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History of the European Network for Psychosocial Support
The European Red Cross Societies Network for Psychosocial Support (ENPS) was established in autumn 2000, following an initiative of the French Red Cross, on the basis of recommendations of the Third International Conference on Psychological Support.
Lyon 2000: Charter of the European Network for Psychological Support (ENPS)
I. Introduction
II. Objectives and Orientations: The missions of the network
III. Organization of the Network
IV. Plan of Action: Methods for European co-operation in psychological support
V. Ressources
VI. Implementation of the Network: Timetable
I. Introduction
"Good health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" this W.H.O. definition has been universally adopted today.
Humanity, the first of the fundamental principles of the Red Cross Movement sets out " (…) to prevent and alleviate human suffering wherever it may be found (…)."
From these concepts arose the idea of psychological support in the Red Cross Movement which can be defined as: all the means and attitudes which enable a volunteer, professional or non-professional in mental health, to help a person according to his/her psychological needs. This may happen if necessary before, during, after, and/or in combination with prescribed medical-psychological care and/or social support.
Psychological support should be integrated into all Red Cross activities, into all operations according to the principles of "Global Community Health": "treating the wounded, not merely the wound". For many years most of the European Red Cross Societies have been engaged in developing the concept of psychological support which has its obvious place at the crossroads of the three main dimensions in their activities : health - First aid – social welfare. They have set up awareness and training programmes in psychological support for staff and volunteers.
At the same time, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International Federation) has increased the initiatives for exchanges, development and promotion of the different psychological support programmes.
At the Third International Conference on Psychological Support (Lyon - Oct. 1998) the following recommendations were drawn up:
- Respect for cultural differences: definition and adaptation of psychological support according to the country and the culture.
- Integration of psychological support in the training of all the members of the national Societies. (NS).
- Help for NS in setting up action and team training programmes adapted to cultural sensitivities.
- Creation and setting-up of regional psychological support networks.
Today, it can be noted that contacts between the people responsible for psychological support in the European Societies are occasional because they have only taken place during international conferences or in the aftermath of exceptional circumstances.
In order to put these recommendations into practice the European NS have decided to found the "EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT (ENPS)"
The present charter aims at defining the missions and the functioning.
II. Objectives and Orientations: The missions of the network
The ENPS provides a structure on the REGIONAL EUROPEAN LEVEL to implement the recommendations of the International Federation in order to have a coherent policy as well as developmental and promotional tools for psychological support.
1) To take an inventory and share experiences and practices in psychological support in the national European Societies
a) as regards the public and Red Cross volunteers and staff in areas of social welfare, migrants, first aid, disaster preparedness and response.
b) in emergencies and in the areas of day-to-day activities in prevention, the immediate, the post-immediate and the long term.
2) To establish and develop the specificities of psychological support in the Red Cross Movement at the European level:
a) The definition or adaptation to the European level of the different psychological support "models" and the development of a multifactoral approach (medical, social, cultural, ethical, etc) to psychotraumatology and to psychic suffering in general. The conceptualisation of the specific contribution of the fundamental principles of the Red Cross Movement to psychological support.
b) The inventory and analysis of the strategies used for training volunteers and staff in psychological support.
c) The definition of the area of prevention as regards psychological support.
d) Special concerns in adapting the PSP to target groups (e.g. refugees, first aid helpers, and minority groups).
3) To set-up a co-operation between the NS, the authorities and the European institutions:
a) on the intra-community level,
b) On the extra-community level: for candidates for membership of the EU and countries of the Mediterranean region or of developing countries. The encouraging of a "natural" get-together of NS (taking into account geographical, cultural, linguistic, historic criteria, etc).
c) Cross-border co-operation (Help convention).
d) The setting-up of bridges between associative partners as well as within research institutions (ESTSS, ALFEST, WHO Europe, etc).
III. Organization of the Network
- Each member Society will nominate a delegation responsible for representing the Society in all the activities undertaken by the ENPS.
- The ENPS will appoint a steering committee of 5 members every two years, who, in collaboration with the International Federation for psychological support, will supervise the actions undertaken, to mobilise resources and will encourage the exchange of information between the members.
The duties of the steering committee will be:
- the administrative management of the ENPS,
- the keeping of agendas and the setting-up of the programmes for meetings and European events,
- the follow-up of co-operation programmes,
- the liaison between the different experts and external partners.
The languages of the ENPS will be the official European languages of the International Federation: English, French, and Spanish.
IV. Plan of Action: Methods for European co-operation in psychological support
In collaboration with the International Federation:
1) The actions of psychological support
Supporting and strengthening of the existing data bank in order to establish an inventory of all the psychological support activities, training, projects and human resources of the European NS,
- setting-up of an Intranet network for the exchange of information and experience.
- annual meetings to exchange experience to be held on the initiative of the steering committee in office at the time.
- setting-up of a European observatory of psychological support practices.
2) Training/Prevention and projects
To enrich the training and prevention programmes thanks to a better knowledge and further development of practices.
Methodological help in needs analysis or the setting-up of psychological support activities.
- exchange programme of the "European Voluntary Service" type,
- training seminars on specific themes.
- drafting of tools, modules, guidelines, etc,
- co-ordination of requests for co-operation and bilateral conventions,
- co-ordination of requests for expertise and evaluation,
- promotion and advocacy within the Movement and towards authorities, media, professionals and scientists.
V. Ressources
Each NS will provide funding for participation in the ENPS (travel costs, lodging, expenses, etc). Other resources remain to be found.
VI. Implementation of the network: Timetable
- 26th November 2000. During the Lyon seminar there was a unanimous agreement amongst all participants to endorse this founding Charter of the ENPS.
- Each delegate will ask her/his National Society to validate the ENPS Charter as well as their official participation in the network.
- The Charter will be sent for validation to the NS who were unable to be present in Lyon in order to ask them to participate in the ENPS.
- This Charter will be evaluated in 1 years time.
Lyon, November 26th, 2000


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No Widespread DTV Panic, Helpline Fields 317K Calls
DTV transition call centers handled more than 317,000 calls on Friday, but the Federal Communications Commission reported no widespread disruption of TV service.
Most of the calls made to 1-888-CALL-FCC related to digital converter boxes and reception problems, the FCC said Saturday.
"Yesterday was a truly historic day," acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps said during a Saturday press call with reporters. "For TV broadcasting, it was a final farewell to the Dinosaur Age and the dawn of the Digital Age."
Of the 317,450 calls the FCC logged on Friday, about 30 percent were about converter boxes. The majority of those calls were resolved when agents instructed consumers to re-scan their boxes to pick up digital channels. About 20 percent of the calls were in regards to reception troubles.
About 98,000 callers asked to speak to a live operator.
