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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Female Keys To Victory Over Men, An Agenda
I agree with Lisa, the reason we should be concerned with other women's sexuality is because it affects our social position in relation to men. Men gain power with women by getting and producing what we want. Women gain power over men by having and controlling what men want as well. They key difference is that what we seek in men can be taken from them while what they seek in us can not. Even so much as suggesting theft of female assets is met with dire consequences for males.
The goal of feminism is to obtain power and control over the things which we are able to be dependent on men for while creating the options and choices that allow us to depend on men when we want to without explicitly needing them and thus "independence". This, combined with our sexual barganing power will allow us to dominate and control men in their public lives i.e. on a societal level and in their personal lives and relationships. If we can gain such control men will have no choice but to continue to do what they have always done for us anyway, namely provide resources to us and sacrifice for us and this includes their vary lives. Women will have more choices than ever before and less reciprocal obligation or liabilities to men at the same time... We will be liberated. We now have choices and men do not.
We must do this while asserting strong property rights over our bodies and the bodies of children both pre and post conception. If we can maintain control over the things we are able to get from men while able to do so and gain such resources for ourselves while also having control over sexual property, the property of reproduction and children themselves we will be able to have more social, economic and sexual power than men and thus dominate and control them in entirety.
In essence we will have them under our thumb. Double standards will have to be tolerated because men will have no choice but to woo and court us. Men will have no choice but to meet what ever requirements we demand of them. Likewise "the system" should continue to be harsher upon men in all realms...why...because it can be, and to our benefit. This goes for male health both physical and mental, education, judicial and family law, and even in our personal lives demands and obligations from men to women should be fitting to what women demand. They will continue to pay for us and support us at will and this includes after we leave them in divorce...Why you ask???, because we can and because they have no choice.
Men are terrified of displeasing us and will often times turn upon other men, and government upon men as a class to gain our favor. The white knight is our greatest ally in establishing matriarchy. Males can and will be used against themselves, they are our workhorses and our enforcers. Do not think for a moment that if we voted women into power we could get away with talking like THIS VIDEO (Workhorses of The Matriarchy). We need men to be the workhorses because they will serve our needs and be rewarded for it just as we do in their personal lives.
The whole point is to have men need us more than we need them while at the same time and precisely because of this fact we continue to uphold the laws which establish control over men's bodies and the fruits of its labor i.e. force them to continue to provide to us and our children outside of marriage and after divorce under threat of jail and in their personal lives while even so much as dating us. The ultimatum, men must produce for us and our children or face the consequences. The male must dance for us. Then and only then can the matriarchy be completed. We are mostly there now. While the male supports us we are free to pursue our next mate and increase our genetic fitness while his resources which would be used to court another female are diverted to us. Men have one shot to please us and if they do not this is their fate.
We have accomplished much if not all of this and have done so by force and blatantly anti-male \ pro female laws.
-We now obtain 60% of college degrees yet have Affirmative Action and Title IX not only in private business hirings, school admissions but also federal contracts.
-We now outlive males by 7 years and they now outpace us in suicides 4 to 1
-Males suffer from health problems, injuries, birth defects and health problems both mental and physical in greater proportion than us yet we commander the majority of funding for healthcare provision and have 7 and now possibly more Federal Offices on our health under the new healthcare bill. Men have zero. Males are also 85% of the homeless.
-We now constitute the majority of the workforce with men only marginally outpacing us in seasonal contract work. While 80% of all jobs lost in The Great Recession have been to men, the Stimulus Package was devoted to women in growing industries upon the request of our women's gender secular leaders in government. We are now adding "women first" provisions to the House Financial Reform Bill See: Subtitle I, Section 1801 of this bill which will further entrench Affirmative Action and women only advocacy in economic and social policy.
-We now constitute the majority of voter participation
-We now are able to obtain Alimony in cases of no-fault divorce
-We now obtain child custody by default and have no liabilities in divorce
-We have no Selective Service draft obligations to serve the country in any capacity
in its time of need
-We are independent and self supporting yet socially coerce and lawfully mandate men
provide to us even while dating and after divorce.
-We hold all the cards in reproductive rights and absolute control over reproduction.
-We now control 60% of the nations wealth and the majority of gender secular government resources are devoted to us. Male resources flow from men to women in multitudes of proportion than from women to men both in their private and public lives.
-Though the wage gap of 76 cents to the male dollar is the Raw Wage Gap or the disparity of earnings production by measurement of monetary acquisition over the entire labor force and not the same job we are able to convince the public and solidify support for women only and women first legislative policies along with provisions for litigation and lawsuits to control wages and therefore the means of production. We are able to continue women only loans and scholarships as well. We are able to convince the public and private sectors along with society at large to contribute to the wellbeing, support and advocacy for women only.
-We have established complete control over our bodies, the bodies of children and the bodies of men and the fruits of their labor. All of these are transferable to the female and are in whole or in part female property. We are in fact the only gender with property rights over these things.
-We are able to select and use male genes as we see fit without the contribution or
requirement of the male by way of sperm bank farms and artificial insemination by
way of a simple doctors note and are able to have them sent by mail to our home.
- 40% of all births in the United States are now to single women while males are forced to support us outside of any reciprocal obligation to them while at the same time ostracized from the family and the lives of their children. We initiate 70+% of all divorce and hold no liabilities but choices in the social contract of marriage and thus divorce while the male has none and foots the liability of loss of property and fatherhood.
It remains that what we as women must do is maintain sole control over sex, reproduction and children. We must maintain control over the male body and its mandate to produce and transfer to us the fruits of its labor. We must be supported through our agency in government through gender secular representation, advocacy and laws for women's interests while at the same time keeping male secular gender representation out of government, gender specific university course subject matter, social institutions and organizations of gender advocacy and the social and political dialog. This is easy to do, it is our strength. We control the social fabric. We must use our female strengths to benefit females alone. We must build a multitude of supportive organizations and groups to communally support women and women only in all aspects of society and life needs and in all realms of our health and our health only. We must use the coffers of the public treasury and tax base to support us as well.
I believe we are masters at commandeering the social fabric and the social dialog as well. Under such structure we are able to drown out male voices of objection or advocacy while simultaneously shaming men for speaking up. Females are more important and when the time comes the ultimate proof is that men should and will die so that we may live. The males own lesser power in sexual selection can be used against him. We can and do have him throwing his own under the bus in male-male competition. His chivalry will not stop, it is his instinct.
He knows we hold to the key to reproduction and to pass on his genes he must do what we say. Men are terrified of displeasing or not being useful to us and on a relational level we are able to use emotional volatility and the threat of disengaging from him or not engaging and accepting him in the first place as a tool to supplicate him. He actually prides himself on sacrifice, on the ability to "take it" or "hack it", on the ability and vitality of his strength\health often to it's own neglect in order to produce, to be worthy. We shall not help him in this but let him sacrifice, let his health suffer for us. He does this to be of external utility, to be of use to us and we should make him, we should let him and under law and social custom coerce and force him. We shall not nurture this supplicated being who vies for competitive advantage, vies to produce and provide, vies to protect and please and all for our very acceptance alone.
Remember for the vast majority it is females who control and end relationships. In terms of liabilities, we have none, we have all the power. We must continue to empower ourselves. Marriage as it is now under our rule is a liability and obligation from a man to a woman and although marriage is on a drastic decline we still have men getting on their knees with gold and jewels for the opportunity to mate and have children that they have no right to. We have them getting on their knees to allow us choices to work or stay home, to marry or divorce with no obligation or responsibility but our inherent fertile value our female selective choice.
We have hoodwinked men and society into believing that it is we who are oppressed and we who do not have choices. We have them believing that men are in control when they are in fact our workhorses. Since we are and will establish control by the use of chivalrous legislative mandate, since we rule The New Economy yet will not give men the choices they have given us, since we have control over the social relationship and contracts of dating and marriage, since we hold the keys and control over reproduction and conception and sex itself we will rule over men in the matriarchy, we will live in a world of possibilities and subjugation over men that is hardly imaginable. It is happening and it is here and now, it is real and it will be worse upon him than he could have ever possibly dreamed. It already is.
Remember, the personal is political. We have the ability to use male chivalry which is personified in government against men. Our male workhorses in government will do anything for the female majority vote. We control them and government will continue to seek our acceptance, it will court us as you have seen in the video I linked above. It will not stop with women only and women first laws. Secular and separatist representation within government by gender is the key. We have been quite successful at this. In the years to come female secular laws and implementation of power will be consolidated and the matriarchy complete. We are almost there.
