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Spring Goals
Spring time is here, the sun is shining and it's time to set some goals
Okay, so let's talk about yesterday (Thursday 30th March) - that crazy day where we all thought, thank fuck finally Spring is here. It got me thinking about changes, priorities and more importantly goals. Also, as part of my #thirtydayshappy challenge - I popped down the idea of creating manageable goals.
I don't know about you but I'm a bit of a pain when it comes to goals, I set some huge and pretty much unachievable goals - don't achieve them and then feel a little bit useless. So this time I'm setting a pretty generic period and also more realistic goals - in a bid to actually achieve them!
For a while I was sworn off of goal setting, after all if I was never achieving them and that generally brought my productivity down a whole bunch. However, I have come to realise there is some real merit in achieving goals, for instance I set some individual uni work based goals up two weeks ago and each time I achieve a milestone I feel bloody amazing. So time to set some up for the rest of my life!
When I say 'Spring Goals' I generally mean the period of March - End of May. I thought having longer periods than just a month would work well in achieving at an easier pace.
a note on setting goals:
1. Break it down - Small goals, not big goals. simple, the smaller they are the easier are they will be to tick off. Therefore, a lot more will get done!
2. Set performance based goals, not outcome - I think this is a particularly important point, if you set an outcome like (get all my work done), It's unachievable, where really is the end of your work? However, a goal like 'spend 4 hours working on Friday' you are able to quantify and achieve. Make it about the doing, rather than what's at the end.
3. Prioritise - Some goals will be more important that others and at times you need to prioritise the important ones, It's all very well achieving the smaller goal but if you've missed one with a shorter time constraint then how productive are you really being?
4. Set a date - Set a date and stick to it, don't make it open ended.
5. Keep in check - Have 30 mins every week or so just to check in and see how you're doing and if there is anything you can do to help you fulfil your goals.
1. Attend Parkrun weekly
I wasn't joking when I said manageable goals - part of me wanted to declare how healthy I plan on being. Never eating chocolate again, exercising daily and saying no to wine. How unrealistic would that be though? It's nearly easter, some days exercise just isn't going to happen and how could I turn my back on my old faithful vino pal? Whilst I really want (and need to) make healthier choices, I'm only putting a small fraction of that into a goal.
I've wanted to do Parkrun for goodness knows how long, but working on weekends has stopped me and essentially given me an excuse. However, now that excuse has gone I want to go and be a part of it all. I want to improve my 5k time and have an allotted time every week for me to exercise and feel good about myself.
2. Stick to my blog schedule
Okay, getting slightly bigger here but I fully believe this is something I can actually achieve. I get so much gratification when I'm committed to blogging and It's addictive, I like putting the content out and creating, I also love the feedback. Three days a week, Mondays, Wednesdays + Fridays - I want to be present on here talking about all kinds of business, because it makes me happy.
3. Start vlogging again
So before Christmas I was putting out weekly vlogs and I loved it - I enjoyed filming, having a laugh and I had a good schedule of editing it all together. I kinda lost the motivation in the new year but I really want to start it up again. I'm not going to put the goal as start 'weekly vlogging' again because that's a lot of pressure. But I certainly would like to see some vlog content going up on my channel over the next few months.
4. Spend time doing calligraphy
I'm pretty much obsessed with brush calligraphy now, I found the session I did at Quill so inspiring. I bought some of the tools, and pretty much practice most nights. I really want to keep this up and improve.
The thing that I really love about it is the fact it's an offline hobby - I'm not staring at screens, I don't flick through my phone whilst doing it. I just create. I think for my state of mind it helps me focus but relax at the same time, It's odd, I feel totally at peace doing it.
I'd also love to get to the point where I can digitalise some of my work too, that would be pretty cool.
5. Switch off earlier
So as part of my #thirtydayshappy I wanted to have an evening where I put down my phone at 8 o'clock, that night I slept incredibly. Each night hasn't been consistent on time but I'm certainly making a conscious effort to leave it alone in the evening. I really want to push this into a habit, spending all day looking at screens isn't the best situation and to do that at night also is pretty tiring. I think this will help with the old happiness long term too.
6. Redecorate the Bathroom
This is such a random goal, but I've set it because I have been talking about doing it FOREVER. I've picked a paint I want, have an idea on a new cabinet and towelling etc. I just need to do it. So before Summer it's just got to be ticked off of my goals. Plus, I think it would make for some fun interior content too, what do you think?
Okay goals set, now to stick to them - I'll probably do a recap as I set some new ones in the Summer. What are your current goals?


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On this site you can read all about our programs, learn about upcoming Well-Balanced Pianist programs, or read about the five core elements of The Well-Balanced Pianist:
If you're a serious pianist or teacher, you might be interested in the Taubman Approach to piano technique, our guide to comfortable seating at the piano, webcam lessons, or information about learning styles. You also might like this poster on applying the Dunn and Dunn Learning Styles to musical memory.
If you have a playing-related injury, you might be curious about the prevalence of injuries among musicians, but learning the Taubman Approach to piano technique will be more helpful for you.
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The 25-year-old Czech, world No. 3, needed 72 minutes to defeat world No.5 Venus, reports Efe.
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Twenty years ago, the Jewish Museum commissioned Elaine Reichek, the artist known for embroidered and knitted social commentary, to create an installation about being Jewish. What she produced and exhibited in 1994 was "A Postcolonial Kinderhood," an exceptionally savvy and elegant instance of identity politics in art.
Now, with "A Postcolonial Kinderhood Revisited," the museum is reprising that exhibition with some minor additions. A pair of bulletin boards display reviews, letters and other materials documenting the original show, and a beguiling short film made from flickering home movies of Ms. Reichek's in-laws on their honeymoon in 1934 is shown through a porthole in one wall, along with the sound of a piano playing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
But the basic production, which the museum owns, is the same. It resembles a Colonial-era room in a historic-house museum. Framed needlework samplers hang on walls painted grayish green, and a four-poster bed stands in the center on a braided rug. There are also framed groups of snapshots of a well-to-do family, dating from the mid-20th century. You understand that what is actually being evoked is the lifestyle of a modern family whose ancestors might have arrived in the New World on the Mayflower. The antique furniture (in reality, reproductions purchased for the exhibition) has presumably been handed down from one generation to the next ever since. There's a child-size rocking chair stamped with the Yale University coat of arms, signifying, no doubt, a legacy of Ivy League graduates.
Further inspection peels back another layer. In one corner of the room, there are white hand towels hanging on a drying rack, each embroidered with a monogram made of the letters J, E and W. The samplers, you discover, have stitched into them quotations contributed by Ms. Reichek's relatives and friends. One advises: "Don't be loud. Don't be pushy. Don't talk with your hands." More seriously, another reads: "I used to fall asleep every night thinking of places to hide when the SS came. I never thought this was in the least bit strange."
This is the story of a Jewish family so determined to assimilate into American high society that it almost entirely erases evidence of its own ethnic heritage. Indeed, Ms. Reichek grew up in just such a family and married a man from a similar background. But you don't have to know the autobiographical details to get the point.
The implicit lesson is that there is a price to pay for hiding certain parts of yourself. What is repressed on the outside may come back to haunt you and your descendants on the inside. Someone brought up in such circumstances might feel a secret, three-pronged shame: shame for pretending to be something you're not; shame for being something that mainstream society regards as repulsive; and shame for lacking the courage to be publicly what you really are, whatever the prejudices of the dominant culture.
Identity understood from this perspective verges on the sacred. That people should honor their ancestral traditions and not turn their backs on them is an ancient imperative. In the industrialized West of the 1960s, romanticizing ethnic, racial and other sorts of identity was part of the countercultural reaction against the soulless 1950s, when everyone wanted to be like everyone else.
One of the virtues of Ms. Reichek's installation, however, is that it doesn't hammer home a message but instead leaves questions hanging. You might wonder, for example, what would a room representing a family that had not suppressed its Jewishness look like? What if Ms. Reichek had grown up in an ultra-Orthodox family?
You might also question a notion of identity that takes ethnicity as essence. Is the truth of who and what you are inseparable from your ancestry? How deep does Jewishness — or blackness or Asian-ness — go?
Historically, there have been good reasons for disguising or rejecting traditional identity. If you live in a society that regards your kind as inferior and unworthy of opportunities afforded its own, it may be pragmatic to unburden yourself of that part of you and pass if you can — a big if for some minorities — as a member of the dominant group.
In a more positive sense, many people have come to this country partly to enjoy the freedom to reinvent themselves. Why not change your name, religion and whatever else in your profile that might impede you in your new home?
These are complexities and contradictions that Ms. Reichek's installation doesn't try to resolve, and they give it a resonance that a more didactic work would lack. But those contradictions might be among the reasons that identity art has faded for younger artists, who evidently are suspicious of identifying labels and the limiting expectations that can accompany them. Freely changing identities, putting them on and off like clothes, may be the order of the day, if Miley Cyrus's appropriation of signifiers from black hip-hop culture is any indicator. The political energy stirring art society today is different and more pointed. Now it's all about money.


