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Reverse innovation: an opportunity for strengthening health systems
© Snowdon et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015
- Received: 27 June 2014
- Accepted: 8 January 2015
- Published: 7 February 2015
Canada, when compared to other OECD countries, ranks poorly with respect to innovation and innovation adoption while struggling with increasing health system costs. As a result of its failure to innovate, the Canadian health system will struggle to meet the needs and demands of both current and future populations. The purpose of this initiative was to explore if a competition-based reverse innovation challenge could mobilize and stimulate current and future leaders to identify and lead potential reverse innovation projects that address health system challenges in Canada.
An open call for applications took place over a 4-month period. Applicants were enticed to submit to the competition with a $50,000 prize for the top submission to finance their project. Leaders from a wide cross-section of sectors collectively developed evaluation criteria and graded the submissions. The criteria evaluated: proof of concept, potential value, financial impact, feasibility, and scalability as well as the use of prize money and innovation team.
The competition received 12 submissions from across Canada that identified potential reverse innovations from 18 unique geographical locations that were considered developing and/or emerging markets. The various submissions addressed health system challenges relating to education, mobile health, aboriginal health, immigrant health, seniors health and women's health and wellness. Of the original 12 submissions, 5 finalists were chosen and publically profiled, and 1 was chosen to receive the top prize.
The results of this initiative demonstrate that a competition that is targeted to reverse innovation does have the potential to mobilize and stimulate leaders to identify reverse innovations that have the potential for system level impact. The competition also provided important insights into the capacity of Canadian students, health care providers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to propose and implement reverse innovation in the context of the Canadian health system.
- Reverse innovation
- Innovation
- Health
- Health systems
- Costs
- Leadership development
- Competition
Canada's innovation track record
Every developed country in the world is challenged by the increasing demands for health services and the rising costs of health care that are closely associated with rapid advances in technology and aging populations. Canada is no exception; it is facing similar challenges, yet has made less progress in meeting these demands when compared to other developed countries. Within the context of the Canadian economy, health care spending totals $207 billion, representing 11.6% of the national gross domestic product [1]. As demand continues to outpace the capacity to deliver health services, approaches that embrace new technologies and leverage innovative processes will become pivotal to the sustainability of health systems both within Canada and globally. In Canada, a slow uptake and adoption of innovative technologies, processes, and procedures is leading to growing cost pressures on Canada's publicly funded health systems which continue to be challenged to deliver high quality care and value to Canadians [2].
Canada leads the world in its population percentage with completed tertiary education (51%), inclusive of both undergraduate and graduate degrees [3]. Canada is also among the top four countries in the world to produce new knowledge (i.e. publications, patents, technologies) [4]. Yet, despite a social framework that supports and encourages Canadians to pursue advanced education and new knowledge, Canada receives failing grades when it comes to their ability to adopt innovation. According to McKinsey & Company, Canada placed 13th out of 17, earning a "D" grade, among developed nations in this economic and future prosperity indicator [2,5]. The economic and future prosperity indicator ranking indicates that as a proportion of its overall economic activity and in comparison to other OECD countries, Canada does not rely on innovation as much as some of its peer comparators [2]. Frequently Canada is viewed a country of pilot projects that are not scaled or adopted across health systems to achieve financially sustainable programs with learnings and/or outcomes that are translated and shared across provincial or national jurisdictions [6].
Opportunity for reverse innovation
Health systems require constant innovation to control ballooning costs, to create new knowledge as well as develop more effective and efficient mechanisms of achieving value for Canadians. To accelerate the adoption and scalability of successful innovation and thereby support Canadian health systems to overcome the limitations of pilot programs, reverse innovation can offer Canada opportunities to learn from innovations that are occurring in developing and/or emerging markets and consider how these innovations may be translated into the context of the Canadian health system. These reverse innovations are an important opportunity for learning and building capacity for leading change that has the potential to optimize resource use while also finding innovative approaches to deliver health services in a cost effective, sustainable manner. The purpose of this project was to examine the potential for reverse innovation to offer Canadian health systems a new approach to supporting and strengthening innovation adoption by learning from global health systems. This manuscript documents the use of a competition approach to encourage Canadians to look beyond national boarders, to developing and emerging markets, for innovations that can address current Canadian health system challenges. In an effort to better understand how the concept of reverse innovation could be mobilized amongst Canadians, the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation issued an open call to invite proposals for reverse innovations that could address Canada's health system challenges. One of the key objectives of this initiative was to strengthen leadership capacity among future leaders to identify and lead potential reverse innovation projects that address health system challenges in Canada. A growing base of research indicates that a large proportion of cost and value-based innovations are coming from emerging markets – an opportunity for learning which is not evident in the work of Canadian innovators or health systems [7].
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Lack of Competition: In many countries with privatized service delivery, private sector companies are forced to innovate into the mainstream market, or they will face erosion of existing market position in the world. This incentive for individual companies to innovate is not seen to the same extent in publicly funded systems like in Canada, where there is a lack of competition [8].
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Collaboration Challenges: In developed nations with complex and long standing bureaucratic legacy systems, collaboration is often difficult due to the complexity and number of stakeholders in each health system. In developing countries, the drive for competition coupled with fewer (or less complex) bureaucratic systems, the potential for collaboration is may be more easily overcome.
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Change-Resistant Culture: Canada is not known as a culture that embraces change and where entrepreneurship thrives. Innovators are often met by a change-resistant culture from the necessary stakeholders [9].
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Need for Change: While Canada maintains an international reputation for delivering high quality health services with positive patient outcomes, it presents an increasing financial burden on Canadian tax payers. Important lessons can be learned from emerging markets with less developed health systems that achieve positive patient outcomes with fewer resources. The idea of "doing more with less" is a lesson that presents tremendous opportunity to increase the financial sustainability of the Canadian health system.
Reverse innovation, the two part process whereby innovations are designed and created for emerging markets, and then brought to developed nations, has the potential to positively affect financially burdened, developed health systems through quality innovations at decreased costs [7]. Although Canada could benefit substantially from reverse innovation, we have not been successful at implementing these innovations into the mainstream market. Canada needs to build capacity for learning from developing countries, translating innovations that are occurring into the Canadian context to achieve value for Canadians and sustainability for health systems. For example, GE Healthcare Worldwide has created a portable, durable, rechargeable and low-cost electrocardiogram (ECG) (i.e. MAC i) that was designed to service rural and low-income areas of India [10,11]. Other examples of reverse innovations that have had application to healthcare include crowdsourcing programs that were developed to map disaster impact and response to earthquakes as well as service delivery models that have addressed geographic barriers that restrict access to conventional medical infrastructure in rural Haiti [10]. Reverse innovations, like those created by GE Healthcare and those programs and models developed in Haiti, have the potential to positively affect developed health systems through quality innovations that achieve value at decreased costs.
Currently the concept of reverse innovation is emerging as a potential solution for over burdened, financially constrained health systems [10]. However, the capacity for Canadians to identify and adopt reverse innovations into the Canadian context has not been explored to date. As such there is a need to mobilize Canadian capacity to identify reverse innovations that have the potential to positively impact health systems. The Reverse Innovation Challenge, a cross-sector competition which invites participants to identify and test reverse innovations across the globe to address Canadian health system challenges.