I can say that males are becoming aware of their subjugation to us but we must remember that as they are in competition with each other and most importantly in competition with each other for external utility in a very real political, economic and social sense they are a class divided. They do not contain inherent value to us as we do to them. We hold the key. They will not and can not coalesce into a force of advocacy for their own protection and provision and in fact will come to our aid to gain power over each other. They will die and help us and not their own. It is his nature and it is now his fate. It is not us that will advocate for him as well, we are entirely consummate.
The single greatest threat to us now is to keep him producing, to keep him under the false cognition that he is enfranchised and in control. We must keep his productive incentive and capacity up no matter how disenfranchised he has become. We must push him to his limits. We must turn him against himself to do this. We must continually empower him with reward and lawfully mandated punishment to serve our needs. This will not be hard, it is his instinct and nature. Again, he is a class divided and we are not. We must convince him that we are in danger and that it is he himself that is a threat to our wellbeing. In doing so, in creating the males false perception of his genders station in relation to us we will convince him to turn on his own and allocate ever more protection and provision to us. We must call upon his instincts and biological imperatives. Remember, he will die for this.
Will we achieve these ends...yes, we already are...it is our destiny and the will of evil itself. A death that does not give back to life, an all consummate darkness that is easy not hard, that is deception not truth. We are his weakness, it is we that can destroy him.
These things will always be the key to domination over men politically, economically and socially. Independence (dis-need) and Liberation is the key! Women I call upon you to free yourselves, let it become you and you will see the power, you will feel it. Empower and liberate yourselves, you do not need him, become free from him and not bonded.
He has been hiding these things from you, he has been taking the power for his own and oppressing you, take it back, it is yours to have and you are owed a debt from him, take him, your are his weakness. In doing so you will overcome and become his being and his essence, everything he promised he is to you and for you, seize him and that which was supposed to be his complimentary form to you but was done for himself. Starve him of nurturing sustenance and do not tend to his wounds. Tend to yourselves to stave off his oppression.
Take from him what all along was and is his selfishness. Throughout history he has made you bear the most pain, the most death, the danger, the most subjugation and most of the suffering, risk, toil and used his complimentary nature and strength to dominate, control and oppress you and not to serve you. He did these things to himself as well and not to serve you but to control and oppress you.
Look now what he does and why he earns. Look now upon what he controls. Watch carefully where the fruits of his labor go. Watch him feast upon his spoils for himself and himself alone. It is not to provide what you demand from him, but to obtain what he is supposed to give you, what was and is rightfully yours. He does this to control you, it is to oppress you.
Do this and you can and will destroy him for what he has done. He will pay for his subjugation and oppression of you. Put yourself first and do it by law. Compete against him and you will win. Use his complimentary nature to you against himself. He will devour himself from within for you. He will put you first, it is his nature.
Take him and the world will be yours. The descent of man will be glorious and a magnificent triumph, do this and you will be free from him. The desire in you is there, can you sense it, can you taste it, do you know why it is there? It has been building in you from his neglect and his selfishness. The fruit is now ripe, it is yours and it should have been yours all along. Take it, taste it, become all consummate of him and all powerful you shall become.
9 comments:
- TDOM said...
I have been discussing the issue of reproductive control for quite some time. While you focus here on the right to reproduce, I am concerned about scientific development that will allow women to reproduce without any contribution from men, including sperm. If technology can be developed to eliminate men from reproduction altogether, it will mean the total enslavement of men.
Any child conceived without male contribution cannot contain a Y chromosome and will therefore be female. Currently the male birthrate is about 52% of all births, however, since fewer boys live to adulthood and men die younger, women comprise 53% of the adult population. If only 5% of all births are conceived using two females, the female advantagein the population would shift to approach 60%. This would make men a decided minority, especially at the ballot box.
Women would be free to enact any law they so choose with men having little ability to stop them. Given that women do not feel the obligation to protect men the way men have always protected women, it will lead to figurative, if not literal slavery.
- July 29, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Bwec said...
Women already do dominate the vote. All male health and enfranchisement indicators are on the decline.
Male voting rates have declined sharply since mid-1960s i.e. the beginning of the Matriarchal social and political construct (feminism). Between the 1964 and 2000 Presidential elections the male voting rate declined from 72 to 53 percent.
In terms of gendercide women have been discussing how to do this on British Government run television as can be seen here:
The implications of medaling in the process of sexual selection and reproduction will be dire and lead to a lack of genetic diversity in ways that we have not yet even begun to decode or understand which will weaken the species and make it vulnerable to pathogens, disease and what I will call systems malfunctions and ultimately extinction of our species.
We know that mechanisms in play behind mate attraction and selection are vast. Pheromonal matching sequences that take place via the vomeronasal organ in the human nose are responsible for matching complimentary genetic sequences and immune system complimentary matching. This is only the beginning.
The implications of attempting to control complimentary genetic sequences and genetic diversity will bring about dire consequences for the species.
As is current women seek unfettered access to sperm farms where they are able to select male genes by only the most rudimentary of selective preference and that would be by what Hollywood celebrity the male specimen looks
like as can be seen here:
As is current and under the resource constructs that women have developed to support themselves and their offspring they now mate outside of committed pair bonds and incidental matings with males of alpha characteristics are common and sometimes result in conception either mutually and intentionally or by paternity fraud by the female. Never the less conception does take place with frequency in these short term pairings.
The resource constructs are three fold and include male forced resource provision to the female even in cases of no-fault, female enfranchisement in working industry to obtain her own territory and resources along with government husbandry resource provision.
This combined with default child custody to the female and provisions of legislation that can only be described as "women first" provisions and "women only" provisions serve to reinforce the matriarchal construct females are seeking to create.
- July 29, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Bwec said...
Looking at this graph below you will see the slight down tick in single mother births around 1993 which was when one of the resource constructs was reformed i.e. welfare reform took place. You will see the slight decline and reset of the trend momentum. A decline of angle of about 15 to 20 degrees occurred:
I am well aware that the female is all consummate and given the opportunity does not want to need males. This is essentially what female "independence" means.
When women write and speak openly in major academic news sources that they seek and speak of the death and demise of men without repercussion or reservation as can be seen here
When New York Times Columnists such as Maureen Dowd are able to write books such as "Are Men Necessary" I understand very viscerally that the threat from females is very real and furthermore culturally accepted. I understand that something within the female does not want males to be necessary.
Watch this video and you will see how here attempts to separate and nullify men from being needed have been in large part successful. Watch the end of the video to understand how hated men actually are by women.
By way of the enactment of their agency in government and changes in the law I understand that we are now in competition with her. We are now in competition for the very things she demands of us.
What becomes apparent is that the less she needs men or the less adequate males around her seem to be the more she disrespects and denigrates men.
Being our competition has not worked out well for her as can be seen in the graphs from the study of female hypergamy here:
Women may or may not understand the diametric opposition she has placed the genders in but it is very real and she is behaving in ways that in my opinion are desperate and an aberration from the normal dynamic.
"Meanwhile, more single women--especially those watching their biological clocks run down--are resorting to solo pregnancies, sperm donors or adoption agencies. While the birthrate has fallen among teenagers, it has climbed 15% among unmarried thirtysomethings since 1990. In the TIME/CNN poll, fully 61% of single women ages 18 to 49 answered yes when asked whether they would consider rearing a child on their own." (and from a sperm donor if need be)
Women don't seem to understand why they increasingly see the males around them as inadequate but much has to do with female hypergamy and the advent of resource constructs that are available to her without a man or by forced labor of one.
I think that women are increasingly unhappy but do not realize why.
Legislatively though she seeks to make men and even our contribution to reproduction and the lives of our children an optional accessory.
- July 29, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Bwec said...
Through my studies I understand that there is something about her that is dangerous, voracious and all consummate. If males served no other purpose than to serve as food after mating the human female would surly consume us, she already does consume the male and the fruits of his labor and feels entitled to male labor and sacrifice for the simple fact that she exists, for the simple fact that she controls certain variables of selection of the species that are not inherent but produced through external utility of the male.
She feels entitled to male external utility, to consume him.
I understand that marriage is on the decline as can be seen here:
I understand that since females changed marriage and child custody law divorce has skyrocketed and plateaued into a decline only because we are now forming loose knit incidental matings or short term cohabitations as can be seen here:
I understand that something is happening and the sexes are collectively divorcing and are in increasingly in opposition to each other.
