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The third issue of HISKIND is in memory of Dean Eastmond, our co-founder and friend who lost his battle with cancer this September. Whilst the past few weeks have been tough for us, we are extremely proud of our Autumn issue and hope to continue the epic legacy that Dean left behind.
The wonderful thing about music is its ability to make people realise that they are not alone through feeling the spirit of community and unity.
Our HISKIND mission statement surrounds our aim to improve conversation between gay men, the LGBT+ community and our allies. Music, more often than not, plays a prominent role in doing just that, acting as a singular universal language that forms a powerful social glue, allowing any listener from any walk of life to connect and resonate with.
Music from the LGBTQ+ community holds more of a prominence in present day than ever before, with the likes of MUNA fearlessly championing the undeniable power of queer girl power to Hercules And Love Affair's Andy Butler opening the door to conversations around addiction and abuse, both more-than-familiar taboo aspects of the LGBTQ+ community.
By highlighting these subjects in music, the conversation is kept alive and by celebrating those championing it, we hope to mirror the positive impact of music on the LGBTQ+ community.
From discussing the art of podcasting for an LGBTQ+ audience with Will Young and Chris Sweeney to how to tackle a summer of Pride events with on-the-rise star BETSY (alongside so much more), we hope you find our music issue as enjoyable to read as we found making it.
This Thursday (21/09/17), we'll be located at various London tube stations ready to hand out copies. Catch us at Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square, Liverpool Street and Oxford Circus tube stations to grab your free copy. As per, HISKIND can be found at the gates and lounges of numerous airport lounges, in every bedroom of W or Aloft Hotels around the UK and Ireland and via our premium subscription service and on Virgin's BEAM service. We're also working with PressReader so HISKIND will now be available digitally in 17 different languages in locations around the globe including hotel bedrooms, cruise lines, concierge cars, hospitals and offices.
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Comparing Total Body Examination vs. Lesion-Directed Skin Cancer Screenings
18 Oct 2015
Total-body examination found a higher absolute number of skin cancers but lesion-directed screening performed by a dermatologist appeared to be an acceptable alternative screening method in a Belgian study, according to an article published online by JAMA Dermatology.1
The incidence of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) has been on the rise worldwide. Early detection is believed to result in better cure rates and subsequently more cost-effective treatment.
Lieve Brochez, M.D., Ph.D., of University Hospital Ghent, Belgium, and coauthors compared dermatologist-conducted lesion-directed screening (LDS) with standard total-body examination (TBE) in two communities in Belgium. Those individuals invited for LDS had a lesion that met one or more of the listed criteria: the ABCD rule (A, asymmetry; B, borders; C, colors; and D, differential structures), ugly duckling sign (looks different from a patient's other moles); a new lesion lasting longer than four weeks; or red nonhealing lesions.
The participation rate was 17.9 percent (1,668 of 9,325) in the TBE group compared with 3.3 percent (314 of 9,484) in the LDS group. In total, 1,982 people were screened and 47 skin cancers (2.4 percent) were confirmed, including nine melanomas, 37 basal cell carcinomas and one squamous cell carcinoma or Bowen disease.
The skin cancer detection rate per 100 participants did not differ between the two groups with a 2.3 percent rate (39 of 1,668) in the TBE group and 3.2 percent (8 of 248) in the LDS group, according to the results. In the group invited for TBE, more skin cancers were detected given the higher participation rate of 0.4 percent (39 of 9,325) for TBE compared with 0.1 percent (8 of 9,484) for LDS.
Conducting a TBE took on average just less than four minutes (232 seconds) and a LDS examination was about 41 seconds, which the authors note makes the LDS 5.6 times less time consuming than TBE.
"When performed by dermatologists, LDS is an acceptable alternative screening method, especially in health care systems with limited budgets or long waiting lists. The effectiveness of skin cancer screening by nondermatologists warrants further study," the study concludes.
In a related editorial,2 June K. Robinson, M.D., JAMA Dermatology editor and of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and Allan C. Halpern, M.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, write: "A major logistic barrier for melanoma screening is access to expert skin cancer diagnosis. The Belgian study points to an intriguing strategy for achieving screening efficiency by moving the screening process outside usual office-based practice. In the Belgian study, the examiners were dermatologists, but the economics and size of the dermatology workforce make this an impractical approach in the United States."
1. JAMA Dermatology. Published online October 14, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.2680.
2. JAMA Dermatology. Published online October 14, 2015. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2015.2681.

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Sign Up for CCD
St. Pat's has a very strong and vibrant CCD program for children grades Pre K 4 through 8th grade. Our classes meet each Sunday in the school between the 8:30 and 11:00 am masses (9:45-10:45) during the months of September through April.
We are blessed to have a very dedicated staff of volunteer catechists and aides. If you are interested in helping out with this program, please contact Linda Pratt at 309-369-3993.
Preparation for Sacraments of Reconciliation and First Communion takes place during the second grade year.
Preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation is a two year program.
7th graders use the program Chosen, with Chris Stefanick of Real Life Catholic. "For most Catholic teens, Confirmation is effectively "Graduation," something they just "have to do." With nearly 75 percent of young Catholics abandoning their faith in their twenties, the Church simply must do a better job at youth catechesis."
"Chosen explores salvation history, revelation, and the four last things. It teaches about the sacraments, the beatitudes, prayer, virtue, and Mary the Mother of God. It answers tough questions about love and sexuality, and it challenges the reader to say 'yes' to Christ, and to build His Church.
But instead of sounding preachy, Chosen approaches each of these topic areas by raising the questions which teens must ask. Tough questions, such as:
How do I know God is real?
Why be Catholic?
Why tell my sins to a priest?
Why do I have to go to Mass?
Do I have what it takes? And
Where do I go from here?
8th graders use the program Decision Point with Matthew Kelly and will be confirmed during this second year of preparation.
