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|NZ Herald 13 November 1917
Just recently I signed up to an ancestor-searching website for a month (ancestor.com). For a long time I had had an itch to look back over my ancestors and discover more about them. Like most New Zealanders I faced the fracture which is emigration - a fracture so profound that the life left behind in Britain faded away into mystery, fable and - silence.
It was slightly different with my mother's family, the Northes of Napier. In my grandmother's house there was the evidence of the pre-New Zealand past - in fact her whole house was like an encyclopedia - a small watercolour of an ancestor, a silken address from Australia in the 1840s when my Northe ancestor moved on to New Zealand. There were also those gold nuggets - old letters.
It was different with my father's family. The Wells seemed deeply mysterious, or rather the silence was porous with meaning. I never knew what to make of this. Dad never ever spoke about his family.
Much later, towards the end of my father's life, his aged older brother arrived from Melbourne. He may have been in an early stage of Alzeiheimers. But in one memorably awkward family dinner, he said that my Wells grandfather had not died of a heart attack - the one fact I did know - but rather he had killed himself. This was met by my parent's concentrated attempt to shut him up.
It was this latter response which made me think what my uncle said might have some truth in it. If it was a complete fantasy,they could have blown it away with a laugh. Instead both of them tried to suppress the story.
Dad asked his brother to leave after that.
Anyway long story short, that was about all I knew about my Wells ancestors. Except two intriguing and disparate facts - (and often it is the contrast between 'facts' which indicate something interestingly fertile.)
My grandfather and his father were master butchers in New Zealand, largely operating in gold mining areas and becoming reasonably financially secure. But we were also descended - 'somehow' - from the dukes of Marlborough. Butchers - dukes - how much more disparate can you get than this?
This latter fantasy or fact was based on two slim pieces of evidence. Various family members had a middle name of Churcher, or Churchill (the Marlboroughs are Churchills). The other 'fact' was when my father's oldest brother was billeted at Blenheim Palace or nearby during World War One 'he was treated as one of the family' - whatever this meant.
I used to study photographs of my uncles and the Churchills and I thought I could make out similarities between the high forehead and thin noses. There was an undeniable likeness.
Alas, or rather not alas - there appears to be no basis for this enticing rumour. (And just about every colonial family has a myth of aristocratic origins. This is maybe wish fulfilment for the often grubby attempt to make a living in difficult conditions. Or it may just be a reflection of our class-obsessed British origins. In this world of the past, only aristocrats or similar were real. Everyone else was 'nobody'.
Part of this was based on literacy. The illiterate from the past cannot, perforce, speak. They are silenced by their inability to write information which lasts into the future. Whereas the educated (well off) are endlessly gabby, in letters, diaries and those other fascinating bulletins of class and insight, like the novels of Jane Austen.
So who were the Wells?
I was astonished at how easy it was to find out information about them once I began to use on-line tools. The Mormon online search engine, familysearch.org, is powerful, and by pressing on the parent's name of each entry, you leapfrog back into the past.
In one intoxicating morning I traced my Wells ancestors back to the time of King James Ist (the 1600s). I was absolutely astonished and amazed by all these newly found out facts.
It appeared they had lived for almost two centuries in a small village called Selborne, in Hampshire. (It was one village over from Chawton where Jane Austen actually did write many of her novels.) They were skilled artisans, small landowners and yeomen. Some had enough money to leave wills, which I am in the process of sending away to find out the contents.
In the 1820s they left Selborne forever, going to the biggest city in Hampshire - Portsmouth. By this stage two brothers were builders and lived beside each other in the same street.
Their father was wealthy. He was also a builder and I wondered if he had prospered throwing up those Georgian/Regency terrace houses which are so typical of the period. This meant they left Selborne before the village participated in the 'Swing Riots' of the 1830s. (This was when a starving group of labourers burnt down a work-house and generally terrified the landed classes that a French Revolution-type event was on their doorstep. The instigators were packed off to Australia as convicts.)
There was no evidence of any connection to the Churchills. Churcher was the maiden name of one of the Wells wives and she seemed unspectacular by background.
On line tools further enriched my research.
I went on google earth and strolled round Selborne which is one of those rare beautiful little English villages, all thatched cottages and leafy lanes. It is set in a vast national park. The next time I am in England I will make sure I go and visit.
But google earth was invaluable in another way. I wanted to go to Portsmouth to see where the family had lived. But operating the widget on google earth as I strolled down stereotypically ugly postwar development I realised I didn't need to go.
The street where the Wells lived in Portsea, in Portsmouth, had been bombed so badly in WW2 that all historical spaces had vanished.
What astonished me was the way the internet 'community' provided so much information. I began to realise that each Wells family member had on average eight to thirteen children - and each of these had a similar number of children so the internet reach of shared relations is enormous, multiplying exponentially generation by generation. This means someone you don't know on the other side of the globe shares the same ancestor and might have information on him or her.
Imagine my surprise and then excitement to find a photograph of my Wells ancestor who migrated to New Zealand. I had never had any photos of my Wells ancestors. My grandfather who died of a 'heart attack' had died in 1924. There was no photo of this mysterious man. This was a photo of his father - the somewhat grandly named Frederick Augustus Churcher Wells. Ironically it turned out this was the man who actually did die of a heart attack.
Photographs of ancestors have a compelling presence. You read them in so many ways. First of all for family likeness. Then there are all the other incidentals - dress, state of wealth or poorness, ease or unease, fantasy backdrop, photographer's name and place.
This photograph of my great-grandfather was also incidentally one of his wife, my great-grandmother, a woman about whom I knew not a single fact. (Apart from her name Margaret Bryson Paul.) Here the photo is - I can just make out it was taken in Thames and from the woman's dress it appears to be between 1893-1896 (puffed mutton-sleeves were fashionable in that period.)
Alas my great-grandmother looks like she is facing a machine gun rather than a camera. She seems prim, self enclosed and thin-lipped and censorious. This is quite possibly completely wrong, as people often froze before the camera, overwhelmed with this encounter with eternity.
But my ancestor (male) has a definite presence, almost, one would risk saying, a panache.
He is in his sixties but sits erect and with a flower in his buttonhole. I can imagine him in a striped butcher's apron.
He is also, not coincidentally, very like my father in his old age. The likeness is remarkable.
I found out some fascinating facts about Frederick AC Wells. His grandfather was a wealthy property developer in Regency Portsmouth, but his grandson Fred AC Wells appeared to make a hasty marriage as 20 year old to a woman who had a son to him. Two years later, he appears to have abandoned them and migrated to New Zealand in 1864.
Whether he was going to bring them out later, or he simply vanished, I do not know. It may be an explanation for why information on the Wells family back in Britain was so scanty. But the really interesting thing is that as a 22 year old he 'married' again - to the NZ-born woman in the photograph. If his first wife was still alive, this was a bigamous marriage - a not uncommon thing in colonial times, when migration acted as an informal act of divorce.
