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The Magic in a Book.
I am blessed to have four distinct elements which define who I am. My family; nothing is more important to me than running our home, raising our children and caring for our animals these things are the heart of me, but they are not the whole. My teaching; since qualifying as a teacher in 1992 I have taught children from three years to eleven in a number of schools and for many of those years I led my own department. My writing; for many years this was nothing more than a hobby and only really became something I was able to give my attention to when I began to work part-time.
Perhaps the aspect of me that people find the most surprising is my connection to spirit. Several years ago I had a profound spiritual encounter which not only changed the direction of my life but completely turned inside out my perception of this world through which we travel on the journey of our lives, and the enormity of what lies beyond. So these are the four distinct elements of me and it is when these elements come together and overlap that the stories are made.
I want to share with you a series of experiences and observations which together have helped to forge the person I am today and which enable me to view my world from a slightly different perspective. Whether you agree with me is a matter for your personal consideration, but still, I invite you to see the world as I do for there is a warmth and reassurance in this space which I find more palatable to the cold harshness of the conventional reality which most choose to live in.
As a teacher of many years, I have been privy to watching hundreds of children learn to read and over and again as I watch with wonder the process these children undertake on their road to literacy I am struck by the same overwhelming realization. 'Children learn to read by magic.'
I know, I know; I can hear the clamour of outcry from my fellow educationalists. 'What about cognition?' You cry, 'Learning is the process of building up the links between the synapses in your brain. The more these networks are travelled the deeper the learning is embedded.'
Of course, I know there is science to learning but I'm not talking about the science, I'm talking about my observation's and the wonder unfolding before my eyes and to me this process is magical.
When those three-year-olds begin school many have little experience with books. I've seen children rip them, bend them, throw them and even eat them; for what else is there to do with a pile of coloured sheets of paper. That is where the magic begins; as gently we tell them, 'No'. Then we read to them the story and unlock the wonder hidden within the pages which they hold. They look at us with surprise and we share the pictures and tell them they can read this for themselves just by looking at the pictures, and then they do.
After a while they notice the squiggly things at the bottom of the page and we tell them they are called letters and words and ask if they want to learn how to read them and they say 'yes' so we show them the phonics and how we blend the sounds and we tell them they can make words and read words for themselves; and then they do.
Next, we provide them with simple books with lots of words which they know, full of repetition and laden with rhythm and rhyming and they use their memories to learn these books and we tell them they are reading and they are.
Now we sprinkle this with fun and we read to them each day; a diet of fairy tales, breathtaking adventure, amazing wonders and side-splitting laughs which carry their imaginations to their limits and beyond and we tell them they can read too; 'they can read too.'
Slowly we give them more difficult books to read for themselves with more complex words, less repeating and less rhyme and they look at us with apprehension glinting in their eyes; but then with a smile, for there is magic in these words, we tell them 'you can read this;' and they do.
Every day we tell them for the magic to work well; YOU CAN DO THIS! YOU'RE A READER! WOW, YOU'RE DOING REALLY WELL!
And finally, the magic is complete as you sit back and watch that book thrower, page bender, spine eater, flap ripper. Go to select a tasty morsel from the bookshelf and carry it with reverence to the cushion by the window and open it with excitement and they read it for themselves.
How I know it's magic? Well, you may all disagree but without the magic words of praise, and the wonder in the books our tiny paper munches will continue eating books!
Many times student teachers have asked me how children learn to read; where do we start with such a huge and complex task and I always tell them the same thing. "Ah it's magic; let me show you the spell."
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There was a moment that defined it for me. Not the kind of moment you'd expect, but for me, it was the moment. Months of planning, many hours of sleep forever foregone, the entire club pulling together to pull off our biggest event of the year, and then there was this moment that made it all, well, unbelievably cool.
It wasn't in the hour leading up to the race as I watched in disbelief as they kept coming and coming and coming until we'd more than doubled our field from last year. It wasn't the thirty seconds of fame, or maybe shame, we'll have to see, when they air that interview of Yours Truly, Race Director, on local cable access TV. It wasn't even when I had the honor of shouting, "GO!" It was about 30 seconds later. After high-fiving the bogglingly large departing field. As they headed off down Jefferson Street. Right as they hit the rise at the south end of Jefferson Street.
An image flashed in my mind, the image of that spot about three-quarters of a mile into the Boston Marathon that I've written about most every year, that spot where you can see a good quarter-plus mile ahead as the road rises in front of you and you get a glimpse of the magnitude of the pack. A pack so large that even if you start up front, which I've had the honor to do, it still looks huge in front of you and you ponder momentarily how many tens of thousands are still behind you. Now, there's no comparison between 27,000 at Boston and 214 at the Running With the Wolves, but just for an instant, as that pack, our pack, my pack, rose up that rise on Jefferson Street, just for an instant that image of Boston flashed, and in my mind I couldn't help but say, "Wow!" (the actual word was a little coarser than that), "We've created a real race!"
And so launched the second annual Highland City Striders Running With the Wolves. Not that we didn't create a race last year – indeed, technically, that one being the first annual, that is when we created the race. And not to say that last year's event wasn't simply thrilling to all of us in the club, being present at the creation. But this year if anything validated last year. Apparently someone said something to someone because the next thing you know, we were handing out bib number 227 (compared to a mere hundred last year) and coming perilously close to having to break into the spare set of numbers (fear not, behind the spare numbers we had yet another backup plan, a loaned roll of Tyvek lurking in the car ready to be made into instant numbers). Yes, the word got out, and they came. And came. And came.
And thrilled us all to the bone.
[A few of them might even be reading this, since they were all treated to a slip of paper with my blog address. Two or three new readers would again thrill me to the bone. Thanks for stopping by, visit often, comment please!]
All of the things that could go right, did. The weather worked - It didn't rain, and it was hot, but not nearly as hot as forecast. Our fine City of Marlborough exceeded our expectations in every way. Their man didn't just unlock the gates to our stadium for the finish, he dove in to his task like he was a club volunteer, seeking out ways to help. Cops showed up not just to help, but on bikes to ride, clear, and patrol our rail trail course for us, and save our back-sides when the one down-side incident of the day happened and we lost a runner to the heat. Thanks to them he was transported within minutes and is out there now, fully committed to never letting that happen to him again.
Every member of the club pulled their weight and then some, every member brought something extra to the party, both gear and additional hands. It was a night when if you were related to one of us, you probably chipped in, and not because anyone told you to, just because you did it. Friends of the club and total strangers jumped in to make it work. The list to thank is endless. The feeling was elation. We had a ball. Not that it shows on my face at all.
And the best part is, it showed to our runners. Talking with them after the fact, while we slugged back beers and burgers at our favorite local point of human coagulation, the common theme was how great our people came through.
Now, I'm a big skeptic. One of my favorite quips of recent years came from an industry consultant in my business who, being reviewers of technology for a living, have had to live through hundreds if not thousands of mind-numbingly dull presentations by various firms trying to gain their favor. In a somewhat pithy response, they put out their own presentation a few years ago, providing tips to wannabe-looked-on-favorably companies. Don't ever, they cautioned, put up that slide that says, "Our people make the difference!" Their point? Everyone says that, so unless you have some uber-genetic secret that truly makes your great people different than the last guy's great people, well, we've heard it before. Yawn.
So I won't tell you that our people were the best, the greatest, or from some super race. I will tell you they were really, really good, and they delivered with heart and passion like this was their biggest event of the year. Because it was. Because they're all runners, and they've all been to races, and they know what works and what doesn't. Which raises another topic, the rise of for-profit racing, which I have been meaning to opine on for some time. Save that for another day, and suffice to say that club racing is, in my view, the only way to fly. Running events by runners for runners and nobody else.
As race director, to those who made this event happen, I say thank you. Again as race director, to those who came to our race, I say thank you again. And as a hobbyist writer, to those who actually took a moment to check out the web site on that slip of paper (and in really small letters on the back of your new race shirt, so you can't say you lost the paper), I say welcome, thank you for popping in, please feel free to comment, even sign on as a follower, and by all means come back soon. I post about once a week, sometimes more often, sometimes less, but always try to keep it entertaining and insightful enough to provide you some running reading pleasure.
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30 July 2010
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Newcastle Falcons will tonight offer a higher-definition view of the squad which will start the new Aviva Premiership campaign, as they play their final pre-season friendly.
Taking on Edinburgh in Hawick, the expanded benches and rolling replacements so evident in their previous two outings have been whittled down just a week ahead of their league opener against Bath.
The results should make interesting viewing – especially in the back-row, where skipper Will Welch starts the game with six on his back.
Playing most of last season at open-side, his move coincides with Andy Saull coming into the Falcons' starting XV for the first time, having missed the 21-21 draw with Bath and Saturday's 23-10 triumph over Connacht through injury.
The former Saracen has made a career as a specialist seven, foraging at the breakdown, and while his addition certainly gives Newcastle more fleet of foot around the park, the ball-carrying burden will rest heavily on the shoulders of Ally Hogg.
The former Edinburgh man is one of six Scots in the Falcons' starting XV, and will at least have able assistance from countryman Fraser McKenzie in the battle to get over the gain line. Up against his former club, the Scotland A cap partners Scott MacLeod in the second-row.
MacLeod will not have far to travel for the fixture, with the former Scottish international still a resident of the border town.
He said: "I was secretly hoping it would be in Hawick, and it is actually 13 or 14 years since I last played there. I can't remember the last time there was a professional game played in the town, and with it being half-way between the two grounds it seems the ideal place to stage it.
"It is mainly just excitement on my part in terms of playing on my home patch, and I should have a lot of friends and family there. I can just walk to the ground from home rather than driving for two hours to Kingston Park, and there is a real buzz about the place.
"The match has been well advertised up here, and everyone you speak to seems to be going. I know Newcastle are bringing a fair few with them over the border, too, and it should be a great atmosphere."
Forecasting a full-intensity skirmish, he added: "It is our last pre-season game, so it is all about putting a marker down for selection going into the Premiership. From the team point of view the aim is to iron out a few creases, and to get our structures where we want them to be.
"It is a big game for everybody, and for Edinburgh as well. I don't think there is such a thing as a friendly and, speaking to some of their players this week, they are treating it the same as us."
An experienced half-back line-up pairs former Edinburgh pair Phil Godman and Mike Blair against their old club, Godman having benched against Bath and Connacht to good effect.
In the centres Tane Tu'ipulotu is again missing through injury, director of rugby Dean Richards handing another start to Irishman Danny Barnes.
The ex-Munster man partners Samoan Jamie Helleur in a solid-looking midfield, while the back three has a consistent look about it.
Ryan Shortland, with three tries from two games in pre-season, starts again on the left wing, with Tom Catterick continuing at full-back after strong showings in both previous appearances.
With Newcastle using just 24 of their squad this evening in Hawick, Richards will give a whole host of his fringe men a run-out tomorrow when a Falcons Development XV takes on Blaydon at Crow Trees, kicking off at 2pm.


