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- 2 Tbsp Fast Rise Yeast
- 1/4 cup Sugar
- 2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 medium egg
- 5 cups flour
- 2 cups milk warm
In a large bowl, combine the yeast, sugar, salt, butter, egg, and 2 cups of the flour. Slowly add the milk, stirring until ingredients are combined.
Add 2 1/2 cups of flour and stir until a ball of dough forms. The dough should be soft and not sticky.
Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, but still soft. Coat the inside of the bowl with olive oil and return the dough back into the bowl.
Spray some plastic wrap with non-stick spray and place the plastic over the bowl. Let the dough rise in a warm place about 30 minutes, or doubled in size. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
When the dough is done rising, turn onto a floured surface. Knead a couple times and divide the dough in half.
With one half of the dough, roll into a circle. and with a pizza cutter or sharp knife, cut the dough like you would a pizza.
Roll a slice of dough like you would roll a crescent roll. Place on baking sheet. Repeat.
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|Artificial arms can now sense touch.
Our ability to perceive tactile sensations is an essential part of our interaction with the world. So for decades, researchers have been working on recreating a sense of touch for people who have lost their limbs, knowing that it will help with the control and sense of embodiment of a prosthetic limb.
Teams have attempted to recreate a sense of pressure by delivering vibrations to a person's residual limb that equate to the pressure on the prosthesis. But this proved more distracting than helpful. Electrodes attached to the inside of residual nerves have also been tried, but the tingling sensations that they produce last only a few weeks before diminishing.
Now, researchers have found a way of transmitting long-term, realistic tactile sensations, such as the feel of a cotton wool ball or the trickle of water, to two people who lost hands in industrial accidents. The results were published in Science Translational Medicine. Two years ago, the team implanted a cuff of electrodes around the three main nerves in the residual part of their arms. These nerves would usually transmit sensory information from the hand to the brain. Each cuff contained up to eight electrodes, capable of individually stimulating different parts of the nerves. The electrodes were attached to wires hooked up to a machine providing stimulation via a stream of electrical pulses. This was connected to the prostheses the men were already using.
As the team switched on each electrode in turn, the men felt the sensation of touch as if it were coming from the tip of their prosthetic thumb, then the tip of the index finger and so on. The stimulation was described as tingling, tickling or pricking.
To go beyond this, the team investigated what happened when they used different frequencies and intensities of the electric pulses to produce the simulations. Previous research had given them some idea of the electrode patterns needed to recreate more complex sensations. After a healthy dose of trial and error, the team was able to deduce the pattern of electrodes required to recreate many realistic tactile sensations, such as the feeling of pressing a finger on the tip of a ball-point pen, the feeling of someone stroking a finger, the sense that a cotton wool ball being lightly rubbed on the skin and even a sense of water trickling over the back of the hand.
In order for the prosthesis to be useful, it needs to be able to deduce what sensations are appropriate for the wearer to feel in different scenarios. Sensors on the prosthetic limb go some way to achieving this, by measuring various aspects of touch and pressure which is sent to the electrodes, enabling them to fire in the correct stimulation pattern.
To test whether the natural sensation of touch improved the ability to manipulate delicate objects, the men were given a bunch of cherries. Pulling the stem from a cherry requires delicate grasp control. If your grasp is too light the cherry slips out of your hand, too heavy and you crush the cherry, see the video below.
When blindfolded, the subjects were able to use their prosthetic limb to pluck about 43 per cent of cherries without tactile feedback. Once the tactile feedback was switched on, their success rate rose to 93 percent. Sighted, their performance increased from 77 to 100 per cent. There was an unexpected health benefit, too. Before trialling the prostheses, both people had phantom limb pain, one described it as "a nail being driven through my thumb", the other said it often felt like his fist was being squeezed in a vice. Over the two years of testing, the pain diminished and eventually disappeared.
For now, both men have had to leave their sense of touch in the lab. But another amputee in Sweden has, for more than a year, been wearing a prosthesis that can sense basic touch. In early 2013, he became the first person in the world to receive a prosthesis that connected to his bone, nerves and muscles. This not only made it more comfortable than regular prostheses, but he could control movement and perceive some basic tingling sensations from things he touched. It was announced this week that a year and a half later, he is still using it successfully. The results were published in Science Translational Medicine. This is the first time a prosthesis that can perceive touch as well as movement has been worn for more than 30 days outside of a lab. There's no reason to think it will need replacing any time soon. The researchers in Sweden now hopes to use Tyler's research to help make the sensations feel more natural.


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I received a note from Allen Rinzler saying "Buddy Stein would like to play in the Monday group. Any objections?"
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I didn't expect Allen to share my email with Buddy so I was surprised when I received an email from Buddy with the following responses to my questions.
"Is he easy money? Very, but try to collect. Does he play slow? Just a wee faster than Rinzler, but anyone is faster than Allen. Does he cheat? Only if no one is watching. For whom did he vote? Woodrow Wilson."
It wasn't clear to me if Buddy wrote in Wilson's name in the last election or if he was waxing melancholy over his high school years. Only one way to find out. He was in the group behind me.
