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We develop a new methodology to estimate abnormal performance and risk exposure of nontraded assets from cash flows. Our methodology extends the standard internal rate of return approach to a dynamic setting. The small-sample properties are validated using a simulation study. We apply the method to a sample of 958 private equity funds. For venture capital funds, we find a high market beta and underperformance before and after fees. For buyout funds, we find a relatively low market beta and no evidence for outperformance. We find that self-reported net asset values significantly overstate fund values for mature and inactive funds.
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The fireplace insert's electrical wiring can come into contact with the metal rating plate on the insert, posing electrical shock and burn hazards to consumers.
Jotul North America; at (800) 797-5912, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or online at www.jotul.com and click on Consumer Bulletin for more information.
About 1,200 in the United States and 50 in Canada
This recall involves four models of Jotul and Scan brand gas fireplace inserts. These inserts fit into existing vented fireplaces providing a variety of fireplace effects fueled by natural gas or liquid propane. The fireplace inserts are cast iron or steel and have a glass front, ceramic fiber logs, a gas burner and an electrical cord. They measure about 17 inches by 32 inches. The model and serial numbers are located on a metal rating plate inside the bottom front panel of the fireplace insert.
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The firm has received one report of an electric shock and burn injury with the recalled fireplace inserts.
Consumers should immediately stop using and unplug the recalled gas fireplace inserts before checking the unit's model and serial numbers. Contact the store where purchased or Jotul directly to schedule a free repair.
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That is funny...not sure I like Craig in the Brainiac role. Anyone who claims to be, and in fact appears to be as intelligent as he is...should see through his own poor logic...ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, that's why Richard Dawkins won't debate him. Mr. Craig only has logic when it comes to biology, he compartmentalizes his religious beliefs. I don't know how he does that, but I believe most religious people go about life doing it that way. A mind is a terrible thing to waste!Delete
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Imagine attending an event where thousands of the world's education professionals gather to explore the universal themes and unique facets of Montessori. Trainers, teachers, and administrators from nearly every continent will be united to celebrate, learn, and connect on their shared commitment to the work of Dr. Maria Montessori.
World-renowned speakers will present on powerful, groundbreaking topics. Dynamic exhibitions will feature Montessori's revolutionary work, spanning over 100 years. Research presentations will reveal the potential plans for the universal child into the decades yet to come. To cap it all off, a fabulous Gala showcasing the best food, drink and entertainment your hosts can provide.
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At E3 2012 I ran into sport cars, booth babes, celebrities, cosplayers, and 2K's blinding booth (red-lights galore), etc. It was like visual overload, my brain had a hard time processing everything. But one thing that really stood out to me was the giant Finn and Jake blow-up statue at D3 Publisher's booth. It was tucked away in a corner, hidden from most of the show's attendees. I'm a huge Adventure Time fan so a wide smile came across my face as soon as I stumbled across it. That blow-up statue was for Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd you steal our garbage?!!. Jeez, that has to be the longest name for a video game ever. Anyway, here's my review.
The Story – It's a normal morning in the Land of Ooo when suddenly Finn and Jake hear something outside of their house. It's the Ice King and he's stealing their garbage! Now they must go on an epic quest to retrieve their garbage and kick the Ice King's frozen booty. It's random, just like the show.
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Jeff Matthews / NJ Div. of Fish and Wildlife
It was 1980—a turning point for New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries—when construction began for the new Pequest Trout Hatchery and Natural Resource Education Center in the Pequest Valley, Warren County. Here, a huge aquifer was discovered in the early 1950s by the state geologist.
This pristine, high-volume underground water source would make the valley an ideal location for a much-needed new trout-rearing facility. Over time, conditions had become less favorable for trout production at the Hackettstown State Fish Hatchery. Now, the Pequest Valley was destined to become the new center for raising Garden State trout. In the 1950s over four thousand acres were purchased surrounding the aquifer to protect the water quality. The new Pequest hatchery was completed in 1982.
Designed for a yearly production of 600,000 trout with a total weight of three hundred thousand pounds, Pequest would be strongly positioned to supply trout for anglers statewide. Fish and Wildlife secured more than one million trout eggs of three different species from pathogen-free hatcheries. Rainbow trout eggs were brought in from West Virginia; brook and brown trout eggs came from Massachusetts.
From the first hatch, fish were hand-selected to serve as broodstock. To this day, a quality broodstock population is maintained at the hatchery serving as an "in house" egg source. A critical feature to note is that since day one, no other outside fish or eggs have been introduced into the trout production cycle at Pequest. This has been an important aspect in maintaining a pathogen-free trout rearing facility.
Many precautions and procedures have been undertaken to protect against any infection threat to our trout population. Strict access to the culture area is limited to staff only, the nursery building is cleaned and sterilized yearly, along with culture equipment and vehicles. The over-the-road stocking trucks are loaded outside the culture area to prevent any transfer of fish pathogens that may have been encountered while stocking the lakes and rivers in the state. Public viewing areas were built so that hatchery guests can experience and learn about how trout are raised and see them in the raceways without risk of introducing pathogens.
Over the past thirty years Pequest has earned a reputation as one of the finest pathogen-free trout hatcheries in the nation.
A specialized hatchery feed truck distributes pelleted feed four times daily along the
hatchery's 1.5 miles of raceways.
Having a reliable water supply, dedicated employees, using the latest in trout culture technology and following stringent disease-prevention guidelines enables the staff at Pequest to reach production objectives every year.
The production cycle begins early in the fall when hatchery staff will manually strip and fertilize the eggs from adult trout.
The eggs are then placed in incubators for approximately twenty eight to thirty five days. Upon hatching, the young trout are called "sac-fry," so named because the yolk sac remains attached to the abdomen and nourishes the young fish for about two weeks. The sac-fry are moved from the incubators to special tanks located in the nursery building. Once the yolk is absorbed, the young fish swim up from the bottom of the tanks. They are then started on
a high protein diet and fed eight times per day.
Following a three-month growing period inside, the fry—now called fingerlings—are sorted for size and moved outside in the summer to a series of pools known as raceways. The hatchery has 1.5 miles of raceway. Here, a specialized feeding truck distributes pelleted feed four times a day in each one hundred foot section of raceway. After the summer growing period the fish are again sorted for size and left in the raceways where they attain a 10.5-inch average length by early spring.
By mid-March the hatchery trucks are loaded and rolling, stocking quality trout in over two hundred lakes, streams and rivers for the enjoyment of anglers statewide. During the process of spring stocking, excess and older broodstock are liberated along with the regular production stock. These fish range from 15 to 25 inches and average 3 to 8 pounds.
Fish and Wildlife has consistently produced quality brook, brown and rainbow trout as a result of modern technology and a high quality water supply.
There are seven artesian production wells in the Pequest Valley that supply up to seven thousand gallons of water per minute. The continuously flowing waters of Pequest remain at a constant 52 degrees Fahrenheit year round. Clean, moving, cold water is a key factor that is essential to success in a trout-rearing facility.
Along with the hatchery's complex systems maintaining water flow is the demand of electricity to keep the pumps running. The Pequest Valley experiences many power outages a year. During the original construction, one diesel-driven generator and four direct-drive diesels were installed to drive the wells and to keep the water flowing always. A state-of-the art radio telemetry system was installed to monitor and control the operation of each individual well. Water flow, diesel motor operations and well status are all now monitored and operated with smartphones by the supervisory staff, along with desktop computer controls. Variable-speed motors have recently been installed in each of the wells. The old-style pumps ran at a constant speed and valves were used to adjust water flow. The new motors enable staff to control the amount of water being pumped from each well while reducing electrical usage and cost.