Amazingly an obituary turned up of him in the Ohinemuri Gazette of 1917. It had interesting details - a tent set up in Grahamstown - where is that? - as his first butcher's shop - his knowledge of the mining industry and apparent large numbers of shares in various gold mines. But the coincidence of history struck me forcibly when it said he had died of a heart attack in Fort Street, Auckland. Or rather, he had had a seizure in the street and was carried along to the Imperial Hotel, where he died.
My father, his grandson, worked in the handsome 1920s National Bank in Fort Street - it was a kind of Art Deco Assyrian temple wastefully pulled down in that nadir period for Auckland, the 1980s. But Dad also used to drink after work at the Imperial Hotel. I wondered if he had any idea that his own grandfather had expired in one of the rooms. I don't think so, because I think this fruity fact might have slipped out.
I like to think of this kind of meeting at the crossroads. The whole experience of internet searching of ancestors is like this - a meeting at a global crossroads. There is a whole world of people who lost the information of where they came from. Diasporas occurred all round the world, especially in the 19th century. This fracture is in many Pakeha family trees. Then along comes the remarkable flotsam and jetsam of information on the internet, which, to the individual concerned, is as vivid as a personal keyhole into the past.
The only problem is ancestor-hunting is of interest only to the individual involved, or at most, certain elderly members of his or her family. To everyone else it is an area of extravagant boredom.
My partner has been kind and listened to my 'exciting' discoveries but I can tell by the lack of follow-up comments that he is only being vestigially polite. (His one response was to google how common the Wells surname was among English surnames. It came out at 147th. Since his surname is Jenkins, I didn't take this too seriously. But possibly if one multiplies the lack of interest by 147 you get the depth of boredom that 'granny-hunting' so called engenders among those simply 'not interested'.
Yet the fact is at night I can barely sleep as I think up new ways to explore the meaning of 'facts'. (I am resting in between sending my next book off to the publisher and getting it back from the editor.)
Now…onto looking at where Grahamstown is, and where the Taruro cemetery is - this is where the bones of my great-grandfather lie.
I forsee a visit coming up.


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Nestlé CEO: Let God Handle Global Warming
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Climate change threatens one of the single most crucial ingredients at Nestlé, the world's largest food company. However, instead of demanding for aggressive action to cut carbon emissions, Nestlé's chairman denies that humans are the cause of global warming at all.
In an interview with The Guardian, Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck argued against climate action, arguing the change in global temperature is natural and cyclical — a familiar point from the climate denier playbook. He worried that confronting the issue is similar to humans playing "God":
Climate change is an intrinsic part of the development of the world. Since the world has existed we have had climate changes and we will have climate change as long as the world exists … For me the issue is more about what can we do in order to adapt to climate change and perhaps to try to gain more time … Are we God to say the climate, as it is today, is the one we have to keep? That's the way it's going to be? We are not God. What we have to assure is that climate change happens within a timeframe that humankind can adapt to.
If too much CO2 emission is accelerating climate change in a manner that will take away the possibility for us to adapt to it then we have a problem, but what I think is wrong to say is that we are going to stop climate change today. It's not the natural approach. What we have to get to grips with is the speed with which climate change is happening and to have the same speed for us to adapt to it.
It is a strange position to take for a chocolate producer, because the $9 billion cocao industry faces a serious blow from climate change. By 2050, the land supplying half the world's cocoa may become unsuitable for farming, because it will be too hot for the heat-sensitive cacao tree. It's not the only food being ruined due to a drier, hotter climates: The supply for coffee, grapes, apples, peanut butter, and maple syrup is shrinking too. Brabeck's strange logic here also suggests there is a ceiling to warming, regardless of how much pollution there is. But scientists have warned that even a 2 degrees Celsius threshold may already be out-of-reach.
Brabeck has controversial opinions on water too, another consequential area impacted by climate change. Last year, he was accused of arguing water is not a human right and should be privatized. Brabeck has since clarified: He thinks water for drinking and hygeine is a right, but the rest of it, 98.5 percent, should be in private hands.
Nestlé itself takes a very different position on the seriousness of greenhouse gasses. Nestlé's website states, "We believe that governments, companies and individuals must take measures both to reduce air emissions, and to adapt to climate change."
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It's awesome to have studio celebrities on your team that pack out every class. But how can you define their 'X factor', and what can you do with those who don't appear to possess it?
As a group fitness coordinator, my role is to continually create a high performing team and culture that makes group fitness shine from the inside out. I believe there are two components to success when it comes to group fitness: amazing programs and, more importantly, amazing instructors. I recently reviewed my own skills and those of my instructors in an attempt to better understand the types of players that make up a group fitness team and their impact on overall team performance.
It became clear that my team possessed a variety of skills and personal attributes. It was made up of:
1. Instructors who had amazing knowledge, with some even being qualified PTs
2. Instructors who were reliable team players willing to step in and lend a hand to their team mates whenever needed
3. Instructors who were conscientious and took pride in the package they presented both in and out of their classes through preparation, presentation, and active interaction with the team both on and off the job
4. Instructors who were visionaries, challenging the norm and providing ideas to further the development of the team and the programming
5. Instructors who really wanted to connect with people and who used their classes and their environment to do this. These ones could usually be found chatting with the staff and members after the class.
After giving myself a high five for creating such a well-rounded team on paper, I had to face the fact that, actually, it still wasn't performing as well as it could be. It was clear that although there was a good mix of team players onboard, there were big variations in the class numbers they achieved.
It appeared that there were some instructors on my team who, despite not having the entire list of desired skills and attributes, had that something… extra; that something that made participants flock to their classes regardless of their skill or style of program they taught.
I understood that people just 'liked' them, and I also knew that they were the types of people who could really bring home the bacon and push a team to new heights when it came to group fitness. I guess you could say they had the 'X factor'.
So what is the X factor?
The Oxford Dictionary defines the 'X factor' as: A noteworthy special talent or quality or A variable in a given situation that could have the most significant impact on the outcome. Unsatisfied with traditional definitions, I decided to consult the Urban Dictionary which defines the X factor as: an indescribable quality or something about a person that you cannot put a finger on… Je ne sais quoi.
Great, I thought, how am I supposed to find and recruit instructors with this X factor if the quality is indescribable? Well, maybe it's not. I thought back to the first time I stepped into a group fitness class way back in 1995. Now, it was a long time ago and I may have been wearing a G-string leotard, but I remember that from the first moment I was absolutely hooked, mesmerised by the alluring combination of lycra, fitness, choreography, loud pumping music and a group of which I was automatically a part.
We were all in this together, and the instructor was instantly my idol. I was grape-vining, easy walking and rocking horsing my way into fitness heaven and my most immediate concern was going home to beg my mother to buy me a pair of Reebok ankle high cross trainers, and a fancy new pair of bike pants so I could be just like my instructor… It was a 90's thing. In my mind, this instructor was a superstar and I knew that one day I was going to be just like her. She had style, a great body and a great outfit, but most of all she had a great personality. She was funny, she wanted to know my name, she wanted me to know the other people's names and she wanted us all to have fun. She 'cared' about me, and as a result I'd never wanted to be better at anything more in my entire life, so I signed up – first for a class, and then for a career.