When the day was done, Buddy had tied for first place in the low net division. His team finished one stroke off the lead in the team competition. And Buddy filched the field by winning the lion's share of the money in the round robin Nassau. He came, he conquered, he cashed in and left. That is why he is wearing a mask. And that is why he has that grin.
Despite Stein's field ravaging performance, Monday's game was the most competitive match in a long time. The top nine finishers were within three net strokes of each other. The top three teams were separated by only one stroke total. A scorecard playoff had to settle the match. The course played tough. Average scores hovered around 90 again. The "Sponsor's Trophy" (for the individual contributing the most to the Buddy Stein Fund) went to Marwan Jalili. Match results. Individual Nassau match results.


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Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975) was born in London and inherited the fascination for history from his mother, Sarah Edith Marshall (1859-1939), who authored published histories of England and Scotland.[1] As a schoolboy, Toynbee excelled in history and languages, but struggled with maths and natural sciences.[2] An academic education in history was an obvious next step. After having graduated from the elitist Winchester College, Toynbee enrolled in Balliol College at Oxford University in 1906. Toynbee, who was very skilled in Greek and Latin, mainly specialized himself in ancient history. At Oxford, Toynbee was a student of Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek, who had been among the intellectual team that had assisted Wells with The Outline of History. Murray and Toynbee developed a close relationship, and in 1913 the professor's daughter became Toynbee's first wife. At his last year as a student at Balliol, Toynbee won the prestigious Jenkins prize, which allowed him to travel through Italy and Greece in 1911 and 1912, to visit ancient ruins and famous sites from classical history. Toynbee had made such an impression as a student that upon returning to Britain he became a don at Balliol College. He became engaged in teaching ancient history. A conventional academic career seemed in the making.
But Arnold Toynbee aspired nothing of the sort. At Winchester College the scope of history education was largely confined to Athens and Rome, and also at Oxford there was nothing that encouraged macrohistorical thinking.[3] Yet Toynbee thought big. From a very young age he demonstrated a tenor towards a historical perception that far transcended the conventional geographical focus of British historiography. He sought to integrate far off places in Eastern Asia into the same framework as the orthodox areas of historical interests, such as the Roman Empire. The root of this mindset cannot be determined with absolute certainty. A possible original source is a historical atlas that the young Toynbee got as a gift from his uncle, the chemist Percy Frankland (1858-1946), when he was recovering from pneumonia at age thirteen or fourteen. Toynbee would later state that he "learnt volumes from it".[4]
Toynbee's broad outlook on history made him realize that his contemporary Western-led world was only a transitory phase. While a student at Balliol, he noticed that "at present the world lies between the English public school man and the German," to which he added: "that is, till China comes and eats us up".[5] At this time he was already pondering a grand historical work to express his broad perspective of world history. Toynbee found inspiration in the 5-volume Geschichte des Alterums (1884-1902), written by the German Oxford historian Eduard Meyer (1855-1930), which integrated Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman history into one synthesis of ancient history. Toynbee wanted to do with ancient and modern times what Meyer had done with just the ancient era, but the young English historian was struggling with the question how to organize such a comprehensive work.
The rhythm of academic life increasingly started to displease Toynbee. He did not like teaching, particularly because it took time away from writing the grand historical synthesis that he considered his magnum opus to be. He stayed out of the Great War as the result of a dubious claim of a dysentery infection, allegedly contracted two years prior after drinking from a contaminated stream in Greece. He left Balliol College in 1915 to work for a British government propaganda outfit that was primarily engaged in affecting public opinion in the United States. In May 1917 he took another government job as he transferred to the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office where he was mainly engaged in getting intelligence on affairs concerning the Ottoman Empire and the rest of the Islamic world. During the war, he became a fierce advocate for internationalism and the end of nationalism. McNeill suggests that this position stemmed from the guilt that Toynbee felt for not enlisting while on the continent his peers were slaughtered in the trenches. Staying out of the war had to be justified by attacking the war's motives.[6] Toynbee aspired a peace-building role in international politics after the war had ended. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference as a delegate of the Foreign Office, but this experience ended in a disappointment.
From 1916, Toynbee received a monthly endowment from the Countess of Carlisle, his wife's grandmother, in order to be able to start working on his grand synthesis. However, this did not allow him with sufficient income to maintain his desired social status, and in 1919 he took another academic job to become the Koraes Professor at King's College of the University of London. This chair was concerned with the study of Greek history, and was funded by the Greek community of London. Toynbee surely was very knowledgeable on Greek history, but he had world history on his mind. Toynbee identified Greece as the eastern outpost of European civilization, which thereby was positioned on the crossroads between East and West. Throughout its history, Greece had been continuously influenced by developments from both Eastern and Western civilization. Studying Greek history, Toynbee argued, was studying all of these developments. He enlarged the geographical scope of his chair far beyond the small Kingdom of Greece, almost equating Greek history with the history of the world. Evidently, the funders of the Koraes Chair were not happy with this approach. They complained that Toynbee was abusing his position to explore topics unrelated to Greece. Also Toynbee's outspoken support for the Turks in the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-22 was very unpopular among the funders of his chair. He was forced to resign from his position in 1924.