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MEXICO CITY — A human head was left near the home of the Oaxaca state attorney general with a note, purportedly from a drug cartel, threatening three officials of the southern Mexican state, authorities said Sunday.
State prosecutors said the head and note were found Saturday inside a plastic bag left a few yards from Attorney General Evencio Martinez' house in the state capital.
The note threatened Martinez as well as organized crime investigator Pedro Guzman and the leader of the state's governing party, Jorge Franco.
The note signed in the name of the Gulf drug cartel said officials must "learn to respect that we are here and we won't leave."
A body matching the head was found outside the city. Officials said they have not yet identified the man.
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You might be a Land Surveyor if you spend your vacations spotting surveying monuments and sending pictures back to the office. Locating the corners everywhere just gets in the blood, I suspect, and you can't turn that off even when taking a little well-deserved R & R.
While family and friends are enjoying the sights above street level (cathedrals, sunsets, eagles, and such), the surveyor is prone to abrupt stops in the middle of the pavement (like Pokemon Go players, way ahead of their time)! After traveling with a surveyor, you'll find yourself seeing caps, monuments, even an 80d galvanized nail pinning down a tiny piece of orange flagging, everywhere you go!
If your co-workers are coming back from vacations with scenic postcards, instead of pictures like these, they are definitely not surveyors!


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The revelations continue to spill out, even if slowly, about how the government of the Bush & Cheney administration in a fundamentally significant way changed for the worse the American culture with regard to our concepts of and interaction with the torture and abuse of prisoners.
Andrew Sullivan, a conservative (although certainly not a neo-conservative) has written a piece about all this. Here is the link. Sullivan strongly urges that those who are responsible for the policies that claimed that the U.S. could ignore the Geneva Convention and that somehow it is justified to allow for torture against our enemies should be brought to justice, no matter how far up the chain of command culpability might go.
One of the strongest criticisms of the administration's policies and allowances is the effect it has had on the American psyche and culture. This is a very important observation and the ramifications of the change will have even greater impact on our nation's future than the actual doing of torture. What has happened to the culture is a shift to accepting torture and justifying in our own minds our ability to engage in culture while at the same time we condemn it in others. Our moral strength of the high-road on the world state has collapsed. We can no longer with a straight face demanded on the world stage that those who torture Americans must be brought to justice, because we do not hold ourselves accountable. All of this, accepted and justified by those who claim they are the true and faithful champions of Jesus Christ.
I continue to be dismayed, and I mean dismayed, by what I constantly hear from the politicized American Religious Right as they unquestioningly (seemingly so) support the policies of the Bush administration concerning the execution of the war in Iraq and even presenting justifications for the techniques we used in prosecuting that war – including clandestine prisons and torture. Where are their minds and their hearts? Heavenward? It doesn't seem like it.
The Religious Right has lost it moorings to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They claim to represent American Evangelicals and Fundamentalists (or all religious people that support their positions – except Muslims, of course, because in their estimation Muslims are just evil, period). They claim to be the true expression of the Christian Faith in America as opposed to the mainline denominations or "Christians in name only" who support more liberal policies (like ones based on Jesus' command that we love even our enemies). These organizations have become so consumed with the attainment and retention of political power that they have lost sight of what it means to be Christian. Their end goal, even if summed up in religious sounding language, justifies any means needed to achieve the goal of power. They have called evil good, and good evil. They have overwhelmed the Republican Party and instituted a neo-conservative politique that claims God's complete support.
They changed the moral character of American Evangelicalism away from Jesus' two great commands and to the corrupting power of secular politics. They have build a golden calf to which they turn, and that calf is the idolization of a nation-state and putting their trust not in God but in the power of the state. Ironic, isn't it? They have abandoned the call of God to believe and behave according to a different standard than that of the corrupt world. They have ruined their witness to a confused world, because they themselves are profoundly confused about what it means to be a Christian, about what it means to be moral, and about what it means to be human.
I'm not a liberal and I am no secular-humanist, but I cannot and will not support the theory or tactics of the Religious Right. Their ideology is corrupting to the soul and counter to the call of God to redeem and restore the world. The historic and storied framework and beliefs of what was Evangelicalism in this country has been sacrificed on the alter of politics, and it is sad.
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French aid is ignoring those in most need of water and sanitation: A report by Coalition Eau
Georgina Rannard
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With just a few weeks left before the MDG summit in New York, Coalition Eau have published a report that highlights how water and sanitation aid needs to be structured in ways that truly benefit the poorest.
In an analysis of France's 2003 commitment to double its Official Development Assistance (ODA), Coalition Eau found that the French government had met their promise, but only by sharply increasing the number of loans rather than grants. Indeed the total sum of grants fell to €15m in 2009, down from €66m in 2008. France has set itself apart from European partners in this respect; in 2007 Germany provided 66% of its aid in the form of grants, whilst the UK provided 100% grants.
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So what's the problem with loans instead of grants? Loans are much less accessible to countries with low borrowing capacities (usually poorer countries), and they favour projects that need considerable investment, i.e. urban treatment plants rather than rural water supply. Loans as aid is inclined towards middle-income countries, who are economically able to support loans, and offer France a better chance of getting back the money (partly because richer countries can charge for water consumption).
In 2003 France committed to targeting rural and poor urban areas, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, and acknowledged that need for safe water and sanitation is greatest there. However, by prioritising loans over grants they have overlooked the needs of this region. Indeed, the main recipient of French water and sanitation aid in 2007 was the Middle East and North Africa region, whilst aid to support basic water and sanitation access dropped by 70% to €12m. In short, those in most need of basic water and sanitation are being denied access to French aid.
- An increase in French bilateral aid for water and sanitation to €100m in the form of grants
- As indicated by the OECD amongst others, France should better target those countries in greatest need, and make Sub-Saharan Africa a real priority.
- Target the poorest countries by focusing on Least Developed Countries, and increasing sums allocated to rural populations.
See here for more information about Coalition Eau and the report, "Changes in French Official Development Assistance for water supply and sanitation from 2001 to 2007 and the outlook to 2012".
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Note: I published this post a few years' back. It seemed apt to republish it today.
"Crazy People"
The folder with this name sits on my hard drive.
Whenever I get an email that merits the title, I drag it into the "Crazy People" file. After 16 years in public office, the file has swollen to gigs of nutty emails that most likely would embarrass their senders if they read them today.
I have a theory that people don't know how they sound in the emails they send to elected officials. They forget that other people are on the opposite end of these nasty diatribes; that they read them, react to them and file them away.
Several years ago, members of the Oklahoma House were spending what seemed like an endless day on the House floor. We were hearing one bill after another. Since it was close to the end of session, we'd voted on all these bills many times before; in committee, in the full House the first time, then again in the full House when they came back from the Senate, and now, in the full House again after they came out of conference committee.
We spend a lot of time together in the House of Representatives, kind of like people locked on a ship that's adrift at sea. We'd heard each other's speeches on these bills until we could all recite them together.
On that day, we were tired, over-stimulated and stressed; all combined with an almost numbing boredom. It gets like that late in every legislative session.
Mainly due to the boredom, we started talking about the emails we get. Now there are certain people who evidently get up every morning and fire off a nasty email to all the members of the legislature before breakfast, kind of like some people go to daily mass and others run on their treadmill. Their names and the names they call us become familiar to all of us. We started trying to figure out whose district these emailers were from.
Finally, I emailed the one who we all felt was the most flamboyant and asked what part of the state he lived in. Nobody answers these kinds of emails, and I think it was the first time any of us had clicked "reply" on one of his. The person responded and asked why I wanted to know. I said that we'd been talking about him and were wondering whose district he lived in.
If it's possible to sound abashed in an email, this person did. I really don't think he realized that people read the stuff he was sending. In all the years since, he has never sent another blanket email to the Oklahoma House.
Of course, this person, hateful and goofy-sounding as his emails were, did not rise to the level that gets someone into the "Crazy People" file. It takes a special kind of venom, and usually a couple of threats, to land there.
The point I'm making is if you're writing your legislator in support of Christian values, remember that someone will read what you send. Do your best to sound like a follower of Christ and not an escapee from a wingnut radio talk show. You can make your point just as well without calling people names or attacking their intelligence, beliefs, children, parentage or appearance.
Remember: When you say your are a Christian, other people judge Christ by you. Don't be a negative witness for Christ just because you think it's clever and witty to degrade other people with your speech. Civility will not only make you a better witness for Christ, it will make you more persuasive about the positions you are advocating.
It can also keep you out of the "Crazy People" file.


