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He says that slowed-down programming makes us more likely to stay on the couch, less likely to go out and exercise. "That has a large effect because aerobic exercises are one of the best cures for depression or depressed states", says Amitay.
He says looking out your window to see a build up snow can create a sense of claustrophobia. That produces a sense of isolation, making you less likely to hang out with friends or members of your family.
Amitay stresses that humans are social animals who need the support of others to get through what can be a challenging period.
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Ruterra suite by Jewish Synagogue
N.º máximo de huéspedes4
Cuartos de baño1
Tamaño55 m²
- Apto para familias / niños
- Cocina
- Lavadora / secadora
- Se permiten mascotas
- Internet/WiFi
|U pujcovny, 110 00 Прага, La República Checa
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Apartment is located in walkable distance from Wenceslas square . Many historical events occurred there, and it is a traditional setting for demonstrations, celebrations, and other public gatherings. The square is named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia. It is part of the historic centre of Prague, a World Heritage Site.
Formerly known as Koňský trh (Horse Market), for its periodic accommodation of horse markets during the Middle Ages
This apartment consist of 2 separate rooms and can fit up to 4 people, also perfect for a couple or family who wants to spend unforgettable time in gorgeous Prague.
First room is bedroom with double bed, wardrobe. Windows face U pujcovny street, but street by itself is quite, street noise will not disturb you even during the day.
Second room is living room with kitchen. There is big foldable sofa, can be used as real double bed for 2 people. Also there is big TV with local channels.
Kitchen is fully equipped with oven, fridge, kettle, toaster, dishwasher, coffee machine, crockery and cooker.
Guest Access
Also we provide:
*Towels and bed linens
*iron, ironing board
*washing machine
*good recommendations where to go and what to see in Prague
*24 hours support during your stay
The Neighborhood
The apartment location allows to get deeper into life of an Old and New Town in the same time with a specific unforgettable atmosphere, wagging streets with small medieval squares and numerous cafes and restaurants. It all promises an unforgettable experience of your visit to Prague.
Really easy to reach main attractions in Prague, as
*Old town square (up to 10-15 min walk)
*Wenceslav square (3 min walk)
*Charles bridge (20min walk or 5-7 min by tram)
Getting Around
It takes 30 minutes to get to your apartment from airport by taxi. We can organize a transfer from the airport directly to the apartment - The cost of this service is 20 EUR/car for 1-3 ppl, and 25 EUR/car for 4 ppl. In this case our driver will meet you in the arrival zone, drive you to your apartment and hand you in all needed maps and keys.
Parking is not included in price, but no worries about it, when you will arrive we will explain you all details about parking and show you where you can park your car, for the lowest price. The nearest public parking is located on the Opletalova str. and parking costs 12 eur/day (weekends and nights for free)
- Please leave the apartment in the same condition as you found it. All bed linen/tea towels and other textile as well.
- Check-in from 15h00 (we will do our best to prepare your apartment as soon as possible) and check-out until 11h00 (you can leave your luggage in our office afterwards)
- We kindly ask you not to make any noise in the hallways and other common areas in the house after 22h00. There are many old people in the house and we have promised the neighbors to keep the peace and maintain friendly relations.
We love our guests so much that we provide them with a welcome set consisting of tea, coffee, sugar, detergent (dishwasher and washing machine), hair&body 2in1 shampoo, kitchen utensils, towels and bed linen.
- If you stay in our apartment for more than 7 days – we will clean and change towels/linen once a week for free.
- If you break something, please tell us. It happens, life is life :)
Thank you for understanding.
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Apartamento muy agradable. Todo estaba en perfecto estado y la ubicación era muy buena. Nuestro vuelo llegó tarde por la noche (8 horas de retraso) y que incluso llegó a recogernos (con las teclas) hasta el aeropuerto por el mismo precio que un taxi normal. Muchas gracias!
Very nice apartment. Everything was in perfect shape and the location was very good. Our flight arrived at late night (8h delay) and they even came to pick us up (with the keys) to the airport for the same price as a normal taxi. Thanks a lot!!
Elena / Anna es un anfitrión amable, dispuesto a ayudar. El apartamento se encuentra a poca distancia a pie de la estación de metro más cercana bruja es también una ventaja.
Elena/Anna is a nice host, willing to help. The apartment is within walking distance to nearest tube station witch is also a plus.
Bonito apartamento con excelente ubicación en barrio muy pero muy cerca del centro.