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Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the white blood cells in bone marrow in which rapidly dividing and multiplying plasma cells overtake the healthy red blood cells and weaken the immune system, explains WebMD. The proliferation of plasma cells in the marrow causes leakage and spreading of the cells to other parts of the body where damage is often incurred by the bones and vital organs, such as the kidneys. Multiple myeloma is usually not detected until it has advanced to other regions of the body and is causing symptoms, such as pain in the bones, shortness of breath, fatigue and weakness, and confusion.
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Julia Soboleva is a newcomer England-based illustrator from Latvia. Basically Julia is working in a collage technique. The range of her influences includes such artists as Mark Ernst, Hannah Hoch, Egon Schiele, Marlen Dumas, Marc Chagall, Andrei Klimowski as well as film directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch and brothers Quay. In her works Julia is exploring the mysteries of unconscious, the worlds of dreams, dark sides of human nature. 'To be true with yourself' is a credo Julia tries to follow.


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The world's most important story is the one we tell ourselves about who we are.
Whether we're conscious of it or not, we each have an internal story that dictates how we think and act. Our story becomes our identity.
We believe this story to be "true" but in reality, the story we've been telling ourselves is just one version of the truth. What if we rewrote it by focusing on different memories, perspectives, or interpretations of significant events in our lives?
Each of us is free to rewrite our internal story in a way that points us toward the life we want. That story, more than any other, will shape who we are. That's why it's the world's most important story.
Here's an exercise: pick a different career (or life) path than the one you're on. For example, imagine you're about to run for Congress, go to nursing school, or move to Costa Rica. Better yet, pick a real goal of your own. Then figure out a way to tell your story so that it leads organically to this goal. You can do it!
The world's most important story is the one we tell ourselves about who we are.


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Request for proposals
- Up to four awards will be funded up to $500 each
- Due: Friday, Dec. 7, 2018
- Award Notification by Friday, Dec. 14, 2018
Western Michigan University endeavors to be a community that excels in inclusion so that each member of our community can flourish academically and professionally. In an effort to make WMU a campus that affirms the dignity, value, and uniqueness of all its members we would like to encourage registered student organizations, departments and units, faculty, and staff to submit proposals for programs or strategic initiatives relevant to this year's theme, "Kneeling for Justice, Then and Now: As You Choose."
Project purpose
Each funded sponsored program and Initiative offers an educational opportunity to our campus and community with regard to social justice and equity in order to further inclusion on campus and/or in society in general. The programs and initiatives will occur throughout the spring 2019 semester.
Requirements and eligibility
Faculty, staff, departments, units and registered student organizations are encouraged to apply with preference given to proposals that include collaborations between organizations, departments, units and registered student organizations. The proposal should not exceed four pages in length with standard one inch margins and include the names and contact information of all the collaborators. Funding decisions will be emailed to applicants.
Proposals must contain a detailed budget and budget narrative.
- Faculty, staff, students and other program organizers are expected to volunteer their services as compensation for these activities will not be funded.
- Funding for refreshments, including food and drinks, are excluded from consideration.
Questions and submission
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Examples from previous years
Previously funded topics have included Bridging the University and Community with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's Philosophy; Health Disparities Globally or Locally; Perspectives on Social Justice in the Local Setting; The Role of Popular Culture in Social Change, Media Coverage of Global Issues; The Multicultural Workplace; The Philosophy of Social Change; Women and Civil Rights; and Incorporating Social Justice Issues in K-12 and College Curricula.
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Discussion and reflections of MLK were shared, followed by a brief summary lecture.
Minorities in business
Workshop and seminar provided students of color a look at the business world and tips on how to get ahead, including interviewing and résumé skills.
MLK and Vietnam
Lecture giving an analysis of MLK's position on the war and how Dr. King saw war as an enemy of the poor.
Teaching about Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement
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Queen's students joined together with undergraduates from Japan's Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU) recently in a pilot program designed to give participants a deeper understanding of each other's cultures by living, studying and working together.
"We hope it will be a transformative experience of what a cross-cultural friendship can be," says Bill James, Professor Emeritus in Queen's School of Religion. "Academically, we hope it shows them how beneficial it is to learn about the other with the other." Dr. James, along with KGU's Professor Martin Collick, are the coordinators of the program.
The week-long seminar – funded by the Japanese government and aimed at strengthening ties between Canada and Japan, and between KGU and Canadian universities – is a precursor to several longer programs being offered this summer.
Eve Thorson, a second-year English and linguistics student at Queen's, says the program was an excellent opportunity to expand her knowledge of Japan and the Japanese language. She hopes to be part of the summer seminars, which are credit programs held in both Canada and Japan.
Over reading week, eight students from KGU, whose campus is in Nishinomiya near Osaka, visited Kingston, working with eight Canadian students, four from Queen's and four from Mount Allison University and the University of Toronto.
During the day, participants attended lectures and worked in groups on various topics, including education, family and gender, economy, and population, immigration and aging. They also visited the Agnes Etherington Art Centre's "Tattoo Portraits" exhibition, which led to a dynamic discussion on the cultural differences regarding tattoos. In the evening, students were free to explore the city and connect in less formal settings, while dining out, shopping and going to the movies.
For more information on the Cross-Cultural College programs, contact the International Programs Office.
Source: Queen's University News Centre
Photo caption: Participants in the pilot program worked together in study groups. From left, Tomoka Kamei, from Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU) in Japan; Queen's student Eve Thorson; Miki Sawamura of KGU; and Victoria Ceneda, a student from the University of Toronto.


