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Northern Province or North Province may refer to:
- North Province (Cameroon), known as North Region from 2008
- Far North Province, Cameroon, known as Far North Region from 2008
- North Kazakhstan Province
- Northern Province, Rwanda, created January 2006
- North Province, Maldives
- North Province, New Caledonia
- Northern Province, Papua New Guinea, also known as Oro Province (redirects)
- Northern Province, Sierra Leone
- Northern Province, Sri Lanka
- Northern Province (Victoria), a former electorate in the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia)
- Northern Province, Zambia
- Limpopo province, South Africa, formerly known as Northern Province
- Northern Cape province, South Africa, part of the former Cape Province
- Uttar Pradesh, India (Hindi: Uttar = North, Pradesh = province/region/state)
- North Sumatra (Sumatra Utara) - a province in Indonesia
- North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara) - a province in Indonesia
- North Maluku (Maluku Utara) - a province in Indonesia
In fiction, "North Province" may refer to:
- The predecessor state of North Kingdom in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.
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- Northern Provinces, an area used in the World Geographic Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
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13 Things You Learn In A Therapist's Office That Make You A Better Parent
I feel comfortable declaring that there isn't a baby book, pregnancy pamphlet, labor and delivery documentary or online forum that I haven't studied relentlessly. As a new mom, I wanted to be as informed, prepared and self-assured as possible, and it's an on-going process as there are still things I'm learning as a mom to a now two-year-old toddler. What I didn't anticipate, however, is how a mental health professional would assist me in parenthood. There are things you learn in a therapist's office that make you a better parent; things I learned when I attended therapy that have directly impacted me not only as a woman, a friend, a partner, a daughter and a sister, but as a mother, too.
It took me a long time to feel comfortable going to a therapist and talking about my abusive past. In fact, for far too long I let the words of a toxic parent influence my thoughts on mental health and mental health treatment. I was told that people who go on life-saving and often necessary medications or see a therapist on a regular basis are "weak" and "lying" and "seeking attention," so I suffered in silence and endured what was later diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. Going to therapy not only saved my life (in a number of ways I won't inundate you with at the moment) but it prepared me for a life I didn't know I'd eventually live.
So, while the books and the pamphlets and the documentaries and the forums were all beneficial, it was therapy that truly prepared me for motherhood. The lessons, realizations and tools I gained in a therapist's office and from a mental health professional have, without a doubt, made me a better mother and equipped me with certain abilities that have made parenthood not only easier, but more enjoyable. So, with that in mind, here are just a few things therapy can teach you about motherhood.
How To Be Patient
The first time I walked into a therapist's office, I had the ridiculous notion that, in just one simple session, I would be "cured." I was looking to feel better about myself, my situation, my past and my potential future so desperately, that I didn't stop to think about the amount of work it would truly take.
So, learning that I had to see a therapist twice a week for an unspecified amount of time, force me to master the art of being patient. True self-improvement is never ending and, just like parenthood, the hardest things you do usually take the most time to complete. When it comes to my son, sitting through a toddler tantrum is nothing compared to sitting through two, one hour sessions for months at a time.
How To Be Vulnerable
I've never felt as vulnerable as I have felt in a therapist's office, and that includes the moments I was relatively naked, pooping and straining and trying to push my son into the world in front of a bunch of (medically qualified) strangers.
Learning how to be comfortable, or how to at least accept, vulnerability made the moments when I felt afraid or raw or even just uneasy and uncomfortable as a mother, a non-issue. I could step outside my comfort zone for the betterment of my son, because I had learned how to step outside my comfort zone for the betterment of myself.
How To Learn From The Past
I didn't realize how much my past was directly impacting my present (and how it could have potentially impacted by future if I didn't deal with it) until I went to therapy. Thankfully, I learned how to sort through certain issues that are no longer in my control, accept what I cannot change, and understand how to learn from certain situations so that they aren't repeated.
You guys, that's parenthood. In. A. Nutshell. So much of my life and my son's life is out of my control, so the best I can do is learn from the parenting mistakes I will inevitably make (and even the mistakes of others) to do the best I can with what I have. I have to accept things I have no control over, learn to let go, and take those hard-earned life lessons as they come so I can be the best mom I can possibly be for a tiny human who so very much deserves the best.
How To Handle Constructive Criticism
I won't lie; it's not always easy to sit across from someone you don't really know a whole lot about and listen to them dissect your life while simultaneously pointing out potential flaws and/or problems and/or mistakes and/or all of the above. My first few sessions were not easy, and I left my therapist's office feeling like I was being ran over (repeatedly) by a semi-truck.
However, I learned to handle constructive criticism in a healthy way, and improve myself by listening, digesting and learning from the insights of others. That's been so valuable, now that I'm a mother. It's not always easy to listen to someone tell you that they think you're doing something wrong or making a mistake. Yes, sometimes those people should be ignored (because unsolicited advice isn't always beneficial, and certain people just want to shame and judge others for no discernible reason). However, there are some moments when I've been so thankful that someone said something about my parenting. If I was strapping my son into his carseat incorrectly or making a bedtime routine change I really didn't have to make — and someone said something to me — I knew I could take their criticism, adjust accordingly, and create a better (and safer) environment for my kid.
How To Be Humble
If you can listen to someone talk about your past and the mistakes you may have made, and take their criticism without getting defensive or upset, I would say you're a pretty humble human being.
Humility is the name of the parenting game, in my opinion. I have been humbled more times than I dare tell you, dear reader, and I have only been a mother for two years. Learning to live with a healthy dose of humility has done nothing but improve my parenting. I'mall for telling my son sorry or admitting when I am wrong; I'm all for telling others I am sorry and admitting when I'm wrong; I'm all for setting an example for my son, saying; hey, even mom is human making mistakes is part of being human and, when you inevitably do mess up, the best thing to do is own up to it, apologize, and try to be better.
How To Find The Root Of A Problem
My therapist opened my eyes to the real reasons why I was struggling with so many things that other people just seemed to deal with naturally. I can't tell you how much she taught me, and why those lessons are lessons I take with me into motherhood.
I know that when my toddler is throwing a tantrum, sometimes, there's a bigger issue at play. I know that when my partner and I are co-parenting and growing frustrated, there might be an underlying reason we aren't addressing. Knowing how — and being willing to — look for "big picture" problems that could be manifesting into smaller arguments or tantrums, has been so beneficial and has assisted me in consistently making sure my home is a healthy, happy, and supportive environment for my son.
How To Improve
I'm of the belief that you should never, ever, stop improving. There's really no such thing as being a completely "grown up" human being; you will always have more growing to do. Therapy was another reminder that even though I'm an adult, I have work to do.
That simple concept has helped me forgive myself when I make those inevitable mom mistakes. I know I will screw up, but knowing it's part of being human doesn't make those moments any easier to accept. However, when I remind myself that I'm still a work in progress, and that I can always improve, I'm kinder to myself and quicker to forgive myself for making a mistake.
How Important Self-Care Truly Is
For far too long, therapy was the one hour, twice a week, that I could focus on myself and only myself. For far too long I didn't take care of myself, or really even care for myself, and that was such an unhealthy, unhappy and sad way to live.
So, after a few (read: many) therapy sessions and learning that making a martyr out of yourself is not only miserable, but really unnecessary and unhelpful to the people you are basically trying to kill yourself for, I have made it a priority to take time to take care of myself and regardless of what is going on in my life. That is easier said than done, to be sure and especially when you're responsible for another human, but it's something I won't give up. I can't be the mother my son deserves if I give give give and never take something for myself. I can't be a mom my son needs if I don't have anything to give him because I have bled myself completely dry in the name of some fictitious "superhero mom status."
How To Prioritize
Sometimes life can be so overwhelming and so complicated and so stressful, that it can be difficult to discern the necessities from the things that can simply wait. I learned a lot of wonderful skills that help me communicate, prioritize and stay organized so that life doesn't start to seem overwhelming, when I was in therapy.
Those skills are my lifeline, now. Those skills are why I can balance motherhood, work, a romantic relationships, my friendships, writing, self-care and working relationships that allow me to advance in my career. Those skills are why I don't get overwhelmed when things don't go "according to plan," because I can just ditch the plan entirely, reprioritize and save what doesn't need to be accomplished for another day.
How To Forgive
Growing up in a toxic environment with an abusive parent left me very angry. In fact, I din't realize just how angry I was until I went to therapy. Thankfully, after working through so many issues and reliving so many pats of my childhood I truly didn't think were worth even thinking about, I learned how to forgive that abusive parent. Not for their benefit, necessarily, but for my own.
I know that if I can forgive someone as hurtful and toxic as that person was and is, I know that I can easily forgive my son when he throws a tantrum, spills water on my computer (twice) or when he eventually tells he me hates me because I won't let him go to a party when he's in high school. When you've let go of something so huge and monumental and life changing for the benefit of your mental health, letting go and forgetting about the little things will be a piece of cake.
How To Ask The Tough Questions...
I was asked, and had to ask myself, some difficult questions when I was in therapy. It's not easy, I can tell you that. In fact, it's pretty terrifying.
However, I did it because important conversations aren't always easy, and starting them isn't always a comfortable process. Having a relative stranger ask me difficult questions will make asking my son difficult questions much, much, easier. I know that in order to truly get to know my son, help my son, protect my son and teach my son the things he needs to learn in order to become a productive, happy, healthy and respectful member of society, so many of our conversations won't be "easy." They'll be heavy and emotional and complicated, and they'll probably start out with some tough questions.
...And Accept The Difficult Answers
If you're used to asking tough questions, I think it's safe to assume that you're used to hearing tough answers, too. They go hand-in-hand, I have learned, but if you can deal with one you can deal with the other and, in the end, they will only help you improve upon yourself and your parenting.
How Soothing It Can Be To Have Someone Simply Listen
I won't lie and say that I was completely comfortable with therapy the first, second, third or even fifth time I went in for a session. I wasn't. It took a long time for me to get used to opening up to someone in such a raw, real, emotional and vulnerable way. However, eventually, I not only felt comfortable talking to someone for one hour twice a week, I liked talking to someone for one hour twice a week. It was beneficial; it was soothing; it was supportive; it was inspiring; it was enlightening; it was a slew of other things I didn't know I needed, but now know I deserved.
So, I understand the importance of having someone listen — and I mean truly listen — to you. I want to be that person for my son. I also want my son to feel comfortable seeking out that person in someone else (like a therapist if he needs or wants). In the end, every single person deserves to have their voice heard.