Nice apartment with wonderful location in quite neighbourhood but very close to the centre.
Estamos muy satisfechos con la estancia. Anna nos dio muchos consejos y un mapa de los principales monumentos de Praga. Te recomendamos que te quedas, todavía va a volver.
We are very satisfied with the stay. Anna gave us many tips and a map of the major sights of Prague. We highly recommend you stay, you'll still come back.
The host cancelled the booking, this review is automated.
We had a very nice stay at Prague in the Executive Bright Appartement. It was a nice, little appartement, tidy and absolute alright for three people. The hosts gave us a lot information about the trams, exchanges, etc. which was very helpful if you stay the first time in Prague.
Very good and clean apartment!
was a really nice trip and a nice flat in the centre of prague!
was there with 3 friends and the flat was perfect.
best regards,
flo :)
Very central. A lot of traffic, but easy to get around the city by foot. Very good service at arrival at the office at Opletalova. Two rooms all together, one bedroom behind the kitchen, and the other room with 2-3 beds and a dining table, so it's might be a bit crammed for 5 grownups / larger kids, if you stayed for a longer period of time. Nice interior and clean place. If you go by car: Reserve a parking lot before arrival, e.g. at Mr. Parkit - the price is fair and you cannot park in the street, you can only stop for a while to drop off the suitcases etc.
- Alojamiento de calidad asegurada
- Verificamos telefónicamente a cada anfitrión
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Bootstrap Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0079]
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Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats - Robotic Access to Grounding-zones for Exploration and Science (RAGES) (Powell) [NSF-ANT08-39107]
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This dataset contains a list of 33 samples collected during the XIX Italian Antarctic Expeditions in the Ross Sea. In particular krill samples were fished at different times of the day in order to ...
Multi-sensor core logger data from cores of the 31st CHINARE, 2014-2015 [CN_NADC_2015_south_ocean_Ross_Sea_Muti-sensor_Core_Logger_Description]
Data of Multi-sensor core logger from cores collected during the 31st CHINARE (Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition.
IVARS: Interannual Variations in the Ross Sea [IVARS]
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The Demographic Consequences of Environmental Variability and Individual Heterogeneity in Life-history Tactics of a Long-lived Antarctic Marine Predator [NSF-ANT11-41326]
The Erebus Bay population of Weddell seals in Antarctica?s Ross Sea is the most southerly breeding population of mammal in the world, closely associated with persistent shore-fast ice, and one that ...
Sea Ice Trends and Climatologies from SMMR and SSM/I-SSMIS [NSIDC-0192]
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Bromide in Snow in the Sea Ice Zone [NSF-ANT10-43145]
A range of chemical and microphysical pathways in polar latitudes, including spring time (tropospheric) ozone depletion, oxidative pathways for mercury, and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) production ...
Census data using aerial photographs on the number of breeding Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) at colonies in the Ross Sea Region - K122_1981_2012_NZ_1 [K122_1981_2012_NZ_1]
Data are of numbers of breeding pairs of Adelie penguins(Pygoscelis adeliae)in the Ross Sea region colonies counted from aerial photographs. Photographs were taken from either a helicopter or from ...
Collaborative Research: TRacing the fate of Algal Carbon Export in the Ross Sea (TRACERS) - NSF-ANT11-42065 [NSF-ANT11-42065]
Sinking particles are a major element of the biological pump and they are commonly assigned to two fates: mineralization in the water column and accumulation at the seafloor. However, there is another ...
WAIS grounding-zone migrations in Eastern Basin, Ross Sea and the LGM dilemma: New strategies to resolve the style and timing of outer continental shelf grounding events - NSF-ANT05-38475 [NSF-ANT05-38475]
This project determines the recent history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) through a multidisciplinary study of the seabed in the Ross Sea of Antarctica. WAIS is perhaps the world's most critical ...
2005 NBPalmer sulfur data. Surface transect (NZ to Ross Sea) and Ross Sea depth profiles and rates [NBPalmer_Transect_and_Ross_Sea_Sulfur_Data]
This data set contains concentration and rate data for the following sulfur compounds: dimethylsulfide (DMS), dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP). Data were obtained in ...
45-500 micron iron oxide major and trace element abundance [Holocene_LGM_diamict_FeOxides]
This data set contains major and trace element abundance for individual iron oxide grains extracted from glacial-marine Antarctic sediment. Fe-oxides were picked from the 45-500 micron fraction of ...
