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The Dead 60's - The Black Sessions Capture The Band At The Peak Of Their Powers
I periodically get requests for re-posts, but they are usually few and far between. However, the recent and repeated clamor for a re-post of The Dead 60's 'Black Sessions' post from three years ago has become a bit of a roar! The band's inspired combination of dub and reggae infused with rockabilly and ska, plus their use of organ, bass and drums always hit a chord with me. Apparently it did with a lot of you too! You have spoken and I have heard you!
I originally learned about the band when they were profiled back in 2005 in the free Am NewYork newspaper they used to hand out for free on the New York City Subway. The review compared them to the musical love child of The Clash and The Specials, two of my favorite groups of all time. I HAD to do some further investigation. I was not disappointed. Their most memorable track, "You're Not the Law" is like the best remix of The Specials' "Ghost Town" you never thought you'd ever hear. That alone sold me on the band during those years before The Specials re-formed. In fact, the band served as an excellent substitute for many of us pining away for The Specials during the mid-2000's.
The core of the band formed during their teens under the name Rest Home, a 5-piece pop-punk band which played cover versions alongside their own original material. Eventually stripping down to a 3-piece, they changed their name to Pinhole and their first release was the 4-track "122 Duke Street" EP (named after the address of Liverpool bar The Pit, where the band played many of its first shows). The Dead 60's eventually morphed out of this period and hit an incredibly creative period between 2005 to 2007 recording and promoting their self-titled album "The Dead 60's", a dub remix of their self-titled album and "Time To Take Sides" which was released shortly before they went their separate ways.
Even though the band is no longer with us, you can listen to an amazing bootleg of a live performance the band performed at the height of their powers in October 2005. The show was recorded as part of the Black Sessions, which are live performances broadcast on the French Radio station France Inter. The Black Sessions are the brainchild of the well known French radio DJ Bernard Lenoir (Lenoir means black in English). Lenoir is a radio pioneer (essentially the French John Peel), and the Black Sessions are high fidelity, live recordings for his show. Unlike the "Peel Sessions" the band's play live, in one take and in front of an audience of 200 people.
This 12-song recording of The Dead 60's live set gives you a sense of how tight and talented the band were and how they could have become the new face of ska in the 21st Century. Enjoy!
The Dead 60's - The Black Sessions
Recorded on October 3, 2005
Paris, France
01. just another love song
02. a different age
03. red light
04. tv and magazines
05. control this
06. train to nowhere
07. we get low
08. riot radio
09. intro song
10. the last resort
11. loaded gun
12. cold soul
13. you're not the law
14. intro reprise
15. riot radio
The Dead 60's - The Black Sessions
5 comments:
thnx for the post man
Great Band,never heard before,
- February 19, 2012 at 2:29 AM
Thanks Marco, allways thought it was a shame the split up
- February 20, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Garageland said...
Great post big thanx
- February 20, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Thanks for more Dead 60's!
- March 10, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Nice one mate, was a huge fan of these back in the day. Saw them live tons of times and had a few beers with them. Not heard this one, I've got them live at Lowlands '07 and at the Troubadour for a T-Mobile gig in 2006.
- September 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM
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We caught Caleb eating out of the peanut butter jar with a spoon. Reminded me of your peanut butter obsession! (I have no idea whooo would of taught him that!) tee hee!
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This is a guest post written by John Bowman, author of Montessori at Home!
If you have a Bachelor's degree, a year off, and $ to spare, you can take a Montessori teacher training course and learn everything you want to about Montessori. The sheer quantity of books, papers, and other work Montessori created during a lifetime dedicated to children is incredible. It takes awhile to wade through, much less grasp thoroughly.
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There is a 'secret' about Montessori, though, that programs charging big bucks to train teachers don't talk about much. Since I'm a huge advocate for parents, however, I'm happy to tell you:
Doing Montessori with preschoolers is simple
Montessori did all the heavy lifting of creating a completely new way of looking at young children that changed everything all over the world. Then, she created the first Prepared Environment. Like many jewel-like things of beauty, this practical application of her work is wonderfully simple. Don't think so? Let me explain every Montessori preschool in 9 sentences:
A clean, bright, attractive area is furnished with sets of low shelves and child sized tables and chairs. There are flowers and works of art, and everything is aesthetically pleasing and organized. On the shelves are a huge variety of interesting, self-contained materials for the children to use. They move freely, making their own choices about what they want to work with and whether to work alone or with other children. The children set out rugs and mats to create work areas, and then bring materials to their work areas to use. When finished, they put the material back in the same spot on the shelf where they found it. The children follow a few simple rules that encourage them to respect each other and share the space and materials constructively. A teacher wanders among them, demonstrating materials, guiding children as needed, and working with children individually or in small groups. The atmosphere is busy, rich in opportunities for all kinds of fun work, and the children largely manage themselves.
It's like free play on steroids. Free play in traditional preschools, like many things we do with preschoolers (except digital learning), had its origins in the Montessori Prepared environment. The big 'secret' about Montessori is that her work fills volumes, but the practical application of all her work – the Prepared Environment – is easy to understand. All those materials on the shelves are easy to understand as well. They are for preschoolers, after all! There are a lot of them in all the different areas because Montessori followed a simple rule:
"The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences."
She summed up her approach this way:
"An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to mastery."