Project goal:
The goal of our project was to examine if a reverse innovation competition can mobilize capacity among future leaders to identify potential reverse innovation projects that address health system challenges in Canada.
For the purposes of this project, mobilizing capacity for reverse innovation was viewed with the intent of facilitating an environment, for future and current health system leaders, to engage in meaningful, constructive dialogue surrounding the potential for reverse innovation within the Canadian health system. The competition not only created an opportunity for health system leaders to engage the concept of reverse innovation, but also the greater population at large was engaged through different media and news outlets successfully generating awareness of the concept of reverse innovation in Canada.
Approach to the project
Why a competition?
Due to the emerging evidence of the value of reverse innovation in global communities, the concept was examined in the Canadian context through an open competition. Taking an exploratory approach to the construct of the competition would enable any interested parties to participate and also enable an assessment of how reverse innovation is perceived. The challenge was designed to create an environment that encouraged Canadians to look beyond national borders, identify potential reverse innovation opportunities in emerging and developing markets, and consider how those innovations may address challenges within the Canadian health system.
The format of the competition was based on an environmental scan of successful competitions, including discussions with organizations with experience hosting similar competitions such as: Ashoka Change Makers, Health Council of Canada and Grand Challenges Canada, including the provision of a monetary prize to advance the winning idea from concept to testing in the Canadian health care context. The competition was financially supported by a number of partners including: Medtronic Canada, GE Healthcare, Telus Health, Sandra Rotman Centre, Roche Canada and the Institute for Health System Transformation and Sustainability. Representatives from each of these organizations formed an advisory group which informed the planning, structure, format and process throughout the duration of the competition.
Further, the concept of the competition was shared and tested with various experts, beyond the advisory group and who are considered experts within the fields of innovation and global health, for feedback and input. External experts from multiple perspectives were engaged in guiding the process, including: academics, researchers, clinicians, granting organizations, health system leaders and industry leaders. All of the stakeholder comments were taken into consideration and the concept was refined accordingly. Based on the feedback and recommendations, the evaluation criteria was revised to ensure it addressed feasibility, scalability and weighted more heavily projects with partnerships in emerging markets. The evaluation criterion is discussed in more detail below.
Building momentum through communication and awareness
The competition invited the public to identify innovations from emerging markets that could be applicable in the Canadian context to tackle some of our greatest health care challenges. While the competition was open to the general public, the communication strategy focused largely on students, international innovators and entrepreneurs, health system leaders, and care providers. The communications plan, detailed below, identified strategies and tactics targeted towards each of these groups.
Over the course of the four months, the Centre communicated information about the competition via: a dedicated website page promoting the challenge; targeted email outreach to various distribution lists including research institutions and universities across Canada; social media updates via Facebook and Twitter (#richallenge), including two online chats. Sponsors of the competition also promoted the Challenge through their communications channels; academic and professional speaking engagements where information about the Challenge was provided; and through the Canadian College of Health Leaders network, MEDEC and Rx&D communications vehicles. In addition, the competition launch was supported by two media outlets: Makeshift Magazine and Rogers Healthcare Innovation and Research Magazine. Both media outlets actively promoted the competition through their print and online channels.
Evaluation criteria and committee
Evaluation criteria
Value as a % of overall score
1. Demonstrated Proof of Concept
Was there documented evidence that the innovation achieved impact in an emerging market/developing country context? For the purpose of the evaluation the notion of "documented" was considered broadly and included grey literature.
2. Potential Value to Canadian Health Systems
Would the proposed innovation achieve value if applied in Canada and if so, would it deliver value - better outcomes or reduced cost, or both - if adopted in a health system context?
3. Economic Impact if Implemented
What would be the economic impact for the Canadian economy if the innovation were to be implemented? Recognizing that this is potentially difficult to measure, for the purpose of the competition, this criterion was intended to ensure applicants considered broader technological, societal, economic and political considerations associated with the innovation.
4. Feasibility
Did the applicants identify barriers, risks, challenges and enablers/strengths associated with the innovation and its adoption in the Canadian context and did they provide and strategies to either mitigate risks or leverage strengths?
5. Potential for Scalability
Is there a clear path identified for scaling up the innovation across health systems, beyond a pilot project, at a broader system level? If so, what conditions, such as policy, reimbursement, education, culture, data, technology etc., need to be in place to scale the innovation.
6. Use of Prize Money
How was the proposed budget going to be used to advance the proposed reverse innovation? This criterion was seeking a creative yet realistic use of fund and also served as a mechanism for accountability and transparency for sponsors of the competition.
7. Innovation Team
The degree to which the team assembled represents key stakeholders in health systems (clinicians, industry leaders, policy makers, Canadians) to drive the adoption of the innovation. This criterion was aimed to drive partnership, collaboration and sharing of learnings across jurisdictions. Applicants with partnerships in emerging markets where the concept was developed and tested were weighted more heavily to stress the importance of and attempt to facilitate bi-directional learning.
The applicants were required to submit a two-minute video that would describe the concept succinctly and in a clear and easily understood language. Finally, each submission required a Canadian project team leader to increase the likelihood of successful implementation and adoption in a Canadian health system.
Given the limited body of research describing reverse innovation in health care, and the novelty of the Reverse Innovation Challenge, an evaluation committee was established to evaluate the submission. The committee members we selected based on their experience and skills to ensure a broad range of perspectives were represented. Each evaluator was assigned a primary and secondary submission to review; assignments were based on the expertise and experience of the reviewer and the fit with the application. The evaluation committee then convened in a daylong session to review the submission videos, hear feedback from the primary and secondary reviewers for each application and then discuss each proposal. The criteria were used to score each submission. Each application was reviewed by the committee using the criteria to score each submission. Each application was assigned two reviewers, scores and reviews were discussed, after deliberate discussion and consideration, the committee reached consensus on the score for each application. Once the committee scored all of the proposals, the proposals were ranked and a short list of the top five proposals was determined and then further discussed and ranked to identify the top three proposals and finally the highest ranked proposal.
The Centre officially launched Colour Outside the Lines: A Reverse Innovation Challenge in Canadian Health Systems in January 18, 2013. The competition closed on May 31st, 2013. The winners of the competition were announced at the Reverse Innovation in Health Care Conference in November 2013.
Summary of competition submissions
Type of innovation
Emerging market where innovation has been applied
An effective, non-expert operable, non-invasive cardiovascular screening tool to be used by general medical practitioners.
Singapore & Japan
Through the means of an app, the patient and their families would be able to centralize all administrative tasks of a hospital visit based on their services required and receive responses.
Thailand, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia, & Tanzania
Use of a community health worker (CHW) model who handle routine tasks in primary care, where intensive follow-up is needed to ensure patients follow the best treatments.
India, China, South Africa
Development of a set of cross-cultural educational and communication tools for menopausal women of differing ethnicities to improve communications between women and their caregivers.
Decreasing isolation to improve mental wellness while promoting healthy eating habits, and encouraging volunteerism for seniors.
