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Julia Steiny: Only 1 in 12 Kids Has Normal Balance and Core Strength
by Julia Steiny
Angela Hanscom is a pediatric occupational therapist. A very worried occupational therapist.
And who are they, anyway? These therapists help kids (and adults) get over or mitigate the barriers to daily occupations — bathing, toileting, social functioning, gaining more independence — if they're injured, developmentally delayed, or otherwise disabled. They help people on the autism spectrum interact with others. They understand how to teach a Down Syndrome child to take as much care of herself as possible.
Occupational therapists are also among the people who work with America's 6.4 million kids between ages 4 and 17 who've been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. That number has grown to 11% of the age group. We're the only country to break double digits in this sad stat. Most countries barely make it over the decimal point. England, usually second after the U.S. in worst-in-the-developed-world social health statistics, has about 2.4% diagnosed.
So, among her other clients, Hanscom's include kids who have the occupational difficulty of tolerating schools. Most are boys. Many have had their fidgeting calmed by medication, but they still need strategies for how to sit still all day and resist the noise coming from their bodies begging for movement.
While working in classrooms of wriggly kids, Hanscom started seeing what she thought must be physical anomalies among them. So she solicited others to help her conduct research. To their horror, they found "that most of the children in the classroom had poor core strength and balance. In fact, we tested a few other classrooms and found that when compared to children from the early 1980s, only one out of twelve children had normal strength and balance."
A kid's body is designed to train its own vestibular (balance) system.
Balance involves a sophisticated integration of sensory data — sight, sound, movement — that helps people control their motion, equilibrium and spatial orientation. Young bodies learn to regulate balance by moving in every possible direction. This is why kids like to play with speed, twirl until they're dizzy and fall down, dance, jump, swing, skip. Their seeming physical madness is evolution's way of helping a kid calibrate the physics of staying upright while walking, running, etc.
And the "core strength" Hanscom refers to is what the Pilates people often call the "girdle of muscle," around the abdomen and the lower back. The core supports everything else that uses gross motor skills.
Ironic, isn't it, that as people age, their core strength and balance are the two things that become universally weaker. And here we are creating a younger generation starting life with those weaknesses right out of the gate.
In the school off-season, Hanscom runs a camp, Timbernook, which for all the world looks like a forest kindergarten or nature-focused adventure playground. In other words, it looks like a place where kids can actually play. Not surprisingly, when ADD kids go to Timbernook, their symptoms disappear. They no longer have to battle the crummy feeling of being a constant nuisance to the teacher, because at camp their fidgeting is free to erupt into full-on thrashing about. ADD is considered a neurological disorder, but increasingly some of us believe that some kids' bodies scream for attention so loudly that the noise ruins kids' ability to concentrate for long. At Timbernook, kids' bodies are finally learning a form of basic education that the very structure of regular school forbids.
What subject is so valuable that it's worth sacrificing learning balance?
Picture a typical classroom. Consider what Hanscom says:
"The problem: children are constantly in an upright position these days. It is rare to find children rolling down hills, climbing trees, and spinning in circles just for fun. Merry-go-rounds and teeter-totters are a thing of the past. Recess times have shortened due to increasing educational demands, and children rarely play outdoors due to parental fears, liability issues, and the hectic schedules of modern-day society. Let's face it: Children are not nearly moving enough, and it is really starting to become a problem."
"Starting?" I dunno. That 11% statistic begs to differ.
Yes, schools are part of the problem. But schools are only a reflection of the larger society. Parents are absolutely insane for safety these days. They've heard the line that "sitting is the new cancer." They know that clinging to electronics, indoors, for hours at a stretch can't be good for kids. But⦠Even kids who are involved in sports tend to sit the rest of the time. They don't work on cars, create pick-up games, build stuff or ride bikes to a fishing hole. They get a shot of activity. And then sit.
So while we fuss about nuances of Common Core, we stop children from learning the most basic things they'll need to support their daily occupations. Drugs and therapy only mask the body's biological need to cavort about. Is this really working for the kids?
Hat tip to Valerie Strauss for reprinting Hanson's blog on her Answer Sheet.
01 14, 2015 Julia Steiny


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The debate over whether eggs are good for you has lasted for decades: Although a good source of protein, they also contain potentially harmful cholesterol.
Now, after analyzing 30,000 Americans from six separate studies, researchers have concluded that eating an extra half an egg a day increased the risk of cardiovascular disease by 6 percent and premature death by 6 percent.
That is relatively little, especially given that a half an egg is double what the average American eats daily.
The study, published Friday by the Journal of the American Medical Association, also found that an additional 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol per day increases the risk of heart disease by 17 percent and premature death by 18 percent.
But, again, 300 mg is twice the average daily amount eaten by Americans. A large egg contains about 186 mg of cholesterol.
The new data suggest that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attack or stroke, although the study does not establish a causal link.
Still, it offers enough data to "make a strong statement that eggs and overall dietary cholesterol intake remain important in affecting the risk of (cardiovascular disease) and more so the risk of all-cause mortality," physician Robert Eckel, of the University of Colorado, wrote in an editorial in JAMA.
But as Tom Sanders, a professor of dietetics at King's College London, points out, these results differ from a large U.S. study published in 1999 that found no effect. A 2013 analysis of 3 million adults published in the British medical journal BMJ also found no effect.
A recent Chinese study even concluded cholesterol decreased the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Sanders thinks the new results are only relevant for the United States, where the average person eats more eggs and meat than in Europe.
"Eggs in moderation — around three to four per week — is fine, and that is what current U.K. dietary guidelines say," Sanders said.
In France, national nutrition guidelines refute the idea that you should not eat more than two eggs a week: "You can eat them regularly."
And dietitian Victoria Taylor, of the British Heart Foundation, insists that the way you eat the egg and with what is so important.
"Eating healthily is all about balance. If you're eating too much of one thing it leaves less room in the diet for other foods that may have more health benefit.
"Eggs are a nutritious food and, while this study focuses on the amount we're eating, it's just as important to pay attention to how the eggs are cooked and to the trimmings that come with them. For example, poached eggs on whole-grain toast is a much healthier meal than a traditional fry-up."


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before you read…this is my heart. i pray it doesn't weigh you down, but opens you up to feel something as deeply as you are meant to feel it. i write as an outlet for my soul, and i write for my girls. ava, isla, and eden, i pray that God can use me to help mold you into some of the most courageous, passionate, God-loving, God-fearing, compassionate women that this world has ever known. anything less would be meaningless. xo, mama
i read a news story tonight that i just can't shake. i'm sure some of you saw it as well, b/c it was traveling on facebook, even though it happened in 2008. my heart is broken. i shut the computer, deflated. turned out the lights and headed upstairs, tears rolling down my cheeks. why, Lord? what do i do with the heavy?
i shared the story of baby benjamin with my husband. i can still see his round, little baby face in my head. five months old. an american baby, for cryin' out loud. aren't we supposed to be a well-adjusted nation? and aren't parents supposed to naturally love their babies? how come it doesn't work that way, God? i know; i know. satan. he steals. he kills. he destroys. evil is real. it's heavy.
'cast your burdens on me.' that is what you say. i'm trying, Lord, but i might be the only person still up at midnight on a wednesday, five years later mourning this baby, benjamin. someone should honor him. tonight, i picked me. it's not a choice i can control, and it's heavy.
everything is meaningless,' says the Teacher, 'completely meaningless! the greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. to increase knowledge only increases sorrow. so i came to hate life because everything done here is so troubling. i have seen the burden God has placed on us all. yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end. again, i observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. i saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. the oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless. better to spend your time at funerals than at parties. after all, everyone dies—so the living should take this to heart. sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. a wise person thinks a lot about death, while a fool thinks only about having a good time. i have seen everything in this meaningless life, including the death of good young people and the long life of wicked people. not a single person on earth is always good and never sins. i have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other.