Rather than have adults decide what the children should do every day (lesson plans), Montessori put out it all out there at once in the form of self-contained materials the children could choose from and use on their own whenever they liked, following a few simple rules that taught them to exercise their freedom with responsibility to others.
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Montessori trusted life to unfold in an intelligent, optimal way if given the chance. She followed children as they grew according to nature, rather than trying to control the process as most forms of education do. Montessori let children follow their universal inner passions to absorb, learn, grow, and know. The result? Children who by the age of six read and do math at what public school calls a second to fourth grade level, without pressure or stress, in an environment filled with joy and discovery. These children also develop excellent brain architecture, a positive and confident self-image, and a true love of learning. Not bad! Parents can do many of the same activities found in Montessori schools right at home. You can make most of your materials yourself and buy others. Here are a few core points to remember to help guide your home Montessori adventures:
Encouraging spontaneous concentration and focused attention is the heart of Montessori. The materials are vehicles for this. Concentration creates self-disciplined children who are calmer, happier, and more satisfied with life; and who can learn anything more easily.
Start with Practical Life and Sensorial materials. Work in Science, Math and Reading as your child shows interest.
Try a wide variety of materials. Observe to see what materials your child spontaneously focuses her attention and concentration on, and wants to repeat over a period of time.
Keep these materials out on low shelves for your child to use when he likes. When a material no longer attracts his interest, take a picture of it and put those in a little box on the shelf. Switch the material out for one he is into concentrating on now. The pictures help your child remember each activity in case she wants to repeat them.
Not so complicated. It really is quite fun when you get into it. Parents are very capable of creating excellent Montessori style experiences at home. Montessori just makes sense. Montessori materials free the adult from having to be the center of attention and the source of all knowledge. Children 'auto-educate' with Montessori materials simply by using them.
Like a Montessori teacher, your job becomes helping maintain your child's materials in a nice condition, suggesting and making new materials, and demonstrating or working with your child as needed. Your child's work will increasingly be independent. You can focus more on reading together, playing outside, doing art projects, and just having fun. Photo: Touch Basket, Montessori At Home!
Start small, with one or two materials a week. The Quick Start Guide in Montessori At Home! shows you how to get started the same day you download the eBook. As you and your child become comfortable, add more materials that your child shows interest in. Let him look through the eBook with you to find them, and help shop for supplies to put materials together.
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With a small investment of about half what you would otherwise spend on disposable plastic toys over 2-3 years, your time, and your love, your child can have many of the same benefits of a Montessori school.
© 2013 John Bowman
The new Third Edition of Montessori At Home! was released in March 2013. It has 512 pages of guidance, how-to information, descriptions of over 300 early learning materials and activities, recommendations for over 225 digital tablet apps for preschoolers, 76 pages of free printables, and a copy of the eBook, Mom Bloggers Talk Montessori. $10.95 at Montessori At Home!,
My thanks to John for writing this extensive article for us here at 1+1+1=1! I invite you to ask him any questions you may have in the comments below and he can hopefully answer them for you. If you have an article you hope he will write for us in the future, please let us know in the comments also! Be sure to let him know if this article was helpful-we all love encouragement, right?
Did you miss earlier Montessori Minute Posts?
- Introducing Montessori Minute
- Where Do I Start?
- Sensory Activities
- Understanding Dr. Maria Montessori
- A Preschoolers Guide to Home Improvement
- The Three Part Lesson
- What is Montessori?
- Developing a Positive Self Image
- Concentration & Normalization
- Toys vs. Learning Materials
- Making Learning Materials with OIL {object-image-language}
- Q & A with John Bowman {answers to questions left on the Sensory Activities post}


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The recipient of the letter, Emily Gladys Bartlett (1891-1968), lived in Holyoke, Massachusetts, during the time of World War I. Her fiance, Edward Roswell Wirt (1891-1942), a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, served in the army during the last year of the war in 1918. He wrote her a series of letters between April 29, 1918 to April 10, 1919, telling of his experiences as a soldier and suggesting that she save the letters so that he can refer to them "as a diary of this affair."
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Pronto - Sandwicheria and Cafe
I am taking over a florist shop and transforming it into a gourmet sandwich shop - "Pronto" - selling roast pork sandwiches (Porchetta, check out google images) on a fabulous ciabatta bun.
Pronto will be in a hip neighborhood, newly renovated with high end finishes.
In the front window there will be a large brand new stainless display oven with Porchetta roasting to golden brown perfection inside.
The shop is small... only 800sf.
It will have lots of nice bread and perfectly roasted pork on display.
It will smell awesome as soon as you walk in the door.
Warm interior: red brick and stainless with long wood counter tops.
The serving staff will carve the roast pork and build your sandwich right in front of you. The vibe will be young, the servers will be hip, well dressed and friendly.
It will be on the loud side, great tunes playing.
Vancouver has fabulous restaurants and you can certainly get a pork sandwich at other establishments... but this will be the "Shrine to Swine!"
We will be serving food to an upscale, professional clientele. People who appreciate good tasty sandwiches, who are probably single and eat most of their meals out, but are looking for a high end quality meal.
The logo needs to work equally well on all of the following:
1) menu
2) signage on the front of the shop: (see attachments to get an idea of the space. Photo's are of Pronto BEFORE we renovate.
