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Court documents reveal horrific details in Texas City children's death
The Texas City man who is accused of killing three young children then reporting himself to police allegedly used a screwdriver and hammer during the attacks, according to an arrest affidavit filed in Galveston County court.
Junaid Hashim Mehmood, 27, also is accused of shooting his girlfriend in the face. He remains in the Galveston County Jail on three charges related to the attacks: capital murder of multiple people, capital murder of a child under 10 years old and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He has been denied bail for all three charges, jail records show.
VICTIM'S FAMILY: Police ID 3 kids slain in Texas City
The incident occurred on Jan. 3, when police responded to a possible deceased child at the Point Ann Apartments in the 1200 block of 10th street in Texas City.
Mehmood's brother called police, saying that when he dropped by to check on his brother, he opened the apartment to find large amounts of blood on the walls and floor of the apartment, according to the document.
Inside, police found the three deceased children and a trail of blood leading to the bathroom, where they discovered Mehmood's girlfriend, Kimaria Nelson, lying on the floor covered in blood.
Nelson was transported to University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in serious but stable condition. Her current condition is unknown. UTMB spokesperson Donna Ramirez said Tuesday that Nelson was not listed in the hospital directory, and she could not confirm whether Nelson still was admitted.
The three children were identified in medical examiner records as Ashanti Mehmood, Prince Larry Brown, almost 2; and Angela Pilot, 5. Ashanti was the accused man's 1-month-old biological daughter, and Nelson was the mother of all three children, the Associated Press reported.
After police found Nelson in the bathroom, doctors discovered small pellets embedded in her head and face, the affidavit said. The children died from multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma.
Investigators at the crime scene learned about Mehmood through his brother, who identified him as a possible suspect. Mehmood's mother also was in the apartment on Jan. 3 when police responded to the call.
The mother declined to comment when reached by phone on Wednesday.
During the initial investigation, Mehmood called Houston police dispatch saying authorities were looking for him, the affidavit said. Several Houston police officers responded to the area where he claimed to be calling from, and he was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
The affidavit did not specify Mehmood's exact location when he called.
RELATED: Suspect turns himself in after killing kids, including baby, at Texas City apartment
Mehmood eventually was taken to the Texas City Police Department. Police said he waived his rights and confessed to shooting his girlfriend in the face with an "aerosol pistol" and killing his children, the affidavit said.
Mehmood told police he stabbed Prince Larry Brown in the heart and chest multiple times with a screwdriver, according to the affidavit. He also said he struck Angela on the head with a hammer, stabbed her with a screwdriver and broke one of her arms. He told investigators he killed Ashanti but could not remember how, the affidavit states.
Asked whether mental illness played a role in the killing, Texas City police deferred to the homicide investigator on the case, who could not be reached for comment.
Mehmood has a criminal record with multiple arrests in Galveston and Harris County since 2010, records show.
He was arrested for hitting a girlfriend in 2014, and served 20 days in jail for that offense. The conditions of his sentencing make it illegal for him to possession a firearm, according to court documents.
In 2015, Mehmood was arrested after shoving a family member and robbing him. He was sentenced that same year to serve three years after pleading guilty to a separate robbery charge.
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As digital strategies continue to proliferate throughout the credit union industry, the contact center has become essential.
Calling a company about an issue can be a miserable experience. Being transferred to four departments and having to explain an issue, not to mention basic account information, four different times will frustrate the most patient consumers. These experiences have given the call center a bad image in the minds of consumers. Stereotypes of call center agents who do not speak fluent English failing to understand a problem have been burned into the American culture. However, the necessity for remotely assisting consumers has never been greater. Redesigning the call center into a contact center will enable credit unions to give their members excellent service. It will also empower credit unions to continue learning about their members through every interaction.
Call Centers
Call centers became widely used in the 1970s and quickly gained popularity as the telephone became popular. Previously, credit union members would have needed to visit with their local branch to discuss any questions they had about an account. Now, members could resolve these issues from the comfort of their home via telephone. In response to the demand phone calls were placing on the employees, credit unions began establishing call centers where highly trained employees would field calls as their full time responsibility. An operator (or an interactive voice response (IVR) system) would direct each issue to a call center agent with the appropriate skills. Calls to resolve issues became the norm, and the call center rose in significance. Although a telephone call will continue to be a strong form of communication with members, new forms of communication have risen in importance.