{taken from ecclesiates}
right now, my thoughts are completely 'ecclesiastes'. wondering. thinking it is all meaningless. imagining leaving my daughters someday to battle the spiritual war in the world that is so ugly and sometimes so heavy.
i think of solomon's words. and one thought hits me hard. this was before Jesus. not that Jesus didn't exist, because He has from the start. but this was written before He came and gave His life for us. for me. for my daughters. for baby benjamin. all of this, 'life is meaningless' stuff. yes, it's true, but then Jesus showed up. my hope is in heaven, and this world is not my home. my faith assures me that the sweet innocents treated so terribly, like benjamin, are resting in the arms of my Lord and King. that gives my weary mind peace. the hope of heaven and the promise of eternal life. so how can i make it all mean something – this time on this earth? what can i do to change this world?
Jesus. hold me now, Lord.
'cast your burdens on me.' He tells us.
i'm casting, Lord. i can't forget what i read. i never will. evil seems to loom, but i'm casting hard. those daughters that You gave me need to see hope in my eyes when they wake up in the morning. it's why i'm here. it's why You leave us in this broken world – to spread your Hope, to share your Truth, to speak your Word, and to Pray. if my heart didn't break so often… if my heart didn't twist in my chest after seeing the cruel things in this world… would i pray nearly as much? probably not. would the ugly still happen? yep, probably would. so, i'd rather know and pray and possibly see a change in myself, my home, and my world, than tune out and see the world through rose-colored glasses all of the time. that, to me, would be meaningless.
benjamin's short life is worth every tear a stranger cries and more. if i could, i would ask the Lord to have had someone know what that baby was going through. the longest my child has ever cried for her mama was 20 minutes. minutes. eight days. that baby sat, strapped in his car seat and left alone in his crib for eight days. days. and what killed him? sent him to be with Jesus, as we say in this house. his soiled, toxic diaper. sweet baby, i would have loved to have saved you. i wonder if God and His angels were trying to tell someone about that boy, in that room, all alone for over a week… maybe we aren't listening? God, let me hear you!
and there i go back to ecclesiates. meaningless, Lord. it's all meaningless.
those of you that may not follow probably think i seem bipolar at this moment. but, anyway…
when these thoughts hit hard, i think less of me, more of my girls. less about this house, and more about unloved babies. less about what's for dinner, and more about being loving towards my people.
what are we here for, friends?
what are we here for?
won't you join me in this rally call? can we make it mean something?


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A group of students recently found themselves on the flip side of the coin – as the teachers.
Five Withrow University High School students led a presentation at Ohio's largest sustainable food and farm conference, teaching others about their agribusiness studies and urban farming experiences.
"Just Farming: The Path Before Us," was hosted by the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) Feb. 14-16 in Dayton, Ohio. The annual conference attracted 1,200 ecological farmers and gardeners, consumers, organizations, researchers, educators and students from across Ohio and the country. Its mission is to provide an informative and inspiring space for education and networking to help shape the future of Ohio's organic food and farm movement.
Hope Johnson Gordon, business instructor at Withrow, saw the conference as an opportunity for her students to share what they've learned while networking with actual professional farmers.
"In class, we address the three economic questions of agriculture: what to produce, how to produce it and how to allocate it," said Gordon. "It was gratifying to see these students talk about their projects and answer questions from other adults about what they learned."
Students Steven Blue, Chaney Dozier, Travis Kincaid, Lucas Gibbs and Shenazar Willis led a presentation, "Agribusiness in Urban Youth through 4-H." Withrow piloted its agribusiness class during the 2017-18 year, so the students talked about what they have learned, the questions they hope to answer yet this school year and even some of the career aspirations they have because of their learning experiences.
The students also visited booths in the exhibition hall, which had plenty of opportunities to sample sustainably-grown, organic produce.
"A major 'a-ha' moment for the students was trying the food themselves," said Gordon. "They were raving about the chocolate milk that came from a local cow and didn't have preservatives. It really drove home the value of eating healthy, fresh, locally- and sustainably-produced food."
The class isn't slowing down any time soon. In addition to the three hydroponic towers in her classroom that have grown lettuce, Gordon is ordering more equipment, so the students have the opportunity to experiment growing other vegetables. She also wants to introduce the economics of the poultry industry before the end of this school year.
"My students have a love of buffalo wings," said Gordon. "I want them to see it from the beginning, to learn about the overall industry."
Keep up with the great things happening at Withrow at withrow.cps-k12.org.


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woollen eloth. In those patterns in whieh the eolors are blended into one another at the edges, in what is ealled the rainbow style, they are first blended by a brash on the sieve before being taken up by the bloek. Stereotyping has been applied to the produetion of printing-bloeks. A small mould is produeed from a model of the pattern, and eopies are then made by pouring fusible metal into it. A number of these plates are joined together, and mounted in a stout pieee of wood, and thus form a printing-bloek.
A maehine ealled the Perrotine, in honor of its inventor, M. Perrot, of Rouen, is in use in Franee and Belginm as a substitute for hand-bloek printing. It is thus deseribed by Dr. Ure: "Three wooden bloeks, from two and a half to three feet long, aeeording to the breadth of the eloth, and from two to five inehes broad, faeed with pear-tree wood, engraved in relief, are mounted in a powerful east-iron framowork, with their planes at right angles to eaeh other, so that eaeh of them inay, in sueeession, be brought to bear upon the faee, top, and haek of a square prism of iron eovered with eloth, and fitted to revolve upon an axis between the said bloeks. The ealieo passes between the prism and the engraved bloeks, and reeeives sueeessive impressions from them as it is sueeessively drawn through by a winding eylinder. The bloeks are pressed against the ealieo through the ageney of springs, whieh imitate the elastie pressure of the workman's hand. Eaeh bloek reeeives a eoat of eolored paste from a woollen surfaee, smeared after every eontaet with a meehanieal brush. One man, with one or two ehildren for superintending the eolor-giving surfaees, ean turn off about thirty pieees English per day, in three eolors, whieh is the work of fully twenty men and twenty ehildren in bloek-printing by hand."
Copper-plate printing, similar to that used in the produetion of engravings, has also been applied to ealieo-printing; but the perfeetion to whieh eylinder-printing, next to be deseribed, has been brought, rendered the extension of this method unneeessary.
The invention of eylinder, or roller-printing, is tho greatest aehievement that has been made in the art, produeing results whieh are truly extraordinary: a length of ealieo equal to one mile ean, by this method, be printed off with four different eolors in one hour, and more aeeurately and with better effeet than bloek-printing by hand. One eylinder-maehine, attended by one man, ean perform as mueh work in the same time as one hundred men attended by one hundred tearers. The effeet of this beautiful maehine has been greatly to eheapen eotton prints, and to ereate an enormous demand for them, so that, while apparently superseding labor in one direetion, it ereates a demand for it in all direetions.
The invention of this maehine is attributed to two persons, who had no eonneetion with eaeh other: the one is a Seotehman named Bell, who, about the yoar 1785, praetised at Monsey, near Preston, Eng
in seetion at e, and a viow of one of them. Eaeh eylinder is mounted on a strong framowork, so as to revolve against two other eylinders, N and e: tho eylinder e is eovered with woollen eloth, and dips into a trough i, eontaining the eoloring-matter properly thiekened, so that as e revolves it takes up a eoating of eolor and distributes it over the engraved roller e. D is a large iron drum eovered with several folds of woollen eloth, so as to form a somowhat elastie printing surfaee: an endless web of blanketing a a is made to travel round this drum, whieh serves as a sort of guide, and defenee, and printing surfaee to tho ealieo 6 6 whieh is being printed. Now it is obvious from this arrangement, that the eylinder e in revolving must spread the eolor uniformly over the engraved eylinder e, whereas it is wanted only in the depressed or engraved parts; the exeess of eolor has therefore to be removed before the roller eomes in eontaet with the ealieo, or instead of being ornamented with a pattern it would be disfigured with an unmeaning pateh of eolor. The superfluous eolor is removed by a sharp-edged knife or plato d, usually of steel, ealled the doetor.*
• The origin of this term has been explained by Mr Balnes in his "Ilistory of the Cotton ManufaetureWhen Mr. Hargreaves, a partner in the faetory at Monsey, near Preston, where eylinder-printing was first introdueed, as already notieed, was making some experiments with the proeess, one of his workmen paid, "All this is very well, sir; but how will you remove the superfluous eolor ^-om the surfaee of the eylinder?" Mr. Hargreaves took up a eommon knife, and pressing the edge parallel with the axis of the revolving eylinder, at onee showed its aetion in removing the eolor. After a short pause, the operative exelaimed, " Oh, sir, you have doetored it I" a eommon phrasa for "You have eured it;" and the eontrivanee has ever
Our large engraving is a view of a eylinder-maehine for printing eolors. Some of the maehines are very eomplieated in appearanee, as many as eight eolors being printed at onee by one maehine; but this eomplieation is only apparent, for it is produeed by the repetition of similar arrangements eight times over, eaeh engraved roller, providod with its own eolor trough, Ae., revolving against the
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iron drum n; but very great nieety of arrangement is required to bring all these rollers to bear upon the eloth, so as to print at the exaet spots required for forming a eomplieated pattern; but when the proper adjustment is made, a maehine for printing eight eolors aets with as mueh preeision and regularity as a maehine arranged for a fewer number of eolors.