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By Rex Weyler
Over 2500 years ago, Chinese Taoist Lao Tzu included precaution among his attributes of wisdom in the Tao Te Ching: "Those who rush ahead don't go far," he warned.
"Better safe than sorry," my mother warned me many times. Most mothers have said something similar: "Safety first" or "look before you leap." Yorkshire writer Charlotte Brontë, went one-step farther: "Look twice before you leap." Japanese mothers may say, "Yudan taiteki": "Rashness is your enemy."
Precaution is common sense and would have prevented virtually all of Earth's current ecological crises. Instead, in the stampede to plunder Earth's bounty and accrue wealth, humanity has actually made itself poorer by degrading the real wealth, Earth's rivers, oceans, soil, atmosphere, and biological diversity.
The cheerleaders of economic growth could not be bothered with common sense precaution, so instead, we have the meltdowns at Fukushima and Chernobyl, virtually continuous oil pipeline spills, toxic rivers, shrinking seas, poisoned citizens in Minimata Bay and Love Canal and a thousand other sites, and the current threat of atmospheric heating and ocean acidification. All these tragedies could have been avoided by commonplace precaution, the sort our mothers taught us. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
The Precautionary Principle
A Precautionary Principle has been formalized into international law, but weakened by duplicitous language, and all too often simply ignored in favor of profiteering.
Most simply stated, the precautionary principle affirms that if an action implies serious risk, one should avoid that action and seek alternatives, and that the burden of proof falls on the person or persons taking a perilous action. Drunk drivers are responsible for harm to others. Property owners are responsible if a building collapses.
We practice precaution daily in our private lives. We don't leave objects on stairs and we discourage children from playing with matches. We wear seat belts in cars and life jackets on the water, even if the risk remains remote or uncertain.
The formal, public Precautionary Principle recognizes the social responsibility to protect others from harm. In 1982 the UN General Assembly adopted the World Charter for Nature, which stated that when "potential adverse effects are not fully understood, the activities should not proceed." This reflects the common sense version, which became known as the "strong" version, since it has since been weakened by loopholes.
In 1992 the Rio Declaration stated, "In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."
This sounds nice, but notice the qualifying language: An "approach" (a term the US insisted on using) does not carry the force of a legal principle. "Widely applied" means the approach is not universally applied. "According to their capabilities" and "cost-effective measures" give a nation or corporation license to claim they can't afford to be cautious, and therefore may discard precaution.
Even so, when 172 nations signed the Rio Declaration, the intention remained clear that governments had environmental responsibilities when considering economic activities. The European Commission later confirmed that the Precautionary Principle had "become a full-fledged and general principle of international law."
Ignoring the law
We have learned during the last fifty years of environmental action that winning bans on dangerous activity is not enough, since corporations often ignore regulations and defy the world community. As a result, since the world adopted precautionary principles, we have witnessed a flood of disasters:
In 2000, the Aurul gold mining company spilled 100,000 tons of cyanide into the Someş, Tisza and Danube rivers, killing some 80% of aquatic life in some regions. Greenpeace cited the disaster as an example of why the organization had called for a ban on the dangerous cyanide leaching technique. In 2001, the AZF fertilizer factory exploded in Toulouse, France, killed 29 people, injured thousands, and destroyed neighbourhoods. In 2010 a tailings dam at the Magyar Aluminium plant in Hungary broke and flooded several villages under a toxic sludge, killing 9 people, including children. In that same year, due to weak government regulations and lax safety efforts, the Pike River Coal Company mine near Greymouth, New Zealand exploded, killing 29 miners instantly.
In 2005, a British Petroleum oil refinery exploded in Texas City, killing 15 people. BP was charged with hundreds – not one or two, but hundreds! – of safety violations. Ten years later, after more safety violations, the BP Deepwater well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers, destroying fisheries and tourism in the region, causing some €40 billion in economic and material harm, and causing incalculable damage to the marine ecosystem.
Last summer, a crude oil shipment contracted by World Fuel Services, derailed in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, exploded, killed 47 people, and destroyed 30 buildings. The engineer had left the oil train unattended, engines running, on a downward slope, on the main line, and had gone to a hotel for the night, all supposedly within existing regulations. He did not park the train on the safer adjacent siding because the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway company used it to store empty boxcars for a particleboard factory. Sometime after midnight, the train began rolling downhill, traveled 11 km into Lac-Mégantic, and virtually destroyed the quiet town of 6,000 inhabitants.
The corporate inclination to place dangerous manufacturing in regions with low wages and lax regulation led to the Bhopal disaster in 1984 and to recent tragedies in the garment industry. In the fall of 2012, fires destroyed the Ali Enterprises garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan and the Dhaka Tasreen Fashions factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 289 people in Karachi and 112 people in Dhaka. A few months later, in April 2013, the Savar building, housing five garment factories in Dhaka, collapsed, killing 1,126 people. Each of these factories manufactured clothing for western fashion markets.
The full list of these disasters appears overwhelming. The shocking consistency of industrial catastrophe suggests these are not "accidents" but rather the expected consequences of a corporate style born in "free market" societies during an age of deregulation and globalization.
The 2011 nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site in Japan stands now as a tragic example of an irresponsible corporate gamble. The world had been warned by scientists and ecologists since the 1950s that nuclear power was inherently dangerous and that the lack of safe storage for nuclear waste posed a serious threat. General Electric, Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) and the Japanese government were warned not to build nuclear plants on earthquake fault lines.
Tokyo University professor emeritus, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chairman of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, concluded that the Fukushima accident "cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly man-made disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented."
We do not yet know the full impact, but the Fukushima meltdown may prove to be the largest industrial disaster in history. Thousands of workers received radiation doses from the plant. Hundreds of thousands of evacuees may never be able to return home, and local fishing has been shut down. The World Health organization has estimated that exposed local infants face increased future rates of thyroid cancer, leukemia, and breast cancer. Coastal Asians, Pacific islanders, and North Americans will be impacted by radiation and food contamination.
Fifty-one crew members on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier now suffer from thyroid cancer, testicular cancer, and leukemia, resulting from exposure 10 miles off the Fukushima coast.
Fifty Japanese nuclear reactors have been shut down, stranding public and private resources. The clean-up and decommissioning of the site is projected to cost some 5-trillion Yen (€ 35 billion), threatening to bankrupt TEPCO and the Japanese economy.
Three hundred tonnes of radioactive water now flow into the Pacific Ocean each day from Fukushima. The radioactive cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years, the strontium-90, 29 years, and this radiation will move with ocean currents, accumulate in gyre pockets, and will bioconcentrate along the food chain, typically reaching 100-times the ocean concentration in fish, and a 1000-times ocean concentration in marine mammals, who eat the fish.
All of this was preventable and foreseen by doctors, scientists and ecologists. The world was warned. Simple, common sense precaution, the sort we practice every day, would have avoided this disaster and thousands of others.
Top photo credit: Remember Fukushima by greensefa via Flickr (CC BY SA, 2.0 License)
Originally published on the ECOreport Jan 1, 2014.