In another approach to increase the resourcefulness of Pequest's fish culture activities is the recent incorporation of an additional large fish pump. This pump has the capability of moving and loading fish up to 18 inches long. In conjunction with the older pump still functioning since the early 1980s, staff now utilizes both pumps for sorting operations and loading trucks, making the operation more efficient and less labor intensive.
The Pequest hatchery added additional stocking programs in the early eighties. Fish and Wildlife's fall stocking program began as a way to stock surplus fish from the annual sorting procedures of the production stock. These yearling fish had grown up to eight inches long. After a survey of anglers in the state it was found that they prefer larger, yet fewer, fish. As a result, the fall, winter and sea-run trout stocking programs were woven into the production cycle as an added incentive to anglers.
The fall trout production cycle was changed to raise less fish but to retain them for an additional year of growth. Since 2005, the fall and winter stocking programs boast trout averaging up to sixteen inches in length and weighing 1.5 pounds each. And as an added angler incentive, up to one thousand rainbow trout breeders—measuring up to 25 inches—are liberated during the fall program. Fish and Wildlife offers sportsmen and sportswomen quality, catchable-sized trout throughout the fall and winter months.
After three decades of successful trout production and always exceeding our goals, both our achievements and our funding base are attributed to each of the freshwater anglers who purchase a New Jersey fishing license and trout stamp. The Division of Fish and Wildlife is looking forward to providing you with quality trout for years to come.
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Sporting a bright cherry robe and the delicate fruit of classic Valpolicella, the 1999 I Gadi is a refreshing, hugable wine. Melded into a light to medium format are cherry fruit and the faint scent and flavor of almond that imbues all well made Valpolicellas with a certain charm and dignity, not to mention eminent drinkability. Aside from a few minutes breathing time, the I Gadi Valpolicella needs only to be cool to be fully enjoyed. The I Gadi, like all good Valpolicella, optimally displays its innate charm when slightly chilled (55-60 degrees Fahrenheit).
Light past dishes and unripe cheeses are the culinary complements of choice in Verona to Valpolicella, and who are we to argue with the tried an true? Pasta Primavera, porcini mushroom salads, and truffle infused risottos all make for splendid accompaniments to the 1999 I Gadi Valpolicella Classico. Veal, chicken and a variety of bean based dishes also lend themselves to memorable occasions with this wine, as does grilled fish with a tomato compote. If there were ever a light versatile red, it's Valpolicella, so feel free to indulge yourself at will with a wide variety of foods.
I Gadi Valpolicella is a lovely wine that is born on the last vestiges of the Alps as they slope down to the picture postcard resorts of Lake Garda and the cold flow of the Adige River as it sweeps through the legendary city of Verona. Produced in the "Classico"zone of Valpolicella by the Casa Vinicola Bennati, I Gadi is a real Valpolicella. It is produced from the classic blend of the local Corvina, Rondinella and Molinara grapes in the heart of the Classico district, where the richest, roundest and most elegant Valpolicellas are made. These are wines of finesse and distinction, not the commercial pretenders that many of the huge, better known producers crank out to put out on every store shelf. Sadly, the latter have all too often tainted the reputation of one of Italy's most enjoyable wines. At the Casa Vinicola Bennati, all of the grapes for the I Gadi Valpolicella are hand picked. Fermentation takes place at controlled temperatures and the resulting wine is allowed to rest for at least six months after bottling before being released. Just like the city of Verona itself, real Valpolicella exudes a certain magic, a blithe spirit and a friendly, warm character that travels well in the bottle. Enjoy!
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H&M Fills a Large Gap in the Times Square Retail Profile: Expanding Swedish discount retailer Hennes & Mauritz AB has cut a deal for the three-floor space at 4 Times Square, the latest sign that international fashion brands are willing to pay dearly for high-profile locations in the area.
Brooklyn Loses 'Stepchild' Status: Office space in downtown Brooklyn is bringing businesses from Manhattan to the borough's thriving neighborhoods nearby.
Douglaston Works at Being So Near, So Far: The Queens neighborhood of Douglaston—a onetime vacation community for wealthy residents of Manhattan and Brooklyn—has long been an official part of New York City, but it still feels like a land apart.
The Commish: Microsoft Deal Would Boost Brokerage: Brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle is working on a deal that would be a game changer on a number of levels: Luring Microsoft Inc. to the new development at 11 Times Square.
Europe House of the Day: This three-bedroom apartment occupies the library wing of Bonaly Tower, a historic building close to the center of Edinburgh.


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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
If you're looking for a task that will take you, oh, all week to complete, count how many times the word "quiet" appears in this novel. We didn't have that much time on our hands, but we'll just say that this wonderful word appears a lot. We think this adjective is a pretty big deal because there is so little quiet in this novel. To be plain, Paul's world is a noisy world. And not just the noise of people yelling or airplanes zooming by, but the noise of people dying, of bombs exploding, of shells descending. The soldiers must develop excellent listening skills if they want to survive. They learn to interpret sounds as though they were words of another language.
Paul, our narrator, dies on a quiet day, when not much is going on in terms of war stuff. He endures the noise, and falls on a day when it would be easy to survive. One could say that the quiet kills him, or one could say that he chooses to die surrounded by quiet. The adjective "quiet" is used to describe lots of different things in this novel, but it is almost always associated with peace and calm and with all things that the war is not. Take a look at a few examples of "quiet":
- We see "quiet" is used to describe the enemy. Paul says of the French soldiers across the battleground, "But who can draw such a distinction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles' beards" (8.22). In Paul's mind, even the enemy wants a similar kind of quiet.
- "Quiet" is used to describe that which Paul longs for: "I feel excited; but I do not want to be, for that is not right. I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books" (7.183). Reading involves being in one's head and filling it with thoughts. Paul perhaps cannot poke around too much in his mind for fear of what he might find there, especially in light of all he has witnessed. Quiet in this moment seems associated with innocence.
- "Quiet" is also used to describe Paul's definition of the meaning of life: "I often sit with one of them in the little beer-garden and try to explain to him that this is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this" (7.175). Even with only twenty years under his belt, Paul doesn't have any fancy dreams, hopes, or wishes. He learns that life is about being quiet and about appreciating its simplicity.
"Quiet" is often used in this novel to juxtapose the sounds of peacetime and war. Paul describes the quiet of his memories:
They are quiet in this way, because quietness is so unattainable for us now. At the front there is no quietness and the curse of the front reaches so far that we never pass beyond it. Even in the remote depots and rest-areas the droning and the muffled noise of shelling is always in our ears. We are never so far off that it is no more to be heard. (7.99)
Once he joins the war, Paul's life becomes an endless stream of sound.


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Although it's largely a formality, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced over the weekend he'd signed legislation that restores full funding for the state's Office of People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD).
That legislation, co-sponsored by state Sen. Tom O'Mara, R-Big Flats, headed off a proposed $90 million reduction in funding for the agency, which coordinates services to more than 126,000 New Yorkers with developmental disabilities including intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, and other neurological impairments.
Most services through OPWDD are provided through nonprofit service providers. The agency works with 700 nonprofits throughout the state, including Arc of Steuben, AIM Independent Living Center, Pathways Inc. and others.
Arc of Steuben Chief Operations Officer Donna White said the organization had worked to plan around possibly reduced funding earlier in the year, but since a deal to restore the money was announced, they've been operating under the assumption of full funding.
Still, she said those working to help people with disabilities can't be complacent.
"I think there's still a lot of advocacy that needs to be done on behalf of parents and people (who) receive services," White said.
O'Mara said in a statement that he has worked to restore the OPWDD funding since the cuts were first included in the state budget in March.
"We never gave up on removing this threat to the programs and services that are the lifelines for people with disabilities and their families," he said.