As fast as the ealieo is printed, it is drawn through a long gallery or passage, raised to the temperature of nearly 200°, by means of a furnaee flue whieh traverses its whele length. The upper surfaee of
aeeurately turned from a solid pieee of metal. For Bome styles of pattern the engraving is done by hand; but, as this is expensive, it is usual to adopt Perkins's methed of transferring engravings from one surfaee to another by means of small steel rollers, B. The pattern is first drawn upon a seale of about three inehes square, so that this size of figure being repeated a number of times will eover the printing eylinder. The pattern is then engraved upon a roller of soft steel about one ineh in diameter, and three inehes long, so as to oeeupy its surfaee exaetly. This small roller, whieh is ealled the die, is next hardened by heating it to redness and suddenly quenehing it in eold water. The roller thus hardened is then put into a rotatory press, and made to transfer its design to a similar small roller in a soft state, ealled the mill. The design whieh was sunk in the die, now appears in relief on the mill. The mill in its turn is hardened, and being put into a rotatory press, engraves or indents upon the large eopper eylinder the whele of the intended pattern. This is, of eourse, a work of time, and requires eonsiderable eare to make the numerous junetions of the small roller exaetly fit eaeh other upon the printing eylinder. By this proeess, hewever, a pattern may be imparted to a largo eylinder at the eost of about one-eighth of what it eould be by hand. By the methed just deseribed, a t eylinder ean be renewed and made equal to a new one. The pattern is also sometimes produeed by etehing, in whieh ease the eylinder is eovered with a thin eoat of varnish, and on this the pattern is traeed with a diamond or steel point. Aqua-fort is is then applied to the surfaee, whieh hites into or eorrodes the parts whieh have been removed by the point. This point or traeer is sometimes applied in a manner similar to that of the eeeentrie ehuek of a lathe, by whieh means the surfaee is eovered with patterns, or a groundwork for patterns of great variety and beauty. The eleetrotype has also been used for produeing the design on the printing eylinder. The design is also sometimes eut in relief upon wooden rollers; or formed by the insertion of
flat pieees of eopper edge-wise. This is termed surfaee printing, prohably from the eireumstanee of the thiekened eolor being applied to a tense surfaee of woollen eloth, against whieh the eylinder revolves and takes up eolor. A eomhination of wooden and eopper rollers forms what is ealled the union printing-maehine.
Another methed of ealieo-printing remains to be deseribed, namely, presa-printing, by whieh several eolors ean bo printed at onee. The eloth to be printed is wound upon a roller at one end of the maehine, and the design, whieh is formed in a bloek of mixed metal about two and a half feet square, is supported with its faee downwards in an iron frame, and ean be raised or lowered at pleasure. The faee of the bloek is divided into as many stripes, ranging eross-wise with the table, as there aro eolors to be printed. If, for example, the pattern be made up of five stripes of different eolors, and eaeh stripe be six inehes broad, and as long as the breadth of the eloth, the eolors have to bo applied witheut mingling or interfering with eaeh other. This is aeeomplished in the following manner: The side edges of the table are furnished with a eouple of rails similar to a railway, and upon this is a shallow tray or frame, eapable of moving haekwards and forwards upon wheels. Within this frame is a eushion of about the same size as the printing-bloek, and by its side are five small troughs eontaining the thiekened eolors. By means of a long pieee of wood, formed so as to dip into all the troughs at onee, the tearer applies a small portion of eaeh eolor to the surfaee of the eushion, nud spreads them evenly into five portions or stripes, taking eare not to mix them; but making their breadth equal to that of the stereotype rows on the bloek. The eushion being prepared, the frame is rolled along the railway until it is immediately under the printingbloek, whieh the pressman then lowers upon the eushion, by whieh means the five stripes of the bloek beeome eharged, eaeh with its proper eolor. The bloek is then raised, the frame rolled away, and the bloek brought down upon the eloth, whieh it prints in five rows of different eolors. On raising the bloek, the eloth is drawn forward about six inehes in the direetion of its length, or exaetly the width of one stripe on the bloek; the tearer again pushes forward the eushion with the eolors renewed, and the bloek is again eharged and applied to the eloth. Now, as a length of the eloth equal to the width of a stripe is drawn from under the bloek at eaeh impression, every part of the eloth is brought into eontaet with all the stripes on the bloek. Great eare is required so to adjust all the moving parts of the press, that the eolors may not mingle and distort the pattern.
The meehanieal portion of the art of ealieoprinting having oeeupied so mueh spaee, we will have to give the ehemieal portion in our artiele next month.
The following letter was written by Sir Heury Sidney to his son Philip, then twelve years of age, at Sehool at Shrowshury:—
"I have reeeived two letters from you, whieh I take in good part; and, sinee this is my first letter that ever I did write to you, I will not that it be empty of some adviees, whieh my natural eare of you provoketh me to wish you to follow as doeuments to you in this your tender age.
"Let your first aetion bo the lifting up of your mind to the Almighty God by hearty prayer; and feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer, with eontinual meditation, and thinking of him to whom you pray, and of the matter for whieh you pray; and use this at an ordinary hour, whereby the time itself will put you in romembranee to do that whieh you are aeeustomed to do in that time. Apply your study to sueh hours as your disereet master doth assign you, earnestly; and the time, I know, he will so limit as shall be both sufficient for your learning, and safe for your health. And mark the sense and the matter of that you read, as well as the words; so shall you both eurieh your tongue with words, and your wit with matter; and judgment will grow as years groweth in you. Be humble and obedient to your master; for unless you frame yourself to obey others, yea, and feel in yourself what obedienee is, you shall never be able to teaeh others how to obey you. Be eautious of gesture, and affable to all men, w ith diversity of reverenee, aeeording to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so mueh with so little eost. Use moderate diot, so as, after your moat, you may find your wit fresher and not duller, and your body more lively and not more heavy. Seldom drink wine, and yet sometimes do; lest, being enforeed to drink upon the sudden, you should find yourself inflamed. Use exereise of body,
but sueh as is without peril of your joints or bones; it will inerease your foree and enlarge your breath. Delight to be eleanly, as well in all parts of your body as in your garments; it shall make you grateful in eaeh eompany; and, otherwise, loathsome. Give yourself to be merry; for you degenerate from your father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do anything when you be most merry. But let your mirth be ever void of all seurrility and hiting words to any man; for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be eured than that whieh is given with the sword. Be you rather a hearer and bearer away of other men's talk, than a beginner or proeurer of speeeh; otherwise you shall be eounted to delight to hear yourself speak. If you hear a wise sentenee, or an apt phrase, eommit it to your memory, with respeet to the eireumstanee when you shall speak it. Let never oath be heard to eome out of your mouth, nor word of rihaldry; detest it in others, so shall eustom make to yourself a law against it in yourself. Be modest in eaeh assembly; and rather be rebuked of light fellows for maiden-like shamefaeedness, than of your sad friends for pert boldness. Think upon every word that you will speak before you utter it, and remember how nature hath rampired up, as it were, the tongue with teeth, lips, yea, and hair without the lips, and all betokening reins or bridles for the loose use of that member. Above all things tell no untruth; no, not in trifles. The eustom of it is naught; and let it not satisfy you that, for a time, the hearers take it for a truth; for, after, it will be known as it is, to your shame; for there eannot be a groater reproaeh to a gentleman than to be aeeounted a liar. Study, and endeavor yourself to be virtuously oeeupied, so shall you make sueh a hahit of well-doing in you that you shall not know how to do evil though you would."