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3D models resolve design challenges of Oman's new Muscat airport
UK-based SAS used 3D modelling software to develop 4,500sqm of stainless steel cladding and 9,000sqm of micro-perforated wall cladding for the massive aviation scheme
Details of the newly launched Muscat International Airport's (MCT) metal ceilings and architectural metalwork, and the role of 3D modelling in their design process, have been revealed.
The new, 345,000m2 passenger terminal within MCT is expected to handle more than 20 million passengers a year. UK-headquartered SAS International delivered 200,000m2 of products for the aviation hub's ceilings.
READ: Passenger terminal at Oman's Duqm Airport 96% complete
SAS's scope on MCT included the airport's main passenger terminal and piers, cargo terminals, concourse, ancillary buildings, escalators, and adjoining hotel. It worked with consultant Hill International to design, manufacture, and install metal ceilings and architectural metalwork for the project. The firm also collaborated with the project's main contractors, which included Bechtel and Enka, to train site installers and create a fit-out programme for project managers.
For the project, SAS supplied 115,000m2 of canopy and 'bell' ceilings, 4,500m2 of stainless steel cladding, 9,000m2 of wall cladding, and 10,000m2 of column casing.
The 'bell' ceiling is a framework comprising bronze mesh and black steel, and has been used on the departure level of each pier. Spanning 500m, it is a 10m-wide and 5m-high system that contains a fully covered service walkway. A full-scale prototype was mocked up for the project to ensure the safe housing of utilities in the bell-shaped ceiling module.
Hinged stainless steel wall cladding panels were designed with ongoing maintenance in mind. The panels contain entry points for staff to access built-in storage at boarding gates.
The company's major design challenge came from the canopy-shape of each pier, which curves from the ceiling to the floor, as well as end-to-end laterally.
As part of the design, the canopy ceiling, and much of the wall cladding, feature a micro-perforated design, which provides high acoustic absorption. When specified as a continuous square pattern, the micro-peforations are "almost invisible to the naked eye", SAS says, adding that the specs lead to "a smooth and homogenous finish".
Bulkheads, ceilings, and service rafts provided by SAS also feature integrated mood lighting.
Due to the complexity of the panel design, as well as the curved and multi-levelled ceilings, SAS used 3D modelling software to visualise details that could not be shown in 2D. At its peak, 25 SAS designers worked to create more than 20,000 component drawings for the MCT project.
Commenting on the MCT scheme, Pete Barry, project manager at SAS International, said: "This is one of the most complex projects ever undertaken in the transport sector.
"A benchmark for airport construction, there are thousands of bespoke components which come together to create an awe-inspiring building. Every single ceiling and almost every panel, in every ceiling, was different. There is very little that is standard on this project – everything is individual to this remarkable airport."


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Maybe it is just me, but I'm not a big fan of huge amounts of XML configuration. I can get by with a few name-value pairs in an app.config or a web.config but much more makes me nervous that I'm going to mistype something and not know about it until run time. I've been using Unity and it has the ability to load up its configuration from the app.config or web.config. Here's a sample:
Yeah…..what else ya got?
It offers a "fluent" API for programmatic registration. Sweet! Now I just have to convert all that XML into code. Hmmmm…Now I have a whole lotta
Container.RegisterType<IMyThing, MyThing>();
That works for a trivial class but I don't want to write a bunch of repetitive code that simply registers interfaces for types. StructureMap has some sort of convention based registration, why not Unity? Let's get busy…
To start off I'll add a few extension methods to make life a bit easier:
public static class ExtensionMethods
public static IEnumerable<Type> GetInterfaces(this Assembly assembly)
return assembly.GetTypes().Where(t => t.IsInterface);
public static IList<Type> GetImplementationsOfInterface(this Assembly assembly, Type interfaceType)
var implementations = new List<Type>();
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public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> enumerable, Action<T> action)
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These just offer some shortcuts for getting all the interface from an assembly and then finding all the types which implement a given interface in an assembly. Now we can use these to find and register our interfaces and implementations in our ConventionRegistrar:
public class ConventionRegistrar
public static void Configure(IUnityContainer container)
var asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
var interfaces = asm.GetInterfaces();
foreach (var interfaceType in interfaces)
var currentInterfaceType = interfaceType;
var implementations = asm.GetImplementationsOfInterface(interfaceType);
if (implementations.Count > 1)
implementations.ToList().ForEach(i => container.RegisterType(currentInterfaceType, i, i.Name));
implementations.ToList().ForEach(i => container.RegisterType(currentInterfaceType, i));
I have this one hard coded to use the executing assembly, but that could easily be changed. Essentially, this just looks up the interfaces then finds all the types that implement those interfaces. The only funky part is where I check if more than one type implements an interface. If that is the case I want to register it as a "named" type, otherwise Unity will only keep the last one registered. This way I can have multiple types implement an interface and get them all by calling
var startupTasks = Container.ResolveAll<IStartupTask>();
That will give me an array of all the classes that implement the IStartupTask interface. So now instead of all that XML or those repetitive Container.Register<I, T>() calls I can simple call ConventionRegistrar.Configure(Container) and most of my work is done. Sure, I may have to do some custom registration for special cases but I've taken care of the tedious registration tasks.