Contact Centers
Chat, text, social media, email and other forms of digital communication have transformed credit union call centers into contact centers where interactions go beyond the telephone. Millennials grew up using many of these methods and are comfortable interacting with others using them. Imagine establishing a chat function on the credit union's website that reaches out to all members (and potential members). Instead of sitting back and waiting for calls, contact centers can begin to find innovative ways to interact with their community.
Channel Transformation
Physical branches continue to see reduced traffic and more interactions are moving to the contact center. With increased traffic and a vast array of communication technologies, managing a contact center has become much more challenging. Simple metrics (e.g. call time) are being supplanted by metrics that are based on a holistic view of the member's relationship with the credit union (cross-selling and member satisfaction). As interactions change in style and method, the contact center's metrics must be adjusted utilizing a strategic analytics program.
MRM (Member Relationship Management)
If a member calls an agent about their new Apple Watch, their profile should be updated to indicate they own this gadget. If a member chats with the contact center indicating interest in a consumer loan product, this interaction should be logged. This is where the power of MRM meets the contact center. As knowledge increases about members through conversations, the credit union can tailor their services to improve the financial lives of each individual member. Maintaining an MRM will allow every employee to pick up the member relationship where the last interaction (regardless of the channel) left off. When a member begins an interaction with the contact center, the agent should have the entire profile of the member at their fingertips. There will no longer be a need to ask, "What is your member number?". Questions like, "I see that you have a car loan and your mortgage is was paid off last year, would you be interested in opening a home equity loan to pay off your high interest rate car loan?" will show members that the credit union truly cares about their financial health.
Member-Centric Analytics
In order to establish strong relationships with members, credit unions must integrate their various business systems using a member-centric data warehouse. Every interaction with a member should continually update the 360 degree profile of the member regardless of the business system employees are using. Whether a member initiates a transaction on their own through online/mobile banking, chats with the contact center, walks into a branch, or visits a partner dealership, the view of a member will continuously adjust. Developing analytics from this model will allow employees throughout the credit union to make decisions that improve the financial health of all members.

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SoundPOD for iPod or iPad Provides Communication to Those Who Can't Speak
Author: Forbes Rehab Services, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-30
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SoundPOD Wearable AAC System developed to help those who have difficulty with speech output and offers a low cost augmentative alternative communication device.
Main DigestNew Wearable SoundPOD AAC System Uses iPod or iPad to Give the Power of Communication to Those Who Can't Speak.
SoundPOD Wearable AAC System promotes voice output from natural location...
A sleek new innovation, called the SoundPOD Wearable AAC System has been developed to help those who have difficulty with speech output and offers a low-cost augmentative alternative communication device.
The wearable SoundPOD can wirelessly connect to an iPod or iPad converting off the shelf consumer grade electronics into augmentative communication systems for those who have difficulties generating speech.
"Besides the tremendous communication possibilities the SoundPOD Wearable AAC System affords to those in need, it offers some revolutionary innovations," said Paul Forbes, president of Forbes Rehab Services, Inc. "For instance, the SoundPOD speaker is about the size of a credit card and can be worn on a neck lanyard, underneath clothing, allowing the voice output to discretely come from the user's upper body rather than the handheld device. This helps the listener to focus on the person rather than the handheld or mounted medical device."
The iPod and iPad based SoundPOD use affordable AAC apps, which are fully customizable to a person's communication needs and utilize both word and phrase prediction. Additionally, the SoundPOD allows users to benefit from other forms of communication beyond voice output such as emailing, text messaging, and instant messaging. Students and educators will also benefit from the low cost educational apps available through the iTunes store.
The SoundPOD was specifically designed for those having speech challenges as well as movement restrictions.
The system can be utilized even if hand/finger dexterity issues are present.
The breakaway neck lanyard uses a single handed quick-release and when removed, the SoundPOD can magnetically attach to the iPod or iPad creating an all-in-one solution.
Users can easily attach the iPod based system to their wrist, arm, or belt for hands free portability of their communication system.