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Dr. Rick Brandon was a great hit at this year's MDC worldwide sales meeting. He delivered the message we wanted with total credibility. Our sales people started the session with a healthy degree of skepticism, but soon changed their minds. He is not your "typical" motivational speaker. He brings true-life experiences to his presentation that people can relate to. His sales background allows him to speak from experience that we can all relate to. His ability to remember unique information about all of our people was a great indicator of the quality of his preparation and a key factor in establishing his credibility. I received numerous comments throughout the week from a large number of the participants on the value of the presentation. We all benefited from the presentation both at a professional and at a personal level.
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This post shows how you can retrieve all window titles in Microsoft Windows using Python's ctypes module. Moreover, it also acts as a ctypes tutorial, showing how to create and use callback functions.
The following is the full code. Keep reading if you want to understand how it works. (Note: If you are reading this as a ctypes tutorial and are having trouble following the explanation, you may want to go through my previous tutorial first.)
import ctypes EnumWindows = ctypes.windll.user32.EnumWindows EnumWindowsProc = ctypes.WINFUNCTYPE(ctypes.c_bool, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)) GetWindowText = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextW GetWindowTextLength = ctypes.windll.user32.GetWindowTextLengthW IsWindowVisible = ctypes.windll.user32.IsWindowVisible titles = [] def foreach_window(hwnd, lParam): if IsWindowVisible(hwnd): length = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd) buff = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(length + 1) GetWindowText(hwnd, buff, length + 1) titles.append(buff.value) return True EnumWindows(EnumWindowsProc(foreach_window), 0) print(titles)


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Cooperation in the field of skid resistance between Germany and the Netherlands
- The Netherlands is on the way to change its existing skid resistance measuring method for its highway network from the Dutch RAW 72, a longitudinal force method, to the Sideway Force method. This method is described in the Technical Specification 15901-8 (SKM device) as well as 15901-6 (SCRIM device) and is in use in 9 European countries. The CEN TC 227 WG5 on Surface Characteristics is currently working on combining of these two technical Specifications into a European standard for Sideway-Force (SWF) measurement devices. The idea of this change in the Netherlands was perceived in 2013 and since then a lot of meetings have been held with the different Dutch decision makers as well as with countries which currently operate SWF devices. There was an intensive exchange of knowledge about these devices and their corresponding quality assurance systems, because the Netherlands wanted to incorporate and rely on an existing system of a neighbor country without losing their present level of quality. The Netherlands has therefore decided to incorporate the German SKM approach. The network monitoring with the new system will start in 2017. To ensure the quality of skid resistance measurements and further cooperation in this field, it has been decided to initiate an alliance between BASt and the Dutch road owner Rijkswaterstaat (RWS). This alliance will facilitate an exchange of research activities, calibration of the Dutch systems according to the existing German Standard as well as control measurements with a BASt-device on the Dutch network during the network monitoring. During 2016 also comparative measurements will be performed on a network level with the current Dutch device and with an SKM device to determine a conversion between the two and to be able to define new threshold values.
|Karen Scharnigg, Ulrike Stöckert, Lutz Pinkofsky, Thijs Bennis, Wim van Ooijen, Erik Vos, Hans Nugteren
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|Niederlande. Rijkswaterstaat
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|Decke [Straße]; Fahrbahn; Griffigkeit; Messung; Prüfverfahren
Carriageway; Measurement; Skidding resistance; Surfacing; Test method
Volltext: dx.doi.org/10.14311/EE.2016.143
|6th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress Proceedings 2016
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Heterosexual couples that split childcare duties have higher quality relationships and sex lives than those who don't, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared equally between partners if that possibility were available to them, according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California-Santa Barbara.
A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
Despite having only about 5 percent of the world's population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Women are more likely than men to initiate divorces, but women and men are just as likely to end non-marital relationships, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Indian-American spellers are known for dominance on the national stage and even host regional, culturally specific bees. How did the niche emerge?
Despite growing acceptance of a "new fatherhood" urging fathers to be engaged in family life, men's relative contributions to housework and child care have remained largely stagnant over the past twenty years. Using data from in-depth interviews, we describe how identity processes may contribute to this persistent inequality in parenting. We propose that the specificity of men's identity standards for the father role is related to role-relevant behavior, and that the vague expectations many associate with "new fatherhood" both contribute to and result from men's underinvolvement.
Scholars examining kin and community care have often sought to identify the relative importance of structural and cultural factors on the use and availability of these networks, but research has yielded unclear results in the case of child care. Cultural theories focus on how values, beliefs, and practices lead to differences in kin and community care; structural theories focus on how educational attainment, income, inherited power or inequality, and family structure lead to such differences.
Prior U.S.-based research examining the collective remembrance of racially charged events has focused on the black-white binary, largely bypassing such remembrance among U.S. Hispanics. In this article, I ask how a group of Mexican-origin Hispanics in an historic Houston barrio remember two racially charged events as well as whether and how these events are publicly commemorated. Additionally, race and collective memory research has often highlighted the role of collective memory in shaping race relations.
The number of children in foster care across the country is driven not solely by child abuse and neglect, but by states' varying politics and approaches to social problems, a new University of Washington (UW) study finds.
States with more punitive criminal justice systems tend to remove children from their homes far more frequently than those with generous welfare programs — meaning that two states with similar rates of child abuse and neglect could have very different rates of foster care entry.