These studio celebrities still exist today, and participants are still mesmerised by them. They take things to the next level and inspire their participants, igniting the fire that drives them to be their best, helping them to grow both inside and outside the studio. The ripple effect of this is that the family and friends of these participants notice the change in them, and can either be inspired or challenged by it. If the former, they will also come along to class hoping for a taste of the good stuff. They too are welcomed and included by the X factor instructor, and the army grows.
Active ingredient X
Based on my experiences, and my observations, I've come to the conclusion that, despite initial elusiveness, there are certain qualities that give these instructors their X factor.
1. Passion
Passion needs no words. It shines through any activity when it's present. Have you ever found anything hard to do when you were passionate about it? Personally, when I'm passionate about something, I put a lot of thought into it, I never miss it and I want to know everything about it. Instructors who are passionate about their classes always come prepared, rarely take time off and take pride in delivering their amazing experiences to others. It's not just a job, it's a privilege, and an opportunity to live from the heart, a place of satisfaction and joy.
2. Knowledge
Despite knowing a lot about the programs they deliver, passionate instructors never stop learning. They are always observing, open to formal and informal feedback and keen to try out new ideas. They are continually seeking self-improvement, and passing this knowledge on to their participants.
3. Awareness
Great instructors have a heightened level of awareness. They are always observing themselves and others, reading the room, reading the body language, watching their emotions and taking responsibility for their actions. This awareness allows them to know exactly where their motivation comes from and give it permission to drive their behaviours.
4. Authenticity
X factor instructors believe and practice what they preach. Nothing sells like congruency and authenticity. People can smell a fake a mile away. When participants know they are getting the real deal, it builds instant trust and long-lasting loyalty.
In addition, these people are natural teachers and natural performers; they have that winning balance of entertainment and education; of attention seeking and attention giving. They can own the floor while at the same time sharing it, a skill many find challenging.
Managing the Why? Factor…
Of course, not everyone who instructs group exercise possesses these qualities. You've doubtless attended classes where you've wondered why the instructor was teaching when they didn't seem to have the right skills or appear to be enjoying themselves. These group fitness experiences leave me perplexed and asking myself, how did this person end up here? Why did they decide group fitness was for them, when they obviously aren't enjoying it?
At some stage in your career you'll find yourself working with an individual or a team of people that don't appear to have the X factor. This doesn't necessarily mean that it's not there, just that they may not be in touch with their own passion, or allowing it to be their driving force. For some, it's a lack of the third quality we discussed – awareness. This is something that can be changed, especially if you are managing, mentoring, coaching or teaching them.
As a group fitness coordinator, it's my responsibility to not only find and employ those with the X factor, but to guide our other great instructors to get in touch with why they do what they do. Simply asking an instructor to reflect on this, what they love about the job in general, and what inspired them to teach the programs they teach, will usually illuminate their motivation pretty quickly. If it doesn't, it may be because specific experiences or circumstances have dampened their enthusiasm. If, after discussing it with them, they remain unsure what they love about the program they teach, they don't like to be in front of a crowd, or they don't enjoy the leadership role in some capacity, then perhaps group fitness instructing is not for them. If the barriers can be identified and addressed, however, the instructor may be able to re-kindle their motivation into the raging passion that is the heart of the X factor.
This isn't a passion that is simply switched on in the studio though: it permeates their everyday life and trickles into the lives of their participants. It comes from the soul. Of the four qualities discussed above, some are innate, and some can be learnt. When an instructor lives their passion, however, they become authentic and congruent, meaning that there is no line between work and play. This is the dream, and these people are living it. No wonder it's infectious! Instructors with the X factor are the catalysts that ignite the passions in their participants (just like my 16-year-old lycra-clad self), some of whom go on to become amazing instructors themselves. They support the talent and share their stage to mentor the new generation of instructors; they consciously and unconsciously create the X factor blueprint that keeps the industry alive.
It's never too late to find the hidden stars who do have passion, who do love people and who do have that X factor – it's just a matter of helping them uncover their motivations, gain self-awareness and really understand what programs and situations fire them up. After a little digging and some strategic instructor 'Tetris' to get everyone teaching the programs they love, you can establish that next level of group ex excellence – the illustrious Group X Factor Team.
Caroline Hynes is an experienced fitness professional currently employed as an instructor, teacher, tutor and group fitness coordinator within the industry. With a passion for group fitness and education, she is committed to doing all she can to see group fitness continue to thrive through the development and education of current and future fitness instructors.


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2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
sea salt and pepper to taste
Preheat oven to 450°. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place the onions on the baking sheet. Drizzle the olive oil over them and season them with the salt and pepper. Toss them well. Spread them evenly over the baking sheet. Bake them for 20-25 minutes, turning about every 5 minutes, until the onions are cooked through and caramelized (soft and lightly browned).
Makes 4 Servings (1/4 cup each)
Recipe printed from http://TheSlowRoastedItalian.com/
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|Harmony the Farmer Girl with the new coop
Plus I got out of work early Friday afternoon. After chores I headed for the valley to meet my daughter and oldest grand daughter, Miracle. Miracle likes to draw and had one of her pictures selected to be displayed at the school district's office. I ended up coming home with her baby sister, Harmony.
Harmony is really a farmer girl and game for most anything around here, even if it's a little icky. On Saturday morning we got up early and did all the chores, then headed for Scottsdale. A lovely young woman was moving out of state and I bought this cute little chicken coop from her. She threw in a ton of other chicken paraphernalia along with a little white Silkie hen. (I seem to have become a Silkie magnet, people keep giving them to me!) Harmony helped me get it washed out and sprayed for bugs (just in case) and then we moved Miss Bianca the broody in with her 8 eggs.
Claire and Henny will take a break from breeding over the summer. They will come back in the fall to visit with Claude so we can hatch more babies. When these two girls came to stay with me a couple of Easter egger pullets took their place at Cindy's to produce the breakfast eggs. So those two girls came home with me to rejoin the layer flock here.
In addition Cindy had two young cockerels from Henny and Claude that also came home with me to finish growing out. I'll have to get pictures of them tomorrow.
And today we slept a bit late, did chores and got going. Harmony helped me plant a seedling mulberry tree that sprouted up in one of my pots last year. It's sited so that in a couple of years it will help shade the kennels from the late afternoon sun.


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Dedicated to renowned master of Japanese ceramics – Yuzo Kondo, the Kondo Museum was recently renovated by Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio.
Situated in ancient city of Kyoto, the memorial museum houses traditional blue and white ceramic works of the Yuzo and his next three descendants. Bamboo, stone, traditional Japanese paper, and plaster has been used effectively through out the museum. Using appropriate lighting techniques and display design, the renovated Kondo museum by Architect Shinichi Mamiya seeks to emphasize importance of local art and culture for generations to come. The eye-catching facade features his one his most famous work piece as a par of its window display with a striking yellow entrance door.
