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Mr. F
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I know that this isn't going to be an easily answered topic, and I'm sure opinions will vary greatly. My relationship with Christ is of the utmost importance to me, and I never want to be a stumbling block to anyone. With that being said, one of my greatest earthly pleasures is mentalism. It absolutely fascinates me. I am also of the mindset that blatantly stating I am a fake is boring and without wonder. At the same time, I believe fake explanations of NLP, body language...are potentially just as damaging as other common claims. What are some thoughts from FCM members and other Christian performers on this matter? I never want someone to think I am claiming to be psychic. At the same time, I love the child-like wonder that the mystery can illicit in audience members. I am of the mindset that disclaimers are only needed when claims are made, and I also believe that people will believe what they already hold true. I say all this to say that I'm curious how others with similar faith and interest feel about this. Thanks.
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Mr. F
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Terry Holley
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This topic has been discussed many, many times. Type "Christian" and "mentalism" in the advanced search engine window and look for the various threads that might relate.
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Danny Kazam
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I have had several opinions on this matter in the past. Although the Bible doesn't exactly state all of the things we should avoid, it does make very clear how we are to represent ourselves as Children of God. We are also told to be mindful of others, and not to do things that would cause a brother to stumble in their faith.
The decision is between you and God. Inevitably, God is the final Judge.
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I'm questioning the same thing.
mentalism is a funny form of magic.
I think that making sure that everyone knows that it's not mind reading or future telling.
that it's illusions for entertainment.
than what strikes me is that this may have people fall into the trap of questioning Prophetic words past and future.
my gut feeling says that people who don't understand what is happening (and that's really the idea) have a high risk of double guessing the truth of Jesus.
it's one thing for us to know it's all quick questions and misdirection, but people don't understand it.
I just don't feel right venturing into that side of Magic knowing it has the high ability to make people stumble.
Magic is the ability to lie and people to love you for it and want you to lie to them again and again and again
^^^^^ has some really cool things on it
Inner circle
Essex, UK
1381 Posts
I watched John Archer live last night in a Church of 200+.
COMEDY + MAGIC + MENTALISM = great family fun
Nothing dark, nor sinister. Just good clean fun. In the UK, about 1 in 4 Gospel Magicians use some mentalism routine within their stage/Church acts. Even if only a PREDICTION of a named card.
Have wand will travel! Performing children's magic in the UK for Winter 2014 and Spring 2015.
Inner circle
Yuma, AZ
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On Oct 29, 2014, OzJosh wrote:
Personally, I think the only time you risk this is when you present it in a risky manner. "Regular" magic, if presented correctly, is not understood. Even if they know "it's a card trick", to watch it happen in front of them or even in their hands and have no explanation is potential for making people wonder about you and "special abilities" and so forth.
Generally speaking, we are the ones who endow mentalism with the "dark side of the force" aura. And that usually means we are playing to our audience's superstitions, not their desire for entertainment.
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Very true.
I have just started looking into it, I'm unsure of how it's perceived but none the less I'm very impressed
Magic is the ability to lie and people to love you for it and want you to lie to them again and again and again
^^^^^ has some really cool things on it
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I have answered this question satisfactorily in my own mind in 2 ways: 1) As a user of some "mentalism" routines in my act I inform the audience that I do not read minds: I IMPROVE THEM. I stole that line from someone whom I can't remember, but it sets the audience at ease and at the same time lets them know that my mentalism is fun and entertaining - not "dark magic". 2) For some of the other magical things I offer I let the audience know that my tricks are for entertainment purposes only, and they differ from the MIRACLES that our God an perform. It puts my whole act into context and I try to relate most of my effects to some Biblical principle.
J-L Sparrow
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In "The Good News!" forum there is a topic titled "I am a Christian mentalist in turmoil." Many interesting points were made.
You can find the thread here:
I weighed in with my own opinions in the 54th reply (dated March 11, 2013), but I think a lot of the viewpoints were good ones (not just mine). I suggest reading a few and see if any resonate with you.
God bless!
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I Love You God
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I've done a couple Mental effects in my gospel program but never with the claim that Im doing mentalism- I just mention that if I (?) could(?) read their mind - what do they THINK God can do -so be alert When and WHAT YOU THINK. Ralph
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On Dec 4, 2014, jimagic wrote:
I like this, it also helps expose the fakes as well.
I'm rather keen to look into it further.
Magic is the ability to lie and people to love you for it and want you to lie to them again and again and again
^^^^^ has some really cool things on it
The Urban Entity
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Itta Bena, MS
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What we do here is theater. As a mentalist who is a Christian. I don't incorporate the gospel in my presentations. Its not my calling. I am your regular old apologist who spread the word the old fashioned way. That being said, mentalism is not sorcery as spoken in magic. If we look at what the bible says when it means "sorcery",the original writings use the word, "pharmakon" which is medicine or drugs. It was how the people of the old days use to get their gods to speak to the people. In short, they were high, lol. Sorry to be so blunt. That too was a pun. But seriously, I'm giving you the truth. The bible doesn't like is divination. Seeking mediums, psychics, zodiacs, Ouija boards, voodoo.
How does these separate from what we do? When a person seeks a medium or use a vessel or any form of oracle to seek about their actual life. (knowing the future, what can I expect from this new job, am I going to marry the person I'm supposed to be with, etc.), we sin against God. God is the source of all information. If we are seeking real information to learn INSIGHT about ourselves, or the future, or another person WITHOUT ASKING GOD, then we sin.
Mentalists in the traditional sense are not psychics or mediums. Sure, some people do that. But I'm quite sure you don't right? We are guessing thoughts. Not giving insight or proclaiming to know the future. A prediction effect is not doing so. Its merely revealing the answer moments before its revealed on stage.
However, some Q&A's can cross that line when they start claiming to know the future and giving people insights on details in their lives. That I would not do. But something as innocent as a personality reading shouldn't cross that line because you are in the purest essence, hypothesizing or guessing about the character of that person. You are not giving them information about the future or divining outcomes of their lives, and most importantly, you are not REPLACING GOD in the presentation.
Drugs, witchcraft, etc. that's the sorcery spoken of in the bible. I think the best policy we as Christians can tell people about us is that we are magicians. That word lets people know that we are honestly trying to trick you. that's our job to do in the purest essence, tricks.
Is it a lie? Yes and no. Yes, we use deception (a lie) but we are being honesty about what we are going to do. The thing is we are also mystery performers. We use sleight of hand to make it mysterious.
Its like CGI in a movie. We know human being can't fly. But because we know we are watching a "MOVIE" . The word, movie tells us that we know almost everything in it is staged. We don't 100% always know how they achieve the effects, but we know its via camera trick or cut scenes.
When we say magician, people know its a trick. They just don't know how its done.
Hope this helps.
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Brother... A disclaimer should be made at every performance that we do tricks... only God can do a miracle. I would never leave the church audience with the impression that I had any power of my own.
The Urban Entity
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I agree!
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Be honest about your deception and everything will be fine.
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A lot of times I started my program with the Verse --2 Corinthians 4:1-2 - in my 'living Bible' translations the word TRICK - Fool You, plus other simular words is used. look it up- also when I mention -'if I can read your mind -THINK what our Heavenly Father is reading in YOUR mind." Ralph(russo)Rousseau
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I noticed he was taking a long time standing in the litter box. Then I heard his moan-filled cry as he squatted briefly before springing out of the litter box. I inspected to find a tiny circle of urine with blood.
As a master certified pet first aid instructor, I knew this was a medical emergency. I placed Casey in his travel carrier, gathered the urine sample in a bag and took him to Hillside Veterinary Clinic, a 24/7 animal emergency center in Dallas.
The veterinarians were able to quickly unblock his urethra to allow the remaining backed-up urine to spill onto the steel examination table. As a precaution, they kept Casey overnight to monitor him and perform further tests.
As I handed Casey to the veterinarian for his overnight stay, I will never forget what she said to me: "I am so glad you brought Casey in immediately. If you would have waited until the morning to bring him in, Casey may have died."
-Arden Moore
All cats can be at risk for urinary stones or crystals, blockages, infections and a host of other issues. Plumbing problems in cats, especially male cats, come in many forms and can strike quickly.
"When a cat has a urinary obstruction, it is a true medical emergency," says Lisa Lippman, DVM, who is a house call veterinarian in New York City with experience working at an emergency veterinary clinic. "When a cat can't urinate, toxins build up in the blood and the condition can cause life-threatening organ failures, including to the heart."
Heed these signs to take your cat to the veterinary clinic pronto:
• Crying while urinating
• Excessive grooming of the genitals
• Bypassing the litter box to urinate elsewhere
• Having difficulty urinating
• Making frequent trips to the litter box and releasing only small dribbles of urine
• Seeing blood in your cat's urine
• Noticing the cat has a hard, distended abdomen
• Detecting the smell of ammonia in the cat's urine
Any and all of these signs can indicate a blockage in the urethra, the development of urinary or bladder stones, stress-induced urinary tract infection, bladder wall inflammation or a host of conditions that fall under the blanket term known as Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (FLUTD).
Feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC) – also known as interstitial cystitis – ranks as the most common diagnosis in cats who are less than 10 years old with lower urinary tract disease. This disease is not fully understood by veterinarians and may involve other body systems in addition to the cat's urinary system.
In addition, diseases such as diabetes and hyperthyroidism may also cause lower urinary tract disease in some cats.
Depending on the issue, your veterinarian will perform a thorough exam that often includes taking blood and urine samples and performing an ultrasound. Your veterinarian may prescribe medications to relax muscles, reduce stress or fight infections in your cat and in some cases, surgery may be required.
"We often use an ultrasound to look at the bladder wall surface for evidence of stones or crystals," says Hazel Carney, DVM, DABVP, a board-certified veterinary practitioner at WestVet in Garden City, ID and serves as chair of the American Association of Feline Practitioners Guidelines Committee. "And we do abdominal radiographs and analyze the urine for the concentration, the Ph (acid base level), whether there are intact red blood cells, any signs of sugar glucose in the urine and any indication of infection."
Recovering cats, including Casey, are then often switched to therapeutic diets made by major pet food companies, such as Hill's Science, Purina and Royal Canin, to reduce the chance for another urinary issue.
Your veterinarian may also recommend adding key supplements to your cat's diet. Popular go-to choices include zylkene and cosequin. Zylkene is a stress-reducing supplement made from casein, a milk protein with calming properties. Cosequin is a natural supplement used to help cats address bladder and joint issues. It comes in capsule form to sprinkle on a cat's food or given as a chewable treat.
While all plumbing issues cannot be prevented, you can play a vital role in your cat's health and survival. That starts by paying attention to your cat's bathroom habits. Know what is normal for your cat in terms of frequency and size of the deposits in the litter box. And, strive to increase your cat's water consumption to prevent dehydration that can acerbate urinary issues.
"Many studies suggest going to canned food to decrease the risk of reoccurrence of urinary diseases, but if your cat does not like canned food, you need to have multiple water bowls in your home away from their food bowls," says Dr. Carney. "Why? Because cats do not naturally eat and drink in the same location. If they stay in one location too long, their sense of vulnerability (to perceived predators) increases."
You can also take these effective preventive measures:
• Provide one more litter box in your home than the number of cats you have. Intentionally place each litter box in different locations, not lined up in a row to prevent stress-induced issues triggered by one cat bullying another who needs to urinate.
• Keep the litter boxes clean by scooping daily. Cats possess heightened senses of smell and may seek a different bathroom location (like your bed or living room rug) if they deem their litter boxes to be too dirty to use.
"It is a myth that cats do things out of spite, like urinating outside the litter box," says Stephanie Karpf, DVM, who co-owns For Cats Only, a feline-exclusive veterinary practice in West Palm Beach, FL. "I tell my clients the importance of having plenty of litter boxes in different locations that are scooped daily for the health sake of their cats."
• Enrich your indoor cat's environment with cat trees, interactive toys and bedding in safe, elevated areas to reduce the risk of stress that can take a toil on a cat's body.
• Talk with your veterinarian about the best diet to feed your cat. There are therapeutic diets in kibble and canned forms that require a veterinary prescription.
• Provide fresh water in a few places inside the home and replace the water daily to help encourage cats to stay hydrated.
Dr. Carney's parting message: "Any cat who goes into the litter box, postures to urinate and does not produce any urine or just small drops of urine needs to be seen immediately by a veterinarian. This is serious medical emergency."
Yes, Female Cats Get Urinary Issues, Too!
In most cases, a cat most at risk for urinary tract issues tends to be an indoor-living male, young to middle aged who generally eats dry food and is overweight. However, female cats can also cope with plumbing problems.
"Females more often present for feline interstitial cystitis (FIC) and to a lesser degree than males, urinary tract infections," says Hazel Carney, DVM, DABVP, a board-certified veterinary practitioner who has focused on feline medicine and behavior for three decades and practices in Garden City, ID.
Because a female cat's urethra is shorter and wider than a male's urethra, urinary tract blockages are not as common – but they do occur and go unnoticed more by owners.
"The problem is that owners wait longer to bring in a female cat who is going back and forth to the litter box than they will for a male cat," says Dr. Carney. "Some female cats may not pass blood, but have pain twinges and not cry out as a male cat would who has an obstruction. Owners may notice a cat is over-grooming her tummy, but fail to realize that could be an indication of bladder pain that needs veterinary attention to determine if it is due to stress, a skin disease or a urinary issue."
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Pentax HD 20-40mm f2.8-4.0 ED Limited Edition – User's Review
When I changed over from my Pentax K-5 (16mp) to a K-3 (24mp), I felt that my existing lenses were having resolution deficiency issues. The increase in megapixels in the K-3 sensor also decreases the pitch of the pixels. Lenses need to have a higher resolving power in terms of lines/mm.
This issue was discussed extensively in forums and lens review sites. I have to admit that I am now in the process of re-evaluating all the lenses in my possession. I do not want to lug around many lenses during my travels around the world. Every piece of equipment in the camera bag has to be in use to warrant it a place. I was lucky enough to have DSC World lending me the necessary lenses to evaluate before owning it.
I had he opportunity to take the latest Pentax HD 20-40mm f2.8-4.0 ED limited edition for a spin in Nepal. Being a limited edition lens, the mechanically built quality is excellent. It comes with a metal lens caps too. The focusing and zoom rings are smooth. It is a vey small lens and fits well into the camera bag. A tick for its size and built quality.
It is a retro style lens. It reminds me of the style of lens build during the 70's. The depth of field scale is an added advantage for those who want to use the hyperfocal techniques in landscape and street photography. A tick for its retro design
The lens is weather sealed against adverse environmental conditions. I consider this a crucial feature. I have to give this feature a tick.
The zoom range is somewhat odd, in full frame terms it is a 30-60mm lens. I consider this a standard zoom lens, something on both sides of the standard 50mm equivalent lens. Those who shoot mostly in wide angle view would find the focal lengths lacking. However, for those who shoot mostly in the standard (what the eye sees) view, this is an ideal lens that would give a bit of a reach. No tick for the odd focal lengths.
It is a relatively fast lens with a wide open aperture of f2.8 to f4.0. It is perfect for low light shooting situations. I am now seriously considering fast lenses for my travels instead of zoom reach. One more tick for the fast lens.
This lens is rather pricey. It is retailing for slightly above RM3,000. It would lower its value to performance ratings.
How does it perform in the field?
1. Image Quality – the image quality is very good especially if it is stopped down by a stop. The lens resolve well at the centre and sides.
2. Colour rendition is good to excellent.
3. Lens distortion – It does exhibit slight barrel distortions at the widest end.
4. Chromatic aberration – this is well controlled. However, there are times when there is a need to remove CA via ACR.
5. Flare – the HD coating was supposed to reduce flares and ghosting. It performed well. The HD coating controls the flare and ghosting well.
6. Focusing speed – it focuses reasonably fast though not exceptional.
7. Lens cap – It has a very well made metal lens cap that fits in snuggly. It is much better than the plastic pinch lens caps.
The Pentax 20-40mm lens is a beauty with a retro look and feel. The mechanically built quality is excellent. It is a pretty good all rounder lens for those who want good image quality, lens distortion, chromatic aberration and lens flare control. The main set back is the zoom range. Personally I find this zoom range limiting. I would prefer a wider zoom range. This Pentax HD 20-40mm f2.8-4.0 ED lens is not for everybody. However, for those that need a standard zoom lens, it does not disappoint.