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Millendo Therapeutics Appoints New Independent Board Member and Names Chairperson of the Board
Fri, June 24, 2016
Millendo Therapeutics, Inc., a company developing novel therapies for endocrine diseases caused by hormone dysregulation, announced the appointment of James Hindman as an independent board member and chairperson of its audit committee. In addition, Millendo has appointed current board member and Partner of New Enterprise Associates, Inc., Carol Gallagher, Pharm.D., as Chairperson of the Board.
Hindman most recently served as Executive Vice President of Finance and Business Development and Chief Financial Officer at Allergan, Inc., where, under his leadership, the company achieved its most robust financial performance in Allergan's 64-year history.
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The owner of Southern Railway is going to the country's highest court - claiming current strikes on the network are "unlawful".
Govia Thameslink Railway has already lost a court case and an appeal.
There are three days of strikes on the franchise this week by Aslef members - over driver-only trains.
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Drop-in Childcare Temporarily Suspended until further notice.
Kid's Club Hours
Ages 6 weeks-12 years old. Please make reservations for infants under 1 years old.
Monday-Thursday 8:00am-7:30pm*
Friday-Saturday 8:00am-6:00pm
Sunday 8:00am-4:00pm
*Kids need to be checked in prior to 7pm Monday-Thrusday. If no kids are in attendance, Kids Club will close at 7pm.
Junior's Club Hours
Ages 5-12 years old. Drop Juniors off in Kids Club when Juniors Club is not open.
Summer: Monday-Saturday 9:00am-12:00pm
School Year: Saturday 9:00am-12:00pm
At Stafford Hills Club we have a "back to basics" philosophy that celebrates childhood and allows kids to simply be kids. Our goal is to provide a nurturing drop-in program for children between that age of 6 weeks & 12 years.
We've taken a step back from technology and focus on building strong & nurturing relationships. On any given day you will find children participating in age appropriate active & dramatic play, arts & crafts, kid led group initiative games, classic board games, story time and anything else the imagination can dream up.
Drop-In Child Care
Stafford Hills Club provides a nurturing & energetic environment for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years. Our goal is to create an atmosphere that supports a healthy lifestyle through active play, imagination & hands on activities.
To ensure proper infant to staff ratio, we ask that reservations be made for infants under the age of one. Reservations can be made up to one week in advance.
We ask that when possible, cancellations be made 24 hours in advance. A cancellation fee of $6 will be charged to the members account for a cancellation less than four hours in advance or for a no-show.
Check-In & Check-Out Procedures
Please give yourself ample time to check your child into child care to ease the transition and facilitate a safe and efficient check-in.
The parent or guardian checking out the child must be the same person who checked in the child unless they are authorized to pick up on the child's waiver of liability. ID may be required. Please carry your cell phone with you in the rare case that child care will need to contact you.
What to Bring
- Bottle, sippy cup or water bottle
- Socks
- Diaper bag stocked with at least two diapers and wipes plus a change of clothes
- A small, nut free snack – No meals please
We will have "snack time" every hour on the hour for 15 min, supervised by a Kids Club Associate. This will allow kids to stay seated while they eat and will discourage the little ones from eating other kids food.
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Please keep sick children at home. Do not bring your child to child care if they are experiencing a fever, throwing up, have diarrhea or a runny nose with colored mucus.
SHC Family Members (3rd Hour+)
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$15/Hour 1st Child
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Family Memberships receive 2 hours of complimentary childcare daily for every child listed on the member account. Additional time can be purchased according to the following fee structure with a limit of four hours maximum daily.
Individual/Couple club members or non-members may purchase child care at the rates listed above. A minimum of one hour will be charged and fees will accrue in 30-minute increments after the first hour.
If you are planning on putting your kids into kids club for the first time please fill out the packet below & bring it in on your first visit!
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Ted Lipien, who is one of BBG Watch's sponsors and supporters, has agreed to write for us from time to time on the history of U.S. international broadcasting.
Edward R. Murrow – A Propaganda Hound
By Ted Lipien
Experts and Hillary Clinton say that the U.S. is losing the information war against ISIS and against Putin. According to some, American journalists no longer know how to counter propaganda because they don't study history. U.S. government does not have enough experts who can identify propaganda and deal with it.
I recently heard a Voice of America (VOA) senior correspondent arguing that countering violent extremism in U.S. taxpayer-funded VOA programs is a bad idea.
"As a policy goal, I know of no one who would argue with the notion of countering violent extremism," the VOA correspondent said.
"But the growing focus on and funding of the initiative ['Countering Violent Extremism'] within VOA and the apparent desire to involve journalists in pursuit of a policy goal casts doubt on our independence and our journalistic integrity," he stated with great conviction.
In support of his argument, the VOA correspondent chose to quote an American journalist who, ironically, later became a U.S. government propagandist.
"It was Edward R. Murrow who once said: 'To be persuasive we must be believable, to be believable we must be credible, to be credible we must be truthful'."
The VOA correspondent added:
"Murrow's picture still hangs in the VOA Newsroom, a reminder to all that our mission was, is and should remain credible journalism."
To hear that countering propaganda and violent extremists is something bad was a complete surprise to me. I did it when I was in charge of VOA's Polish Service, one of VOA's most successful foreign language services in the 1980s. I considered myself a follower of Edward R. Murrow.
He was, after all, a true hound of countering propaganda and using certain forms of propaganda without crossing the line between truth and falsehood. He did it with a passion. Many VOA journalists even now counter propaganda without compromising their professional integrity. Some of them had lived in countries where they were fed propaganda. They know how to spot it and how to counter it effectively, but fewer and fewer of them remain. Effective countering of propaganda requires from journalists expert knowledge, sophistication and subtlety which are now in short supply in the West.
Edward R. Murrow was indeed a strong believer in news reporters telling the truth. He had a keen understanding of history, foreign policy and foreign cultures. But based on what he knew and the period during which he was active as a journalist and later as a government official, he had absolutely no qualms about the Voice of America being involved in exposing and countering propaganda. According to him, this was to be done not only with facts but also with ideas and commentaries.
Edward R. Murrow accepted the job of the public diplomacy (a polite term for propaganda) chief in the Kennedy administration in 1961 when he became director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). "Public diplomacy" was a new term used to describe U.S. government propaganda and all other PR and information outreach in support of U.S. foreign policy and in improving America's image abroad.
But even before he joined the U.S. government, Edward R. Murrow applauded government efforts to counter propaganda of racial and class hatred. In a 1943 radio broadcast, he strongly supported the activities of the Office of War Information (OWI) — VOA's parent agency — precisely because he knew that VOA practiced anti-Nazi propaganda and even psychological warfare. He may have not known at the time that wartime VOA and its parent agency were also spreading Soviet propaganda and Soviet lies. This became a major controversy, one of many which led to the OWI being abolished in 1945 and to the passage of the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act which restricted use of public money to distribute VOA programs in the United States (some of the Smith-Mundt restrictions were recently weakened, which also produced a controversy). Shortly after the war's end, VOA was moved to the State Department and in 1953 to the United States Information Agency.
During the Cold War, as a U.S. government official Edward R. Murrow led the propaganda war against the Soviet Union and against global communism.
In a declassified 1961 memo, as USIA director he wrote:
EDWARD R. MURROW: "Decisions by the President call for an energetic campaign of persuasion — by diplomacy and propaganda — to unify Latin America against Castro, to isolate and 'quarantine him,' to nullify his potential for subversion, and ultimately so to weaken him in Cuba and in the rest of Latin America that his Cuban opponents (and Hemisphere pressures) can overthrow him."
The U.S. News & World Report article argues that Edward R. Murrow wouldn't be surprised at all at the U.S. inability now to win hearts and minds. The article attributes it largely to insufficient funding. I argue in an op-ed in Digital Journal that while more funding is definitely needed, America's soft power will not become more effective without a complete overhaul of the federal agency in charge of it and without hiring competent managers and journalists.
At this point, Voice of America journalists who object to countering violent extremism should probably worry more instead about their agency being mismanaged, even defunct. They should worry whether some of their colleagues might be falling for Putin or Castro propaganda because of poor knowledge of history.
The real problem now is not even inability to counter propaganda but VOA unintentionally reinforcing anti-American propaganda.
The real question is to whom these VOA journalists are accountable. Can the new Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) CEO manage them as well as journalists working for several other BBG media entities? Many experts think this job is too big for one person and one super-agency too big to produce quality media content of different kinds to many different audiences to achieve different goals from countering propaganda to promoting America's image abroad. Supporters of reform propose splitting the agency into more manageable components.
I've seen too many poorly-researched, one-sided VOA news reports and commentaries which could very well be confused with those originating from Russia's RT or Radio Havana. While most of the VOA output is not tainted, some is excellent, and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) output is even better, this is unfortunately happening with disturbing frequency at VOA, and to some degree even at RFE/RL.
New Broadcasting Board of Governors CEO and Director John Lansing needs to find new executives to manage the ailing agency, and find new leaders for VOA and RFE/RL. Congress must help him by legislating much of the agency's bloated government bureaucracy out of existence and by strengthening oversight.
As to VOA reporters who object to countering propaganda, I'll be brief and will only say that they need to find a new patron saint, definitely someone other than Edward R. Murrow.
1961 U.S. Propaganda Film with USIA Director Edward R. Murrow
In his June 1943 broadcast, Edward R. Murrow discusses both domestic and overseas U.S. government propaganda. He specifically mentions and praises U.S. government's "propaganda," "psychological warfare," and "campaign of political warfare against the enemy." The U.S. Congress almost abolished the domestic branch of the Office of War Information in 1943 because in addition to VOA's overseas broadcasts OWI also engaged in domestic propaganda and in some cases illegal censorship of domestic media in the United States. Many members of Congress were furious about these activities, as well as about some VOA broadcasts. It turns out that many of VOA's most controversial wartime radio broadcasts, some of which repetitions of Soviet propaganda, were produced by OWI and VOA leaders and journalists acting on their own beliefs and their own initiative.
Democratic congressman from Indiana, Rep. Louis L. Ludlow, on March 29, 1944, called the Director of the Office of War Information Elmer Davis "America's leading propagandist, the generalissimo of the propaganda forces of this great nation, that Mr. Davis is rendering a service of inestimable value to humanity." It was meant as a compliment.
The super-propaganda agency and its largest element, the Voice of America, were a managerial disaster with very little oversight and accountability during WWII — not unlike the Broadcasting Board of Governors of today.
Edward R. Murrow may not have been yet fully aware of some of these problems and controversies when he recorded his broadcast in 1943.
A transcript of Edward R. Murrow's June 20, 1943 radio broadcast was placed in the Congressional Record by Rep. Walter K. Granger (Democrat – Utah).
Monday, June 21, 1943
MR. GRANGER. "Mr. Speaker, we are all familiar with the radio voice of Edward R. Murrow who has been one of our outstanding radio reporters from Great Britain. On yesterday at 6 o'clock over the Columbia network from Philadelphia Mr. Murrow delivered the broadcast that I desire to insert in the Record. It is such a forthright statement and so timely that I think it deserves being made part of the RECORD.
That city of Washington is filled with hardworking people. To this reporter it's the hardest working capital in the world. They tell me there are a lot of bureaucrats down there. That's probably true but bureaus are needed to run a war and men and women are required to man the bureaus and that's how they become bureaucrats. Whatever name we choose to call them, they're a lot of hard working Americans down there trying to help win this war.
The House of Representatives has decided to abolish the domestic activities of the Office of War Information. If the Senate concurs, that organization will fold up. May be it should–but there ought to be a reason and claiming that Elmer Davis is another Goebbels isn't a reason. It's ludicrous. As I understand it, the Office of War Information was established to help win this war. Its success or failure at that job ought to determine its future. No one can be sure what part propaganda and psychological warfare has played so far, but there can be little doubt that the time is coming—-and soon–when the Germans will be vulnerable to a sustained campaign designed to weaken their will to fight. If that job is done well it might shorten the war by months and shortening the war by months means saving of a great many American lives.
Next winter in Europe will be a terrible winter. As it closes in, the German people will be weary and wondering if we have anything to say to them, it will be the time to say it. Optimism and courage are pretty hard to hold on to when you're cold.
I'm not competent to speak of the domestic activities of the Office of War Information, but I can tell you that if that organization is wrecked our campaign of political warfare against the enemy will suffer, and I can report that in the opinion of every competent observer, military and civilian, that I have seen in the course of considerable traveling we are not so near to winning this war as to be justified in discarding anything that might help win it.
There are those in Washington who see in this effort to fragmentate the Office of War Information the opening gun in the 1944 campaign, the Presidential campaign.
It's difficult, almost impossible, for one recently returned from the fighting fronts to accept that explanation. Healthy political controversy is one of the safeguards of democracy, but it just can't be that any of us are confused about the relative importance of the 1944 campaign and the bloody, bitter campaigns of the winter of 1943.
In Britain, ministers of information came and went with surprising speed. They once talked of forming a club for ex-ministers of information, but the principle of political warfare was never seriously questioned because, it was agreed that it might help win the war. If the Office of War Information can't do anything to help win the war, then we would all agree that it should be abolished, but if it can, then those who destroy it for reasons of polities or personalities are assuming a considerable responsibility."