Cuomo had initially agreed to restore $30 million of a proposed $120 million cut to the agency's budget. The legislation signed last week restores the additional $90 million.
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The first episode of Season 2 of NBC's Life premiered last night. The dysfunctional cop drama stars Sarah
In the spirit of Snarker's post Lesbian
Episode 2.1 "Find Your Happy Place"
Captain Tidwell: Find out who's suffocating people in trunks.
Now it's your turn — give us your take in three lines or less! The funnier and more random the better.
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West Ham United Message Board
Villa v Hammers
Don't forget lads same as before book waiting (very good of my local library) this one Geoff Hurst my autobiography 1966 and all that updated 40th anniversary edition brand new .you know the format score + attendance ,its just a bit of crack manSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Bob, Roker needs an address for the Hurst book if not he will send it to John in Glasgee..then on to Soppy for Xmas
Mike...It was 1985...I remember it well cause that was the year that leeds pushed the wall over, killing a 14year old boy, 11th May 1985, same day as the Bradford City stadium fire. I know the date cos in my current job we get shown the video regularly for training and evacuation purposes.
The West Ham game when you lot invaded the pitch was the week after if i remember right, and you needed a result to stay up. Maybe i'm wrong on that but it was22years ago, but it all was about the same time.
Perhaps it was you that gave me the thick lip !!
Yea, silly day's but that was what we did
Soppy me old mate,
I remember the time you tried to stop the game at St Andrews. You lot were in the paddocks up to the centre tunnel if I remember right,
I was in the Railway End, (the end your lot tried to storm, we, well about 50 of us, got up onto the gravel track and few lads had a knock with yer until the O/B got in and pushed you all back. Happy day's !!
The book's mine, mine I tells yer: har har har har (and more manical laughter).
Soppy give me an attendance figure, bonny lad
A Yahoo! User Oct 6, 2007 01:31 Flag
Despite all our injuries, i'm going for 2 - 2.
Attendance 38,050
1-1 for me attendence 36-988!
Huggy Bear Huggy Bear Oct 6, 2007 00:22 Flag
It's those wonderful accents - drove us back!
A Yahoo! User Oct 6, 2007 00:16 Flag
Geoff Hurst biography Soppy
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File #025,026,027
Present: Procurement Officer, Office Assistant II, Andy Busbee representing Business Equipment Solutions, Shawn Crabtree representing Harris Business Machines, Chuck Mitchell representing Imagistics International, and Sean O'Shea representing Imagistics International. The meeting took place at 10:00 a.m.
The purpose of the meeting was to open bids for the Sale of Property-2 Acres, a Sport Utility Vehicle, and a Copier-55 Page Digital. Bids were received from the following:
1. Fraley Deli Provisions $42,500.00 total for 2 acres
Sport Utility Vehicle:
1. Orville Beckford Ford $18,679.00
2. Proctor GMC Truck $22,147.00
Copier-55 Page Digital:
1. Imagistics International, Inc. $ 7,806.00
2. Frank R. Wade Office Equipment, Inc. $ 9,564.00
4. Business Equipment Solutions, Corp. $11,147.00
5. Ikon Office Solutions, Inc. $12,699.84
6. Lanier Worldwide, Inc. $12,773.00
7. Harris Business Machines $13,110.00
8. KMS Business Products Corp. $19,545.00
9. Cummins-Allison Corp. No-Bid


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DDW Receives Food Quality Certification
D.D. Williamson's six caramel color operations, located on five continents, are now officially certified by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). GFSI is widely considered to be the "gold standard" for international food safety. DDW has achieved its goal of GFSI certification at all caramel color production facilities, placing the company at the leading edge of advanced food safety practices.
GFSI is a non-profit benchmarking organization that seeks to continuously improve food production and manufacturing systems to ensure the global supply chain is safe for consumers. In most cases, the level of food safety attained through GFSI far surpasses the requirements of international, federal and state standards.
"We are proud to say that each caramel color operation achieved an 'A' ranking," says Ted Nixon, Chairman & CEO.
DDW's certified subsidiaries are located in Louisville, Ky.; Manchester, UK; Co. Cork, Ireland; Manaus, Brazil; Matsapha, Swaziland, and Shanghai, China.


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A mayor forces himself out: Our unique public spectacle
For six weeks, San Diego has been captivated by the saga of a mayor under siege. You could almost feel the relief as the City Council approved the deal under which he would resign with the city picking up the tab for the legal bills stemming from his behavior.
At least, that part of all this is over.
What do you think about the mayor's resignation and the settlement? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


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Laura Hinkelman
Research Scientist, University of Washington
Contact Information:
Phone: 206-897-1722
Dr. Hinkelman is a research scientist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean of the University of Washington. Her research interests include the Earth's energy budget, long-term trends in surface insolation, and the effect of clouds on atmospheric radiative transfer. Dr. Hinkelman has worked extensively with ground-based measurements and satellite retrievals of solar fluxes as well as Monte Carlo radiative transfer computations. Her current projects focus on evaluating and applying measured radiation data.


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The electric utility companies across Missouri are bombarding us through all types of media with propaganda about the 'antique' process through which they are regulated by the Public Service Commission (PSC) and are supporting proposed legislation in Jefferson City to "modernize" the process. (HB398 & SB207)
They have devised a plan through which they would be allowed to charge their customers in advance for capital improvements they may make in the future without impacting dividends paid to the shareholders in the companies. The improvements will then be added to their operating cost base so they can increase their rates even more.
Summit Natural Gas Corp. is currently spending millions of dollars to provide natural gas throughout the Lake of the Ozarks area of Missouri. They have taken a calculated business risk in borrowing the money to design the system and install the gas lines. Their investment will be recovered through rates regulated by the PSC like all other utilities. This is the way free enterprise is supposed to work, not putting the burden on consumers in advance of providing a service.
One of the considerations of the PSC is to make sure the companies receive a fair return on their investment. Let's keep it that way. Call your Senator and Representative and tell them that we should not have to provide financing capital unless we get some of the dividends like the shareholders do.
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A citizens group is doing its best to help workers who are in the middle of a labor dispute.
Members of Neighbors For Clean Air Thursday night presented United Steelworkers Union workers with food items it's been collecting all week.
The workers are involved in a work stoppage at the Eramet plant on Ohio Route even, that's nearly a month old.
"Their families are going to start feeling the pinch of not getting paychecks regularly," says group member Caroline Beidler. "I know if I wasn't getting paychecks regularly, I would start to feel the pinch, and I would need a little bit of support. Some people are a little more creative and can spread it a little further. We hope we can make a little bit of a dent for them."
Beidler says that, through donations, the group collected an impressive amount of non-perishable food items in just a few days.


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A bill that would make the death sentence mandatory for gay "repeat offenders" has been reintroduced in the Ugandan parliament, a move likely to draw fresh condemnation from western aid donors.