Kenya & Bangladesh
Biometric authentication of ID and key health information, and access health records or caregiving requirements via data or even SMS.
Apply the innovative use of radio and new information and communication technologies—mobile phones, podcasting and cloud-based interactive voice response services—for health promotion.
The use of red lights at night in hospital rooms to permit the secretion of melatonin and help keeping a good sleep-wake cycle.
A non-mydriatic eye prescreening tool which can detect glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and corneal disease with high sensitivity, and minimal invasiveness.
India, South Africa & Pakistan
A pictogram-based toolkit to improve wayfinding on hospital campuses, and a simplified discharge summary designed with and for patients to improve the comprehension of medication and care instructions.
mHealth solution to the underuse of radiotherapy in end-of-life cancer patients.
Southern and southwestern Asia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Ghana, Serbia, Peru
The use of mobile technology or m-health to transfer information to new mothers of late preterm infants, with focus on health promotion to improve efficiency in care following discharge from hospital.
Four of the submissions were focused on mHealth and leveraged the use of smartphones and mobile apps, two were devices, and three of them were related to education and communications focused on health issues.
Six of the projects focused on immigrant or aboriginal populations. One of them focused on seniors and two on women's health and wellness.
The backgrounds of the applicants ranged from undergraduate students, medical students, clinicians, academics and entrepreneurs.
The literature describing reverse innovation presents varied definitions of reverse innovation. The committee engaged in a robust debate and discussion about the definition of reverse innovation and how the applicants were applying it to the Canadian health system. The evaluation committee was comprised of members with a wide range of expertise and leadership experience; all evaluation committee members were considered experts in the field(s) of health systems, innovation and/or reverse innovation. The expertise of the evaluation committee members varied from: information technology (IT), medical devices, finance, international/global health, rural health, aboriginal health, gender/racial health and social enterprise. As a result of the wide array of experiences and interpretations of reverse innovation, the dialogue amongst the evaluation committee lead to a constructive debate pertaining to the value proposition affiliated with reverse innovation. The scoring of the individual competition submissions was varied and was reflective of the different value perspectives of the committee members. Ultimately, differences were resolved through lengthy discussions and consensus agreement between committee members.
Further development and discussion of key component of the proposal;
Further consideration to potential challenges with adoption in Canada including; stakeholder engagement and how these challenges might be mitigated;
Considerations for how the project might be scaled beyond a pilot in Canada;
Updates on any progress or work on the project since submission.
The five finalists were first informed that they were short-listed and then were asked for permission to profile their application online to engage comments and feedback from the public online. Their proposals were posted on the website and comments were welcomed from the public for a one month period. The intention was that evaluation committee would use the public comments aligned with the additional information to inform their final decision. However, due to technical challenges with the website, the comments were not considered in the evaluation process.
The committee reconvened for a second stage evaluation, to evaluate each short listed application to consider the strengths of the additional information provided to the committee. Once again, ranking of the proposals was reviewed and determined based on consensus of the committee. The committee unanimously agreed on the winner of the challenge. The committee further determined that only one submission met the requirements and spirit of the competition (#9); this team was awarded financial support and mentorship to trial their reverse innovation in the Canadian health system context. The decision to award only one prize was made with careful and deliberate consideration by the evaluation committee, based solely on the follow up information provided by each of the top five teams. The winning team was announced on November 26, 2013.
The International Centre for Health Innovation at the Ivey Business School at Western University is now working with the winning team on a demonstration project to support implementation of the winning reverse innovation and will help assess whether its application is feasible in the Canadian context. The winning team will report progress over the course of the next 18 months.
Overall, the competition proved to be a successful mechanism to mobilize the capacity of future leaders to identify potential reverse innovation projects that address Canadian health system challenges. The competition facilitated constructive dialogue and debate on the subject of reverse innovation between health system stakeholders; inclusive of stakeholders from: health service delivery (e.g. clinicians, etc.), government (i.e. provincial & federal), private industry (e.g. IT, medical devices, etc.) and academia. The challenge also leveraged social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc.), more tradition forms of media (e.g. magazines and newspapers), as well as academic conferences and symposia to engage the global community in an effort to mobilize the capacity of current and future health system leaders; an effort that established reach to a minimum of 400,000 individuals. While recognizing that the intention of the reverse innovation competition was to mobilize capacity to identify reverse innovation projects, it is important to acknowledge that, as a result of their participation in and profile received from the reverse innovation competition, three reverse innovation projects received funding to trial their reverse innovations within the Canadian health system. One project received funding directly from the prize allocated to the competition and two other projects received government funding.
Recognizing that this entire project was an innovation unto itself and a learning experience, there were a number of challenges with the administration of competition itself. For example, the website was entirely developed and maintained by a volunteer student team. Due to technical challenges, the process for the second stage evaluation did not use those public comments to inform their decision as it was intended to.
Another limitation was the novel nature of the concept (applying reverse innovation in a Canadian context), as there was no existing baseline knowledge or experience for reverse innovation ideation or evaluation in Canadian health systems, from which the evaluation committee could assess the submissions. Therefore, the definition applied for the purpose of the challenge left significant room for interpretation. Further, the evaluation rubric, adapted from the Centre's framework for innovation, had not been tested in this context.
The experience of creating a reverse innovation challenge offered a significant learning opportunity for the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation. It also raised the profile of reverse innovation discussion and profile across the country, and provided important insights into the capacity of Canadian students, healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and innovators to propose and implement reverse innovation in the context of Canadian health systems.
The Colour Outside the Lines: A Reverse Innovation Competition successfully stimulated future leaders to identify and lead projects that were driven by reverse innovations from emerging and developing markets. The winning submission of this competition will use the prize money to implement their reverse innovation in the Canadian health system and will report on their progress over the next 18 months.
The authors would like to specially acknowledge Dr. Peter Singer for his contribution to the design and conceptualization of the competition. Further the authors would also like to acknowledge the staff from: Ivey International Centre of Health Innovation at Ivey Business School at Western University, Grand Challenges Canada, Ashoka Changemakers, Medtronic Canada, Roche Canada, GE Healthcare, Telus Health, Sandra Rotman Centre and the Institute for Health System Transformation and Sustainability for their contributions and support in the development and execution of Colour Outside the Lines: A Reverse Innovation Competition. Additionally, the authors would like to acknowledge the generous contribution of the Western Libraries Open Access Fund at Western University for their financial support of this manuscript.
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Kashkari has hosted radio talk-shows, marched in San Diego's LGBT Pride parade and demanded televised debates in efforts to gain the initiative. A Public Policy Institute of California poll of likely voters last week showed him trailing the incumbent 52% to 33%.
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Critics said the confessional-style dispatches to camera did not sound natural or spontaneous.
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As life goes on, it can seem that what once was an easy task becomes slightly more and more difficult until it can feel impossible. This is because growing up and growing old takes its toll on each and every single person. Regardless of whether an individual remains activity into their old age, the body is slowly changing. It is not as fast as it was once in youth, meaning that the tasks that were completed with ease are now tasks that require some effort and concentration.