The largest call volume in markets that registered more than 1,000 calls came from Chicago, followed by Dallas-Ft. Worth, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
The main problem in Chicago was that Channel 7 had difficulties getting its signals to residents in the downtime area and those living in high rise buildings, an FCC spokesman said. The station will now "adjust technical parameters" to fix the problem.
A recent DTV readiness study from Nielsen found that the Dallas-Ft. Worth area was the second least prepared market, with 6.37 percent of its residents completely unaware of the DTV transition.
Average wait times for the FCC hotline were 4.6 minutes for English-speaking operators and 1.8 minutes for Spanish-speaking calls. Call centers were staffed with about 4,000 agents who spent an average of 8.4 minutes per call. The call abandonment rate was about 22 percent.
Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell said he called the hotline to test it out and waited for 20 minutes mid-day to speak to an operator.
From June 8 -12, the FCC hotline handled 700,000 calls in total. By mid-afternoon Saturday, the hotline had fielded roughly 150,000 calls, McDowell said.
TV stations, meanwhile, that went digital by 1pm Eastern time Friday received an average of 130 calls, re-scanning and converter box questions also topping the list, according to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB).
Washington, D.C. stations reported an average of 110 calls, Houston had 675 average calls, and Philadelphia had 140.
"Television stations are largely prepared for these calls and are doing everything possible to ensure a successful transition for their viewers," Jonathan Collegio, vice president for digital television at NAB, said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the transition Web site, dtv.gov, had 3.1 million page views on Friday, more than the 2.5 million page views the site catalogued during the entire month of May.
FCC staffers in the field encountered similar questions about converter boxes and loss of reception in the 971 markets that made the switch from analog to digital signals.
To date, the FCC has facilitated more than 20,000 in-home installations of converter boxes, and another 10,000 are pending. Copps said he expected those numbers to climb in the coming days.
The FCC did not have an exact number on how many stations failed during the switch other than to say that "it's certainly a handful of stations that stopped operating."
Though the official DTV transition day is over, the FCC stressed that there is still more work to be done.
"I'm not going to close the books on the DTV transition until one, we solve all the consumer problems that are out there and two, to make sure that the enhanced digital capacity broadcasters have available to them do their solid public interest use," Copps said.
"The lesson we can take from this is that it is doable, we can get it done, the FCC has the skills and resources, [and] that we will move to an all-digital broadcasting environment sooner rather than later," said Democratic Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.
Contracts with partner groups like AmeriCorps expire at the end of the month, but there is no set time for the FCC to pull its own staffers out of the field, a spokesman said.


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Ed Balls has warned that an emergency multibillion-pound package to inject lending into the British economy still fails to address the lack of economic confidence and demand. The shadow chancellor said the Bank of England's thinking still seemed to be driven by Montagu Norman, the governor who led it through the depression of the 1930s.
He said the measures announced on Thursday night at the Mansion House in London by the chancellor, George Osborne, and the bank's governor, Mervyn King, should have been implemented two years ago and would not work if businesses were not investing.
Osborne warned that the "debt storm" on the continent had left the UK and the rest of Europe facing their most serious economic crisis outside wartime. In a joint proposal between the Bank of England and the Treasury, banks will receive cut-price funds, provided they pass on the benefits to their business customers.
This new "funding for lending" scheme could provide an £80bn boost to loans to the private sector within weeks and alleviate growing fears of a second slump since the start of the financial crisis in 2007.
In a second scheme, within the next few days the bank will begin pumping a minimum of £5bn a month into City institutions to improve their liquidity.
Balls told Sky News: "Simply giving the banks billions of pounds doesn't translate into loans to business. If business is not investing and creating jobs and if our economy is not growing, that's the fundamental problem, and I've said consistently for two years that you can't do this simply by throwing money at the banks.
"You've got to accept that the fiscal plans of the chancellor haven't worked, they've backfired, they've taken us back into recession."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Balls compared the government's fiscal policy to the 1930s depression era: "It failed then and it's failing now".
He said the announcements were a clear sign that the bank was worried. He did not dismiss the injection of cash for lending in principle, but argued that fiscal, as opposed to monetary policy was critical to recovery, pointing out that, apart from Italy, the UK was the only country in the G20 in recession.
The government has described the plans as an attempt to stretch its "plan A" to the limit. There has been concern from some banks that the plan does not change the dynamic as they will be expected to take the risk on the loans.
The treasury minister Mark Hoban told Today that the government's fiscal tightening had had no impact on growth. He said taxpayers' money would not be at risk as a result of the £80bn bank credit scheme.
Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Commons treasury select committee, welcomed the plans: "The measures look as if they will encourage lending to businesses by ensuring liquidity is more easily available to banks."
Balls said: "The Bank of England's new funding for lending scheme is a significant admission that the government's existing policies have failed. Businesses will be desperately hoping it is more successful than George Osborne's Project Merlin and credit-easing schemes which have actually seen net lending to businesses fall."
He said Osborne's speech was dangerously complacent. "He is sticking with policies that have choked off the recovery, pushed up unemployment and are leading to £150bn of extra borrowing."
Balls also attacked Osborne over his remarks about a possible Greek exit from the eurozone.
"I was at the Mansion House last night and there was a frisson around the room when our chancellor started openly talking about whether Greece should leave the eurozone. I do not think that is a very wise or sensible thing to do," he told BBC Breakfast.
"I think Greece has got to sort out its issues – and that is a matter for Greece. What I am really worried about in the eurozone is that countries like Spain or Italy – which are huge, to which we as a country are very exposed – they have not sorted out their problems.
"Unless we get a global growth plan going, including in the eurozone, you can't turn this round. I am afraid that our government seems to be urging the wrong actions in Europe as it takes the wrong actions here in Britain too."
The shadow chancellor pointed out that Osborne had "snuck out another U-turn" in his speech, in particular to the objectives of the new financial policy committee at the bank.
"Labour and business organisations like the CBI have been calling for the new financial policy committee to have supporting economic growth as one of its key objectives. The chancellor voted against our amendment on this but in the face of an imminent defeat in the House of Lords he has now backed down."


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Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is the name of a man who was arrested recently in Wisconsin. Yes, that is his legal name. Considering that for much of history, a person's name was of such weighty import as to be the key to their "power" (in one way or another), Mr. Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is a sign of just how far that history is gone.
As Wikipedia tells us, certain cultures throughout history have thought that something's name was so important that it was actually a "separate manifestation" of that thing. If you knew the name of a demon, you could exorcise it from a possessed person. If you invoked the name of a god or another spirit, you somehow impregnated your words with their power. If you knew the name of a person, that person was under your control.
Most of us probably think this is silly today. But given the names of these legal figures, maybe they were on to something with the idea that a person's name can bear influence on the course of their life.