Window display showing the artists masterpiece
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Kondo Museum, situated near the main gate of Kyoto's Kiyomizu-dera Temple, by the Chawan-zaka approach to the temple. It is believed that the ancient city of Kyoto is guarded by four mythological creatures in four separate quarters. The area surrounding the temple, is called Higashiyama district. This eastern region of Kyoto has long been known as a holy place of pristine water under the reign of Seiryu, the azure dragon and guardian of the city's east.
In this sacred area, a traditional local craft, known as Kiyomizu ceramics has continued to evolve since the Edo period. This museum was originally established in commemoration of Yuzo Kondo, the renowned master of Kiyomizu ceramics. Our project was to refurbish this memorial museum.
Blue and white ceramic works
The memorial museum was reborn as Kondo Museum, featuring several major ceramic works crafted by Yuzo Kondo, Living National Treasure in the field of blue and white ceramics. Aside from Yuzo's works, Kondo Museum features the work of three of his descendants. His eldest son Yutaka Kondo, his second son Jun Kondo, and his grandson Takahiro Kondo, who have received international acclaim for his artwork.
Artist photographs at display
Museum sections –
This museum comprises four sections as follows:
- The entrance window in which Yuzo's masterpiece, the grand ceramic plate decorated with a drawing of a Japanese apricot is displayed. Although this piece was previously rarely on display to the public, now anyone can appreciate this work of art while passing.
- The exhibition area features work by each of Kondo family's four members: Yuzo, Yutaka, Jun, and Takahiro. The lively style of Yuzo's blue and white ceramics known as Kondo Sometsuke became the family's creative standard. The same has been carried on and further refined by his descendants.
- Yuzo's original workshop built in 1924, in which his valued materials are preserved. A variety of sake cups that he crafted for pleasure are also exhibited.
- The newly built area, hosting the Museum bar, Ryusui. Next to the exhibition area, Ryusui offers a selection of sake, as Kiyomizu is known as the place of pristine water. By providing a sake-tasting experience, Ryusui brings all visitors a profound opportunity to feel and learn more about the history of Kiyomizu through both art appreciation and sake savoring.
Entrance to the museum
Museum Interiors –
The interior atmosphere of the museum is produced using various tints of dark gray and dim lighting. On the walls, ceiling, and floor, the feel of each material, such as bamboo, stone, traditional Japanese paper, and plaster is effectively accentuated. In addition to displaying each work, we aimed to create a space to experience these art pieces in the context of local history and culture.
Artworks at the entrance
Dim lighting and grey interiors
The main feature of museum is flat artwork having width of seven meters, created by Takahiro Kondo using his signature technique, silver mist over-glaze. This striking art piece stands out in this dimly lit place, producing the feel and shimmer of water, with its strong cultural ties to Kiyomizu. The ability to express the characteristics of water in this world of ceramics makes this an extraordinary museum experience.
Sake-tasting experience at Ryusui
Museum Bar area – Ryusui
We hope that this museum will become a new attraction among the bustle of the Chawan-zaka approach as well as a landmark in the culture of ceramics.
Sake bowls/cups at display
Project details –
Project Name – Kondo Museum
Architect – Mamiya Shinichi Design Studio Co., Ltd. | www.m-s-ds.com
Lead Architects – Shinichi Mamiya + Fukushima Takuya
Project location – 1-287 Kiyomizu Shinmachi, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto Pref. , Japan
Project type – Memorial, Museum, Bar, Renovation
Completion Year – 2017
Built up Area – 89.35 m2
Photography Credits – © Yasuko Okamura, © Hiroshi Tanigawa
Structure – Steel
Consultants –
Lighting design – EOS plus
Graphic design – Issei Kitagawa (GRAPH)
Japanese Paper – Wataru Hatano


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Serving as Men and Women for Others
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It is not easy to have a daughter and have her taken away and then, live again. It is really hard. I am trying really hard to be as productive as possible while fighting for you. My thoughts and dreams are all about you. I keep thinking of the days you would fall asleep only if I held you. And, now, you don't even know the person who loves you the most. You are comfortable away in a different country with different people. You are happy too, that's what I want for you. But, I also want to be part of your happiness. I miss you a lot. I keep wondering if there will be a day when you will be in my arms or that day will never come.
I am finding it so difficult to deal with all this. Pain, confusion and love all in one heart. I have no idea how I am living each day but one thing I do know is that I have hope that one day you will know the mother who loves you beyond boundaries. I just wish I held on. I should have held on. I left my most precious thing. I should have held on. I did hold on but I should have tried harder. I miss you so much. There is not a moment I am not thinking of you. This wait is so difficult.


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I don't know how I always end up on a plane or asleep or otherwise unable to catch Nintendo's Direct videos, but that trend didn't stop this week. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze was announced, much to my excitement and the confusion of passersby. A bit of additional good news for long-time fans has come out: David Wise will be composing!
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The 60's and 70's Scoop was a terrible time and for many of us we are still looking for that place we call " Home".
Scott is now Serving time in Angola Prison in the state of Louisiana. He has never met his Canadian Family.
Please click the link at the bottom of this page to help Wilfred Allan Sutherland , Also known as Scott Meyer return home.
HELP CANADIAN 60's SCOOP VICTIM FIND A HAPPY ENDING…AND A NEW BEGINNING!
For many years, the Canadian government seized babies and children of Aboriginal First Nation tribes, and adopted them out to Canadian and American couples of different races. In the early '90s, this genocidal endeavor was exposed, though it still occurs. As a result, and with much effort, many of these long-separated families have been reunited, some decades later.
Happy endings? Not always. Relocated children suffer badly, studies have shown. Not only from the way in which they were taken (sometimes literally ripped from their mothers' arms), but also from loss of identity. As a result, many of them suffer from mental illness or incarceration. The Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, ratified by both The U.S. and Canada in 1983 and enacted in 1985 was successfully utilized to transfer most, jailed in the U.S., home to serve their sentences reunited with their families.
Happy endings? Again, not always. For the Sutherland family of Manitoba, one of their seven seized children remains jailed in Louisiana. [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Camperville+child+scoop+exposed.-a030590820] Despite four unsuccessful attempts by the Canadians, as specified by the Convention, to have him transferred to a prison near his family, a fifth request is now underway. This man is an accomplished scholar, artist, orator, and musician. The facts of his conviction and the excessive sentence he received (149 years) are questionable, at best.
This petition shall be delivered to the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Corrections of Louisiana and both shall be asked to please fix this now!
It is my sincere hope to quickly gather enough signatures, from Canada, the U.S., and abroad, to impact the recipients in a way that they shall have no choice but to remedy the situation immediately. I appreciate your help in signing and sharing the word in an effort to achieve this goal as quickly as possible. Thirty-five years is long enough for him to wait to see his family!