Many people who are older, however, can still continue to live this way. While things may be extra effort, many people can live independently on their own merit and continue to look after themselves. However, there is no shame in getting help should someone need it. Some may be capable but prefer to have extra help for tasks such as cooking and cleaning. Others may need help with transportation or with shopping. For those who do wish to have help, there are a plethora of aid and assistance that fall under the category of aged care.
This term refers to a service that is provided for the elderly who need help with basic living skills, like cooking or cleaning, or may need a little more intricate care. Individuals who use this service can still maintain independence, but others may wish to live as part of a community. This aid and assistance can come in several different ways, which include; home, retirement village and residential places.
At home help in home care services in Victoria, those who offer aid and assistance may come to the individual's owned home. They may make the meals and do the cleaning and provide company. They may also provide a way for the individual to get around by driving them the places the individual wishes to see or go. The aid may come in everyday or only a few times a week, depending on how necessary their company is.
Individuals may not be able to live by themselves at home anymore, even with the extra help. In this event, the best option may be to move into a retirement village. Retirement villages are community places that give each individual their own room, to maintain some independence. In some cases retirement villages may even have kitchenettes available but in other cases, the meals may be eaten in common room with everyone who resides in the place.
Residential places are much like retirement villages but with more options like the disability services New South Wales. They are required, by law, to have on-call-aid at all times, to prepare, cook and serve food to all the patrons living there and to have access to nurses. These residential places can be owned by anyone, ranging from a church to local government, but they must ensure that the centre is maintained and that furniture and rooms are constantly catered to. These three options are only some of the options open to individuals in that stage of their life.


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Tie-Sleeve Denim Top - DEEP-OCEAN-WASH - XS - Talbots is rated out of 5 by 7.
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Tie-Sleeve Denim Top - DEEP-OCEAN-WASH - XS - Talbots is rated out of 5 by 7.
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Date published: 2019-04-27
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Date published: 2019-04-09
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Date published: 2019-04-07
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Date published: 2019-02-25
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Date published: 2019-02-24
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Getting the most out of your Compost: Preparing Your Soil Now for a Spectacular Springtime Garden
by Rick Vuyst
Less is more in the garden during the month of October. Foliage puts on a natural show before winter, and as it falls, feeds the earth as natural organic matter. Cool temperatures, vibrant sights and warm soil make this the best month of the year for landscape projects; roses still bloom, maples blaze in color and flowering shrubs vie for our attention. Viburnums, Fothergilla, Itea, Oakleaf Hydrangea, Witchhazel, blueberries and Japanese maple are flowering shrubs that save the best for last in a triumphant grand finale right before the snow knocks on our doors. In woodland areas, foliage nourishes the earth and provides a natural floor. In our urban landscapes, we tend to bag up leaves and dispose of them, but those leaves have nutritional value and provide textural tilth to the land. The structure of our soils can benefit from the simple natural resource of spent foliage and will result in a reduction of plant disease down the road.
It's estimated that American's throw away as much as 25 percent of their food on an annual basis. Some of these food scraps provide wonderful "green" material for your compost pile. The key to a successful compost pile is to have a good combination of both "browns" or carbon (dried leaves, brush or bark), and "greens," or vegetation (grass clippings, food scraps). If it gets smelly, you might not have enough browns or there could be a lack of oxygen in the pile. A good ratio of carbon to green materials with proper moisture levels turned from time to time with a pitchfork will provide the black gold you can use to help your garden thrive in the coming year.
Passive Composting
A simple way to compost is something we call "passive composting" or "lasagna gardening." Using this method, newsprint (black and white — no color photos) is placed on the ground to suffocate grass and other vegetation. Leaves, preferably ground up first by a lawn mower, are placed on top of the newspaper. Finally, soil is placed on top of the leaves to keep them in place. This passive setting will "cook" under the cover of snow throughout the winter and in spring can be tilled into the earth. This approach results in bumper crops of earthworms— a good sign of healthy soil and natural nutrient suppliers.
While you prepare the soil for next year's landscape, you can find plant material on sale during the months of October and November. Trench the plants, pot and all, in an unused area of the garden. Come spring time, pull the pots out of the soil. Remove the roots of the plant from pot and plant them in the rich organic soil. In autumn, the sunken pots are temporary staging to get the roots below soil level. If left in the pots above ground level in winter, they will most likely die due to root temperature tolerances.


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"LLECHYLCHED, a parochial chapelry in the hundred of Llyfon, county Anglesey, 4 miles N.W. of Aberffraw, and 8 from Gwindy, its post town. The village is neatly built. The living is a curacy annexed to the rectory* of Llanbeulan, in the diocese of Bangor. The church is dedicated to St. Ilched." [From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
|Holy Trinity, Bryngwran
|St Ylched (site of), Llechylched
|Capel Gwyn Baptist Chapel, Capel Gwyn
|Salem Chapel, Bryngwran
|Hebron Chapel, Bryngwran
|Capel Gwyngenau (site of), Capel Gwyn
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Llechylched area or see them printed on a map.
Church History
Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.
Llechylched Parochial Chapelry; Statistics; Area 1783 acres; Population 317 males, 337 females, total 654
- Holy Trinity Church, Llechylched - on geograph.org.uk and "Parish church built in 1840-42 to the replace the medieval and later building ................" coflein
- "Capel Gwyn Baptist Chapel was built in 1794, rebuilt in 1849 and rebuilt again in 1906............" coflein
- Capel Hebron (CM), Bryngwran - on geograph.org.uk and "Hebron Methodist Chapel was built in 1824 and rebuilt in 1880 ........." coflein
- Capel Salem, Bryngwran (Ind) - on geograph.org.uk and "Salem's 'cause' began in 1794 and the chapel built in 182?.......enlarged in 1839 and renovated in 1900...."coflein
Church Records
Joyce Hinde has supplied a list of Parish Registers held at Anglesey Record Office.
Capel Gwyn Baptist chapel, Llechylched - records 1859-1883 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales
View across farmland towards churchyard of Llechylched old church - on geograph.org
Description and Travel
LLECHYLCHED (LLECH-YLCHED), a parish in the hundred of LLYVON, county of ANGLESEY, NORTH WALES, 7 miles (S.E. by E.) from Holyhead, containing 405 inhabitants. This parish, which is of very moderate extent, lies in the south-western part of the island ; and the church is situated far from any house, in a marshy valley watered by a stream which falls into the bay of Carnarvon. The surrounding sceneryis not distinguished by any peculiarity of feature, except that of a dreary and unprepossessing aspect. The road from London to Holyhead passes through the village, of which the inhabitants are chiefly employed in agriculture. The living is annexed to the rectory of Llanbeulan, in the archdeaconry of Anglesey, and diocese of Bangor. The church, dedicated to St. Ilched, is a small edifice. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodists. A National school, for the gratuitous instruction of poor children of this and the adjoining parishes, was established in 1829: it is supported by subscription, and the present number of children is seventy-five. The poor are maintained by an average annual expenditure amounting to £ 176. 7. (A Topographical Dictionary of Wales by Samuel Lewis, 1833)
Ask for a calculation of the distance from Llechylched to another place.