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New Shows!
We're absolutely delighted about the fall schedule we've lined up this year! There is a plethora of opportunities to see us play and recruit new minions including TWO Steampunk festivals! Labor day weekend is Big River in Hannibal, MO, and in November we'll be playing Steampunk November in Dallas, TX. In addition to that, there are two shows lined up for October – a steampunk art show in Topeka, KS on Oct 22 and back home in Kansas City on Oct 29 we'll be celebrating Monkey Wrench Clothing reopening in their new location! Not only that, but we're also scheming about having an informal jam session at Kansas City Renaissance Festival on their steampunk weekend Sept 24-25.
See our official schedule page for all the details!
New Songs!
We've also got new songs and new band members we're eager to introduce to you all! Come hear about the wonders of having a fine moustache, find out where to get everything you need to be an evil genius, and learn the dangers of meddling with Time! You can get a preview of some of these new songs on YouTube!
Come out for some grand entertainment this fall!


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So after reading "Buying airline tickets for your next adventure vacation - Part 1" you have decided not to use a travel agent and that now is the time you should start looking. These recommendations are primarily for people who have to be somewhere on a specific date by a specific time. If you have flexibility, there are additional options that will be addressed in another blog post.
1. Do you live some place that Southwest Airlines serves and if so, do they fly to where you're going? Southwest has excluded themselves from all the search engines so the only place you can find their schedule and prices is on the Southwest website. Although they are no longer truly a discount airline, there are 3 reasons they are my airline of choice.
- They don't charge baggage fees. If you need more than a carry on, this means you can subtract $50 - $100 from their price when you compare it to their competitors.
- They have a great cancellation policy. They won't give you a refund, but you will have a credit for the full amount you paid to use for up to 365 days. And they make it easy to use that credit.
- Their employees' morale is high. I've chatted with several flight sttendants and I'm convinced that it isn't just for show. I like to support companies that treat their employees well.
- Kayak.com (http://www.kayak.com/). If I was only going to check one site, this is the one I would choose. Kayak has an intuitive interface and many ways to filter results all at the same time - by airport, duration, take off or landing times, layovers, airline etc. If you have lots of choices, Kayak can help you quickly sort through them based on your preferences. For common routes it usually has a Price Predictor, which shows you how low prices have fluctuated over the last 90 days and, based on an algorithm, their best guess whether this is a good time to buy or whether you should wait because prices might drop. You can also set up fare alerts for specific routes, which is a good way to get a feel for price fluctuations if you're not needing to buy now. However, these aren't flight-specific; knowing that the price has gone down $20 without knowing if it's on the flight you're interested in may not be helpful.
The only cons I've found are that I've sometimes found better prices and flights on one of the other sites I'll mention.
- Google flights (https://www.google.com/flights/). This is my new first stop website because it is blazingly fast and has a clean and simple interface. It also gives you tips such as being able to save X dollars if you fly a different day. In addition there is a world map on the initial page with prices for lots of destinations based on your departure city and date. Is it that useful to know I could fly to Tromso, Norway for $1,071 on February 21 from Washington, DC? Maybe not, but it's fun!!
The cons? It doesn't have filters other than other nearby airports. If, for example, you can't leave until 12pm, there isn't a way to limit your flights to those parameters. It also has a box at the top called Best Flights, about which it says "We chose these flights to give you the best trade-off between number of stops, duration, and price." Sometimes that seems accurate but sometimes not (like an American flight that was $10 more expensive and 30 minutes longer was listed over its Delta counterpart.) Is there an advertising consideration? If so, you can still see the other options so just be sure to look.
- Hipmunk (http://www.hipmunk.com). Hipmunk has my favorite interface. It uses bar graphs that allow you to instantly see how long flights are, how many layovers and how long each one is, and what time they take off and land. Another great aspect is the default sort order, which is their "agony index": a combination of price, layovers, and length. This absolutely assures that you don't overlook a much better flight that costs $10 more but saves you 4 hours of travel time. It may or may not find you the cheapest flight.
So why isn't this my go to site? Three reasons: 1) it's slow, sometimes mind-numbingly so - although that may be improving. 2) There have been several instances where the flight I selected "was no longer available". Really? Why waste my time then? 3) You pick your outbound flight and then you pick your return flight. So you might really like your outbound flight only to find there is no good return flight paired with it. It's still worth a look but don't spend too much time there.
It's also worth taking a look at Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com) one of the oldest and largest online booking websites. Personally, I have never found them that useful and they are another site where I've had the "flight is no longer available" experience. But you can look at itineraries that involve more than 2 cities. Still, when I tried it just now, the only flights it showed from Madrid to Baltimore were on LOT Polish Airlines with a time of 49 hours and 41 mins. And it was more expensive than the one Kayak came up with.