Upon successful conclusion of this matter, I am quite sure he will be eloquent in scribing his own thanks to you all.
Therefore, I hereby present this urgent petition for your signature:
Dear Governor Jindal and Secretary LeBlanc:
Fundamental human rights are of concern to peoples of all nations. Thankfully, there are many structures in place to protect them, such as human rights treaties. The success of all human rights treaties in guaranteeing individual human rights, whether at the international or national level, or at the state level here in the United States, depends on familiarity with the treaties and adherence to them by authorities.
The United States is a member of The Council of Europe, and signed its treaty, the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons, ratified in 1983. The Convention was specific: its primary intent was to facilitate the social rehabilitation of a prisoner by giving a foreigner convicted of a criminal offence the possibility of serving his or her sentence in his or her own country, which is also likely to be the country into which the prisoner will eventually be re-integrated.
Unfortunately, Governor Jindal and Secretary LeBlanc, there is a case pending in Louisiana for over three years that shows blatant disregard for the Council of Europe's Treaty. And this despite your vow earlier this year, according to a recent Advocate article [State's Budget Shortfall May Affect Efforts to Reduce Recidivism, by Michelle Millhollon http://theadvocate.com/news/872921-64/prison-jobs-training-program-faces.html%5D, "to focus more on better preparing offenders to re-enter society, saying that is a cheaper alternative to housing them behind bars if they relapse into crime."
The Louisiana Department of Corrections estimates that while it costs $19,888 to house a state prisoner for a year, it costs $80,000 to house an ailing inmate. (http://louisianaprisonwatch.blogspot.com/2011/06/louisiana-legislature-votes-to-parole.html) Assume 38-year-old Meyers remains incarcerated at Angola – and healthy – for another 40 years. By releasing him now, you will save Louisiana tax payers close to $800,000!
Canada has been requesting the transfer of Angola inmate Scott Meyers, but the requests have been ignored. Mr. Meyers, born Wilfrid Allan Sutherland in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, was stolen from his mother's arms at the age of 4 during the Canadian "60s Scoop" effort to eradicate his native Aboriginal First Nation tribe. He was "adopted out" to a New Orleans family, and was raised there, an only child, never forgetting the day he was ripped away. There is no doubt the psychological impact of this horror had a lot to do with the events that led to his incarceration. His family in Canada has been located, and both the family and Mr. Meyers would like him to be transferred to a prison near them to serve out his time, so that he may finally have a chance to meet and get to know the family he lost so long ago.
Former Governor Foster abided fully with the same Council's tenets back in 2001, signing off on the transfer of Ms. Terese Terre to France. Governor Foster no doubt acted under LA Code of Criminal Procedure, Title XXX, Chapter 1, Article 892.3, which authorizes the governor of Louisiana to act on behalf of the State and to consent to the transfer of such convicted offenders under the provisions of Article IV., Section 5(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana.
We, the signers of this petition, hereby beseech you, Governor Bobby Jindal, and you, Secretary James M. LeBlanc, to immediately, and once and for all, sign off on the International Transfer paperwork required to return Scott Meyers (Mr. Sutherland) to his native homeland.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Tugmacha somsa (Button samusa)
"Tugmacha somsa" can be made of any "somsa"s dough. If you like it to be soft, make it from dough as in recipe of "Gushtli somsa", if you like crunchy stuff, then make it as in recipe "Parmuda somsa". Filling also can be different, with meat, poultry, pumpkin and so on. But usually it is made of fresh lamb, especially oily parts of it.
Choose any dough you like and use that recipe, but after rolling it in long log, slice out smaller/thiner pieces to make "somsa"a small as buttons.
300 grams of meat
4 medium sized onions
1 tsp of cumin seeds
1 tsp of coriander
Salt to taste
egg yolk for brushing
sesame seeds for sprinkling
Chop meat along other ingredients. If you like your "somsa"s be more juicy and tasty use some lamb's tail fat. Just cut it in very small cubes and add in to the filling.
When you finished slicing out the dough in small parts, turn them on their flat side, slightly press with fingers to give them round look, put 1 tsp of filling and pinch the edges well. Usually "Tugmacha somsa" is round in shape.
You can see how small are "somsa"s in picture.
After you done pinching all of "somsa"s, brush them with egg yolk and sprinkle with your favorite seeds. Bake in preheated oven until "somsa"s are golden in color.
Serve and enjoy them! Children just love "Tugmacha somsa"s!
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Ok this is the sequel to the original Tree of Savior 1-240 levelling guide.
Actually, we will start from level 210 instead, because there had been quite some new changes both to amount of exp received, new areas and quests, and what nots.
Level 210 – 228
Almeth Forest Grind. Get there from Forest of Prayer and head south. If its you're first time to Almeth, make sure that you do not complete one quest there. Just any one quest, leave it on pending turn in, so you can warp back to the quest giver and hence back to Almeth forest any time, any where.
The mobs here spawn very very quickly, and while most efficient to be grinded with a party, is also possible to grind solo, tried and tested.
In between grinding, do your daily Siaulai missions and the 190 (which has been changed to 200) The Archmage Tower dungeon at Feldimian Suburbs.
Level 228 – 248
Once you are 228, you can leave Almeth forest and head to Evacuation Residential District. Grind here from levels 228 to 248.
Dungeons-wise, once you have reached level 240, you can move on to the level 240 dungeon, found in the Inner Enceinte District.
As always, continue with the Siaulai Mission dailies. This is something you will keep doing, forever.
Alternative grind spots: Igti Coast
Level 248 – 252
Use your level 10 and 11 cards to reach 252. You should not have any cards below level 10 at this point. Otherwise, continue with the previous plan until 252.
Level 252 – 264
Move to new grind spot at Storage Map (Lvl 262). Grind here from level 252 to level 264 or 272 if the next grind spot is too hard for you.
If you can't find a party for Storage, then you could try soloing/duoing Workshop (Map Lvl 269)
Level 264~280
Party grind at Maven Abbey (Map Lvl 274). This should get you to level 280.
If you can't find a party for Maven Abbey, then you could continue soloing/duoing Workshop.
Actually I realised this guide is a little bit outdated although the grind levels are still right, there are better ways to grind / level now, due to frequent event exp boosts and introduction of Hunting Ground. I will write an updated guide soon.


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I am an Aries woman who has met a Gemini man about a year ago. I was instantly attracted. There was something so different about him and I just couldn't figure it out. There might have been a chance but I came on so strong and made it too obvious that I liked him. He immediately backed off and rejected me. He seemed very cold and shallow about it, which hurt me so much but I just had to keep it together.
After this, there was about 5 months of cruel tension between the two of us. It was very hard but I just had to completely ignore him and then slowly but surely, he came back onto me. If you play hard to get, THEY WILL COME BACK. You see, EVERY Gemini man likes a challenge. It is a game and you have to know how to strategize.