Learned Hand — Every law student comes to know the great Judge Learned Hand. He's widely considered to be one of, if not the, greatest judge never to become a Supreme Court justice, and his formulation of the test for whether or not a person has been negligent dominates the tort law scene to this day.
William Wayne Justice — Judge Justice is famous (or infamous) for his role in what's come to be known as the Texas Prison Litigation. This was a court battle that raged for two decades about the conditions in the Texas prison system. Justice dictated that the system be improved in order to meet minimum Constitutional standards, but his role (the role of Justice, that is) was considered by many to be 'activist' beyond what is proper for a judge.
Then again, maybe those names are just a happy coincidence. After all, someone, sometime was bound to have a name that coincided with their profession. Either way, in many other societies, your name had an entirely different type of influence on the course of your life. It's not that if someone knew your name, they had power over you — it's that if you had the right name, it meant you had power over others. I'm talking about titles of nobility — land, power, and status conferred by inheritance. No mysticism is needed to understand the importance of names in this type of society. With one type of name, you were guaranteed riches and power as a matter of right; with another, well, tough luck.
Today, there can be no question that one's name is less important than it was during these other periods in history. This decline is probably the subject of some very interesting historical and sociological literature, but it seems likely that the end of hereditary ruling and aristocratic classes indeed had something to do with it. If there's no longer a hereditary aristocracy, whereby your name entitles you to certain lands and status, it's less important to be associated with a particular genetic line. (Interestingly, the US Constitution goes so far as to prohibit the federal and state governments from granting titles of nobility.)
Even so, one would not expect names to become entirely irrelevant (just ask a Kennedy or a Rockefeller). But, taking Mr. Zoppitybop-Bop-Bop as an example, it has become increasingly popular to forsake the name of one's ancestors and adopt an appellation that's slightly less traditional. Here are a couple of interesting examples from the sports world:
Ron Artest –> Metta World Peace. World Peace is an NBA player on the Los Angeles Lakers. His choice of names is interesting, as over the course of his career he has garnered more than his fair share of flagrant and technical fouls, and he has generally become reputed for his less-than-peaceful play.
Chad Johnson –> Chad Ochocinco. Chad Johnson is a renowned wide receiver with great talent and a huge mouth. He is now on the roster of the New England Patriots, where he's had a less-than-stellar season. The name that's currently on the back of his jersey, you guessed it, is the Spanglish translation of his jersey number – 85.
Jon Koppenhaver –> War Machine. This guy is a mixed martial artist who liked his nickname so much that he legally took it. Haven't seen him in the Octagon recently? Well, that's probably because he's been in jail for the last three years…
Lloyd B. Free –> World B. Free. Lloyd came into the NBA to play for the 76ers in the mid '70s. This name change is particularly cool because his actual nickname was World. He apparently got the nickname for having a 44 inch vertical that allowed him to do a 360 dunk (back in the days before that was a common feat among NBA players). So he went ahead and made it official–how convenient his middle initial!
Often times, these names smack of caprice and/or arrogance. But as a form of self-expression, changing one's name can in theory be extremely meaningful. There's literally no better way of identifying yourself with, say, World Peace than to actually make it your identity (though as I mentioned above, I'm not sure I buy that from Ron Artest).
And dropping one's inherited name (though most often done in favor of names less crazy than these examples) is one of the strongest forms of dissociation available to us. Today we take that to mean dissociation from one's family for one reason or another. But this is actually something the ancients also recognized: by changing your name, you could avoid an ugly fate associated with your inherited name. An interesting idea for sure — I just hope Mr. Zoppitybob-Bop-Bop's children get that message before it's too late.


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Document Type: Review Paper
Mohammad Hossein Zavvar Sabegh
Ablofazl Mirzazadeh
Saber Salehian
Gerhard Wilhelm Weber
Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
Middle East Technical University,Ankara, Turkey
Quality control plays an important role in increasing the product quality. Fuzzy control charts are more sensitive than Shewhart control chart. Hence, the correct use of fuzzy control chart leads to producing better-quality products. This area is complex because it involves a large scope of industries, and information is not well organized. In this research, we provide a literature review of the control chart under a fuzzy environment with proposing several classifications and analysis. Moreover, our research considered both attribute and variable control chart by analyzing the related researches based on the content analysis method, to classify past and current developments in the fuzzy control chart. This work has included a distribution of articles according to the journal, the case studies related to fuzzy control chart, the percentage of types of fuzzy control charts used in the literature, performance evaluation of the fuzzy control chart and summary of key points of each review paper. Finally, this paper discusses some future research direction and our overviews. The results of this study can help researchers become familiar with well-known journals, fuzzy control charts used in sample case studies, and to extract key points of each paper in minimum time.
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Alaeddini A., Ghazanfari M., Amin Nayeri M. (2009). A hybrid fuzzy-statistical clustering approach for estimating the time of changes in fixed and variable sampling control charts. Information Sciences,Vol. 179. Pp. 1769–1784
Alipour H., Noorassana R. (2010). Fuzzy multivariate exponentially weighted moving average control chart. International Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 48, pp. 1001–1007.
Anagava A.K., Tamaki F. and Ohta H. (1993). Control charts for process average and variability based on linguistic data. International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 913- 922.
Bradshaw C.W. (1983). A fuzzy set theoretic interpretation of economic control limits. European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 13, pp. 403-408.
Chen. Y-K.Eh.C.Y (2004). An enhancement of DSI Xbar control charts using a fuzzy-genetic approach. International Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 24, pp. 32–40.
Chen.Y.K ,Chang.H, Chiu.FR. (2008). Optimization design of control charts based on minimax decision criterion and fuzzy process shifts. Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 35, pp. 207– 213
Chena K.S., Chen T.W. (2008). Multi-process capability plot and fuzzy inference evaluation. Int. J. Production Economics, Vol. 111, pp. 70–79.
Cheng.C.B. (2005). Fuzzy process control: construction of control charts with fuzzy numbers. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 154, pp. 287–303.
Cheng-C.C. Chun-M L· Hsiao-Y N. (2010). Measuring process capability index Cpm with fuzzy data. Qual Quant, Vol. 44, pp. 529–535.
Chih - H.W- Kuo.W (2007). Identification of control chart patterns using wavelet filtering and robust fuzzy clustering. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol. 18, pp. 343–350.
Chung-H.C and Chao-Y.C. (2002). A Note on Selecting Target and Process Capability Index Based on Fuzzy Optimization. Economic Quality Control, ISSN 0940-5151, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 75–80.
Demirli K., Kumar S., Kumar V. (2010). Fuzzy logic based assignable cause diagnosis using control chart patterns. Information Sciences, Vol. 180, pp. 3258–3272.