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After travelling to McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park and Linden New Art, the double show, 'Last Resort', opens at Rockhampton Art Gallery. It continues the exploration of asylum seekers begun with the installation Someone died trying to have a life like mine at the 2014 Adelaide Biennial 'Dark Heart'.
Showing at Rockhampton Art Gallery from 30 May - 12 July, 2015. Alex will being in conversation with Gallery curator Diana Warnes about the show on Saturday 30 May 2015, 10-11am.


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In its 18th year, the Summer Fellows research program at Ursinus College has stayed close to its roots as a time for students to work on original research with faculty, without the distractions of the academic semester. It began with a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1996, and as the grant ended, the program was extended to include all disciplines.
Now, some 70 students each summer study such diverse topics as nervous system development, single-walled carbon nanotubes,the housing crisis and and themes in Jean Rhys' fiction.
Jamie Faselt worked on a nine-acre field in Trappe, Pa., studying predatory insects and alfalfa, a main feed crop for cattle, as a means of finding alternate methods of pesticides. She, a faculty mentor and another student will present their research at the Entomological Society of America's annual conference in Portland, Oregon this fall.
At the request of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, Lindsay Doyle and her faculty mentor Rebecca Jaroff pored over the delicate pages of a Civil War era newspaper in which they uncovered a debate on the morality of slavery between two prominent men of the time.
Michael Gasbarro traveled to the man made lagoons in Ocean City, N.J., to test water quality and bacterial levels so that swimmers can know if the water is safe, and if not, can take action to improve the quality of water in lagoons.
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC &U) has championed student research as one of the "high impact practices" that involves students "with actively contested questions, empirical observation, cutting-edge technologies, and the sense of excitement that comes from working to answer important questions."
The Summer Fellows program at Ursinus allows a sophomore or junior to pursue an independent scholarly project under the mentorship of a faculty mentor, during two months when both can devote more time exclusively to research. Participants in the selective program can do an independent research or creative or artistic endeavor on or off campus, and receive a $2,500 stipend and a room on campus. Fellows cannot hold fulltime jobs during this period. Many present their research or projects at conferences or carry it on during the year.
The 2014 program concluded July 25 with a symposium and an audience of peers, mentors and visitors.


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Microsoft have for some time, been slow to adjust to developments on the web. Bill Gates was famously slow to understand what made Gmail attractive to users. Bing has still a long way to go in eroding market share from Google, and in the social media race to supplement search results with social information ALA Google+ – they have barely left the starting blocks yet.
So.cl – the underground social network from Microsoft that came out from cover last week has only been around for a short time, and its not yet clear as to whether it will make any dent in the competition. In any case, its offering seems more of a Pinterest / Delicious hybrid than a serious social network of people connections. However, whilst everyone thinks that it is going to be some kind of competitor to the likes of Facebook or Google+ – I'm not convinced.
In fact, Microsoft have already got the beginnings of a true social network already, one that everyone has forgotten about – Skype. Let's start with the facts, and the metric on the tip of evey analysts' lips.
Skype has over 600 million users. Google+ in comparison has a total of 500 million users putting Skype in a pretty powerful positions. A pivot into a social network by bringing Skype technology to a website rather than a desktop client is not only feasible, but would accelerate that growth further. Lower barrier to entry on signup, combined with addition features that only the web as a platform can provide.
Skype has all the components of a social network already there. A social graph of connections between users, with many people using Skype to contact friends and family and business associates. We've all experienced the enthusiasm around Google+ Hangouts, and Skype has the ability to shift into a network online that combines something similar with its pre-existing voice communication technology. You can set a status 'mood' message, you can text message, use it as a group chat system, you can share files, photos and your computer screen.
One of the more interesting developments with Skype recently that the press haven't yet picked up on, is the merging of Live accounts with Skype accounts for users not already on that pathway. For the recent version which is available on Windows 8, Skype force users to adjust their user account to sign in with a Live ID. That is, the same username and password that many people access their Hotmail account or Xbox account through.
It makes total sense to take those 600 million + users down that particular track, as doing so opens up FURTHER social connections which already exist inside the various people who you are emailing frequently. i.e. your Hotmail contacts. Indeed I was quickly informed of other users who had Skype accounts currently, and whom I could add to Skype. If that doesn't look like smart user onboarding, I don't know what does. Currently. inside the Windows 8 app store, Skype remains one of the most popular free downloads, and Microsoft have the control and influence to leave it there. Is this controlled algorithmically? Maybe. Maybe not.
Perhaps its too early to tell, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that Microsoft are planning a much longer game for social. One that combines built in Windows 8 features, with Skype, Xbox and Windows Live all playing a fundamental role, especially if you consider the sheer volume of users that they have at their disposal already.


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We have touched on this subject before, but this is getting ridiculous. They use the word 'Cloud' no less than 15 times in the product description for an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE!
The irony is that an external hard drive as is about as far away from 'cloud as you can get. In fact, it is quite literally the opposite of cloud. The best part of the product description reads 'Create your own personal cloud, without the monthly fees and mysterious location of your data'. Exactly! I want to know just where my backup data is as it is getting destroyed along with my primary data!
Marketers have so fully diluted the word and the concept of cloud, that is has been rendered essentially useless. What clients must ask themselves is the following question: 'What am I buying?' Is it a real distributed, elastic and resistant infrastructure or is it some marketer's buzz word?


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Our School
At Cleves we aim to produce well rounded community members at the end of the Cleves experience. We give the children a wide range of experiences which will enthuse and excite them and thus encourage high quality learning. We have high expectations of all. We believe that our curriculum should prepare children for life in a fast changing society. We place emphasis on the development of six learning behaviours and teach our pupils to be:
- Independent Learners
- Self-Managers
- Effective Participants
- Creative Thinkers
- Reflective Learners
- Team Workers
These are qualities that are important through life. They can be developed at home as well as at school and we hope you will help us in this way. Our curriculum is innovative in that we seek to teach key life skills as well as knowledge. The children know which skills they are striving to develop in their learning and assess their progress at the end of session. Personal development holds equal importance to academic importance at Cleves and you will see a total transformation of your children during their time here. Self esteem is key and we seek to develop this through a variety of activities and a positive attitude. To accompany the six learning behaviours we have identified what we consider five fundamental values which are taught and encouraged in all aspects of school life. These are:
- Tolerance
- Respect
- High Aspirations
- Working Together
- Honesty
Home School Agreement
Our Vision Statement is further communicated via our Home School Agreement which every pupil and parent signs on joining the school and annually thereafter to reaffirm their understanding and commitment to the schools vision, aims and expectations. This agreement is signed also by your teacher, the Headteacher and the Chair of Governors.
Code of Conduct
Our Code of Conduct is issued on joining the school and is signed by each pupil in acceptance and understanding of what is expected of the conduct whilst at school. A similar document is issued each time your child goes on a residential visit and continues these themes but adds specifics for the visit they are attending. A copy is kept on file throughout their time at school.
Parent Pupil Progress Meetings
This is the ideal opportunity for you to meet with your child's teacher to discuss progress. You can of course contact them at other times but there is one formal opportunity to do so every term. The first meeting is held after school during October and focuses on how your child has settled and the targets they need to work on for the remainder of the term. In March we hold meetings during the day - these are slightly longer and your child should attend with you. This is a great opportunity for a joint understanding by pupil, parent and teacher and sets the way ahead for the rest of the year. In July a final meeting can be arranged to review the year and look forward to the new academic year.
Pastoral Care
We pride ourselves on the high level of pastoral care we provide at Cleves. This care is a three way process between staff, parent and child and requires everyone to be involved. If you have a concern about any aspect of school life we would much rather you contact us whilst a problem is small rather than letting them grow. There are different channels to follow depending on the nature of your concern. However in the first instance you should contact your child's class teacher.
Cleves School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are fully committed to ensuring that consistent effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff at school. All concerns are passed through the members of staff who are trained as "Designated Child Protection Officers" in school in compliance with the "sharing of information" guidance.
The Designated Safeguarding Lead is Chris Hodges. He is supported by Ian Russ.
If you have any serious concerns about your child or any other pupil at Cleves School please do not hesitate to contact the Designated Safeguarding Lead who knows who to contact for the best advice and help and is experienced in using the appropriate degree of confidentiality.
Staff are asked to report any causes for concern to the School Safeguarding Team using a written proforma. Any concerns will be shared with parents as early as possible as more often than not there are extremely reasonable explanations for the concern. Concerns may range from children being visibly upset to persistent lateness to children 'disclosing' concerns.
PREVENT Strategy
An integral part of our safeguarding work relates to the government's PREVENT strategy, which is designed to stop radicalisation, and the duties it places on all academic institutions. All adults in our school, whether or not they have direct contact with children, are committed to providing a secure environment for pupils, where children feel safe and are kept safe.
With regard to radicalisation, staff will be trained to be alert to specific issues, including:
- Disclosures by pupils of their exposure to the extremist actions, views or materials outside of school, such as in their homes or community groups
- Graffiti symbols, writing or art work promoting extremist messages or images
- Disclosures that pupils are accessing extremist material online, including through social networking sites
- Parental reports of changes in behaviour, friendship or actions and requests for assistance
- Use of extremist or 'hate' terms to exclude others or incite violence
- Intolerance of difference, whether secular or religious or, in line with our equalities policy, views based on, but not exclusive to, gender, disability, homophobia, race, colour or culture.
For more information about PREVENT please click here.