3) bag for take-out sandwiches (We are planning to "stamp" the logo onto either white or brown bags using the old-style stamp and stamp-pad method)
If possible, the logo will potentially even be used for the sticker that we will use to seal the brown paper that our pork sandwiches will be wrapped in... but then again maybe that will be a second design project. (see attached pic "sticker shape.jpg"
MOST IMPORTANT...use the word Pronto, it should be red in color (but open to others), perhaps some appetizing cartoon type pig?
Attached images are just to give some ideas to designers
1)images.jpg is a cool pig, don't ya think!
2) tile facade.jpg is the existing tile which will remain
3) This is the exterior of our space before we gut and renovate. None of the existing awning, junk in the windows will remain. A complete do-over is going to happen!
4) This is the shape of the exterior. Visually remove the green awning and the name will appear in it's place. We are moving into Arts Flowers.
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It will be:
- Totally amazing. More amazing than the Tin Man I made. Although, that was pretty good.
- Knock your socks off. Yes, even better than the Jack in the Box costume I made.
- One of a kind. Way better than the chef costume, which I ahem, purchased. I think I get a few extra points for drawing on that cute moustashe though.
- Drop dead gorgeous. And I do mean, "gorgeous". As in eye catching. Even more eye catching than the Cat in the Hat.
- Unforgettable. Yes, even more unforgettable than the Bed Bug costume. And we all want to forget the bed bugs!
I am so excited about this I can't stand it. They don't even have this costume in any costume shop. I came up with the idea in mid-December. I had a few ideas prior to that of some cool costumes to make with his wheelchair; I could make them really cool too but this idea, is just plain "over the top".
The only challenge is finding the headpiece, not sure I can make that myself since I've never made "hair" but heck, I can probably make it if I can't find what I need like I did when he was a scarecrow.
Too bad Halloween is just once a year. I don't even decorate for Halloween, I just like making Dear Son's costume. Not sure what I'll do until then (tapping fingers on desk).
Note: Photo credit for pumpkins is Pottery Barn (I believe).


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Lipscomb's softball team will use the month of October as a month of training, getting reps in through a number of games on the fall schedule, released Monday by head coach Kristin Ryman.
The fall season kicks off on the first day of October, when the Lady Bisons host their annual Alumni Game at Draper Diamond. First pitch is scheduled for 10 a.m. and will be a chance for fans to see Lipscomb stars past and present.
The following day, Lipscomb will head down I-24 for a doubleheader at Middle Tennessee. The Blue Raiders were 18-33 last season and lost their leading hitter, Corrie Abel, and her .387 average to graduation.
On Oct. 8 Lipscomb will travel to Chattanooga for the UTC Tournament. At 11 a.m., Lipscomb will face Calhoun Community College, and will follow that up with a 1:15 p.m. game against Georgia, which ended last season ranked sixth in the nation.
The following Saturday, Oct. 15, Lipscomb will be back home with a doubleheader against Trevecca scheduled to begin at noon.
On Thursday, Oct. 27, the Lady Bisons will wrap up the fall schedule with a night-time doubleheader against Tennessee State, beginning at 6 p.m. at Draper Diamond.
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Shanta: Jishnu, your blog post and mine on cash transfers generated a lot of comments. Some people argued that giving poor people cash will not "work" because they will spend it on consumption rather than on their children's education, which is something we care about. What do you have to say to that?
Jishnu: I don't think the question "does giving cash to poor people work?" is well-defined. It can only be answered in the negative if we (the donors who give the cash) impose our preferences and judge what poor people spend on relative to those preferences. But if we give poor people cash so they will be better off, then—by definition—they are better off, regardless of how they choose to spend the extra money.
Shanta: Before you get too philosophical, let's discuss the concrete issue of education. Everyone agrees that education is one of the best routes out of poverty. But if people spend the cash on other things, they deny their children the chance to learn and escape poverty. Wouldn't it have been better to cut down on the transfer and use the savings to either subsidize education or give scholarships? Isn't this what conditional cash transfers try to do?
Jishnu: I think the problem of thinking about it in this way ignores the fact that people may spend the money in other ways that could help them get out of poverty, even for a little while. What do we make, for instance, of the person who used the money to get bail for the main breadwinner in the family? So, let's get even more concrete. Here are four potential reasons why people don't send their children to school:
- The benefits are not worth the costs. For instance, the school may be too far (especially for girls) or the children who do go to school don't learn anything once they get there.
- The benefits are high, but the costs are borne by people who may not be able to share in the benefits. This is a failure of contracting. For instance, parents believe that if children get educated, they will move to the city and not care for them in their old age.
- People are credit constrained. The benefits are high, they will be shared, but at the moment I can't borrow the money to pay for schooling. This may be particularly salient in the face of bad shocks:
- When there is an illness in the family, kids are pulled out of school to save money, and perhaps to engage in income-earning opportunities.
Shanta: I think you're saying something more than the old cliché "tailor the solution to the problem." We've known since Samuelson's 1954 paper that there are two rationales for public expenditure—market failure and redistribution. Too often, in practice, governments use the same instrument to address both. For instance, there is some evidence that there are externalities associated with primary education (the benefits to society are over and above those to the individual student). Even if there were no externality (all the benefits were private), we would still want poor people to have access to education, since it's a way out of poverty. So we provide free education for all. But this combines the two rationales with one instrument. For the externality, we should subsidize education to the amount of the difference between the social and private benefit—for everybody. For redistribution, we should make sure poor people become less poor through targeted redistribution.
