to kick off the summer vacation! We hope you can join us for this Epic celebration.


text: On November 11th, 2017 RADIOLEARY was welcomed to the Saratoga Comic Con to record from the show floor. The fellows interviewed all kinds of folks and there was so much material, they're breaking it into multiple episodes. Part One is up now, an interview with legendary actor Jerome St John Blake! Give it a listen and keep it tuned to RADIOLEARY


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Study: Self-closing puncta in GVHD...
Well, those who have struggled for years with plug discomfort, dropout, and above all cost might wish their puncta would occlude themselves... though on balance I'm sure they would not want to switch places with any of the patients described in this study.
Spontaneous Lacrimal Punctal Occlusion Associated with Ocular Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.
Kamoi M, Curr Eye Res. 2007 Oct;32(10):837-42.
Spontaneous Lacrimal Punctal Occlusion Associated with Ocular Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease.
Kamoi M, Curr Eye Res. 2007 Oct;32(10):837-42.
Purpose: To investigate the clinical features of spontaneous lacrimal punctal occlusion (SLPO) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).
Methods: One hundred nineteen recipients after HSCT who visited Keio University between 2001 and 2004 were examined. The condition of the lacrimal punctum, severity of dry eye, meibomian gland secretion, and presence of systemic chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) were determined with or without SLPO by retrospective chart review.
Results: Among the 119 recipients, SLPO was diagnosed in 8. All the patients with SLPO after HSCT had meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), dry eye, and systemic cGVHD. The percentage of patients with dry eye, MGD, and systemic cGVHD were significantly higher in recipients with SLPO than non-SLPO recipients (p < 0.0013, p < 0.00015, p < 0.0008, respectively).
Conclusions: SLPO is a clinical presentation of ocular cGVHD and may be an indicator of the severity of dry eye and systemic cGVHD after HSCT.


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Monday, 6 January 2014
Walt Disney Studios Films
Now Showing
In 1934, Australian-born author, P.L. Travers wrote the first in a series of children's book about the magical nanny, Mary Poppins. And for the next 20 years, House of Mouse mogul, Walt Disney, after a promise made to his daughters, pursued the author for the film rights. It wasn't until 1961, and faced with financial problems, that Travers begrudgingly agreed to travel to Los Angeles and meet with Disney to discuss a possible film version of her beloved book.
But the only thing tighter than Travers' perm was her grip on Mary Poppins. The author (Emma Thompson) had continually resisted the advances of Walt Disney's purchase of her children's tale of the au pair with a talking umbrella who arrived on the East wind (you can understand Disney's attraction) lest a film version include singing, dancing and -- heavens to Mergatroid! -- animation. Travers wasn't about to sign over her creation, or creative control, without a fight.
We know who won that battle in the end -- Walt Disney didn't get rich by taking no for an answer or by placing artistic integrity above commercial gain -- but Saving Mr. Banks, directed by John Lee Hancock (2009's The Blind Side) and penned by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, would have you believe that Travers' capitulation to Disney's demands was for the better.
Thus we get scenes of Poppins pre-production (which Travers insists be recorded) where screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and the songwriting Sherman Brothers, Robert (B.J. Novak) and Richard (Jason Schwartzman), roll their eyes and bite their tongues at every one of Travers' objections to grammar, set design, character facial hair, and the invention of words for songs. It's the uptight Brit versus the fun Americans, and you just know who you're supposed to root for.
We're also treated to flashbacks of the author's childhood in Queensland (though not shot in Australia), where her banker father (a fine Colin Farrell) instilled in the young lass (played by young Aussie, Annie Rose Buckley) the power of imagination. His drunkenness and irresponsibility also left Travers with daddy issues, or at least according to Saving Mr. Banks; the title referring to both the patriarch in her book and the past which haunts the author. The best exorcism, according to Walt? Letting go.
The 1964 film version of Mary Poppins has since become a family classic; winning 5 Oscars from 13 nominations, and, at the time, Disney's highest grosser. And as the old adage goes, history is written by the victors: any film about Walt Disney, produced and distributed by Walt Disney Studios, is bound to be whitewashed. Disney himself is but a bit player here (making absurd those who believed Hanks, admittedly fine, was a slam dunk for an Oscar nomination), and most of Travers' bio (bisexual, adopted son, spiritualist) have been excised completely.
Still, Emma Thompson is always a welcome screen presence. She doesn't make Travers likeable as such but she does well to keep her stubbornness, unfiltered honesty and "English-ness" from being a one-note bore (a snippet of voice recording in the closing credits reveals that the real P.L. Travers was indeed a stickler for detail with the voice of a patrician English school ma'am). Just as Travers does the large plush Mickey Mouse doll sent to her hotel suite, you begrudgingly embrace this prickly woman.
There's no denying that Saving Mr. Banks is, on one level, a very entertaining film, and I'll admit that even I was not immune to some of its humour and charm. The supporting cast, which also includes a sunny Paul Giamatti as Travers' limo driver, are all good. But there's an underlying insidiousness to the film: a suggestion that the proof is in the final pudding (though I've never actually watched Mary Poppins; certainly not from beginning to end) and that the ends justify the means.
Of course, filmmaking has always been about the marriage between commerce and art, symbolised here (unintentionally, I'm sure) when Travers, attending the L.A. premiere of Mary Poppins (which Disney did not invite her to), is escorted down the aisle of the red carpet by a certain anthropomorphized rodent, as though on their way to consecrate their unholy union.
If anything, Saving Mr. Banks is the story of how an entertainment corporation co-opted and corrupted one artist's vision, and that's a jagged little pill which requires more than a spoonful of sugar to help it go down.
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