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The infamous Stewart Island Quiz Night is going on tour!
During the months of April and May, the quiz will be coming to a venue near you in Otago and Southland, raising money for the Cancer Society (Otago and Southland division).
We'd love to see you and help support this worthy cause!
Big thanks to Atomic Shuttle, Stewart Island Experience, Nakedbus and Procopy for supporting this venture; we couldn't have done it without you!


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Types of Submissions We Accept
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We want to get inside your head and find out how you approached the shoot and what the work means to you. We're looking for good professional standard photography with a solid level of technical ability but more importantly we want to understand your thought processes, whether you're pretty new to photography or an experienced photographer.
We're also particularly interested to receive submissions that have unique aspects or challenges from a photography perspective.
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Can I do a teensy bit of bragging real quick? If you say yes, I'll show you how to make super easy chocolate bark..
Okay, please read this. Yep. Whaaaa?
Ez, super amazing blogger from one of my favourite blogs Creature Comforts, featured this little blog and said the nicest things that made me blush really hard. I want to frame that post. Actually I think I might. Thank you Ez. And thank you to everyone who came over from there to hang out.
Okay, I'll move on now. And as promised, I have a little secret to make really pretty and quick bark. You know, for those moments that you have very specific cravings and the supermarket will only satisfy basic confectionary needs.
First step is to arrange toppings over a chocolate block (on a lined baking tray) while preheating the oven to about 75 degrees C. I used rosemary and pistachio because I'm going through a herb-y phase.
Next step is to put the chocolate into the oven for 3-5 minutes until it has just started to soften. Be careful not to leave it in too long because your block will lose shape and the toppings might even toast.
Final step is to take it out of the oven and leave it to harden again. Donesies.
This would make for a really pretty little gift, don't you think?


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Where does your water come from? If your first response was "the tap," then you are probably living in a place where fresh, drinkable water is something you have come to see as part of your daily life. Access to water has become something most Americans take for granted, but times are changing.
We all saw the tragic contamination of the water supply in Flint, Michigan, we've seen continuous drought across the American West and we're starting to realize the challenges of maintaining and expanding our massive centralized water systems. Limits of scale and population growth are beginning to outpace our ability to simply supply more. The time has come to start thinking differently about our water and how we use it each day.
Water is a design problem
Let me be clear—there is plenty of water across the United States. But much of the water we need is not where we want it; we can't always access it on demand and in the form we need. The opportunities for water reuse at the building and district scale can go a long way to solving our water challenges.
As an architect, I've had the benefit of working on some of the first projects in California to include onsite gray water and black water systems. I've seen that there's no magic behind water reuse technology. If you can replace a boiler or chiller in your building, you've got the basic tools to install a water reuse system. Yes, the technology used to filter water and make it safe for toilet flushing, irrigation, cooling tower make-up and washing laundry have complex names, but the fact is that all these systems are simply mimicking natural processes that have been happening on Earth for millennia. All we are doing is speeding up these processes so that our water supplies aren't strictly based on the flux of rain and snowfall.
Addressing the yuck factor
When we bring up water reuse with many of our clients, the first question we most often get is: "Does it smell?" Often, "I don't want that in my building," comes soon after. It's a classic response to what we call the "yuck factor"seeing grey water, black water and sewer mining as dirty, unhealthy processes.
Photo credit: J.S. Guest
But this perception is not reality. Over the past five years, I've been working closely with reuse systems to better understand how each of these technologies and their respective vendors are working at scale, and have been doing so for quite for some time across the globe. Remember, water reuse is fairly normal in many other places around the world. It's only new in the United States because, until recently, we didn't consider it a serious issue.
Safe, effective and almost beautiful
Water reuse systems can be safe, effective and beautiful, adding practical and aesthetic value to the buildings and people they serve. I recently spent a week in Israel to explore how that country faces water scarcity at scale. Across the nation, water reuse is built at large, regenerative scales, both at the utility level and beyond. For Israelis, doing so is a matter of national security.
Two years ago, I spent a week in Australia on a similar trip and witnessed how that country's recent long-lasting drought has inspired a new growth of building scale water reuse systems, some in the most architecturally stunning buildings I have ever seen. We are now simply trying to bring these proven technologies, which work at scale, to the U.S. The new part for these proven vendors is understanding the mechanics of our domestic regulatory environment and our design and construction industry.
Water reuse as a key foundation of our sustainable future
Although both Israel and Australia have addressed the issue of water reuse in different ways, they show us that where there is a will, there is most definitely a way. When we come to understand that all water—regardless of whether it comes from a lake, your tap or your toilet—is a resource, the limits of what we can do to ensure our water future expands astronomically. But these systems do require more consistent and active management and care.
That required attention sets us on an exciting path. It means that we have to expand the numbers of those trained to operate these systems. We have to grow a new jobs sector, crafting a viable new marketplace of people knowledgeable in managing these necessary systems.
We can also use water as the foundation for a new energy sector. More and more, we're discovering ways to mine human waste for energy, energy that can be used to power water reuse systems and provide energy, heating and cooling.
The Urban Fabrick Collaborative is currently developing a Water Reuse Practice Guide intended to help teach architects and engineers about water reuse at the building and district scale. Photo credit: The Urban Fabrick Collaborative.
Finding ways to solve our water problems and understanding how water reuse can also be a power source for our zero net energy goals is a key step in learning how to live more sustainability in our unpredictable world. Shifting our perceptions on water reuse is crucial in getting there. It's why I'm proud to be a member of the WaterBuild Advisory Group, which supported the programming design of the WaterBuild Summit at Greenbuild earlier this month in Los Angeles. It was exciting to see so many of us convene and advance the conversation on evolving our water policies and design practices, and I look forward to the progress we'll make in the coming years, with WaterBuilds in future Greenbuild conferences in Boston and Chicago.