I wonder if there is a more general point here. When the rationale for government intervention is redistribution, the default instrument should be cash transfers (because these have the greatest potential to improve the poor's welfare). Any deviation from this should be justified on grounds that it achieves the redistribution motive better. When the rationale is market failure, then the instrument should be a tax, subsidy or regulation.
Jishnu: With one wrinkle. When the motive is redistribution, moving away from direct transfers to the poor requires somebody (the government) who represents the poor to decide on how they should spend the money. But what if the government is insufficiently attentive to the needs of the poor? This has been a constant sticking point in aid debates, to the point that it is argued that aid sustains unresponsive governments far beyond their past-due dates.
In my own work I often wear two very different hats. One strand of my work highlights, for instance, the very poor quality of health care available to Indians—particularly those who live in poverty. I have argued that this, in part, reflects a failure of the government to ensure basic accountability over service providers—to the extent that 40 percent of Indian doctors are absent on any given day; and when nurses' wages are tied to attendance (you don't get paid if you don't show up to work), they break the time-stamp machines. In this line of inquiry, I am not working with the government; I am working to demonstrate a failure in their ability to attain their own stated goals.
My second hat is the one I wear when working on specific World Bank or government programs. For instance, I have helped design cash transfers after an earthquake in Pakistan and worked in the initial days of India's health insurance program. I have also researched these programs, but that is long after my implementation hat has worn out. When working on these programs, I am trying to ensure that they function well and that some systems are being put in place to ensure their sustainability. What I am not doing is asking whether these programs make sense in the first place (did those cash transfers keep a government in place longer than it should have, should insurance be provided through private companies, financed by the government) and what the broader implications are for the overall organization of state-citizen relationships.
At least for me, it is difficult to separate out these two tasks sufficiently to ensure both that I am fully committed to improving a program and, at the same time, ask whether that program makes sense from a broader societal perspective. If the answer was "no", would I still keep at it the same way? What if the answer was "Yes, but only if everyone believes that it would work"? I give this example to highlight a conundrum we face every day at The World Bank. We see non-functioning institutions. We work with them every day. But it is hard to both work on improving programs and simultaneously question whether those programs make sense.
Shanta: Sure, but some of us don't have the luxury of wearing two hats (or having enough heads to accommodate them). As chief economist, my view is that there is only one client—the poor in my countries. The government is the intermediary to reach the poor. If the government is a functioning intermediary, then I work with them (and I have pretty low standards for what "functioning" means). But if the government does not seem to represent the interests of the poor (and there is evidence, often derived from your work, to that effect), then I work directly with the public, informing them of the evidence, so that they can bring pressure to bear on government to give them what they are due. Sometimes, this makes governments (not to mention my managers) uncomfortable, but if we are serious about ending poverty, I'm convinced that this is how we should operate.
It is a simple yet radical
It is a simple yet radical observation that the poor are the Bank's single client. This should embolden the Bank to be more disruptive when confronted with systems and institutions that create and maintain social inequality - rather than making the best of a bad situation. The one catch is that we're answerable to the board of executive directors, where the governments invested in those systems and institutions are far better represented than the poor.
Will, thanks for the comment.
Will, thanks for the comment. If the governments that are represented on the Executive Board do not represent the interests of the poor in their countries, then we should be working even harder to promote the interests of the poor (otherwise, who will?) If on the other hand they do have the poor's interest in mind when they embrace the World Bank's goal of ending poverty, then we can work with them in developing the best instruments for reaching this goal, which was the subject of this post. Shanta
Signaling out the Poor as the
Signaling out the Poor as the only client is to negate the complexity of systems that hold responsible actors. Rarely, do we see Government's in developing countries playing the role of effective intermediaries. Are we supposed to forget about holistic and integrated approaches (both for policies and implementation) to strengthen the roles of development partners (including the government) in bringing about poverty reduction. All this, without forgetting the responsibility for promoting the prospects for sustainable growth for sustainable solutions for poverty reduction.
Shaheena, thanks for your
Shaheena, thanks for your question and comments. I fully agree that the solution has to be holistic and integrated, and that we should strengthen the role of development partners, including the government. But the problem is that sometimes the government is not being effective (as you suggest) because of misaligned incentives within government: service providers don't have an incentive to provide services (teachers and doctors are absent), or politicians don't have an incentive to allocate resources to poor people (because of elite capture of the political system). In this setting, the holistic and integrated approach involves empowering poor people to better hold governments and service providers accountable. This is how we can make governments more effective at serving the poor.
Shanta and Jishnu -- the
Shanta and Jishnu -- the dialogue format is an excellent way of debating and discussing complex issues. Both of you have done a wonderful job of leaving us with many issues to dissect and assess. Many thanks. Let me pick up one of the issues -- Shanta's idea that often our responsibility is to provide information that citizens can use to hold their governments to account. Economists have done a wonderful job of showing how improving the way information flows can make markets work better. But, the linkage between public service delivery, accountability of governments and the availability of information is not so straight forward. In a particular, without ensuring that systems of voice and client power -- to borrow concepts from the 2004 WDR framework -- which link citizens to governments and clients to service providers -- the simple availability of information will not be sufficient to trigger the type of accountability that Shanta hopes to see emerge. I have worked on benchmarking of utilities and municipalities in many regions. We found, not surprisingly, that information about performance about utilities and local governments had much greater impact in a context where service beneficiaries and citizens had effective mechanisms of holding providers and the state accountable. Information plays a key role, for sure, but outside the context of shifts in the way institutions function -- a point Jishnu makes -- information alone cannot deliver to poor people. I fear that in a world of dysfunctional institutions only a chief economist has the luxury of bypassing the state!!