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Volume 40, Number 3 (2007) Symposium: The Second-Person Standpoint and the Law
Robin Bradley Kar
Law and the Second-Person Standpoint
Stephen Darwall
Contract Law and the Second-Person Standpoint: Why Efficiency-Maximization Principles Can Neither Explain nor Justify the Expectation Damages Remedy
Robin Bradley Kar
Understanding Davis v. United States
Marcy Strauss
[Un]Equal Justice under Law: The Invidiously Disparate Treatment of American Property Owners in Taking Cases
Gideon Kanner
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Emily N. McMorris
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"Hello, sorry he misplaced his phone, maybe you could help him pick it up" I heard a lovely voice say over the phone as i called my Nokia torchlight.
"Hey Eve, its me, tochi" i said
"Oh you, how could you be so careless"
"Ermm, things like this happen, thank God that you kept it"
"Okay o, so where will i be bringing it?" she asked
"where will be more convenient for you?"
"Maybe you should come around to my side for it" she said after a little silence.
"And where is your side? "
" Just get to Five star junction, then call me"
"Okay, will do that"
"so when are you coming exactly?"
"I don't know, is now okay?"
"Ermm, I guess yes"
"fine, I'm on my way, can i get your number so i can call you when i get there?"
She laughed over the phone and her voice was like a melody to my ears
"Nice try Clever guy, just call your phone when you get there, I've charged it full" she said, laughed and dropped the call.
I smiled as i lay on my bed staring into space. I prayed to God to grant me this girl as a gift for Christmas. I swore to myself never to look twice at any other girl should Eve ever become mine.
The next 2 hours found me patrolling around five star junction. I had called her like 2 minutes before i got to the junction.
I was rehearsing my lines in my head, i was really determined to move to the next level with her. I called my phone for the second time since getting there, it rang and she didn't pick. I was about calling again when I turned my back and saw walking towards me. She was exceptional as she had always been.
She wore a hair net over her head, a loose white mini gown with flower patterns which revealed her fair laps and beautiful legs. Setting eyes on her walking towards me, every single thing in my head that i had wanted to say to her evaporated.
"Hey" she said as she got close to me
"hi" i said staring at her and lacking the right words to express myself.
"here, have it" she said after about 10 seconds silence and handing over my phone. I took it from her outstretched hand.
"thank you" i said putting it in my pocket.
"You welcome"
"So you live around here" i said looking around.
"Yes i do"
"Well i don't think i saw which house you walked out from" i said.
"And i don't think you need to see which house it was" she retorted almost immediately.
"Well, i just wanted to know, in case i wanted to see you again"
"Don't worry, if it ever becomes very necessary that we should see again, it will happen. She said turning to leave.
"At least, see me off" i begged her.
"Tochi, can someone ever tell you off" she said folding her arms and looking straight at me.
"Eve, you can't tell me off, just walk with me a little distance please?"
She sighed and followed me. We walked and talked. Most of the talking was done by me, it was mostly a question and answer session. Eve really had a thick skin on her. She was however very beautiful so i didn't expect anything less.
We ran into a friend of hers who happened to be heading for her lodge.
"Evelyn, where are you going?" the girl asked as she hugged her.
"Seeing him off" she replied nodding towards me. The girl looked at me like she was just observing me for the very first time.
"Hmm, tochukwu right?" she said looking at me, i was surprised but i didn't show it.
"Yes? " i said giving her a puzzled look.
"Hmm, what are you doing here"
"Well came to pick my phone" i answered trying to figure out if i knew her from somewhere.
"Hmmm, pick your phone?" she said looking at me and then Eve.
"Yes, he misplaced his phone and i picked it for him" Eve shot in
"okay, i see" she said smiling.
"Do you know each other? " Eve asked, i shrugged.
" Yea, we live in the Same street" she answered.
"Really? " i said folding my hands.
" I am Ada's lodge mate, since you don't know me, you should know Ada naa" i smiled, bade them farewell and turned to go, only to be called back by Eve, she held Her friend by the hand and faced me.
"Tochi please come, On no account should you ask Tonia for my contact and Tonia" she faced her " and should he ask which i'm very sure he will, on no account should you give it to him" we both smiled.
"Yes madam, Tochi you have heard naa" Tonia said
I nodded and was about to protest when Eve grabbed Tonia and the both left.
"Greet martins for me" Tonia called behind her.