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The ehild's first tribute! Surely He who spake
Train up the ehild to love, for Jesus' sake,
Whoso, the Lord hath promised, in my name
Bearing the eross, and fearing not the shame— . The alnwdrtxls that he doth shall eounted be
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A small thing that the humble righteous hath
If given for Christ's sake, and in modest faith;
While he to whom all human praise is given,
But stands in naked guilt before just Heaven.
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With the aid of literary and historie astoeintion, "trifles as light as air'' beeome eharmingly important; but perhaps none more so than the subjeet of our paper, every fold of whieh is replote with interest, and filled with elassie and poetie memories.
Ineentive in itself to pleasant talk, the fan leads us by the short euts of imagination to its plaee of origin, the East, where nature, in the leaves of the fan-palm-tree, seems to have set the type of its fashion, and where, in all prohahility, theso natural sereens preluded the use of artifieial ones.
In the Orestes of Euripides, the Phrygian slave who relates the death of Clytemnestra, was employed in waving round the fair shoulders of Helen a fan like a palm braneh, or open leaf, when the matrieides burst into the WTCtehed queen's apartment; and in the Elgin Saloon of the British Museum, we find a has-relief representing Hygieia feeding a serpent out of a patera, and holding in her left hand a fan in the shape of an ivy-leaf.
But these primitive and simple forms appear soon to have given plaee to others; and from the deseriptions of Propertins and Claudian, feathers mounted, as well as fans made of linen stretehed over a light frame and painted, were generally used. Sometimes we find th made by simply fastening together, beek to haek, a pair of wings, and attaehing them to a handle; but in every ease, aeeording to the editor of the "Dietionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," however elegant in form, or delieately eolored, or eostly in material, they were stiff and of a fixed shape, ineapable of being furled or unfurlod; nor were they earried by the ladies themselves; "Flabellifera," or female fan-bearers, forming, when Plautus wrote, part of every fine lady's retinue.
Not that sueh attendants wore eonfined to women, for the minions of the tyrant Aristodemus at Cumro, are deseribed by Dionysius Ilaliearnassonsis, as followed, whenever they went to tho gymnasinm, by female slaves bearing /ant and parasols, tho use of both of whieh had been borrowed from harharian nations.
Oeeasionally, beautiful boys held this offiee, and in the luxurious passage of Cleopatra on the Cydnus,
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Even Augustus himself seems not to have been a shade less luxurious than this "trinmphant lady," and tho "eurled Antony," for Suetonins deseribes him in tho heat of summer reelining in his peristyle with a slave fanning him while he slept.
But though tho waving of the flabollum so as to produee a eooling broozo was the ospeeial duty of an attendant, it was gallantry in a gentleman to take it in his own hand and kmke use of it in eompliment to a lady. Fans appear to have had a religious use amongst tho Egyptians from a very early period; they wero suspended from the roofs of tho temples, like the punkas of India at the present day; and were also employed to keep off flies from tho saerifiees, as well as for tho purpose of exeiting tho saered fires.
Mention is made, in the "Dietionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities" before alluded to, of n painting of a saerifiee to Isis, in whieh the priest is seen fanning the fire upon the altar, with a triangular fiabellum, sueh as is still seen in Italy.
Stavely, in his "Chureh History," informs us that ! in the middlo ages fans beeame part of tho ehnreh furniture, for the purpose of ehasing away flies from the holy elements during the administration of tho ! Eueharist; and Moreri has deseribed a magnifieent ! fan of this kind, preserved in the Abbey of St. Phili; bert do Tournus, whieh resembled those used by ladies, but was mueh larger, and with a longer handle. It was riehly deeorated with images of saints, ; and bore inseriptions in had Latin verse, abounding, after the manner of tho monks, in false quantities. ! These fans were held by tho deaeons on either sido of tho altar, as they eontinue to be in tho Greek Chureh during the eelebration of the saerament .
In Japan, where Siebold informs us, neither sex wear headdresses to shade the faee, the fan is seen in the hand or girdle of every inhahitant, and oven ; priests and soldiers wear them. ; His fan is to the Japanese dandy what the whale• bone switeh is to tho London exquisite. Ladies and \ gentlemen reeeive and offer presents on them; tho j sehoolmaster uses his in lieu of the ferule; the beg'gar who asks an alms holds out his fan for its no! eeptanee, and it is even said that when presented on a peeuliar kind of salver to a high-born eriminal ! it beeomes the warrant of his death.
But the most absurd serviee in whieh we havo found the fan figuring is that suggested by a sepul! ehral tablet in the Egyptian Room of Antiquities at our Museum, representing Teto, ftabellnm-bearer in the Stmt


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May brings the Summer Party issue of Mollie Makes filled with craft projects and patterns for knitters, stitchers and crocheters. What's more, you'll get two free gifts in issue 40
Hear that? It's the call of Mollie Makes projects everywhere, anxiously waiting for you to get crafting. But who will you pick? Crochet frame, ombré rope basket, embellished lace necklace, felt unicorn or maybe fabric flower sash, this month's cover star? We obviously don't have a favourite, but there are more… #justsaying. Plus there's a tasty Lemon Curd Cheesecake recipe, too! Find all your project templates here.
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If you have noticed your teen practicing dangerous driving habits, don't worry; it's not too late! You can still help him to be a good safe driver. There are two levels of bad driving habits. Level one habits are ones that your teen does subconsciously; they are ones that can be easily corrected. Level two habits are habits teens choose to do because they get a benefit, such as talking on a cell phone while driving – the benefit is talking to a friend. Level two bad habits are more serious and more difficult to correct.
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Failure to adequately check blind spots
Forgetting to signal
Not wearing a seatbelt
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Accelerating through yellow lights
Backing up the car without turning head to look thoroughly behind
Failing to reduce speed in potentially hazardous zones such as neighborhoods, construction zones, etc.
Playing loud music
Changing Level one bad habits is relatively easy. It is simply a matter of being reminded. Your teen probably isn't even aware he is doing these dangerous habits. Focus on immediately changing all of the Level one habits. Your teen is not likely to resist changing these habits because there is no perceived benefit. If you constantly remind her with verbal reminders and notes, she will develop the correct safe habit. Also, while you are driving your teen, point out how to correctly do something you know she does wrong. Say something like, "Whenever you plan to make a left-hand turn onto Main St. you always need to start signaling when you see the yellow sign, this way the people behind you will know in advance that you will be turning." Saying it like this doesn't seem like criticism to your teen and she will remember 'signal at yellow sign.'
Changing Level two habits is more difficult because your teen chooses to do them because of a perceived benefit.
Your teen is more likely to be defensive or be in denial about these bad habits. Deal with the Level two habits one at a time. Look at your teen's Level two habits and narrow them down to the most dangerous one.
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- Negative Reinforcement – Penalties
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Hello my friends, Spot here!
We've had a very lazy weekend so far, with not much to report – just the usual hanging around in our cat garden and trying to look like we're close to starvation so the hoomins take pity on us and give us some of my favourite chicken treats 😆 And, it usually works – especially with my daddy! 😀
Talking of my daddy, he's been busy printing off lots of our 2016 Bengal Cat World Calendars for all the lovely customers who have been buying them from our store! 🙂 So that got us to reminiscing about our very first calendar and the pics we had in there. And, by the magic of the internet, I'm going to share them all with you below, for those friends who didn't purchase a calendar from us that year! (and for those who did to enjoy the pics once more 🙂 )
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CARBONDALE – Southern Illinois University officials hope the new governor will fund a decades-old state commitment to cover the cost of veterans' higher education, even though no college has been reimbursed under the grant program for years.