Click here for a list of nearby places.
Historical Geography
You can see the administrative areas in which Llechylched has been placed at times in the past. Select one to see a link to a map of that particular area.
Land and Property
Held at Anglesey Record Office (NRA);
- Llechylched land tax;- 1744-1809: assessments
- Llechylched Parish;- 1803-1997: records
- Llechylched Parish Council;- 1909-47: financial records
- Llechylched tithes;- 1924-36: Tithe Rent Charge account books
- Llechylched window tax;- 1751-60: assessments
Gwynedd Family History Society have a diagram of the ecclesiastical parishes of Anglesey (under Parishes)
Llechylched parish in the County of Anglesey - on the People's Collection Wales site
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SH333763 (Lat/Lon: 53.257687, -4.499889), Llechylched which are provided by:
- This place shown on an OpenStreetMap map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- OpenStreetMap
- OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.


text: Assignment 1 taught us how to research data for a business related pitch. This assignment was difficult for me, as my group was smaller then the others (most were 6, ours was 3). I found that most of the information was pretty straightforward however, so the written work was a lot easier then expected.


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I wrote this post on the Nerdy Book Club blog for a variety of reasons:
– To model what it means to be a connected learner in front of 27 fifth graders.
– To guide students on how to read text more critically.
– To show students how to use evidence from a text to support an opinion.
– To celebrate our learning and this excellent book I read aloud.
Modeling Connectedness
"Connectedness" is defined by the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary as "the state of being closely joined or linked especially in an emotional way". Wonder conjured up many emotions in us as we read and discussed it. I gave students several opportunities to turn and talk with a neighbor to share their thinking during strategic points in the story. I also asked essential questions related to the book. Students were encouraged to ask questions of their own that took my thinking to a deeper level. We posted our thoughts on the Wonder group we joined on Edmodo. All of these discussions led to my opinion piece I posted on the blog. Because our thinking was available for others to read and respond to, the students had a better understanding of the importance of sharing our feelings about something online in a meaningful and respectful manner.
Critical Reading
The concept of reading critically is explained nicely in Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives by Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp (Solution Tree, 2011). According to the authors, astute readers start asking questions as soon as they pick up a text. In the post, I purposefully took the perspective that the ending was the reason Wonder didn't win the Newbery. I wanted to create an authentic controversy. As I wrote on the computer and projected it on the Smart Board, I could tell a few student weren't comfortable with this opinion. Their body language and facial expressions said it all. I encouraged the students to speak freely. One student, who I will call Sara, finally had had enough and blurted, "I just don't agree with you, Mr. Renwick." A few of her classmates' mouths dropped open. He's the principal! they were probably thinking. But I commended Sara on her willingness to take a risk and share her own thinking, even though it didn't correspond with my own.
Text-Based Evidence
After expressing her opinion that in fact the ending was really great, I asked Sara to explain her position a bit more. While I cannot recall the exact conversation that took place afterward, I do remember several students joining our discussion. We compared the ending in Wonder to related stories, such as Out of my Mind by Sharon Draper. Some students brought up their own experiences of someone they know receiving a large celebration and why it was important for that person. It was also noted that sometimes the strong need to step up and help those in need, like Auggie's classmates and the adults in his life did. This robust discussion helped form the ending on my Nerdy Book Club post. Throughout our conversations, we stayed close to the text even as we connected the book's events with our own lives, experiences and past books we had read.
Celebration and Recognition
Once the draft of my post was complete, I printed off a copy for each student. I asked them to reread it carefully and note anything else they felt needed revision in the margins. A number of students came back the next time with several suggestions. Most of them were grammatical in nature. Feeling confident in our final draft once revised, we shipped it off to Mr. Sharp for publication. Giving several opportunities for input allowed everyone ownership in this shared writing activity.
Now that it is online, we look forward to reading the comments to the post. Maybe we will comment ourselves. Our thoughts and ideas will have a much larger audience and greater purpose with the use of the blog. We plan to celebrate our efforts with a book talk on related stories. As well, everyone can sign a "Be Kind" certificate to remind ourselves to be everyday heroes in someone's life that we know.


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The National Theatre announces Accenture as 'Partner for Innovation' and Supporter of the NT Immersive Storytelling Studio
The National Theatre is delighted to announce Accenture as their 'Partner for Innovation' and supporter of the National Theatre's Immersive Storytelling Studio.
The studio examines how Virtual Reality (VR), 360° film, augmented reality and other emerging technologies can widen and enhance the NT's remit to be a pioneer of dramatic storytelling and to enable an audience to stand in the shoes of another.
Rachel Barton, Managing Director, Customer and Digital Strategy, Accenture Strategy said: We're delighted to be the National Theatre's 'Partner for Innovation' and to help it deliver its thrilling strategic vision. Our role as a digital innovator is to help NT create immersive experiences in the arts, as part of a strategy to engage with new audiences.
The partnership between Accenture and the National Theatre demonstrates a shared commitment to digital innovation and dynamic storytelling, which can push boundaries across industries and the arts.
George Marcotte, Accenture Digital UK & I Go To Market Lead, said: As the NT's 'Partner for Innovation', we'll collaborate around using the latest digital technology and techniques to create new dynamic storytelling opportunities and ideas. Digital innovation is the driving force behind new experiences and the outcomes for NT audiences could be applied in businesses to transform their customer relationships.
In autumn 2016, the Immersive Storytelling Studio collaborated with National Film Board of Canada (NFB) on a Research and Development Lab to explore the relationship between theatre, VR and creative non-fiction. One of the projects created in the lab, Draw Me Close by Jordan Tannahill, will receive its world premiere at Storyscapes as part of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.
Draw Me Close is a vivid memoir about Tannahill's relationship with his mother in the wake of her terminal cancer diagnosis. Draw Me Close imagines the last moment shared between a son and his mother before her death, as she squeezes his hand, and the deluge of narratives, questions and revelations contained within that final gesture.
This deceptively simple and human approach to immersive technology allows the audience member to experience life as five-year-old Jordan inside a live, illustrated world. Jordan's mother is played by an actress whose movements are translated into the virtual world using motion capture while she engages with you in the physical world. Both actor and audience member experience an early childhood memory as they bring it to life.
Draw Me Close is a co-production between the National Theatre and National Film Board of Canada, in collaboration with All Seeing Eye, with illustrations by Teva Harrison. It is experienced using a unique motion capture system, Orion, that uses HTC Vive and is currently being developed by IKinema.
Draw Me Close collapses the worlds of live performance and animation to create an unforgettable encounter between a mother and her son. This is the story of their past and what is to be their future.
Storyscapes was conceived by Tribeca Film Festival to recognise and reward excellence in new forms of storytelling.
Draw Me Close at Tribeca Film Festival
Public opening: 20 – 29 April, 12noon – 10pm
Spring Studios, 5th floor.
Main entrance to building: 50 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013
The National Theatre's previously announced partnership with the Barbican Centre and The Trampery on alt.barbican, a major new accelerator programme for innovative artists working at the intersection of arts, technology and entrepreneurship. Delivered in partnership with MUTEK and the British Council, this six-month programme provides opportunities and support for up to five artists whose practice falls outside traditional art form areas.
alt.barbican will provide a range of showcase, mentoring and training opportunities within an environment in which research and discussion about this emergent field can take place and be shared. More information here.