I shouted okay and boarded a bike back to my lodge…


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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter this year, the World of Beatrix Potter in Bowness-on-Windermere and the Old Laundry Theatre are staging two special premieres – bringing Beatrix Potter's literature and legacy to life in their magical world in the heart of the Lake District.
// Where's Peter Rabbit? – Old Laundry Theatre, 27 June – 4 September
The world premiere of the brand new musical Where's Peter Rabbit? promises an exciting family-friendly extravaganza featuring favourite characters from Beatrix Potter's much-loved stories.
Where's Peter Rabbit? musical adventure captures the poetry, humour and enchantment of Beatrix Potter's lovable stories
Starring actors, dancers, puppeteers and a fantastic score – the musical will transport the audience to a fantastical universe inspired by Beatrix Potter's adorable tales. Prepare to be enchanted as the cast perform with some of Beatrix Potter's best loved characters including Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Jemima Puddle-Duck and of course the celebrated, and slightly mischievous, Peter Rabbit.
The musical, composed by Steve Edis, opens at the Old Laundry Theatre on 27 June and runs for ten weeks, with three shows a day throughout the summer.
Why not make a day of it and enjoy breakfast, lunch and tea parties inspired by Potter's characters, before or after the live family show, at the World of Beatrix Potter Attraction tea room – a perfect way to celebrate Beatrix Potter's special anniversary!
You can book tickets at the Old Laundry Theatre
REVIEW: Where's Peter Rabbit? at Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness
by Usha Mistry, Lakes Culture
This high-quality show, with actors and puppeteers re-enacting some of Potter's famous tales, is a real treat for young children and any adult Beatrix Potter fans.
A cast of talented puppeteers bring the likes of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, Mr Todd and Jeremy Fisher to life – I went with my children aged 6 and 9 and we all thought Jeremy Fisher was the best!
The production stays true to Beatrix Potter's stories and includes many references to the Lake District landscape that inspired her to create these world-famous characters and tales. This is great for families, but watch out for Mr McGregor as the show maintains the darker side of Beatrix Potter's stories with a super singalong song about dead rabbits and pies!
// Meeting Bea – The Old Laundry Theatre, 16 September – 9 October
This charming play by Eric Pringle will premiere at The Old Laundry Theatre, in Bowness-on-Windermere, on 16 September. The performance celebrates Beatrix Potter's 150th anniversary in theatrical style and introduces this incredible Lake District icon during the years after her story writing heyday.
You are invited to discover Beatrix Potter in her later life as the formidable Mrs Heelis – accomplished writer, award-winning Herdwick farmer and countrywoman.
You can book tickets at the Old Laundry Theatre
// Double Anniversary Celebrations at the World of Beatrix Potter Attraction – 28 July
Located in the picturesque Lake District town of Bowness-on-Windermere, the World of Beatrix Potter Attraction includes The Old Laundry Theatre, the Tea Room and the Peter Rabbit Garden. During this special year, the venue will be growing an Anniversary Long Scarlet Radish in their themed garden, alongside other unusual and traditional heritage vegetables, flowers and fruits inspired by Beatrix Potter.
Also the official 25th Anniversary of the World of Beatrix Potter Attraction is on Thursday 28 July 2016 – the same day as the 150th Anniversary of Beatrix Potter – so to mark the occasion the venue will celebrate by offering entry at 1991 prices all day!
To enjoy these Lakes Culture events and much more, book your break in the Lake District here


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The study of visual communications is an important one. Photography helps us visualize complex ideas to better understand what is important to us and communicate in a different format than a written one. Through photography we share express what we find beautiful, interesting, ugly or inspiring with others.
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On Hiram's campus, performing and creating aren't just reserved for students with a major in the arts. Non-majors also have opportunities to sing in the choir; showcase paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs; play instruments in ensembles and act or design for theatre arts productions. Many of the College's arts programs are designed to allow students of any discipline to double major, and the small class sizes mean that everyone gets an opportunity for one-on-one instruction with our experienced faculty.
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I finally did it! I know, I talk about wearing things besides jeans and never do. So, mark the date and time: Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ around 7:15 am.
What is the saying? There is an exception to every rule. This is the exception! You never know, maybe, just maybe, there will be more of these. I kind of hope so!