A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea [NSF-ANT10-43485]
This award supports a project to develop a better understanding of the response of the WAIS to climate change. The timing of the last deglaciation of the western Ross Sea will be improved using in ...
A biological reconnaissance of the photoreceptors of invertebrates and fish from the Ross Sea, identifying the micro fauna and flora of Dry Valley lakes and other organism from the Ross Sea region [K022_1977_1978_NZ_1]
A variety of research activities on the organisms in the Ross Dependency was undertaken to determine the biological research potential of the organisms. Most work focused on photoreceptors of different ...
Abandoned Elephant Seal Colonies in Antarctica: Integration of Genetic, Isotopic, and Geologic Approaches toward Understanding Holocene Environmental Change [NSF-ANT04-39906]
During previous NSF-sponsored research, the PI's discovered that southern elephant seal colonies once existed along the Victoria Land coast (VLC) of Antarctica, a region where they are no longer observed. ...
Aging in Weddell Seals: Proximate Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Adaptations to Breath-Hold Hunting in an Extreme Environment [NSF-ANT06-49609]
The primary objectives of this research are to investigate the proximate effects of aging on diving capability in the Weddell Seal and to describe mechanisms by which aging may influence foraging ...
Alternative Nutritional Strategies in Antarctic Protists [NSF-ANT08-38955]
This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Most organisms meet their carbon and energy needs using photosynthesis (phototrophy) or ingestion/assimilation ...
An integrated marine geophysical survey (multibeam bathymetry, chirp sonar, gravity and geomagnetic measurements, with seismic reflection) of the southern Adare Basin region. (R/V Nathaniel B Palmer cruise NBP0701) [K101_2006_2007_NZ_1]
A detailed integrated marine geophysical survey of the sourthern Adare Basin region and a series of detailed seismic transects across the Northern Basin, underlying the north-western Ross Sea continental ...
AnSlope CTD and LADCP data, Ross Sea, 2003-2004 [AnSlope_CTD-LADCP]
This data set comprises CTD and Lowered Acoustic Doppler Profiler (LADCP) data from 3 cruises of the AnSlope program (Cross-Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front). A complete description ...
Analysis of bottom sediments within the Ross Sea to determine the sedimentation regime of the area [K008_1972_1973_NZ_2]
The collection of a series of bottom grab samples in the Ross Sea were made over three weeks from the USCGS Northwind. The aim was to study the sedimentation regime in the Ross Sea. 30 grab stations ...
Anatomical and physiological adaptations in Antarctic fishes [K022_1988_1989_NZ_1]
Dermal and epidermal chromatophore tissue of two species of fishes (Pagothenia borchgrevinki and Trematomus bernacchii) were prepared for light and transmission electron microscopy. Some specimens ...
Antarctic Echinoids: an interactive database [SCAR-MarBIN] [Ant_Echinoids_SCARMarBIN]
"Antarctic Echinoids" is an interactive database synthesising the results of more than 100 years of Antarctic expeditions. It comprises information about 81 echinoid species ...
Antarctic Ecosystem Environmental Contamination, Climate Change and Human Impact [ECA027]
In the Southern Ocean, the marginal ice zone is the nursery ground for E. superba (by far the dominant herbivore), which channels organic matter produced by nanoplankton and diatoms to cephalopods, ...
Antarctic Ecosystem: environmental contamination [ECA062]
Although the remote continent of Antarctica is perceived as the symbol of the last great wilderness, the human presence in the Southern Ocean and the continent began in the early 1900s for hunting, ...
Antarctic Euphausiacea Occurrence Data from ITALICA 2000 Expedition [SCAR-MarBIN] [Euphausiacea_ITALICA2000]
ITALICA 2000 Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) occurrence data from the Ross Sea.
Antarctic Pack Ice Seals Project (APIS) Acoustic Data for the Eastern Ross Sea 2000 [APIS_Acoustic_data]
APIS (Antarctic Pack Ice Seals) was an international program formulated by the SCAR Group on Specialists on Seals to consider the functional significance of upper trophic level predators ...
Antarctic Research Bases: local source of polybrominated Diphenil Ether (PBDE) flame retardants [ECA007]
Studies of chemical contamination in Antarctica are commonly focused on POPs. However, some emerging pollutants exhibiting characteristics of persistence comparable to POPs should also be considered. ...