But before that time came, Toynbee experienced a breakthrough in his thinking about his aspired world historical synthesis.[7] In 1920, Toynbee delivered a lecture at Oxford that was thereafter published as "The Tragedy of Greece".[8] In this delivery, he argued that Greek civilization had to come to its end as the result of "the failure of interstate federation" which had happened during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE).[9] The lecture summarized the plan for a history of Greece that Toynbee had been working on for a couple of years, but now the Great War had intervened. All of a sudden his estimation of the end of Greek civilization appeared to have a perfect parallel in the political situation of contemporary Europe. Toynbee had been contemplating a cyclical perception of history for some years. As an undergraduate student he had distinguished parallels between the Persian invasion of Greece in the fifth century BCE and the Ottoman attack on Europe in the fifteenth century CE.[10] And when travelling Italy and Greece in 1911 and 1912, the local landscape revealed repetitive patterns to him. Ancient, medieval, and modern sites – often constructed with a similar function – all lay within the same sight. In Toynbee's perception, ancient and modern history were integrated into the same grand pattern. But until the early 1920s, the structure of this cyclical pattern had not yet appeared to him.
Now Toynbee recognized that the cyclical pattern of history consisted of recurring tragedy. The human mind was set to lead affairs always back towards a state of war and destruction. In that destructive state all civilizations eventually ceased to be. The concept of civilization was central in this tragic perception of the pattern of the past. In his student days, Toynbee perceived history as a recurring encounter between the two grand cultural blocks of the East and the West; a common historical perception in which Toynbee was mainly influenced by Herodotus. During the time of his Koraes appointment, he abandoned this understanding of the past, and replaced it for a notion of world history that was composed of multiple civilizations. Each of these was defined by its particular culture (geographical, political, and economic factors were irrelevant in defining a civilization). Toynbee regarded civilizations as complete wholes that were closed to external cultural influences and could not be disintegrated in accurate historical analysis. Toynbee argued that no single nation-state, the conventional subject of historical study, had a history that was self-explanatory. National history could only be understood by studying historical developments at the level of the civilization to which the nation belonged. All civilizations were going in their entirety and on their own behalf through the universally similar trajectory of rise and inevitable decline.
Toynbee's conception of the closed nature of civilizations was mainly derived from Oswald Spengler's Untergang des Abendlandes. The German author believed that civilizations were essentially different from each other, which prevented cross-civilizational influences and cultural borrowing.[11] This conception contrasted to that of another author, F.J. Teggart (1870-1946), whose work also was inspirational to Toynbee. Teggart, born in Ireland and lecturing at the University of California in Berkeley, argued that a comparative study of civilizations could not be confined to the Near East, but also needed to take India and China into account. The plea for a broad geographical scope appealed to Toynbee. But, very much opposite to Spengler, Teggart argued that human progress occurred as the result of contacts between different societies. Toynbee thus was familiar with world historical works that opposed each other on the nature of relations between civilizations. That Toynbee chose to follow Spengler over Teggart probably stemmed from his experiences in the Greek-Turkish War of the early 1920s, which he followed as a correspondent for the Manchester Guardian.[12] The brutalities that the two parties inflicted upon each other, in a struggle that Toynbee understood as a clash between different civilizations, confirmed the Spenglerian perspective of the impossibility of beneficial intercultural interaction.
In 1925, Toynbee became the Director of Studies at the British Institute of International Affairs (becoming the Royal Institute of International Affairs one year later). The mission statement of his function was to encourage a spirit of international cooperation and peace. His main task consisted of writing an annual survey on international affairs, which he took on with great vigour. The work on the surveys allowed him to do research that could be used for his great historical synthesis. The annual surveys also helped him to appreciate the diversity of 'the East', which before he had always perceived as one uniform civilization. Toynbee began writing the manuscript for what would become A Study of History in 1930. The first three volumes of the monumental work were published in 1934. Volumes four, five and six followed in 1939. At this time, Toynbee was hoping that by guiding public opinion he could contribute to the prevention of another war. But then tragedy struck. On March 15th 1939, his son Tony took his own life. The very same day Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. His family was devastated and it was clear that a new world war would not be avoided.
Toynbee's A Study of History applies a worldwide scope, but its organizational structure is based on European historical experience. Toynbee believed that civilizations could succeed each other in a process that he referred to as 'apparentation-and-affiliation'.[13] Historical continuity had the form of new generations of civilizations emerging from previous ones, like a child descends from its parents. Toynbee derived this model of succeeding civilizations from the presumed historical succession of modern Western society from Hellenic civilization.[14] Toynbee defined Hellenic civilization as embracing both Greek and Roman history. For the best part of its history, Hellenic civilization had been divided into multiple political units. Then troubled times came around the years of the Hannibalic War. Hellenic society was no longer creative and was facing decline. But this process could be arrested for some time by unifying the entire civilization into the Roman Empire.[15] Toynbee defined this as the 'universal state': the political entity that encompassed the whole of the (previously politically divided) civilization. But the decline of the Hellenic civilization could not be averted. The civilization came to its end with the fall of the Roman Empire. The fall of the Hellenic civilization was followed by the 'interregnum'; the period between the disappearance of the Hellenic civilization and the emergence of Western society. The interregnum was dictated by two powers, which Toynbee labelled the 'external and the 'internal proletariat' because both of these powers rebelled against the ruling class of Hellenic society. The external proletariat were the barbarians that invaded the Roman Empire from outside and dealt the dying Hellenic civilization its final blow. The internal proletariat was the Christian Church, which developed as an underground institution in the days of the universal state (the Roman Empire) but became dominant in the interregnum. The Christian Church formed the bridge between the Hellenic and the Western civilization. The Church would develop into a 'universal church': accomplishing the spiritual unification of the new civilization. In the transition from Hellenic to Western society, the centre of the civilization shifted. What had been the frontier of the Hellenic civilization became the centre of the new Western civilization.