Well, yes. The death penalty for a victimless crime is utterly obscene and quite frankly such a government does not deserve aid. And no, we shouldn't be building bridges in the 'stan either. We should have gone in hard and fast, snagged the baddies and burnt the bodies and then fucked off and let them wallow in their own crapulence. We should not be taking tea with twinkly tribal elders with beards you could lose a medium-sized mammal in who don't want anything to ever change. I saw on the tellybox a couple of years ago a junior US Army officer (a Lt or Captain of engineers) eating his own teeth in frustration after a meeting with such. Yes they did want the primary school rebuilt, but only for boys and only to teach what they "needed to know" – the recitation of the Qu'ran. The US Army officer also noted (after the meeting – he was offering work for young fellas from the village) there weren't many young fellas about. Guess what they were up to? Yes, they'd gone a Talibanning! He looked about an inch away from calling in an air-strike on general principles. "This is PBR Streetgang…"
Much like a similar twinkly elder with a similar beard in Pakistan who said in a twinkly manner following the influx of foreign aid-workers rebuilding his local primary school after a terrible earthquake, "Just the Qu'ran and just for boys or we'll kill them and burn the school down." You know I felt extremely sorry for the poor folks in Pakistan following that terrible natural disaster but after I heard that old git I began thinking awful things like, "Well if that's their view then fuck 'em". This elderly chap specifically noted that not even the lads needed to know mathematics or science – just the Qu'ran. Which is why his village (what was left of it) looked like a goat-fucker's paradise with a level of infrastructure that my iron age forebears would have been embarrassed about. I mean there was fuck all there and they didn't want anything else. So bugger them, frankly.
At this point I need to make another comment. This is deeply ironic. The UK military is (due to defence cuts) cutting the number of Gurkhas. We are doing this whilst overseas aid (including Nepal) is ring-fenced so our overall spend on Nepal is the same but we have fewer of those ineffably hard bastards dis-ordering Mrs Kirchner's pantyhose. Moreover guess what the single most effective means of overseas aid is? It isn't government and it isn't charities. It is very simple and if you have lived in a major British city over the last 20 years you shall know it. It is folks coming over here, getting a job and wiring money to their rellies. It is effective because after Western Union (or whatever) take their modest cut it's all gravy and it's wonderfully targeted. The same applies of course with the Gurkhas. Time to get out Ms Lumley again! I mean if we give money to Uganda they'll only spend it on rope to hang queers and the rest they'll waste. Children will die of diseases that just don't happen here but some high-roller will get a swimming pool and a third car with a three-pointed star on the hood. You doubt me? I have a phrase to counter that, "gap year". Very popular with the upper middle-classes here in a sort of white-man's burden way (and yes it's just as fucking patronising) because it elicits the same responses, "But how could you cope with seeing the poverty…" Seeing poverty is easy. Being poverty isn't. Did you know Addis Ababa is a par-tay town due to the number of posh kids doing something for their CV? Does fuck all for the lokes. And if the posh kids are environmentalists who object to electricity on principle via their iPads then they are making matters worse. The great famine in the '80s was largely due to deforestation for cooking and heating. I mean when you, dear reader, want a pie do you have to chop a tree down? No, thought not.
I was oddly enough conceived in Zambia (not a million miles from Uganda). My parents were teaching for the FCO. They lived in Luanshya in the copper-belt. It wasn't a bad town but that was entirely due to the mine that built schools (do you want the illiterate shot-firing?) and hospitals and even ran a small farm which was the only source of fresh fruit and vegetables other than imports from Rhodesia. Nowadays Zambia exports fruit and veg to Zimbabwe – so complete is the devastation Comrade Bob has wrought. I guess invoicing is an issue – the average Zambian wholesaler has to leave space for an unspecified number of additional zeroes. Uganda was a hell-hole then due to Idi Amin (King of Scotland). My parents went there (wonderful game parks and such) but the cost of admission was a case of Marlboro and a bottle of Scotch and a number of USD to the "Border Guard Benevolent Fund". My parents also had another aim in mind. The Zambians (who had a space program – they did) employed a whole load of teachers from all over. Many were Indian and had relatives in Uganda so my parents took in the lions and leopards and also ran valuables out of Field Marshall Amin's wonderland. Now I'm not saying my parents were secret squirrels as such because it is easy to secrete gold and diamonds around a Ford Cortina 1600E if the border guards are (a) already pissed (b) ripped to their tits on cannabis and (c) you have 200 ciggies Americano and a bottle of Johhnie Walker for 'em. Of course if you actually had cannabis on you you were for the high-jump despite the fact your arresting officer almost certainly had a spliff on the go at the time. Attempting to cross that border without your "passport" of booze (and it had to be pukka Scotch) and ciggies (Camels or B&H would do at a push) would lead to the fella having jump leads from a filched car-battery applied to the scrotum and "his" (for that is how they thought*) wife being "enjoyed" repeatedly.
But that was then… How much has changed? Well, Zambia is doing better (due largely to the hike in Copper prices because the likes of me keep buying electrical thingies, Zimbabwe has starving billionaires and in the "Rainbow Nation" of the RSA they are raping lesbians to "cure" them. Well, at least they aren't eating each other anymore. Yes, my Dad does have a clipping from the Times of Zambia about an outbreak of cannibalism in a remote province. Guess what the headline was? If you thought, "Gobblers Strike Again!" you'd be right. Apparently this was an isolated outbreak of that sort of Tom and Jerryism which had spread from Congo where it was (probably still is) rife. Forty years ago the Congo was the Heart of Darkness. Still is and indeed was when the Belgians were behaving like epic cunts there. The Belgian Empire – for fuck's sake! Anyway my Dad had a pal who'd been into Congo and got out by the skin of his teeth. He'd seen a market-place there where slaughtered nuns were on sale. On hooks.
I guess what I'm saying is that governmental foreign aid doesn't work. Foreign people coming over here and wiring money home does work. Because if they just got a text from their uncle back in the old country and he needs to rebuild the hen coop or fix-up his scooter or whatever then that is what the money shall be spent on. It will not be spent on greasing already greasy palms or on grand-a-night hookers or half-arsed attempts to sell India Typhoon jets – God knows what The Sarcophagus did to clinch that. But don't believe me. Believe a lad I temped with about ten years ago. Tunde was from Nigeria. This is almost an exact quote, "I love Nigeria – my friends and family are there and I love the music and the food but I want a proper job (he was doing an MSc in Computer Science at Sunderland University) and I can get that here – back in Nigeria nothing can be done without bribes, nothing". I can imagine how wearing that was to a decent, productive soul like Tunde.
I should perhaps leave the final word to Tunde but I can't help but add this gem…
This is a Communist-era Georgian (Think Tblisi, not Atlanta) curse…
"May you have to live on your salary".
*That is not a reflection of the general populace. Just the sort of cunts who think, "Border guard – that's the job for me!". It's pretty universal. The difference is whilst the US's TSA are arseholes of the first water they are still under the rule of law and the Constitution and such whereas this mob was under the diktat of Idi Amin. Big difference.


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Mountain / Piedmont Acidic Woodlands
Coniferous , mixed, or less commonly deciduous woodlands of xeric, edaphically stressful habitats constitute this ecological group. These woodlands are uncommon but are found in the Piedmont of the southeastern United States, as well as in the southern Appalachians and westward in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. Stands are scattered throughout the Virginia mountains and inner Piedmont, occupying somewhat heterogeneous habitats that are characterized by rock outcrops and shallow, drought-prone, highly oligotrophic soils. Included are outcrops and pavements of sandstone and other acidic rocks in the northern Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley and Cumberland Mountains; xeric, low-elevation terrain formed on massive alluvial fans along the western foot of the Blue Ridge; and massive bedrock terraces flanking the Potomac River in the fall zone west of Washington, D.C.
Most expressions of the group in Virginia could be characterized as pine-oak woodlands. Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana), pitch pine (Pinus rigida), and shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) are each co-dominant in one or more classified types. Chestnut oak (Quercus montana, = Quercus prinus), post oak (Quercus stellata), and blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica var. marilandica) are representative oak components. In some cases, Montane Acidic Woodlands are floristically similar to Pine-Oak/Heath Woodlands, but are maintained primarily by drought stresses associated with outcrop environments or extremely dry soils rather than by fire. They also tend to have a sparser representation of heath shrubs and a more diverse herb layer, with a larger component of graminoids such as little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium), Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica), poverty oatgrass (Danthonia spicata), and starved panic grass (Dichanthelium depauperatum). Most of the community types in this group are considered state- or globally rare, but their relationships to vegetation on a regional scale needs further investigation.