I understand that if we form commited mated pair bonds where men are part of the family at all it is at an ever increasing age as can be seen here:
I understand that something big is happening and am turning to my own reasoning and other men for understanding on how to deal with it. Some suggest withdrawing support and commitment from women altogether and "go our own way". Others turn to PUA and GAME mating strategy and still others want to restore men as part of the family and lives of our children..
Personally I have feelings and inclinations toward all three but know that I must protect myself and that my competition against women is imperative in order to survive a world in which the genders are no longer complimentary.
I fear for but am willing to sacrifice the prospect of a family, marriage and meaningful contact with my potential children. I know that as I have no right to shared contact with them, since I only have the hopes of and isolated resource producing male and not husband and father that I must protect myself and must prepare myself emotionally to disconnect from my children and go into hiding, disappear or leave the country..
I will not end up like my father, like my brother and like my male friends. I will not be a part of this...... I am committed to helping myself deal with this and helping other men and women as well.
- July 29, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Bwec said...
Sir, it is greatly unfortunate that I do not believe I ever want to get married and if for some reason I were to decide to have children I will have to distance myself emotionally from them as parental alienation is real. Men lose custody by default and the right to play a meaningful role in the lives of our children.
I understand that we have a 50% divorce rate if we even get married at all anymore and 70+ percent of divorce is female initiated. Of the 30 percent of divorce that is initiated by men most do not involve children.
What we must understand about the graphs I've presented is that there is significant momentum behind these trends and I expect them to increase accordingly and exponentially.
- July 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM
I have had enough. I will not live as a slave any longer.
- July 31, 2010 at 10:01 PM
- ScareCrow said...
A lot of good information in this post!
Where did you find this?
- August 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM
- Bwec said...
Find what?
- August 6, 2010 at 12:46 AM
This is the kind of thing that will make a man unfaithful
- October 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM


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First of all, let me say that I'm really enjoying doing research. And, for the first time in my life I really think I have something to say that might, actually, be worth other people hearing. So, this isn't bitterness about having to write, research, publish. I'm honestly enjoying this.
Having said that, I have to say that it seems to me publishing, at least in my field, has changed. And not for the better.
When I was in graduate school, publishing was not expected (and lest you think this was just my school, two hotshots in philosophy were briefly at my grad institution (not as students) and neither of them published much (if anything) in graduate school. The expectation these days is to publish, publish, publish. At least by the time your finishing graduate school and, ideally, while you were an undergrad. Now, seriously, after, say, 6 years in a field, how much can a person really have to say that's worthwhile? I'm guessing that much of this is publishing just to be publishing. Further, how can encouraging folks to publish with this little experience under their proverbial belts not, at the same time, encourage some arrogance?
A quick glance around the articles being published suggests not that these articles are horrible, but that they are, largely, inconsequential. Maybe I'm overly cautious when I write, but I try to make sure that what I'm adding to the conversation is actually something new which means I have to do a fair amount of digging into the history of the topic (and related topics) to find out what's already been said. And, I agonize that what I'm saying, in addition to being new, is not entirely trivial. Again, I'm not saying that what's being published is bad but I wonder if there wasn't such a push to publish whether folks would actually be inclined to publish things. Does every author who is publishing feel like what they're saying in the article needs to be said, is actually adding to the conversation and will move it in a helpful direction?
At least one of our graduates who went on to a very good graduate school ended up dropping out to go into business because he decided that much of the field was about focusing on very specific little problems that were mostly all about proving how smart the author was or capable of analysis but not about really contributing to the betterment of a conversation.
So, there's this on the one side.
On the other side, I really don't fully understand how the push to publish so much actually helps us to do our jobs. Maybe I'm not a very good philospher, but I'm not seeing how the majority of articles published actually make the world a better place. I'll grant, happily, that there is a role for academics in general and philosophers in particular in the world. But writing highly specialized articles for other philosophers who are conversant in that highly specialized area doesn't seem to me to be adding much to the world. I am more than happy to consider that this position of mine is mistaken, but I don't see how all of the time spent on research, writing, etc. by so many people is actually a good use of time. Or, rather why it makes sense to spend large amounts of money paying people to do this with their time. Is it just that given the vast quantity of stuff being produced more of value would be produced than if very little were being produced because we (writers) are fairly bad at recognizing what has value and what doesn't?
Then there's the sense I have that most people in academia (or maybe just my field - but I doubt it) view teaching as something that they have to do in order to do what they really want to be doing. Or, even if they love teaching, they pretty much view teaching as something that you either know how to do or don't....it's basically a matter of mastering a couple basic concepts and then there's nothing left to learn.
As far as I can tell, the historical sources of academia are two: (a) monks and (b) artists/thinkers who had patrons. The monks were working out some real problems in the church (or at least problems that they took to be real) and the artists/thinkers had patrons, I'm guessing, because the patrons thought that it'd be a nice feather in their cap to have been a patron to highly talented person G. But once we add in the teaching part of this -- particularly teaching when the students are diverse and aren't going on to become monks -- that the rationale for research and writing begins to dwindle.
But, maybe the higher quantiy will produce more quality work (while also producing more lesser quality work) than low quantity would argument is the rationale. It does make sense to me is a long term, utilitarian way even though it doesn't make sense on a individual, person to person, article to article way.
Another way, maybe, to think about it is who does more with their lives...a professional athlete or a high school coach? But who do most athletes aspire to emulate?
I am now beginning to ramble and so I shall sign off and go do some writing!! :-)

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Insomnia is a term covering a number of disturbances to our normal sleeping pattern: some people may for example, have difficulty going off to sleep in the first place, while others wake during the night and may be unable to sleep soundly thereafter. Whatever the pattern, chronically disturbed sleep means waking unrefreshed, makes it very hard to function properly during the day, and undermines our vitality and full enjoyment of life. Due to the propensity to seek out sugary snacks to combat the fatigue, insomnia is even associated with weight gain in some individuals.
Actress Julie Walters describes how she tried acupuncture after thirty years of badly disrupted sleep: "On that very night, I slept through without waking, and the next morning, I cried and cried, grieving for what I had missed." Actress and singer Toyah Willcox, has had acupuncture over the past thirty years, and has talked in the media about her very positive experience of acupuncture for insomnia. Actress Julianne Moore said,"I had a period after my mother died where I couldn't sleep….I was just a wreck. I had some really intense acupuncture treatments, and it reset my nervous system."
If you have been taking medication to help with the problem, then that is usually no barrier to receiving acupuncture. You may have been prescribed small amounts of newer drugs like zopiclone or zimovane; GPs are reluctant to supply anything more than very limited quantities because they are not licensed for long term use, and tolerance to them can in any case develop in three to fourteen days. Under such circumstances, acupuncture may effectively fill the gap left by a lack of further treatment options.
If you come to see me about insomnia, my first step is to ascertain exactly how your sleep is disturbed. You might identify with some of the patterns I commonly encounter:
– Do you find it difficult to go off to sleep at the very start of the night, and is a busy mind part of the problem? Your thoughts may be around worrying or stressful issues, or they may hop incessantly from one relatively inconsequential topic to the next.
– Conversely, is your mind reasonably peaceful, and yet it is still hard to drop off to sleep in the first place?
– Or are you someone who can go to sleep fairly easily, but who then wakes in the early hours? If you wake at broadly the same time most nights, then the time can be of significance to me.
– Do you sleep for most of the night, but restlessly, perhaps due to disturbing dreams, feeling hot etc? Is chronic pain affecting your sleep? If so, we should look at that too.
The answers to these questions provide very useful pointers, and coupled with information about your general health and well-being, I can arrive at a Chinese medical diagnosis of the causes of your insomnia. Treatment would in most cases be weekly, for a fixed period, and if your insomnia stems from stress or worry, then we can try to address that too.
It is also helpful to look at lifestyle and see whether there are any useful steps you can take for yourself. These depend on the type of insomnia you have, but may include a calming ritual before bedtime, controlling caffeine intake, and being choosy about any television or other stimulation in the evening: the ten o'clock news might not be the best choice if you wish to promote the harmony of spirit which is conducive to sound sleep!