Engin O., Celik A., Kaya I. (2008). A fuzzy approach to define sample size for attributes control chart in multistage processes: An application in engine valve manufacturing process. Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 8 , pp. 1654–1663.
Erginal N., Senturk S., Kahraman C., Kaya I. (2011). Evaluating the Packing Process in Food Industry Using Fuzzy and [Stilde] Control Charts. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 509-520.
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On the heels of an incident of racially-charged vandalism on campus, Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow has appointed a committee to reconsider the school's controversial seal—the crest of the former slaveholding Royall family that endowed Harvard's first law professorship in the 19th century.
The school's seal, which features three sheaves of wheat under an emblem of "Veritas," came under scrutiny earlier this year when a group of students, calling themselves "Royall Must Fall," demanded its removal in light of its connection to slavery.
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Katy + Nick | Glacier National Park, Montana Wedding
Katy and Nick held their beautiful wedding in Montana last summer at a spot very close to their hearts. Katy and Nick met on a college adventure outing rafting the Rio Grande, so it makes sense that they chose a wild, beautiful, and adventurous place to get married.
Both Katy and Nick grew up in Nebraska, and Katie took frequent family trips to Glacier National Park. Meeting these two out here for their wedding, I could see just how much they cherish this place. They are familiar with the epic hiking trails, the glacial lakes, and of course, the Going to the Sun Road.
Katy and Nick held their ceremony and reception at a beautiful rustic venue located just outside of Glacier National Park's entrance called the Glacier Outdoor Center. Just outside of Kalispell, this spot had great views of Glacier's mountain peaks looking through the open-air venue space. The ceremony was an intimate and heartfelt event, full of happy tears from just about everybody in attendance. It's always a joy for me to see people get married who really appreciate each other and the journey they are entering together.
Guests mingled among the beautiful scenery while we snuck away with these two at sunset to Lake MacDonald. The wildfires added a pastel haze to the sky, which though I'm not exactly a fan of wildfires, made for some beautiful colors. After enjoying some peaceful, romantic moments on the lake, Katy and Nick returned to their guests at dusk to enjoy the party with their closest friends and family. It was an absolutely wonderful night.
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New teachers have just gone throught the interview process where they have to sell their capabilities. ( I can do this...I'm going to be a great teacher...You should hire me...I know what I'm doing...) It's hard for them to then show their weaknesses and needs. It's hard to admit that they don't have all the answers. Do any of us? Biggest obstacle to helping teachers was getting them to open up to asking for help or accepting suggestions for improvement. This is sometimes complicated by veteran teachers who mentor new teachers and think they know it all. It must be a collaborative relationship where teachers learn from each other.
Second, biggest mistake is not establishing discipline from the beginning. Yes, they often want to be friends with students or become the students' favorite teacher. Experienced teachers know this is a fine line to walk. Establishing rules, procedures, routines and high expectations firsts allows for a safe classroom where outcomes our reached and everyone finds learning can be fun.
I also found that new teachers don't take time for themselves. The first couple of years of teaching are very demanding. If you don't take time to feed your own spirit and have a life outside of classroom you won't find joy in your teaching; you'll burnout.
All of the other things mention by others do occur with some teachers; everyone seems to have their own strengths and weaknesses. For some it is planning, or taking on too much too soon. For others it is other things.
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Dear Thyroid, How Many More Teen Years Would You Like From Me?
Dear Thyroid;
Well, it has now been 3 years since I found out you have existed.
Let me tell you its been a hell of a 3 years not to mention me being a teenager and all. You ruined my freshman, sophomore, and now junior year of high school, but thanks to my new friend Armour, you are NOT going to ruin my senior year.
For the love, I am 17 years old and have seen more doctors in the past 3 years than my 70 year old grandma has seen in her lifetime.
Not to mention I nuked you twice so you wouldn't send me to the grave. Yet everyday you still give me damn trouble. My teachers think I am a druggie because all I ever do in class is sleep. When I'm actually awake, I just stare off in a gaze.
The only time I raised my hand for a question in class was in biology, and guess who they were talking about? You, of course.
I sleep more than I am awake, yet my doctor says I'm actually hyper just because I take Armour and I have a suppressed TSH. Hyper my ass. I'm taking almost the right amount of what your SUPPOSED to, so I am going on a doctor hunt to get the correct dose.
It would just be so much easier if you didn't get diseased and didn't start overworking yourself, then I wouldn't have had to hurt you.
Hate to break it to you, thyroid, but Karma's a bitch!
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22 Responses to "Dear Thyroid, How Many More Teen Years Would You Like From Me?"
megan: i know exactly what you're going through (save for taking armour; my doctor won't let me!). i was diagnosed as hypothyroid at age 15 but was experiencing symptoms for 4 years prior. it's so difficult to deal with, especially at such a young age. i'm 21 now and it's still a bitch! if you ever want to talk to someone, please email me at email@example.com. i'd love to be there for someone that needs it, since i was never able to experience that support that i needed!
Thanks so much for your kind words!! You should fight for your armour if you doctor wont let you find one that will, fight for it girl!!! It is worth it! and if you ever want to talk to me as well my email is firstname.lastname@example.com hang in there!
hi, i was 18 when i was diagnosed, just after having my first child. it was crap, and still is! im 24 now and have 2 kids and being tired even though im medicated is really hard when i work part time and look after the kids the rest of the time!
i feel for you i realy do, i was allways asleep at school, and then i would go home and sleep until the next day!! and no1 ever noticed i was ill!!??
i am yet to find a doctor that gives a crap about my thyroid, if i find one i will be sure to shout their name from the rooftops so that other thyroid patients can get the treatment they deserve 🙂
much love,
Rachel 🙂 x
Thank you for your kind words Rachel, Its tuff having it as a teen but must be 10X worse with kids! I am going to a new doctor tomorrow so crossing my fingers he is a good one!
I have to say likewise (although I have never wanted to go on armour) – I was diagnosed at 17 (I am now 20, so it's also been 3 years for me) and Megan, what you said about staring off in a gaze and never actually answering a question – same! The thing is that I didn't have a struggle of finding the right doctor because I never actually realised what was going on until I was 17, and even at that point I only noticed the majority of my symptoms were coming after meals and I thought I had allergies (turns out I have a stomach condition as well). I was lucky enough to be taken to a private doctor, had the blood test, and was referred to an endocrinologist (who then proceeded to check my other hormones..). I usually don't comment on here because I don't relate to a lot of people – for me getting diagnosed was one of the best things that ever happened. Yes it is a struggle now, keeping my health under control (I was very fit and healthy before I was diagnosed..I just didn't know what else I was missing out on) but it's better than what I had before. I think the doctor I saw was shocked that I had slipped through the hole of people's attention, that no one had noticed how hypo I was, and I think I didn't notice because I was stuck in space.