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In preparation for the new season, we thought it was time to spruce up the website. You know, tidy things up, make it easy to listen to the radio show, make it more interactive. Here's what we came up with.
EPISODE PLAYER: You may have noticed the "latest episode" box hovering at the top of the home page – here you can listen to a recording of the full radio broadcast, see all of that episode's videos, browse the photo gallery or get more information about that week's guests. The proverbial one-stop shop.
LISTEN PAGE: How do I listen to the Saturday night broadcast? How do I subscribe on iTunes? How do I download a file to listen to on my vintage 1999 Diamond Rio 32MB MP3 player? (If you don't know what that means, don't worry.) Listen to "Chicago Live!" how you want, when you want. It's all on our new "Listen" page.
"BEHIND THE CURTAIN" BLOG: If you're reading this, you've found it already. Follow the behind-the-scenes action and get to know the creative team behind "Chicago Live!" Then come pick us out of the crowd at a show and say "Hey – will you please sign my printed screenshot of your Pulitzer-worthy description of the website updates?" Of course I will.
KOGAN'S CORNER: Rick Kogan wears many hats – Tribune "Sidewalks" columnist, WGN Radio "Sunday Papers" host, "Chicago Live!" ringmaster and Almanac alchemist. No single web page could contain his prolific documentation of Chicago history and culture, but we've squeezed in as much as we could. Find his latest columns, Almanacs, podcasts and a collection of classic stories curated by Rick himself.
In addition, we've categorized our archives on the home page, cleaned up episode listings for upcoming and past shows, spelled out all of our new ticket options and generally made the website (we hope) easier to get around. Like it? Hate it? Have a good idea for the site? All sentiments are welcome – email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
-- Casey Baker, assistant producer and web guy
In preparation for the new season, we thought it was time to spruce up the website. You know, tidy things up, make it easy to listen to the radio show, make it more interactive. Here's what we came up with.


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One of the biggest problems with sleep apnea is that probably more than 80% of sufferers are undiagnosed. To help us improve our ability to detect and diagnose sleep apnea sufferers, we need to keep our eyes open for signs that could clue us in to people who may have sleep apnea but don't know it. Turns out that caffeine is one of those signs.
Why Caffeine Use Could Be a Sign of Sleep Apnea
Caffeine is the most commonly used stimulant in the US. Many people use it on a daily basis to help themselves get up in the morning, stay focused on work during the day, and combat sleepiness while at work. The thing is, those three problems and many similar ones are actually symptoms of sleep apnea. People with sleep apnea wake up feeling unrested, have difficulty staying focused on tasks, and often feel sleepy throughout the course of the day.
This means that if you find yourself leaning on caffeine to help with any of those problems, it's quite possible that you're really masking your sleep apnea symptoms. It's one thing to enjoy a cuppa joe or an afternoon tea, but it's another thing entirely to actually need them to function. If you're in the latter camp, maybe you should talk to a sleep doctor or dentist about your sleep apnea.
A Connection Between Caffeine and Sleep Apnea
The association between caffeine and sleep apnea is more than just theoretical. It's been confirmed in at least one study. This study looked at the relationship between sleep disordered breathing (a term that includes both sleep apnea and snoring) and caffeine intake in terms of caffeinated sodas, coffee, and tea. Women with severe sleep disordered breathing were 75% more likely to consume caffeinated soda. The association was also seen for men, but it was weaker. However, sleep disordered breathing was not associated with increased coffee or tea intake.
Soda intake might be more associated with sleep disordered breathing because people are more likely to consume sodas in the afternoon because they are continuing to suffer from sleepiness, while coffee and tea are more likely to be enjoyed in the morning or socially. It may also be because people who drink more soda are more likely to be obese.
If you find yourself unable to function during the day without the help of caffeine or other anti-sleepiness aids, you should talk to your doctor about sleep apnea. For help finding a sleep doctor or finding the right sleep apnea treatment, please call 402-493-4175 for an appointment with an Omaha sleep dentist at the Advanced Dental Sleep Treatment Center.


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Birds that visit our gardens and school grounds
Each week we will be featuring a bird that frequently visits our school grounds and gardens. This week our chosen bird is The House Sparrow.
The male House Sparrow has a chestnut brown back with black streaks, while its body and the top of its head are grey. The female is light brown in colour and does not have a grey coloured head. Juveniles Sparrows look like the adult female.
House Sparrows live together in colonies. They nest in holes or crevices in buildings, or among creepers growing up the side of a wall.
Sparrows breed in May and the female will usually lay 3 eggs. The eggs are white with grey or blackish speckles. The eggs normally hatch after 11-14 days and the chicks stay in the nest for 11 to 16 days before they fledge.
House Sparrow facts
Distribution: House Sparrows live all year round in all parts of Britain except the Highlands of Scotland.
Habitat: House Sparrows live together in colonies. They nest in holes or crevices in buildings, or among creepers growing up the side of a wall.
Description: The body of the male is dark brown body and that of the female light brown.
Size: Length: 14-15 cm. Wingspan: 21-25 cm. Weight: 24-32 grams.
Life-span: Usually live for 2 to 3 years.
Food: Seeds, nuts, berries, buds, insects and scraps of food.
Adult House Sparrow (Top Right) House Sparrow nest (Bottom Left)