The NT's Immersive Storytelling Studio will continue to produce backstage, rehearsal room and on stage 360 film content, giving audiences a unique perspective 'behind the scenes' at the National Theatre. A 360° behind-the-scenes look at Sally Cookson's Peter Pan, staged at the NT in winter 2016, is available to watch online, with commentary from the show's Aerial Director, Gwen Hales. The Immersive Storytelling Studio will also explore the potential for 360° filming techniques to capture the essence of existing NT productions.
Throughout 2017, the Immersive Storytelling Studio will continue to work on research and development in the immersive medium, as part of the NT's New Work Department's commitment to experimentation and innovation.


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Anastasia Beverly Hills are a cosmetics brand known for their amazing quality makeup, especially their highlighters in the form of 'glow kits'. My first glow kit which started off my obsession, was the one in 'That Glow' it contained 4 of the most pretty, warm golden and champagne highlight shades.. right up my street.
The ABH glow kits where one of those massively hyped products, so I had to just try it for myself. Plus other ABH products I own such as the 'Dip Brow', Brow Wiz' and their liquid lipsticks where of somewhat of a holy grail of mine.
To cut a long story short, these Glow Kits lived up to the hype, they are amazing! and ones I still reach for on a daily basis. I have since bought more palettes from the glow kit line, they are that good.
The formula is amazing, so buttery, crazy pigmented, and just looks so smooth and flawless on the skin.
Then the ABH 'Ultimate Glow Kit' got released recently, and oh my...I had to have it! My other half treated me to it for Christmas and I couldn't wait. My expectations where so high.
The palette holds 6 generously sized highlight shades held in a sleek, sturdy, cardboard case and a large mirror, which is always a bonus. Plus, the 'Glow Kit' text on the front of the palette actually glows in the dark!
The colours in this palette are beautiful, and I noticed they did look slightly more glittery in the pan than they did in the original glow kits. I got stuck in anyhow, and I noticed that the formula was quite a bit different to the original kits.
It pains me to say this but... I found them to be less pigmented, and more of a glitter to it than the usual POW! glowing goddess sheen on the face. I found myself having to build it up a bit, but maybe I'm just a bit of a glow addict?
I wasn't overly sure on the glittery bits it left on my face either, as it kind of fell a little down my face later in the day which was a shame.
You may be able to tell from my photos that they have a chunkier texture to the pans if you are familiar with the original glow kits. It's a shame Anastasia Beverly Hills made these a little different, because I think if they kept the formula everyone knows and loves, the same they would be bloody stunning.
I cant get enough of the shade 'White Sand' and 'Amber Gold' they are gorgeous, unique yet very wearable.
Overall I wasn't as blown away as I thought I would be, I think that's because their standards are so high, I kind of expected the same quality as before. I think ABH fancied trying something different, fair enough - but if it ain't' broke don't fix it. Personally the original glow kit formula is much better.
I do still really like this kit, and wear it often just because the colours are so pretty, I have to just get past it having a bit of sparkle than I'd usually like.
Have you tried the ABH Ultimate Glow Kit? What are your thoughts?
Thanks for reading,
Love Zoe x


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Aug 202017
I will be speaking at Bubonicon, New Mexico's premiere fantasy/sci fi convention; on Friday night August 25 I will be giving a presentation on "New Mexico's UFO Conspiracies" and handing out sample issues of Skeptical Inquirer. We will also be recording an episode of Squaring the Strange, so look for my co-hosts Pascual Romero and Celestia Ward! This year's Bubonicon 49 runs August 25-27, and the theme is time travel. There's plenty of authors, experts, and costumed fun. Come check it out! You can find more on me and my work with a search for "Benjamin Radford" (not "Ben Radford") on Vimeo, and please check out my podcast Squaring the Strange!
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"Teen Wolf" and "Arrow" star, Colton Haynes, said "YES!" and with that he was engaged to his boyfriend over the weekend!
The 28-year-old actor announced on Instagram earlier today that he and celebrity floral designer Jeff Leatham are officially engaged. Leatham romantically proposed to Haynes Saturday night on a candlelit beach at the Las Ventanas al Paraiso resort in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The Instagram post shows the two men kissing with fireworks going off in the background. "I SAID YES!!!" Haynes writes.
"I can't put into words how truly happy I am right now," Haynes wrote on Instagram earlier in the trip. "So full of love."
Haynes, who officially came out as gay last May in an interview with EW, went public about his relationship with Leatham on Valentine's Day.


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A regularly asked question is, whether it is possible to make a living from betting on sports. Can you earn enough money by gambling on football or any other sport?
Yes, it seems to be possible when you look at all the different ways that people do make money daily from sports betting.
Bookmakers like www.betfair.com earn their living, sports analysts compile the odds for the bookmakers, and they make their money. By developing different applications for betting, programmers can make a living. Manufacturers supplying gaming machines make their money, because of people's habits for gambling.
But can you make money through betting?
Yes. You can develop profitable, long-term strategies to use when you bet on football. It is possible to find the betting odds that can provide value. It is not impossible. You can join that minority crowd that became successful. Over and Under type of bets have become more popular amongst punters but the 2-3 goals predictions are the most widely used type and with the highest chances.
You will need patience, and time, to acquire all the needed knowledge that is necessary to start winning more than losing. Knowledge is power, always and in everything, without it, there would not be any chance of achieving what you want.
Relying on luck can never be a strong foundation for gaining success and have it last.
3 Simple Rules for you to learn and follow that will help you towards your goal of profitable betting:
- Learn to manage your Money; set aside an amount of money that you may use for gambling. This will be your bankroll to use on your gambling budget. Never use the rent money, or groceries money, or any money that is supposed to go to a specific place or thing, to gamble with. The betting bankroll is used for that. Decide on an amount that goes into this bankroll and use only that.
- Bet only when you feel good; that is when you are sober, feeling good and thinking straight. Do not bet when you drink, it might impair your judgment, which can cause major problems for your bankroll.
- Do your research well; this might be the rule or tip that should be the most important. Do your homework well before thinking of placing a bet. Studying all the information you have available, comparing and analysing the statistics, will help towards placing the best bet.
All you need to succeed in the football betting arena is a well-managed bankroll system, a good tipster, time to gather knowledge and patience to see how you can use this towards your goal.


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Build me a Java Framework project
Presupuesto €30-250 EUR
The purpose of the project is the implementation of an online store for pre-sale tickets for a museum. It includes designing the base data and the interface for the purchase of tickets and [login to view URL] reconciliation should be based on the Paypal Express Checkout application
API. There must be client account creation, item selection and amount of tickets as well as a shopping cart and a management form.
You have to design the database and implement the application in a way so that it can easily fit into museum. The interface of the application will be implemented as a web application, and preferably as a Rich application Internet Application built in Java and GWT.
The purpose of the work is to acquire the student's experience in designing and designing it
application programming with RIA technologies and databases.