Dear Junaid
Dear Junaid
Thanks for the comment. I think you are absolutely right: Information in and of itself has a direct impact only when people either have options or can act on the basis of that information in other ways. The emerging research on this is converging quite rapidly to that idea. For instance, our experiment of providing report cards on schools and children in Pakistan reduced prices in private schools and increased test-scores in both public and private schools. At the same time, it's worth emphasizing that the effect of providing new information depends on the extent of information that was already available in the system, and there are few systems where the baseline was such that no information at all was available. Again, in the Pakistan report cards experiment, we are able to show that the new information increased the precision with which people were able to assess schools--but even in the baseline, their perceptions were quite accurate.
I am sure Shanta will have more to say about this, but its worth emphasizing that information also plays the key role of bringing something on to the legislative agenda. I don't think that everything that is backed up with hard information gains legislative attention, but hopefully, the likelihood that it does increases. I think absenteeism and the lack of incentives among public sector workers gained increasing acceptance as a problem after the work on the WDR, and we have seen some really innovative programs come up to deal with these.
So, my take is
1. Exactly as you say, more information leads to better outcomes where people can take actions on the basis of the information
2. New information also provides a means to move away from discussion based on experience towards an agreed upon set of facts. This in turn could--and has--created a platform for policy change in some cases.
Thanks again!
Junaid: I'm glad you like
Junaid: I'm glad you like the dialogue format--we should do one with you. I fully agree that information alone may not be sufficient for poor people to hold policymakers and service providers accountable. The question is what else can be done to help strengthen voice and client power. The answer is, as you say, to strengthen institutions that permit poor people to exercise their voice. But remember that any institution that strengthens the voice of poor people is weakening the power of someone else (think about decentralization shifting power from central to local governments). If these people are powerful enough, they can resist or undermine such institutional changes. This is why we have to be careful in proposing "pro-poor" institutional changes without watching out for the unintended consequences, most of which stem from those whose rents are being diminished managing to scuttle the reform. Incidentally, what I am proposing is not "bypassing government" but helping to make government more effective by improving poor people's ability to hold government accountable. Shanta
Just wanted to say thank you
Just wanted to say thank you to Shanta, Jishnu, and Junaid. This blog is just excellent. This exchange is a critical one for the students in my governance class. There seems to be an overemphasis on transparency these days as if it alone will solve the problem of ineffective government. I am amused that whether it's cash transfers, education, information or ______[fill in the blank], and despite all evidence to the contrary, people are still looking for the "silver bullet". Jishnu's comments on when you use what are so useful as a counterpoint to that.


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Deferred Action Workshops in Los Angeles
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Organizations, elected officials and community leaders have announced meetings and workshops to inform and prepare young undocumented immigrants who plan to apply for what is now being called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Deferred action—or the Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion with Respect to Individuals Who Came to the United States as Children directive announced in July—could grant temporary relief from deportation to some young immigrants who meet certain criteria; it could also make them eligible to receive a work permit and a driver's license in California.
Deferred action targets undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US before the age of 16; are no 30-years-old or younger; have lived in the United States continuously for at least five years; are enrolled in school, graduated from high school or obtained a general education development certificate (GED); have been honorably discharged from the Coast Guard or Armed Forces; have not been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor, multiple misdemeanors or pose a threat to national security.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will start accepting applications this Wednesday, Aug. 15.
Workshops to guide undocumented youth are already underway.
Related posts:USCIS Releases New 'Deferred Action' Guidelines , Activists Offer Reality Check on Obama's Deportation Policy Change
On Saturday, Los Angeles Councilman Erick Garcetti, in conjunction with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), held a town hall style meeting at El Centro del Pueblo in Echo Park to inform the young immigrants in attendance about the application process.
CHIRLA and the California Dream Network, CHIRLA's statewide youth branch, have several other educational style forums planned.
The schedule is as follows:
—Today, Monday, Aug. 13, 6-8 p.m. at Central American Resource Center (CARECEN): 2845 West 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057.
—Tuesday, Aug. 21 with Representative Howard Berman. The workshop will take place from 6:30 – 8 p.m. at 7915 Van Nuys Boulevard, Van Nuys, Ca 91402.
—Saturday, Aug. 25 with US Representatives Grace Napolitano and Judy Chu. The workshop will be from 9:30am to 12 noon at the El Monte Community Center, 3130 Tyler Ave., El Monte, CA.
—Sunday, Aug. 26, from 11am to 1pm at Templo Renacer, located at 13027 Pierce Street, Pacoima, CA 91331.
Individuals are urged to be cautious of immigration scams that could result in their deportation.
CHIRLA is also conducting workshops every hour on the hour from 10am to 4pm, Monday through Friday at their headquarters located at 2533 West 3rd Street, suite 101, Los Angeles, Ca 90057. CHIRLA is charging a small fee to evaluate individual's forms and help fill out the application.
For more information and for updates visit www.chirla.org or call 1-866-6CHIRLA.