This pattern was used as the mould for the whole of world history. There is established a universal state in the last age of a civilization that subsequently is destroyed by outside invasions, but gives birth to a predecessor civilization through the 'internal proletariat' that becomes its universal church and unites the civilization on a spiritual level. All civilizations that Toynbee identified were explained in these same terms. Evidently, not all civilizations equally fitted into this pattern, which required some peculiar reasoning. The sudden emergence of the Ummayad Caliphate in the seventh century left Toynbee with a universal state without a clear pre-existing civilization that it had united. He solved this problem by introducing the concept of a "Syriac" civilization, which he argued had gone underground for a thousand of years – around the time of Alexander's conquest – yet still had an unconscious presence in the minds of the Arab conquerors of the seventh century.
Other anomalies were dealt with by introducing the concepts of 'abortive' and 'asserted civilizations'. Abortive civilizations had ceased to be while still in a premature phase, as the result of untypical severe challenges, and therefore had never reached the phase of a universal state. Arrested civilizations were faced with a very specific challenge – social or environmental – that demanded their complete focus and all of their energy. By directing all their efforts towards one problem, these societies were able to overcome the particular severity that they were faced with, but had not developed the versatility that characterized the fully-grown human civilization. Therefore, Toynbee claimed, these arrested civilizations had taken the retrogressive path from humanity to 'animality'. Toynbee's creativity in dealing with anomalies weakened the persuasiveness of his model, but it allowed him to incorporate societies from a wide geographical scope. His worked included, amongst other, the civilizations of Egypt, China, India, the Andes, and Mexico, but also the aborted or asserted civilizations from Europe's Celtic fringe, the Eskimos, and the Polynesians. Such a large geographical and cultural diversity within one synthesis was without precedent.
Toynbee had developed a model of genealogical successions of civilizations, in which multiple civilizations could spring from the same predecessor and wherein two previously separated societies could merge to form one new civilization (the Iranic and Arabic civilization had merged to form the Islamic). At this point, Toynbee had parted with the historical philosophy of Spengler, who believed that all civilizations emerged from – and eventually returned to – an a-historical primitive natural condition. Toynbee regarded his work to be an improvement upon that of Spengler, as he had liberated the study to the development of civilizations from the mystical dogmatism of the German author. Toynbee's main contribution, so he believed, was his empirical explanation for the rise and fall of civilizations, which Spengler had omitted. But in its core, Toynbee's argument remained close to Spengler's. The model of civilizational succession, or the complete merger of two civilizations, should not be confused by inter-civilizational exchanges. Civilizations had fixed cultural boundaries, and the moment they started to be breached by barbaric invasions was the moment the civilization was coming to its end.
[1] Arnold J. Toynbee, Experiences (London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1969) 90.
[2] The biographical information about Arnold J. Toynbee is largely based on: William H. McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
[3] McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee, 16, 30.
[4] Toynbee, Experiences, 295.
[5] Cited in: McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee, 32.
[6] McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee, 78.
[7] Ibid., 95-100.
[8] Arnold J. Toynbee, The Tragedy of Greece. A lecture delivered for the Professor of Greek to Candidates for Honours in Literae Humaniores at Oxford in May 1920 (Oxford, 1921).
[9] Ibid., 96.
[10] McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee, 32.
[11] Ibid., 101.
[12] McNeill, Arnold J. Toynbee, 101-103.
[13] I have consulted the abridged version the first six volumes of A Study of History from 1946. Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History. Abridgement of volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell (London, New York, and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946).
[14] Toynbee, A Study of History, 12.
[15] Toynbee used the terms 'civilization' and 'society' interchangeably.


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Humanitarian update
The humanitarian situation in the State of Palestine* deteriorated as a result of escalating violence beginning in June 2014, posing a serious threat to children's lives, liberty and security. In Gaza, hundreds of people, including women and children have been reported killed and many more injured as a result of increased military operations and the escalation of hostilities. Both airstrikes and rocket attacks are putting children at risk, leaving them exposed to physical harm and mental distress. The deteriorating situation has exacerbated the already dire humanitarian conditions for children in Gaza which worsened during the first six months of 2014, leading to a significant decline in the provision of basic services, a fuel crisis, and the depletion of family coping mechanisms. In the West Bank, girls and boys continue to be affected by home demolitions and military operations, arrests, poor treatment and harassment at checkpoints.