Antarctic Stress Map Project - Phase 1: Neogene-Quaternary volcanic alignments in the Transantarctic Mountains-Ross Sea region [MVG_cone]
In order to define stress orientation in the Antarctic interior, we have examined young volcanic cones found within Cenozoic volcanic provinces of the McMurdo Volcanic ...
Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polynya [NSF-ANT07-39464]
Antarctic polynyas are the ice free zones often persisting in continental sea ice. Characterization of the lower atmosphere properties, air-sea surface heat fluxes and corresponding ocean depth profiles ...
Atmospheric PCB Concentration at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica [ECA016]
This study increases the limited atmospheric database on PCB in remote areas by reporting PCB concentrations during the austral summer (2003-2004) at a site in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica and hypothesizing ...
Australian Museum marine faunal data via OZCAM [OBIS_OZCAM_AM]
The Australian Museum has an international reputation in the fields of natural history and indigenous studies research, community programs and exhibitions. The Museum was established in 1827 and is ...
BIoGeochemical cycles in the SOUTHern Ocean: Role within the Earth System [BIGSOUTH]
The BIGSOUTH project (Biogeochemical cycles in the Southern Ocean: role within the Earth system) aims at achieving a detailed understanding of the processes controlling functioning and strength of ...
Benthic Marine Pollution Around McMurdo Station, Antarctica [ECA079]
Benthic sediments and animals are highly modified by human activities at McMurdo Station, the largest human settlement in Antarctica. The quantity of anthropogenic debris, contamination of marine ...
Benthonic Annelida of Ross Sea [Benthonic_Annelida_of_Ross_Sea]
Taxonomical studies of smaller marine infaunal Annelida from benthos sediments near Terra Nova Bay sampled during 1989 and 1989 summers.
Bioconcentration of PCBs in the pelagic food chain of the Ross Sea [ECA026]
In this study was measured mean PCB concentration (the sum of 50 congeners) in Ross Sea phytoplankton (mainly diatoms) and mixed zooplankton (copepods, amphipods and krill) of 1 and 4.2 ng g–1 wet ...
Biomagnification of mercury in an Antarctic marine coastal food web during 1989-1991 [Biomagnification_of_mercury]
Twenty samples of surface sediment (the top 3.0 cm) were taken on soft bottoms (from 20 to 300 m depth) with a stainless steel box corer. Phytoplankon and zooplankton were sampled with conical nylon ...
Blood and faecal samples from Adelie and emperor penguins at Cape Washington and Mandible Cirque, Ross Sea Region, Antarctica [K034_2001_2005_NZ_14]
Blood and faecal samples were collected from 96 emperor penguins at Cape Washington and from 29 Adelie penguins at Mandible Cirque. Plasma concentrations of corticosterone will be measured ...
Blood samples analysed for albumin to determine if the lack of this protein serum is common to the Notothenioid fish group [K066_2001_2002_NZ_1]
One species of Antarctic Notothenioid fish was found to lack the common blood protein serum albumin. It was investigated if this was common to all notothenioid fish. In addition, if this blood protein ...
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Elevation Change Anomalies in West Antarctica and Dynamics of Subglacial Water Transport Beneath Ice Streams and their Tributaries [tulaczyk0636970]
We performed field and remote sensing investigations of Elevation Change Anomalies (henceforth ECAs) discovered recently in the Ross Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) (Gray et al., ...
Cape Roberts Tide Gauge records since 1990 [K042_1990_2012_NZ_1]
A tide gauge was installed at Cape Roberts in November 1990 and has been in near continuous operation since. A 10 minute average of water depth was recorded each hour with hourly averages of wind ...
Census data using aerial photographs on the number of breeding Adelie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) at colonies in the Ross Sea Region [K122_1981_2008_NZ_1]
Data are of numbers of breeding pairs of Adelie penguins(Pygoscelis adeliae)in the Ross Sea region colonies counted from aerial photographs. Photographs were taken from either a helicopter or from ...
Chemical tracers to asses diet and persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic type killer whales [ECA035]
This data set considers the PCBs, DDTs, CHLs, HCB and HCHs measured in blubber from Antarctic Type C killer whales and found that mean concentrations in all groups of POPs were significantly higher ...
Cold tolerance of Antarctic terrestrial nematodes in the McMurdo Sound region [K067_1988_1989_NZ_1]
A survey of the nematode fauna associated with moss and algae growth from terrestrial sites on Ross Island and the McMurdo Dry Valleys was conducted. A total of 6 species were identified and maps ...