"They need to hear the Gospel in a way that is fresh, intriguing, relevant, compelling, and attractive. Too often we make the mistake of assuming that they have made a choice for Christ and his Church, when the great majority of them have not. They need to be boldly invited to choose Christ and the Church.
The theology of Confirmation informs us that the Sacrament is about God choosing us. But since we have free will, we need to respond and cooperate as Mary and the saints did in order for God to do his best work through us.
It is our hope that this program will not only prepare young Catholics for the Sacrament of Confirmation in a dynamic way, but also teach and inspire them to respond and cooperate with God's grace in all the circumstance of their daily lives, long after their Confirmation has passed." http://dynamiccatholic.com/confirmation/about/
Parish/Community Service Projects: Our CCD Students participate in many projects to help our community including Food Drives to fill Christmas Baskets for the needy, St. Vincent de Paul Emergency Food Boxes for those in need, Operation Christmas Child, Pennies for Life and Fill the Crib to name a few.
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Advice To Gain Power Through Proper Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is something that many of us think about at the beginning of every year, then struggle with briefly and sink back into our usual habits. Still, fitness is something that can be improved upon any time of year. Read on for some helpful hints you can start using right away.
A great tip to stay fit is to follow a proven workout program. There are plenty of quality workout programs online and you can also find them in magazines such as Muscle & Fitness and Men's Fitness. Don't just blindly follow a workout program. You want to know that a workout program is effective.
In order to get the most out of a fitness routine, be sure to work on your core. This is your abdominal region, and pretty much everything except for your limbs. It is important, because this region is used to stabilize the rest of your body, and it also is imperative to maintaining a healthy back. Be sure to check with a doctor to find out which core exercises suit you the best.
A great tip to help you get fit is to purchase a blender. Sometimes it can be hard to eat enough fruits or vegetables and with a blender, you can consume them all at once. You can make your own custom protein shakes by adding whatever ingredients you want.
When working out, be sure to wear comfortable, well-fitting shoes. Wearing shoes that are too tight, too big or that put uncomfortable pressure on any area of your foot will cause interuptions in your work-out routine and could even cause injury. Many aerobic and cross-training shoes provide adequate support for a wide variety of athletic activities.
You can increase the quality of your arm curls simply by using your workout towel as part of your sets. Wrap the dry towel all the way around the bar, make sure that you have a firm grip, then perform your reps and sets as usual. By increasing the thickness of the bar itself, you are making your forearm muscles work even more than usual.
Set goals. Whatever exercise you choose to pursue, set weekly goals and track your progress. You may set any goal appropriate for your fitness level, but the key is to persistently follow through on your plan. Record your daily workouts on a chart or keep a simple tally indicating that you completed the exercises you had planned to do.
Make sure you are leaving time for exercise each day. You can start improving your fitness in small steps, like choosing to take the stairs to your office instead of the elevator.
The fall and spring are some of the best times to exercise. The weather is nice - not too hot and not too cold - so you can get outside and get moving. You won't have to worry about over heating or freezing. You'll be able to workout longer and burn off more calories.
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Walking a dog is an easy way to get some extra exercise in. Not only will this benefit your fitness, but the dog will love the walks and look forward to them. Begin slowly. Start with something manageable and then increase the distance as you both build stamina. This camaraderie is one of the perks of having a dog.
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|The PHR mega army deal just out of the box a few days after I received it from the mailbox. 29/03/2014
|A picture I took the 03/10/2014. That's almost a 6 month painting project...
|It is not exactly the PHR mega army, I still have to paint one neptune, one athena, 4 immortal bases and 1 zeus (if I ever need it). I also bought some of the new toys (Hades, Appollos,...)
|Some sirens base with some n-scale scenery. Still needs some road markings I guess.
|I really like the Appollo design. I need to play with their famous commander in her Hera Walker one day !
|The two Erebos walkers and some Angelos. I still need to paint my two Helios skimmers.
|The Athena in all its glorious awesomness... maybe the model that sold me the game in the first place.
|I am currently painting my Resistance starter set. I finished the Hannibals and the Alexander and the Lifthawks are next.
|The Alexander, and cotton buds. Because cotton buds are one of my favorite tool for painting ;-)


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Pamela Arce's practice investigates the body through diverse means, often combining ceramics, video, robotics and audio. She has recently exhibited at Firstdraft (2018) and within Melbourne's Channels Festival at ACMI (2017).
Pamela is based in Lima, Perú where she is part of an experimental team at the Cotto Ceramic Studio.


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For beginners,
First of all, what is a certificate ?
According to wikipedia,
A digital certificate certifies the ownership of a public key by the named subject of the certificate. This allows others (relying parties) to rely upon signatures or on assertions made by the private key that corresponds to the certified public key. In cryptography, a certificate authority or certification authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates.
In cryptography, a public key certificate (also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate) is an electronic document used to prove ownership of a public key. The certificate includes information about the key, information about its owner's identity, and the digital signature of an entity that has verified the certificate's contents are correct. If the signature is valid, and the person examining the certificate trusts the signer, then they know they can use that key to communicate with its owner.
In a typical public-key infrastructure (PKI) scheme, the signer is a certificate authority (CA), usually a company which charges customers to issue certificates for them. In a web of trust scheme, the signer is either the key's owner (a self-signed certificate) or other users ("endorsements") whom the person examining the certificate might know and trust.
Certificates are an important component of Transport Layer Security (TLS, sometimes called by its older name SSL, Secure Sockets Layer), where they prevent an attacker from impersonating a secure website or other server. They are also used in other important applications, such as email encryption and code signing.