Total affected children: 990,000
Total people to be reached in 2014: 346,400
Total children to be reached in 2014: 267,600
2014 Revised Programme Targets
• 30,000 affected children have access to essential drugs and consumables
• 49,000 people in humanitarian situations in Gaza are using appropriate sanitation facilities and accessing safe drinking water
• 67,600 people (50% children) in the West Bank (including communities in Area C at risk of displacement) have access to safe drinking water.
Child Protection
• 26,000 children (50% girls) and 5,900 caregivers in conflict-affected areas benefit from protection and psychosocial support activities
• 100,000 children (50% girls) and 15,000 caregivers benefit from mine risk education
• Monitoring and reporting mechanism strengthened with improved protection of the rights of children in military detention.
• 31,500 school-aged children have access to safe learning environments
• 20,000 adolescents (50% girls) participate in after-school programmes for play and learning
Humanitarian strategy
In light of the deteriorating situation, UNICEF revised its programme targets to meet the increasing humanitarian needs of the affected population. Notably in health, UNICEF has revised its target for the procurement of life-saving drugs, essential drugs (reported at zero stocks) and consumables for 30,000 children at neonatal and paediatric care units.
UNICEF targets in the area of water and sanitation include to support the rehabilitation of water and sewage pipes, water trucking and hygiene education in highly vulnerable communities, including reaching communities affected by the current escalation of hostilities. As lead of the WASH Cluster, UNICEF will continue to work with partners to ensure a coordinated and timely humanitarian response, including advocacy and resource mobilization efforts to address the fuel crisis in Gaza.
Psychosocial emergency teams and child-friendly centres will provide protection and psychosocial support activities including mine-risk education for most affected children and families with focus on areas that have been most impacted by the June escalation of violence including East Jerusalem, Hebron and Gaza. Monitoring and reporting on grave violations will be strengthened, as will advocacy for improved protection of children in military detention.
UNICEF will support protected and safe access to learning for affected school-aged children, safe transport and school rehabilitation including the scale up in protective presence for children crossing checkpoints to ensure safe commute to schools. UNICEF will give special attention to the needs of adolescent girls and boys in highly affected areas through after school learning and recreational programmes.
UNICEF will continue to lead the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) cluster; the Child Protection Working Group and the Israel/oPt Working Group on grave violations against children; will co-lead the Mental Health and Psychosocial Working Group with the World Health Organization (WHO); and co-lead the Education cluster with Save the Children.
Results 2014 (January to June)
As part of the inter-agency 2014 Strategic Response Plan (January to December 2014) UNICEF has appealed for US$14,294,000. As of 30 June 2014, only 1 per cent of the appeal has been funded. This dire lack of funding has compromised UNICEF's ability to respond to the needs of the most affected women and children in Gaza, Area C, and East Jerusalem. In Health, the lack of funding has compromised UNICEF and partners' capacity to meet the health needs of affected communities. To date, only 7 per cent of the required funding has been received, allowing the procurement of essential drugs for only 2,500 children out of 30,000 targeted for this year.
In WASH, the lack of funding has delayed improvements in sanitation conditions for approximately 9,000 people in Gaza. UNICEF utilized non-humanitarian funding to support two interventions in the West Bank involving the repair and upgrading of water networks in South West Bank, expected to reach around 7,500 people (50 per cent children) by year end; and water distribution and water quality monitoring for around 35,100 people (50 per cent children) in vulnerable communities at risk of displacement in Area C.
In Education, the lack of funding meant a scale down in UNICEF's response. UNICEF utilized non-humanitarian funding to support the refurbishment of 30 schools in Gaza and 10 schools in the West Bank. UNICEF is supporting the protective accompaniment of children living in the Area C of the West Bank in communities exposed to the presence and actions of Israeli security forces, and settler violence to ensure protected school commutes. If funds are available, this support can be expanded to reach all affected children.
In Child Protection, through rolled-over humanitarian funds, the emergency teams were operational for two months only reaching around 9,538 children (47 per cent girls). No other funding was received for psychosocial programmes — including the emergency psychosocial teams and the Family Centres in Gaza - thereby affecting partner capacity to support children and their families affected by violence,' and spearhead an immediate response to the recent escalations. UNICEF struggled to secure humanitarian funding for MRM coordination. Through limited other funding, UNICEF continued the documentation on grave violations against children and was able to document 265 incidents, affecting at least 13,376 children during the first three months of 2014." Progress was noted in relation to increased protection for children arrested by Israeli Security Forces with the establishment of a pilot test of summons in lieu of night arrests, which started in February 2014. UNICEF is undertaking emergency preparedness activities including strengthening capacities of partners.
Funding requirements
In line with the inter-agency 2014 Strategic Response Plan, UNICEF is requesting US$14,284,000 to meet the humanitarian needs of children in the State of Palestine. As of 30 June, 2014 only 1 per cent of the emergency appeal has been funded, which has resulted in a critical shortage of resources to meet the humanitarian needs of women and children.
Additional funding is essential to enable UNICEF to continue with humanitarian programmes including ensuring the provision of critical health care and WASH services, and to provide children and caregivers in highly vulnerable areas with access to protection services and education.


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January 13, 2020
The Empanada Company is a great privately owned restaurant on the west end of Etobicoke, Ontario Canada. This client was asking for a holiday catering flyer. I took some time to get to know the company and their identity online and what would suit them best. Simple, clean and homey was their style. I really … More Restaurant Holiday Flyer


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"After finding Song Wei Xi, temporarily bring him away, don't let him stay in An City."