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It's the economist, Stupid!
The Indian economy was held up as a beacon of hope in the time that the international crisis began but it looks like we have manufactured our very own crisis. This post argues that the Indian economy's problems arise out of the Congress' leadership dichotomy and a fanatical obsession with retaining power – even at the expense … Continue reading


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As we move through life we have challenges which appear at various times and in varying degrees. How we act and react to these challenges, especially those that seem insurmountable, is very important for our growth into success. Action, reaction; cause and effect are present every moment of every day. It is in responding to these bumps in the road which carries us forward to greater success in living life.
When I encountered the end of my life due to full respiratory arrest and being revived, it appeared that my recovery was less than hopeful–fooled them!
Upon returning home there were a variety of "things" that worried me. Things such as, would I: regain my memory, be able to write, speak and teach on topics of positive attitudes with the same ease as prior to this incident, etc. Not only was this challenging, it was extremely upsetting and frustrating as I stammered and paused to find words, which came easily to me before this incident. Over a period of three months I regained a majority of those abilities I feared I had lost with the help of my wife and very dear and close friends. During this three month period I had to have surgery and am still in the recovery process.
My response to this non-elective surgery was, "Ok, I can deal with this event. I died and was revived and recovering well. No problem." There was no, "Why me?"
The three plus months of recovery from the respiratory arrest have been, to put it nicely, "unique." The emotional ups and downs early on, moving through and conquering other "things" which appeared have allowed me the opportunity to grow in ways I could never imagine. As a side note, my belief in a power greater than myself helped a great deal in my recovery.
Having to create a positive from a negative is not always the easiest thing to do. One must be persistent and allow themselves to feel those negatives and fears, making it okay to experience them and move on.
It is always one step at a time. Sometimes a step or two backwards. It is important to persist in the move forward. At times it was, and still is, tough for me. I have shed my share of tears.
Now, you may ask, "How in the world does this relate to making and baking cookies?" Well, it is like perfecting a new recipe and making it your own, trial and error. Sometimes you shed a tear or two during the process. Always be willing to try another version, again!
Giving up is not an option for me in the kitchen and it sure as hades is not an option in living my life. Setbacks, obstacles and the like challenge us to think and act creatively to conquer those situations for our success.
Life is for living, not bemoaning it.
Your life and my life is what we make it. It is always a work in progress.
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PM opens Bheramara 410-MW Power Plant
12 April 2018, Nirapad News: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today opened Bheramara 410-MW Combined Cycle Power Plant and cent percent electrification in 15 upazilas renewing her call to the people to be economical in using electricity.
The premier inaugurated the power plant and cent percent electrification in 15 upazilas through a videoconferencing from her official Ganabhaban residence here this morning.
From the same function, she opened innovative online training platform "Kusholi".
The Bheramara combined cycle duel fuel power plant was constructed at a cost of Tk 3,784.98 crore. Of the amount, the government provided Tk 634.72 crore while the rest came as project assistance.
The North-West Power Generation Company Ltd, an organisation of the Power Development Board, implemented the project at Bahirchar in Bheramara upazila of Kushtia.
The 15 upazilas brought under 100 percent electrification are Dhamrai of Dhaka, Nikoli of Kishoreganj, Rauzan of Chittagong, Pirganj of Rangpur, Khoksha of Kushtia, Debhata of Satkhira, Rupsha, Fultala and Dighalia of Khulna, Bagatipara of Natore, Bera of Pabna, Bianibazar of Sylhet, Dinajpur Sadar and Birampur of Dinajpur.
With these upazilas, cent percent electrification facilities were inaugurated in 51 upazilas of the country.
"Kusholi" is a web-based learning management system or software used to plan, implement and assess a specific learning process.
It will support Bangladesh's expanding electricity needs over the next three decades, while anyone can join the training from anywhere in Bangladesh.
Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury also spoke on the occasion.
Power Division Secretary Dr Ahmed Kaikaus made a power point presentation on the past, present and future of the electricity in Bangladesh, while PM's Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman moderated the function.
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid Bipu were present.
Besides, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Tazul Islam, Jatiya Sangsad Whip Atiur Rahman Atiq, the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Dhaka, parliament members and senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office were present at the function, among others.
Later, the prime minister exchanged views with the cross section of people including government officials, public representatives, teachers, guardians, students, freedom fighters and beneficiaries through the videoconferencing.


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The Qatari athlete enjoys a perfect run up to his winning height, while GB's Robbie Grabarz has to settle for sixth
Mutaz Essa Barshim had a flawless performance up to his winning height of 2.35m to gain world high jump gold in London on Sunday.
Back in the stadium where he had claimed Olympic bronze five years before, the Qatari athlete entered the competition at 2.20m and from there he had a perfect run until three attempts at 2.40m saw his competition come to an end.
Russia's Danil Lysenko, competing as a neutral athlete, secured silver after clearing 2.32m, while a delighted bronze medallist was Syria's Majd Eddin Ghazal who cleared 2.29m and claimed a podium place on countback.
"My first big world championships gold," said the winner, who adds this outdoor global gold to his world indoor title secured in 2014 and the silver medal he won in Moscow in 2013. "I was so determined to win it. I was expecting it tonight so I am glad I managed to fulfil my target."
The result means the 26-year-old would head into a home world championships in two years as a defending champion, with the event heading to Doha, where Barshim was born, for the next edition.
Barshim's fellow London 2012 bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz didn't enjoy she same level of success on home soil. After first time clearances at his opening height of 2.20m and then 2.25m, he couldn't make it over 2.29m so had to settle for sixth place.
"I'm absolutely gutted," said the world indoor silver medallist. "It was technically really bad, I don't have any excuses or reasons, it was just way below what I'm capable of.
"It's not the kind of performance I should be putting in in my career at this point in a major final."
Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko is another athlete who will have been hoping for more, after the 2013 champion and Rio bronze medallist required three attempts to clear his opening height of 2.25m before passing at 2.29m and then failing his three tries at 2.32m.
Joining Ghazal in clearing 2.29m but placing fourth and fifth respectively on countback were Mexico's Edgar Rivera and Germany's Mateusz Przybylko.
"I cannot believe what I did today," said Ghazal. "It is a first medal for Syria in my event. We haven't had a world championships medal for many years."
» Check out our dedicated online section here for more of the London 2017 latest and see the August 17 edition of AW magazine for full coverage