The Illinois Veterans Grant, created in 1967, pays for all Illinois veterans' tuition and required fees at its public colleges, community colleges and universities if they return to the state to study after completing their service. The state offers similar support to National Guard service members.
But Illinois has not reimbursed any university's veteran education fees under the program since the 2012 fiscal year. SIU Carbondale officials said they face the highest cost burden in terms of waived tuition and fees because more veterans attend that school through the program than any other college in the state, the Southern Illinoisan reported .
In fiscal 2018, SIUC waived more than $2.5 million worth of tuition to 319 veterans and waived over $1 million more to 145 National Guard service members.
In 2016, SIUC's state backing was slashed by about $73 million, from the preceding year. That year, SIUC waived $4,786,300 in veteran tuition with no repayment.
"We're very proud of our student veterans and their service to our country and the unique perspective they bring to our campuses," said John Charles, SIU's director for governmental and public affairs. "It would be nice as the state regains its financial health that they would reassume the grant funding."
Paul Copeland, veterans services coordinator at SIU Carbondale, said veterans who qualify for the grant and receive federal GI benefits are particularly attracted to the Carbondale campus because of the low cost of living in that part of the state.
The structure of the grant program never promised a state refund, said Lynne Baker, managing director of communications at the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which used to process the IVG and National Guard Grant payouts.
To Illinois' university officials, the shifting accountability for financing the grant is one of many issues that illustrate the state's considerable divestment from higher education. Public university operations subsidies in fiscal 2018 were less than 50% of the funding in 2002, according to the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
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Thu 22 October 2015, 4:45 pm
Planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore has called for housebuilders to provide more specialist accommodation for older people, after its research concluded that councils throughout Medway and Kent are dealing with a 73% increase in the number of people aged over 65.
The report, 'An ageing nation: are we planning for our future?' raised the concern that a considerable number of local authorities are not planning properly for their ageing population.
Research for Medway concludes that the population figure of 268,218 is due to increase by 2037 to 326,849. The number of those aged over 65 is predicted to increase from 39,105 to 69,917 in the same period – a five per cent increase.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee State will tab Dana Ford as its 17th men's basketball coach at a press conference Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. within the Athletics Atrium located in the Student Center.
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Before TSU, he served as an assistant coach at Chipola Junior College (Fla.). While there, he helped lead Chipola to an impressive 35-2 overall record, its sixth-consecutive Panhandle Conference Championship with a 12-0 record, its fifth FCCAA State Championship in 10 years and a third-place finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Tournament.
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A 2006 graduate of Illinois State, Ford earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. While at ISU, he was a four-year letterwinner from 2002-06 and was voted the squad's defensive player of the year after being ranked in the MVC top-10 in both steals and blocks.
Ford is a native of Tamms, Ill., and is a member of the NABC and BCA. He is married to Christina Ford and has a son, Carson, and a stepson, Cameron.
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Believe it or not, Chapter Two is finished and in the book, so to speak.
During this morning's writing session I actually came within about forty words of hitting the thirty thousand word mark, so I'll likely write a few hundred words in the first scene of Chapter Three to jump that mark. It won't be long–maybe a week and a half–before this is a "real" novel. But who keeps track of word counts? Oh, me: that's who.
Also, today is the first time out wearing the new wig and so far I've had a couple of complements on how I look. I have to say that I really love how I look with this wig and that I do feel a lot more girly, if that's at all possible. The next step is to get a low-heat curling iron and see if I can style this sucker a little, as it's heat resistant.
Yesterday we heard about the reasons why Alex wanted to get into Advanced Formulistic Magic and how she was willing to work hard to make that happen.
(The following excerpts from The Foundation Chronicles, Book Three: C For Continuing, copyright 2016 by Cassidy Frazee)
Annie realized in that moment that while she loved mixing formulas into magical mixtures, she did not understand the excitement the Normal kids in Advanced Formulistic Magic—Kerry included—appeared to have when they learned they'd be working in the Chemical Superlab in the Tesla Science Center after the start of 2014. She thought it was perhaps due to knowing how her mother worked within the confines of a small workstation similar to what they used on a regular basis and didn't understand the glamour in working with equipment that would allow them to created several hundred kilos or liters of a mixture at one time.
Annie barley broke into a smile when she thought back to the next to last Advanced Formulistic Magic of their B Levels when Erywin showed them around the newly refurbished chemical lab, which was damaged by a magical mishap right before Yule holiday, 2012. About ten minutes after arriving Kerry climbed up on a stepladder and looked into one of the processing vat before yelling "Yo, Gatorade me, bitch." Annie didn't understand why he said that at or what it meant at the time, but half the class began laughing while Erywin stood silently and rolled her eyes. It was only while walking back to the Chemistry Building that both Kerry and Erywin explained his outburst—
Good ol' Kerry, living up to his geek status and finding a way to let it shine around around the most mundane of science equipment. But what could have possessed a twelve year old boy to yell out the thing he did?
As kinda pointed out in the first novel, by this time everyone knows that your middle or high school chemistry instructor is only one financial emergency away from becoming the world's next drug kingpin, and Erywin did point out during her first day in A Level Formulistic Magic that she does have the know how to cook some wicked-ass meth. And if there was ever a place to do so, the Tesla Superlab is the place. Outside of Isis, Eyrwin, and maybe a few other people, who would really know if an enterprising student were producing a mixture that would likely put them on the DEA's Most Wanted List?
Actually the lab is monitored pretty heavily for this reason, because you can bet that some asshole witch has tried doing just this at some point. And believe it or not, The Foundation is really loath to allow a student at their most prestigious school to cook up the most incredible mind-bending shit the world has ever seen. Of course, what they do once they're out of school is another story…
Now that we're pretty certain Kerry's going to become the Jesse Pinkman of Advanced Formulistic Magic, is Annie going to help her friend work her butt off so she can join in on the fun?
But that wasn't why Annie smiled: it was the realization that Alex wanted to work extra hard so she could join their craziness…
Annie set her virgin mojito aside. "Alex, I would be happy to tutor you. I understand why you want this: I mean, if there's anyone who works to be the best at school, it's me."
Alex appeared as if she were about to leap out of her seat. "Oh, thank you, Annie." She rocked back and forth a few times trying to dissipate her excitement. "I promise, I'll work hard. I want to: I have to."
Annie tapped at one of the roll with her chopstick. "One of the things I could do is work with you on a project and have Kerry watch. If you and I do something that he and I have already worked on, he can track our steps and see if there's something you're doing that varies from what we've done."
"I didn't think about that." Alex folded her hands in her lap and closed her eyes as she gave a pleasant sigh. "You're sure he won't mind just sitting there watching us?"
Annie didn't feel the need to elaborate that when they spent part of their B Levels teaching magic to each other that was exactly what they did. "He won't mind. And I know he'll be happy to help you out."
"Thank you, again."
"You're welcome." Annie folded her arms across her body as she looked down at the table top. "May I ask you something?"
Of course Annie is going to help Alex and she'll even bring Kerr in to help out, because Alex is his friend as well, and he knows better than to say no to his soul mate. But what is this that Annie is asking? Could it have to do with future mother-in-law problems? Well…


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THE GOVERNMENT IS selling off forty former garda stations because it cannot identify alternative State uses for the buildings.
Junior Minister Brian Hayes announced the plans this morning to coincide with the publication of an ad searching for Estate Agents interested in disposing of the properties.
The first 40 stations to be sold are located in rural areas of Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, Carlow, Wexford, Cavan, Meath, Westmeath, Donegal, Leitrim, Longford, Roscommon, Sligo, Mayo, Cork, Kerry and Galway.
A further 99 stations were closed in the past 18 months.
According to Hayes, his department has received a number of requests from various community groups across the country which have expressed interest in the buildings. He promised a further announcement on this by the middle of July.
It is understood that if the buildings cannot be sold on the open market, consideration will be given to applications from such organisations. Drama groups, parents' associations, festival committees, sports clubs, dance studios and community bodies have all shown interest in using the buildings.
Of the 139 buildings, 17 have masts with licences with gross annual fees of about €200,000 to the State.