"Also, check on Lawyer Zhou's background."
"Okay." Tang Zi Chu nodded, he also felt something was fishy with Lawyer Zhou.
After Tang Zi Chu left, he called Su Ran and told him that Song Ting Yu didn't sign the divorce paper.
"Chief Song said that he wants you to come, go and say it clearly to him. He will sign it then. He said that he doesn't believe all of your words, he doesn't believe that you will do something like that toward him…."
Su Ran didn't wait until he finished his words and just hung up.
Tang Zi Chu looked at the phone for a while, then sighed and shook his head. He called to reserve a ticket, he booked the ticked back home. He said to all people that he wanted to return home for a while. But when he was in the airport, he refunded the ticket he purchased and bought a new one to Jiang City.
Before getting on the plane, he already contacted Mu Chu Cheng, but he said that he will passed Song Ting Yu's word to him when thye met.
Sometimes a friendship between men is different with women, perhaps because they didn't communicate frequently. Yet when one of them is in trouble, the other one will help.
It's a clear picture of Mu Chu Cheng and Song Ting Yu's friendship.
After receiving a call from Tang Zi Chu, Su Ran didn't go to the hospital to meet Song Ting Yu. She missed him terribly, but she was afraid that her expression would leak all of her acting.
Gu Dong Cheng also called her again: "It seems that Song Ting Yu's feeling for you is unordinary. You passed the divorce paper to him. He got hurt, you didn't come to see him, but he still believes that you will not betray him, what should we do? For making him give up on you, should I think of another way?"
Su Ran was panic and said deeply: "What do you want?"
"Hehe…" Gu Dong Cheng laughed: "Are you scared? Very scared? You scared that I will do something? I'm helping you, okay?"
"Helping me?" Su Ran laughed for a while.
"I think of a way." Gu Dong Cheng suddenly spoke up.
Su Ran didn't say anything. If she can, she really wanted to hang the phone up. She didn't wish to talk about anything with this man.
"You can testify against Song Ting Yu. I guarantee that he will be disappointed at you, what do you think?" Gu Dong Cheng said, he was like discussing with her, he seemed to be so patient.
"Dream on. Gu Dong Cheng."
"I think you should do it? Who ask your baby boy is in my hand?"
"Gu Dong Cheng, if you dare to hurt him, I will definitely sue you, I will not let you go."
"Hehe….." Gu Dong Cheng laughed: "Sue me? Okay, come. I did a lot of thing, no one sues me. Oh right, seems that Tian Mi tries to, but don't you know the result of it?"
"You think by provoking me, I will let Song Wei Xi go? Or do you think that because I see him as a kid, I will let him go?"
Hearing his words, Su Ran turned calm.
Su Ran bit her lips: "What do you want me to do?"
"Actually for Song Ting Yu's case, the evidence is not sufficient. Although his phone was discovered in the crime scene, but it couldn't show that he did anything? The CCTV around was broken. There was only young nurse, said that Song Ting Yu was in fight with Song Ming Xuan with the present of that old woman. There're only two evidences…."
"You've asked people to ruin the CCTV." Su Ran said coldly.
Gu Dong Cheng laughed: "I heard that you heard about their fight…>"
"What do you want me to see in the court?"
"Of course it's not enough…."
These days the hot news was Song Ting Yu's wife would appear on court to testify against Song Ting Yu's crime.
That day she wore her sunglasses and entered the police station. When she came out, she was surrounded with a lot of reporters.
Su Ran couldn't hide from it.
The reporters kept on asking her. It let her remembered what happened to Bai Zhi Rui.
The reporters threw out various questions, but most of them were asking the reason why she did it. When at the first time, she tried so hard to let Song Ting Yu out…..
Facing these reporters, Su Ran was really calm. She knew that Gu Dong Cheng arranged this, if not who would know that she will come this afternoon.
Police would not contact the reporter.
She put down her sunglasses: "Because I suddenly realize that he is unworthy of my help. In the past I was deceived by him. Though he is not Song family but he had been close to Madame Song for twenty years. Unexpectedly he could be so ruthless, so I think it's clear, I want to testify against him…."
Su Ran said it then the reporters kept on taking photos of him. Very quickly the photo and her statement spread everywhere.


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Yvonne Seffer, celebration of life
Yvonne Seffer passed away after a short stay at Santo Tomas hospital.
Taken from Yvonne's Facebook page: FINALLY SEMI-RETIRED AND LIVING THE DREAM!, TRAVELING THE WORLD......HEART AND EYES WIDE OPEN!
Yvonne held the position of Secretary at the Beach Business Networking group till quite recently. She always introducing herself by giving out the number of days that she had been retired and how she loved it all. Yvonne was active in the community, enjoyed a good time and loved to wear bright clothes. She was planning on leaving Panama and was looking forwards to Mexico for her next adventure.
The Coronado community and friends will be getting together to mark her life and share good memories. Join us at the Coronado Bible Church, above Super 99 .on Tuesday, November 6th, at 1:00 pm.