References: Fleming (2007), Fleming et al. (2007).
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Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), and wavy hairgrass (Avenella flexuosa) in an acidic woodland opening at Miller's Head, Page County (Shenandoah National Park). This is the only known Virginia site for the creeping ericad bearberry, a boreal disjunct. Gary P. Fleming / © DCR Natural Heritage.
Virginia Pine (Pinus virginiana), blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica var. marilandica), and Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica) in a Central Appalachian xeric sandstone woodland. James River Face Wilderness, Rockbridge County (George Washington and Jefferson National Forests). Photo: Tom Rawinski.
Sparse woodland of Virginia Pine (Pinus virginiana) and lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium pallidum) on xeric rimrock of bedrock terraces along the Potomac River downstream from Great Falls, Fairfax County. Periodic catastrophic floods scour these terraces and tend to eliminate or reduce hardwood competitors. Photo: Karen D. Patterson / © DCR Natural Heritage.


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Cleanup continues seven weeks after Aliceville train wreck
Petroleum found in surrounding water
Published: Thursday, December 26, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, December 26, 2013 at 11:50 p.m.
ALICEVILLE | Environmental workers are still cleaning up the site where a train carrying crude oil derailed and burned in West Alabama, and it's still unclear how petroleum escaped into surrounding waters seven weeks later, a regulatory agency said.
A spokesman for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, Jerome Hand, said the cleanup is continuing nearly two months after the crash occurred on a rural stretch of track near Aliceville.
But, Hand said, officials have yet to determine how much oil was spilled into nearby wetlands. The agency said coming up with a number is difficult because some crude spilled, some remained in tankers and an untold amount burned in a huge fire that engulfed the wreckage.
An environmentalist said he believes the agency knows more about the accident and resulting damage than it will admit publicly.
"It's all by design to protect the industry from even being held truly accountable for the full amount of impact," said John Wathen of Hurricane Creekkeeper, a waterway protection group.
A train of 90 tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed near Aliceville on Nov. 8, catching fire and spilling crude oil. The area is near wetlands and a creek that flows into the Tombigbee River.
The train was carrying about 2.7 million gallons of crude based on railroad figures, and aerial photos showed what appeared to be oil in nearby waters after the crash, but the state has said only a few thousand gallons of oily water were recovered.
Wathen, who has visited the wreck site and taken aerial photos, said it shouldn't be difficult to determine how much crude oil was lost into the environment during the accident since companies know how much oil the train was carrying.
"They know how much was recovered. Subtract one from the other and you have a figure," he said. "To me it doesn't matter how much burned or was left in the water."
The Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming railroad company said the derailment happened near a 60-foot-long, 10-foot-high wood trestle, which was underneath the derailed cars.
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Welcome to Focus Technology Group
Focus Technology Group comprises Focus Microwaves Inc., MESURO Ltd and AURIGA PIV Tech Inc.
They are all Engineering and Manufacturing Corporations in Montreal, Cardiff/UK and Merrimack/NH, USA
specializing in automatic measurement systems, using our
a) precise electro-mechanical impedance tuner families,
b) active tuning and nolinear modeling technology,
c) high precision (up to 1200V) DC pulsing systems,
d) system integration accessories (incl. tuner positioners and probe stations), and
e) test, graphics and model generation software for most applications.
We also have Sales and Local Support offices in Munich (Focus Europe) and Beijing (Focus China).
Since 1988, Focus Microwaves innovates, manufactures, installs and supports automatic noise and load pull measurement systems, using our high precision impedance tuners from 10MHz to 140GHz.
Since January 2015 Focus Microwaves owns the shares, IP, active load pull and modelling technology of MESURO.LTD in Cardiff/UK.
Since February 2015 Focus Microwaves owns the Pulsed IV and Bias Tee product lines of AURIGA Microwave, of Boston MA/USA.
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Reality in flames explores Australian modernist artists' response to the Second World War.
From 3 July 2015.
New permanent exhibition in the First World War Galleries.
Discover the extraordinary efforts of Australians in Afghanistan through the words of our veterans and their families.
William Edwin Pidgeon was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator, and newspaper critic. This exhibition presents a selection of the over 400 works by William Pidgeon held in the Memorial's Art collection , relating to Pidgeon's Second World War experiences in Darwin, New Guinea, Borneo and Morotai between 1943 to 1945.
On display in the Second World War Galleries from 6 March 2015.
Travelling exhibitions
Behind the front lines of the Somme, Vignacourt was a staging point, casualty clearing station and recreation area for troops. Captured on glass, printed into postcards and posted home, these photographs enabled Australian soldiers to maintain a fragile link with loved ones in Australia.
Western Australian Museum, Albany
12 September - 29 November 2015
After spending over three weeks during October 2011 talking to Australian servicemen and women in Afghanistan, Ben Quilty felt an overwhelming need to tell their stories.
Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum
16 January to 15 April 2016
In 2014–15 the Memorial will tour a small travelling exhibition that showcases photographs of Anzac drawn from an extraordinary private collection assembled during the Gallipoli campaign.


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I was able to connect my Mac, running OS 9, to our Novell LAN, using
the Mac netware client without issue. However, I'm unable to connect
now that my PowerBook is running OS X 10.2.8. I have the OS X version
of the netware client (from Prosoft engineering, I think), and it kind
of acts like it's trying to connect, but nothing happens, and it only
shows few or none of the local trees. Any ideas?
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Q: During a recent panel discussion, an educator raised a question about a new contract his school is preparing that seeks to claim ownership of intellectual property developed by teachers as part of a school curriculum. If a teacher creates content, who owns it, the school or the teacher? For example, can the school syndicate an online program created by a teacher?
A: As someone who may regularly endeavor to create lesson plans or course outlines for an employer, such as a school or university, it is important to keep in mind some basic rules of copyright law. Ordinarily, someone who creates a copyrightable work is the copyright owner. However, under the work-for-hire exception, the copyright will be owned by the employer if the work was created by an employee within the scope of his or her employment. This can be a tricky issue because it is not always clear what activities fall within the scope of employment.
Teachers and professors would certainly be considered employees of their academic institution, making their creative works potentially subject to the work-for-hire exception. While the issue is evolving in the courts, there have been some decisions that distinguish among the kinds of works that fall within the scope of employment. Quizzes, tests, lesson plans and course outlines are some examples of creative works that fall within the work-for-hire exception. The idea being that it is a necessary component of a teacher's or professor's employment to create these types of works, therefore their employer, the university or school, would be the copyright owner. On the other hand, scholarly articles published in peer-reviewed publications may not be subject to the work-for-hire exception, because they are more incidental to the job description of a teacher or professor. Similarly, if an instructor is teaching a creative course, such as art, illustration or photography classes, the instructor would own any artwork created during the course of the employment.
This brings us to the final issue: contracts. Ownership of intellectual property is governed more and more by contract, and it is essential to read all contracts carefully prior to signing. Educational institutions are attempting to own by contract more of the intellectual property rights of the faculty than previously. Even if you create a copyrightable work outside the scope of your employment, your employer may still be the copyright owner, depending on what your employment contract says. If a college employer is offering the teacher a stipend to make online courses that parallel the courses the teacher already teaches, it is likely that the college expects to own the intellectual property and the course. If you do not elect to continue to teach the course, some institutions may offer payment for your course adaptation for an additional stipend, for a limited number of years. There may even be language in the college agreement relating to sharing in the proceeds if a course achieves commercial value. Because the law can be unclear as to what is covered under work-for-hire, if you are an employee, you should carefully review and negotiate the intellectual property clause in any teaching agreement.