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Anything Goes Using Your Leftovers. I used this paper for several holiday cards. I combined this with this week's Retro Sketch. The sentiment is from Paper Smooches' Chilly Chum. Thanks for stopping by. Debbie
Saturday, December 28, 2013
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How diverse is your company? I mean, really?
It's 2019. There is unlikely to be any Canadian Corporation in the top 100 where Diversity isn't clearly on the radar. Millions are spent on diversity initiatives, companies employ D&I experts, corporations regularly market their diversity. In fact most corporations believe they have solved the issue of diversity. Most companies believe they are following the cutting edge of diversity and inclusion best practices, perhaps even creating these best practices themselves
If you truly believe your company is diverse I would like you to consider this: Only 4% of corporations around the world are diverse. The rest are diversish. A new term for companies who play the game well but fail miserably. For example, check your companies website. Does it indicate that your company is an equal opportunity employer? If so, your company is unlikely to be diverse as Canadians with disabilities typically won't apply.
As an activist with a significant reach into Corporate Canada I see too often the glossy brochures, the fawning over "world class" diversity initiatives, the complete lack of understanding that diversity, when ingrained in a Corporations culture, pays massive dividends, creates competitive advantages while at the same time placing such companies as leaders in their sector.
96% of companies fall into the Diversish category unless they are one of the few companies who have done nothing at all and yes, it's difficult to believe but there are a handful of Canadian Multi-nationals who have done nothing beyond the basics of legislative compliance. They know only too well who they are. They will be irrelevant soon enough.
The easy piece of the diversity platform is to ensure women are employed in senior management roles. Most corporations have done so but wage parity is still an issue, women as governors on private sector corporate boards are still a minority with about 15-18% of board seats held by women. As we move along the spectrum of diversity the numbers shrink. People of different cultures, religion and LGBT in recent years have being Included more often but still lack reasonable numbers. For many companies, inclusion of these workers is about box ticking, tokenism perhaps.
Moving further along the spectrum of diversity and the numbers fall off the chart. People with disabilities and workers from First Nations communities. StatsCan recently published updated data showing that 22-24% of Canadians have a a disability. This is astonishing. Only a few years ago we were discussing a figure of 15-16%. We knew well that the number was growing but to go from one on seven to one in four in only ten years is indeed astonishing. The disability community is clearly Canada's largest minority group, more than double the size of the next largest minority group.
Sadly but expectedly the Labour market participation of Canadians with disabilities remains stubbornly low. Statistics indicate 50-54% of Canadians with disabilities are not working however those stats don't include anyone with no marketplace attachment. Therefore the more accurate figure is 70%. The exact same number I used when I first spoke publicly about inclusion in 2007.
We can no longer rely only on the benefits of inclusion to companies. The benefits are obvious to any CEO who takes the time to look at this vast untapped Labour force but they usually ignore this as a result of fear, fear of something they know little about. As well, awareness campaigns are losing favor, it's not working. As well as continuing to discuss how Canadian corporations can and will benefit in so many ways by including skilled, educated, ready and willing workers with disabilities in real jobs for competitive salaries we have to ensure companies understand what a culture of inclusion looks like. We must continue to explain why corporate culture without inclusion is an automatic acceptance into the club known as being Divershish
Don't be Divershish.
Please click on this short video. This is an amusing take on the Diversish world. Keep in mind though that the responses from those acting as senior business leaders are the exact responses I receive from the majority of real business leaders. Enjoy.
Disability Employment Awareness Month
Retail Inclusion, A Lost Opportunity
Now that Ontario's Bill 148, the Employment Standards Act, has entered its 9th month we are starting to see an increase in the number of workers with disabilities finding jobs. As reported previously on the Inclusion Revolution blog, many workers with disabilities lost their jobs when the minimum wage went to $14 per hour.
The loss of jobs hit the retail sector the hardest. It is estimated that 65-70% of workers with intellectual disabilities who work regularly are employed in the retail sector with the largest number working in the QSR (Quick Service Restaurant) sector. Not only were jobs lost, workers who remained had their shifts and hours cut. As well, the next cohort of workers who were ready to start work, were held back from January-April of this year. The cost to the economy of the intellectually challenged community was high.
The good news is that this is changing. However this change, which is benefiting new sectors, has not bounced back for the retail sector. Why? Because there is a lack of leadership in all retail areas.
More people with disabilities are finding work today than ever before. Some agencies such as ODEN (Ontario Disability Employment Network) are reporting that they simply cannot keep up with demand. This is wonderful news indeed. In fact, many of these jobs are in manufacturing, especially food manufacturing where wages are high and benefits are the norm. Compared to the QSR sector, entry-level jobs typically pay minimum wage and benefits are rare.
The list of companies who are building capacity with workers who have a disability is impressive. The work of advocates and activists is clearly paying off. Some of this, of course, is born of necessity as our shrinking labour force means employers have to reach out to normally shunned demographics. The disability community of course being the largest one.
According to Joe Dale, executive director of ODEN, these companies take about 8-10 months from initial contact to the individual's first working shift. The good news however is that the company then employs 10-12 workers at a time, building capacity right away.
Where does this leave the retail sector?
A lack of inclusion reduces profits. It's that simple. It reduces innovation, it increases turnover and it increases absenteeism relative to those companies that do have inclusive practices. It reduces sales and it reduces transactions.
Currently there is no leadership in the retail sector. Not only are brands not participating in inclusive practices, associations supporting retail brands lack leadership as well. A quick view of any of their websites will show this to be a fact. Of course they all indicate that they are inclusive and accessible but overall this is lip service.
This means there is a massive opportunity out there for a brand to capitalize on a clear competitive advantage. McDonalds at one time (1993) was going to be the countries star employer for youth with disabilities. The program died before launch when George Cohen, then CEO, left the company.
Who wants this? Would A&W like to add 15% to its bottom line and be the leader in inclusion for the retail sector? What about the GAP? Would they like to capitalize on a sure thing? Enjoy low turnover?
What about Wendy's? Would they like to see increased traffic, transactions, sales? Or would they rather leave that to Subway and lose precious market share?
What about the Bay, Home Depot, Walmart?
This is a massive opportunity to be Canada's leader of inclusion in the retail sector
Who wants it?
Service Animals Banned Again; I Shih-Tsu Not
The Normalization of Bigotry Against the Disabled in America
Regardless of whose politics one follows or supports, there is little doubt that the President of the United States has normalized racism and bigotry.
Not only is there plenty of evidence that the President himself is a bigot and perhaps a white supremacist, it is also clear that President Trump has surrounded himself with like-minded advisors, he has also placed like-minded people in very important positions where their views on race, religion, sexual orientation and much more are, to be charitable, horrible.
What was once considered to be in very poor taste only two years ago is now normal. President Trump has given his supporters license to act boorishly and act with ignorance towards any group they don't like. It is now normal for a white guest on a talk show to say to a black guest, who's opinion he doesn't agree with, "are you out of your cotton picking mind"
Yes, the normalization of such comments. Two years ago that comment could have been a career ender, today it's ok. It's ok because the President permits and actively encourages such behavior.
Imagine what would have happened if President Obama or President Bush had called legal asylum seekers animals. The outrage would have been huge but not with President Trump. We have become so accustomed to his dreadful behavior that we internalize it as perfectly normal.
It's up to all of us to stick up for minority groups who are under siege, living in fear, targets of hate. However there is one vulnerable group that the current regime have attacked who are often unable to defend themselves; people living with disabilities.
The first incident against the disabled was during the election in 2016 when Trump mimicked reporter Serge Kovaleski who has Cerebral Palsy. Trump denied doing so as he so often does but the behaviour was obvious, clear and horrible. The Future Presidents actions should have damaged his election prospects, they didn't. The normalization of bad behaviour was clearly underway.
In the past week we have another glaring example. This time from Trump political campaigner Corey Lewandowski. Lewandowski upon learning an 8 year old child with Down Syndrome had been separated from her mother used a cartoon Tuba sound that has the same effect as meaning "you lose" or "who cares"
Remember, it didn't start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with an "us vs them". It started with intolerance and hate speech and when people stopped caring, became desensitized and turned a blind eye. Hate became normalized.