Working of a Certificate:
Public-key cryptography can be used to encrypt data communicated between two parties. This can typically happen when a user logs on to any site that implements the HTTP Secure protocol. In this example let us suppose that the user logs on to their bank's homepage www.bank.example to do online banking. When the user opens www.bank.example homepage, they receive a public key along with all the data that their web-browser displays. The public key could be used to encrypt data from the client to the server but the safe procedure is to use it in a protocol that determines a temporary shared symmetric encryption key; messages in such a key exchange protocol can be enciphered with the bank's public key in such a way that only the bank server has the private key to read them.
The rest of the communication then proceeds using the new (disposable) symmetric key, so when the user enters some information to the bank's page and submits the page (sends the information back to the bank) then the data the user has entered to the page will be encrypted by their web browser. Therefore, even if someone can access the (encrypted) data that was communicated from the user to www.bank.example, such eavesdropper cannot read or decipher it.
This mechanism is only safe if the user can be sure that it is the bank that they see in their web browser. If the user types in www.bank.example, but their communication is hi-jacked and a fake web-site (that pretends to be the bank web-site) sends the page information back to the user's browser, the fake web-page can send a fake public key to the user (for which the fake site owns a matching private key). The user will fill the form with their personal data and will submit the page. The fake web-page will then get access to the user's data.
This is what the certificate authority mechanism is intended to prevent. A certificate authority (CA) is an organization that stores public keys and their owners, and every party in a communication trusts this organization (and knows its public key). When the user's web browser receives the public key from www.bank.example it also receives a digital signature of the key (with some more information, in a so-called X.509 certificate). The browser already possesses the public key of the CA and consequently can verify the signature, trust the certificate and the public key in it: since www.bank.example uses a public key that the certification authority certifies, a fake www.bank.example can only use the same public key. Since the fake www.bank.example does not know the corresponding private key, it cannot create the signature needed to verify its authenticity.
What are the cost of certificates ?
Digital certs are a bit costly.
For example:
- GeoTrust Quick SSL is $149 / year
- Instant SSL Premium Certificate is $143.95 / year
So for a common person who wishes to host a website using certificate mechanism, or trying to protect the existing website using the mechanism cannot afford it.
So free digital certificate plays a major role.
Let's Encrypt:
Let's Encrypt – the free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) – has announced that its Free HTTPS certificates are Now Trusted and Supported by All Major Browsers.
Let's Encrypt enables any website to protect its users with free SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security) certificates that encrypt all the Internet traffic passed between a site and users.
Not only free, but the initiative also makes HTTPS implementation easier for all website or online shopping site owner to ensure its users that their browser activities and transactions are safe from snoopers.
Let's Encrypt issued its first free HTTPS certificate last month and was working with other major browsers to recognize its certificate as a trusted authority.
Let's Encrypt has received cross-signatures from SSL cert provider IdenTrust, so it can now begin offering its Free HTTPS certificates more widely to websites, allowing users to browse more securely on the Internet.
The Free Certificate Authority (CA) is hosting a Demonstration website at https://helloworld.letsencrypt.org/ where one of its newly accepted certificates is working in the real world without throwing an Untrusted Error Warning in Mozilla, IE, Safari, Chrome and the like.
However, Let's Encrypt will begin issuing its Free HTTPS certificates in November.
The Open Source Certificate Authority (CA) is run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) and backed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai, among others.


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Written by: Monica FazekasAll locations will be closed on Saturday September 5, 2015.
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What is as ubiquitous as air and influences your entire life?
Answer: The Control System.
Short History
The Control system is 6,000 to 10,000 years old. It began as the Agricultural Revolution. The Agricultural or Neolithic Revolution has been mislabeled essentially on purpose. If it were correctly titled as the Power Revolution, there would be social unrest.
The Power Revolution
Native societies lacked two things in order to live in harmony with the earth and each other for perpetuity:
- Power, aka Binding Decisions. No one had the power to tell another what to do. Even chiefs were advisors.
- Ownership. No one owned more than they could carry. Land and resources were held in tribal common.
Human's took dominion or control of the earth and extended it over each other. Violently taking power caused a chain reaction that led to civilization and the Earth in shambles today. Human's have such short life spans that we have environmental and social amnesia. We don't know what the Earth or human society naturally looks like. We think what we have today is normal. Visit the old growth redwoods to se what Earth really looks like.
Domestication Caused Detachment from Nature
Deeply inbreeding for desired traits is the domestication of plants and animals. Domesticated species loose their ability to cope in the wild and are dependent on humans. If you abandon your garden or farm, the domesticated plants do not persist. More viral wild plants take over.
Humans by natural only value what they depend on for a livelihood. Today people value money. Native peoples value nature because they derived their living form the wild. Humans perpetuate what they value money vs. nature. Since modern society does not depend on nature we commoditize and consume it. We view other species as interesting but not important or at best wild lands as a place merely for recreation and not the home to our relations.
The 30 million other species now mostly hanging on by a thread, thanks to civilization, have as much of an inalienable right to life and a home as Homo sapiens. As long as civilization will never recognize the equal rights of all species, civilization has no moral right to exist.
Species evolve into optional social organizational systems. Civilization is merely a new novel human organizational system. Tribalism is the evolutionarily proven human social organizational system, civilization is not.
Humanity has lived in harmony with the Earth for 85,000 or 250,000 years. In a blink of the eye or less than one percent of human existence, civilization has exploded human population beyond the Earth's carrying capacity and plunged all but domesticated species towards extinction. This is not humanities fault, it is civilization's fault. Don;t take it personally, you are a robot.
The unique enlarged human cerebral cortex is in a way misnamed as the executive center. It should be labeled the Natural Programming Override Center© (NPOC).
Animal brains have one purpose: run natural programs to survive: eat, sleep, procreate and be merry. If an animal is taught a new program for human benefit, especially by coercion of food, it becomes domesticated. Mammals are better at family than reptiles but they are essentially the same for this purpose.