Collaborative Research: Constraining the Petrogenesis and Mantle Source of Adare Basin Seamount Lavas [NSF-ANT05-38266]
This award supports the study of lava samples from seamounts in the Cape Adare region of the western Ross Sea. Volcanism in this area is poorly understood, and the geochemistry of these lavas may ...
Collaborative Research: East Antarctic outlet glacier contributions to the Ross Sea from chronology of detrital grains [NSF-ANT10-43619]
Intellectual Merit: The PIs proposed a provenance study of glacial deposits in the Ross Embayment that will provide a broad scale geochronologic survey of detrital minerals in till to help characterize ...
Collaborative Research: Hunting in Darkness: Behavioral and Energetic Strategies of Weddell Seals in Winter [NSF-ANT07-39390]
Intellectual merit: Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) locate and capture sparsely distributed and mobile prey under shore-fast ice throughout the year, including the austral winter when ambient ...
Collaborative Research: Impact of Mesoscale Processes on Iron Supply and Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Ross Sea [NSF-ANT09-44254]
The Ross Sea continental shelf is one of the most productive areas in the Southern Ocean, and may comprise a significant, but unaccounted for, oceanic CO2 sink, largely driven by phytoplankton production. ...
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Frequency of working at home in 2004
September 30, 2005
The total number of persons who reported in May 2004 that they worked at home as part of their primary job—regardless of how often they engaged in home-based work activity—was 25.4 million.
The majority of these workers—20.7 million—worked at home at least once a week. About 1.9 million persons worked at home at least once every 2 weeks, 1.6 million worked at home at least once per month, and 880,000 worked at home less than once per month.
While the total number of persons who reported some work at home in the May 2004 survey was about the same as in May 2001, the share working at home at least once per week edged up somewhat.
These data on work at home are from the Current Population Survey. Find out more in "Work at Home in 2004," news release USDL 05-1768.
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Monday A Movement for Rosa
What: The Symphonic Band celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Birmingham Campaign — the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement — with A Movement for Rosa. The program will feature works inspired by the Civil Rights Movement.
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Charleston Southern University Lightsey Chapel Auditorium, 9200 University Blvd.
Price: Free
More Info: 843-863-7966 or www.charlestonsouthern.edu
Tuesday Palmetto Archaeology Lecture Series
What: Nicole Isenbarger will discuss Colonoware, a pottery that is a no longer practiced folk tradition, and how the enslaved used it in their daily lives for cooking, cultural identity, marketing activities and more. There will be plenty of time for Q&A and discussion. The event is hosted by Archaeological Research Collective Inc.
When: 6-7 p.m.
Where: Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun St.
Price: Free
Saturday'From Slavery to Freedom'
What: A tour of cabins, which have been renovated to represent different eras of the African-American experience, from slavery to the Civil Rights Movement. Activities will include craft demonstrations, storytellers, children's activities, live music and a special walk through the African-American cemetery.
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 16, 23
Where: Magnolia Plantation and Gardens, Ashley River Road
Price: $23 for adults, $18 for kids and free for children younger than age 6
More Info: 843-571-1266 or www.magnoliaplantation.com
Feb. 20Lecture
What: As part of the College of Charleston's celebration of Black History Month, the Office of Institutional Diversity is hosting a lecture by the Honorable Kweisi Mfume, former United States Congressman, titled "Obama's America … Where Do We Go From Here?"
When: 6 p.m.
Where: Physicians Memorial Auditorium, 72 George St.
More info: diversity.cofc.edu
Feb. 22 Heritage Day
What: Celebrate African-American heritage from its roots in Africa to its branches in the Caribbean and the Americas, especially South Carolina. Immerse your students in African-American history and culture through a variety of performances, re-enactments, demonstrations, hands-on activities and much more. Elementary and middle schools are welcome. Register in advance. Boxed lunches are available for purchase and should be ordered by Feb. 11.
When: 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Where: North Charleston Wannamaker County Park, 8888 University Blvd.
Price: Fee: $8
More Info: 795-4386 or www.ccprc.com
Feb. 23 Workshop
What: This multi-generational workshop with Christine Mitchell allows participants (ages 5-adult) to embellish creative, handmade paper masks with their own designs that highlight African culture. Participants will develop skills in identifying where certain masks originate and their cultural functions. Parents/grandparents can work together with child/grandchild to make a mask or make their own for an additional fee. Kids age 7 and under must be accompanied by adult. Registration ends one week prior to workshop.