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TEWFIK PASHA (1852-1892), khedive of Egypt, son of the Khedive Ismail, was born on the 15th of November 1852. His mother was a fellah woman. Although the eldest son, he was not sent to Europe to be educated, like his younger brothers, but was left to grow up in his native country. In 1866 Ismail succeeded in his endeavour to alter the order of succession to the khediviate. The title, instead of passing to the eldest living male descendant of Mehemet Ali, was now to descend from father to son. Ismail sought this alteration mainly because he disliked his uncle, Halim Pasha, who was his heirpresumptive, and he is supposed to have imagined that he would be able to select whichever of his sons he pleased for his successor. But he found, after the change had been made, that the powers interpreted the new arrangement as applying strictly to the eldest son. Tewfik therefore became heirapparent. He was given a palace near Cairo to live in, and for twelve years he passed an uneventful life, farming, and establishing a reputation for good sense and fair dealing with his fellah tenants. In 1878 he was appointed president of the council after the dismissal of Nubar Pasha. He held this office only for a few months; but this was long enough to show that, if he was unambitious and not particularly intelligent or energetic, he had the wisdom to refrain from taking a part in the intrigues which then formed the chief part of political life in Egypt. He went back to his estate, and settled down once more to a quiet country life. He was not left undisturbed for long. On the 26th of June 1879 Ismail, at the instance of Great Britain and France, was deposed by the sultan, who sent orders at the same time that Tewfik should be proclaimed khedive. The new viceroy was so little pleased by the news of his accession that he soundly boxed the ears of the servant who first brought the tidings to him. Egypt at that time was involved in financial and political troubles brought about by the policy of Ismail (q.v.), and the situation was made worse by the inaction of England and France for some months following Tewfik's accession. Tewfik's people were dissatisfied, his army disaffected; his advisers were nearly all of the adventurer class, with their own ends to gain; and he himself had neither the character of a strong ruler nor the experience that would have enabled him to secure an orderly administration of affairs. Disorder prevailed until November 1879, when the dual control was reestablished by the governments of Great Britain and France. For over two years Major Baring (afterwards Lord Cromer), Mr (afterwards Sir) Auckland Colvin, and M. de Blignieres practically governed the country, endeavouring to institute reforms while possessing no means of coercion. During all this time the disaffection in the Egyptian army was increasing. Tewfik has been blamed for his failure to take a firm line with the rebels, but his attitude was governed by his relations with Great Britain and France, and he was unable to control events. The dissatisfaction culminated in the anti-foreign movement. headed by Arabi Pasha, who had gained complete command. of the army. In July 1882 the attitude of Arabi, who was carrying out defensive works on a large scale, made it necessary for the British admiral (Sir Beauchamp Seymour, afterwards Lord Alcester) to declare that he would bombard the forts of Alexandria unless they were handed over to him. Before the bombardment began it was suggested to Tewfik that he should leave the city and embark either upon a man-of-war belonging to one of the neutral powers, or in his own yacht, or in a mail steamer which was then in the port. His answer was, "I am still khedive, and I remain with my people in the hour of their danger." At his palace of Ramleh, 3 m. from the town, he was beyond reach of the shells, but his life was nevertheless imperilled. When the rebel soldiers attacked the palace he managed to make his escape and to reach another palace after passing through the burning streets of Alexandria. Here he was obliged to agree that a guard of British bluejackets should protect him from further risk. He showed his courage equally during the cholera epidemic at Alexandria in 1883. He had gone back to Cairo after the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, had consented to the reforms insisted upon by Great Britain, and had assumed the position of a constitutional ruler under the guidance of Lord Dufferin, the British special commissioner. When the cholera broke out, he insisted upon going to Alexandria. His wife accompanied him, and he went round the hospitals, setting an excellent example to the authorities of the city, and encouraging the patients by kind and hopeful words. In 1884 Sir Evelyn Baring went back to Egypt as diplomatic agent and consul-general of Great Britain. His first task was to demand that Tewfik should abandon the Sudan. Tewfik gave his consent with natural reluctance, but, having consented, he did everything he could to ensure the success of the policy which Baring had been sent to carry out. He behaved with equal propriety during the negotiations between Sir H. Drummond Wolff and the Turkish envoy, Mukhtar Pasha, in 1886. His position was not a dignified one - that of a titular ruler compelled to stand by while others discussed and managed the affairs of his country. The sultan was his suzerain; in Great Britain he recognized his protector: to the representative of each he endeavoured to show friendliness and esteem. As time went on his confidence in Baring increased, until at last he deferred to the British agent in almost everything. On occasion, however, he acted on his own initiative, as when in June 1888 he dismissed Nubar Pasha and summoned Riaz Pasha to form a ministry - an action influenced, nevertheless, by Tewfik's knowledge of the divergence of views between Nubar and the British agent. Baring encouraged Tewfik to show his activity in matters of administration, and he took a great interest in all matters connected with irrigation, education and justice. He was not a particularly strong man either in mind or in character, but he showed a genuine desire to govern his country for its own benefit. He understood the importance to Egypt of British assistance and support; his natural shrewdness made him accept the British conditions; his natural good feeling kept him from any inclination to intrigue. In private life he was courteous and amiable. He had no desire to keep up the unapproachable state of an oriental ruler. Indeed, in many ways his manners and habits were less oriental than European. He married in 1873 his kinswoman, Amina Hanem, with whom he lived very happily. She was his only wife and Tewfik was a strong advocate of monogamy. He died on the 7th to January 1892, at the Heluan palace near Cairo, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Abbas II..
A warm tribute to Tewfik's many admirable qualities was paid by Baring (Lord Cromer) in his report on the administration of Egypt for 1891 (see Egypt, No. 3, 1892, pp. i and 2).
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142 Cultural capital is the essential knowledge that children need to prepare them for their future success. It is about giving children the best possible start to their early education. As part of making a judgement about the quality of education, inspectors will consider how well leaders use the curriculum to enhance the experience and opportunities available to children, particularly the most disadvantaged.
143.Some children arrive at an early years settings with different experiences from others, in their learning and play. What a setting does, through its EYFS curriculum and interactions with practitioners, potentially makes all the difference for children. It is the role of the setting to help children experience the awe and wonder of the world in which they live, through the seven areas of learning.
The grade descriptor for 'quality of education' – good grade – states:
'Leaders adopt or construct a curriculum that is ambitious and designed to give children, particularly the most disadvantaged, the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life.'
**The Early Years Inspection handbook is here - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/801375/Early_years_inspection_handbook.pdf.
A lot of childminders are asking me questions about cultural capital – what it means and how they can comply with the new inspection requirement.
The term 'cultural capital' was introduced in 1960s and 70s by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who describes it as: 'A person's education (knowledge and intellectual skills) that provides advantage in achieving a higher social-status in society.'
However, Ofsted have given it a slightly different definition, changed (presumably) to suit their own purposes. Ofsted have talked about cultural capital in a number of presentations, including one I attended for the Ofsted Big Conversation in the North West. Ofsted state that:
'Cultural capital is the essential knowledge that children need to be educated citizens.'
This is confirmed in footnote 17 of the inspection handbook (page 32).
Ofsted recognise the importance of the early years and the work we do to make a difference. They want to see providers giving every child the best start in life and will ask questions during inspection about how we use the curriculum (the EYFS 'educational programmes – the 7 areas of learning) to support their learning, development and progress. There will be a focus during inspection on children who are 'disadvantaged' for various reasons including, for example, children with special educational needs and disabilities or children who receive extra funding.
Ofsted are also thinking about the learning children have had before they arrive in the setting – some children have a rich early learning experience at home and other children have not learned how to play yet or might not have read any books at home. Ofsted use the example of vocabulary** – children who do not have a wide vocabulary will struggle to make friends, communicate with other children and staff and engage with learning. Inspectors will be looking at how staff support children's cultural capital through their curriculum, key person relationships, quality environments and resources and make a difference for each child.
**There will be a focus on early vocabulary during inspection which I will discuss in a future webinar.
Ofsted talk about children experiencing 'awe and wonder' through the 7 areas of learning – about preparing children for what comes next – about learning that stays with children forever.
The inspection handbook states that, when deciding how well you deliver cultural capital, Ofsted will look at:
- Children's starting points – what you know about the children when they first start in your care as required in the inspection handbook (page 7, point 21).
- Your individual planning – the activities and experiences you introduce to support the children's learning – and 'future success' – as required by the EYFS: 'The EYFS seeks to provide: a secure foundation through learning and development opportunities which are planned around the needs and interests of each individual child and are assessed and reviewed regularly' (EYFS, underpinning statement 3).
- What it is like for a child in your setting – as stated in the inspection handbook (page 44, point 12).
To support a child's cultural capital you might, for example:
- Take children on outings so they engage with the local community
- Prepare and cook food together
- Watch butterflies hatching
- Role play and dress up
- Read books and tell stories together
- Watching a spider on its web
- Sing songs and rhymes
- Dance to music from around the world
- Listen to an orchestra...
Parents should be involved throughout the curriculum - and the EYFS requires us to share ideas for home learning - and we should regularly ask parents for updated information about children's home learning which we can use in the setting to support planning. It is important that parents feel part of their child's learning and development journey in the setting and recognise the importance of the cultural capital they share with their child at home.
I note that the Dept for Education recently published an 'Activity Passport' for school-aged children which links closely to cultural capital. You can find the booklet here - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/my-activity-passport.
There are a number of changes in the Early Years Inspection handbook including the introduction of cultural capital. I will continue to share information for providers through this blog and I will be presenting a series of new webinars for Childcare.co.uk over the summer months.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Digital Edition > My Day
WASHINGTON, Friday—There is no doubt about it, I should not stay too long in any one place.
Things piled up so yesterday afternoon in New York City that I finally saw three people in a half hour to whom I had expected to give an hour an a half. As a result, I fear that nobody received just what they wanted, but at least I had enough of a picture to tell each one what I could do.
In one case I could do nothing except be appreciative of the lady's ingenuity. She has invented a method of adding to a foundation dress, so that you can have almost any garment you desire with infinite variations. All I could do was to suggest that she see what other people are doing along the same lines, for she expects to apply for a patent and patents are extremely hard to obtain on anything which is virtually a design.
I visited a friend in the hospital, and at 5:00 ended up with a very cheerful tea party which I much enjoyed. It was a good prelude to a pleasant dinner and an excellent background to relieve a well acted but extremely disagreeable play. I don't think I ever spent an evening with such disagreeable people as are pictured in "The Little Foxes." Tallulah Bankhead gives a perfectly splendid impersonation of a heartless and ambitious woman. It can't be a very pleasant part. The worst of it is that the greed, avarice and cruelty which stalked naked before us in this play walk the world at all times. I fear, though, as a rule, they are rather more carefully disguised.
I went to the night train and arrived here this morning to find a clear but cold winter day.
Yesterday I read the first article which Mr. George Palmer Putnam has written for a magazine about his wife, Amelia Earhart, and I think everyone will enjoy the picture he has painted. He begins with an unforgettable letter. She not only could not bear to be caged herself, but she could not bear the thought of caging anyone else. So many people want honesty and freedom for themselves, but do not want to accord others the same privilege. Amelia would give just what she wanted to receive.
This morning has been busy and I have attended the District of Columbia League of Women Voters Luncheon where the skits, as usual, were very cleverly put on. This year they represented all the different phases of government which are of interest to the women in the District of Columbia.
I am off now for the United States Naval Air Station in Anacostia for the christening of the Pan-American Airways "Yankee Clipper."
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'I'm super scared': ETS driver speaks out after allegedly being coughed on by passenger who claimed to have COVID-19
EDMONTON -- An Edmonton Transit driver is speaking out from self-isolation after a passenger coughed on her, and claimed to have tested positive for COVID-19.
Nora Bailey was driving her bus towards Southgate Centre around 12:30 last Sunday afternoon. There were two teenage boys and a senior on board the bus.
A fourth passenger got on the bus at a stop on 51 Avenue. Bailey said nothing seemed out of the ordinary until the man started coughing. She said the teens and the man got into a yelling match.
"He was coughing so bad and then they started yelling at him and saying you shouldn't be on the bus, you're going to infect people," she said. "They had their coats over top of their faces because they were scared."
Bailey said she pulled over, and then she said the man got up and punched one of the teens in the head.
The senior and the teens got off the bus, but the man did not.
"I said to the gentleman can you please cover your mouth," she said. "And he just started yelling at me from the back of the bus."
Bailey said at that point she called ETS security. She said when she did, the man came up to her protective enclosure and started coughing on her.
She said the man told her he had tested positive for COVID-19. She said she was trapped in her seat and considered jumping out the driver side window to escape.
Peace officers arrived shortly after, and Bailey said the man coughed on them as well.
"Today is pretty much the first day I stopped crying," she told CTV News Edmonton. "I'm super scared, I'm super nervous."
Daniel Black, 38, was arrested and charged with two counts of assault, assaulting a peace officer, and contravening an order of the Chief Medical Officer under the Public Health Act. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 16.
While obviously shaken by the experience, Bailey said family, friends, co-workers and Edmonton Transit have been very supportive.
She also said she hasn't shown any symptoms of COVID-19 as of Thursday.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Matt Woodman.