Remember, they came for the disabled first.
America. A once respected world leader, a country that has done so much for the world, now to be remembered for the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens.
The Demise of the Sheltered Workshop Model
December 1st 2015 I was walking towards the House of Parliament in Whitehall, London to listen to a debate on the distribution of funding for Autism programs in the U.K. when my phone rang.
It was Moira Welsh, an investigative journalist from the Toronto Star whom I had been working with for over a year on the subject of Ontario's Sheltered Workshops. A Sheltered Workshop is a manufacturing or packaging business staffed by "workers" who are intellectually challenged. Moira had written an expose on these locations with the first post published a few days prior to this phone call. The second was published November 30th, the day before the phone call. There were other posts ready to publish.
For years I and many others had fought hard to close down these dreadful entities. Many in society wrongly believe that these places are doing good work, that it is a safe place for these individuals to go to, to socialize and to earn some money.
The reality is very different. First, none of these workers in the 45 or so large workshops in the Province earn anything at all. Perhaps in some cases they may earn a stipend, perhaps a movie pass after a weeks work. Secondly, the only people working at these shops are those with intellectual disabilities, secluded from the rest of society. These workshops are often connected to or associated with social service agencies such as Goodwill, Community Living, the Salvation Army and others therefore they receive funding through the Ministry of Community and Social Services.
Seclusion by design is oppression.
Despite our work to challenge various governments to change course, close down the model and get these individuals into real jobs, nothing happened until that phone call from Moira. Moira says to me, "Mark are you sitting down?" "the Government has caved, the sheltered workshop model is dead"
This happened as a result of the Stars expose.
The Minister responsible for this decision was Helena Jaczek, Minister of Community and Social Services. It was a brave decision indeed because many non-disabled people relied on the sheltered workshops for their income, managing the shops, while parents of adult children working in the shops did not at first understand what would happen to their sons and daughters. There was fear and that of course was understandable.
Sheltered workshops have often been depicted as sophisticated slavery. Very few countries in the world allow them to exist, Canada has been ridiculed by European countries for continuing to use this model. The workshops were originally created after World War II to rehabilitate injured soldiers so they could return to work. In the late 70's someone came up with the idea that this would work also for those with disabilities. Perhaps it would have been if the idea was a stepping stone to real work for real pay but that rarely happens.
One may wonder how it is possible that workers can earn less than minimum wage in Canada. The Employment Standards Act has a carve out that allows a sheltered workshop to pay by piece work. The shop however determines the production goal and often that goal is beyond the means of even non-disabled workers. In fact even with Bill 148 in place in Ontario with a new minimum wage of $14 per hour, sheltered workshops still can continue to pay workers whatever they wish.
The reason I am writing about this today is because this week a group of parents and support workers from Guelph traveled to Queens Park to protest the closing of the workshops. These parents are desperate however they are misguided. One parent pointed out that her son enjoyed going to work and socializing with others. Of course he does, he knows no other normal, he doesn't know what he doesn't know. Social media for the most part supported these parents because as I said previously society doesn't typically understand the damage these workshops are doing.
The government gave the workshops a soft deadline of five years to transition. From my perspective more than half the workers in a sheltered workshop are employable in real jobs for real pay in the private sector. The Government did not legislate the end of the model and that in my opinion was a mistake because some shops have gone underground, rebranded as gathering spots with no programs or strategies while some have approached private sector donors so that they can continue.
For those who can't work in real jobs, innovative programs need to be designed. Life skills programs in an inclusive setting where these individuals are interacting every day with people who are not disabled.
People with intellectual disabilities reach their full potential in the workplace while working with those without disabilities. They mimic or try to be like those around them. If they are in a workshop with other people like them, the set the bar extremely low, in a real job they try to emulate those who are so called typically normal. Only then can a worker with an intellectual disability be the best they can be.
Although I certainly feel the frustration and fear of the families who traveled to Queens Park this week, a return to this dreadful model must never happen. The transition is under way, it's not easy but it is entirely necessary so that thousands of Ontarian's with intellectual disabilities can live a life where they are independent, supporting themselves and living life to its fullest. Anything less is unacceptable.
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Uruguay vs Egypt Match results ,highlights,Goal scored,stats fifa 2018:- On the second day of FIFA world cup, Uruguay won the match by 1-0 to egypt, From the side of Uruguay only 1 goal is played which is main turning point of the match, in the 89 min of the match Jose Gimenez makes a wonderful and make their team wins the match.Here we are giving the complete result for Uruguay vs Egypt .Uruguay won their opening match after long time since 1970,they are enjoying it very much and looking for the next match in the tournament.
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Jose Gimenez : 89′
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Total shots:- 8 – 15
Shots on target- 3-4
Possession- 41%-59%
Fouls- 12-6
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À la recherche de Dan Cooper
I was recently hired by PIX3 Films to create the title sequence as well as some other animated sequences for the documentary "À la recherche de Dan Cooper" or "In Search of Dan Cooper."
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This sort of overlaid text effect was once fairly common in advertising.
To create "space" around the overlying text, you need to make a selection of your uppermost text, expand your selection and using that "expanded" selection "cut out" your underlying text.
Now that is fine if your underlying text is a raster layer, but what if that layer is a vector? And what if you wish to move your uppermost text a smidgeon? It is certainly annoying to have to "undo/redo multiple steps".
The answer is to use a mask and link it to the top text layer:
1 First create a background layer [not absolutely necessary but I find it helps :) I used white
2 Create your bottom vector text . I used a red fill and no outline but any would do.
3 New mask layer -show all
4 Create new vector layer for your uppermost text make sure it is NOT within this layer group but in a separate vector layer above it. [Layer > new vector layer]
Place it in the approximate final position
Place it in the approximate final position
5 Carefully select the actual text vector. Create a selection from vector layer. [Selection>selection from vector]
Selection>Modify> expand by 2 [or a value which suits i.e. creates a little space around your topmost text]
6 Keep selection. Go down to your mask and fill with black #000000.
7 Select none. Notice how now part of that underlying text is masked out.
We will now link the actual mask to the overlying text.
We will now link the actual mask to the overlying text.
8 While the mask layer is still selected, hold down the control Ctrl key and also select your top text and link these two.
This will enable you to move the mask and top text as one -important if you want to shift its position.
You can now alter your background to whatever you like and your bottom text layer will stay "cut out" .
You can also convert your text layers to rasters and apply any effects or simply alter their properties. At any time later, you can move that top text layer and the cutout effect on the lower text layer will "follow" it.


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The Lobster Pot
3 Kennington L
London, SE11 4RG
This mom & pop shop in Kennington has been quietly been doing its thing for more than 20 years, long before the city went crazy for lobster. With a kitschy nautical thing going on, complete with fake seagulls and sea shanties on loop on the overhead, their menu is pretty extensive but the obvious winner here is their lobster, which they pick up daily at Billingsgate. You can get a whole one, or even throw and extra half on one on anything else you fancy.


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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
Burns, Jim
(1948- ) Welsh painter and illustrator. JB works in oils, and favours a colour scheme featuring muted browns in a composition consisting typically of static three-quarter-length standing figures against a background of space hardware and alien architecture. His early influences were Frank Hampson (1917-1985) and Frank Bellamy. In recent years he has begun to use a fresher colour range and his compositions have become more varied and subtle.
On leaving St Martin's School of Art, London, JB joined the agency Young Artists and worked on book covers, inclining more and more towards sf. He worked on the aborted project to bring Dan Dare to tv, painting large extraterrestrial backgrounds. He did 30 large oil paintings to illustrate the novella Planet Story (graph 1979) by Harry Harrison (1925-2012). He worked briefly on Ridley Scott's ill-fated «Dune» project, and did design paintings for Blade Runner (1982). He also worked on the design stage of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 miniature electric vehicle project. He did a series of b/w illustrations for Eye (coll 1985) by Frank Herbert.