To this day, my Gemini man and I have grown a nice relationship. I have learned how to keep him interested in me as much as I am interested in him, the trick is to have wit and spontaneity, to deal with his changing moods. We have enjoyable and open-ended conversations about many deep topics. Geminis are very charming and love to communicate so be random but play it cool, keep him guessing and keep them on their toes. Relationships with Gemini men tend to be complicated since you can lose them in a heartbeat. With me, this is an inevitable fear because I love him dearly and I can't ever see myself with any other guy.
Gemini men are extremely difficult to deal with but they are worth it. Their changeable and unpredictable personalities are a beautiful gift you should cherish.
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Director's Notes: December 2012
Greetings all,
I hope that you have had a safe and joyful Thanksgiving break. As we move into
December, we can expect colder weather and an increased possibility of school closure
due to snow and ice. Should we have inclement weather, it's always a good idea to check
your email or the school website for a closure notice. We also notify all of the local
television and radio stations as soon as the ISD notifies us of a building closure.
We have several events taking place in December, so if you have not yet marked your
calendar, this is great time to do so. The High Point/Honey Creek Craft Sale will take
place on December 13 and will be followed by our Winter Performance,
from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. We have also scheduled our first High School Night on
December 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. More details on the event will be forwarded to
middle school families via email.
Finally, our state legislature is considering three bills, which will significantly reshape
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I agree, it's long overdue. Fundamentally, the space establishment cannot let go of the Apollo paradigm, but it will have to, or be completely left behind.
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I hope our country can find a way to move beyond the Apollo paradigm for space development without requiring the whole Apollo generation to die off first. Because there are many of you who were around to see Apollo, but who didn't fall for the cargo cult mentality, who deserve better.
When the time comes that US congressional and presidential elections secure post-boomers in office, those who know the moon landings only from history books, and the SSTV videos, but who did not actually live it, crewed operations will be in serious jeopardy. Hopefully by then the private sector will have taken up some of the slack. The Apollo paradigm *is* dying off. Gen Xer's actually probably remember NASA better for the Challenger accident than the moon landings. They saw THOSE newscasts firsthand. Even Challenger, for the millennials, is the stuff of history books, with their blue jumpsuit photos and the big hair videos of McAuliffe and Reznik. You know, the kind of heros you'd name your school after, but you never knew firsthand:
The idea and days of big leaps in space for the sake of big leaps and winning to prove that we can win are over. It the Chinese beat us back to the moon the argument will NOT be that OMG we have to match the Chinese in space opera! But rather the SJW PC position that the Chinese can waste their surpluses on the moon because WE in the US prefer to rightfully spend our resources promoting free education and healthcare for all, social justice for minorities and immigrants, i.e. quality of life issues that matter for our citizens right here on Earth. Not people in Space (certainly not MEN in Space) sideshows. As you say Rand, over and over, "Space is not important".
Yeah I know, Reznik is Resnik. But I can't edit what I didn't catch first, thank you WordPress. For all you millennials and post-millennials:
Back when the US had a space program run by the government that put only selected people into Earth orbit and it was paid for by your taxes, not because you bought a ticket.
There's no need for them to remember such things. The Millennials have seen SpaceX's flights. The private sector has already picked up the slack for the most part. All that's necessary to get commercial manned space going IMHO is for Dragon V2 and space habitats to come online and all of these can easily happen over the next 5 years.
Once the mission around the Moon for commercial customers becomes a reality that will provide enough boost for space hotels to come online. I think.
Civilian space is running laps inside NASA's OODA loop.
I think the best we can hope for with NASA is a reset. And forget returning to the NACA days. I think it will become an equivalent of PBS, call it Public Launch Services with USA becoming the Corporation for Public Spaceflight. They will start having fundraisers claiming if we don't do it, who will? And for a short time longer, it may be true for deep space unmanned exploration and national microgravity laboratory sciences.
But like PBS, most people will know the truth. Sure, nobody else can launch an SLS or send a probe to take pictures of Uranus. But that's because only a few people really want any of the things SLS or such a probe offers. Instead, they'll want space tourism trips and to operate drones on the surface of the Moon and Mars. And they can buy it cheaper from private commercial vendors. Decades later, when all there is left is PLS launching refurbished ICBMs to get rid of the stockpile; perhaps some commercial company like Blue Origin will take over the probe missions. And PLS will continue to get federal funding because the progs want it that way (how else would their nephew get a job with his transgender studies degree?).
Off topic, but what is this week's approved non-gender term for "nephew" or "niece"? Or, for that matter, "aunt" and "uncle"? Or are all terms for family relationships no longer in the current Newspeak dictionary?
Why would you want to know what the crazys put in their dictionary?
It is s waste of brain power to keep track of such things.
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Researchers at U. Penn have created software that generates typos. Give it a phrase, and it will generate a list of variants on that phrase, featuring things like missing letters, doubled letters, and so on. I'm not sure whether they specifically focus on typos that real people would make while typing (for example, substituting letters that are adjacent on a keyboard in a given language), but either way, I'm amused by the idea.
In addition to being cute, the code has search-relevant implications; website owners can use it to generate likely misspellings of search queries, in order to catch traffic from people who misspell their queries. I obviously don't advocate using this for black-hat SEO, but it seems to me that it has legitimate uses for white-hat SEO.


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WASHINGTON, DC, February 12, 2018 -- Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), the leading information and advisory services partner to multinational company (MNC) executives operating in emerging markets, is acquiring Ducker Worldwide, a 56-year-old global business-to-business (B2B) research and consulting firm. In the short term, each company will continue to operate under its own brand, and a holding company, Ducker FSG Holdings, LLC, has been formed to manage the combined firms. It is headquartered in Washington, DC, and led by Richard Leggett as CEO. Joanne Ulnick, the CEO of Ducker Worldwide, will lead the Global Consulting practice of the combined firm and serve on the Board of Directors.
The combined company provides unrivalled market research and executive advisory services based on decades of experience supporting the strategic decisions of more than 700 companies. Client executives will benefit from the firm's broader expertise and geographic reach, more robust cloud-based technology platforms, expanded insight into customer behavior, and award-winning data and analyst insights spanning the B2B, healthcare, consumer, and private equity industries.
"This acquisition is designed to maximize the potential of our combined company to better serve our clients and accelerate growth," said Richard Leggett, CEO. "The demands of growth and forces of change facing multinational company executives and investment professionals get tougher every year, and by bringing together FSG and Ducker's highly complementary offerings, areas of expertise and global footprint, we can immediately provide a comprehensive set of solutions that address our clients' global strategic priorities and growth mandates."
"We are excited to add our deep industry expertise and proven delivery track record built over five decades to FSG's global network of multinational company clients," added Joanne Ulnick, Managing Principal of Global Consulting Solutions. "Together, our data sets, technological platforms, and subject-matter expertise will enable us to offer higher-value consulting and market research services designed specifically for today's business challenges."