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Something a bit different, as it's the Friday before a bank holiday. No graphs or charts, just what my friend Kevin Ball calls a bit of loose-limbed intuition.
I rarely listen to You and Yours but I caught a bit of it yesterday. At around 12 minutes in, there was an item on farmers' co-operatives. One farmer from Snaith Salad Growers talked about the advantages of being able to guarantee supply to large organisations like supermarkets. The co-operative's general manager went on to discuss the channels to market and the ability to share investment costs and to invest with a reasonable degree of security. None of this could be done by small producers on their own.
It brought to mid a piece Ha-Joon Chang wrote a couple of years ago.
Our discussion so far shows that what makes the poor countries poor is not the lack of raw individual entrepreneurial energy, which they in fact have in abundance. It is their inability to channel the individual entrepreneurial energy into collective entrepreneurship.
Or, to put it another way, rich countries are rich because they organise people and resources on a large-scale.
Very much influenced by capitalist folklore, with characters like Thomas Edison and Bill Gates, and by the pioneering theoretical work of Joseph Schumpeter, our view of entrepreneurship is too much tinged by the individualistic perspective—entrepreneurship is what those heroic individuals with exceptional vision and determination do. However, if it ever was true, this view is becoming increasingly obsolete. In the course of capitalist development, entrepreneurship has become an increasingly collective endeavour.
To begin with, even those exceptional individuals like Edison and Gates became what they are only because they were supported by a whole host of collective institutions—the whole scientific infrastructure that enabled them to acquire their knowledge and also experiment with it; company law and other commercial laws that made it possible for them subsequently to build companies with large and complex organizations; educational systems that supplied highly trained scientists, engineers, managers, and workers that manned those companies; financial systems that enabled them to raise huge amounts of capital when they wanted to expand; patent and copyright laws that protected their inventions; easily accessible markets for their products, and so on.
As Wharton's Ethan Mollick said, in his fascinating study People and Process, Suits and Innovators, it's "the "suits" – rather than the creative innovators that best explain variation in firm performance."
Here's where it gets interesting, though.
Furthermore, in the richer countries, enterprises co-operate with each other a lot more than do their counterparts in poorer countries. For example, the dairy sectors in countries like Denmark, the Netherlands, and Germany have become what they are today only because their farmers organized themselves, with state help, into co-operatives and jointly invested in processing facilities and export marketing. In contrast, the dairy sectors in the Balkan countries have failed to develop, despite quite a large amount of microcredit channelled into them, mainly because their dairy farmers tried to make it on their own. For another example, many small firms in Italy and Germany jointly invest in R&D and export marketing, which are beyond their individual means, through industry associations (helped by government subsidies), whereas typical developing country firms do not invest in these areas because there is not such a collective mechanism.
So small organisations working together can overcome the problems associated with micro-business, including the very low-levels of investment. (See yesterday's post.)
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Even at the firm level, entrepreneurship has become highly collective in the rich countries. Today, few companies are managed by charismatic visionaries like Edison or Gates, but by professional managers. Writing in the mid twentieth century, Schumpeter was already aware of this trend, although he was none too happy about it. He observed that the increasing scale of modern technologies was making it increasingly impossible for a large company to be established and run by a visionary individual entrepreneur. Schumpeter predicted that the displacement of heroic entrepreneurs with what he called 'executive types' would sap the dynamism from capitalism and eventually lead to its demise.
Schumpeter has been proven wrong in this regard. Over the last century, the heroic entrepreneur has increasingly become a rarity, but the world economy has grown much faster since the Second World War, compared to the period before it. In the case of Japan, the firms have even developed institutional mechanisms to exploit the creativity of even the lowliest production line workers. Many attribute the success of the Japanese firms, at least partly, to this characteristic.
If effective entrepreneurship ever was a purely individual thing it has stopped being so, at least for the last century. The collective ability to build and manage effective organizations and institutions is now far more important than the drives or even the talents of a nation's individual members in determining its prosperity. Unless we reject the myth of heroic individual entrepreneurs and help them build institutions and organizations of collective entrepreneurship, we will never see the poor countries grow out of poverty on a sustainable basis.
Economic growth requires organisations with the critical mass to invest. Poor countries, as Ha-Joon Chang says, have plenty of entrepreneurialism but few organisations with the critical mass to channel it.