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Our right to know is also your right to know
FEW people outside of Bathurst would care a jot if the Western Advocate launched a one-newspaper crusade against growing threats to press freedoms in Australia.
But when we join a campaign supported by every Australian Community Media masthead, Nine, News Corp, the ABC, SBS, The Guardian, and the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, then you would hope lawmakers might start to take notice.
Australia's Right To Know launched a cross-media campaign with prime-time television advertisements on Sunday night and censored newspaper front pages across the country on Monday morning to illustrate the dangers of increasing federal government secrecy, and to urge all Australians to stand up for their right to know.
The campaign does not seek to put journalists and the media above the law and it does not seek to damage national security.
The campaign recognises there is information that should rightly be kept from public discussion but also seeks to highlight the potential damage to a democracy that can come from allowing governments to blur the lines between national security and national embarrassment.
The public has a right to know about abuses of power and mismanagement which, under current laws, governments effectively have the power to cover up.
Journalists should be freed from the threat of jail for doing their jobs which has been written into many of the 75 anti-terrorism laws passed since 2001.
Australia also needs to give better protection to the whistleblowers inside the bureaucracy who leak information to journalists that is in the public interest. Similarly, a review is urgently needed of Freedom of Information legislation, which is now so slow and easily obstructed that it has become a joke.
For some years now there has been a veil of secrecy being slowly drawn over Australia's press freedoms, with the creeping restrictions barely noticeable from the outside.
That all changed with the high-profile raids on journalists' homes earlier this year and the nation's media has now been compelled to respond.
The Australian public's right to know can only be guaranteed by the free media's right to know. And if Australia's often-feuding media organisations can stand together to demand change, then the Australian public should stand beside them.