Nancy E. Wolff is a partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP. Her practice focuses on intellectual property and digital media law.
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Principle Contractor: JM Industrial Supply, Incorporated / River City Construction LLC Joint Venture
Department: Army
Contract Details: JM Industrial Supply, Inc./River City Construction, LLC, JV, East Peoria, Ill., was awarded on June 21 a $9,132,300 firm-fixed-price contract to construct a C-130 Squadron operations facility. Work is to be performed in Peoria, Ill., with an estimated completion date of Nov. 30, 2011. Bids were solicited on the World Wide Web with nine bids received. National Guard Bureau, U.S. Property & Fiscal Office, Peoria, Ill., is the contracting activity (W912SMC-10-C-0005).
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Enjoy our picture slideshow looking back at Farsley Celtic's memorable FA Cup 1st Round tie against Tranmere Rovers at Elland Road in November 1974.
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Farsley Celtic (0) 0
Tranmere Rovers (1) 2
(Coppell 10, Tynan 88)
Date: November 23, 1974
Farsley Celtic: Gibson, Newall, Wilyman, Fieldhouse, Hird, Steele, Carvill, Waudby, Carr, Metcalfe, Ingham. Sub: Fenton.
Tranmere Rovers: Johnson, Parry, Flood, Moore, Philpotts, Palios, Coppell, Tynan, Young, Veitch, Crossley. Sub: Allen.
Attendance: 10,337.
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Brave Farsley Bow Out
Ray Crabtree, of the Yorkshire Evening Post, wrote:
"After conceding an early goal, amateurs Farsley Celtic put up a tremendous fight against Third Division Tranmere Rovers in their FA Cup first-round tie at Elland Road.
After all the rain, the pitch was surprisingly firm and Celtic received a tremendous ovation.
Tranmere kicked off towards the Gelderd Road end but their first attack was quickly broken up.
In a swift Farsley reply, Carvill and Metcalfe combined well before Metcalfe's return pass was just too long.
Gibson had no difficulty dealing with an optimistic shot from Palios and when Tranmere pressed on the right a neat back pass by Hird to Gibson ended any danger.
Ingham was brought down heavily by Parry and the visitors' full-back got a strict lecture.
Waudby's fine sliding tackle on Tynan halted Tranmere's next thrust and when the Cheshire side broke through Coppell. Hird's strong tackle halted them.
Tranmere, however, took the lead in the 10th minute, when Flood drove Crossley's corner into the goalmouth and Coppell, unmarked at the near post, flicked the ball home.
Two more corners in quick succession kept Farsley under pressure but they came away with some neat football.
Palios and Crossley threatened with a clever move down the left but Hird intervened and sent Metcalfe away but the move broke down and Farsley generally were having difficulty, escaping the tight marking Tranmere defence.
Stringing their passes together better. Farsley came more into the game and Steele's bold tackle set up their best attack so far.
Ingham forced a corner on the right and the ball ran to Fieldhouse who failed to make the most of a half chance.
Nevertheless it was promising stuff from the Yorkshire League side and Hird's diving header from a Carvill free-kick spelled out danger for Tranmere by Johnson was alive to the situation.
Tranmere, forced into a series of long back passes were certainly not the composed outfit of the first quarter, in the face of mounting Farsley pressure.
Waudby, constantly in the picture, was working hard in midfield and from one of his passes Wilyman made good progress down the left but put the ball behind.
A quick break, involving Newall, Carvill and Metcalfe illustrated Farsley's growing confidence.
Fieldhouse was penalised for a seemingly good tackle on Young but Crossley shot wide from just outside the box.
Half time: Farsley Celtic 0 Tranmere Rovers 1.
On the resumption Waudby, Farsley's driving force in the first half, was soon in action but his shot from the corner of the 18yd box was cleared by Moore.
Coppell beat Newall in a jinking run and in the next Tranmere attack Fieldhouse was happy to give away a corner.
Tranmere began to assert more pressure but Fieldhouse and Hird tackling tenaciously denied them a second goal.
Steele was the next to apply the brake as Coppell darted through. Then Crossley, completely unmarked, headed over from 15 yards and Farsley breathed again.
Farlsey were certainly standing up well as Tranmere mounted a series of menacing raids.
Fenton replaced Fieldhouse for Farsley.
Tranmere full-backs Parry and Flood, were keeping a tight hold on Farsley dangermen Carvill and Ingham but as the half progressed once again Farsley began to look very lively.
Veitch was booked for a late tackle on Ingham. Then Wilyman burst onto the scene with a strong run but Fenton's shot was charged down.
Urged on by their fans, Farsley pressed again but as the game went into its last quarter Tranmere quickspotting again defence had the last word.
Tynan got a second goal for Tranmere two minutes from time.
Result: Farsley Celtic 0 Tranmere Rovers 2.


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original author: Melissa Jorgenson, former student
revised by: Cindy S. Spillers, current web master
In general, treating stuttering behaviors involves changing the time and tension domains of talking. For time, the person slows down her/his rate of speaking to give the articulators time to move from one place to the next. For tension the person learns easier, smoother ways to move the articulators. The methods for changing time and tension vary with the client's age, awareness level, individual needs, and treatment program.
Following is a discussion of some of the speech therapy approaches to treating stuttering. This discussion is divided into treating early stuttering in young children, treating stuttering in older children, and treating advanced stuttering in adolescents and adults. Three important ideas need to be kept in mind: 1) therapy is not appropriate for every person who stutters; 2) no one therapy approach works for every person who stutters; 3) no treatment approach offers a quick fix; treating stuttering takes time.
Treating Early Stuttering in Young Children
Not all young children who have dysfluencies in their speech stutter. Children normally repeat words and phrases as they learn how to use a very complicated language. Stuttering often shows warning signs, of which parents should be aware. (See Onset and Development for information on the warning signs of stuttering.) Once parents notice signs of early stuttering or once they have concerns about their child, the child should be evaluated by a certified speech-language pathologist. Therapy for stuttering usually begins following this assessment and a diagnosis of a fluency disorder. As with any disorder or illness, early intervention holds the most promise for successful management of the problem.
One of the goals of treating stuttering in preschool aged children
is to reduce the demands for fluent speech and give the child's
capacities a chance to catch up. This therapy is best carried
out through modeling and demonstration by family members and is
often called "indirect intervention." Children are more
likely to slow down and smooth out their own speech when those
around them speak slowly and smoothly. Simply telling young children
to slow down usually does not help for two reasons: First it sends
the stuttering children the message that something is wrong with
the way they talk and that their talking is not acceptable. Secondly,
unless the environment changes pace to accommodate a slower talking
child, the child will be penalized for following the advice to
slow down. The other fast talkers will make it impossible for
the slower talking child to survive in the conversation.
In addition to teaching and encouraging family members to use a slower and smoother rate of speech with the child, the speech-language pathologist (SLP) may make some suggestions similar to those found in the Do's and Don'ts section of this site. It is important to remember that the behaviors and circumstances which SLPs suggest families change don't cause stuttering. We don't know what causes stuttering yet; we do know that some behaviors and circumstances will make stuttering worse once it begins, and these are the things that SLPs recommend families try to change.
One area of controversy in the treatment of early stuttering in pre-school aged children involves the dilemma of whether to call the child's attention to the stuttering. Many clinicians believe that young children rarely are aware or concerned about the stuttering behavior and calling attention to it is unnecessary and may make the stuttering worse. Other clinicians believe that children usually are aware that they have difficulty talking, although they may not show any concern about their difficulty. By not talking about the stuttering, family members and SLPs may unwittingly participate in a conspiracy of silence that can permeate the child's life with stuttering later on. Parents need to decide if they should talk to their children about stuttering, and if so, how to bring up the subject. In general, open communication about stuttering helps to relieve children of some of their unexpressed anxiety and reassures them that mom and dad are aware of their struggles and are willing to help. As Mr. Rogers says, "if it's mentionable, it's manageable."