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The book focuses on issues critical to the contemporary emphasis on gender sensitive health care for the poor pregnant women in Bangladesh. The core of the book explores the differing perspectives between rural women and health care providers regarding childbirth care and practices. The study attempts to understand women's perceptions of birthing care and their practices, the role of culture, socio-economic factors, and household dynamics, as they influence women and their family's health seeking behaviour. The strength of the present work lies in the clear discussion of the various ways in which rural women tread between so many factors in attempting to make decisions that best suit them within their own limited resources.
The study evolved out of a collaboration between Brac's Research and Evaluation Division & ARROW


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This essay is one installment in a larger series on Bechirah Chofshis/Free Will which you can read here.
We can now turn to address the question that lies at the heart of any discussion of Free Will — how can it both be true that God knows the future, and that humans have free choice to act how they choose? Rambam poses our problem as follows:
שֶׁמָּא תֹּאמַר וַהֲלֹא הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא יוֹדֵעַ כָּל מַה שֶּׁיִּהְיֶה וְקֹדֶם שֶׁיִּהְיֶה יֵדַע שֶׁזֶּה יִהְיֶה צַדִּיק אוֹ רָשָׁע אוֹ לֹא יֵדַע. אִם יֵדַע שֶׁהוּא יִהְיֶה צַדִּיק אִי אֶפְשָׁר שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיֶה צַדִּיק וְאִם תֹּאמַר שֶׁיֵּדַע שֶׁיִּהְיֶה צַדִּיק וְאֶפְשָׁר שֶׁיִּהְיֶה רָשָׁע הֲרֵי לֹא יֵדַע הַדָּבָר עַל בֻּרְיוֹ.
Perhaps you will object: Does not the Holy one, blessed be He!, know all that which is to happen? He therefore either must have known, even before it came to pass, that such and such a man would be righteous or wicked, or He must not have known it; now if he knew that such a man would be righteous, then it was impossible for him not to be righteous; for if we were to say: that although He knew that he would be a righteous man, it was still possible for him to be a wicked man, then He did not know the thing to perfection!?
Rambam is here asking our very question: How can it be that God knows a certain man will be righteous, and also that said person has free choice to either be, or not be, righteous? Rambam begins his answer to the age-old question:
Know that with regard to the discussion of this problem, "the measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea," and that many principles of the greatest importance, and of sublime magnitude are pending thereon, but the following remark must be well considered: We have already explained in the second Chapter of Yesodei HaTorah that the Holy One, blessed be He!, does not know things by a knowledge distinct from Himself, as men do; for they and their knowledge are two distinct things; but He, whose name be exalted!, and His knowledge, are One.
Rambam points out how important and fundamental, but complicated our question is. An almost un-readable amount has been written on the subject by all sorts of authors, thinkers, and philosophers throughout the ages. Rambam's solution to the problem, though, is that there is no problem at all, as we shall see. Put another way, we simply cannot actually say that there is a problem here because it would have to be based on premises that are beyond our comprehension, or simply wrong. Rambam directs our attention to his lengthier discussions elsewhere on the subject of God's knowledge, but summarizes it here for us by stating that — unlike Man and his knowledge, which are two separate things — God and his knowledge are One. A proper understanding of this truth will neutralize, so to speak, the problem of Free Will.
While this concept is not at all a simple one, Rambam does not spell it out completely for us, nor connect all the dots, as to how exactly this resolves the problem (or, rather, removes the problem in the first place), so let's take the time now to do all of that.
God's Knowledge Is Different
As we have explained at length in our previous installment, God does not "know" things in the same manner as humans do. God's knowledge of anything is not because He internalizes something outside of Himself, but rather, He and His knowledge are One. All God knows He knows because He knows Himself. What this means is that God "knows the future" not because He internalized something outside of Himself in the present that will cause something else in the future. This is indeed how humans would potentially know something about the future, but not God. God knows what "Person X" will do tomorrow not because what Person X will do tomorrow has some cause external to God in the present that God recognized and internalized. Rather, God knows Person X's future simply because all of existence in the first place is an expression of God's Self, and God knows Himself!
This is a radically different way of seeing things from how people usually frame and address the question of Free Will, but, as Rambam explains, that doesn't make it any less true. Indeed, when things are understood to be as we have just framed them, there is no question or contradiction at all; Rambam elegantly diffuses the question altogether.
Explaining Rambam
Allow me to explain: If it was true of God that He knows what will happen in the future because of something He internalizes in the present, we would indeed conclude that there is something in reality that will cause/force Person X to, let's say, sin. God knows this hidden cause, even though Person X does not, and therefore we can conclude that Person X no longer has any Free Will in the matter and will unavoidably sin in the future. This problem of Free Will standing in contradiction to God's foreknowledge arises when we define God's knowledge like Man's — as the internalization of external phenomena. This would mean that there must be some sort of phenomena in the present that will invariably and unavoidably cause a certain future. This would, of course, be a problem of determinism, and thus our paradox between God's knowledge and Man's Free Will. The thing is, though, that God's knowledge does not work by internalizing external phenomena, and thus, the fact that God "knows" the future does not allow us to conclude that there is any sort of external phenomena in reality now that causes that future.
Here is an example: If I see Person X jump into the air, I can conclude that, without a doubt, Person X will return to the ground. This is because I have internalized a number of phenomena in the present reality (external to myself) that will unavoidably bring about that future: Person X jumping into the air, together with the force of gravity, will absolutely cause Person X to return back to the earth (assuming everything remains constant). Person X has no free choice in the matter. It's not my knowledge of the future outcome that removes the Free Will from Person X. Rather, it's the various phenomena that I observed, that brought me to the point of knowledge, that remove Free Will from Person X. There is a cause in the present that will without question bring about the particular future of Person X returning to the earth, and I know that cause. Indeed, if any human knows something for certain, it must be that there is some cause or reason that this person is privy to that will bring about whatever it is he or she knows for certain. Thus, even if everyone else is unaware of what the cause is right now, we assume that since there is knowledge, there is a cause, and that, therefore, the outcome is unavoidable and there is no Free Will in the matter.
What needs to be made clear at this point is that even certain knowledge of the future is never what actually removes Free Will. Rather, it is whatever cause the knowledge is predicated on that removes the Free Will. In our example with Person X above, it is not my knowledge that Person X will unavoidably fall back to the earth that removes his Free Will in the matter. Rather, it is the force of gravity in this situation that I am aware of that is removing the Free Will. And so on, and so forth, with any certain knowledge of any future event. However, while the conclusion that since there is certain knowledge there is no Free Will is correct when dealing with human knowledge, it simply does not hold true when transferred to God.
Answering The Question
Why do we see God's foreknowledge as removing Free Will? Why do we think these things are paradoxical?
We see these things as problematic because we mistakenly consider God's knowledge to be just like Man's — namely, that He knows about some cause in reality (that we don't) that will unavoidably bring about a certain future, removing Free Will from the equation. We incorrectly assume that God's knowledge of the future has removed all Free Will because we incorrectly assume that His knowledge is predicated on some cause that makes the particular future unavoidable. This, however, is simply untrue. God knows the future not because He is privy to some cause that we are not. Rather, He knows the future simply because He knows Himself (as discussed above).
As Rambam explains, all questions and paradoxes predicated on God's knowledge of the future are based on the faulty premise that God's knowledge is merely quantitatively more than Man's — God is some sort of super-analyst able to see even the tiniest cause and determine its future effect with perfect accuracy. If this were indeed true, the question of Free Will as being contradictory to God's knowledge would stand, as this would mean that there actually does exist a cause in the present that God has internalized and that will bring about a particular future. However, as we explained, this is not the case, and thus the question of the paradox of God's knowledge and Free Will does not even get off the ground. God does not know the future because He is aware of some cause in the present. Rather, God and His knowledge are One; there are no external causes to speak of as removing Free Will.
More Questions
As we have shown, Rambam explains that there is no contradiction in God knowing the future, and humans still possessing Free Will. Since we do not know what knowledge means relative to God, to go on and ask about the properties of this knowledge is absurd. Knowledge, when we speak of God, is nothing more than a borrowed term, and that is as far as the discussion can go.
Of course, we are then left with the question of how does God know things, exactly? By what mechanisms does His knowledge work, and how are we to understand it? Sure, to some extent Rambam has diffused the question, but he has also created a whole slew of new ones.
Rambam addresses this issue as well:
Now this idea, the mind of man is not able to comprehend; and in the same way as it is not in the power of man to comprehend or to find out the essentiality of the Creator, as it is said: "For there shall no man see Me, and live, (Exod. 33. 20)," so neither is it in the power of man to comprehend or fathom the KNOWLEDGE of the Creator (i. e. the manner in which He knows things); this is what the prophet says: "FOR MY THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS, neither are your ways My ways, (Isai. 55. 8);" now this being the fact, it must be admitted that we have not the power of understanding how the Holy One, blessed be He!, knows all creatures and their doings; but this we undoubtedly know, that the actions of man are in his own power, and that the Holy One, blessed be He!, neither forces him nor predetermines his actions. This fact is not ascertained by revelation only, but also by clear scientific demonstrations.
As humans, we do our best to understand God by converting the Divine into the human experience. This is the reason why all sorts of questions arise in the first place. We start by borrowing a term, and misappropriating it to God. Over time, we come to see this inaccurate term as describing how God really is. The age-old contradiction at the heart of Free Will lies in language, and the use of borrowed terms not properly understood. We must understand our limitations as humans, such that we are not even able to ask certain questions because they are based on faulty premises, and we do not understand the required premises enough to ask.
In consequence of this principle it was announced to us in prophecy, that a man will be judged for all his actions, according to their nature, whether they be good or evil; this being the principle on which all the words of prophecy are based.
Rambam concludes his discussion of Free Will by reminding us that Man is judged for his actions, as they are his, and his alone. It is to this that we will turn our attention in the next installment of this series.
To conclude this essay it is worthwhile to quote Rambam from both Teshuvot HaRambam and Iggerot HaRambam in which he speaks about his understanding of Free Will and how to square it with various passages throughout Chazal:
And anyone who abandons the matters that we explained, which are constructed upon foundations of the world, and goes and searches in a aggadah or in a midrash or in the words of one of the ge'onim of blessed memory, until he finds a word through whose plain meaning he will refute our words, which are words of sense and understanding — is but knowingly committing suicide [lit. destroying himself]. And it is sufficient [punishment] for him what he does [thereby] to his own soul.
Teshuvot HaRambam, II, 715-16 [Response 436]; also in Iggerot HaRambam, I, 236-37)
While there are surely various passages throughout Chazal that might seem to say things that are contrary to what Rambam has explained above, this cannot be the case as what Rambam has explained in regards to Free Will must, by definition, be true, as there is no logical alternative. There is no fancy footwork that Rambam employs, just basic logical reasoning built one step at a time. There are no "sources" needed to arrive at Rambam's conclusion. He is simply outlining the necessary logical conclusions one must come to after understanding certain fundamental truths about God. Thus, no words of Chazal would or could contradict this. Only on to of Rambam's conclusions can the words of Chazal be read.
Living with an improper understanding of these matters, says Rambam, is punishment enough for one who refuses to see the truth.