To honor Yvonne's memory, wear something bright, she would love that!
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My daily leaf print project is underway. Here is week one. I think I will do a different color theme each week. It's quite fun and I'm enjoying the interaction with others doing the same 100 days on Facebook. One is doing a surface design each day, one free motion quilting a design a day out of a couple of adult coloring books, a couple people are improv piecing a block a day. A few are simply taking time each day to work on a project and showing the progress.
I'm also learning from them. One person blew my mind when she said she changes thread a lot on her sit down long arm (of which I have and threading the sucker can be a pain). She cuts the thread on the old spool near the spool itself and leaves the rest of the thread still on the machine. Then puts on a new spool, ties the old thread to the new and just pulls it through. Now why didn't I think of that! Brilliant! You really should join our group, if only to see what people are doing.
I'm also starting a Raven. Here is all the feathers in the nest.
And another in the cutting stage.
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Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela to a family of holocaust survivors, Michelle was accustomed to living with fear. But when she moved to New York to pursue a Masters in Branding at the School of Visual Arts, Michelle quickly realized that NYC was not for the fearful.
In efforts to re-write her definition of fear, Michelle set out to face 100 fears in 100 days. Half way into the journey, the project was discovered by the media, becoming an instant viral phenomenon.
Michelle completed her 100th challenge on a TEDx's stage. This helped her turn a personal project into a global movement, allowing her to quit her job as an Art Director in advertising to pursue her passion.
Michelle discovered that inspiring others to go after their fears was her new calling. She is now touring the world speaking at companies, schools and organizations teaching audiences how to step outside their comfort zones as a way to tap into their full potential.
Join Michelle Monday, September 9 at 8:15 a.m. for the opening Keynote "Fear Less, Do More"
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By day, I had my second interview with the Dean for the next level position. Fingers still crossed…not taking anything for granted….should know soon!
By night, went to the Santa Rosa Repertory Theater's production of Emma. Though I've never considered myself a true "Janeite," I do have a weakness for Jane Austen. What woman writer of wit, words, and ambition doesn't? Emma is one of my favorites. Of course, I've read it, but I also watched the film version almost ten years ago with my best friend the night before my wedding…and tonight my best friend and I saw it performed in the same auditorium where we took our required Astronomy and Anthro classes over fifteen years ago! It was impressive to see the old auditorium transformed into a Georgian Regency drawing room.
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Tower Crane Market: Overview
In the infrastructural projects, the tower cranes are used for the task of heavy lifting and in other constructional purposes. The developed version of the tower cranes offers the facility of movement from all the directions. Atower crane can do several movements which include jack- operation, self-erection, slewing, wire twisting, self-climbing, climbing frame, smooth hoisting, and trolley movement.
Tower Crane Market: Facts
The leading construction company GEOCON is developing the urban constructions of Canberra. The Jaso cranes are being used by the Australian capital's skyline. The Jaso cranes are the highly advanced version of the tower cranes.
Tower Crane Market: Segmentation
The tower crane market is fragmented into its product type and the application. Based on the type of the product, the tower crane market is segregated into mobile and fixed. The fixed segment is sub-segregated into stacker crane, loader crane, telescopic crane, hammerhead crane, gantry crane, tower crane, self-erecting tower crane, bulk handling crane, jib crane, deck crane, and level luffing crane. The mobile segment is sub-categorized into truck mounted crane, railroad crane, harbor crane, all terrain crane, carry deck crane, aerial crane, floating crane, side lifter crane, pick and carry crane, crawler crane, and telescopic crane. Based on the application, the market is categorized into residential, infrastructural, and commercial.
Tower Crane Market: Growth Factors
The chief factor that is boosting the growth of the tower crane market is the expanding construction sector. The increasing requirement for the machines that are user-friendly, consume less energy, cost-effective in nature, and have the benefit of effective load carrying capacity is propelling the growth of the tower crane market. As the tower cranes are incorporated with these benefits the opportunities for the market are increasing considerably. The tower cranes are having enhanced safety features coupled with the addition of the programmed logic control technology which increases its demand in the global market. The prominent factor that is fuelling the growth of the tower crane market is the increased rate of operational efficiency. The other features that the tower cranes include are they are user-friendly, large lifting capacity, small swing radius, and requires small operational room thus increasingly preferred by the consumers.
Tower Crane Market: Regional Analysis
The regions such as the Middle East and Africa, Europe, and the North America are having a growing rate of the disposable income which is boosting the infrastructure sector thus increasing the demand for the tower crane market. The increase in the rate of the migration is one of the major reasons that is propelling the growth of the construction sector which, in turn, increases the growth rate of the tower crane market. In Asia Pacific region, the countries such as China and India there is a huge demand for the residential and commercial projects thus augmenting for the increased demand for the tower crane.
Tower Crane Market: Competitive Players
The key market players that are involved in the tower crane market include Sarens n.v./s.a., Mediaco, Maxim Crane Works, L.P., Action Construction Equipment Ltd., Liebherr, Terex Corporation, GRT Tower Cranes, Mammoet, Tiong Woon Corporation Holding Ltd., E-Cranes, Anupam Industries Limited, Construcciones Metálicas Comansa S.A, and Zoomlion ElectroMech India Pvt. Ltd.