The final application should have systems:
1. Service management
2. Ticket management
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This is not to say that I just leave them to their own devices to eat whatever 'junk food' they can scavenge from the cupboard and watch TV in their jammies all day. I am a more engaged parent for not simply falling back on rules to guide us. I offer lots of opportunities for interesting learning opportunities (a science experiment, an outing, craft supplies, etc.), and I offer advice (i.e. "You look sleepy, hon, let's brush our teeth and read some books together in bed."), and I offer opportunities to help in a meaningful way ("Wanna help me clean the livingroom and then have a dance party?"). All of these offers, really are offers. They are free to say no, thanks, or not now, maybe later.
I say yes as often as I can, and I give reasons for my no's. I believe that these children are not just potential adults needing to be filled with knowledge, but full-on human beings experiencing the world on their own terms. I am here to guide them in matters of safety (their own and others), and to provide an environment that allows learning to flow freely both at home and out in the world. That last bit is inspired by, perhaps paraphrased from, Sandra Dodd, a longtime radical unschooler who has collected a lot of inspiring writing on the subject of unschooling.
This radical unschooling gig plays out differently in each family based on the interests and temperaments of the family members. A lot of what I share here is how these principles of trust and respect (and yes!) play out in our family. So, here's what two more days of radical unschooling at the Verde house looked like.
naked egg experiment.
After playing, and a run to the library, and reading, and swinging, and dancing, and watching Bill Nye, the Science of Music and The Pirates of Tortuga, and eating and playing on instruments, and Camille's play rehearsal, the girls decided to clean the living room. It doesn't happen every day, but one of the beauteous things about not requiring chores is that children can choose to joyfully do those things which could otherwise be seen as drudgery. Ayla loves to help with the dishes, Camille enjoys organizing things, and Sylvia is often happy to sweep and dust.
Today was sunny, but cool. We strolled down the road and into the woods.
We gathered corn cobs left behind from the harvest in a nearby field. Ayla 'grated' the cobs together while Sylvia grated carrots for Camille's egg drop soup (shredded carrot, garlic, sea salt, cumin, and beaten eggs in boiling water)
Sylvia loves to chop and grate and Camille enjoys cooking on the stove, so the came up with a dessert soup as well. "Mama, this is so good. You should put this recipe on your blog!"
Apple Blueberry Soup
Chopped apples and fresh or frozen blueberries stewed in water with maple syrup and cinnamon. Cook until fruit is soft but not falling apart. There you go.
Right now, the sky is dark, Camille and Sylvia just came in from playing and closing up the chicken coop for the night. I started this crazy-long blog post sometime around the soup-making time and am just finishing it now. Ayla is sleeping in my lap, Camille is reading Sylvia a Choose Your Own Adventure story,and I think it's a damn fine life we're living.
*linking up again over at Owlet's Unschool Monday.


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Sunday, May 31, 2009
JUDGMENT - Astrological Associations
Thoth Tarot by Aleister Crowley
Crowley titles Trump 20 "The Aeon." He notes: "In this card it has been necessary to depart completely from the tradition of the cards, in order to carry on that tradition. The old card was called The Angel: or, The Last Judgment." Crowley attributes this card to the element Fire rather than any zodiac sign or planet. He does, however, mention that behind the letter Shin (meaning Fire) on the card, we can see "a symbolic representation of the Sign of Libra." He states that "this is the forth-shadowing of the Aeon which is to follow this present one." The OGD uses the attribution "Spirit and Fire."
One World Tarot by Crystal Love
In this deck, Crystal Love associates The Judgment (Trump 20) with the Moon. She writes: "The Moon represents our emotions and our unconscious drives. . . The Judgment can be said to rule our processes at the deepest and most unconscious level. . . The Judgment tells us that all our actions are recorded on our unconscious minds."
A.E. Thierens, PhD. (Astrology & the Tarot)
Thierens titles Trump 20 "The Last Judgment" and associates it with the planet Jupiter. Jupiter governs Sagittarius, a Fire sign. Thierens writes: "This card stands for ideals, religious, social or any other and for the elevating effect they have on man." Jupiter is associated with the higher mind, higher education, spiritual expansion, and knowledge.
The Celestial Tarot by Brian Clark
Clark attributes the Judgment card to "Pluto, the Inner Judge." He writes: "We encounter Pluto and face the future that we have created for ourselves over the past aeons. . . We have arrived at a place where we are more able to clearly judge the wisdom, integrity, and authenticity of our past efforts." Pluto is commonly seen to represent regenerative forces, destruction, annihilation, and transformation. As guardian of the shades and underworld ghosts, Pluto calls our attention to what has been denied and repressed. Although Pluto is no longer considered a planet by astronomers*, many astrologers continue to study its impact in birth charts and events. Modern astrology assigns rulership of the zodiac sign Scorpio to Pluto, and we see the symbol for Scorpio on Clark's card.
The Mandala Astrological Tarot by A.T. Mann
Mann associates Trump 20, Judgement, with the element Fire and Pluto. He writes: "The element Fire shows the energy of heaven which shatters structures to unite humanity, and Pluto. . . shows the required destruction of existing forms before regeneration occurs. Death and destruction are only preludes to rebirth in a new and higher state, as all causes must be transcended."
The Whispering Tarot by Liz Hazel
Liz Hazel notes that the Golden Dawn lists the attribution for Trump 20 as "Fire." She herself uses Saturn in connection with Judgment but writes "Sometimes Pluto is used." Hazel associates Judgment with "important stages in the Saturn cycle that occur in seven-year intervals, and the Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions that occur every twenty years."
* Please see Laurel Kornfeld's comments (below) for a more precise, detailed account of Pluto's status among astronomers and astrologers.
If I'm not mistaken, Judgment (Trump 20) has a greater variety of astrological attributions than any card we have come across in this series so far. We have Fire, "Spirit and Fire," the Moon, Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn. I tend to lean toward the OGD attribution of "Spirit and Fire" but I do try to take into account the associations made by the creator of whatever deck I am using.
I welcome your comments!
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Pluto is still a planet, and is still considered by many astronomers to be one. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers in a formal petition. One reason the IAU definition makes no sense is it says dwarf planets are not planets at all! That is like saying a grizzly bear is not a bear, and it is inconsistent with the use of the term "dwarf" in astronomy, where dwarf stars are still stars, and dwarf galaxies are still galaxies. Also, the IAU definition classifies objects solely by where they are while ignoring what they are. If Earth were in Pluto's orbit, according to the IAU definition, it would not be a planet either. A definition that takes the same object and makes it a planet in one location and not a planet in another is essentially useless. That is why many astronomers, lay people, and educators are either ignoring the demotion entirely or working to get it overturned.ReplyDelete
Thank you for those details, Laurel! I should have included more information instead of trying to convey the essence of the IAU's official decision in such an abbreviated fashion. I simply wanted to acknowledge the fact that Pluto's status had changed in some circles, without spending a lot of time on the subject. Clearly that was a mistake! :DReplyDelete
Nice site. Blessed Be!ReplyDelete


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Planned Parenthood Wants Merrick Garland on SCOTUS. Like Stericycle, He Will Be Exposed. | The Mark Harrington Show
March 22, 2016
Created Equal believes strongly in exposing abortionists and their enablers so that their monstrosities don't slip past the eyes of the public. This strategy should also be applied to pro-abortion politicians and judges who try to live affluent lives and enjoy honorable careers, all while enabling the legalized murder industry to do its work in the shadows. Judge Merrick Garland--Obama's supposedly moderate, reputable Supreme Court nominee--SHOULD CERTAINLY BE NO EXCEPTION. Besides campaign season traditionally being an unusual time for filling a vacant court seat (especially when the replacement is not of the same or similar ideology of the passed Justice), Judge Garland's RECORD and CORE BELIEFS should raise major doubts about his ability to be an upstanding judge that would protect the rights of America's preborn on our land's Highest Court.