Clients will continue to receive the insightful, personalized, responsive services they have come to expect from FSG and Ducker's consultants, analysts, and client service teams. Looking forward, the combined company is positioned to accelerate growth for clients by developing groundbreaking new products and services to meet the changing needs of multinational executives and investment professionals.
About Frontier Strategy Group
Over the past decade, FSG has become a proven leader in helping multinational executives outperform in emerging markets across Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Its consultants and analysts help power the growth mandates and decision processes of regional and corporate executives with an integrated solution of on-demand advisory support, award-winning data and market intelligence, white-glove service, executive roundtable forums, and tailored consulting services. FSG has built strong client communities in the healthcare, consumer products, industrials, and technology sectors. The company is based in Washington, DC, with offices in London, Singapore and New York.
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"Should you need to find me, you might as well give up trying to. You won't." With that, he turned and disappeared into a nearby tavern. The building was, of course, just a front for one of the more well known information brokers throughout town. As soon as Shai Tan ignored the maid's offer of a table, several large, tough looking men stood up to block his way to the back room.
"I'm going to speak to Karrel," he said. A few of the men glanced back and forth, some of them even snorted in amusement. "Nobody sees de boss wivout goin' through us first, little man," one of them, obviously the one in charge, said. Shai Tan folded his arms over his chest and gave a small sigh. "If you insist," he muttered. He then exploded into motion, charging at a man to his right, but cutting back with a hard elbow to the gut of the man who had moved to give chase. He spun around to face the man who he had elbowed and jumped into the air, coming around with a round-house kick to the side of the man's head.
The leader swung a heavy punch at Shai Tan, who merely ducked under it and then snapped off a quick jab to the man's underarm, striking the man's corroded artery and causing him to collapse into a heap on the floor.
The back door swung open and young man with long, striking black hair and a light scar under his right eye stepped out into the inn. "My my, what have we here? My assassin has come to pay me a visit. So what shall it be today, my friend? Trying to deliver on your mark, or is this merely a social call?" At a motion from him, the big guards stepped back, dragging their two felled companions out of the way. Shai Tan strode over to the young man. "You should really teach your guard dogs some manners," he said. The young man laughed. "True, but I do not pay them to be nice to my guests." The two men disappeared into the back room without another word.


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It's a beautifully sunny day here in Minnesota, so I wanted to create something equally as sunny. I took out some Dotty for You paper and a My Creations recipe/photo box. I have been needing a place to store my thank you cards, so this is what I came up with.
I love that there are so many patterns in this Dotty for You packet. It can be bright and sunny like this when a little ribbon, flowers, and sparkles are added. I cut the letters and flowers using the Art Philosophy cartridge. This is a pretty fast and easy project!
Friday, April 6, 2012
Card Box
6 comments:
- Georgiana said...
Very nice. Love the colors and that flower/bow.
Carson's Creations
- April 6, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Laurel said...
This is so pretty!
- April 6, 2012 at 3:10 PM
- Lynn said...
super cute!
- April 6, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- Unknown said...
I love the bow and the flower. The green with the yellow is super cute!
- April 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Kristine Porter said...
I love it!! That Dotty paper sure is cheerful! You always do such beautiful work!
- April 7, 2012 at 8:07 AM
- Marg Van Patten said...
This is adorable! I'm loving the flowers made with the Dotty paper. Just catching up blog reading today and have found lots of inpiration, as usual!!!
Thanks Brenda!
- April 7, 2012 at 9:59 AM
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GPs to work in A&Es and mobile care units as NHS England announces eight new 'vanguards'
GPs will be placed in A&E departments and out-of-hours GP services will be integrated with ambulance services and NHS 111 as part of NHS England's new pilots to reduce urgent and emergency care pressures
The eight 'vanguard' areas will also trial greater sharing of patient records with A&E services, and ambulatory care units that can come to people's home rather than them going to A&E unnecessarily.
The pilot areas these new models will receive support from NHS England centrally in the form of advice and an unspecified amount of money from the £200m transformation fund announced with last year's Autumn Statement.
The scheme was announced as part of the NHS Five Year Forward View last year, and followed the review into urgent and emergency case by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of NHS England.
NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: 'Starting today, the NHS will begin joining up the often confusing array of A&E, GP out of hours, minor injuries clinics, ambulance services and 111 so that patients know where they can get urgent help easily and effortlessly, seven days a week.'
It comes as NHS England announced its first set of 'vanguards' trialling new models of general practices earlier in the year.
The eight urgent and emergency care vanguards
- Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland is integrating the work of the ambulance service, NHS 111, out-of-hours GPs including a 'same-day response team' including GPs, acute home-visiting and crisis response services, community nursing, older peoples' assessment unit and urgent care centres.
- The Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge in east London is planning on 'streamlining' the A&E, walk-in centre, urgent care centre, GPs, pharmacists and out-of-hours services into three points of access, including a digital platform where people can book urgent appointments online; a phone service for advice and appointment booking; and new ambulatory care centres.
- South Devon and Torbay will open at least two new urgent care centres, prioritising areas of high deprivation. It will also co-locate primary care with A&E and urgent care centres in at least two locations and GP records will be shared with the out-of-hours service.
- South Nottingham is placing GPs in A&E.
- The West Yorkshire Urgent and Emergency Care Network will become a mobile treatment service delivering care at people's homes, with only those needing to go to hospital taken there.
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG is planning on hiring 'GP Fellows' for its project, a role typically focused on identifying and supporting frail older people.
- Solihull is launching an urgent care centre at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, including GP out-of-hours and minor injury services.
- The North East urgent care network is working to integrate services but did not specify any examples.
Readers' comments (22)
"GPs will be placed in A&E departments"
Excellent plan. Lucky there's not a shortage of GPs to do the existing GP work then!
Actually, even overlooking this point, it really isn't an excellent plan - in my experience, a GP in A&E typically spends an entire shift seeing trivial minor illness, while earning a higher rate than most of the doctors there who are actually dealing with sick people. It's an extremely cost-inefficient way to staff the service....
"NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: 'Starting today, the NHS will begin joining up the often confusing array of A&E, GP out of hours, minor injuries clinics, ambulance services and 111 so that patients know where they can get urgent help easily and effortlessly, seven days a week.'"
Ah - so seven days a week urgent help already exists?, Well I never! You could have fooled me...
Would someone mind telling Agent Hunt this also (as well as teacher-hater Gove)?
I would avoid the fallacy that recruiting more doctors in OOH/A&E would mean better outcomes. This apply also to the 24/7 Consultant on duty. We will continue to prescribe, operate, fill more hospital beds, order more diagnostic tests — in short, spend more money. But the NHS resources (and of our society overall for that matter) would be better directed toward improving efforts to prevent illness and manage chronic ailments like diabetes and heart disease.
Better coordination of care is also worth investment. Small GPs groups in disconnected offices often provide fragmented treatments, while multispecialty practices integrated with hospitals may well be associated with lower cost and higher quality of care.
We hardly speak anymore with consultant/hospital colleague.