Tower Crane Market: Regional Segment Analysis
- North America
- Europe
- France
- Germany
- Asia Pacific
- China
- Japan
- India
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Middle East and Africa
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- Full in-depth analysis of the parent market
- Important changes in market dynamics
- Segmentation details of the market
- Former, on-going, and projected market analysis in terms of volume and value
- Assessment of niche industry developments
- Market share analysis
- Key strategies of major players
- Emerging segments and regional markets
- Testimonials to companies in order to fortify their foothold in the market.


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Please help us in OUR mission – the cry of many mission agencies and committed missionaries. Evangelicals have always been and will always be activists. Yet it is so easy for the emphasis to be on my mission, my calling, my sending, my ministry and when this happens it should fill us with concern.
In 1934 in response to Karl Barth and his emphasis on actio Dei (the action of God), Hartenstein coined the phrase missio Dei (mission of God). His thesis was that mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God. 'It is not the church that has a mission of salvation to fulfill in the world; it is the mission of the Son and the Spirit through the Father that includes the church.'
'Mission is God's way of loving and saving the world… So mission is never our invention or choice.' The initiative in mission is God's, not ours. We are called simply to be part of God's mission as we follow Jesus who said: 'As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' It's not the church of God that has a mission, but the God of mission who has a church.
To quote David Bosch: "There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. To participate in mission is to participate in the movement of God's love toward people, since God is a fountain of sending love." The role of the Church is to participate in the mission of God. The church's mission is only a subset of God's mission to the world and not the entirety of God's work in the world.
Maybe in light of this we need to rethink our terminology. To quote one mission leader who said to me recently: 'I get very twitchy at the number of agencies talking about come and join us in our mission – getting very proprietary about mission. It is actually God's mission. We need to address this issue when we talk about selection and how recruitment is going? Are we recruiting people to our agency or to the work of the kingdom?'
Understanding the mission of God requires a change of mindset, new terminology and a new way of working. In the same way that He sent His Son, He sends us today into our locality and our world.
UK mission agencies and churches probably need to think much more carefully about the key implications of their role in God's mission. It is not about MY mission and the promotion of what we are doing, but the work of the Kingdom.
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EdTA teaching artists are recognized as experts and leaders in the field of theatre. They play an integral role in fulfilling the association's mission of supporting theatre students and educators by providing enriching educational experiences at our national events.Teaching opportunities exist across all theatrical disciplines. This includes performance, lighting, sets, sound, makeup, costuming, directing, stage management, dance, playwriting, puppetry, stage combat, commedia dell'arte, and more.
is a celebration of student achievement in the performing arts. ITF is the nation's premier event for high-achieving middle and high school drama students and their teachers. This week-long immersion in the theatrical arts will take place June 22-27, 2020 at Indiana University Bloomington.
is a professional development event designed for theatre educators to strengthen their skills, expand their knowledge, and reaffirm their commitment to teaching. EdTA National Conference 2020 will explore the new and diverse training, practice, and resources that will deliver theatre education to the next generation of students and beyond. It all happens October 1-4 in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Teaching Formats
are seventy-five- or ninety-minute sessions that provide an engaging and enriching learning experience for students and teachers of all skill levels and interests. Workshops are offered at both the International Thespian Festival and the EdTA National Conference.
are six-hour interactive opportunities for theatre educators. Certification of PDI completion and graduate level credit are available to class participants. PDIs are offered at both the International Thespian Festival and the EdTA National Conference.
are three-hour deep-dive sessions that provide skill-building experiences for theatre educators to develop and expand their professional knowledge. Labs are only offered at the EdTA National Conference.
Teaching Artist Directory
The EdTA Teaching Artist Directory is where you can connect with those in our online Community who are interested in enhancing their students' educational experience by bringing a teaching artist to their classroom or local event. You must be an EdTA member or registered Community user to access the directory. Join today and complete your profile - once you do, you'll begin showing up in the search results!


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New for 2019
Maryland Hunting
New Hunting Opportunities and Regulations for 2019–2020
- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources will be offering
"do-it-yourself" hunts for stocked pheasants in 2019 (Small Game Hunting). The pheasant hunts will take place on public lands in several regions of the state. Application information, dates, locations and other resources are available at: https://dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages/hunt_trap/Mentored-Hunt-Program.aspx. Apprentice license holders, junior license holders and hunters who have previously held a Maryland hunting license, but not in the past three years, are eligible to apply. For additional information contact Nancy Doran at 301-777-2136 or firstname.lastname@example.com
- Due to the recent detection of Chronic Wasting Disease in Harvest Management Unit 251 in Washington County, the Chronic Wasting Disease Management Area (CWDMA) has been expanded to include all of Allegany and Washington counties. See Chronic Wasting Disease.
- Additional Sunday Hunting opportunities are being provided in Dorchester, Cecil, St. Mary's and Wicomico counties. See the Sunday Deer Hunting chart (Sunday Deer Hunting), the Small Game chart (Small Game Seasons & Limits) and the Furbearers chart (Furbearer Seasons & Limits).
- In Cecil and Washington counties the safety zone for archery hunters has been reduced. See Hunting Regulations.