When: 10 a.m.-noon
Where: The Meeting Place, 1077 E. Montague Ave.
Price: $25 includes materials for one mask
More Info: 740-5854 or http://bit.ly/culturalarts
Feb. 25 Palmetto Archaeology Lecture Series
What: Dr. Hayden Smith will discuss the history of rice production in South Carolina and its impact on the lives of the enslaved African-Americans who labored to produce it. There will be plenty of time for Q&A & discussion.
When: 6-7 p.m.
Where: Charleston County Public Library, 68 Calhoun St.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State's young cornerbacks impressed in their first two games as new starters before coming back to earth last week with a clunk against Central Florida.
Sophomores Jordan Lucas and Trevor Williams appeared to be a step slow or leaning the wrong way the majority of the time whenever quarterback Blake Bortles threw the football in their direction to one of several talented receivers. The proof showed on the scoreboard: UCF 34, Penn State 31.
But it's a new week for the Lions on Saturday at Beaver Stadium with Kent State (1-2) coming to town. The personnel in the Golden Flashes' passing game do not have the skilled depth of the Knights. The quarterback is a redshirt freshman with three games of experience.


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thePavement is the free magazine for the UK's homeless people
We are committed to publishing objective reportage, tailored to a homeless readership, and to publicising the complete range of services available to homeless people, to reduce hardship amongst our readers and to enable them to guide their future.
We believe that drives to produce homogenous services for homeless people are misguided, and that a range of service types and sizes are the only way to cater successfully for our diverse readership.
We believe that sleeping rough is physically and mentally harmful; however, we do not preach to those who chosen to, nor do we believe that all options to get off the streets are necessarily beneficial to long-term health and happiness.
The Rights Guide for Rough Sleepers outlines your rights around arrest, stop and search, answering police questions, move-ons, no-drinking zones, sleeping rough, taking a pee in public and highway obstruction. It was put together by The Pavement, Housing Justice, Liberty and Zacchaeus 2000.
If your benefits have been sanctioned (cut off or reduced) and you feel this is unfair, you can appeal. Print this letter and hand it in at the office where you sign on. If you feel you need more advice about sanctions, contact Zacchaeus 2000 or your nearest Citizen's Advice Bureau. And let us know at The Pavement!
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Mat Amp, who knows a thing or two about addiction, met the editor of Illegal magazine and found out more about the campaign for decriminalisation.
An addict on a central London street shivers against the cold and the rising junk sickness in her soul. She has been arrested numerous times for drug use and solicitation, and scrapes...
There's a complicated relationship between begging and homelessness. And the solutions are not about sweeping people off the streets.
It's a sunny evening in Glasgow and Edward is begging just a few feet from Rogano, a posh Glasgow oyster bar in the city centre. He says his Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), first granted after he injured...
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Our Glasgow Word On The Street project went so well that we are now running it in London. Véronique Mistiaen, lecturer and human rights journalist, led the second session, 'How to tell your own story'. you can read more about the project on her blog, The Right Human. Check out the trainees' blog to follow their progress from newbie to news hound.
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Our Glasgow-based Word on the Street team of reporters and photographers – along with London guest writers, who also have experience of the homelessness – has been working hard on a special edition that tells it how it is: benefit sanctions, a cartoon about hostel life and how football can change the world, for starters. The WOTS team is: Iain Alan, Brenda Brown, Brian Dobbie, Jason Kelly, Peter Kelly, Jim Little, Caroline McCue, Alex McKay, Patrick O'Hare and Roddy Woods. Thanks, team!
Wow. The Pavement's Homeless City Guide, which appears in every issue of the magazine, has made it into New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Almost a third of charity workers don't donate money to good causes, according to a survey by a money-saving website.
The poll of 1,982 Britons aged 21 and over who had been working in the charity sector for at least a year, revealed that the majority of those who don't donate – 31 per cent – said that they could not afford to. However, a further 31 per cent of those who did not give to any third sector organisations said that the reason was that they felt they did enough for charity by doing the jobs they were paid to do.
Research, commissioned by VoucherCodesPro.co.uk, opened interviews by asking third-sector workers if they considered themselves to be charitable, with 82 per cent stating that they were.
However only 12 per cent gave more than £30 per month to charity. Those who gave £1–£5 made up 17 per cent, a further 32 per cent gave £6–£10 and six per cent gave £11–£20.
Almost half had never donated to the charity they worked for.