My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Sorry about the length ^^ 🙂
Ah forgot to say…so far as I know I had symptoms for 7 years before…teen hypothyroidism is waved off as puberty, right 😛
Omg it's like you took the words right out of my mouth! I was sent to about 4 shrinks because of my debilitating depression and anxiety. Did no one think to have a blood test done, considering the weight gain, ice cold hands and feet, and near-comatose state? I'm still bitter about it all
Hi Louise! I am glad you can relate to what I go through, 7 years wow!!! I had symptoms for about 2 before getting a diagnoses. You my friend have been through alot!!! I admire your bravery and feel free to email me as well firstname.lastname@example.com if you ever wanna talk:)
ps: don't worry about the length I know how frustrating this disease can be
Hi Megan!
My son is 17 and was dx'd with Graves when he was only 9. He went into remission at age 12 and has been in remission since. He got on a therapy called Modified Block and Replace — a fabulous way to force the thyroid levels to stay at one set place. If you can't keep a thyroid stable using ATDs, then someone is doing something wrong.
As for using Armour when you have Graves — make sure your TRab antibodies are not rising from the proteins in the Armour. If TRab/TSI goes way high you'll be at risk for other autoimmune diseases. So make sure your docs are keeping an eye on our autoimmune disease as well as your thyroid hormone levels. Rembmer — you do not have a throid disease; you have an autoimmune disease -caused by antibodies that are doing things they shouldn't.
There's a lot more to this therapy than I can post here. Please visit us at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/graves_support/
Best to you!
val – I'm on that group page, but I can't find anything re: the therapy you wrote about Modified block and replace. Are you referring to Low Dose Neltrexone?
My daughter Roxy is 13 and was diagnosed with Graves disease this past feb. She had been showing symptoms (now that I look back I see them)for over a year. She had been to the Doctors and they never caught it. We have NOT got it under control yet. She is currently on 300mg PTU. My biggest problem is school. I am hoping you can give me some advice on what to do in that area. She was retained this past year for failing grades. Obviously NOW we know why. I tell them "she just doesnt get it" they seem to think it's her being stubborn. She is failing again this year. She doesnt do classwork, she brings no homework home, the teachers refuse to provide notes for her. I am just at a loss and have been BEGGING the school for any help. We had an IEP and a CST meeting. She recieved a few accommodations but, I havent seen any of it put into action yet. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. My email is email@example.com
i had similar problems when i was at school, i was doing well until my hypothyroidism kicked in just before my exams. my best advice is to explain to the teachers that even though she looks well, she is ill, and needs help and support to learn. Also try not to worry about her grades or pressure her as it wont make any difference. just be there for her emotionally. i failed my exams but pulled myself together and got into college by showing them that evn though my grades were bad that i had the intelligence to succeed! and i did! me my mum and my 2 sisters now run a photographers where me and my mum take photos and feel like iv never worked a hard day in my life because i love my job so much! grades are not everything and i will tell this to my 2 children when they are older. they are 6 and 2. i hope your daughter has a very happy and succesfull life with the support of her loving family like i do 🙂 xxx
Hi Debbie ~
Please come join us at graves_support on Yahoo groups. My son was 9 when he was diagnosed (I also think he had it years before) and was put on methimazole (low dose) for 4 years and went into remission when he was 12. He's 17 now and in the IB program at high school – doing great.
It sounds very suspect that your daughter has stayed on 300 PTU 4 months. This is too high (and kids should be on methimazole anyway). Please join us on our board. I also had Graves and took MMI for 4 years. I went into remission in Dec. Been med-free since.
My younger son has Hashimotos and has an IEP for several issues he's dealing with.
Come join us over there (*You can also join GravesKids on Yahoo too — I'm on that one as well).
Best to you!
She did take Methimazole for a month but was allergic to it. I spoke to her doctor today and she is now up to 400mg PTU because he said it wasnt working. How do you go into remission?? I see alot of people talk about it.
NO NO NO! I's Get copies of her labs and make SURE that doctor is monitoring her FT4 and FT3 labs. There is no wa that a whopping dose of 300 over two months would "not be working". I think that doctor is not looking at the right labs — I will bet he is looking at TSH — which cannot be relied upon in Graves.
He probably overdosed her on methimazole too!
Come to Graves support. We can help you — but first get copies of ALL her labs. She is being overdosed!
This was her last results
TSH was 0.001
t4 was 6.1
T3 was 233
TSI antibodies was 504%
25 vitamin D 31 (I had a hard time reading this one not
sure if I read it right)
She started out with methimazole first month(was allergic)next month was 200mg PTU. he changed it to 300mg and today to 400mg. Now I am worried. Half of it I dont even understand. I have been doing a lot or research but still a little confused.
btw she is only 91 lbs also!!!!!
What are the ranges for the t4 and t3? Those are the two thyroid hormones causing our issues. But she should have gotten a free t4 because of her age.(estrogen messes with the t4 test so free t4 is a must).
Also — look at the last labs — has t4 moved at all? If not, make sire she is not eating high iodine foods (sushi, fish, vitamins, excessive dairy) all of those things can void he PTU. And is she taking the mess precisely at 8 hour intervals and not missing any dose? That's very important.
But first and foremost, look at the normal ranges for those t4 and t3 (thyroid hormones) and see if it's true that the meds "aren't working". Kids actually need t4 a little higher than adults need.
Go to the message area and post your question. I'm out of town right now but there are many on that site who are on add back therapy and doing great. I'll answer when I get back Mon. Take care. Val
Hi Debbie~!
I've been so worried about Roxy all weekend and terrified that she is being overdosed. Please come back to Graves Support – we've responded to some of your questions with things to look for.
The main thing I'm worried about is that the doc is using TSH to guide her ATD therapy. If he is, then she could very easily be overdosed — she needs FT4 and FT3. Do you have those ranges?
There is an endo textbook online called "Thyroid Disease manager" that warns about this very thing. If you visit that site, and look under "NEWS 2007", you'll find this warning to doctors that they SHOULD NOT use TSH as a guide in Graves disease:
"Nevertheless, the clinical relevance of the present study is that as long as serum TSH is suppressed, dose-adjustments of antithyroid drugs should be guided by serum T3 and T4 results and not by serum TSH. Some patients maintain a suppressed TSH for years and, occasionally, one may see patients with clearly decreased FT4 levels because they receive a dose of antithyroid drugs that is too high in the presence of a TSH that is still suppressed." (Endquote)
(Summary and commentary prepared by Wilmar Wiersinga)
Present summary and commentary are related to Chapter N- 11 (Section on Antithyroid Drug Therapy) of TDM
Please let us know how Roxy is doing. I'm really scared for her on that whopping dose of drugs – especially if her T4 and T3 are normal.