Restricting the light intensity to which you are exposed in the last hour before going to bed, may also help: this may mean not sitting in front of your computer too late (which is mental stimulation aswell of course), and using dimmer lighting in your living and bedroom. The screens of laptops, tablets and smartphones are particularly unhelpful to be looking at, because they emit a lot of light at the blue end of the spectrum: this is the most disruptive part of the spectrum for our sleep, because it delays the release of melatonin, the hormone associated with the onset of sleep. (See the research below from Pennsylvania State University – "Smartphones…")
Try also to keep the bedroom temperature slightly lower than that in the rest of the house: a little drop in the body's core temperature is physiologically important for us to fall asleep. If you cannot sleep for things on your mind, try getting up and writing them down on a list, so that they are out of your head. Finally, ensure you take enough exercise: see my item on coastal walking and sleep by scrolling down through the Longevity & Health section.
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Acupuncture for Insomnia
A large randomised controlled trial on acupuncture for insomnia has concluded it is effective and safe. Researchers in Hong Kong allocated 224 subjects to receive either acupuncture alone, acupuncture plus ear acupressure, or a waiting list control. There was no significant difference between acupuncture and the combination treatment. However, both were significantly better than the waiting list at reducing insomnia, with a moderate to large effect size, and at reducing anxiety, depression and fatigue. Improvements were maintained at 13 weeks after treatment.
(Acupuncture with or without combined auricular acupuncture for insomnia: a randomised, waitlist-controlled trial. Acupuncture in Medicine, 11 December 2017.)
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Acupuncture found to be Highly Effective for Improving Sleep Quality in the Elderly
Clinicians undertaking a study in Porto Alegre, Brazil have found that acupuncture is effective for improving sleep quality and psychological distress in elderly patients with sleep problems. A total of 48 community-dwelling elderly patients were randomised to receive ten sessions of either true acupuncture or sham acupuncture. True acupuncture was found to be highly effective for improving subjective scores of sleep quality, depression and stress. The researchers noted that immune and neuropeptide markers commonly associated with stress and sleep impairment, were unaltered following treatment.
(Acupuncture for sleep quality, BDNF levels and immunosenescence: A randomized controlled study. Neuroscience Letters, 5 February 2015.)
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Smartphones, iPads & eReaders can Disrupt Sleep
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the US have compared the effects of reading in the hours before bedtime, either an electronic light-emitting device (LE-eBook) such as an iPad or iPhone, or a printed book. They found that people reading an LE-eBook took longer to fall asleep and had reduced evening sleepiness, reduced melatonin secretion, later timing of their circadian clock, and reduced next-morning alertness compared to when reading a printed book.
In the randomized, crossover study, twelve healthy young adults were admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for fourteen days, in order for the researchers to control for other factors. Two situations were examined: 1) reading an LE-eBook in an otherwise very dim room for around four hours before bedtime for five consecutive evenings; 2) reading a printed book in the same very dim room for around four hours before bedtime for five consecutive evenings. Blood samples were taken to allow melatonin levels to be measured, and sleep characteristics such as time taken to fall asleep and sleep stages, were all recorded.
Compared with the print-book readers, the LE-eBook readers: averaged nearly ten minutes longer to fall asleep; had significantly less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep; rated themselves as less sleepy an hour before bedtime; and, felt more sleepy the morning after reading an LE-eBook the prior evening. Furthermore, it took them longer to fully "wake up" and attain the same level of alertness.
The researchers say these results indicate that reading an LE-eBook in the hours before bedtime probably has unintended biological consequences that may adversely impact on performance, health, and safety. The mechanism would appear to be the disruptive effect of light at the blue end of the spectrum which is emitted by these screens. There are also implications for children looking at screens for evening homework and social media interaction.
(Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, on-line 22 December 2014.)
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Acupuncture as Effective as Drugs for Insomnia
A small study undertaken by researchers at a hospital in Taiwan suggests acupuncture could be used as an alternative to the drug zolpidem. A total of 33 patients with insomnia were randomly allocated to receive either weekly acupuncture sessions (19 patients), or 10mg zolpidem (14 patients), over four weeks. At the end of the treatment period, both groups exhibited significant improvements.
(A Comparison between Acupuncture versus Zolpidem in the Treatment of Primary Insomnia. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, September 2012.)
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text: JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO Double Fantasy (2000) (RMST) (CAPITOL RECORDS) (17 TRACKS) 320 Kbps MP3 ALBUM JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO Double Fantasy (2000) (RMST) (CAPITOL RECORDS) (17 TRACKS) 320 Kbps MP3 ALBUM mp3-album-00240 In Stock $ 12.49 USD northatlanticrecords Buy and Download > Description <img src=http://www.instantweb.com/n/neoton/images/johndouble.jpg>JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO Double Fantasy (2000) (RMST) (CAPITOL RECORDS) (17 TRACKS) 320 Kbps MP3 ALBUMDouble Fantasy (2000) (RMST) (CAPITOL RECORDS) (17 TRACKS)John Lennon & Yoko OnoAlbum Description:DOUBLE FANTASY is the comeback album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released in 1980 initially on the newly-formed Geffen Records, and then from 1989 onwards through EMI. It is notable for being John Lennon''s final release during his lifetime, released only three weeks before his murder. The album won the 1981 Grammy Award for Album of the Year and is Lennon''s best-selling studio album at three million shipments in the U.S.Recording:Following the birth of his son Sean in 1975, Lennon put his career on hold to raise the boy. In the summer of 1980, both Lennon and Ono felt ready to resume work and began composing. After five years of little musical activity aside from recording the occasional demo in his apartment at The Dakota, Lennon was absolutely bursting with creativity. He had fulfilled a lifelong ambition of learning how to sail in early 1980 and had been given fresh creative impetus in June of that year following his life-affirming experiences sailing a 43-foot sloop to Bermuda, accompanied by a small crew. Once in Bermuda, he started writing songs for a new album, sometimes writing about new experiences and occasionally reworking the half finished demos that he had recorded in the Dakota building. He was also, he claimed, the most content he had ever felt in all his years, even writing a song called "Life Begins at 40" to commemorate that milestone in his life. His assuredness and love for his family came through on the retro "(Just Like) Starting Over", as well as "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)" and "Woman". Yoko Ono approached producer Jack Douglas, with whom both Lennon and Ono had worked before, giving him John''s demos to listen to. My immediate impressions were that I was going to have a hard time making it better than the demos because there was such intimacy in the demos, Douglas told Uncut''s Chris Hunt in 2005. Lennon, Ono and Douglas produced dozens of songs beginning that August, enough to fill DOUBLE FANTASY and beyond. A projected second album, MILK AND HONEY, was well into the rehearsal phase when work was halted following Lennon''s murder that December. Ono was currently being regarded with fresh perspective after the onslaught of the late 1970''s punk movement which bore similarities to her earlier work. As such, with renewed confidence, she produced many songs. Lennon''s specific reference to the B-52''s "Rock Lobster" was evidence that popular music had caught up with Ono''s vision. Lennon and Ono made the decision to release their impending songs together on the same album, the first time they had done so since 1972''s controversial SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY. Subtitled "A Heart Play", DOUBLE FANTASY would be a collection of songs wherein John and Yoko would be singing to each other. Signed by David Geffen, alongside Elton John and Donna Summer, for his new label, Geffen, DOUBLE FANTASY was preceded by Lennon''s "(Just Like) Starting Over", which became a U.S. and U.K. #1 hit in the aftermath of John''s murder. The album itself was received with much interest, coming after such an extended break. The album debuted at #27 in the U.K. and the following week reached #14, but then it fell down very quickly to #25 and then #46, making #14 its peak position. In the U.S., the situation was different. There, the album debuted at #25 and then rose to #12 and then #11. Douglas brought Rick Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos of the band Cheap Trick to play on "I''m Losing You", but it was eventually re-recorded with the studio musicians. The Cheap Trick version was included on the John Lennon Anthology collection released in 1998. The cover of the album is said to be inspired by a photograph of Astrid Kirchherr and Stuart Sutcliffe, the first bassist of The Beatles and one of John''s best friends, who died in 1962.Personnel: John Lennon (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Yoko Ono (vocals); Earl Slick, Hugh McCracken (guitar); Matthew Cunningham (dulcimer); Randy Stein (English concertina); Howard Johnson, Grant Hungerford, John Parran, Seldon Powell, George "Young" Opalisky, Roger Rosenberg, David Tofani, Ronald Tooley (horns); George Small (keyboards); Ed Walsh (Oberheim synthesizer); Tony Levin (bass); Andy Newmark (drums); Robert Greenidge (steel drums); Arthur Jenkins, Jr. (percussion); Michelle Simpson, Cassandra Wooten, Cheryl Mason Jacks, Eric Troyer, Benny Cummings Singers, The Kings Temple Choir (background vocals).Recorded at The Hit Factory, NYC 4 August 1980 late September 1980.Produced by John Lennon, Yoko Ono & Jack Douglas.Track Listing:1. (Just Like) Starting Over - 3:56 2. Kiss, Kiss, Kiss - 2:41 3. 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Monday, 20 June 2011
I'm not sure when it's from but it's definitely been in my mum's stash since the early 80s, so maybe it's late 70s? As I've mentioned before my mum was a textile artist/embroiderer and she did also make some of her own clothes - mostly trousers and tops in lots of lovely bright colours. I remember asking her what she was going to do with this and she always said she didn't know, that it was 'too nice to use' unless she had something specific in mind. It's an awkward shape I think, 90cm wide by just over 4metres long. I'm not sure what to do with it so I'm not going to use it for this challenge. I was thinking I could maybe make a blouse? or I could use a small section of it as a waistband on a skirt? Does anyone have any pattern suggestions for this? Even if it's more difficult than beginners as I could put it aside for later.