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State Police in Vermont, are investigating a body discovered Tuesday in Goshen near a state highway.
The state's Chief Medical Examiner identified the remains as Denise Hart, a 24-year-old Connecticut woman missing since January. The remains were discovered near Gap Road by passersby.
Hart was last seen leaving a friend's home in Sudbury, Vermont, after a visit, according to investigators. The car she was driving was found burning the next morning.
No further information was immediately available Thursday night.


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Page 2: The benefits of sponsorship
Sponsorship is the material support of an event, activity or organisation by an unrelated partner. It is a good way of increasing brand awareness, which helps to generate consumer preference and to foster brand loyalty. A company can reinforce awareness among its target market by sponsoring an event or organisation that attracts a similar target market.
Sponsorship is not an act of charity - it must show some form of positive return on investment (ROI). Since sponsorship is a business arrangement, standard evaluative criteria should be used to establish the suitability of a proposed event in relation to the sponsor? image and products. A sponsor can enjoy a wide range of benefits from a carefully selected sponsorship, which can:
- raise brand awareness and create preference
- create positive PR and raise awareness of the organisation as a whole
- provide attractive content for a range of products and services
- build brand positioning through associative imagery
- support a sales promotion campaign
- create internal emotional commitment to the brand
- act as corporate hospitality that promotes good relations with clients.
Before sponsoring an activity, the sponsor must feel sure that the event/organisation will be successful; has a proven track record, good prospects and generally be aligned with the sponsor's brand and business objectives. Sports sponsorship is the most common and can range from international to regional and local events.
The organisation receiving the sponsorship (sponsee) stands to benefit enormously from both financial support and other forms of backing from an established partner, provided that both parties have agreed a set of common objectives to underpin the sponsorship. In this case, Ferrari will benefit from joint ventures and shared revenue streams arising from the creation of a range of products and services, as well as the sale of merchandising within the telecom sector.