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The West dithers while Bosnian Serbs tighten their grip
In more than 25 years representing the northern reaches of Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress, Democrat David Obey has earned bipartisan respect as a stubborn advocate of human rights. A power on the House appropriations committee, he has voted to fund humanitarian programs and to cut off aid to repressive regimes. Two days after Serbian forces in Bosnia overran the UN "safe haven" of Srebrenica on July 11, committing what Obey termed "in essence war crimes" against Bosnian Muslims, he politely interrupted House business for a brief statement "required by conscience." He then directed a decidedly impolite "four-part message" to Gen. Ratko Mladic and his associates in the Serbian leadership: "You are sick pigs. You are sick pigs. You are an embarrassment to the human race. If the world has any conscience, you will one day be where you belong—in prison—rather than disgracing the military uniform that you wear."
That, an Obey aide said last week, was all that the congressman had to say publicly for now about Bosnia. It BY CARL MOT TINS was sufficient at the time to summarize
far-reaching fury over the Serbs' renewed "ethnic cleansing" campaign against Bosnian Muslim citizens and the harassment of UN peacekeeping troops, Canadians among them. But its call to conscience seemed a lament for a lost cause as heedless Western governments dithered while Serbian fighters just as heedlessly advanced.
Death and danger marched through the five UN safe havens of eastern and central Bosnia and enveloped its northwest corner during the hesitations last week in Washington and London. Politicians in lesser capitals, including Ottawa, waited passively for leadership as thousands of Bosnian Muslims fled to temporary safety with nowfamiliar tales of Serbian brutality—summary executions, rapes and the abduction of men and boys to unknown fates.
Beyond Bosnia, much else is endangered and already damaged. The honor of the democracies, for one. America's world leadership, for another—along with its crusade for human rights in other countries. (Undeterred by its timing's irony, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution last week calling for pressure on China to reform its rights' record.) The European Community is divided over Bosnia, as is NATO, with its mandate to police the continent's security. Above all, the stain of impotence soiled the United Nations in its 50th anniversary year. In one of its earliest acts, the United Nations committed itself in 1948 to both prevent and punish genocide. The world organization has fallen into deep disrepute following its failures to halt internecine warfare in Somalia and genocidal slaughter in Rwanda, and now Bosnia.
Margaret Thatcher was one among many commentators to decry the world's inaction. As Britain's Churchillian former prime minister observed recently in the House of Lords: "There are many potential aggressors looking at and learning from what is happening in
Bosnia, waiting to see whether they would get away with it."
By late last week, at strategy talks in London, the North Atlantic democracies faced a challenge from France for action in Bosnia under commitments to construct a more humane world order. Three years of half measures, and recent days of transatlantic dickering, preceded the meeting of defence and foreign affairs ministers from countries with UN peacekeeping forces either in Bosnia or otherwise
involved. Prior promises by the United States, Britain and France to protect Muslim civilians and UN soldiers—both from present danger and in any future retreat—propelled the major NATO powers towards a military response.
But the U.S. and British leaders rejected the French proposal to send in an Anglo-French ground force— aboard American transport helicopters and supported by U.S. helicopter gunships—to stop and even roll back the Serbian assault on the UN havens. The American line was that Jacques Chirac, president of France for barely two months, was grandstanding—assuming the moral high ground in the knowledge that President Bill Clinton would not budge from his refusal to endanger U.S. ground troops, including helicopter support crews. Clinton and Prime Minister John Major—similarly wary of reinforcing British soldiers under UN command—opted for heavier NATO air force action to deter the Serbs. The planners also raised the idea of using European force to ensure a supply route to the beleaguered Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, a UN-designated Muslim haven.
Left in doubt was how well such measures would deter Ratko Mladic's force in its current campaign near Bosnia's border with Yugoslavia, the largely Serbian rump of the Yugoslav federation that splintered in 1991—and which continues to sustain Mladic's army. Also in question was whether the combatants—both Mladic's Serbs and lately also the mainly Muslim Bosnian government army—would desist from harassing, disarming and taking hostage bluehelmeted soldiers of the multinational UN force.
On the answers rest the reputations of the outside pow| ers and their leaders. Their honor is already tainted. Shift§ ing and bickering, unable or unwilling to articulate a I greater global purpose in combating inhumanity in Bosnia, 9 the governments involved have seemed cowed by cont; ceras that exposing their soldiers to danger in a distant u cause might damage their political fortunes at home. Domestic politics figured prominently in Clinton's latest Bosnia policy line. Having already committed U.S. soldiers to help British and French troops protect the possible withdrawal of UN forces and their equipment, Clinton further displayed his determination to keep American infantry out of harm's way by fighting off demands in Congress to get the United Nations out promptly. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, Clinton's potential Republican rival for the presidency in 1996, finally agreed to postpone until this week a vote on his plan to couple a UN retreat with the supply of arms to the largely Muslim
Bosnian government army—in defiance of a UN boycott. Dole's plan is a particular political embarrassment to Clinton because it is essentially the same policy that the Democrat president espoused during his 1992 election campaign.
The Republican majority in Congress, supported by a contingent of Democrats, is not alone in contending that the UN soldiers are both ineffectual and—when used by the Serbs as hostages to deter NATO air strikes—a hindrance. The Bosnian government is also demanding the United Nations' withdrawal from the battlefield.
Even the military acronym of the UN Protection Force, UNPROFOR, bespeaks its unworkable mandate. The UN troops are not to be pro one side nor for the other—even in order to prevent the violation of agreed truces, arms boycotts and safe havens. That emasculates the usual UN peacekeeper's role as carried out on such earlier operations, as in Cyprus and other battlefields of civil strife. Without the orders, numbers or weapons to enforce ceasefires and care for victims in the cross fire— even to save themselves from capture—the soldiers in UN blue helmets in Bosnia are exposed to humiliation or worse.
The Bosnian government delivered the ultimate insult last week in expressions of contempt for an organization that accepted it as a member in its national infancy three years ago. The government army, mimicking its Serbian enemies, humiliated UN protectors by seizing their weapons and threatening in one case to use the captives as shields against Serbian aggression. Almost simultaneously at a Washington news conference, Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey declared that "the UN mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina is at an end," effectively, if not officially. As "a clumsy reminder of the United Nations' failure," he added, the peace force of some 25,000 soldiers should get out by November at the latest.
In the twisting international debate on just what to do in Bosnia, there is no lack of advice from politicians. Much of it eclipses the cruel and dehumanizing realities in Bosnia by a pitch to the parochial electorate.
Newt Gingrich, for one, espouses the notion that U.S. air supremacy should settle the situation by scare power. First, says the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Washington tells its allies to get out. Then, the U.S. President orders the Serbs to cease fire or "we're going to break you and we're going to do it in three days." Meanwhile, Americans arm and train Bosnian Muslims in a nearby country. If they still cannot win, the U.S. pulls out because "we can't make a state in the Balkans."
On the other side of the argument, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev questions whether the West is willing to "really fight a war, and not just play on high moral ground and public opinion."
Serbian commander Ratko Mladic thinks not. "Based on their experience in the wars from Vietnam to today," he said in a recent interview in Bosnia, "the Western countries have learned they cannot recruit their own children to realize goals outside their homelands."
But in fact, since Vietnam, the United States has despatched its "children" in pursuit of goals to Lebanon and Grenada, Panama, Somalia and Haiti. Thatcher, in 1982, sent young Britons to fight in the Falkland Islands. In 1990 and 1991, U.S. forces were joined by the youth of the countries now engaged in Bosnia, and many others, to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. But oil was a goal in that crusade. Principle and human rights seem to rank below commercial interests when it comes to rescuing a people from its agony. □