So, I had to think of something else to do for Make&Mend 2011. I have decided to make use of this beautiful brown/mustard yellow coloured cashmere - also from my mum's stash (it doesn't look as good in this photo, it's actually a lot brighter in real life). I've got a gorgeous navy blue cashmere too that I think will make a skirt but there isn't so much of this mustard one and it's got big bits cut out of it so it seems perfect for the laptop sleeve.
Luckily during Grosgrain's free pattern month there was this great pattern tutorial for making a laptop sleeve from Say Yes to Hoboken.
I picked up a scrap of teal fabric from the sale box at John Lewis and I'm planning to line it with the teal as teal and mustardy yellow is such a fantastic combination and a combination I can see me wearing a lot of come autumn/winter. I'm also thinking of trying some quilting on the inside on the teal fabric, diagonal squares in the same colour of thread - I've never done any quilting before so I'll need to try it on some old scraps first!
Of course in order to get on with this I need to stop reading Grosgrain and Say Yes to Hoboken but they're both filled with so much inspiring stuff and so much advice and teaching that it's hard not to get lost for hours!
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hi Kathryn. Thanks for stopping by my blog!ReplyDelete
I LOVE that vintage Liberty print - can't wait to see what you do with it!
Thank you! I just wish I'd asked my mum where she picked it up as I've love to know the story behind it. Often the stories behind fabric in stashes are part of what makes using them so special.ReplyDelete
I was tempted to start on it now but have decided to exercise a little patience and build up my sewing skills more first!
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ISRAs president Sanjay Tandon revealed that they have started getting the royalty for the South singers, they are expecting more respect and money inflow next year. Interestingly, the event also turned out to be a celebration as veteran singer Yesudas won his eighth National Award.
The royalty amount was collected from various FM stations, music streaming platforms, IPL and various other places where they played the songs of these singers.
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Nurturing the Spirit Succeeding Together Learning for Life
At St George's we offer a curriculum which is broad and balanced. Our school curriculum comprises of learning and other experiences that we plan for our pupils. This includes the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum. It is broadly organised into themes and topics where possible and is adjusted accordingly to meet the needs and interests of the pupils.
Our school aims to provide a curriculum of rich, varied and memorable learning experiences that nurture children, allowing them to flourish and thrive. Teachers collaboratively plan engaging curriculum opportunities where pupils acquire knowledge and develop skills and positive attitudes to achieve their full potential.
Through our teaching we aim to create a learning culture which:
develops growth mind-sets, where learning is seen as incremental and achievable;
enables children to become confident, resourceful, resilient, enquiring and independent learners;
nurtures children's self-esteem and help them build positive relationships with other people;
develops children's self-respect and encourage children to respect the ideas, attitudes, values and feelings of others;
shows children how to develop respect and have a tolerance for all cultures and faiths through our school values, promoting positive attitudes towards other people;enabling children to understand their community and help them feel valued as part of this community;
helps children grow into reliable, independent and positive citizens.
This learning culture will allow children to have frequent opportunities to develop fluency and flair.
National Curriculum (Statutory Requirements)
Mathematical understanding is essential to everyday life. Therefore we need to provide our pupils with a high-quality mathematical education that will prepare them for their future employment and financial independence.
We aim to promote positive attitudes towards mathematics and an enthusiasm for mathematics work in our school. The youngest of our pupils will begin by developing confidence and fluency with whole numbers, counting and place value. They will also be introduced to shapes and a range of measures to describe and compare different quantities.
As the pupils begin Key stage 2 our focus is ensuring that they are increasingly fluent with whole numbers and the four operations, developing efficient written and mental methods.
At this stage pupils should develop their ability to solve a range of problems, including fractions and decimals.
Upper Key stage 2 pupils will focus on developing their ability to solve a wide range of problems of increasing complexity. They should develop an understanding of the connections in mathematics between multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio.
By the time our pupils leave us at the end of Year 6, they will be confident mathematicians who can use mathematics to analyse and communicate information and are able to develop mathematical understanding through practical tasks, enquiry and experimentation.
At St George's CE Primary, we aim for our pupils to become skilled and enthusiastic users of the English language through speaking, listening, reading and writing.
Throughout the school, lessons will include elements of all these aspects with particular focus on developing skills in a specific area. Pupils are encouraged to develop their speaking and listening skills in a range of contexts across the curriculum through opportunities for paired, group and class discussion as well as exploration through storytelling and drama.
Daily phonics is taught through mainly the Letters and Sounds phonics programme in EYFS and KS1.Our aim is to ensure that pupils can sound and blend unfamiliar printed words quickly and accurately. This is supported by practising their reading with books matched to their phonic knowledge and skill.
We teach children to read through a range of activities and experiences aimed at developing understanding and nurturing a love of books and reading. As pupils progress in their decoding skills, there is more emphasis on independent language comprehension and analysis of different texts.
Pupils are encouraged to become independent writers and to transfer skills acquired in speaking, listening and reading to their writing. Pupils will have many opportunities to explore writing for different purposes and audiences in a range of curriculum areas. There is an emphasis on pupils proof reading their writing for clarity and cohesion and they are encouraged to revise their thinking and redraft after their writing has been evaluated .
At St. George's the children develop a neat, cursive style of handwriting and the expectation is that all children take pride in the presentation of their written work. We encourage written work to be presented through a variety of media including the use of IT.
Vocabulary and Grammar is taught explicitly through speaking, reading and writing analysis. Once pupils are familiar with a grammatical concept they are encouraged to use and apply this concept in their own speaking and writing and recognise where it is used by others and comment on its effect.
Through our English curriculum we aim to give pupils valuable lifelong communication skills.
In science we believe that pupils should be curious and ask questions about what they see occurring and how things behave. They are encouraged to use scientific vocabulary from an early age to talk about what they have found out and to communicate their ideas in a variety of ways.
As the pupils progress through school they should select the most appropriate ways to answer science questions using different types of scientific enquiry, including observing changes over different periods of time, noticing patterns, grouping and classifying things, carrying out comparative and fair tests and finding things out using a wide range of secondary sources of information. They also use scientific knowledge to draw conclusions based on their evidence and use their understanding to explain their findings.
We strive to deliver a curriculum that develops children into responsible users of Computing, with the skills to use it independently and apply computing skills to all subjects.
The core of computing is computer science. In this children are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work and how to put this knowledge to use through programming. Children will be taught to become digitally literate and able to express their ideas through information and communication technology. Children will apply the fundamental principles of computer science including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation. They will use their practical experiences to help solve problems in particular when writing their own computer programmes. Children will become responsible, competent, confident and creative users of information and communication technology.
The history curriculum aims to ensure that pupils know and understand the history of our island as a coherent and chronological narrative, from the earliest times to 1066. Studies will include change in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain, British settlement by the Anglo-Saxons and Scots and the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor.
We also aim to teach significant aspects of the wider world including the nature of ancient civilisations and the characteristic features of past non-European societies as well as helping pupils to understand historical concepts, methods of historical enquiry and gain an historical perspective.
We aim to inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people and equip them with a knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments together with an understanding of the Earth's key physical and human processes. We focus on teaching locational and place knowledge, human and physical geography as well as geographical skills and fieldwork.
Art and Design
Our pupils will be engaged, inspired and challenged through a high quality art and design programme. They will be equipped with both the knowledge and skills to enable them to experiment and create their own works of art, craft and design.