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Meet the 14-week-old twin polar bear cubs that made their press debut at the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich, Germany, today. They scampered around their enclosure with their seven-year-old mother Giovanna.
The twins were born at the end of last year, and their birth was filmed on camera in color — a "world first," the zoo claims.
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Specialist health and safety consultancy Southalls and international law firm Gowling WLG, warn medium sized builders' merchants (£10-£50m turnover) of the significant fine risks they may face on the first anniversary of the new health and safety sentencing guidelines this month.
Since the new guidelines were introduced a year ago, there have been an unprecedented number of sanctions and fines for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act etc (1974). It has now become commonplace to see fines of more than £1m for non-fatal cases for example, which previously would have been dealt with in a magistrates' court.
Andrew Litchfield, a partner at Gowling WLG, discusses the impact of the new guidelines. He said: "A major factor in the size of these sentences is the turnover of the defendant organisation. What we're seeing currently is a disproportionate effect on medium sized organisations, rather than those with a turnover of excess of £50m for example.
"For very large organisations the sentencing guidelines do not include sentencing tables, and we have yet to see commensurate fines for the largest businesses. The highest industry fine so far was to UK leading builders' merchant Travis Perkins for £2m after the death of a customer in Milton Keynes – this may well encourage the courts to set even higher penalties."
Mr Litchfield continued: "The purpose of the sentencing is to remind offending business owners and shareholders that they simply cannot break health and safety legislation – it's got to hurt, that's the point of the sentence. It is our belief that it is only a matter of time before we see fines in excess of £10m."
Many more individuals are also being investigated and prosecuted far more frequently for health and safety offences. According to an IOSH report published last month, 'in 2015-2016, 46 company directors and senior managers were prosecuted under the health and safety law, compared to an annual average of 24 in the five previous years'.
The intention of the new sentencing health and safety guidelines is to make sentencing more transparent; judges have a series of steps they must follow to arrive at the ultimate sentence. As it is possible for businesses to see which category they fall into based on their turnover, they can then work out what a possible fine may look like. The logical decision therefore, is for businesses to invest time and funds up front reviewing their procedures to prevent an incident occurring.
John Southall, a director at Southalls, explained: "When you are putting in possible outcomes in a risk assessment, say the risk of injury, if you err on the side of caution and state that an outcome is 'death' from falling down the stairs, if the Health and Safety Executive investigate the incident, you may be setting yourself up for a significant fine. It's very difficult to argue that you're not in Harm Category 1 according to the guidelines, if your own risk assessment contains that conclusion."
Mr Litchfield added: "Risk assessment and safe system of work documents therefore, must reduce risk and help to prevent the accident happening in the first place. They must be practical and realistic too. Culpability is important here, making sure the control measures are actually being followed through properly.
"If you can show that you have discharged that duty and that you are working towards a recognised industry standard then that's even better. Failing to respond to complaints or near misses would put a business in the higher culpability bracket. If unsure you must seek professional guidance.
"Businesses must review the systems they have in place to identify and manage risk. Do they accurately reflect current business practice and are they being operated on the ground? Prevention is going to be far less costly than trying to deal with it once it has gone wrong."
With builders' merchants having to manage far more health and safety issues than most other retailers, the importance of full compliance is particularly important for both companies and individuals.
So what does this mean for your business and what should be done?
Mr Southall and Mr Litchfield recently met to discuss the impact of the new sentencing guidelines on the first anniversary. They consider the implications for business owners and potential fine risks if good health and safety practice is not implemented in this exclusive interview. Want to know more? visit: https://vimeo.com/202350835.


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Despite its lack of nearly everything necessary to sustain human life, Antarctica is a surprisingly popular continent. Britain staked its claim in 1908, followed by New Zealand, France, Australia, Norway, and Chile. Argentina polished its effort to gain title between 1927 and 1957, while the United States and the Soviet Union reserved the right in 1959 to make ownership claims in the future.
The reason behind this land rush, unsurprisingly, is minerals and, quite possibly, oil. They are thought to exist in large quantities under the polar ice, which is up to three miles deep in places. The "Gondwanaland hypothesis" holds that Antarctica is one of seven continents that broke apart from a larger landmass more than 150 million years ago, and that because minerals exist on the other six, Antarctica must have them as well. Coal and iron ore have already been found, writes Jill Grob, senior production editor of The Boston College International and Comparative Law Review.
Three of the seven claimants have staked out some of the same land, and during 1947–48 "war-like scuffles" broke out among the rivals. As the Cold War became more heated, the Soviets hoisted the hammer and sickle over a research station they had established on land claimed by Australia. And though scientific research continued peacefully, the United States called together an early coalition of the willing to work out a treaty governing the territory. The eventual document, the Antarctic Treaty of December 1, 1959, banned military uses of the continent and encouraged scientific research. Territorial claims were "frozen" and left unresolved. The continent is jointly governed by treaty "consultative" signatories, which can include only nations that conduct "substantial scientific research" there, effectively excluding any but the richest nations.
With the threat of accelerated global warming raising environmental concerns, the time has come for nations to drop their Antarctic claims, Grob contends. They are based on long-ago discoveries, geographic proximity, or connections via submerged mountain ranges, and are ultimately irresolvable.
Antarctica should become an unclaimed global commons where scientific research can take place that will benefit all humankind, Grob says. This may require increased United Nations involvement, or merely a broadening of the conditions under which interested countries can become consultative signatories to the 1959 treaty. In any case, Antarctica is too important to the global environment to be held hostage to the concerns of nations "hoarding their frozen claims."
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The Source: "Antarctica's Frozen Territorial Claims: A Meltdown Proposal" by Jill Grob, in Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, Spring 2007.
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons


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Reading all these reports, one wonders who still wants to work for them and what benefit they get from it. And above all, who still hires this company but unaware clients who have been told translation is a cheap, quick and automated process? But even if they end up collapsing under the weight of their shame, Liz Elting and Phil Shawe wont die of starvation like their cheap labour, since their gross profits amounted to $221 millions just for 2009, and $300 millions in 2011.
TP is actually the 4th biggest language services company in the world, see this report on the profits made in 2011 :
A translator's comment :
" The other day, a newbie PM called and said that another PM (one who has been around for a while) had suggested me for a "fun and exciting" job writing the narration (in English) for a 40-50 second advertisement ordered by a major U.S. retailer (not WalMart or K-Mart, but not an upscale place). The offered price? $25. Yup, US$25 for writing the script for a 40-50 second video.The PM told me that writing advertising copy was a new field for Transperfect. This was my reply: "Thank you for your inquiry, but $25 for copywriting for a large company like X is ridiculous. They'd pay an advertising agency much more. If TransPerfect is really accepting $25 plus company's overhead plus profit margin (=$100 or less?), then there is something seriously wrong with its account executives. In any case, I'm very busy this weekend." Like many of you, I received better rates from Transperfect in the 1990s.
" I just did some googling to find out what the going rate for advertising copywriters is. For free-lancers, the average is about $83 an hour. That's a useful bit of information to have."
Now one aspect of their recruitment really bugs me and it concerns the proofreading. For TP, proofreading is something else altogether. They just reinvented the concept.
When I started as a translator I filled in an application with them. But then they realised that I only had one year experience in the business. Therefore they offered me another job : proofreader !!!! (Yes, the one who corrects the 10 years of experienced expert translator !)
The test was incredibly long (but short in time), incredibly impossible and seemed only to focuse on spotting formatting problems. A real robot job. I failed by their standards.The pay was 15 euros per 1000 words but I had managed to obtain 20. But since, I have heard such back feedback on this company that I am glad I never worked for them.
Big problem there: how do they expect a newby to correct the translation of an expert? What is he gonna do but add problems to the text or check the formatting?
So yes, Transperfect finds its own solutions to cut down on costs and time. They just reinvented the concept of proofreading: it no longer implies the verification by a translator of a source doc and its translation, the research and checking of certain tricky terms in dictionaries and glossaries, or the reworking of clumsily built sentences, as we fools may have believed. None of that nonsense. For TP, proofreading is a highly speedy reading operation, purely visual, consisting of a "spot the difference" fun little game. A space missing, a double dot, a line out of the box? TP hires you to solve that. It doesn't really matter if you don't speak the source language, you won't have the time to check the original text anyway ! Just take the 5 euros an hour and agree on the officious principle that the faster you go, the more money you make, just keep quiet about the quality, nobody needs to know;).
The rate seems indeed to be approximately 5 euros per hour, provided you don't pay tax. Here is one of their offers (kindly forwarded to me by a fellow translator)
"Diana Chemparathy (she can be found on LinkedIn) offered me bi-lingual proofreading for US$ 0.01 per word, telling me that "2,000 words per hour is the norm in this industry"! The proofing/editing/reviewing (she never really clarified what she meant by "proofreading") was to be done over the weekend and came with very detailed formatting instructions as well as two separate style guides. The work was highly specialised and not to be undertaken lightly, as it consisted of pages of faxed medical case notes, pathology reports and culture results, some handwritten.Needless to say I turned the job down flat. The agency she works with/for is TransPerfect. I complained directly to their head office but never received a reply. Well done you for initiating this blog and list and thank you!"
Now this is seriously taking the pxxx. This person needs to be educated about her own job. She is is completely wrong and knows it. A translator can proofread maximum 1000 words per hour if the translation is top notch. Then, it depends on the technicity of the text, the deadline, etc.
In any case, a translator should not accept less than 20 euros per 1000 words for proofreading, and should charge according to the amount of errors and corrections they had to make. I charge a minimum, plus a certain amount per correction made. That is the only way to not undersell yourself.
Another crucial point: poor quality translations should not be proofread, they should be retranslated from scratch, and there is a big difference in price. You should check the text before they send the PO, then make an offer (in hours) and if it took you longer, complain about the quality and ask for compensation for extra time. I always do this and it has always worked.
Finally, I have no problem saying to project managers that a job is shoddy since I don't consider these people as my "fellow translators" but as incompetent amateurs. This may sound harsh but these people are damaging the profession and dragging it down. They obviously should be doing something else, which is anything but translation. I haven't proofread in a while and am far from missing this ungrateful activity. Someone is responsible for these nasty translations and it ends up being your job to save the day (and rescue the agency's reputation).
Don't let this happen. Ask yourself : does this agency deserves to be saved or shall it pay for its avidity and loose their client? If you find a collaborator seriously incompetent, say it (and justify it!). They are probably taking the place of someone who is actually qualified but asking for a fair rate. There are always interesting returns after these complaints, such as "you're not the first one to complain", "that's a non professional's work", "one of the client's employee" and so on...
Very negative blogs solely focusing on them (lots to say):
Read more about Transperfect on LinkedIn
Read more on Transperfect on Ripoff report
Interesting article about Transperfect :