Take care~
have any of you been really depressed when having under active thyroid aswell?
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The Egyptian Islamic Group said Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's son Saif was killed while on the frontlines of Afghanistan.
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There's a common misconception that moving into senior housing will mean losing your independence or that the residents are all incapable of doing things on their own. What people often don't realize is that there are various types of options when it comes to senior housing and care.
Assisted living is one of those options, and even within this particular type of housing, there are levels of care that can be adjusted based on every resident's needs. There are a variety of reasons a senior might want to consider assisted living, and they don't all have to do with declining health. Here are a few examples of…
First off, yes, assisted living can be beneficial to someone with declining health. There are various levels of care, so the amount of care given to a resident can be adjusted as needed. There is a nurse on staff 24 hours a day in our community. There is a medication management option that can be set up so that you never forget to take your medication.
If you're tired of doing work around the house or in your yard, assisted living can be an ideal solution. Our assisted living neighborhood has housekeeping and laundry services available. Meals are also provided so that residents don't have to deal with cooking and so that they can socialize with their friends and neighbors.
Kind of along the same theme, if you're no longer able to drive yourself or don't often have the energy to run errands and go grocery shopping, you won't have to worry about any of that in assisted living. There is scheduled transportation available, and since meals are provided, regular grocery shopping isn't really necessary.
Assisted living is also a great way to make sure you stay active as a senior. With the various activities available, there are plenty of options to stay mentally and physically active and to continue making friends. Living alone outside of a senior community can be isolating. Seniors who no longer work and live alone often spend a lot of time by themselves. Being part of an assisted living community lowers the possibility of feelings of isolation or apathy.
As you can see, there can be quite a few benefits to an assisted living community and a variety of reasons to consider moving into one. If you would like to know more information about our community and the services and amenities we offer, feel free to contact us.


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We host a number of workshops throughout the year designed to raise faculty awareness of new technologies and to appropriate best practices for their use in the teaching and learning environment at Stern. Click the link on the calendar to register for our workshops.
We present at Stern and University Committee groups on topics of Educational Technology.
We have facilitated several Meet-Ups at Stern. Previous talks include:
- History and foundations of educational technology
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§ 27. Mr. Wilson
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what plans he has to improve the training opportunities available to women.
§ Mr. Paice
Women returners and lone parents may enter training for work without having to be registered as unemployed. They may train on a part-time basis and receive child care support. The Department is also promoting women's training and employment opportunities in England through the fair play initiative.
§ Mrs. Angela Knight
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will make a statement about the Government's policies for improving women's opportunities in the labour market and beyond.
§ Miss Widdecombe
By promoting a competitive, efficient and flexible labour market, the Government have widened choice and opportunities for everyone, men and women.
There are 12.1 million women economically active, and women make up 45 per cent. of the work force in employment. Since 1984, there has been a 14 per cent. increase in women working full time and a 19 per cent. increase in women working part time.
The number of self-employed women has risen by 80 per cent. since 1981. The proportion of women in management and professional jobs increased from 25 per cent. in 1984 to 30 per cent. in 1994.
The pay gap between men and women continues to narrow and now stands at approximately 20 per cent.—the lowest it has ever been.140W
In 1992, the latest year for which data are available, the UK had the second highest female labour market participation rate in the European Union, as then constituted, after Denmark.
In the EU, only the UK has a lower unemployment rate for women than men.
To help this process of improvement, the Government have introduced specific policies and programmes. For example, workplace nurseries have been exempted from income tax since 1990.
The Employment Department is channelling £45 million through training and enterprise councils and local enterprise companies to help create up to 50,000 new out-of-school child care places for the over-fives.
From October 1994, help with child care charges is available to families receiving family credit, disability working allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit. Child care charges of up to £40 are offset against earning when benefit entitlement is calculated. In the longer term, an estimated 150,000 families are expected to benefit from this new measure, including 50,000 families who are expected to take up work as a direct result of this change.
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education is consulting on ways to achieve my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister's target to provide, over time, a pre-school place for all four-year-olds whose parents wish to take it up.
In addition, "Fair Play for Women"—a joint Government/Equal Opportunities Commission partnership—was launched in April 1994 to tackle the barriers facing women in economic and social life. Regional consortia have been established in each of the 10 Government office regions in England and each consortium is developing and implementing an "Agenda for Action" based on local priorities. Chwarae Teg, set up in south Wales in 1992, now covers the whole of Wales in a programme to expand women's participation in the work force at all levels.
In December 1994, the Government established a development unit on women in science, engineering and technology—SET—to promote the role of women in SET.
In other fields, there has also been much progress. The proportion of public appointments held by women increased from 23 per cent. in 1990 to 30 per cent. in September 1994.
In health, the NHS is now screening over 80 per cent. of eligible women nationally for cervical cancer.
In 1992, more than two thirds of breast cancer screening programmes exceeded the 70 per cent. screening uptake target.
On domestic violence, the Government have set up interdepartmental groups at official and ministerial level to co-ordinate Government action to tackle this serious issue. Government-funded publicity campaigns have been mounted in England, Scotland and Wales to increase awareness of domestic violence. In Northern Ireland a publicity campaign, jointly funded by the Northern Ireland Office, the Department of Health and Social 141W Services and the Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation is due to be launched very shortly.


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Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The Russian government unveiled a monument Tuesday to honor the inventor of one of the most highly used deadly weapons in human history: the AK-47 assault rifle.
The 30-foot statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, who created the first design of the AK-47, also known as the Kalashnikov, will stand in one of Moscow's business districts. But such a public display for the man who invented a machine that has killed countless people sparked some controversy in the Russian capital.
The statue "in one of the busiest and commonly used streets in the city, reaffirms the image of Russia as a militaristic and neo-imperialistic country that feels it is surrounded by enemies," said Dmitry Shabelnikov, a lawyer and resident of the area, reported the Guardian.
"This is not artistic, to put it mildly. This is trash. It's loathsome," said local resident Natalya Seina, according to U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe.
But the AK-47 has been the standard issue rifle for members of the Russian military and some say honoring the inventor is akin to honoring the military.
"[Kalashnikov] created this weapon to defend his motherland," said Russian Orthodox minister Father Konstantin, who sprinkled holy water on the statue.
And Salavat Shcherbakov, the artist who created the statue, said it "represents the victory of good over the forces of evil."
Kalashnikov, who died in 2013 at the age of 94, produced the first working version of the rifle in 1947 after hearing Russian soldiers complain about their weapons when he was in a military hospital during World War 2. By 1949, it was the standard issue rifle for the Soviet Army.
Since then, more than 100 million AK-47's are estimated to have been distributed to 106 countries around the world.