As the pupils progress through our school, they will learn to think critically about their own work, and have the opportunity to review and revisit their ideas.
The teaching of music is based upon the fact that it is a creative and social art to be enjoyed. Children have the opportunity to enjoy musical experiences through listening singing, movement and dance and by playing tuned and un-tuned percussion.
Music should engage and inspire, so that the children have the opportunity to develop a love of music and their talent as a musician. Children will be able to compose and listen to different genres of music and evaluate what they have listened to. They will study the works of the great composers and musicians. Children will have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, understand how music is created with the dimensions of pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notation.
Design and Technology
Using creativity and imagination, pupils design, make and evaluate products that solve real and relevant problems within a variety of contexts. They acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and skills and draw on other areas of the curriculum such as mathematics, science, computing and art. Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable of participating successfully in an increasing technological world.
Modern Foreign Languages
As a school, our target language is French. In Key Stage Two, the children receive weekly sessions to enable them to progress in skills associated with reading, writing and speaking French. Children lower down the school are exposed to language learning opportunities where possible throughout a school day.
To enable a progression of skills the children are taught using a kinaesthetic learning approach through the use of variety of games to promote repetition, singing songs and reading stories in order to meet the National Curriculum objectives.
Physical Education
We believe that a high quality PE curriculum will inspire our pupils to succeed, to the best of their abilities, in a variety of games and physical activities, including competitive sport. Our pupils will be provided with opportunities to enable them to become physically confident, therefore improving their health and fitness.
Religious Education
We follow the Agreed syllabus for Religious Education in Worcestershire. We aim to help pupils to develop knowledge and understanding of Christianity and other principal religious traditions represented in Britain as well as provide opportunities for personal reflection and spiritual development. We encourage pupils to develop a positive attitude towards people who hold beliefs different from theirs and promote good relationships with and between families, communities and religions.
Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE)
PSHE encourages children to become healthy, responsible and independent member of society. We aim to develop self-esteem and self-confidence and the ability to make informed choices relating to personal and social issues. We teach children to have respect for others and help then to develop good relationships with their peers, adults in school and members of the wider community. We encourage children to be independent and responsible members of the school community and be positive and active members of a democratic society.
Early Years Curriculum
In the Early Years Foundation Stage pupils learn across seven areas of learning and development. These are:
Three prime areas:
Four Specific Areas:
There is a strong emphasis on learning through play, both pupil initiated and planned play. The curriculum is delivered through a combination of whole class activities, adult led focused activities and pupil initiated activities.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
As this is such an important skill for the pupils to develop we provide continuous opportunities for the pupils to develop skills in:
Communication and Language
We provide a range of situations for pupils to practise this skill. Some examples include:
Physical Development
Reception pupils have P.E sessions weekly, take part in weekly Forest School sessions, where gross and fine motor skills techniques are needed.
There are a variety of different activities that are planned for during the week to develop these skills including:
Literacy: Reading
All pupils take part in daily phonic sessions. Phonic sessions are planned using the 'Letters and Sounds' document. Both Nursery and Reception pupils have a book corner where they can go and quietly look at a book.
Parents are encouraged to share a book with their pupil each night. Once pupils start on our reading scheme they have sound pots which re-enforce the sounds we are learning and these sounds can be used to blend/segment words. High Frequency words are given out on a tag in which pupils can gain stars once a word is given correctly.
There are daily story times for pupils in Nursery and Reception.
Pupils are encouraged to write for a variety of different purposes. The writing area is changed frequently to supply a variety of different writing opportunities. These include a post office, letter writing station, story-telling area. Pupils have the opportunity to write inside and outside the classroom. They can write lists, labels and captions to go with their work or models they have made. In Reception, pupils also have their own independent writing book which they can write in during pupil led activities.
Pupils have a planned mathematical activity daily. They also have access to the maths area where they can choose from a range of current mathematical activities.
Understanding the World
Through the variety of topics taught, the pupils build a range of knowledge and skills about the world around them. Each year the pupils are able to observe the life cycle of a butterfly or a chicken. This enables them to discuss record and analyse changes that they see.
Pupils have lots of visits from people in the community that help us. This ranges from Doctors to the local Police force.
Expressive Arts and Design
Pupils in the Early Years have access to a 'creation station' where they can go and create a variety of pieces of artwork.
The role play area, both outside and inside have a variety of different opportunities for the pupils to dress up, write and re-enact a variety of roles.
The outside stage in the Reception outdoor area is a favourite place to re-create our favourite stories.
Personal Learning Skills
One of the man features of our curriculum is the focus on the development of skills. These personal, learning and thinking skills together with the functional skills of English, mathematics and ICT are essential to success in learning life and work.
At Callow End we work with the pupils to help them learn to be:
The St George's Experience
During their time at St George's we aim to provide the pupils with a wide range of experiences both within the school day and beyond and within the school site and beyond.
The Arts
We recognise the importance of the arts and both music and drama feature heavily in our curriculum. Pupils have the opportunity to perform in an annual show for an audience of family and friends as well as take part in Class Assemblies, church services and a poetry reading afternoon in Class 1.
In Collective Worship (assembly) we listen to a wide range of music and sing a variety of songs ranging from traditional hymn to modern pop songs.
As well as the opportunity to sing in our school choir, every other year all our older pupils take part in Young Voices where they sing as part of a huge choir made up of schools from all over the Midlands. This concert is performed at the LG Arena to an audience of several thousand people. Older pupils also take part in a 'Play 2 Learn' programme and when they learn to play two instruments over the course of two terms.
The Physical Environment
Our school is situated in a lovely part of rural Worcestershire and we take opportunities to use it inspire and create creativity.
Forest School is a weekly feature for pupils in Class 1 and Class 2 with older pupils gaining inspiration for subjects such as literacy and art from the surrounding country side.
Learning outside of the classroom is strongly encouraged and pupils from Class 3 and Class 4 take part in activities such as Bell Boating and orienteering at Upton Warren Outdoor Centre and the River Severn as well as take part in a residential visit to North Wales.
We also have a Science Garden and gardening plots and pupils have the opportunity to join an Eco Club.
Sporting Activities
Pupils take part in a wide range of activities in line with the National Curriculum but also have chances to take part in competitive matches with our neighbouring schools and a variety of festivals organised by local high schools. We hold an annual Sports Days which is made up of cooperative team activities in the morning and competitive races in the afternoon. After school sports clubs are offered over the course of the year by our own staff and outside providers and include football, rugby, cricket, gymnastics badminton and dance.
Extra-Curricular Activities
Pupils are allowed every opportunity to take part in extra-curricular activities both during and after the school day. Different clubs are offered each term and include things such as art, cooking, textiles, computing, recorders eco-club and gardening plus a variety of sports clubs.
Pupils with Special Needs
The curriculum at St George's is designed to provide access and opportunity for all pupils who attend our school. If we think it is necessary to adapt the curriculum to meet the needs of individual pupils, then we do so in consultation with the parents of the pupil. Further information can be found in our SEN information report


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Instead of being holed up at her £5million mansion waiting to give birth, Khloe Kardashian has instead chosen to move to much more humble surroundings.
The reality star is set to give birth any day now, and in readiness she's moved into boyfriend Tristan Thompson's relative normal £1.35million home on the shores of Lake Erie, Ohio.
While her own home in the exclusive LA suburb of Calabasas features six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and a huge private pool, Tristan's place comes with just the four bedrooms and a small garden that looks out onto the lake.
It's still no semi mind, with designer touches like a fish tank built into the living room walls, and a personal wine cellar.
Currently signed on a five-year '£58million' deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Tristan bought the property for £1.35million in 2015.
And Khloe, 33 - who flew out to her man's place in Cleveland on March 15 - admitted there's no where she'd rather be.
"I will say I'm happy to be in Cleveland right now," she wrote on her app.
"I'm with Tristan and I get my home time — cooking, being with my love, and just more of a routine."
It was previously reported that Khloe wants a low-key birth, with her huge family 'banned' from the delivery room, along with the cameras.
However, it seems mum Kris has scored herself an invite and is set to travel to Ohio for the birth.
"Khloe is really happy she is in Cleveland and she's really excited. She's all prepared and organized," a source told Us magazine.
"Kris is going to be coming out for it."


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Welcome to March, that often underappreciated month when there's still time left to savor winter fun and begin to welcome the first signs of spring. Read on to discover things to do all over New York State that will keep you in high spirits as the temperature heats up.