George Charles, a spokesman for the website that commissioned the survey, said: "People assume that those that work for charities, be it office work or in a shop, would be naturally very charitable and therefore we predict that they must be donating loads of money per month, but apparently this is not the case!"
And he urged charity workers, as well as the general public, to give whatever they felt able to afford.
"It is definitely difficult to give money every month when you don't feel as if you have enough to look after yourself, but we have to remember that those people that charities help are in far worse situations and they really do need all the help they can get," he added.
What do you think? Should charity workers donate to the charity they work for?
Merseyside Police have adopted a football referee style card scheme to target aggressive begging following complaints that people sleeping rough have been behaving in an intimidating manner.
Homeless people who police decide are acting in an "anti-social manner" will be slapped with yellow cards. If singled out a second time, a red will follow – a final warning in no uncertain terms that an arrest or city centre ban is on the cards.
As the Law stands, street begging and sleeping rough are illegal in England and Wales, leading some to suggest that in theory what constitutes anti-social behaviour is open to the widest of interpretations.
Barely up and running, the scheme is already controversial, with critics like Liam Moore, of Merseyside social justice choir Voice in the City, speaking out about the victimising effect the scheme could have on homeless people in general.
Speaking to i news he said, "The issue is where will it stop. Does it open the floodgates to intimidation? Anyone who commits anti-social behaviour should be prosecuted, but we need solutions. Each person on the street is an individual and has their own story. Handing out red cards like football referee Howard Webb doesn't solve people's problems."
The Merseyside measure is one of two recently undertaken with Liverpool City Council to encourage beggars and street drinkers to turn their lives around and enable them to access accommodation and support services with each card containing information to that effect. A new centre has also been opened to tackle addiction, homelessness and health problems.
One of the main organisers of the scheme, Liverpool Chief Superintendent Mark Wiggins, has defended the referee card scheme's introduction. He suggested that police and local authority actions are motivated by complaints from the local business community and members of the public.
"These cards will help provide homeless people with the information they need to take advantage of support available. If some individuals do not take the offers of support and continue to commit offenses or anti-social behaviour then as a partnership we can take further action to protect the community."
Wiggins remains adamant that the police's starting point is one of support and help, preventing people who have received cards from getting into more trouble.
Inevitably concerns will be raised that Liverpool Police's new approach potentially marks out any homeless individual unresponsive to it as a potential target for any overzealous PC out to hit his quota.
The scheme is backed by the council and the Liverpool Business Improvement District (BID) company, which represents more than 1,500 businesses in the city.
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Cards open NEA play with victory over Riverside
With senior Adam Paulson pouring in a team and game-high 17 points, Medical Lake opened their Northeast A League boys' basketball schedule with an easy 53-28 win last Friday night at Riverside.
Most of Paulson's points came from long distance as he connected on five 3-pointers to jump-start the Cardinals (1-0 NEA, 3-3 overall) to 27-9 halftime lead.
Freshman Jordan Rohweder pitched in with 9 points and senior Austin Garza 7 and Seth Hansen 6.
Last Tuesday the Cardinals fell in their final non-league contest, 43-38 to Great Northern League newcomer Colville as Garza scored 14 and Paulson 13.
The Indians broke open a close game where Colville led 22-17 at the half by outscoring the Cardinals 22-6 and ML's rally with a 15-9 edge in the final period fell short.
Medical Lake hosts Freeman Friday, Dec. 21 at 7 p.m. in their final game before the Christmas break. They return to action Dec. 28-29 at the West Valley Tournament.
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Army of Gummy by keterokWatch
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To many Gummies
oh pinkie xD
"They're coming to take over, to terrorize the Earth,
look out behind and beware, the Alligator Army!"
look out behind and beware, the Alligator Army!"
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Pinkie: I have an army.
Okey dokey loki anyone?
Okey dokey loki anyone?
Mann vs Gator! Now I've seen everything!
TCG card it now!! ^^
Her front hair/bang is a little weird, but other than that good positioning of her body with where the viewer is seeing her from.
I am naming my lizard Gummy in oner of Pink ^^
She's sending all of them to hide in Twilight's bathtub!
I approve of this so much it cannot be measured!
Looks like Pinkie wanted more of them.
Join the Party, Follow the Party, LIVE the Party, or face the wrath of a thousand toothless baby alligators!!
gummys, gummys everywere
No power in Equestria will be able stand up to cuteness of that magnitude.
This would be the best death ever.
Being gummed to death... can't decide if that's the worst of most adorable way to die...