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Novel Dengue vaccine shows 80 percent efficacy in massive trial
Delhi: Takeda vaccine TAK-003 -- a tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate -- is safe and effective against symptomatic dengue in countries in which the disease is endemic, finds a recent study. The vaccine, however, failed to protect against one type of the virus in people with no prior exposure to dengue.
According to the TIDES study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the vaccine was 80.2% effective at preventing dengue among children and teens in the year after they got the shot.
WHO defines dengue as a mosquito-borne viral infection causing severe flu-like illness and, sometimes causing a potentially lethal complication called severe dengue. It is a fast emerging pandemic-prone viral disease in many parts of the world. Dengue flourishes in urban poor areas, suburbs and the countryside but also affects more affluent neighbourhoods in tropical and subtropical countries. The disease was designated a WHO top 10 threat to global health in 2019.
Shibadas Biswal, From Takeda Vaccines, Singapore, and colleagues presented primary efficacy data from part 1 of an ongoing phase 3 randomized trial of a tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate (TAK-003) in regions of Asia and Latin America in which the disease is endemic.
For the study, children and adolescents aged 4 to 16 years were randomly assigned in a ratio 2:1 to receive two doses of vaccine or placebo 3 months apart. The participants were tested for virologically confirmed dengue by a serotype-specific reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. The primary endpoint was overall vaccine efficacy in preventing virologically confirmed dengue caused by any dengue virus serotype.
Of the 20,071 participants who were given at least one dose of vaccine or placebo (safety population), 19,021 (94.8%) received both injections and were included in the per-protocol analysis.
Read Also: New tetravalent dengue vaccine looks promising in Phase 3 Trial
Key findings of the study include:
- The overall vaccine efficacy in the safety population was 80.9% (78 cases per 13,380 [0.5 per 100 person-years] in the vaccine group vs. 199 cases per 6687 [2.5 per 100 person-years] in the placebo group).
- In the per-protocol analyses, vaccine efficacy was 80.2% (61 cases of virologically confirmed dengue in the vaccine group vs. 149 cases in the placebo group), with 95.4% efficacy against dengue leading to hospitalization (5 hospitalizations in the vaccine group vs. 53 hospitalizations in the placebo group).
- Planned exploratory analyses involving the 27.7% of the per-protocol population that was seronegative at baseline showed vaccine efficacy of 74.9% (20 cases of virologically confirmed dengue in the vaccine group vs. 39 cases in the placebo group).
- Efficacy trends varied according to serotype.
- The incidence of serious adverse events was similar in the vaccine group and placebo group (3.1% and 3.8%, respectively).
Read Also: Low serum iron may help dengue virus grow and flourish, finds recent study
More Information: "Efficacy of a Tetravalent Dengue Vaccine in Healthy Children and Adolescents" published in the NEJM journal.
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1903869
Journal Information: New England Journal of Medicine
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Calendar of Events for Danish Digital Maritime Day 28 October 2020
The calendar will continuously be updated with speakers. Check back often to plan your personal schedule during Danish Digital Maritime Day.
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Today's society and the IMO has recognised the urgent need to bring down emissions on a global scale and has launched a series of initiatives.
Optimum engine performance and very high charging pressures and efficient exhaustgas turbocharging are necessary to comply with the strictest emission limit values (e.g. IMO Tier III).
Hear how KBB's "K2B" two‐stage turbocharging system enables compliance and improves overall engine efficiency and fuel economy.
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Admission is free, but please register by writing to email@example.com
PJ Diesel Engineering will sponsor free admission to the Danish Maritime Fair.