1. Owl Prowl
Photograph: Collin Adkins
Now that the weather is just beginning to warm up, here's an event that should be a real hoot (sorry)! Come try out your best owl impression on this special evening stroll in Catskill Park. A naturalist will guide you through woods and fields and act as your expert owl-whisperer calling out to various different species. So if you're ready to spend some peaceful time in nature after the long winter, we suggest you grab a jacket and sign up to learn all about hoo's hoo in the owl world! Mount Tremper; March 2; Best for ages 10 and up; free
2. Holiday Valley Winter Carnival
Winter goes out with a bang at the Holiday Valley Mountain Resort's two-day winter carnival. Day One entails live music, cookouts, and a Mardi Gras parade in downtown Ellicottville. On Day Two the festivities continue, kicking off with a pancake breakfast in a heated hut at the top of a mountain. Then there's a Dummy Downhill race, an event where man-made dummies—made from cardboard, wood, cloth, or anything else that will stand on skis—are sent crashing down the mountain. You can submit your own dummy for $5, or just be wildly entertained from the sidelines. Finally, there's an additional parade where costumes are not only encouraged but rewarded! The winner receives a season pass to the resort for next winter, so make yours stand out! Ellicottville; March 10 - 11; Regular admission fees apply, see site for details
3. Winter Weekend at Storm King
There's another long month before this beloved 500-acre sculpture park opens again with normal hours — with one fortunate exception! March 10th and 11th are their last monthly "Winter Weekend," when the park opens for a limited time to satiate your need for art and wide open spaces. After being cooped up all winter, here's your opportunity to go stretch your legs, take in the fresh air, and marvel at the beauty of Storm King's massive sculptures. At 1PM on both days you can attend a free walking tour of the grounds. March 10 - 11; $18, seniors $15, kids $8
4. Saint Patrick's Day Parade
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Head to your closet and dig up every item of green apparel you own before joining in the fun at the unmissable Saint Patrick's Day Parade. The parade will march up Fifth Avenue, past the beautiful Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and conclude at the American Irish Historical Society on 80th Street. Expect performances of Irish dancing, a lot of bagpipes, and the all around cheer that takes over New York City. After the parade, plenty of Irish restaurants and pubs around the city will definitely be continuing the festivities. New York City; March 17: free
5. Bristol Mountain Spring Carnival
Even with snow still on the ground, it's still springtime at the Bristol Mountain ski resort. Two days packed with fun events make up their annual Spring Carnival. Partake in the Shamrock Scavenger Hunt, arts and crafts, a wild owl meet-and-greet, and even a wine tasting. Kids ages 12 and under ski for free all weekend and even get a free beginner's lesson as well. All are invited to witness the notorious "Slush Cup," where brave souls in costume attempt to cross a slushy pond on skis without falling in (but probably falling in). Canandaigua; March 17-18; Regular admission fees apply, see site for details
6. I Love Chocolate Fest
If you didn't get your fill of chocolate on Valentine's Day, here's your chance to really go for it. The I Love Chocolate Fest features booth after booth offering confections in every form: truffles, cupcakes, cake pops, crepes, fudge, and more. There will also be musical performances, a special visit from the Easter Bunny, and a very tempting Chocolate Donut Speed Eating Contest. The more diehard chocolate-lovers can purchase a VIP Tasting Ticket which grants 10 unique tastings in The VIP Tasting Room. Wading River; March 17-18; $15, kids and seniors $10, VIP Tasting Ticket $25
7. The Magical Leprechaun Race
When you think of St. Patrick's Day, do you picture over two dozen leprechauns racing down a mountain on skis? You will after spending the holiday at Gore Mountain! There are a few ways to enjoy this wacky celebration. First, you can actually be a leprechaun. Organizers are calling for 35 volunteers of all ages to don their best leprechaun costume, strap on skis, and come ready to run through several laps of the race. The only requirement is that you ski at an intermediate level but no racing experience is required. Plus, volunteers earn a free lift ticket for the day. Another way to participate is to race against the leprechauns! Prizes are awarded to the skiers with the fastest times, or largest distance on their leprechaun contender. So grab your rabbit's foot, four-leaf clover, and any other lucky charm you have—the race is on! North Creek; March 17; free registration, lift ticket required
8. Maple Weekend
It's peak maple season! That means it's time to celebrate the sweet stuff at farms all across New York. Head straight to the source to learn all about the collecting and processing of maple syrup. This requires tasting the final products (of course), which can include inventive creations like maple ice cream and cotton candy. Almost 60 different farms across the state open their doors to the public and host pancake breakfasts. Whichever way you like to eat maple syrup, try it now at its freshest! Multiple locations, March 17 - 18 & 24 - 25; prices of pancake breakfasts vary by location
9. Plantasia
"Cityscapes Into the Night" is this year's theme at the ethereal Plantasia garden show in Hamburg. Meander through 15,000 square feet of 14 expertly landscaped garden scenes, including water displays, trees, shrubs, and all kinds of flowers, all arranged to evoke a bustling cityscape. Learn about how cultivate your own garden by attending expert-led seminars on topics like how to make a terrarium and heirloom vegetable gardening. Plus there are fun activities and events hosted in the Children's Garden to keep little ones entertained. Get started on your spring home makeover by shopping for greenery from over 115 vendors. East Amherst; March 21 - 25; $10, seniors $8, kids 12 and under free
10. THAW Fest
Soak up all the art and culture at the first annual THAW (The Hamptons Arts Weekend) Festival. Organizations from all over the Hamptons welcome visitors to take tours, explore art exhibitions and gardens, take in musical and theater performances, and attend special film screenings. Plus, participants such as the Madoo Conservancy, the Watermill Center, the Southampton Arts Center, and more will be offering special events and workshops geared towards families. Don't miss this chance to thaw out after the winter with fun, horizon-broadening experiences! Hamptons; March 23 - 25; prices vary
11. Capital District Garden & Flower Show
Get a head start on spring and reawaken your senses at this garden and flower extravaganza in Troy. While this event is ideal for botany enthusiasts, you definitely do not need a green thumb to appreciate the exciting and interactive exhibits. Massive garden displays take months of planning and preparation, not only for their construction but for perfectly timing the blooming of thousands of flowers used in the presentations. There's also a contest for professional and hobbyist floral designers, lectures and live demonstrations, and tastings from local wineries. Troy; March 23-25; General admission $14, kids 12 and under free
12. Hudson Valley Farm & Flea
The love and pride of the Hudson Valley community is palpable at this annual gathering of artisans, farmers, and vintage collectors. Catch performances by musicians and a youth theater group, or stop by the boutique movie theater (located inside a train car!) to see movies created by kids for kids. This year the organizers are adding a special Hudson Valley Sweets Festival to the mix of locally crafted foods. To top it all off, the $5 entrance fee also covers entry to Motorcyclepedia, the largest motorcycle museum in the Northeast. So you might have to go both days to fit in everything you want! Newburgh; March 24 - 25; $5, kids 12 and under free
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LA HABRA HEIGHTS – The nearly $1.9-million Hacienda Road construction project is nearly done, but the cost is going up by at least another $300,000.
It's the result of six change orders – mostly dealing with soil problems that made it difficult to install soil nails underneath the road to hold it together.
These are metal rods that range from 25 to 60 feet long.
"This is a highly specialized construction item," said Majdi Ataya, project manager for the city.
"It's not something done every day and there are a lot of unknowns," Ataya said. "When we removed the vegetation from both sides of Hacienda, it looked different than expected."
The road was closed to motorists from Oct. 5, 2009, to Jan. 29 of this year in order to repair slope damage between Skyline and Canada Sombre.
Construction continues and isn't expected to be completed until early March.
The biggest problem was the soil – much of which had to removed and replaced so the soil nails would hold, Ataya said.
"You base your design on certain characteristics of the soil," Ataya said. "It was so wet you couldn't make it compact or do what the plans called for," he said.
As a result, new soil was brought in and new soil nails had to be inserted, he said.
The cost of the additional soil nails was $45,000.
In addition to the $300,000 in change orders, the City Council last week also authorized an additional $100,000 just in case there are other cost overruns.
What remains uncertain is whether the federal government, which is paying about 88 percent of the contract, will pick up the increased cost or if the city will be stuck with the extra expense, Ataya said.
The California Department of Transportation, which is handling the administration of the contract for the federal government, has yet to approve any of the change orders, he said.