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2014 Panini Prizm Football, much like previous years and subsequent years of the Prizm release, is chock full of vibrant colored parallels and inserts. Typically stocked with a couple interesting die cuts per box, 2014 Panini Prizm Football is no different with it's "pointy" Believe the Hype insert leading the way. With 2 Autographs per box, a standard Prizm feature, there is a lot to love about the price point these days (written late 2016). While there are some nonsensical aspects of this set such as inconsistent numbering of the same color of Prizm autographs and a "Fresh Faces" insert featuring 90% rookies with a couple 2012 and 2013 Rookies splashed in, there is a lot more to love than to hate.
Our personal favorite Prizm which as it turns out is exclusive to 2014 Panini Prizm Football is the Team Logo prizm which features a pattern showing off the team logo and the colors match the team colors. Very striking and limited to only 25 copies.
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Who Wants Superhuman Strength?
Nietzsche wrote of a greatness, only realised through the will to power, to the Olympian heights of complete self-realisation. To attain this Nirvana of wholeness and worldly success the human being must become more. This is the Ubermensch, The super-man. Now will life offer nothing but candy apples and fine ales! Congratulations, Übersoldat, you've arrived. And boy oh boy do you look fabulous! The US Army – who else – are having endless fun testing fancy load-bearing exoskeletons for use by soldiers to lighten the strain of carrying lots of heavy gear for extended periods. It's an awesome project, and I look forward to it being realised privately in the hiking and enthusiast communities, but is this really what we want our militaries t get into now? Do they not have enough fancy things that kill people in innovative ways?
The answer will always be 'no' because it's intrinsic to human nature to find the present unsatisfying and seek a bigger, better future through action. If you're a general or bureaucrat in the military-industrial complex of the US or UK what you want is ever more impressive, ever more precise – the degree of precision is obviously not actually that important, QED blowing up hospitals in Pakistan – and ever more expensive. Admittedly a great deal of organisational entrepreneurship has found its way into such government agencies as the military and DARPA, with the folks at the latter working diligently to create new wacky toys for the eternally penis-envying Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon.
Measured in billions of dollars government defence spending stands at… a lot. The table below shows (pdf) the defence expenditures of the 15 biggest spenders expressed in billions of dollars at nominal exchange rates covering 2013 as recorded by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
- China – 188
- Russia – 87.8
- Saudi Arabia – 67
- France – 61.2
- Germany – 48.8
- Japan – 48.6
- India – 47.4
- South Korea – 33.9
- Italy – 32.7
- Brazil – 31.5
- Australia – 24
- Turkey – 19.1
So, a total of $1747 billion in military spending. $1107 billion is the global total, $766.9 billion is the total of all 14 non-US entrants on the list. That makes US spending more than a third of the global total, and near half of the top 15. And yet, take a look at the countries on that list. With exceptions of China and Russia all of them are allies of Washington. Anyone not in the top 15 can never pose a military threat to Americans. So, China and Russia, with a combined military spend of 275.8 in 2013, are the big threats, then? Well, not really. Neither has made any threat to attack, let alone invade, any territories or peoples within US borders. Now, a country that safe, spending that much on defence clearly has a serious problem somewhere.
Or is this aspiration to police the globe just human action plus unaccountable government bureaucracy? Is it just power without hard limits? Two pointless and costly wars, horrid overspend on new weapons, and a domestic culture that worships the US Military beg the question; have American national defence priorities been economically and cognitively hijacked somehow? If so, by whom? Because as cool as projects like the exoskeleton above are, they seem to be an awfully costly use of resources that could better have been used elsewhere. And here we segue neatly into the F35 Joint Strike Fighter project. So far this plane has cost taxpayers in participating nations (so mainly Americans) a whopping $54-odd billion so far.
This may beggar belief – it's just one plane after all, and already obsolescent – but it's just the biggest single example of a massive money pit. This military Keynesianism has its uses when you're running or employed by the US Military itself, the Department of Defense, or Raytheon, but the downside for everybody else is obvious. Taxes, once levied, deprived the taxed of the opportunities that the taxed money previously offered, and 54 billion dollars is a lot of foregone opportunities, even spread out between all of the taxpayers.
Any market-responding defence contractors would have noticed that improvements in drone technology had by 2000 already rendered the use of human-rated fighter-bombers and surveillance craft pointlessly expensive and risky. The pilots might die, and rating a plane to accommodate a human-being is way more expensive than just not bothering and controlling a drone aircraft remotely. Almost all air defence in a free society would consist of drones able to shoot down other planes and missiles and to reconnoitre, but little else, and so would be orders of magnitude cheaper, even assuming it was as big in terms of personnel as the statist Air Force is.
And therein lies another contrast. A free market national defence force, likely a patchwork of private concerns with the same stated goal and using common protocols for seamless integration, would overwhelmingly most likely be far smaller than the government behemoths of today; maybe 300,000 Americans, 60,000 Britons or 30,000 Canadians strong. all paid for voluntarily by customers who want their property and agreements safe from meddling by those in foreign lands.
Lockheed Martin never forget who they're working for. Seeing as that means almost exclusively the US Government it can be reasonably surmised that Lockheed are indicative of what's wrong with defence in the present day. The F35 developers are the biggest military contractor in the world, with UK firm BAE Systems coming 3rd. Clearly the military industrial complex is strong. But perhaps all this misses the point. Even if these firms operate in a monopsony (many sellers, one buyer; a buyer's market) they remain powerful drivers of government policy anyway.
This is evident just by how much it suits military contractors for the military to be big and over-funded. Six of the top 10 defence contractors in 2013 were based in the US. Should we be surprised? Of course not. But perhaps perturbed. The size of the US defence industry and the size of the US defence budget are, after all, nearly synonymous. That makes the military a needlessly inflated war machine in a time in which there are no comparable enemies likely ever to appear again. It also makes every military contractor (and this means the people themselves) a war profiteer.
So, who wants superhuman strength? The HULC, the system described in the video, is pretty amazing at what it does and its designers clearly see it solving real-world problems. It's not the device itself, but the why of it, that is disturbing. In a time of peace and reason I might be inclined to have a gander with one of these bad-boys on an extended hiking trip, but as long as Lockheed are building these and countless other gadgets to facilitate the senseless slaughter of fellow human-beings, I'll keep a-hold of my money a little longer, at least until the government tax it to pay these same companies for the same weapons.
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Christian Bale Thinks George Clooney Needs To Stop Whining About The Paparazzi
Christian Bale loves to bitch and yell. Christian Bale yells at his mom. Christian Bale yells and bitches at the DP of the movie he's shooting. Christian Bale yells and bitches at everyone and everything. If at the end of the day, Christian doesn't have wind burns on his tonsils from yelling and bitching so much, then he didn't have a good day. So a Christian Bale interview wouldn't be complete without him bitching out a trick. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Christian Bale bitches about George Clooney bitching about the paparazzi.
During the interview to promote that whitewashed Exodus movie ("You spelled 'racially correct" wrong." – Rupert Murdoch), Christian says that when you're a celebrity, a lot of people, mostly paparazzi, try to get a reaction out of you by saying fucked up shit to you and your loved ones. Christian brought up an example. Christian says his wife was verbally attacked by a dude in Italy every time she left their hotel. Christian says he fell for the pap's tricks.
"I was in Italy for a while, home of the paparazzi, right? I was in Italy with my wife. I would go to work; she would leave the hotel. There would be a man who stood outside of the hotel, and he would say the most obscene things imaginable to my wife. Now, that happened a number of times. I know what he's after; he has a strategy there. Am I able to say I'm not gonna give him that satisfaction of angry Christian Bale coming after this man? But equally, he's killing my humanity and my dignity as a husband if I do not, and he knows this. So you've got a choice.
Because that's the most vulnerable thing, isn't it? I don't really give a shit what he says about me. So what happens? One day I walk out and I see him. I go after him, and he gets all these shots of me coming after him. Bingo, he's hit gold. He gets exactly what he wants, smiles and walks off. I feel like an ass 'cause I've given him what he wanted. But in my mind, I had no other choice. How could I sit back and accept somebody talking that way to my wife? I couldn't. I just couldn't do it."
Andrew Goldman of the WSJ brought up the crazy paparazzi scene that hit Venice when the low-key and OMG-SO-PRIVATE George Clooney married the low-key and oh-so-private Amal Alamuddin in a low-key and beyond private wedding. Andrew said that George has slapped at the paparazzi for not respecting his privacy and Christian Bale yawned over that.
"I know, but it's boring, isn't it? You know what I mean? It doesn't matter that he talks about it. It's like, come on, guys, just shut up. Just get on with it and live your lives and stop whining about it. I prefer not to whine about it."
So to recap: Christian Bale whined about the paparazzi killing his humanity and dignity and then he whined about George Clooney whining about the paparazzi. Okay. George Clooney loves a good tussle, so I'm sure he'll whine about Christian Bale whining about him whining about the paparazzi. I hope all that whining leads to them wrestling naked in a pool full of wine. It's the only way to settle this whine fest.
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The Manhasset School District is proud to welcome Dr. Christopher Hale as the new Director of Fine and Performing Arts, effective July 1, 2019. The Manhasset Board of Education appointed Dr. Hale at their March 6th meeting, filling the vacancy created by the announced retirement of the current Administrator for the Arts, Dr. Anthony Ambrogio.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Hale as part of our team. It is evident that Dr. Hale cares deeply for the arts and shares a passion for nurturing the gift of the arts for each of our students. We are confident that Dr. Hale will continue to build upon the extraordinary work done by Dr. Anthony Ambrogio and the many individuals who helped grow this program over the years," said Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Vincent Butera. "I would be remiss if I did not take this time to congratulate and express my gratitude to Dr. Ambrogio. He has left a profound impact on a program that is a jewel here in Manhasset. He will truly be missed."
Following Dr. Ambrogio's announcement earlier this year, the Manhasset School District began a thorough search for a successor. During his candidacy, Dr. Hale met with faculty and administrative committees, as well as the Board of Education. He joins Manhasset from the East Meadow School District, where he has taught music, served as chairperson and then Director of Music and the Arts since 2004.
Dr. Hale supervised and provided instructional guidance to nearly 70 music and art educators, chairpersons and support staff in East Meadow. He has managed budgets, provided quality professional development, maintained interdisciplinary music and the arts programs, developed and maintained community partnerships, and improved and expanded technology integration – all within a program he proudly describes as very inclusive.
"We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Hale and we look forward to his leading our outstanding team of arts educators and carrying forward our proud tradition of excellence in the fine arts in Manhasset, said Board of Education President Regina Rule. "While Dr. Hale has Dr. Ambogio's enormous shoes to fill, we are confident that he brings his unique talents and an unwavering commitment to the power of the arts to inspire and make a positive impact in our students' experiences."
Recognized as a leader among his peers and a standout educator by his students, Dr. Hale has served as president of the Nassau Music Educators Association and has also been recognized by the Harvard Club of Long Island as a Distinguished Teacher.
Dr. Hale holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Texas, Master of Arts degree in wind conducting from Hofstra University, an advanced certificate in educational leadership from Stony Brook University and a doctorate in educational leadership and supervision from St. John's University.