Humans can run more complex programs involving abstract concepts. We can assign meaning to objects or concepts on top of concepts such as language, art or mathematics. To your dog it's just a stick. To you it's tool handle. Programs are downloaded into you by your parents, teachers and society.
Here is the crux, humans can write new programs. A program is also known as a meme. A meme perpetuates itself like a gene. A gene uses your busy to reproduce. A meme uses your brain to procreate. A meme is also like a virus.
The Homo sapiens species is too young to be able to distinguish between beneficial and destructive programs or memes. We live too short of a span and are disconnected from externalized costs too appreciate the results of our behavior. So humans run any program, good or bad.
Natural Programs
A Natural Program© is given to us by evolution. It is how a species organizes itself to exist for perpetuity. This means coexist in harmony with our relations and contribute to the whole such as simply build top soil.
Birds fly in flocks, deer run in herds, wolves run in packs and whales swim in pods. Humans run in tribes and tend the garden because we naturally depend on the garden for our livelihood. Europeans have spent 500 years wrestling away the garden of eden Columbus found when he was found lost at sea. Throw out hunter gather, humans tend the wild.
Any program that humans run contrary to the tribal program we have evolved to run leads to our's and the Earth's destruction. Civilization overrides our natural programming with the control system.
Control Though Dependence
If one has no alternative for survival, you go along with what ever limited choices you do have. Dependence is one of the keys to the control system by giving people no other choice but to earn money to buy food and shelter.
Food, land and all the resources a community needed used to be free and in the commons. Everyone had the skills to use natural resources to make a good livelihood working only a few hours a week. Civilization is a lot more work than native tribal existence merely tending the wild.
Europeans cut down the valley oaks in the California central valley to plant modern agriculture. Native American burned around the valley oaks for ten thousands years. The average tree was 400 to 600 years old with a girth of 17 feet, stood 100 feet tall by 100 feet wide and yielded 500 pounds of acorn meat. One tree could feed a family for a year; one tree!
In the Willamette Valley of western Oregon, homesteaders either grazed off or plowed under the camas lily for annual agricultural production. The Native Americans cried trying to tell them that was already perennial food as far as the eye could see.
Destruction of the buffalo herds, locking up the food and land and denying people the skills to use wild resources civilization forces dependence by default.
Modern society allocates resources to those who contribute the most to reinforcing the system, brilliant. You get the most by contributing or exploiting the most. With incentives like this in place, you do not need a conspiracy theory, everyone will generally behave the same.
Tribal societies operate with the opposite ethic: absolute equality and never profit from a trade. The brilliance of the wigwam is three fold. Absolute quality, everyone has the same dwelling even the eldest chief. Everyone can make a comfortable home even the poorest member. Renewable, every home is made from small amount renewable resources taken at a rate to keep the system regenerative. Regenerative native cultures also never exploited one another nor commoditized natural resources.
People and Obedience Religion
Religion or spirituality today is all about people. In fact, the gods and deities even look like people. Almost lost is appreciation for nature, the great spirit or the lunar and solar cycles. Personifying god further detaches humanity from and appreciation of the wild and all other species. Today we have "all about people" spirituality.
The purpose of teaching religion at an early age is to impart obedience to absolute authority. God is all powerful, we will burn in hell or be cast out of the culture if we do not obey god's word. Give me a break, as Jesse Ventura once said when governor of Minnesota, "Religion is for weak minded people."
Civilization is Dependent on The Control System
If you take away the control system, civilization fades and regenerative natural cultures reemerge. Remove the overt control that we have not even discussed such as laws, military, media, corporations and give away free food, land, shelter, health care and education who would bother to slave themselves? People would just walk away and go live happy healthy normal lives instead of living stressed out month to month. What is the point in that anyway?
This is an introduction to the control system. To learn more about how things came to be this way and how to improve the future, read Culturequake: The Restoration Revolution by Chuck Burr.


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Talking Bookz- A revolutionary literary device/
The Talking bookz app is the answer to every student's prayer. I remember wishing I had the audio version of those unending lecture notes and hand-outs, and honestly things you hear and see are harder to forget than tings you read, so this is an informal suggestion to all schools and educational centers; switch from written to oral means of tutelage.
Google play store || Apple store
Currently, you cannot make purchases from the Talking bookz app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. You can, however, purchase Talking bookz audiobooks on your iPhone or iPod Touch's web browser by following these steps on your device or desktop. Once you download the audiobook, you do not need internet to listen to it. Downloads of the books can only be made through the iOS app
- Go to the Talking Bookz website on mobile or on desktop.
- Login with the same details you sign up with on the app. And if you haven't created an account yet, just click login/register.
- Browse for your audiobook either by searching for titles and authors at the top of the page, or by tapping the left navigation menu and searching inside the many book categories.
- If you have added books in the wishlist on your iOS device, you will find them in the wishlist.
- From the book description page of your selected audiobook, click Buy Book
- This will take you to the cart where you will see the audiobook you have selected to buy.
- Once you pay, the book will automatically be credited to your account and you will see it under My book section of the appThen click on continue to make payment after which you will be taken to our payment gateway and you will put in your creditcard details
- Now you have the alternative to either stream it through the website, or download it and/or stream it on your iOS device.
Offering book categories as humour, erotica, fiction, romance, cooking, biography, kids and more; launched at the 2015 Mobile West Africa event, the Talking Bookz app allows users to purchase and download audiobooks straight to their devices from a wide range of aforementioned categories.
Talking Bookz was established to get in front of the audiobooks trend. The platform is the first audio-book startup and retailer of downloadable audiobooks in Nigeria and Africa, and it was founded by Kolapo Ogungbile and Damilola Aransiola. Buying into a dying habit of reading physical books as exhibited by nearly every consumer, digital books are becoming the new phase of book production and consumption.