JB won the Hugo Award as Best Professional Artist in 1987; he was the first non-US artist to do so. He won it again in 1995. [RT]
Other work: Lightship (graph coll 1986), with text by Chris Evans (1951- ).
Jim Burns
This entry is taken from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) edited by John Clute and John Grant. It is provided as a reference and resource for users of the SF Encyclopedia, but apart from possible small corrections has not been updated.


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A glance at todays headlines. Shame, despair, fear and hopelessness are skillfully manipulated into a nearing crisis point and subsequent handing or taking over of power and authority into a spiraling up control grid.
Overpowered by emotions or circumstances, we often look outward and upward for a solution, though – absent the Lord – not high enough.
Neither national governments or European authorities have the wisdom, ability or authority necessary to manage, control and solve the wittingly designed and meticulously orchestrated globalizing crises such as this European migration crisis.
We are witnessing the Hegelian dialectic played out right in front of our eyes in its finalizing stages, following ever upscaling patterns.
Problem -> reaction -> solution
Thesis – > antithesis -> synthesis
Induced disorder/conflict/chaos -> external intervention/transfer of authority -> upward power consolidation into fewer hands
polarization of reality – logical exchange – resolution
The future anti-christ (embodied…
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Craniometry is once again being used as a tool for understand population relationships. OK, it was never abandoned, but it's undergone something of a resurgence.
But, let's begin with Franz Boas: a major critic of typological racial thinking, he and his followers were very influential in introducing environmental factors into anthropometry – stressing the importance of health, diet, etc, on patterns in the skeletal form. In a famous study of European immigrants and their children who were raised in the USA, he found the children had different cranial measures than the parents. Though Boas wouldn't have argued that there was no biological component to human variation, it marked a trend towards focussing on anthropometrics as measuring environmental changes, and a rejection of racial classifications.
But a few years ago, there was some dispute over whether Boaz' conclusions really held up on re-analysis of his work. Relethford, in "Boas and Beyond: Migration and Craniometric Variation" (2004), responding to both sides, does a good job of getting to what is important: there was indeed a change in cranial measurements – but that did not obscure an underlying pattern, which you can see in this graph:
It turns out that we can get multiple pieces of data from anthropometric data:
– environmental (health/diet/etc)
– phylogenetic
– adaptative differences
The three all run the risk of obscuring each other, but we have reason to believe that they have not.
Population level differences can be caused by: health, diet, physical activity, etc. but, as shown above, they do not eliminate phylogenetic data. Neither does adaptation. If all populations were adapted for their own environment, then their phenotypic characteristics should be similar only in so far as their habitat is similar. But here we see another table from Relethford, comparing phenotypic difference to geographic distance, which shows that, similarly to the neutral genetic data, phenotypic distance increases with geographics distance, indicating that, like with our genetic data, our phylogenetic information remain intact because much of our phenotypic variation is neutral.
There has, of course, been adaptation as well, it's just that it hasn't obscured the neutral cranial variation. In the next table you can see the Fst values for a number of cranial measurements. Fst values measure population differentiation, and thus higher Fst values are likely to indicate selection (those Fst values that are above 0.3 are bolded and may likely indicate selective pressure).
As mentioned before, this is all very convenient: we can look for adaptive changes through high Fst values, but there clearly hasn't been so much that phylogenetic information has been obscured; and we also can look at anthropometric data for all kinds of information on past health, but neither does this totally obscure phylogeny, which allows us to look at population relationships.
However, the craniometric data is not the same as neutral genetic data – it has less population structure, and is "less able to identify nonclinal variations among populations (which would be in accordance with the existence of biological races in the human species) than molecular data are" (Strauss & Hubbe, 2010).
Strauss & Hubbe use a dissimiliarty fraction (ω): " the proportion of pairs of individuals from the same population that is genetically more different than pairs sampled from different populations." In the context of genetic data, using the dissimilarity fraction showed that, once enough loci were sampled, the notion that people from the same population are often more genetically distinct than those from different populations, was falsified – reaching 0 after 800 loci were studied – in other words: "when more than 800 loci are considered, no pair of individuals from the same population is more different than any pair of individuals from any two populations."
However, when they used this method on craniometric data, the same result was not found. When using genetic data, ω decline to 0; however, with craniometric data ω reached only a mean of 0.3. That is, about a third of the pairs within a population are more different than pairs between populations. This is despite the samples being obtained from widely separate populations, which should have enhanced differentiation.
A helpful note on the lack of resolution of craniometric data is provided by the authors when they note that "the population history signal of human craniometric traits presents the same resolution as a neutral genetic system dependent on no more than 20 loci."
As mentioned, this means craniometric data supports "the notion of an absence of discrete biological groups… [and] indicates that cranial morphology is less able to identify nonclinal variations among populations."
But then, why the success in using craniometric data to sort skulls correctly into populations? Strauss and Hubbe point out the importance of 'centroids' in these studies: "…classificatory analyses achieve high levels of success because they depend on the a priori definition of group centroids.As a consequence, when a large number of variables is considered, the probability that this kind of analysis will find a dimension in the original data that differentiates among the a priori defined groups is high. Yet the precise biological significance of this kind of difference is hard to establish, especially when the high values of dissimilarity fractions reported here are considered. High rates of correct discrimination of groups can thus be misleading in understanding the structure of human biological diversity."
However, this is not, I think, the final word on craniometry and population structure. It is possible that newer craniometric techniques are changing the picture. For example, traditionally measurements have been linear, but new 3D methods are being developed that show greater ability to sort into populations.
Consider for example a recent paper: "Identification of Group Affinity from Cross-sectional Contours of the Human Midfacial Skeleton Using Digital Morphometrics and 3D Laser Scanning Technology" (2011).
The authors compared their ability to sort into populations, using 3D measuring of the midfacial region with traditional linear measurements of the same region. They found they were able to sort into their 3 test populations (European, Chinese & Native Californian) based on only the midfacial region with an average accuracy of 86% using 3D measurements compared with 57% using the linear measurements. It may be that the greater sensitivity of these new techniques may change the picture painted above in terms of population structure resolution achievable with craniometric data (Strauss and Hubbe, in calculating the dissimilarity fraction, used the 55 linear measurements of the skull from Howell's (1995) database). Still, as they note: "the subasymptotic behavior of the ω curves indicates that craniometric measurements become highly redundant when more than 30 variables are included in the analyses." However, the newer 3D measures have found some contours to be "rich in diagnostic shape information." I would also be interested in seeing what the results of using all anthropometric (not just cranial) measurements, would be.


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A few weeks have disappeared while I muddied my own waters and got lost in the shallows. I had ventured forth nurturing a connection and was giving it space and time to see what evolved. My words had changed and were embracing the new, but my emotions were firmly locked back in the past. So guess what happened? I got a repeat of the past.
All of life is energy and we are all energy. What is reflected back to us, is what we are putting out there energetically, no matter what words or actions we dress it up in. Some of us are facing tragic, difficult and at times overwhelming circumstances, yet we still have the power to choose our own thoughts. We also have the power to change the patterns that our thoughts are driving.
We feel our way through life with our emotions sparking from our thoughts, which then drive our words and actions. We get what we focus our attention on, so it is natural to want to nurture and foster thoughts that ease us into a contented space. We can choose our thoughts.
I watched the planes on the distant horizon coming in to land this morning. The sky was dark with snow clouds and every now and then, as they circled, the plane's lights would shine through the murk.
I have had two significant sparks shine through in the last twenty four hours. One was from a loving friend sitting in my 'happy bubble' favourite chair and watching the view. She was listening to me natter away and with her insightful way of being she suddenly swung her gaze onto me and said 'What you have just said is a great idea, how about doing that?' and I felt the energy of it, smiled at her and it took root. ❤ The second spark came as I watched the planes, again from my favourite chair. I 'twigged' that I had got exactly what my emotions expected with the way recent events unfolded. It simply is what it is, because it matched my emotional energy vibration.
We choose what we focus on and life, being the natural force that it is, will flow it back to us. Return and repeat.
It makes you think doesn't it? What thoughts we can foster to nurture and grow contented plants in our life gardens. We choose our thoughts and that can change our patterns.