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During the winter months, cold temperatures can have a direct negative impact on health. And this statement does not only refer to infectious diseases, such as the common cold of these dates. The cold and the accompanying wind often also affect the organism on the outside, and this is where the skin comes into play. In the case of people with diabetes, especially in those who have circulatory problems, the skin can be harmed in the winter season. That is why it is essential to take care of it, as discussed in this article.
How does the cold affect the skin?
Not everyone has the same type of skin and, therefore, the cold will affect each person differently. In general, the parts of the body that support the lowest temperatures are those that are exposed to them: hands and face (especially lips and cheeks).
Some of the most common symptoms are dryness, peeling, premature aging, redness and even small wounds. In the skin of the face, these rednesses can manifest in episodes of rosacea or couperose.
Why does the cold affect the skin?
In people with diabetes, when blood glucose levels are high, the body loses fluid, causing the skin to dry out, which makes it easier for it to open. And when the latter occurs, the possibility of the entry of microbes that cause infections increases. Hence the importance of protecting the skin if you suffer from this pathology.To this is added another series of more general problems, such as skin deterioration in winter, generated by the strong temperature changes to which it is exposed throughout the day.
How to avoid or mitigate the impact of cold on the skin?
Since the skin protects the body from external factors, it is only fair that people try to protect it. In this sense following the guidelines recommends these indications to mitigate the impact of cold on the skin.
Maintain a good hydration of the body
Drinking 1.5-2 liters of water daily, although do not feel thirsty in the same way as in summer. You should also take care of the diet through the consumption of numerous fruits and vegetables, rich in vitamin C and antioxidants, which promote the regeneration of the skin.
In daily cleaning, avoid very high water temperatures, which remove the hydrolipid mantle, and use products that respect the chemical structure of the skin, since some chemicals can increase their vulnerability.
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Trams of Australia
Nos: 351 - 380
Introduced: 1929, when Glenelg line was converted to light rail
Withdrawn: Currently in service
Electrics: PC5L2 control, 4 x 60hp DK108G, now 4 x 65hp EE308 motors
Size: 17.2 m x ?.?? m
Seating/Crush load: 64/170
Max speed: 70 km/h
This is the longest rigid tram operating in Australia, and the second longest built, after the H1. The trams are built for coupled operation, and travel as two-car sets at peak times. They were fitted with pantographs in the late 1986 when the fleet moved to a new depot at Glengowrie. With the retirement of Melbourne's W2 trams, these are now the oldest passenger trams in service in the country.
This tram was the longest rigid tram ever built in Australia. It was a prototype built in 1953 for a fleet of 40, but the street tramways closed in Adelaide in 1958 and the remainder of the order was cancelled.
[2] Thanks to Dewi Williams for this picture.
[7] Thanks to Tim Blythman for much of the information on this page.
[12] Thanks to John C Radcliffe for much additional information.