It is very likely that the shift to self employment marks a change in the nature of the UK's labour market. On this point, I agree with Adam and Ben at the RSA; relatively high levels of self-employment will probably persist even after the economy has recovered. If that is so, might co-operatives be one way of avoiding some of the economic problems associated with a large number of micro businesses?
I've written about this before, using the Olympic Flame as a metaphor. Our flame was unlike those that went before. Instead of being one big flame, it was a big one made up of lots of little ones. If more of us are to be self-employed in the future, will innovation come from lots of people lighting small fires and bringing them together?
Now you might think this is pie-in-the-sky given that lots of self-employed people become self-employed to do their own thing. But if farmers and prostitutes, both traditionally independent types, can organise co-operatives, then surely people in other occupations can do so too. It wouldn't work for everybody but for those who want to trade with large organisations, it would be an alternative to working through agencies or simply being squeezed by the negotiating power of big firms. Just as self-employment has risen during the recession, so has the number of co-operatives. According to the Guardian, their number has increased by 28 percent and their turnover by 23 percent since 2008.
In a recent post on self-employment, Adam Lent threw out this challenge to the trade unions.
Rather than turn the rise of self-employment into a negative, I would suggest the union movement develops ways to enhance the earning power of this growing portion of the workforce so they can enjoy their autonomous creativity and be well-rewarded simultaneously.
Might the encouragement of co-operatives be one way to do this?
As I've said before, the last time the economy went through a long period of stagnation was during the 1870s and 80s. During that period, new forms of organisation appeared to meet the challenges of the day, such as friendly societies and mechanics institutes. This was also when the trade union and co-operative movements were born. Might this current period of recession and low growth throw up new forms of organisation too?


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As part of the RAIC Festival of Architecture, RAIC Emerging Practitioners will be holding an intimate event with Stephan Chevalier and Sergio Morales of Chevalier Morales Architects – winner of the 2018 RAIC Emerging Architectural Practice Award – for a discussion on their professional path and the values and inspirations that inform their work. The talk will offer Emerging Practitioners the opportunity to ask questions and network in a casual setting at the Acre Architect's studio in Saint John. The event is a part of the Acre's 'Morning Mess' series, and is free and open to all EPs attending Festival, as well as the public.
DATE: Thursday, May 31, 2018, 8:30-9:30am
LOCATION: Acre Architect's studio: 87 Canterbury Street, Suite 301


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Backyard Cinema:The Last Chapel
London's favourite cinematic pop-up experience is back with a unique Quentin Tarantino themed movie spectacular: The Last Chapel. Leave all expectations at the alter, because this one-of-a-kind film experience will blow your mind!
Backyard Cinema all kicked off with one man and his love of films. Now the experience has grown all the way from Dominic's very own backyard to one of London's most recognised and sought after alternative cinema experiences.
What can you expect? Well, a roaming, theatrical, cinema that shows a wide selection of films in a variety of iconic, unusual and immersive locations both in and outdoors around London. It's one of the capital's best pop-ups, where you can watch one of your favourite films with great food, drinks and all your mates.
Backyard Cinema has been transformed into an abandoned chapel, deep in the Nevada desert. Picture glass windows, religious statues, eerie heavenly lighting, crosses and for the first time ever, some real-life acting has been incorporated into the experience, so you're in for a treat.
Once you're in the chapel, you'll be allocated a very comfy beanbag chair and there's a fully stocked bar at the back, which stays open throughout the film. So you can always grab a bag of popcorn midway through or a cheeky glass of prosecco.
The Last Chapel's location couldn't be better, too. It's set in the heart of Mercato Metropolitano food market, which literally has any food you could possibly think of, and some great bars to wash it all down. We suggest you get to your showing a couple of hours early, so you can have a few drinks and tasty food before the Backyard experience.
The Last Chapel closes on the 28th May, but there are still tickets available for showings of True Romance, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Get yours via the Backyard Cinema website.
Don't worry if you miss out on Last Chapel tickets though, because Backyard Cinema will be back on the 9th June with their brand new cinema spectacular: Miami Beach, an indoor cinema experience with movies such as La La Land, Dirty Dancing, Drive, Grease and Back to the Future. Tickets are available here and earlybirds will get 25% off their ticket price. So what are you waiting for!