Despite the AK-47's role in global conflicts, Kalashnikov said in 2007 that he bears no responsibility.
"I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence," he said.
But the year before his death, Kalahnikov appears to have had questions about his famed invention.
n his letter to the Russian Patriarch, Kalashnikov wrote that one question was causing pain to his soul.
"I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I... a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?" he wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in May 2012 "The longer I live, the more this question drills itself into my brain and the more I wonder why the Lord allowed man to have the devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression."


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Priority Banking Relationship Manager the single point relationship management official of the Bank for the high net worth customers in the Priority Banking Segment of Bank.
A PB RM is primarily responsible for providing financial solutions to the Priority customers and ensure value added services. He/ she is responsible for increasing liabilities size of relationship via balances in accounts of existing customers and enhancing customer profitability by capturing larger share of wallet. He/ She is responsible for deepening the existing relationships by cross selling of Bank's products and Services/ third party investment products.
PB RM also enhances the book through new customer aquisitions.
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Fast food workers in New York City briefly walked off the job last month to protest the low wages endemic to their industry. Over the last several years, fast food companies — most prominently McDonald's and Yum! Brands, which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell — have reaped huge profits while employing some of the largest numbers of low-wage workers in the country.
At the same time that they're paying their workers bottom-of-the-barrel wages, these companies give huge salaries to their CEOs. Case in point, McDonald's CEO made $8.75 million last year, while an average McDonald's employee would need to work more than one million hours to amass such a sum, as Bloomberg News noted today:
The pay gap separating fast-food workers from their chief executive officers is growing at each of those companies. The disparity has doubled at McDonald's Corp. in the last 10 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. At the same time, the company helped pay for lobbying against minimum-wage increases and sought to quash the kind of unionization efforts that erupted recently on the streets of Chicago and New York. […]
[A McDonald's employee] would need about a million hours of work — or more than a century on the clock — to earn the $8.75 million that McDonald's, based in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, paid then- CEO Jim Skinner last year.
About one in four Americans will be working in a low-wage job over the next decade. And low wages don't just hurt workers: they hurt those workers' children too, as a recent report from the Pew Research Center showed.
Meanwhile, chief executives at the 50 companies employing the largest number of low-wage workers made an average of $9.4 million last year. CEOs now make an average of 380 times as much as the average worker.


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The Office of Registration and Records is responsible for each student's class registration and is the official source of information for the academic record. Questions about the functions of the office can be answered by phoning 419-372-8441, by faxing 419-372-7977, or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Services provided by the office include:
- compiling and publishing the schedule of classes with the assistance of academic departments and colleges;
- maintaining the University's registration system and all student class schedules;
- maintaining and updating the undergraduate catalog;
- coordinating the award of Advanced Placement Credit;
- certifying completion of University requirements for graduation; and
- certifying enrollment for insurance purposes, student loans, or benefits under the Veterans' Education and Social Security Acts.
In addition, the office is responsible for:
- issuance of academic transcripts,
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Volkswagen's incredibly popular up! range is now has an all-electric model joining its ranks in the form of the new e-up!
The new up! already has widespread appeal and has been recognised for its style, versatility and quality which makes it such a great city car. Volkswagen have now gone a step further by adding a zero emission model to the package in the form of the all-new e-up!
The e-up! consists of an 82 PS electric motor which boasts a peak torque figure of 210 Nm to generate an impressive 0-62 mph time of 12.4 seconds. And it won't stop there, the e-up! where the law permits, will reach a top speed of 80 mph. Additionally the car can travel up to around 93 miles between charges.
This e-up!'s power derives from a lithium-ion battery pack located within the car's floor. In order to cause minimal friction, the motor is mated to a single-speed gearbox – resulting in an extremely quiet and compact driveline for optimal performance.
Customers will receive all the necessary variety of charging cables which includes a fast charge connection which can replenish 80 percent of the car's battery on just 30 minutes. A full charge from a standard household plug takes up to nine hours. Customers can also buy an optional wall box for home garage use, which can recharge a battery in six hours with a 3.6 kW supply.
The new e-up! has received a collection of design upgrades in addition to its zero emissions solution. It comes available as a five-door with fresh styling features to make the e-up! stand out from the crowd, such as beefier front bumpers which house unique 'C' signature LED running lights. Changes to the car's rear include a more angular bumper with a prominent diffuser panel alongside a sharper tail light design.
As well as being exempt from road tax, the e-up! is an electric car that extends its convenience and overall modernity into the cabin. The car's interior features a leather-trimmed steering wheel, while chrome-trimmed interior door handles, air vent surrounds and instruments add a finishing flourish.
Additionally, the car is kitted out with a strong line-up of the latest car technology as standard, such as cruise control, parking sensors and automatic wipers and headlights. Like the new up! the all electric version also features an innovative smartphone docking station which can be used to select and play music, or as a navigation system. Volkswagen's Car-Net e-remote capabilities allow the driver to manage the car's charging process and air conditioning settings from their smartphone via the Volkswagen e-up! app.
The new e-up! is officially open for orders with prices starting at £20,780 (RRP OTR) which includes the Government Plug-in Car Grant of £4,500. Deliveries are expected to begin in October.
The e-up! joins the growing list of Volkswagen's line-up of plug-in cars, which also includes the all-electric e-Golf, the hybrid Golf GTE and the new Passat GTE. These four cars represent mark the beginning new electro-mobility era for Volkswagen with many more to follow.
For more details on the new e-up! or to make an order, contact your nearest Lancaster Volkswagen dealership today.


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RED Hair & RED Trimmed Pajamas in a RED Room IS BEST!