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Please get the days corrected. For example you guys have the 25th as being a Friday but in reality it's a Saturday. Us dreamers will truly appreciate it if the correct dates could be placed. Thank you
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Cincinnati Mayor Cranley urges 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to rule for marriage
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Today, one week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit heard oral arguments in 6 landmark marriage cases, the Mayor of Cincinnati is voicing his support for the freedom to marry, urging the Court to affirm lower court rulings holding that banning same-sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional.
Mayor John Cranley, mayor of Cincinnati and a Mayor for the Freedom to Marry, said today:
Allowing same-sex couples to marry is a matter of basic fairness and decency. Everyone in Ohio should be free to marry the person they love and be able to care for them by sharing in the same protections as everyone else. Thousands of gay couples in Ohio are raising families, and they should be treated with dignity and respect. The 6th Circuit Court can and should strike down the marriage ban in Ohio as soon as possible.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale lightweight crew begins its spring racing season on Saturday with a scrimmage against Trinity's heavyweights on Yale's home course on the Housatonic River. The matchup, which will consist of several pieces rather than a single 2,000-meter race, follows several months of indoor training and a two-week spring-break training session on the Housatonic. The Y150 will follow Saturday's Trinity scrimmage with six races over the next five weekends against league opponents before beginning its championship season on May 15 at the Eastern Sprints. Captain Andrew Hakanson pointed to a successful winter and a strong schedule as an indicator of potential success this season.
"After a lot of work over the winter, Y150 is excited and optimistic for the upcoming racing season. We have a strong squad this year with high expectations," said Hakanson. "All indications point towards a fast and competitive field where close racing is commonplace. Having fierce opponents is what makes lightweight rowing so fun. I know our team will rise to the occasion each weekend and race it up."
Following its race with the Bantams this weekend, Yale will begin its official regular season, competing against Navy for the Johnson Cup, held on Lake Carnegie in Princeton, N.J. Last year, Yale fell to the Midshipmen in the Johnson Cup before defeating them at the Eastern Sprints on the way to a bronze medal. Navy regained the upper hand at IRA's, however, finishing second to Yale's fourth.
After the Johnson Cup, Yale begins a three-week home stand with a race against MIT and Georgetown, competing with MIT for the Joy Cup. Last year, the Bulldogs swept all five races against MIT and Georgetown in challenging conditions on the Charles River.
Next, Yale faces Penn and Columbia. The varsity eight will look to protect the Dodge Cup, which the Bulldogs have held continuously since 2003 and have won 29 of the last 31 years.
On Apr. 23, the Bulldogs will host two races on the Housatonic. In the morning, Yale will race league foe Cornell, which it defeated last season in Ithaca, N.Y., as well as Delaware, a non-league member that went 3-4 against EARC opponents last spring. That afternoon, Yale will face Dartmouth for the Durand Cup. Yale won races in three out of four boat classes against the Big Green last year, but the marquee event, the varsity eight, ended in an unusual dead heat, with both crews crossing the line in 5:31.6.
Yale concludes its regular season with the traditional Harvard-Yale-Princeton regatta, where the Bulldogs will compete for the Goldthwait Cup in the varsity eight and the Vogel Cup for overall team supremacy. Facing the top two finishers from last year's Eastern Sprints, Yale will be searching for its first Goldthwait Cup victory since 2006.
After a week off, all Yale crews will begin the championship season with the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., where the Bulldogs will compete for the EARC title. Three Yale crews medaled at Sprints last year, with the second varsity eight taking silver while the varsity eight and the varsity eight and second freshman eight took bronze.
Yale's varsity eight will conclude the season with the IRA National Championship in Camden, N.J. if they qualify at the Eastern Sprints.
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Acting major Rebecca Knowles performs in "Time Flies" during her apprenticeship.
Major: ActingMinor: Musical TheatreApprenticeship: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Mass.Expected graduation: Spring 2013Hometown: Medfield, Mass.
This summer I worked as an acting apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Some of the highlights of my apprenticeship included building set pieces at the scene shop, taking classes in Shakespeare and Improv, attending performances and readings, and taking master classes with Equity performers.
This experience taught me the importance of being a smart actor. I was better able to understand and appreciate all of the different tasks and intricacies that play an important role in putting a performance together. There were many instances when I thought back to specific advice I had received from my teachers. The training I've received equipped me with a strong skill set and it taught me the power of storytelling and imagination, which really helped me to dive into whatever task or crew assignment was given to me.
I knew the education and training I would receive at Point Park would provide me with the necessary skills to pursue acting as my career. The size of the school was appealing, and I wanted to live in a city. I loved the idea that my teachers would be industry professionals, and that I would have the opportunity to audition for outside productions as well as the Conservatory season productions.
There have been so many incredible opportunities through this apprenticeship, but I think the most valuable part of this apprenticeship has been experiencing all sides of the business. I've gained a better understanding of the successes and obstacles my career will have, and I still feel just as passionate about acting as ever, which solidifies my career choice in my mind even more.
I learned so much about the business of acting and met so many great people, that I know this opportunity will continue to help and inspire me in my career.
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Adecco - Client Program Manager - Aberdeen, MD
: Adecco
: Aberdeen, Maryland
: January 20, 2017
Reference ID
: 2076329645
Overview: Explore a career with Adecco, the nation's leading provider for temporary, temp-to-hire and contingency search/permanent placement services.