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Royal Life Saving is targeting high-risk areas for toddler drowning deaths such as public pools. With lack of direct supervision by a parent or carer believed to be a contributing factor in 70% of all drowning deaths at public pools,the Keep Watch @ Public Pools program aims to eliminate all drowning deaths and reduce the number of near drowning incidents at these facilities.
The program targets parents and carers of children to help them understand their responsibilities and the dangers of leaving their children unattended at the pool.
Keep Watch @ Public Pool Policy
- Children (under 10 years) are not allowed entry unless under active supervision of a person 16 years or older.
- Parents and guardians should actively supervise their children at all times and be dressed ready to enter a pool. For 0–5 year olds and non-swimmers, a parent or guardian needs to be in the water at all times and within arms' reach of the child. It is best if you are engaging with your child i.e. playing with them, talking to them.
- Constant active supervision is required for children aged 6–10 years old. Parents and carers must be prepared to enter the water with this age group.
- For 11–14 year olds it is recommended that parents regularly check on their child by physically going to where they are in or around the water.
The Keep Watch @ Public Pools policy and the ages within it represent minimum standards only. Royal Life Saving encourages pools to adopt a higher standard wherever possible.
The recommendation for parents to physically check up on 11–14 year olds is intended to educate parents that this group is still at risk despite having a high degree of independence and parental supervision is an effective means of increasing their safety. Facilities should assist in the education of parents by drawing parents' attention to the 11–14 recommendation. Facilities should also develop strategies for parental supervision of this age group as part of their policies and entry requirements.
What is active supervision @ Public Pools?
Active supervision at public pools consists of four key elements:
- Be Prepared: Ensure you have everything you need before getting into the water, such as towels and dry clothes.
- Be Close: Always be within arms' reach of your child.
- All of Your Attention: Focus all of your attention on your child and get into the pool and talk and play with them.
- All of the Time: You should never leave your child alone in the water, nor should they be left in the care of an older child or with the assumption that your responsibility diminishes due to the presence of lifeguards.


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Start a New American Tradition: Bring Bitters to the Table
By Guido Masé, RH (AHG), Chief Herbalist at Urban Moonshine
Come early evening, around six o'clock, when the sun is still strong but a cool breeze begins to lift the heat of the day, Italians gather at the local bar for aperitivi. Sitting under striped awnings, they sip from wine glasses full of a light, sparkling drink made from seltzer water and mild bitter preparations. The glasses vary in color from dark brown, through red, and into an almost electric orange, reflecting the ingredients they contain. These drinks are preferred over strong cocktails, and are really the beginning of the evening meal as they support digestion and can help prevent indigestion and heartburn. After the aperitivi, a short walk through narrow streets leads to the main restaurant, where the real eating begins: three, often four courses featuring rich cream and meat sauces, lots of prosciutto and thin cuts of beef, plenty of seafood and crisp vegetables. Visitors are often encouraged try aperitivi, as the rich (and abundant) combinations of food can be too much for the digestion, and the bitter drinks before meals really help.
After dinner, many finish with a short glass of amaro, a stronger preparation that still features bitter roots and leaves. These formulas immediately relieve heartburn and over fullness, ensuring a restful and pleasant night following the big meal. Aperitivi or amari have a standard template: something bitter like gentian root, or artichoke leaf or dandelion is combined with something aromatic like citrus peel, fennel seed, or angelica root. Aperitivi often feature a little more of the latter: sour and warm chinotto oranges, orange peel of Campari, or clove and cardamom of Crodino. These aromatic ingredients serve to relieve nausea, relax the belly, dispel bloating, and, blended with bitters, get us ready to eat well. Amari are usually more bitter, helping to resolve symptoms that come from overeating, exposure to new or unusual foods, or just poor digestion.
It's interesting to note that this basic formula is hardly unique to Europe. Bitter oranges, still used for Italian aperitivi, are descendants of Chinese Citrus trifoliata, a classic aromatic-bitter remedy. In India, digestive remedies are still prepared from chiretta ( Andrographis) and fennel seed, combining a very bitter plant with a warm, relaxing aromatic. These combinations stimulate digestive function while also relaxing the belly, easing gas pains, and alleviating nausea. They are important cultural adjuncts to full, delicious, rich meals, and their use is valued to this day.