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LLLC - Berwick
This LLLC Group Typically Meets:
3rd Friday of the month
Group discussion on Breastfeeding information and/or support
Meeting Location:
Berwick Town Hall- Multipurpose Room
236 Commercial StreetB0P1E0 Berwick , NS
Canada45° 2' 27.6828" N, 64° 44' 7.7388" W
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Nova Scotia CA
LLLC Leader(s):
Laura VanHattem-Content
Carrie Clem
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Please call or email to confirm meeting date and time. If school is cancelled, there will not be a meeting.
LLLC meetings: LLLC offers Virtual Meetings, available all across Canada, in all time zones! For more information CLICK HERE
In person Meetings: (due to Covid-19 restrictions in person meetings have been suspended)
You are always welcome to attend LLLC meetings before and after you have welcomed your baby. Bring your breastfeeding/chestfeeding questions and concerns, talk about your joys and challenges or come and just listen. Babies and young children are always welcome, and some Groups include father/partners and support persons in some or all of their meetings.
All La Leche League Canada Leaders are volunteers. They are experienced breastfeeding/chestfeeding parents who have been accredited to provide up-to-date breastfeeding/chestfeeding information, encouragement and support.
For More Information: Contact a local La Leche League Leader in the Find a Group/Leader section.
If you have received help from La Leche League, we would appreciate your support in the form of a donation so we can continue to help others breastfeed. Thank you!