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Marine Beacons
Beacon Testing
TÜV SÜD is one of only five approved laboratories in the world that is authorised to perform search and rescue beacon testing on behalf of Cospas-Sarsat, the international distress alert and location system that uses satellites to detect and locate the signals of distress beacons.
We are authorised to undertake a range of distress beacon testing, such as emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) for aviation use, emergency position-indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) for marine use,Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) and search and rescue transponders (SARTs).
Our UKAS accreditation (ref 0141) [ PDF 325 kB ] enables us to perform type approval work on a wide range of equipment operating at 406 MHz, 243 MHz and 121.5 MHz. We also undertake many other regulatory tests, addressing the various EU Directives (MED, RED) and requirements of international bodies, such as Industry Canada, RTCM and FCC.
Benefits of using TÜV SÜD for beacon testing
- Our testing facility is equipped to undertake all your beacon compliance needs.
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Admission requirements for the online Master of Science in Criminal Justice are as follows:
Regular Admission: To obtain regular admission, students must have an unrecalculated grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or higher on a 4.0 scale or a satisfactory standardized test score (30th percentile or higher). If a student meets these criteria, but has undergraduate coursework deficiencies, they will be granted provisional admission.
Provisional Admission: To obtain provisional admission, students must meet two of the three following criteria: an overall GPA of 2.75 or higher, a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the last 40 hours of course work, and a satisfactory (30th percentile or higher) standardized test score.
NOTE: When applying please use the online graduate application and under "What type of academic program you are applying to:" select "A program 100% on-line".
Graduate Scholarship
New students admitted to an online graduate degree program, who possess a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.5 or above, will receive the Graduate Scholarship. Scholarships in the amount of $500-$1,000 will be credited toward the instructional fee each fall and spring semester. The scholarship is renewable for up to six semesters if the following requirements are met:
- maintain a 3.0 graduate GPA
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No scholarship application is required; however, this scholarship is competitive and will be distributed according to GPA until the allocation for each program is met. Students should apply for admission early as funds are limited. The award process begins in April for the following academic year.
Students receiving a graduate assistantship or the College Credit Plus Instructor Scholarship are ineligible for the Graduate Scholarship.


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So if I go to billybob's name registration service and by a domain for $8.25 a year, and then go to Hanks-chap-colbalt-rack-hosting.com for $35 a year hosting, does Hank's usually take care of the DNS?
If it's super-el-cheapo (like $1.75 a month) name-based hosting, they'll still take care of it but I won't be able to see what I upload until the domain resolves. With package deal super el-cheapo reseller hosting, I can set up new domains myself, just point to the host's NS1 and NS2 at the registrar. Last new domain I took was resolved and ready to roll in about 12 hours.
With some of them I haven't used yet you can also automatically set up third-level domains without restriction. Some say you have DNS capability, I haven't used that yet either.
Just make sure that whatever host you go with will give you the tools needed to keep the riff-raff out - like .htaccess and mod_rewrite on Apache, access to raw logs if you need them, etc.
but I won't be able to see what I upload until the domain resolves
On Win9x, the file is usually c:\windows\hosts
See the sample file "hosts.sam" in the same directory for example entries.
(This is the same file that's used to implement the toolbar trick [webmasterworld.com] to stabilize toolbar PR during Google updates.)
That said, if you get a dedicated IP address for your website, you -may- be better off using your registrar's DNS servers, and not the hosting company's. I use a large, popular, and low-cost registrar that has five nameservers across the U.S. A lot of low-cost hosting places have only two nameservers, which are usually not only in the same building, but are all too frequently the same machine. Not good, and best avoided, IMO.
There are a number of free or very low-cost companies that will provide you with DNS service, if you need it, but I'd only rely on most of them as tertiary or quaternary nameservers... Too bad (AFAIK) they don't support name-based virtual hosting, only IP.
which are usually not only in the same building, but are all too frequently the same machine.
Are people really that dumb? Even doing my own hosting in my study over a DSL line I can (and do) do better than that! Two in my study (IN, US), a third provided by my registrar (someplace in France), and soon adding a fourth in Maine to serve as a backup DNS and mail relay.
>Are people really that dumb?
Yep. A hosting company I spotted last autumn selling "unlimited" hosting on a major online auction site has two nameservers, ns1.widget-host.cc and ns2.widget-host.cc... and they both resolve to the same numeric IP, which is, in fact, the same numeric IP of the hosting company itself, which identifies itself via rDNS as "host12.blue-widget-offshore-hosting.com. If that was confusing, it's like this: The same machine you get virtual hosting on (and prepay for a year) is your primary nameserver and your secondary nameserver, too. Lotta eggs in one basket, if you ask me. Like I needed one more reason to avoid supposedly "unlimited" hosting...
*What kind of trouble I'm going to get in*... if any...with search engines, etc.?
DomainOne.com has an IP of 188.8.131.52 (I'm making up the IP, I don't know where that one goes.)
but my other domains on the same account, but in different directories - Secondsite.com and OtherSite.com - share the same IP address according to a Tracert I just did on it.
The provider calls it an "add-on" domain:
If my primary account looks like this:
www.DomainOne.com -
the other, add-on domain looks like this:
www.Secondsite.com which physically resides at:
which resides at:
Again, all 3 appear as different, unrelated sites...but all share the same IP...
HECK - when I type in the IP address itself I get a "Welcome to Apache" page...
Thanks for clearing the air,
'Multiple domain hosting' is what Undead Hunter mentions above. I have a fixed IP as my 'main' domain and a series of other domains I use for clients that reside at IP/~username. Once the DNS resolves to this address the search engines don't mind at all.
It's pretty common to be set-up this way these days. I started looking at cheap hosting deals and realised the higher up the ladder you went (i.e. to a bigger reseller buyer/wholesaler/whatever) the better the deals were. Now I get an allocation of server space and bandwidth and can sell this to clients how I like. The profit margin is good too :).
My host also allocates personalised nameservers if required which adds a professional touch if you are offering hosting to clients IMHO ;).


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Family Sessions
Photographing families is such a joy to me...
My approach to family photography is not about the perfect attire. To me, the perfect smiles are the ones that happen naturally and the true beauty of your family is all in the details - The scrunched up noses as sisters giggle. The way your youngest boy twirls your hair and plays with your necklace. The way your spouse looks at you as you hold your babies.
Family sessions can take place on-location, either in your home or an outdoor space we choose together. The location can be a beautiful field at sunset or special place that has meaning to your family. Sessions are all-inclusive, meaning you receive my time as well as all digital images.
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Verena Weis is a German singer and actress, who rose to fame as a member of the R&B/Pop group Bro'Sis. She's currently working on a solo career. She born on September 30, 1979 in Groß-Gerau, Hesse.
In 2001 Weis decided to audition for the second season of the German reality television program Popstars. She entered the competition with thousands of other men and women, and the judges Alex Christensen, Noah Sow and Detlef Soost were impressed with her performance of Usher's song "You make me wanna". She earned positions in the Recall and the Re-recalls, before immediately travelling to Ibiza, Spain to join her competitors for a workshop there. In the end Indira Weis made it to the final eighth on the show, and during a special episode in November 2001, jury member Soost disclosed that she was chosen to become part of the final group, later called Bro'Sis.
With the final six members of the band in place, Popstars continued tracking the development and struggles of Bro'Sis. However, it took another two months until the band released "I Believe", produced by Christensen, which would subsequently appear on the band's debut album Never Forget (Where You Come From). The single and the album became a major success, both peaking at #1 on the German and Austrian singles, airplay and albums charts, eventually selling more than 1.5 million copies.
In the following years the hype aroung the band decreased constantly. On August, 5 2002 she received the New Faces Award as a "Trendsetter of the year".
On May 9, 2003, four days before the band's second album's release, Indira Weis announced her departure from the group. Official statements claimed that musical differences between her and the rest of the band had been reason enough for leaving. However, rumours persisted that she had fallen out with her band mates.
Weis was the second daughter born to her mother Manju, an Indian interpreter and her German father Helmut, a retired grammar school teacher. Her one year older sister works as a flight attendant. She received the nickname "Indira" on a trip to India where she has relatives.
Weis began at the age of five years with piano lessons and guitar lessons. After the Abitur she began a study of the music sciences and American studies. She broke them to take instead theatrical lessons with main focus Song and Dance at the international theatrical school in Munich. There she helped in a Hip Hop tape and started to work as a model. Also she brokeoff the theatrical school after one year and finished a training period in an Internet agency. Last she worked before her application with Popstars as a producer with the Frankfurt radio station Planet Radio.
Recently, after spending more than a year in Israel, Verena made an Orthodox Conversion to Judaism. Her Hebrew name is Shira, meaning "Song" in Hebrew.
After going solo Indira concentrated on her acting career. After spending more than a year studying religion in Israel, Verena converted to orthodox Judaism. Her Hebrew name is Shira, meaning "singing" in Hebrew. In September 2009 she released her debut single, a cover version of the Rudi Carrell single Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?.
Weis recorded a video for her second single "Oh" in September 2006 but the plans to release the video were dropped. "It was just too much for me", remembered Indira. Against her will the video premiered in its entirety on YouTube on November 6, 2009 and received harsh criticism. On June 25, 2010 she released her second single Beautiful Destination.
Film and television
2004: SOKO Köln (ZDF)
2005: Letztes Kapitel (ZDF)
2005: SOKO Kitzbühel - Blumen für die Diva (ZDF)
2007: Der Kriminalist - Abwärts (ZDF)
2008: Das Traumhotel - Karibik (ARD)
2008: Arbeitsaufenthalt in Israel
2011: Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! (Series 5)
2005: Helloh
2007: Miss Lucifer!
2009: Snowblind
1993: Igelhans, Nationaltheater Mannheim
1995: The Winter's Tale, Staatstheater Darmstadt
1998: West Side Story (Maria), Manchester
2005: Quo Vadis, Theater Trier
2002: New Faces Award, "Trendsetter of the year"