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New CD player redux
OK, so I got tired of it being all Dylan all the time and I decided to put in all my Neil Young and Tom Waits CD's. That was cool for a couple of days but now I am just putting in CD after CD. I am pushing 250 CD's and I hope to have that bad boy filled in a few days. I got me some Southern Culture on the Skids, Rolling Stones, Modest Mouse, Waco Brothers, Deke Dickerson, White Stripes, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, R.L. Burnside and all kinds of other shit in there. Maybe I should buy another and hook the two together. Can you do that?


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Turning pages - a new venture for retired lawyer
A local group helping adults to learn to read has appointed one of our former consultants to its management committee.
Jonathan Mills (pictured left at The Suffolk Anthology, a supporter of Read Easy Cheltenham and Gloucester) has recently retired from his position as a consultant with us and wanted to put his time to good use.
During his 30-year legal career, Jonathan became known as an expert in the field of commercial property through his work with Willans, acting in many multi-million pound transactions for national and international clients, and gaining recognition in national legal guides. He was also involved with the marketing of the firm, using his legal knowledge to condense complex articles into more reader-friendly terms.
Read Easy is a not-for-profit organisation that offers one-to-one tuition to adults who struggle with reading. Working through community-based volunteer groups, Read Easy offers a free, friendly, flexible approach to learning to read for any adult who either can't read at all, or who lacks confidence with reading.
Debbie Forbes is the chair of Read Easy Cheltenham and Gloucester. She said: "We're pleased to welcome Jonathan to the management committee, and I'm sure his energy and enthusiasm will help the group to grow even further, and reach more people who need help with their reading in Cheltenham and Gloucester."
Jonathan added: "I'm delighted to join the committee, and really excited to get going as a reading coach. Reading skills are fundamental to our lives, so to make a difference to someone wanting to get started with reading - whether reading a safety sign, a form, or the newspaper - will be hugely rewarding."
A Skills for Life survey of 16-65 year olds in 2011 found that 5% of adults in England could only recognise a few common words, and a further 2.1% were barely able to read simple health and safety notices at work. By helping people to tackle their reading difficulties, it is hoped that they will also grow in confidence and self-esteem, become more independent, move on to other forms of education and improve their employment opportunities.
There are many reasons why people may not have learnt to read as children. Read Easy reading coaches minimise the possible stress and embarrassment involved in learning to read as an adult by providing confidential, one-to-one tuition at flexible times and in discreet and convenient places.
If you know someone who would like help with their reading, contact the Read Easy Cheltenham and Gloucester coordinator, at email@example.com or 07984 484813.


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- March 3, 2018 at 3:09 pm #175230
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Has anyone tried this for dealing with sweet cravings?
For those that don't know, there is a fruit called 'miracle berry' which contains a glycoprotein called miraculin. When eaten, miraculin binds to receptors on the tongue causing sour things to taste sweet, for up to an hour..it has no sugar and isn't sweet.
I remember trying this a few years ago and I could drink unsweetened lemon/limeade and it tasted like it had a ton of sugar.. I even have some berries left from back then.
I was thinking it might be a good option for Candida sufferers, however the chemical makeup has carbs which worries me..
"Miraculin was first sequenced in 1989 and was found to be a glycoprotein consisting of 191 amino acids and some carbohydrate chains." – wikipedia
There's also a similar substance called curculin but I'm not very educated on that one.
Just curious if anyone has tried this or what they thought of it..March 4, 2018 at 2:31 pm #175235
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I just brought and tested gymnema sylvestre powder, works exactly the same way. Was munching on an avo thinking it was like sweet butter! 👌🏼
1 user thanked author for this post.March 4, 2018 at 3:49 pm #175238
PeteSakeParticipantTopics: 3Replies: 36
Wow, thanks for sharing!
I'm definitely looking into that one..
Also, *correction*
Since miraculin is a glycoprotein, it does contain sugar, at about 13% of its weight..
"The molecular weight of the glycoprotein is 24.6 kDa including 3.4 kDa (13.9% of the weight) of sugar constituted (on molar ratio) of glucosamine (31%), mannose (30%), fucose (22%), xylose (10%) and galactose (7%).[" – wiki
I personally found that 0.2 grams berry was sufficient enough which means that is about ~ 2mg total sugar.
And I've read some sources say glucosamine fights candida..
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Spend an evening on the Rooftop at the Providence G and enjoy a Rooftop Wine Dinner not to be missed!
Acclaimed Chef Robert Sisca will be preparing a four-course dinner paired with wines from Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyards to create the ultimate Rhode Island wine dinner experience!
Winemaker Elaine Phipps and Executive Wine Educator, Deborah Daniels of Carolyn's Sakonnet Vineyard will discuss Sakonnet Vineyards grape-growing and winemaking techniques and practices, and wine selections paired with each course.
A reception will start the evening at 6:30pm with featured wines and passed hors d'oevres for guests to enjoy.
Live entertainment combined with a beautiful sunset and ambiant design will add to the setting for what is sure to be a memorable evening on the Rooftop.
Tickets cost $75 per guest, and include tax and gratuity. Complimentary valet parking is available.