I am not alone thinking this way. All these strategies have been shown to improve patient outcomes without adding physicians to the workforce. Instead of training/recruiting more doctors, or make them work longer hours, let's make better use of the ones we already have.
It seems to me that more doctors than ever are considering retirement and who is familiar with the work/compensation curve, it does not take long to understand that a slightly higher pay shall not be an incentive. In fact, it may do something in the very short run, making indeed things worse as to this shall follow a workforce shortage.
I hope this helps...


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Nigerian Prince offers a snapshot of a world not often seen on film, introducing the reality behind all-too-familiar junk-mail scams. Okoro's film, anchored by uniformly strong performances, breathes cinematic life into characters that have previously only lurked in the shadows of the American imagination.
When troubled American teenager Eze is sent away to his mother's native Nigeria against his will, he quickly finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of scams and corruption, with his magnetic con-artist cousin Pius as his guide. Nigerian Prince, the electric debut feature from writer-director Faraday Okoro, seamlessly blends thrilling sequences of elaborate deception and dramatic tension with surprising moments of humor, making it so much more than a fish out of water tale. Newcomer Chinaza Uche is a particular revelation as Pius, his confidence and cunning matched only by the sadness underlying his performance. And the film itself is a remarkable feat, shot on location in Lagos and finished in just under 12 months after winning AT&T's Untold Stories competition on the eve of Tribeca in 2017.
Nigerian Prince is the first winner of AT&T's Untold Stories program, an initiative to support filmmakers that are underrepresented in the industry. Director Faraday Okoro received a $1 million grant from AT&T to produce his film.
Faraday Okoro is a New York City-based Nigerian-American filmmaker. He attended Howard University and New York University's graduate film school. Faraday's films have screened in numerous film festivals worldwide, including Tribeca, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and the Palm Springs International Shortfest. In 2016, Moviemaker Magazine included Faraday in its "25 Screenwriters to Watch."


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European research projects
The EU is serious about R&D support, and looking for effective ways to promote cutting-edge research across hte continent and to avoid reinventing the wheel. Let us revisit the most important current efforts.
The EU Coordination actions are ran on a smaller budget, but directly aim to facilitate collaboration between the various groups, sectors, industry and academia. Most relevant for us is the EuroSurge initiative: "the Coordination Action EUROSURGE is carrying out a census of the European laboratories doing research in robotic surgery, to identify available competences and potential missing topics.
This workshop aims at presenting to the robotic community the results of the first six months of the project and to establish a fruitful discussion with experts in the areas of integration, standards, benchmarking, architectures and cognition."
Since dissemination is a key feature of these programs, high quality materials are available at e.g., the EuroSurge workshops organized in at the European Robotics Forum in March and at ICRA, in May. Next edition will be in Milan, early July.
Traditional basic research programs are also supported. The Robocast ended over a year ago (resulting in great many publications, events and some photos), but we still have the great ACTIVE project: "exploiting ICT and other engineering methods and technologies for the design anddevelopment of an integrated redundant robotic platform for neurosurgery. A light and agile redundant roboticcell with 20 degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) and an advanced processing unit for pre- and intra-operative control willoperate both autonomously and cooperatively with surgical staff on the brain."; or the recently closing ARAKNES. And of course, there are just plenty of new submissions arriving to Brussels for every call. Next updates will come soon!


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- I'm Canadian. I was born in Newfoundland, Canada, meaning that I am not a citizen of the United States and can never vote, and I don't care.
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- Really I hate all insects.
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This is me pretending to play the piano, which I do not actually know how to do.
Me with a dirty homeless man in Iowa City, which I think says, "I'm a haughty bitch, but I'm down to earth, too."
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Javier Zanetti and Ryan Giggs are both a legends in their club. Javier Zanetti retired from Inter Milan F.C. and now become vice president. Giggs has a new role in Manchester United F.C. that is as Louis van Gaal assistant. Both of them retired at the end of the season of 2013/2014.
Talking about teams and players in World Cup 2014, both legendary players had their own thought. Javier Zanetti who held the most capped player in Argentina national team hoping the Tango to lift the trophy, while Ryan Giggs was impressed with Costarica national team and Colombia.
Even though both are retired their love for soccer game is never ended. Javier admit his retirement from the pitch make him spent more time with his family. But he would not hesitated if there is a chance to play again. Ryan Giggs however is missing the buzz to swing things in pre-season training.
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How to Train a Jackabee Puppy
Jackabees, an interesting mix between jack russell terriers and beagles, are becoming one of the most popular "designer dogs" among pet owners. Combining the friendliness of the beagle, along with the energy of a jack russell, jackabees are typically sociable and outgoing.
However, every dog has its undesirable behaviour, and this could include a beagle's barking and the jack russell's extremely hyper personality. However, with proper training, you can keep your jackabee puppy's unflattering traits in check.
Walk your jackabee puppy at least once a day. Jack russell terriers are one of the most energetic breeds of dogs and without that daily release of energy, you will have a puppy who is frustrated and will likely turn its exuberance into destructive behaviour. A jackabee who is exercised daily typically has a calm mind and in turn, you will have a calm, or at least calmer, dog.
Keep your jackabee puppy in a crate when you are not available to provide supervision. Beagles have extremely strong chewing instincts. Placing your jackabee puppy in a crate can help to deter the behaviour when you are not there to stop it. In addition, give the puppy plenty of toys that are acceptable to chew. This will provide an outlet for that instinct, but in a way that is on your terms.
Place the jackabee puppy in the crate when you are not home or are sleeping, as a means of potty-training. Most dogs do not want to soil their resting areas; therefore, if you keep yours in the crate, it will likely deter it from doing so. Take your jackabee outside to eliminate immediately upon releasing it from the crate and establish a routine in which you take it outside at the same times every day. Reward your jackabee puppy's good behaviour with plenty of treats and affection.
Pull your hand away from your jackabee puppy and say "no" if it bites you. Many jackabee puppies are nippy and if not corrected, this behaviour can follow them into adulthood. Never allow your jackabee puppy to chew on or bite you---allowing this behaviour just once is enough to reinforce it. If your puppy continues to nip after you've pulled away, walk away from the dog and discontinue play for the time being. When you play again and the jackabee pup doesn't nip, reward that behaviour.
Place your dog's stool or hot sauce in areas in which it digs. Beagles are notorious diggers and that trait may be passed onto the jackabee puppy. The smell of the stool, along with the burning sensation of the hot sauce is usually enough to discourage your jackabee puppy from digging. However, you should provide an area in which the puppy is allowed to dig. Bury a toy or treat for the first few weeks in that designated area to encourage the puppy to dig in that spot.
- When obtaining a jackabee puppy, ask the breeder about any epilepsy that may occur within its breeding dogs, as this neurological condition is often common among beagles. Theoretically, if a dog has any sort of condition or ailment, it should not be bred. Therefore, if the breeder admits to having a dog with a condition, find another breeder.