Client Program Manager
is responsible for managing an on-site temporary employee staffing program for a single client. Provides general management to typically 70+ temporary employees. Acts as the main liaison to clients to define and develop innovative solutions to meet hiring needs, address standard to moderately complex client requests and achieve strategic objectives. Sources and recruits candidates to fill temporary, temporary to permanent and/or permanent job orders. Ensures orders are fulfilled according to client requirements. Serves as subject matter expert on market trends, client industry, and roles. May manage one or more onsite colleagues.
Provides general management of temporary employee, including resolving employee relations issues.
May supervise, train, mentor and coach additional onsite colleagues.
Establishes and/or manages onsite temporary employee programs.
Partners with clients to define strategic objectives and hiring needs.
Analyzes hiring needs, determines best standard recruiting methods, and creates/deploys client-specific and/or role-specific recruiting strategies.
Stays abreast of leading industry trends and recruiting best practices.
Builds and maintains subject matter expertise on target industries, clients and roles.
Administers job postings in various systems.
Assesses candidates to ensure qualification match, cultural fit and overall compatibility with client requirements.
Conducts behavioral based interviews and competency based evaluations.
Enters and tracks assignment and/or candidate data in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
Builds and maintains relationships with both passive and active candidates.
Develops relationships with key clients and business leaders.
Deploys, coaches, develops and redeploys temporary employees.
Responds to and addresses candidate, temporary employee and/or client inquiries or escalations.
Completes candidate hiring/onboarding processes in accordance with client/organizational requirements.
Coaches, trains and mentors onsite colleagues.
Participates in Quality Performance Reviews (QPRs).
Ensures compliance and safety requirements are met, including conducting injury investigations.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Bachelor's degree in business or a related field with a minimum of three (3) years of recruiting experience is required. Equivalent combination of post-high school education and seven (7) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree. Previous experience working within an Adecco Group North America business unit or in the staffing or human resources solutions industries is highly desirable.
Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
Ability to focus on client needs with a commitment to quality and customer service.
Ability to prioritize, organize and perform multiple work assignments simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
Ability to identify and resolve problems through recommending and implementing creative solutions.
Knowledge of and ability to interpret and understand employment-related laws, rules and regulations.
Knowledge of and the ability to utilize Applicant Tracking Systems.
Knowledge of current sourcing and recruiting trends, best practices and methodologies.
Proficient with Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Adecco Group North America through an impressive portfolio of staffing industry leading brands, including Accounting Principals, Adecco Staffing, Ajilon, Beeline, Entegee, Lee Hecht Harrison, Modis, Paladin, Parker+Lynch, Pontoon, Special Counsel and Soliant is the world's leading provider of Human Resources solutions.
We are the workforce experts delivering staffing and career service solutions to organizations and individuals across all industries. Collectively we harness the power of some of the greatest talent in the world. That talent and expertise allows us to do business globally and act locally with deep knowledge in niche areas.
Every day, we have more than 100,000 associates on assignment, 30,000 colleagues working internally to support more than 10,000 clients in the United States and Canada. Ensuring our business units are prepared to deliver outstanding service to our associates and clients, the Adecco Group North America team provides a strong infrastructure through our corporate and shared services team.
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PAUL Chapman, Josh Hunt and Corey Enright will remain at Geelong next season.
The premiership stars are unrestricted free agents and could have moved to the clubs of their choice.
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text: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: > On 10/22/07, Robert G. Brown <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote: >> This in turn moves their system closer to being a suitable host for VMs, >> as I think the ideal towards which OS's are moving is the kernel as a VM >> host, everything else as a VM guest on top of a device-independent >> layer. At least I hope we are going there. > > Interesting comment for this particular list. While I'm all in favor > of MS "seeing the light," so to speak, your comment on "... everything > else as a VM guest on top of a device-independent layer. At least I > hope we are going there." With everything so performance oriented in > our world, I just find this comment surprising. I don't really see any "intrinsic" conflict, but let's explore this. If we really, truly, wanted to run our programs as fast as they possibly could, we wouldn't really use "a kernel" at all. We would write bootloaders that ran our applications, each one custom compiled for a very specific hardware platform, directly on the hardware. That way we wouldn't waste cycles on silly things like incrementing a timer counter, managing time slices in multitasking contexts, and so on. Don't NEED multitasking. We're only running this one application, period. In fact, if we load the bootloader itself onto (say) paper tape and build a mechanical sprocket system to load IT triggered by certain hand toggled sense switches and a button, and loaded the program from e.g. tape using the bootloaded bootloader, we'd have invented early computers, say a PDP 1 (which I used to boot in just this way). If we wanted to make a small compromise and perhaps manage a very few, very standard peripheral devices and maybe make it easier to run different programs, we might right the smallest possible operating system -- something capable of taking a portable binary that we want to run and loading it onto the CPU to run, while providing it with some more or less fixed entry points into code for e.g. reading or writing disk, maybe a network device (trickier, because of the asynchronous problems there), and of course managing memory. Let's name our creation "DOS" just for grins. 