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Spy on LG G7 ThinQ – Hidden spy app for G7 ThinQ
Parents enjoy boasting about their children's achievements. But I don't like that. I attended the parents' meeting last week, and the teacher talked a lot about my children. He has been abnormal recently. He doesn't like to play with his classmates, but he always holds his cell phone. I am very worried about my child's growth. After all, he is only 15 years old. This is an important stage. I really want to know what he is doing with his LG G7 ThinQ, who he chatted with, what he chatted, etc.
The LG G7 ThinQ is a completely unsurprising, risk-averse sma rtphone that's meant to be smart, not flashy. The waterproof LG G7 ThinQ has an AI camera that gives your photos an extra boost before you snap them. There's a secondary wide-angle rear camera, a headphone jack and 64GB of expandable storage.
Are you a parent looking to monitor your teenager's activities, are you a husband or wife looking to monitor your mate's activities or are you an employer looking to monitor your employees' activities? As long as he or she is an Android user, a simple solution to this problem. LG G7 ThinQ Spy Software is the latest android monitoring app developed to optimize your security and the safety of your loved ones. We have built this program to meet all the standards of hidden spy apps for LG, Samsung, Sony, Apple, HTC, Nokia, Blackberry's smartphones. It includes some of the latest features and is easy to use. Interestingly, LG G7 ThinQ Spy App is also undetectable. We have designed it to be user-friendly to ensure that even a novice is able to track the whereabouts of his employees or loved ones without going through a hard time.
Get hidden spy app for LG G7 ThinQ here
How does LG G7 ThinQ Spy App work?
This monitoring software collects data from the LG G7 ThinQ on which it is installed and displays it in the Control Panel which you can access using any Internet browser.
To start using our tracking app, you need to check the compatibility of the device you'd like to monitor, choose the subscription plan and proceed with the purchase. After that you receive an email with the login and password to your personal Control Panel where you also find the installation instructions. Basically you'll need to have a full authorized physical access to the target device, launch the phone browser, type in the link for downloading the program and proceed with the installation. By installing monitoring software, you confirm your intention to use this software legally, i.e. you install this app on your own device, the device of your underage child or the owner of the device agrees to be monitored.
Note: Android Spy App requirements for android smartphones and tablets
- The target device must be a fully operational Android 4+
- The target Android device must be connected to the Internet
- You'll need physical possession of the device to install this Androird Spy App
- Instant messengers monitoring works on rooted Androids only
What is the LG G7 ThinQ spy app capable of?
Manage phone calls: View all incoming/outgoing calls with the detailed time. It can also record calls and view the entire contact list.
Track text messages: Log content of all incoming/outgoing text messages and the sender/recipient information.
Track GPS locations: track the GPS location of your target phone. You can check the current location or list of visited places of the target phone; this function is very useful for parents.
Monitor Internet usage: View all browsing history and bookmarks remotely.
View photos and videos: When turned on, the top Android monitoring app will upload photos and videos from the phone to a server.
Track popular chat apps: LG G7 ThinQ spy app can track messages sent and received with chat apps including FaceBook, Skype, WhatsApp, iMessage, Line, KiK, Hangouts and Viber more apps and chat services will be included in the future update.
Read all the tips in this article? Nice! By now we hope to have given you a better view on the process of using cell phone tracking software -from start to finish. Did you find this article useful? If so, what in particular? Let us know in the comments section below!


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Staff Reviews
Rival Schools - Pedals
Pedals feels dated, preserved in the clinical amber of Pro Tools-centric production that was so prevalent when Rival Schools were last on the scene.»
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after a decade, the hugely influential pioneers of post-hardcore, rival schools are returning with their brand new and much anticipated second album, 'pedals.' there's no doubt there is a definite progression from their debut, it demonstrates 'a greater sense of purpose and band identity,' as member schreifels describes. one thing is clear, 'pedals' is everything fans will expect and more.
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Archive for the 'decolonise' Category
The following was removed from my facebook page : censorship & ignorance. "Nakedness is not a lack of dignity. It is resistence against those who would strip you of your dignity. Women's breasts are a powerful semiotic of resistance. The most vulnerable part of our bodies, the source of nurturing to humanity – including men […]
Filed under: ACTIVISM, ACTIVIST, AFRICA, APARTHEID, CENSORSHIP, decolonise, Fees Must Fall, HUMAN RIGHTS, JUSTICE | Leave a Comment
Tags: Demonstration, Nackedness, Resistance, VIOLENCE, Wits University, WOMEN
Ignorance Must Fall
Dear Ignorance, I have a problem with the word imperialist. From time imperial can be synonymised with Regal, majestic, and sovereign – You can go ahead and miss me with that imperialist bull quick Because Rhodes didn't 'regally' rob my people. Neither did he 'majestically' murder the masses of bodies now lying in unmarked graves. […]
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Tags: AFRICA, CAPE TOWN, Cecil Jhon Rhodes, decolonise, IMPERIALISM, Oxford University, racism
Retrospective : UCT : LGBTQIA The founders of the #RhodesMustFall Movement (& the guys) March2015
The LGBTQIA movement were the founders of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement at the University of Cape Town (UCT). This is what makes the movement extraordinary & why it has taken off world wide. [LGBTQIA = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, Asexual] "Rhodes Must Fall: How black women claimed their place" M&G Without black […]
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Freddie Mac and Fannie May were getting too big and expensive to the taxpayers?
"Gov. Sarah Palin made her first potentially major gaffe during her time on the national scene while discussing the developments of the perilous housing market this past weekend.
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during reorganization.""
One would think a VP candidate would know something so central to the economy. Oh never mind that, pitbull with lipstick, new face of feminism, yadda yadda, blah blah.
Anyone else getting a "Chauncey Gardner" vibe?


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Two visiting Turtle doves perched in a hawthorn bush who have survived their migratory journey to spend the summer in the English countryside. The Turtle Dove is now theUK's fastest declining breed of bird. Between 1995 and 2004 the numberof breeding turtle doves in the UK fell by 93%. This print is featured in a new book called "When Turtle Doves Fly" produced in conjunction with Operation Turtle dove (a branch of the RSPB dedicated to saving Turtle Doves from extinction)I will donate 10% to https://www.operationturtledove.org/ for every sale.Limited edition LinocutEdition of 30Signed and dated on the frontUnframedImage size 30 x 30cmMounted size 40 x 40cmPrinted with oil based relief inks on 300gsm soft white Somerset velvet paper.Edition numbers may vary from the photo.© Kate Heiss 2017 All rights reserved


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Posts Tagged 'breakfast cereal'
The Cap'n and Me
I've always been a huge fan of breakfast cereal. It's been a favorite food category for as long as I can recall. I was doing some reading this weekend and discovered something I found quite interesting about one of my favorite breakfast cereals – Cap'n Crunch. Over the years Quaker Oats has rolled out several […]
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Management of a patient using VAC therapy
Irene Speding gives an overview of a case study using VAC therapy in the community
Irene Speding BSc (Hons), RGN, DN Cert, Dip Diabetes/Stoma Care is a Tissue Viability Nurse, South of Tyne & Wear NHS Trust serving Gateshead & Sunderland PCT
Article accepted for publication: January 2008
With thanks to Christine Morris, clinical education specialist for her help and advice and KCI Medical for help in preparing the manuscript.