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The AIIM Expo + Conference Will Feature a Live, In-Depth SharePoint 2010 Experience, Supported by Microsoft
-- The Microsoft teams who built the product -- The partners whose products complement it -- The analysts who write about it -- The customers who actually use itThe AIIM Expo + Conference will take place April 20-22, 2010 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. "We are pleased to be working with Questex to support the SharePoint 2010 Summit @ AIIM Expo," said Ryan Duguid, Senior ECM Product Manager at Microsoft. "The AIIM Expo + Conference audience represents a core demographic that will benefit greatly from the release of SharePoint 2010 and the Summit is really a perfect fit for the event. We encourage our customers and those considering SharePoint for their organizations to attend the AIIM Expo and hear directly from Microsoft, its partners and customers on how to implement and maximize the SharePoint platform." The Summit includes a Microsoft executive keynote, partner spotlight sessions from EMC and Oracle, breakout sessions delivered by Microsoft teams, real-world customer implementation stories, partner solution stories on extending the SharePoint 2010 platform, best practices and expert insights from leading analysts, and the opportunity to test drive SharePoint 2010 in the Immersion Experience Lab at the Microsoft Partner Pavilion on the Expo floor. "We are excited to offer Microsoft-supported SharePoint 2010 programming at the AIIM Expo," said Beth Torrey, Event Director for the AIIM Expo + Conference. "The SharePoint 2010 Summit is structured to allow all AIIM Conference attendees access to SharePoint educational programming. And all AIIM Expo attendees can test-drive SharePoint 2010 in the Immersion Experience Lab in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion on the AIIM Expo floor." Visit www.aiimexpo.com for more details on the SharePoint 2010 Summit and AIIM Conference packages. In addition to SharePoint 2010 Summit, the AIIM Expo + Conference will offer a series of keynote presentations, an extensive 14-track conference program which includes more than 100 conference sessions featuring end-user case studies, and an Expo floor showcasing best-in-class information management technology solution providers, free education, and networking opportunities. The AIIM Expo + Conference is co-located with ON DEMAND Conference & Expo -- the world's preeminent event for commercial printers, publishers, and in-plant printing professionals. The two events together are a perfect representation of the entire "information life cycle" -- from data capture through printed delivery. PRODUCED AND MANAGED BY: The AIIM International Exposition + Conference, the definitive industry gathering for information management professionals across industries, will be held Monday, April 19 through Thursday, April 22, 2010, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. The AIIM International Exposition + Conference is produced and managed by Questex Media Group, LLC, a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, MA. For information on attending, visit www.aiimexpo.com or call 888-824-3004 (US) or 972-620-3009 (Outside US).
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This week is Organic Week! For many organic farmers and health food enthusiasts, this week is a time to celebrate and to spread awareness about the importance of choosing organic for our health and the environment. For most consumers, buying organic is expensive, and therefore no value is seen purchasing an organically grown potato over a conventional one. So, as we celebrate Organic Week, we must remember why organic farming practices are so crucial and what that means for us.
Organic products must meet extremely strict national standards and is the most heavily regulated and scrutinized food system in Canada. Organic farming practices prohibit the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, synthetic growth regulators, irradiation, animal cloning, and anything that is genetically engineered. It also prohibits the use of synthetic substances in organic food production including artificial preservatives. Organic farms are also inspected regularly to ensure they are managing their land and life around water systems carefully.
Organic farming is more focused on the sustainability of the land than food production. Building healthy soil microbiology with sustainable practices will leave the area healthy and strong for future generations. Organic producers also preserve genetic diversity among plants and animals by saving seeds and growing heirloom varieties, and raising rare varieties of livestock. Organic farmers work in harmony with nature, building healthy ecosystems and have higher biodiversity of species. The loss of a large variety of species is one of the most pressing environmental concerns today. Organic agricultural methods reduce pollution and wasted energy. Fertilizers used on conventional farms often are fossil-fuel-based fertilizers that require much more energy to produce than to cultivate and harvest crops or even to transport them. Organic practices can use as little as half the power of other farming methods according to Canadian studies.
Organic farming is better for your health and the health of the farmer. Herbicides and insecticides have been found to be carcinogenic (a substance capable of causing cancer), hormone replicators, and harmful to the development of children. The residue of these herbicides and insecticides has been found on and in conventionally grown foods. Consuming organic meat and produce will significantly reduce your exposure to these chemical residues. For the farmer and their family, choosing to be organic dramatically reduces their exposure to these chemicals and their detrimental effects. It will benefit them financially as well. On average, organic farming families earn more from their farm than the typical conventional Canadian farm does, according to the Census of Agriculture. They also employ more people per farm.
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have been a hot topic these days and if you are looking to avoid GMOs, look for the Canada Organic symbol. A GMO is any organism whose genetic material has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. This means that DNA is taken from one species and added to the DNA of an entirely different species to enhance a crop to have specific qualities. Genetic engineering is completely different from cross-pollinating as cross-pollination can happen naturally, and the long-term effects of genetic engineering on our food to our health are unknown. The good news is that GMOs are not allowed in organic farming practices. Also, Organic is the only government overseen non-GMO certification.
Organics are something to celebrate! Whether it be for their environmental impact, health benefits or just because they taste so much better (better soil produces a healthier, more flavourful crop), try adding organically grown food to your grocery list. Check out local farmers markets to meet the farmers who grow your organic produce and raise your organic meats. Also, don't forget your local health food store where you will find organic food all year round. Organic is the way nature intended it for a healthier planet and healthier people. Happy Organic Week Everyone!


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At the Board of Education Meeting on December 18th, the Board of Education approved the district calendars for the school years 2019-20 & 2020-21. Please note there are links to the current (2018-19) and next (2019-20) school years from all school calendars on the school website. The calendar for 2020-21 is available on the District Calendar web page under "Parents/Community" of the district website.
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Pendleton's summer collection is inspired by some of their own history. In the early 1960s, Pendleton shirts hit the airwaves courtesy of the Majorettes, whose song "White Levis" became a number one hit in 1963. But before that, a group called The Pendletones was singing about the California surfing scene, who took a liking to Pendleton's board shirts, which were used for surfing, due to the wool being an insulant. The Pendletones eventually changed their name to the Beach Boys, but kept their uniform of Pendleton Board Shirts worn over tee shirts with khakis. The band wore this blue and charcoal plaid shirt on the covers of 45s and LPs throughout the 1960s. This collection is a throwback to those times, giving you a feeling of surf culture and those laid back days at the beach,
The Beach Shack Twill Shirt comes in an Ocean Sands plaid, that's crafted of soft twill fabric with a button placket, bias-cut pockets and shirttail hem. This shirt is long sleeved, but these are easy to roll up to encapsulate that perfect summer look.