Treating stuttering in school aged children
With older children the parents and SLP can talk more directly about what happens when the child gets stuck on words and the child can learn specific strategies for smoothing out the bumps in her/his speech. School aged children can take responsibility for learning to talk smoother and slower. They can also handle the freedom of deciding for themselves when they want to control their stuttering and when they don't. In order to get to this level of freedom and responsibility, children need to accept their stuttering and break the cycle of fear and avoidance. This is much easier said than done. Family support and acceptance of the child and her/his stuttering goes a long way toward helping the child to accept her/himself and to accept her/his own stuttering.
SLPs may introduce a variety of strategies to children to help them smooth out their speech and control their stuttering. These strategies become tools that the child can use in everyday life situations. Some common strategies include easy onset, in which the child starts a word gently and slowly, and bouncing, in which the child takes a tense, hard repetition and makes it easier and more rhythmic, like bouncing a ball. Slowing down the overall rate of speech also helps children who stutter by relieving the pressure to talk fast.
When fears and anxieties have built up in a child they must be addressed in therapy along with the speech behaviors. In particular, a child's strong desire to avoid stuttering and listener penalty must be addressed so that the child can overcome the strong temptation to avoid. If an attitude of avoidance and fear of stuttering persists, then any tools the child learns to help manage the stuttering become strategies for avoiding. Strategies for avoiding are secondary behaviors and eventually become part of the stuttering.
Therapy approaches for treating stuttering in school aged children, adolescents, and adults generally fall into two categories: stutering modification (stutter-more-fluently) or fluency shaping (speak-more-fluently). Stuttering modification therapies focus on changing individual moments of stuttering to make them smoother, shorter, less tense and hard, and less penalizing. Stuttering modification approaches do not strive to make a stutterer fluent but rather, to stutter with control. Stuttering modification therapies tend to recognize the fear and avoidance that builds up surrounding the stuttering and consequently spend a great deal of time helping people who stutter to work through those emotions.
The fluency shaping therapies focus on changing all speech of the stutterer, not just the moments of stuttering. These therapies have a more global approach because they teach the person to slow down and smooth out all of their words. Proponents of fluency shaping therapies believe that the outcome of therapy depends directly on the focus of therapy: if clinician and client focus on changing stuttering, they'll get stuttering; if they focus on changing fluency, they'll get fluency. As a rule the fluency shaping therapies do not address attitudes, feelings, and self-concept issues under the assumption that, since these components are directly related to the stuttering, eliminating the stuttering will eliminate these negative emotions. Many clinicians have encorporate such topics into their therapy plans anyway after encountering stutterers for whom these elements did not change. The details of both stuttering modification and fluency shaping therapy categories are discussed below.
Treating stuttering in adolescents and adults
Once a person who stutters reaches adolescence or adulthood the stuttering behaviors have become entrenched, as have the fear, avoidance, guilt, shame, and embarrassment. Many adolescents and adults who stutter view their stuttering as a major personal problem and stuttering interferes with many aspects of their lives. Many SLPs believe that successful stuttering therapy must help the person address these emotional and self-concept issues otherwise the new found improved fluency will be short lived. Just as we can't put new wine into old wineskins, we can't put new speaking behavior into an old self-concept. The person who develops new fluency skills but continues to avoid ordering in restaurants or talking on the telephone, limits her/his ability to use the new fluency skills and make them part of her/his speech habits. Furthermore, giving in to those old fears prevents the person from gaining control over the fears and over the stuttering. The fears, anxieties, and self-concept issues constitute the most difficult aspects of successful stuttering therapy.
Stuttering Modification
The classis stuttering modification therapy approach was developed by the late Charles Van Riper in the middle of the 20th century. Since then many clinicians have improvised on Van Riper's basic stages and strategies. The stages of Van Riper's therapy can be summed up in the acronymn MIDVAS:
Motivation - the person who stutters needs to assess her/his motivation for seeking therapy and the SLP needs to help the person build and maintain the motivation necessary for successfully changing speech behaviors and attitudes. Facing one's weaknesses squarely enough and long enough to change them is not easy for humans to do. Therapy for stuttering is not something to enter into lightly; it takes a large investment of time, physical energy, emotional energy, and money. Motivation gets addressed throughout therapy.
Identification - in the identification stage the client and clinician identify all of the behaviors, feelings, and attitudes that go along with the person's stuttering. This is like picking the stuttering apart. They identify the core stuttering behaviors, any secondary behaviors, physiological components, such as changes in heart rate, feelings of fear, anxiety, shame, guilt and hostitility, and avoidances. Identification can be very difficult for people who stutter because it exposes their shame and feelings of inadequacy. Motivation can take it's first dip in this stage.
Desensitization - after the emotionally draining work of identification, the person who stutters moves into the desensitization stage. Van Riper designed this stage to help drain away the negative emotions, the fears, and the anxieties associated with the act of stuttering. These negative emotions give stuttering its power over the individual. In order for the individual to have control over the stuttering, s/he must drain away these emotions from the act of stuttering so that stuttering becomes a neutral event, sort of a "no big deal." The most common strategy used in the desensitization phase is called voluntary stuttering, in which the person stutters on purpose. By choosing when and how to stutter, the individual begins to gain control over the stuttering and the fear and anxiety begin to diminish.
Variation - once some of the negative emotions have drained away from the act of stuttering the individual is able to change how s/he stutters and change her/his reactions to the stuttering. Actual work on changing stuttering behaviors does not happen until the fourth stage of therapy because much ground work needs to get done first. Many people who stutter find the initial ground work more difficulty than they had bargained for and drop out of therapy before reaching this stage. Much of a stutterer's behaviors and reactions become engrained to the point of being stereotyped. The same stimulus (e.g. ringing telephone) will set off the same chain reaction of feelings and behaviors in the person. Varying these stereotyped responses weakens their power over the individual and helps the individual continue gaining control over the fears and the stuttering. Van Riper suggests having individuals change their reactions to word fears, situation fears, communicative stresses, and frustration and penalty. In addition, the individual learns how to stutter differently in this phase. For example, if the person usually prolongs the initial "s" in "sister," have her/his repeat the sound or stutter on a different sound in the word.
Approximation - Once the stereotyped pattern of the stuttering has broken up, the individual can learn specific strategies to smooth out and minimize the moments of stuttering. The three most common strategies for altering the stuttering are cancellation, in which the person stutters all the way through a word, stops immediately, and then repeats the word stuttering a different way, pull-out, in which the person gains control over a moment of stuttering while it is happening and smooths it out, and preparatory set, in which the person prepares for a moment of stuttering before it happens, starts it gently and glides through it smoothly. Strategies such as bouncing, sliding, easy onset, and light contacts represent variations on these three techniques.
Stabilization - after successfully moving through the previous phases of therapy with the close guidance of a clinician, the person who stutters needs to become her/his own clinician. In the stabilization phase, the individual uses the new stuttering controls in more and more situations of daily life. The individual also continues to stutter voluntarily and to seek out communication situations which s/he previously avoided. Many people who stutter find that joining organizations like Toastmasters helps them to continue their own desensitization and keep the fear and avoidance at bay.