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Red Is Best is now older than I was when it was first published. It has appeared in hard cover, soft, and in board book formats, as an Annikin, a Gage big book, and as an e-book. And it's been translated in many languages so kids in other countries can enjoy reading it too. Wow.…Read More →
Ontario Library Week
Can you remember the first book you borrowed from a public library? Mine was Saturday Walk by Ethel Wright. I borrowed it on a library card that was green and bigger than my current library card. Why would I remember that!? The book or the size and colour of my card?! Because it was a…Read More →
"An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff" Part 1
"Spectacular!" "Inspiring!" Two words people used to describe my keynote speech at CANSCAIP's Packaging Your Imagination conference last month. Pretty gratifying feedback! You missed it? Fear not! I'm going to post the whole speech here at "Turning the Pages." "Sock Fluff" was my introduction to Loris Lesynski, back in the early 90s, before it was…Read More →
Bringing Robert Frost Home From Newfoundland
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A man carried stacks of National Geographic magazines from his truck to a table in the Deer Lake Library. They dated back to the 1950s. One issue caught my eye. The face on the cover was not one I expected to see on a NG cover. It was the April 1976 issue. Inside, unrelated to…Read More →
Spring Gardens
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When I'm not juggling writing, editing, and time with my family, one of my favourite pastimes at this time of year is gardening. Gardening is a lot like writing. How? When you make a change to solve one problem, it often creates a new problem to solve. You often have to yank out and discard…Read More →
A House with No Windows, No Mirrors
Imagine living in a house that had no windows and no mirrors. That's what a house without books would be like. Books open windows onto worlds unlike our own and thereby create empathy for those living lives different from what we know. And by reflecting back to us our own experience of the world, books validate…Read More →
Editing and Editing
Sometimes a sentence flows to paper or screen on a writer's first approach. Other times it takes editing to get the tone and intended impact just right. During online photography classes with Joy Sussman, I've been learning that this can also be true of photographs. Here is an early version and the final version of…Read More →
Exciting News for The Man with the Violin
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New editions — Korean and Portuguese coming soon too. But that's not all that's been happening with this book lately. The National Arts Centre has big plans. The multi-talented composer Anne Dudley has been laying the groundwork for a musical treatment of the book — for orchestra, solo violin, and narrator. Normal – an animation/video design…Read More →
A Holiday in Your Honour
This summer my blog will feature of series of posts inspired by my sister. (This is not the first time she has inspired me.) In a recent blog post of her own, she mentioned a question she posed to her followers on Facebook: If a holiday was named in your honour, what would it commemorate,…Read More →


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Up until the past decade or so, domestic violence was thought of by most as a crime one romantic partner committed against the other. It's only in recent years that word "domestic" has come to be understood as covering anyone that has maintains a close, familiar relationship with his or her abuser.
Nevada state law allows any person that is alleged to have engaged in using some type of coercion, power or violence against another to be charged with domestic violence.
In Nevada, domestic violence is considered to be a serious criminal offense. That's because, in contrast with other random violent crimes, the abuser and his or her victim know one another.
In the case of domestic violence, the abuser may be a relative of the victim, such as his or her mother, father, brother, child or simply a girlfriend or boyfriend. They may see themselves as possessing power over the victim because they are responsible for providing economically for them.
Domestic violence takes on many different forms. In some cases, abuse may increase in intensity over the course of time. An abuser may simply threaten violence without ever actually carrying it out. Spousal, child and elder abuse all fall under the umbrella of domestic violence. So too can instances of sexual assault, rape, cyberstalking or stalking in the more traditional sense as well.
Domestic violence victims can be found among all different races or ethnic groups, genders, economic strata, ages, among both hetero and homosexual couples and within every single region of the United States.
As for what defines the average perpetrator of domestic violence? It's someone who seems to easily transition between two or more different personalities. Even someone who seems to be endearing in public around others may be an absolute terror to be around at home.
Those who act out violently against those they're supposed to be closest to tend to deflect any insinuation that they are at at fault for problems that arise. They tend to be jealous, emotionally co-dependent, fearful of being abandoned and not know how to appropriately deal with stressful situations. They tend to think that being aggressive with others is the most effective way of teaching them a lesson.
If you've been a victim of domestic violence at the hands of your spouse or partner and you're looking to put an end to your relationship, then a Las Vegas divorce attorney can help.
Source: The Official Nevada Attorney General Website, "What is Domestic Violence," accessed July 28, 2017


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Repository Centre - Material Request/Transfer
It is possible to either request material from the EVOLTREE Repository Centre, or to transfer material to it. This page describes the possibilities and provides the needed forms (contact information can be found inside the forms).
Material Request
When requesting material from the repository centre, you are asked to fill the necessary Material Usage Agreement ( download) before the material can be made available by AIT. This form will be transferred to the owner of the material (i.e. provider) who needs to be informed on the research purpose the material will be used for. The provider may not prohibit the transfer of material, but is eligible to delay transfer of material up to 3 months (as regulated by the EVOLTREE Framework Agreement).
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The challenge for professional photographers to capture stand-out photography at the Olympic games is more real than ever when everyone – from Olympic athletes to the millions of fans – is making the memories themselves.
Enter Getty Images. To keep one step ahead of the smartphone masses, they're using new technology to capture angles and views that no phone can compete with.
Think underwater cameras for swimming, overhead robot cameras to capture gymnastics and other stadium sports, and 360-degree cameras to create immersive photography that works on VR headsets like the Gear 360.
The result? A unique twist on flips from the likes of Simone Biles and a different view on how Michael Phelps dominates in the pool. Take that, smartphone.
Read more at Recode.


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I see the tube light design is a true transcendent. Too bad our lights today don't look as classy, even if I love the current slick looking ones
Wonder to myself how hard would it be to make a replica host out of newer materials, with a low-power but efficient driver-LED setup behind it. That'd win Build Of The Year in my opinion!


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An increasing number of parents are choosing to homeschool their children and want information on integrating Montessori philosophy and methods into their home educational program. Here is a list of resources that may prove valuable to these homeschooling parents. Most of these titles are available from NAMTA.
Note: Montessori education can only be truly implemented by a trained Montessori teacher in a fully equipped Montessori "prepared environment." However, Montessori philosophy and practices have much to offer parents, whether their children attend a Montessori school or not.
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Student's mother claims bullying made her sick
Posted: May 15, 2015 12:14 AM CDT | Updated: Jul 28, 2016 5:27 PM CDT
A ten year old from Heyer Elementary in Waukesha says she's been bullied to the point of getting sick.
Edna Brown says her daughter Emica Underwood was taunted by students. Racial slurs were used by both minority and white students.
Brown says the district waited too long to handle it, and her daughter went to the hospital with panic attacks.
The school's principal who told us \"We are documenting the issue to make sure all of our students are safe....We've run a full investigation and issued consequences where they needed to be issued.\"
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The Edinburgh Oak collection is one of the most diverse available today, meaning that you can find the perfect item, whatever the style or size of home. Beautifully made with a natural finish and antique brass effect handles for a rustic feel that brings a relaxed look to the home.
This Edinburgh 5 ft Bed comes with a stylish slatted head board and foot board as is the ideal piece to start off your oak bedroom. To carry through this elegant style to the rest of the room try pairing the bed with the Edinburgh bedsides or chests
If a King isn't your size and you'd prefer a little more or a little less, the Edinburgh bed style is also available in a 4 ft 6 (double) and a 6ft (Queen).


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50 Activity cards for the old-fashioned counting tune, The Ants Go Marching.
Use them as manipulatives during story time or make extra copies to play games with. Also includes tally cards, number word cards and sets of ants.
Helps reinforce number word recognition in a fun way.
Includes a link to a cute cartoon YouTube video so your students can sing along.
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