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Underfunded ambulance trusts failing to meet even relaxed response targets
By Nick Turner
Ambulance response-time standards have been relaxed to help manage increasing demand on an underfunded service. The initiatives have come in response to record-poor performance figures.
Since 2012, the most urgent (Category-A) ambulance calls have been divided into Red-1 (most urgent) and Red-2 (serious but less time critical). According to a national target, trusts are required to send an ambulance within eight-minutes to at least 75% of Red-1 and Red-2 emergencies. The eight-minute target was introduced in 1974 following international recognition that the there is little chance of surviving a cardiac arrest after twelve minutes without intervention.
By February 2016, the standard had been missed for Red-1 calls for nine-months with only 68% of calls receiving a response within eight-minutes. At 60.3% performance for Red-2 calls was at its lowest since 2012.
In response, a scheme called Dispatch On Disposition (DOD) increased triage time and delayed response to Red-2 calls by an additional two-minutes. Red-2 calls can include conditions such as stroke and fits.
In addition, new call categories are being tested by three ambulance trusts taking part in a Clinical Coding Review (CCR). NHS England will report the findings of the review in the spring before introducing changes nationally. Information already obtained from two of the trusts however, suggest that they are still struggling to cope with demand despite these measures.
Call categories scrapped
Under the Coding Review, Yorkshire, South West and West Midlands ambulance trusts have removed the Red-2 call category and its eight-minute response standard altogether. Red-2 calls made-up an average of 95% of all life-threatening Category-A emergencies. Consequently, 16 million people served by the three trusts have been unable to rely on the fastest response to most of the calls that would previously have had this requirement.
It has been less-well publicised that the Red-1 call category has now also been scrapped by the three trusts. A new set of call-categories are set-out in a little-known NHS document. This only refers to the "fastest response" to the most urgent new Category-1 emergencies. When asked if there was still an eight-minute standard for these calls NHS England said:
"No response time standards have yet been set…."
Contradicting this claim, Freedom Of Information requests show that the three trusts do still record performance against an eight-minute standard for Category-1 calls. In fact, South West Ambulance trust (SWAST) had been publishing figures against this standard for months in their reports.
Performance figures show continued failure to meet the eight-minute standard
The reason for NHS England's refusal to admit that eight-minute performance is still being measured is unclear. Figures available for two trusts however, show that performance is still below the 75% target for the most urgent cases.
In January 2016 before the introduction of the new categories, SWAST responded to 68
As the bulk of calls requiring an eight-minute response were removed when the Red-2 category was scrapped, trusts might have been expected to be able to properly meet their remaining eight-minute commitments. SWAST's eight-minute performance has only improved slightly. Because monthly performance typically varies by a few percentage points, the degree of actual improvement may be disputed. As the new call-codes are supposed to more accurately reflect the seriousness of calls, this continuing failure is concerning.
Results are worse for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Response to a Freedom Of Information request dated February 9, 2016 stated that between October 20, 2016 and February 7, 2017, 65.3% of Category-1 calls received an eight-minute response. This compares to 69.4% of Red-1 calls from April 21 and October 19, 2016 - before the new codes were introduced.
West Midlands Ambulance refused to provide figures arguing that it could affect the outcome of the pilot.
Efficiency versus greater funding as strategies to meet demand
Mark Docherty, Director of Clinical Commissioning and Service Development at West Midlands Ambulance told me that any efficiencies brought by the new system could also be achieved by having more paramedics on double-crewed vehicles because a first-time paramedic attendance would make attendance by several vehicles unnecessary. This would need "a cash boost to achieve, and arguably maintain."
SWAST's report in January this year confirmed that the ambulance initiatives have been inadequate to meet demand on the service, highlighting the need for:
"Additional operational vehicles to increase conveying resource capacity" and "….frontline recruitment to provide the right numbers of appropriately skilled staff…."
Unite the union has called for:
"recruitment of more paramedics so that the service can be staffed with the necessary skills to deliver the most efficient and safe service."
Safety concerns with telephone triage
Central to the ambulance response initiatives are telephone triaging systems. James Pavey, clinical operations manager at South East Coast Ambulance service has said that even under previous triaging arrangements, triaging-down more than ten per
-cent of calls was always considered unsafe.
Mark Docherty said "Telephone triage unfortunately in a time
Mr Docherty told me response times were "still being calibrated":
"Some of the calls triaged down are children under five that should have automatically been classified as urgent calls because of their age."
The age of the patient is not a triage question. As a result:
"It can be two or three minutes into a call before they realise the mistake, by which time it is too late to make an eight-minute response."
NHS England told me no serious incidents have resulted from the introduction of these schemes but the stringency of the Serious Incident reporting system was questioned in 2015 by NHS England itself. Its enquiry into South East Coast Ambulance initiative to delay response to NHS 111 calls, stated that:
"….This on its own is an unreliable way of ascertaining this [patient harm], as it is a well reported fact that clinicians under report events."


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The Nuts and Balls Metric of Hair Products
What is the right amount of hair product to use? Is it as little as a drop or is it as much as a tennis ball-sized dollop? We're here to help you find out how much to use.
When you go overboard with styling products, your hair can take on a greasy and unkempt look that can completely ruin the style you spent time on. As a general guideline, we suggest using two products in your hair: a heat protect spray if you use heat styling tools and a finishing product to hold your hairstyle in place, such as a hairspray. This is because when you apply more products to your hair, you run the risk of weighing your hair down, stiffening it and losing the style.
To avoid using too much product, start by using a small amount first and adding more as needed. The smart solution to this practical problem lies in the motto 'Less is more!' Hair care and styling products rarely work better if used in excess. On the contrary, the most effective amount is often smaller than imagined.
How should you use hair care or styling products and how much?
Hair serum is perfect for split ends. Serums are spread through the hair ends in droplets and the ingredients coat them with an ultra-thin film. As a result the hair looks less frizzy.
Hair oil must be used in small droplets. Distribute one or two drops across the palms of your hands (curly hair may need slightly more than 1 or two drops of hair oil) and work into the hair ends with your hands. If hair oil is used in this way before shampooing it will protect the hair ends from drying out. Hair oils are also ingredients of leave-in hair treatments so can be applied to towel dried hair.
Hair wax: Only use a smidgen of hair wax! Start with small amounts to avoid clumping your hair which will cling to your scalp and appear oily. Start by applying a pea-sized amount of wax, distribute into the palms of your hand and then work through your hair. If you do use too much and your hair is weighed down, rinse thoroughly with shampoo.
Hair gels are compatible with all hair types including curly, wavy, textured, coloured and relaxed hair. The amount of gel applied is usually directly proportional to how long the style can be maintained. Start with a pea-sized amount and increase as needed.
Conditioner: A hazelnut-sized amount of conditioner is sufficient. Briefly allow the conditioner to moisturise your hair before rinsing it out thoroughly.
Shampoo: Depending on the length and thickness of your hair, you should use a hazelnut- or walnut-sized amount of shampoo. It is best to apply the shampoo in small portions to your hair. Always rinse out the last traces of shampoo thoroughly.
Anti-frizz products protect the hair from drying out and helps make it smooth. They are available in the form of shampoos or conditioners. Use the products as directed or use a hazelnut-sized amount.
Hair Treatments: Work a walnut-sized amount of the hair treatment product through towel-dry hair and style as normal.
Styling mousse is applied to dry hair until the hair feels slightly damp. This may require up to a tennis ball-sized amount for long hair but less mousse is sufficient for short hair. Start with a walnut-sized amount and add more to your hair as needed.
Check out our how to video tutorials, where Armin Morbach shows you how to use styling products to your best advantage.


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Address: Kawilihan Pasig
Price: Php 15,500,000
Category: Townhomes
Year Built: 2012
House Size: 275
Lot Size: 155
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 3
Price: Php 15,500,000
Category: Townhomes
Year Built: 2012
House Size: 275
Lot Size: 155
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 3
Property Description:This Duplex was originally built for personal use. Thus, all systems and requirements were carefully studied and implemented for the efficiency of personal use. All basic amenities were already installed offering "move-in" ease for potential buyers.Cross ventilation and lighting was maximized. Great view!
Semi-furnished with:
- Split type Panasonic Inverter Airconditoning for Living/Dining and Master's bedrooms
- Generator ready/ CCTV ready / Cable TV ready/ Piped in music system at ground floor
- Kitchen appliances: Stove top, oven and sink with grease traps
- All bedrooms with clothes cabinets, shoe cabinets
- All bathrooms with water heaters, shower enclosures and shelves
- Master's bedroom with vanity and toiletries cabinet
- Foyer with wall water feature and lagoon at entry
- Double underground cistern for Nawasa and rainwater recycling system
- Landscaping / Garbage chute
The accuracy of all information, regardless of source, including but not limited to square footages and lot sizes, is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified through personal inspection and/or with the appropriate professionals. The information at this site is provided solely for informational purposes and does not constitute an offer to sell, rent, or advertise real estate outside the state in which the owner of the site is licensed. The owner is not making any warranties or representations concerning any of these properties including their availability. Information at this site is deemed reliable but not guaranteed and should be independently verified.
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How Can I View My Grades?
Please note that final grades will not be mailed to you. The following steps show you how to access your final grades.
Log into MyLFCC to view your grades at the end of the semester.
- Log into SIS
- Click on Self Service
- Click on Student Center
- Click on Grades
- Select the term you wish to view and click on Change.
Your courses and grades for the selected term should appear on a new screen. If the grade has been posted to your account, it will appear in the Official Grade column. Grades entered into the SIS by faculty are posted nightly to student accounts.
To print a copy of your grades, click on Printer Friendly Version, then click the print button on your browser tool bar.
Don't forget to click Sign Out on the top right corner of the screen when you are ready to exit the SIS.