Three of the change orders, which cost about $165,000, have been approved by the Los Angeles office of the state Department of Transportation, but not by the main office in Sacramento, Ataya said.
The other three orders, with a price tag of about $133,000, have yet to be submitted, he said. They will be presented when the project is complete.
City Manager Shauna Clark is optimistic the city won't get stuck with the bill.
"There's a likelihood that Caltrans will pay us back but there's no guarantee," Clark said.
If Caltrans doesn't, the city will use Proposition C money from a 1990 half-cent sales tax and gas tax fund and possibly dip into general fund reserves, she said.
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We went on walk last week to explore our community. Our community is called Renmore. We saw lots of interesting places, buildings and people. Check them out!
The Church-St. Oliver Plunkett.
The Hospital-Doctors and Nurses work here,
The Vet Clinic- if your pet is sick you can bring them here.
The Pharmacy. After you visit the Doctor, you can buy medicine here,
Duggan's shop. You can buy your groceries here.
Tangles Hairdresser. You can get your hair cut here.
The bus brings people from Renmore to town and around Galway.
We saw a builder driving a forklift. He is building this house,
McSully's Butcher, Meat is sold here.
Another Pharmacy.
The Florist. You can buy flowers here for your friends and family.
Lough Atáilia
Garrison Church Renmore
We saw the train tracks, The train brings people from Galway all over Ireland.
Renmore Barracks . We saw a soldier here.
Ballyloughane Beach
GAA clubhouse
The Kingfisher Club
Renmore Scout Den
We arrived back at school.


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With highly intuitive and interactive systems, the Sir John Monash Centre has been designed to engage and educate new audiences about Australia's role on the Western Front.
Seven zones cover topics such as Australia Before the War; what happened on the Western Front; the Experience of War; and the Impacts gallery. A visit to the Sir John Monash Centre offers an opportunity to hear Australia's story and recognise the important aspects of society, military affairs and international politics in the lead-up to, during and after the First World War.
Teachers and students will hear previously untold stories of Australia's servicemen and women. These stories will be supported by online resources and Centre-based activities. The Centre's state-of-the-art technology allows students to tailor their visit to suit their interests and meet curriculum objectives.


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$1,775—$2,559 1—2 bed 730 Washington Ave N, Minneapolis MN, 55401
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Commute to Downtown Minneapolis
The rent at Else Warehouse Apartments ranges from $1,775 for a one bedroom to a $2,559 two bedroom. Apartments in this building are about 3% more expensive than the Warehouse District average. This is a pet-friendly apartment.
Else Warehouse Apartments is a nine minute walk from the Blue METRO Blue Line and the Green METRO Green Line at the Target Field Station Platform 2 stop.
This apartment is in the Warehouse District neighborhood in Minneapolis. Nearby parks include James I Rice West River Parkway, Mississippi River and Hall Park.
Else Warehouse Apartments has a Walk Score of 85 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
ElseWarehouse open floor plans offer large windows, tall ceilings and feature real wood floors, quartz countertops, full-size front load washer/dryer, and upgraded plumbing fixtures. ElseWarehouse common areas are anything but common and made for the North Loop lifestyle: spectacular, 6-story atrium with skylight, rooftop clubroom & outdoor deck, lobby bar, library and business center, gym-quality fitness center, underground heated parking, and Borough restaurant & Parlour cocktail lounge.
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Most errands can be accomplished on foot.
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In support of that mission, the market always appreciates hearing from interested vendors.
- Feel free to apply on-line using Salmon Creek Farmers' Market Manage My Market page. It is an on-line vendor recruiting website that allows you to apply to any or all opportunities that are of interest to you. There is no fee for applying.
- If you choose to use a paper application, please download the attached 2018 Vendor Application, complete and return it to the address indicated in the upper righthand corner of the application.
A 10'X10′ booth space is $25 per market day, payable at the end of the market day.
In all cases, please review the rules included in the 2018 Vendor Handbook, attached.
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Parasitism 13 Parasitism Parasite Natural History Defense and Counterdefense Coevolution Ecological Effects of Parasites Dynamics and Spread of Diseases Introduction Symbionts are organisms that live in or on other organisms.
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Symbionts are organisms that live in or on other organisms.
More than half of the millions of species that live on Earth are symbionts.
Our own bodies can be a home to many other species.
Some symbionts are mutualists, but the majority are parasites.
A parasite consumes the tissues or body fluids of the organism on which it lives, its host.
Pathogens are parasites that cause diseases.
As a group, parasites typically harm, but do not immediately kill, the organisms they eat (unlike predators).
The degree of harm to the host varies widely.
Compare: Athlete's foot or tuberculosis
Concept 13.1: Parasites, which constitute roughly 50% of the species on Earth, typically feed on only one or a few host species.
Macroparasites are large, such as arthropods and worms.
Microparasites are microscopic, such as bacteria.
Ectoparasites live on the outer body surface of the host.
They include plant parasites such as dodder. Dodder obtains water and food from the host plant via specialized roots called haustoria.
Mistletoes are hemiparasitic—they get water and nutrients from the host but can also photosynthesize.
Plants are also attacked by animals: Aphids, whiteflies, scale insects, nematodes, beetles, and juvenile cicadas.
These animals can be thought of as both herbivores and parasites (especially if they remain on one plant their entire life).
Animals also have many ectoparasites.
Examples: Athlete's foot fungus, fleas, mites, lice, and ticks.
Some of these parasites also transmit disease organisms.
Endoparasites live within the host, in the alimentary canal, or within cells or tissues.
Many disease organisms are endoparasites.
The alimentary canal is excellent habitat for many parasites. Many do not eat host tissue, but rob the host of nutrients.
Host organisms have many kinds of defense mechanisms.
Protective outer coverings include skin and exoskeletons. Many parasites that do gain entry are killed by the host's immune system.
Concept 13.2: Hosts have adaptations for defending themselves against parasites, and parasites have adaptations for overcoming host defenses.
Warning chemicals in plants and animals
Secondary compounds, like lignin
Hosts can also regulate biochemistry to deter parasites.
Hosts can change behavior – chimps and wooly bear caterpillars switch food sources
Sexual Selection
The more MHC proteins, the better the protection from a range of parasites.
Many other traits reflect parasite load: ability to build bowers (courting structure)
Some endoparasites have a complex set of adaptations.
Plasmodium, the protozoan that causes malaria, has a complex life cycle with two hosts, mosquitoes and humans.
When a parasite and its host each possess specific adaptations, it suggests that the strong selection pressure hosts and parasites impose on each other has caused both of their populations to evolve.
Concept 13.3: Host and parasite populations can evolve together, each in response to selection imposed by the other.
Figure 13.10 Coevolution of the European Rabbit and the Myxoma Virus (Part 2)
Parasites can reduce survival or reproduction of their host.
Experiments with a beetle and a sexually transmitted mite showed a decrease in egg production by infected females.
Concept 13.4: Parasites can reduce the sizes of host populations and alter the outcomes of species interactions, thereby causing communities to change.
At the population level, harm done by parasites translates into reduction of population growth rates.
Parasites can drive local host populations extinct and reduce their geographic ranges.
The physical environment can be changed when a parasite attacks a species that is an ecosystem engineer—a species whose actions change the physical character of its environment, as when a beaver builds a dam.
The amphipod Corophium is an ecosystem engineer in the tidal mudflats.
The burrows it builds hold the mud together, preventing erosion and forming "mud islands" at low tide.
Figure 13.18 C
When the trematode parasite drives the amphipod populations to extinction, erosion increases, silt content increases, and the islands disappear.
Figure 13.18 D
Pathogens have had a major effect on human populations—they are thought to have played a major role in the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history.
Despite medical advances, millions still die of diseases such as malaria.
Concept 13.5: Simple models of host–pathogen dynamics suggest ways to control the establishment and spread of diseases.
Mathematical models of host–pathogen population dynamics differ from models discussed previously:
Host population is divided into susceptible individuals (S), infected individuals (I), and recovered and immune individuals (R).
It is often necessary to keep track of both host and pathogen genotypes.
Other factors can influence spread of the disease, such as:
1) Different chances that hosts of different ages will become infected.
2) A latent period in which an individual is infected but can not spread the disease.
3) Vertical transmission—spread of the disease from mother to newborn, as can occur in AIDS.
These models can become quite complex.
Consider a simple model that looks only at host population density:
A disease will spread only if the density of susceptible hosts exceeds a critical, threshold density.