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As Others See Us
30 June 2007 - 29 July 2007
Mon to Sat 10 - 5pm, Sun 12 - 5pm Admission Free
As Others See Us
30 June 2007 - 29 July 2007
Mon to Sat 10 - 5pm, Sun 12 - 5pm Admission Free
Portraits from the Highlands
Touring Exhibition in partnership with Highland Council Exhibitions Unit & Highland 2007
For a virtual tour of the exhibition CLICK HERE!
Virtual tour by go360edinburgh
Continuing with the theme of Highland Culture in 2007, As Others See Us celebrates the long tradition of artist's portraiture by artists whose work has specific links with the Highlands.
Twelve artists have been invited to participate to create both a self portrait and a portrait of another artist. The artist's brief was to pair with another artist, either of interest to them or as suggested by the curator, thereby creating both a literal and artistic dialogue between them. There will be at least 24 works from the 6 pairings, but other appropriate pieces relevant to the theme may be added.
There will also be a full colour catalogue available with images, short artist's bios and statements. As this exhibition required many of the artists to explore outside of their usual working boundaries, the essays reflect on how they responded to this challenge of being both the observer and the observed. The exhibition has been curated by Gordon Brown of Brown's Gallery, Tain.
The artists participating are:
John Byrne – Steven Campbell
Calum Colvin – John Bellany
Alex Main – David Eustace
Allan Macdonald – Eugenie Vronskaya
Craig Mackay – Pat Semple
Gordon Robin Brown – TBC
As Others See Us will also tour to:
Swanson Gallery, Thurso
4 – 25 August 2007
IMAG (Inverness Museum & Art Gallery)
1 – 29 September 2007
RSA Finlay Room, Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL


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Jamdoggy the number of military units includes the amount of units you have set into production in the barracks.
Jamdoggy the number of military units includes the amount of units you have set into production in the barracks.
"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy"
My minus figure is on the unemployed settlers ( -404 ) but my population has reached a limit of 3060 plus it says I have military units of 3197. I'm very confused something is definitely not right
i don't think this population bug is fixed. i currently have 4005/3790 population.
EDIT: so, i started an adventure to reduce my population and i'm still having issues with it
Last edited by Dangermouse69; 13.03.14 at 18:18. Reason: update
I thought this bug got fixed, but the last week or so my population counts are off again. I am slowly getting more unemployed settlers. I haven't killed anyone lately, have all exhausted buildings replaced and no empty mines and population is maxed out, so no reason for more unemployed folks
Odd population for me now or something since maintenance. I made a well and it has flashing red indicating it needs a settler. For over a month or two all I have been doing is rebuilding wells as they go dry. I never had this problem. Mostly the only thing I did this year was sell water and a few extras. When I hover, it shows 3153/3040... but I never had settler shortage for wells this year (or last year). I stopped doing adventures mostly in December, but maybe I helped a friend once in January. But I never had a settler storage until now.
This bug is again active after your main over night,Please fix it.Thanks
My population is 3213/6000 with 233 unemployed when it should be at or close to 6000/6000 and my military unit count is only 2750 when I have 5500 unassigned units ???
Same bug here, after this nights maintenance, and some of my guild friends state the same problem.
My count of military units is approx. 14-1500 short of actual numbers:
There's a pattern here - the number of military units in your screenshot is exactly half the reported number of unassigned units - which is the same in my figures. The currently population count is military units plus working settlers plus unemployed, which works out to an error again exactly half the number of unassigned units.


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Boeing unveils its new "Constant Resolution Visual System" (CRVS), which uses JVC's e-Shift 8K projectors to move the system's visual acuity closer to the desired "20/20" visual range but from a small projector—4K projectors—while nearly reaching an 8K system in performance, the companies say.
The system is designed to deliver "visual performance and fidelity to better prepare military pilots by allowing them to train in a more realistic, yet safe environment," said Barry Kuhlmann, visual systems engineering manager at Boeing.
The system is compatible with a range of cockpits and aviator night vision goggles and also integrates with head-mounted displays, according to the companies. In addition, the CRVS provides constant target visibility throughout the entire field of vision by surrounding the pilot and cockpit in an environment that visually transforms into combat scenarios, and the e-Shift 8K projectors enable pilots to identify targets at real-world ranges, according to the companies.


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[MAY 2015] - The Magicians / Re: The Magicians - Week 1« on: May 19, 2015, 08:01:59 PM »
So, what you're saying is: he's a teenager?
Heh, I guess it depends what you consider to be typical/expected behavior for a teenager. Like I said, I don't think he's horrible or anything, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did some jerk things as the story goes along. He already unintentionally caused someone's death because he felt he had to get back at a teacher for showing him up or whatever. Just read that part today, which was a really good ,weird and creepy part. Loved fogg's explanation of what happened too.


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Nick McLaughlin, Ridiculously Nice Sales and Business Development – Americollect and
Daniel Harris, Vice President Business Development – Apex Revenue Technologies
"In five years, the mailed patient statement will be dead." "In ten years, ninety percent of your communication with patients will be via text message." I have heard these claims made at conferences and in newsletters the last few years, but I'm not taking the bait to that extreme. It's true, adoption of electronic notification (e-notification) of patient financial responsibility is growing more quickly than many anticipated. And it's growing for some very interesting reasons that may seem counter-intuitive at first. This article will explore what we have observed in the marketplace, and what you can do to be prepared for the demands of tomorrow's patients.
So what exactly is e-notification of patient financial responsibility? Nickster's Dictionary defines it as "an email or text message notification to patients that lets them know that they have a bill, and includes a link to view that statement in an internet browser or mobile device." Since e-notification options became available through the more innovative statement providers in the healthcare space, patient adoptions of these functions has been steady, but slow. Over the last ten years, providers that offer these options to patients have seen an adoption rate near 1%, maxing out at 4-5%. But in the last two years, growth in adoption rates has grown significantly with some providers seeing 10-15% adoption, and trending toward 25%.
Tipping Point?
Not only are some providers seeing 10-15% adoption of e-notifications and growing, they are also seeing as high as 20% of all patient payments coming in via mobile devices. Why so much growth all of a sudden? The theory was that e-notifications would become more popular as Millennials and Gen X-ers age into our healthcare systems, while the elderly have less patient responsibility. However, this theory did not take into account the widespread adoption of smart phones and technology by the Baby Boomer generation and older. (Haven't you noticed grand-parents spending just as much time fiddling with their phones these days as teenagers?) Baby Boomers make up the largest percentage of our patients these days, and their growing comfort with technology and trust in technology has brought them to want to take advantage of the convenience e-notifications offer.
Why Not 100% Adoption?
Adoption of a more convenient and trustworthy option for notification of patient financial responsibility should just keep on growing until everybody uses it, right? We don't think so. The fact remains that a very high percentage of the services done at hospitals are acute and unplanned. Our research shows that nearly 60% of the communications sent are for a single episode of care, and to a patient who has not been to the facility in over a year. In the world of e-commerce or online banking, if I use that website or bank regularly, chances are that I am going to "register" at checkout and take advantage of the conveniences that come along with that. Alternatively, if I'm buying something on a website that I don't think I'm going to use again anytime soon, I'm probably just going to check out as a "guest." We expect that pattern to apply to patients as well: regular patients will adopt e-notifications at a higher rate than patients who rarely come to the hospital.
Be Prepared
As electronic adoption continues to rise amongst all generations of patients, it is important that basic principles of consumerism be applied to the patient financial experience. Research shows that a patient can have an outstanding clinical experience with a provider, but if it is followed by a poor billing experience they are less likely to return to that provider for services in the future.
What does this look like in practice? Transparency and choices. Allowing patients the ability to easily manage their communication and payment channel preference will not only lead to a better patient overall financial experience , it will also lead to more patient payments being collected and increased rates of patient satisfaction.
98% of text messages are opened. The majority of these text messages are viewed in under 3 minutes. While electronic communications are not a perfect fit for every patient, offering them as a choice to the patients we have the pleasure of serving will not only lead to better results for all parties involved.