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Mar 12, 2017
This week Paula celebrates the journey toward the next 200 episodes by taking the week off. Sitting in for her is Jamie's husband, Producer Dub, and they free-form it through a variety of topics including allergies, House Hunters and old people stuff.
Plus, in a shock, she somehow gets him to consider trying marijuana for the first time and he actually has his own an Uglee and Awkward Moment to share. Enjoy the show!


text: After carefully removing the pieces and brushing off excess dust, Kaloga gives them a light sandblasting with glass beads. Florian Pfefferkorn, a polymer-sintering product manager at EOS who helps Kyttänen develop rapid-manufacturing objects, explains that this is necessary "to get rid of the loose powder that sticks to their surfaces." The pieces are then assembled, their interlocking joints reinforced with cyanacrolate, a.k.a. Super Glue. A pneumatic spray gun coats the Trabecula in paint that Kyttänen insists, withholding specifics, is just for looks. "It's nothing special, but I can't tell you what it is." Secrecy aside, he rejoices that rapid manufacturing is growing more popular as its efficiency, aesthetics, and cost savings become clear. "We want people to understand what we're doing," he says. "At this stage, the more competition, the better."


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Mindfulness in Teaching
Mindfulness is the capacity to experience moment to moment awareness of present sensations, thoughts, emotions and relationships. This quality of attention facilitates reflection and responsiveness to self and others with openness and compassion. It is a skill that can be learned through practice to enhance our capacity for paying attention and living a fuller, more stress-free life. We believe mindfulness is an asset to teaching and learning, providing a foundation for social-emotional relatedness and regulation that supports all pedagogical approaches. It can be easily woven into classroom teaching at all educational levels and during daily life. Mindfulness can be taught to adults of any age and to children as young as preschool age.
Research is beginning to show that:
Research is beginning to show that:
- Teachers who learn to practice mindfulness are able to attend to the social and emotional demands of teaching, to respond with more empathy and concern to individual student needs and to experience more joy in their work and personal life.
- Teachers who practice mindfulness are less stressed and feel more competent in their teaching.
- Students who practice mindfulness can better focus their attention, reduce their stress, manage their emotions more effectively, and may demonstrate more compassion (e.g., less bullying) with their peers.
- Parents who practice mindfulness can cope more effectively with the stress of juggling work, children and personal needs and be more responsive and communicative in all their relationships.
Mindfulness Curricula for Schools
A number of organizations have developed programs and approaches to teaching mindfulness that are especially well-suited for K-12 teachers and students. For more information on curricula we offer, click here.
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Weekly Homework in each year group:
Nursery Homework activities are on-going and parents are given guidance and support from the Nursery Staff when needed.
Reading, Literacy & Numeracy
Years 1 & 2:
English, Spellings, Reading and Maths.
Children in Year 2 may have extra homework in English and Maths in preparation for the End of Key Stage 1 SATs e.g. extra written comprehension or mental arithmetic exercises.
Years 3 & 4:
English, Spellings and Maths. (Includes regular reading at home.)
Yr. 3 children will also have Sacramental Preparation Homework.
Years 5 & 6:
English, Spellings and Maths. (Includes regular reading at home.)
Children in Year 6 will have extra homework in English and Maths in preparation for the End of Key Stage2 SATs.
Where booster groups have been missed, the work will be sent to be completed at home.
As part of the children's homework, children are expected to read with an adult for at least 20 minutes each day. A home environment of enjoyment of reading is a great partnership with the school. Children will be given a 'Home Reading' book which parents are expected to share with them and help her/him to read. There will also be a 'Home Reading Diary', which should be filled in and sent back. Parents and children may make comments about books read and teachers may also send messages via this book.
A Study Plan is sent to parents, and is available on the website, at the beginning of each half term, outlining the Focus for Study in each curriculum area and the class homework routine. The study plan can be used as a guideline for parental support, particularly when children may be required to do some home research projects which may entail visiting their local library or places of interest.
Each class will go on a termly visit to the local library and we encourgae parents to take the children in their own time as well.
The children have got login details to enable them to access the following websites independently to continue their home study.


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Michael Murphy elected next EUA president
On 11 April 2019, the European University Association (EUA) announced that Prof Michael Murphy, President Emeritus of University College Cork (Ireland) was elected President of the European University Association for the period of 2019-23. Elections were held at the EUA General Assembly in Paris. Mr. Murphy succeeds Rolf Tarrach, who has served EUA over the past decade – first in the Council, then as Board member and finally as president since 2015.
Murphy, a member of the EUA Board since 2017 and Chair of the EUA Learning & Teaching Steering Committee, has held a variety of leadership roles including President of University College Cork, Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Chair of the Health Research Board of Ireland, Chair of the Irish Universities Association and Chair of the Permanent Working Group of European Hospital Doctors. He graduated in Medicine from University College Cork and received his doctorate from the National University of Ireland.
The EUA president serves a four-year term and presides over the EUA Board, which is responsible for the preparation and implementation of the Association's policy and the planning of its activities.
At the same occasion, new EUA Board members were elected. Details can be found here.
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BioMethod's approach is a revolutionary new concept in hair care that treats hair as part of the living body, putting the nutritional needs of the hair first with safe, effective, and proper cleansing.
The active ingredients in BioMethod cleansers not only work with all types of hair, but they are a remarkable scientific leap ahead in hair care.
Hair problems begin in the sebaceous glands within the scalp. These glands secrete sebum (commonly known as "Natural Hair Oils") that coat hair and the scalp. These natural oils are mistakenly thought to have hydrating and moisturizing properties, however, we now know this is not true. Current research indicates that the Hydrolipidic Film (sebum) is the hair and scalp's first layer of defense against harmful bacteria. The purpose of sebum is to trap dirt, debris, toxins, free radicals, and bacteria before any of it reaches the scalp and deteriorates hair and stunts growth. Even though the Hydrolipidic Film (sebum) is vital to hair and scalp health, it is important to regularly cleanse this from the hair and scalp to remove the trapped debris, thus maintaining optimal hair growth.
Traditional shampoos aggressively remove sebum build-up in hair. This strips hair of essential minerals and trace elements, damages the protective layer, dries out the hair, and ultimately contributes to hair loss. This phenomenon resulted in the widely held belief that the less you wash your hair, the healthier it is. New research suggests that it is vital to wash the hair of sebum daily, but most importantly, using products that remove sebum without stripping hair of its necessary nutrients.


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excellent post on the one surefire way to banish it from your thoughts.
In other news, I'm on track for ordering proof copies by the end of this week (and by saying that, have guaranteed it won't happen until next week or later). Got to fix a medium-level story flaw pointed out by my excellent editor, Darren, and have the cover tweaked by my excellent graphic artist, Mike.
In other other news, I got nuthin'.
Monday, August 1, 2011
The Vortex of Doubt and Self-Loathing
3 comments:
- Keith Robinson said...
That's me! Oh dear.
- August 1, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- Roger Eschbacher said...
Hoo boy, me too! I will add that another trick I use to get out of a funk like that is to read a good book. Get's the mind pointed in the right direction and pushes out all of the silly stuff.
- August 1, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Keith Robinson said...
This is true. Sometimes (actually very often) I'm reading a book and my mind starts to wander as new ideas creep into my head... to the point that I have to put the book down.
- August 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM
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