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Bringing together decades of successful work with families, Gina Ford Solves All Your Baby and Toddler Problemsprovides answers to hundreds of baby and toddler care challenges.Organised chronologically for easy reference and with detailed case studies and examples, Gina Ford, one of the UK?s bestselling childcare authors, shares her practical and realistic solutions to help you and your baby or toddler have a contented household now and for years to come. It is Gina?s belief that sleeping and feeding are intrinsically linked and that all too often babies and toddlers are subjected to unnecessary sleep training methods. Whether your baby or toddler is a fussy feeder or waking up several times a night, her holistic and gentle approach will ensure that your child?s feeding and sleeping needs are fully met, and that you resolve the root cause of the problem for good.
All your childcare problems are solved here.
Gina Ford's Contented Little Baby Book became a runaway bestseller when it was first published in 1999. She continues to be the number one bestselling author of childcare books in the UK. Her advice and methods have been a godsend to tired, stressed parents throughout the world and have helped a generation of children go to bed on time and sleep calmly through the night. She runs a hugely popular website: www.contentedbaby.com


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The Triton College Model United Nations (MUN) attended the Harvard Model United Nations simulation in Boston Massachusetts. Over 3,300 students attended the simulation from 37 countries around the world. The event occurred at the downtown Boston Park Plaza Hotel where the students enjoyed a tour of Harvard University, as well as a quick side trip to visit the Kennedy School of Government
. The Triton MUN team consisted of Selidji Azogan, and Bobby Zinsou, Romeo Rakistaba, Mohammed Bekkour. Advisers for the group are Bill Decker and Dr. Elizabeth Collins. In the simulation they represented the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Mohammed Bekkour, a new team member, stepped up to work on the Press Corps. He wrote articles for the UK based paper, The Sun. in his article, he reported that, "The present team thanks them for the experience and can't wait to return next year."
In a recent interview with the team, the team says that the trip, as well as the experience, was fun. The simulation gave them an idea of what it's like to participate in a United Nations setting, Aside from the simulation; they made friends from other countries who they still communicate with. "I met a friend who is from France and we still talk," says Mohammad. The team also agreed that this experience taught them leadership that they can carry with them throughout their lives.
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For those who are not aware of what the United Nations do, they provide a space and a forum in which nations can gather together to address problems that has an impact on the all the countries, thus allowing representatives of those countries to express their views to help solved the situation. Some of the addressed issues includes how to fight the Aids epidemic, hunger and children (UNICEF). For those who may be interested in learning more about MUN, contact advisers Bill Decker at firstname.lastname@example.com and Dr Collins at firstname.lastname@example.com for an interview. Although the group is done until next year, you can get a jump start on what to prepare for.


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Winners of Network Product Guide's 13th Annual 2018 IT World Awards have been announced and I'm happy to share that Quest's Rapid Recovery was named GOLD winner in the 'Disaster Recovery as a Service' category.
An annual achievements and recognition awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, the coveted annual IT World Awards recognition program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, hot technologies, executives and management teams, successful deployments, product management and engineering, customer satisfaction, and public relations in every area of information technology. More than 80 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2018 award winners. Winners will be honored in San Francisco on Monday, July 30, 2018 during the annual SVUS Red Carpet Awards Ceremony Dinner in San Francisco attended by the finalists, winners, judges and industry peers.
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A featured BgW author
Looking at the creative origins, motives and the author's own insights into their work – and you can buy the books too!
Leigh Hobbs:
We can organise a visit from Leigh to your school.
Leigh is an Australian artist and author, best known in Australia and the United Kingdom for the humorous children's books which he has written and illustrated, although he has produced works across a wide range of mediums.
His books principally feature the characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig, Mr Badger and Mr Chicken, and characters from the 4F for FREAKS books.
He was the Australian Children's Laureate for 2016 -17.
Leigh speaks about his work…
This is a great film, from the Story Box Library, in which Leigh demonstrates his artistry and how he develops his characters.
Leigh thinks that all his creations, even Horrible Harriet, come from some aspect of his own make-up.
The final short sequence of this professional and telling film, is Leigh adding the finishing touches to a sketch of Old Tom. In a few sweeps of his hand he brings depth, life and movement to his drawing.
A marvellous demonstration of how art, storytelling and enthusiasm combine to make some wonderful books for children and adults.
About Leigh Hobbs
Leigh Hobbs is an Australian artist, author and lecturer.
He was the Australian Children's Laureate 2016 – 2017.
Leigh is best known for the twenty children's books he has written and illustrated featuring his characters Old Tom, Mr Chicken, Mr Badger, Horrible Harriet, Fiona the Pig and the Freaks in 4F.
His book 'Mr Chicken Goes to Paris' has been a constant best seller in the Louvre Museum Bookshop for nine years, while Old Tom was turned into an extremely popular television series and, in 2017, Horrible Harriet was adapted for the Sydney Opera House stage.
Leigh was a secondary school art teacher for twenty five years, and has had experience inspiring children to create in words and or pictures at countless Literary Festivals including the Hay, Oxford and Cheltenham Festivals and school visits around the world.
Leigh's work with schools
Leigh has huge experience of working with children, as an illustrator, author and lecturer, and before that as a teacher. He makes sure all children have fun at his presentations and learn a huge amount about writing and using illustrations.
Teachers too will find new ways to be creative, and free themselves and the children to draw, write and discover new characters. Leigh aims to have children relish the act of creating, drawing and writing at their own individual levels.
"This is about how different we all are, not who is best", says Leigh.
As part of the presentation or workshop each child will have a unique drawing and have developed a special character in his workshops as described below.
Leigh's Presentations and Workshops
Creating Characters Workshop
Suitable for most primary age groups (for children: 6 – 12yrs and lasts approximately 60 mins.