Fluency Shaping
The fluency shaping therapies teach the person who stutters how to slow down and smooth out all of their words, not just the words on which they stutter. The ultimate goal is to have the fluent speech replace the stuttered speech. One common fluency shaping approach begins with establishing fluent speech in short, one word, utterances, and then gradually increases the length and complexity of the utterances while maintaining fluency. A second common fluency shaping approach requires the stutterer to alter her/his speaking pattern in a dramatic way and then move that altered, fluent speech closer and closer to normal sounding speech. Some clinicians have combined these approaches by having clients alter their speaking pattern in an exaggerated way, for example speaking at 1 syllable per second by stretching out every sound in a word, establish fluency with this method in single syllable words, move up to longer words and sentences, and increase the rate to something more normal, all the while maintaining a high level of fluency. Some fluency shaping thearpy programs have used the delayed auditory feedback device to help clients alter their speech. This device makes the person hear their own voice slightly delayed. In order to overcome the delay, the person who stutters must talk very slowly and smoothly by stretching out the vowels and sliding all of the words together. In print it might look something like this: "Hooowwwaarrreyyoouu?" The stutterer begins at an extremely slow rate, around 50 wpm, and then builds up to something slightly slower than normal, maybe 140 wpm, while maintaining the smoothness and sliding words together.
The Best of Both Worlds
Recently some clinicians have successfully combined elements of stuttering modification and fluency shaping therapies. These therapies usually begin by teaching the person who stutters fluency shaping strategies to slow down and smooth out all of their speech. This eliminates most of the overt stuttering behavior. For the moments of stuttering that remain, the individual learns to manage them with stuttering modification strategies. In addition, the stuttering modification phases of motivation, identification, and desensitization get encorporated into therapy to help the individual manage the negative emotions that have built up around the stuttering.
Treatment of stuttering is based on a developmental continuum since stuttering is a developmental and progressive disorder. The client-clinician relationship is an important variable in the outcome of therapy. The clinician needs to guide the client through the steps of therapy, and provide release and support during those difficult moments of therapy. Ultimate responsibility for change rests with the person who stutters. Change in speech behaviors constitute only part of the picture; changes in attutudes must also occur in order for the new found speech behaviors to last. Attitude changes take a long time and a lot of hard work. Learning to accept stuttering by facing the fear that surrounds it is an essential part of any successful treatment.
posted May 1997
revised January 2001


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Memories of childhood picnics? Soggy sandwiches, gritty chicken pies, too much ice cream, tummy aches, followed by a good game of cricket on the beach/village green. On the patio of the Hotel de Crillon, Jean-Francois Piège transforms his picnic memories into sophisticated chic-choc picnics, not unlike the ones we remember, but revised and corrected as you would expect from the newly super-slim super-chef.
PicNic Chic has five courses. You sit at tables, set with beautiful china, shaded from the elements with parasols. From wicker hampers you are offered, fougasse drizzled with Tuscan olive oil and herbs to set the taste buds tingling. Batons of Salmon with green sauce stick out from china vases. In a pot, ballottine of organic chicken and truffles. Chaud froid of lobster, macedoine. Divine oeuf en gelée with toast soldiers (why do French eggstaste so much better? Answers on a postcard please.) Sandwich of foie gras and, to finish feather light Charlotte aux fraises.
PicNic Choc kicks off with Thon/Savora en sushi – then you better believe this, not a tube of toothpaste but Piege's spin thereon. Sardine/La Vache qui rit in a tube. "Take it home at your own risk", he warns. "You may end up brushing your teeth with it!" Hmm not a bad idea. Mr Colgate please note.
Then Oeuf mimosa, cold scrambled eggs in pots with cubes of sausage, large round radishes. Granité gaspacho/avocado. A little roast chicken/Boursin and to finish Petit Lu/nutella/raspberries. The kids will love their own menu, which ends with ice cream cones. Drink by the glass, Cotes de Rhone Rosé (8€) or by the bottle, a crisp white 2006 Saint Joseph "Mairlant" from Francois Villard 76€. Vive le picnic au Crillon.
See you there.
Jacques Gantié is based in the South of France, where he's a top journalist for Nice Matin. His annual Guide Gantié is welcomed by the French, English and Americans, there's two versions, buy both or just the English.
Everything you need is there, 800 restaurant listings, rated with none, one, two, three or four olive branches. The man's thin as a pin, tests most of the addresses himself. This is his 16th edition and includes a useful dictionary of food items. Frere Jacques shares his address book of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers. A joy to read, even if you're not planning a trip south this summer. And, if you are, and you're on a tight budget – A Selection of Rooms such as the delightful Un Ange Passe at La Colle sur Loup www.unangepasse.fr is just what you're looking for.
Le Bar a Huitres just launched, in place of Goldenberg's Kosher, place des Ternes. Jean-Paul Chedal, who also launched Bars A Huitres, Montparrnasse, Saint-Germain and Bastille, is excited about his new project. "I'm an innkeeper at heart", he confessed one day last week. The decor, by Jacques Garcia, is pleasing, the walls punctuated with prints of guess what? Chedel is a wine buff, so his carte des vins has some interesting wines and champagnes. Try the Ultra Brut from Maison Jacquart, perfect with a plate of juicy oysters, tartare of tuna, a few pink shrimps (note the Villeroy & Bosch china) . "I make sure our seafood, fish and oysters come direct from the sea to the oyster bars every day", he assures BUZZ.
In the kitchen Stephane Devy: front of house there's a tempting banc of oysters, and chef "ecailler" Andre Tronscoff, prepares everything for you to eat sur place or take home. He fearlessly nets your lobster from the aquarium, presents the poor little bugger at table, and next time you see Lionel he's pink as a baby's bum, surrounded with fresh veg and sauce beurre blanc.
How come when homard is 58€ a kilo in rue de Bellefeuille, Chedal, whose attention to every little detail is impressive, does a generous three-course "Menu Homard Bleu" for 43€? Note, Blue Lobster is only in season until October, so hurry along. Amazing! cheaper to eat at Le Bar than at home, and no dishes darling.
There's also excellent fish soup and Aoili of fresh cod, Saint Pierre, rock red mullet and langoustine. Line caught tuna, sea bass, sardines are cooked as you like, say, a la plancha, steamed, grilled. Delicious! Good pudds and coupes, including "le tout cafe", coffee dessert with Chantilly, coffee ice-cream and an espresso. A magnificent strawberry tart (see photos) Book the terrace, it fills up fast.
Two to watch, L'Itineraire and L'Arome. Both picked up prestigious prizes at young rising stars, Champagne Jacquart Presentation Grand Prix Paris-Ile de France 2008 this week. At L'Itinerarire, Sylvain Sendra and his adorable wife (ex-Temps au Temps/the world) realise their dream, having met at Ecole Hotelier Lyon. (menus 29-34€) you can't afford not to. 5 rue de Ponthieu 5th. Shut Sun-Mon. Metro: Maubert-Mutualite T: 01 46 33 60 11.
And Eric Marten's L'Arome with ex-Royal Monceau chef Thomas Bouillault. 3 rue Saint-Philippe de Roule, 8th (Metro: Saint Philippe de Roule) T : 01 42 63 48 18. Lunch 33€ Dinner around 50€.
Address Book:
Jacques Gantié's Gourmet Tables 2008
Editions ROM – 22€
Patio de Crillon
Hotel de Crillon,
10 place de la Concorde, 8th (Metro: Concorde)
Picnic at Lunch only 7/7 from 12 noon until 5pm.
55€-45€ For children 25€
Bar until 21h – Open August
Le Bar à Huitres,
69 avenue de Wagram, 17th (Metro: Ternes)
3 course "Menu Homard Bleu" 43€
Menu "Haute Mer" 20-25€
Children's Menu 14€.50
A La Carte +
Plateaux of Sea-Food 33.50-99€50
And take away service.- Open August