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By Jaime Curtis-Fisk
Congratulations to the Chicago Local Section on receiving the 2016 WCC ChemLuminary award! This award is given to a local section by the Women Chemists Committee to recognize outstanding efforts in promoting women in the chemical sciences. This award serves as a recognition of outstanding accomplishment and highlights successful programming and initiatives that serve as an example for other sections. The East Central Illinois and Pittsburgh Local Sections were also finalists for the award, having both demonstrated significant accomplishment and impact to their community.
The Chicago Section WCC's year included a Nontraditional Chemistry Career Forum to attract women to chemical science careers outside of the box. The students learned about what working chemists can do with their chemistry degrees. The Committee cosponsored an AAUW $tart $mart workshop that provided women with the knowledge and skills for negotiating salaries and benefits in order to receive fair and realistic compensation as they approach the job market. Another activity was a mentoring event at which Chicago Section women mentors talked about their careers and experiences in graduate school and post‐doc positions. The Chicago Section WCC held a Mix & Mingle jointly with Iota Sigma Pi, which featured a Jeopardy‐style game show with chemistry‐based questions. Several women served as liaisons to 38 Chicago‐area colleges and universities, publicizing activities of the Chicago Section WCC. At ChemDay 2015, the Chicago Section WCC had a table with 12 posters & activities, including a Periodic Table jigsaw puzzle that students finished during the event. Tom Lehrer's song of the Elements played nonstop while students used WCC‐inspired & decorative inkstamps saying "GIRLS = GREAT CHEMISTS", "I WANT TO BE A CHEMIST", and "GIRLS + CHEMISTRY = FUN". Careers in chemistry and their educational requirements were discussed with students.
Each year, the East Central Illinois WCC organizes a day camp at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign. Since its inception in 2008, "Bonding with Chemistry: A Day for Girls" has invited middle school girls from the area and around the state to participate in a full day of chemistry related activities led by graduate students at the university. There are often campers who have enjoyed themselves so much they return for multiple years, which encourages the graduate student volunteers and organizers to keep the experience exciting and new. Students rotate among stations, each with a unique theme related to natural phenomena and chemical principles. A favorite event has been t‐shirt chromatography in which campers e‐dye shirts while learning the principles of liquid chromatography. Participants receive take‐home items, projects, and a lab notebook of all the day's activities. All of these activities and additional outreach is at no cost to the students in an effort to serve the entire community. In 2015, 90 girls attended the camp, with nearly 50 graduate student volunteers, and two central organizers. Overall, this day camp has now reached hundreds of middle school girls (some of whom are now well into college!) and graduate students.
The Greater Pittsburgh Area WCC takes an inclusive view of the events and programs implemented to have the most extensive impact on attracting, developing, promoting, and advocating for women in the chemical sciences. The following is only few of the 2015 sponsored events: A Careers in Chemistry Symposium; a Couture, Cosmetics, and Chemistry Workshop (geared towards 7‐10th grade students and also provided for Girl Scouts); and a STEM‐ulate Success Science Showcase (poster session for high school students to learn the art of scientific presentations and undergraduates to learn evaluative skills by serving as judges).


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The Empire State Building
Two men are drinking in a bar at the top of the Empire State Building. One turns to the other and says: "You know last week I discovered that, if you jump from the top of this building, by the time you fall to the tenth floor, the winds around the building are so intense that they carry you around the building and back into the window."
The bartender just shakes his head in disapproval while wiping the bar.
The 2nd Man says: "What are you, a nut? There is no way that could happen."
1st Man: "No, it's true, let me prove it to you." So he gets up from the bar, jumps over the balcony, and careens to the street below. When he passes the tenth floor, the high wind whips him around the building and back into the tenth-floor window and he takes the elevator back up to the bar.
The 2nd Man tells him: "You know I saw that with my own eyes, but that must have been a one time fluke."
1st Man: "No, I'll prove it again" and again he jumps and hurtles toward the street where the tenth-floor wind gently carries him around the building and into the window. Once upstairs he urges his fellow drinker to try it.
2nd Man: "Well what the hell, it works, I'll try it." he jumps over the balcony, plunges downward, passes the eleventh, tenth, ninth, eighth floors… and hits the sidewalk with a 'splat.'
Back upstairs the bartender turns to the other drinker: "You know, Superman, you're a real jerk when you're drunk."
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Vickie Vainionpaa is an emerging artist living and working in Montreal. "Soft Body Dynamics" is her new art studies presented on the Creative Debuts platform.
An emerging artist living and working in Quebec, Canada, Vickie Vainionpaa's work has been exhibited at shows including Fresh Paint/New Construction at Art Mûr (Montreal) and YES! at UWAG (Waterloo). She's also won a number of awards and was recently a resident at The Banff Centre in Alberta.
"My work explores the new perceptual paradigm of the digital and what it means to be a painter in today's technocentric world," explains the 25-year-old artist. "I use 3D modelling software to produce forms, colours and compositions which are then rendered by hand using oil on canvas. The works aim to facilitate a dialogue between traditional painterly tropes and new digital means of reading space and content."
Her latest new series of paintings, Soft Body Dynamics, shows how this plays out in practice. Shapes that might appear cold and clinical had they remained as mere pixels become far more real and engaging once translated into physical form, and the resulting dichotomy plays out as a fascinating feast for the eyes.


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NYU has embarked on the project of developing an expansive global network, to become a university that challenges the idea that a university can only deliver education at a single home campus. Instead, we have created a structure that allows students and faculty to gather in a set of key locales around the globe to forge new ideas, advance the questions we ask about the world, and create solutions for the problems that beset us all.
The Program in International Relations makes use of NYU's extensive global facilities through a series of special sessions, in particular, our January study away opportunity.
Students interested in study away opportunities should contact the Program Director, Professor Michael John Williams.
Students can also consider the university's other graduate study away options. Please see links in the sidebar.


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Hello all,
I am playing around with LTi tools in Canvas, and a found a wrinkle. When I attempt to embed a document from Google Apps using the LTI tool, it simply does not show up in the iOS app of Canvas. It DOES show up on the desktop browser on both a laptop and in the mobile device Safari browser. I do know how to embed or link documents using iframe code and pasting into the HTML browser, but I was hoping this integration would be easier for my less technically inclined staff.
Does anyone know what's up?


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DALLAS — The "Star Trek" series, now relegated to video rentals and television reruns, plans to beam up some new video games later this year.
In an exclusive licensing deal announced this week with CBS Corp.'s CBS Communications Group, Bethesda Softworks LLC will publish Trek games for consoles, handheld systems and personal computers. Terms weren't disclosed.
Rockville, Md.-based Bethesda's first title will be "Star Trek: Legacy," where gamers can orchestrate space battles as a Starfleet admiral. A second game for handheld systems will let players control either Federation or Klingon forces.
Both are scheduled for release in September to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the franchise that introduced pointy-eared Vulcans and photon torpedoes.
It's been a rough time lately for the venerable sci-fi series, which hasn't had a new show since the "Star Trek: Enterprise" was canceled last year.
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