The theme of the presentation is 'Creating Characters'. Ideal length: 55-60 minutes. The AIM is to have children relish the act of creating, drawing, writing, – free from the pressure of assessment or ranking. The sessions are very much hands on workshops and from the beginning the students are told that 'this is about how different we all are, not who is best'.
Students draw Old Tom step by step following Leigh's instructions, all the while noting that even though every drawing will look like Old Tom, 'every drawing will be different because each student is different'.
After that the students relax, show each other their work, and then draw Mr Chicken while selecting different ways to draw different facial expressions.
After this the students are ready to create their own characters in words and pictures.
Leigh also gives presentations and / or workshops to older students and adults on the subject of 'Visual Literacy'. This is a very interesting presentation with plenty of time for discussion and enables students to understand how visual images and concepts effect learning and interpretation, enhancing text and story.
A press release from The Sydney Morning Herald …
"At the Sydney Writer's Festival he had 2500 enraptured children drawing with him- he is both artist and author and he is a fan of the increasingly vulnerable school libraries and their librarians."
The power of the book, the influence of the Laureate…
In an interview in Mirrors, Windows and Doors, at the commencement of his Laureateship, Leigh was asked about the abandonment of the library – as both an intellectual resource in schools and communities, and as a valued concept in the learning process. (We have the same foreboding about 'the book' in the UK too, Ed.)
In a wonderful, energetic and focused reply Leigh described his tenure …
"…as the Australian Children's Laureate, during my two-year term I'll be visiting every state in Australia at least once as an advocate for the power, value and importance of reading. I'll be running workshops and doing presentations for and to adults on visual literacy, the power of picture books and creating characters in 'words and pictures'.
And for the kids I will be running workshops with the theme of creating your own characters…in words and pictures. I was a secondary art teacher for twenty five years, so my teaching survival skills are quite honed".
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Grounded, energetic and enthusiastic – just as Leigh delivers his workshops or argues for the profound influence of the book and it's creativity driving influence on young minds in workshops – whatever the age of the audience.
A love and feel for place…
Last year Leigh conducted a brief tour of Australian illustrated children's books for The Guardian in the UK.
In a wonderfully illustrated article, Leigh compares and contrasts his own work with those of other artists. It is a comparison which highlights, we thought, the vivacity, colour and movement of Leigh's own work, but also shows how mood and feeling are created, by others in storytelling, through the use of the image.
In his comparision Leigh looks at the work of Shaun Tan, Greg Rogers, Gregg Dreise and Marc Martin amongst others.
In his generous and affirmational article, Leigh counterpoints his own style and methodology of story creation with that of indigenous artists and others, who use colour and tone in ways that are very different from Leigh's work, but are as emphatically telling in their quality to generate reflection and feeling.
Leigh's article for The Guardian is a triumph of context. If you are interested in the imagination of young Australians, and the proponents of creativity for it, then Leigh's tour is the exemplar.
Discover more of Leigh's work on his Australian web pages here…
Reading the book, buying the book…
You can sample Leigh's work, by buying the book, below!
At BgW we are always happy to source titles in volume, or to seek out back catalogue items for your project, school, setting or event. Just let us know.
Man of Mystery
Angela Throgmorton decides it is high time that Old Tom helped around the house. But Old Tom has other ideas . . . and just who is that mysterious figure disappearing into the night? Join Angela and Old Tom on a wild chase through the dark streets, with Angela determined to unmask the Man of Mystery!
Old Tom's Holiday
When Angela Throgmorton wins a luxury holiday trip, she's thrilled. The poor woman needs to get away. She's exhausted from caring for Old Tom, who likes to relax, and never helps around the house. It's a trip for one – maybe Old Tom can clean his room while she's gone. On her whirlwind trip, Angela travels on airplanes, trains, and buses…
Mr. Chicken arrives in Rome
Whether you like pasta or not, Mr Chicken is loose in Rome. Armed with his guidebook and an enormouse sense of curiosity, Mr Chicken sets off to explore the architecture, places and people of Italy's first city…
Mr. Chicken Lands on London
From meeting the Queen, to squeezing himself into a red London double-decker bus, Mr. Chicken sets out to explore the curious city on the banks of the River Thames.
Never less than curious, always more chicken than the landscape can cope with.
Great fun, as always from Leigh Hobbs.
You can find our buying a book FAQ's on our BookMonitor review web pages here…
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This past Thanksgiving we took some pictures, and thought Libbie's right eye looked a little different as Alan was playing with it on the computer and taking the red-eye out. We also noticed, as mentioned in a past post, that Libbie cannot cross her right eye. So, feeling like a very overprotective and silly mommy – b/c she had no apparent trouble actually seeing, I scheduled an appointment for her to see Dr. Newberry. He and his staff were absolutely wonderful – I highly recommend them. AND….Would you believe that we found out that Libbie practically does not see out of her right eye!?
He said she has a condition called amblyopia…"Amblyopia is the medical term used when the vision in one of the eyes is reduced because the eye and the brain are not working together properly. The eye itself looks normal, but it is not being used normally because the brain is favoring the other eye." We ordered glasses that have a special lense in them, and we'll check back in about 6 weeks and see if the brain has re-learned to use that eye. If not, there are some other options we can explore.
However, NEVER has she complained that she has a hard time seeing, that her head hurts, or anything like that. She has also passed all routine vision screenings she has had…at school and at the pediatrician's office. I would encourage you to have your child's eyes examined by an optometrist on a yearly basis…just as we take our children in for a yearly well-check with our doctor. We would have never known otherwise.
If you take her right eye – on a scale from '0' being wonderful vision and 8 being the worst it can be – her eye is at almost a '6'. So…you should be seeing Ms. Libbie is some new glasses in the next few days! Here's a pic of the frames she chose.