Last week, Cecile Richards was caught SNEAKING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE to supposedly lend her support to Obama after his nomination of the "moderate conservative" judge. The President and Senate Democrats may be presenting this judge as a decent moderate with a record of respecting the Constitution and practicing judicial restraint, but Cecile's endorsement (and his apparent intent to gut the Second Amendment) flies in the face of that narrative.
Fortunately, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding the line against Obama's pressure to fill the vacant seat. He accurately argues that the Senate's constitutional duty is simply "to provide advice and consent," and that it is not their duty to approve of anyone the President nominates. McConnell has also gone on the offensive against the hypocrisy of pro-abortion Democrats, citing the "Biden Rule," an instance in the 1990's where Biden directly contradicted what is being said now by his administration regarding nominations during political campaigns. PLEASE CALL SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL and urge him to stand firm at (202) 224-2254.
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BROOMFIELD, CO – Yesterday's victory over Nashville sent the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls 5280 Fight Club into a tough quarterfinal match against tournament-favorite Gotham Girls All-Stars, who have been acclimating themselves to the elevation for a week in Colorado Springs. Gotham came in looking to avenge last year's semifinal defeat at the hand of the hometown Coloradans and, despite a second-half scare, those preparations seem to have paid off in this grueling match.
Except for a huge powerjam by Suzy Hotrod, the first half would have finished almost dead-even, with Rocky Mountain climbing from a very early 35-point deficit to a 75-53 score at the break. Rocky Mountain put up a tremendous comeback in the first 10 minutes of the second half, taking the lead and stretching it to 100-85 at one point. But an unending series of jammer and blocker penaltes were too much of an opportunity for Gotham who went on a 74-0 run in 5 minutes to seal the 187-134 victory.
The bout began right off with lots of tight, slow packs. Bob Loblaw, Ecko, and Amanda Jamitinya initially had good success for Rocky Mountain controlling Bonnie Thunders, and DeRanged's 10 points opened up an early 11-1 lead for Rocky Mountain with a 4-2 pack advantage. But Gotham quickly reasserted control. Donna Matrix's good inside work on Frida Beater eventually drew a penalty and the first powerjam of the bout. Wild Cherri shot around the pack for 5 points until Psycho Babble knocked her out. Bonnie Thunders continued the powerjam, tacking on another 9. Suzy Hotrod then put on a great inside spurt while Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya was called off for an elbow. Suzy Hotrod put on a speed clinic against the backward-sliding pack and tallied 25 points. Sexy Slaydie's 8 and Bonnie Thunders' 4 brought the lead to 52-14 after 13 minutes.
Then a Suzy Hotrod penalty set up Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya for Rocky Mountain's first powerjam. Despite the hard-hitting efforts of Sexy Slaydie, the speedy jammer was able to cut 12 points into that lead. Gotham then controlled the next four jams with some one-and-outs, bringing the lead to 64-26. With 10 minutes to go, there was a no-lead situation and Psycho Babble's defense of Suzy Hotrod for the two minutes was the difference as Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya was able to maneuver through the strong walls of Hyper Lynx, Papierschnitt, Anna Bollocks, and Donna Matrix to win it 13-4. The red back wall of Rocky Mountain held firm for the next two jams and the lead was narrowed to 68-47 with less than 4 minutes to go.
A Gotham powerjam threatened to take back the large lead, but great penalty-killing by Assaultin' Pepa limited the damage from Bonnie Thunders to 3 points. Then, the fleet Suzy Hotrod looked to stretch it again with a quick lead capture. But Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya flew out of the box, apex jumped about 15 feet and caught the pack up to keep the jam at 4-3. DeRanged muscled her way past good positioning by Hyper Lynx and Papierschnitt to get three more and bring the halftime score to 75-53.
The second half began with more tight packs. Rocky Mountain began to hurry up their jam starts with a two-jammer rotation between DeRanged and Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya. As Amanda Jamitinya was able to hold back Bonnie Thunders for a full minute, DeRanged leapt out to a 4-0 in the initial jam. Winona Fighter dropped Suzy Hotrod and Rocky Mountain completed an 8-2 5-minute run. Then DeRanged was called for a cut on a turn 2 apex jump as Bonnie Thunders rolled behind blocks from Sweet Sherry Pie on the powerjam for 8 points. But Psycho Babble, after shaking off a shot to the jaw, recyled Bonnie Thunders long enough for DeRanged to return and rocket through for 9.
Then, as Suzy Hotrod was called for an elbow, Frida Beater used the powerjam to score 14 as Psycho Babble cleared two blockers. Suddenly, Rocky Mountain had the lead at 87-85 with 21 minutes remaining. Another powerjam for DeRanged stretched the lead up to 100-85 and an upset seemed to be in the making.
But fate did not favor the hometown red. While jamming, Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya clipped the corner on an apex jump for a major cut, and some sweet sideways skating by Suzy Hotrod slipped her around some good shorthanded blocking by Ecko and Assaultin' Pepa. Urrk'n Jerk'n as Booty Blockya returned from the penalty box, only to be sent right back, a situation that would repeat itself 3 more times over the next two jams. On the uberextended powerjam, Suzy Hotrod scored 14, Bonnie Thunders scored 30, and Suzy Hotrod another 30 through a stopped pack, drawing boos from the frustrated crowd. Amidst a flurry of Rocky Mountain penalties, Psycho Babble and Amanda Jamitinya were ejected with 14 minutes remaining in the half. Gotham had jumped out to a sudden commanding lead of 159-100.
Gotham seemed content to focus on defense at this point as Rocky Mountain got a few points here and there over the next 5 minutes. Papierschnitt and Fisti Cuffs recycled Triple Shot Misto again and again but some penalty trouble for the New York blockers and jammer Wild Cherri set up a last chance for Rocky Mountain with 5 minutes remaining. Triple Shot Misto finished up the jam tying Wild Cherri's 10 and in the subsequent whistle, DeRanged skated furiously to close out the powerjam, knocking 18 points off the lead and bring the score to 169-134. But that would be the end of the scoring for Rocky Mountain, and Bonnie Thunders got back the 18 points in a powerjam after time expired to finish the game 187-134.
Gotham advances to possibly have an easier time in the semifinals later today against Texas; that game takes place at 5:30pm.


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