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To solve this problem, we invent a real multitasking kernel with a scheduler, we invent interrupts and put peripheral device code into the kernel that hides the details of peripheral devices behind a "portable" interface. The result is almost certainly is a bit slower than pure inline code would be, but it is a thousand, a million times faster to develop the code itself and once the interface is done, one doesn't have to recompile all sorts of applications to use it. Let's call this system "multics" or "unix" or whatever you like. Well, time passes, and the network goes from being a peripheral device per se to being an integral part of all computers. Disks are standardized at the hardware level to where a single program can manage a wide range of disks without tweaking. Many NEW devices are created, a ferment process of new unique and old standard drivers emerges that is constantly changing. Computer UIs change, change, change, becoming graphical and intricate. Multitasking is necessary to do the simplest thing on a computer as it is ALWAYS doing several dozen things with at least one or two timeslices in any given second. And the processors, memory and everything gets FASTER and BIGGER at a breakneck pace. The work that originally took DOS quite a long time -- reading in a few hundred kilobytes of data through a 5 MHz bus -- starts to take such a small amount of time that it is easy to mistake it for "zero" time. At the same time the management issue and other high level expenses continue to skyrocket. Devices are invented but not uniformly supported by software. There are many choices for operating system, but only one of them gets any attention from hardware vendors because it dominates the market. It gets to where it is EASY to run a program on a computer and get 99% of the CPU if you want it, as mundane operation of the GUI and editors and this and that takes a small and rapidly shrinking fraction of 1% of the total system's computing capacity! Suddenly there is little advantage to making the computer more efficient -- we could all achieve that easily by just booting the computer single user or even single process -- but there are huge costs associated with trying to get this driver to work for that peripheral, dealing with security and user access, dealing with software portability and availability. MANAGEMENT is eating you alive, not delays caused by the fact that you're running a complex operating system. In response to this, the manufacturers of the CORE software (not the peripheral device makers, who profit from the chaos) decide to make it really easy to create a new split in the function of the kernel. They begin by creating multicore CPUs and CPUs with a generalized "virtual" operating mode that exploits the cheapness of memory. This goes hand in glove with the development of operating system kernels that basically recapitulate and renegotiate the hardware portability interface, the reason for having a kernel in the first place. The cost of developing and managing computer networks and large bodies of UI software goes way down if one can engineer the bulk of it on top of virtual devices. Yes, there is a small cost associated with this. THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN pretty much ever since DOS. How large the cost is depends on how complex the interface is, how much detail is being hidden, but it need not be too great, actually. When it's done, what might we expect to see? Well, I'm hoping for a layer that for most devices manages those devices, virtualized, at a "cost" of order 1% more than running the same device the way we do now, which in turn is order 1% slower than running the device directly in raw code with no standardized layer or interface. In other words, we spend 1-2% of potential performance for a really, really big boost in OVERALL productivity, because VM guests are really rather amazing entities -- they go beyond multitasking programs and permit you to multitask operating systems. Is it efficient? Of course not. Does it matter? YMMV, but in many cases it won't. EVEN IN THOSE CASES WHERE IT DOES it will almost certainly prove possible to extend a low level "efficient" interface up through guest layers, possibly at the cost of dedicating the interface to the VM in question. Low cost, high benefit. That's why I'm all for it. Now, if I had my perfect druthers I'd RATHER have standardization of all device interfaces and get rid of the need to load distinct drivers at all. This too would have negative consequences -- makes it a lot more difficult to invent new devices, for example -- but boy would it make code development and systems management easy on what amounts to a stationary platform with a fixed list of generic peripherals. Barring that, VMs still allow the hardware list to be all chaotic and everything, but do try to provide that nice compatibility layer. In summary, I think it would be lovely for the same reason I think Linux on a modern multicore is lovely compared to a bootloaded single task engine like the PDP 1. I can work in Lin, Win, and run a couple of secured environments off on the side all at once on different cores inside one system. I can freely and dynamically reallocate resources among these operating environments. 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Carolyn I. Polowy, Sherri Morgan, W. Dwight Bailey, and Carol Gorenberg
Confidentiality of client communications is one of the ethical foundations of the social work profession and has become a legal obligation in most states. Many problems arise in the application of the principles of confidentiality and privilege to the professional services provided by social workers. This entry discusses the concepts of client confidentiality and privileged communications and outlines some of the applicable exceptions. While the general concept of confidentiality applies in many interactions between social workers and clients, the application of confidentiality and privilege laws are particularly key to the practice of clinical social workers in various practice settings.
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Jessica M. Black
Scientific findings from social sciences, neurobiology, endocrinology, and immunology highlight the adaptive benefits of positive emotion and activity to both mental and physical health. Positive activity, such as engagement with music and exercise, can also contribute to favorable health outcomes. This article reviews scientific evidence of the adaptive benefits of positive emotion and activity throughout the life course, with examples drawn from the fetal environment through late adulthood. Specifically, the text weaves together theory and empirical findings from an interdisciplinary literature to describe how positive emotion and activity help to build important cognitive, social, and physical resources throughout the life course.
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Wilma Peebles-Wilkins
Practitioners who were presumed to be competent may develop difficulties that interfere with job performance. Such professionals are considered impaired and may suffer from compassion fatigue, substance abuse, mental disorders, and other forms of distress associated with daily living. Practicing while impaired is unethical and can potentially be harmful to clients. Colleague Assistance Programs from professional associations or diversion systems and legal sanctions imposed by state regulatory boards are forms of intervention strategies that are employed. Self-care strategies and consciousness-raising among professionals are the best forms of prevention.


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