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An abdominal aortic aneurysm, by definition, is dilation of the abdominal aorta 1.5 its' normal diameter. Most commonly, abdominal aortic aneurysm are uncovered incidentally through work up via CT or MRI scan for another condition.
Guidelines exist for screening asymptomatic patients for AAA, which will be the focus of this article. The incidental finding of AAA presents an interesting clinical and ethical dilemma for patients and clinicians, as decision making related to management is multifactorial.
Although most abdominal aortic aneurysms never rupture, ruptured AAAs are medically catastrophic and almost universally fatal. Many patients do not even make it to the emergency room after an AAA rupture because of rapid exsanguination.
Those who do will face high morbidity and mortality for emergency aneurysm repair. It is thought that up to 5% of sudden deaths in the elderly could be related to AAA rupture. It is also thought that 4 to 8 % of men ages 65 to 80 have an AAA and are unaware.
Risk Factors for AAA
Risk factors for the development of AAA include tobacco use, hypertension, advancing age, Caucasian race, and family history of AAA.
Certain genetic disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan syndrome can cause aneurysm of the thoracic aorta.
Smoking is one of the single biggest and modifiable risk factors. It is thought that smoking 1 pack of cigarettes per day for 10 years carries a relative risk increase of 15 times likelihood of developing an AAA compared to a non-smoker.
Given the prevalence of AAAs in smokers, it is very important to discuss smoking cessation at every visit with patients. Patients should always be warned about the long term risks associated with smoking. Patients with documented AAAs should be reminded that continued smoking will facilitate expansion of AAAs.
Signs and Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of AAA are few. Usually patients with small abdominal aortic aneurysms will not have any symptoms. Patients with larger abdominal aortic aneurysms may complain of a palpable or pulsatile abdominal mass.
Patients with rupture of an AAA may not make it to the hospital due to rapid blood loss. Patients with slower blood loss may present to a health care provider with lightheadedness, dizziness, syncope, chest pain, difficulty breathing, or abdominal pain. The diagnosis should always be on the clinician's radar with any of the above symptoms.
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Guidelines
Given the importance of documentation of abdominal aortic aneurysms, it is important to discuss with patients the documented screening guidelines related to abdominal aortic aneurysms. As discussed previously, many AAA's are found incidentally when looking for other conditions or pursuing workup for abdominal pain.
The United States Preventive Task Force Service makes recommendations related to screening for AAAs. In men ages 65-75 with a positive smoking history, the recommendation is a grade B for a one-time abdominal ultrasound to screen for AAA.
In males ages 65-75 with no history of smoking, the institution recommends an individualized approach between patient and provider, but ultimately give a Grade C recommendation.
In women who are smokers between ages 65 and 75, they document insufficient evidence to make a recommendation. In women who have never smoked, the recommendation is a grade D, indicating that no screening intervention should be performed. Patients with positive family history of a family member with documented AAA should be screened.
The main screening modality for abdominal aortic aneurysm screening is the abdominal ultrasound. The ultrasound is very sensitive and specific for documenting abdominal aortic aneurysm. Given the ultrasound's low cost as well as high safety, it is the gold standard for screening.
If a patient with a positive history of smoking undergoes an ultrasound and has a negative result, there is a very low chance that the patient would develop a AAA in the next 5 years. Once the ultrasound has been performed, if there is a documented aneurysm, radiology can determine the frequency of ultrasound testing for the monitoring of progression or expansion of the aneurysm.
In patients with abdominal aneurysms 3 cm to 5 cm in size, surveillance is based on risk factors as well as the progression of aneurysm. It is generally recommended for surgical consult and evaluation if the aneurysm is greater than 5.5 cm, but can vary based on progression. The progression and risk factors also play a role, so the decision for further management should be based on the individual patient.
Despite the ultrasound being the gold standard for screening, a simple abdominal exam performed by the clinician can also be helpful to document AAA. Body habitus and size of the aneurysm certainly play a role in the ability to detect an aneurysm.
In patients with very small aneurysms, the ability to detect via exam is limited. Obviously obesity can make identification more challenging. The larger the aneurysm, the easier to detect via exam. Routine exam should not be used as the sole screening purposes.
Given the higher prevalence in the elderly as well as the consequences of catastrophic rupture, screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm is recommended in patients with risk factors.
Guidelines including the United States Preventive Task Force are available to help guide decision making.
As always, the entire clinical picture should be taken into account when deciding to screen and how frequent to rescreen.
The decision for treatment via medical or surgical therapy should be based on the patient's risk factors, overall life expectancy, rate of expansion of the aneurysm, overall size, and medical comorbidities.
Chung, Jayer (2017). Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Pathogenesis and Natural History of AAA. UpToDate. Date of Access 16 January 2018.
Lefevre, M. L (2014). Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneursym: USPSTF Recommendation Statement. Annals of Internal Medicine, 161 (4).
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New Priest
I remember this joke from back when the time people were faxing them back and forth…
A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After the mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, "When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip."
So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm. Upon his return to his office after mass, he found the following note on his door:
Sip the Vodka, don't gulp.
There are 10 commandments, not 12.
There are 12 disciples, not 10.
Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.
Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet on his ass.
We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J.C.
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior, and the Spook.
David slew Goliath, he did not kick the shit out of him.
When David was hit by a rock and knocked off his donkey, don't say he was stoned off his ass.
We do not refer to the cross as the "Big T."
When Jesus broke the bread at the Last Supper he said, "Take this and eat it for it is my body." He did not say, "Eat me."
The Virgin Mary is not called "Mary with the Cherry."
The recommended grace before a meal is not: "Rub-A-Dub-Dub, thanks for the grub, yeah God."
Next Sunday there will be a taffy pulling contest at St. Peter's, not a peter pulling contest at St. Taffy's.