Ring 9 the Nine Dragons, go!
Only Pinkie could create a clone army of baby alligators
I'd rather have an army of Pinkie's but an army of Gummy's is nice too.
Pinkie Pie's got that look in her eyes
Begin the party march...FOR FRIENDSHIP!!!!
THIS IS MADNESS.....madness?........THIS IS GUMMIES!!!!!!
This is Gummy Leader standing by.
Mutant crocodiles! Holy buck!
It's the end of the world....
It's the end of the world....
This is MADNESS! Oh this is BAD! WE ARE ALL DOOOOMED!
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One of the most frustrating aspects of John Tortorella's tenure as head coach of the Rangers was his absolute refusal to roll four lines and six defensemen in the playoffs.
He attempted to ride his horses to victory, but ultimately just rode them into the ground while the Rangers postseason opponents took advantage of Tortorella's overuse of key players as the fourth line of the Devils in 2012 and the Bruins in 2013 buried the Blueshirts.
Now, the Rangers are led by a head coach who understands the importance of depth and keeping his players fresh in the playoffs…
"Any team that has had success in the NHL the last couple of years has been a four line team," Alain Vigneault noted after practice on Friday. "You have to be able to spread the minutes out. If you want to play a good-tempo game … it seems to me, the teams that have had success on a pretty regular basis — I'm thinking about the Bruins right now — they're able to throw four lines on the ice on a regular basis."
Under Tortorella, the fourth line seemingly averaged five minutes a game in the postseason. Thursday night against the Flyers, the Rangers current fourth line averaged 10:30 of ice time.
And it's not just the forwards. The fewest minutes doled out to a defenseman by Vigneault in Game 1 was 16:06 to Kevin Klein. Remember when Stu Bickel was getting 30 seconds a night in the postseason in 2012?
…the Rangers fourth line is not just eating up minutes so the top nine can get some extra rest, they're a legit weapon on the ice. In Game 1, they possessed the puck, provided some offense and absolutely shutdown the Flyers top line.
…as we learned with Tortorella, the best way to burn out your team in the postseason is by only playing 2/3 of your lineup. The playoffs are too much of a grind not to use your full compliment of players, which is thankfully something Vigneault is fully aware of.
…now, the decision to give his fourth line crucial minutes has been made easy for AV because of their impressive play. There's very few head coaches in the playoffs who feel just as comfortable with the bottom three on the ice as the top three, but it's a luxury the Rangers coach has at his full disposal.
…and on defense, the Klein trade continues to loom large as there's no Del Zotto mind-numbing miscues for Vigneault to be concerned about with this defensive corps. And even if there was the occasional gaffe, AV is smart enough to not completely abandon the guy in the middle of a playoff game.


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We've taken a look at how to control the Image Hose and what content comes out of it. Now we're going to take a look at that content which is in the form of nozzle files, and I'll just show you a couple of them, and then we'll get into, how do you create one of these? And let's go over to the Content Selector and drop down to the third button, which is our nozzle file selector. And let's just grab this one and I'll just paint with it a bit. So I'm controlling it by pressure and it's coming out in a random fashion.
And you can see what happens is, now I'm actually drawing with these really interesting kind of three-dimensional cubes. And how else would you get some kind of interesting font that does this unless you had a tool like the Image Hose to do it? That's where the power of the Image Hose is, is that anything can become content and in this case, just playing around with it, it struck me that it's actually an interesting expressive mark-making tool, in this case, that I can control through pressure, and it just comes up with a kind of content that you would never get from any kind of traditional tool.
So that's one of the interesting things about the way these nozzle files work. They can be called into service for so many different things. Let's try a different kind of nozzle file here. I'm going to go with Urban Fixtures, and I want to show you here, in this case, this wouldn't be the kind of control I'd want over it. These lighting fixtures and signs. Really, you don't want them to just come out at any angle. Although I suppose you could find a case where that might be useful if you wanted to do what does it look like in a tornado.
But normally, you want to have these all standing straight up. And so, what I don't want is a random angle about it. So if I just remove the angular aspect of control and just say, hey, I just want to spray that, it's just pressure control. Now I can spray this and they're going to all be upright as they should be, and I can control their size by the amount of pressure that I'm doing. One last one I want to show you here that's kind of interesting, and shows you another take on how these can be useful is, I'm going to go here to the Stone Wall.
And this one will work fine with just size pressure, but I wanted to show you how the way this was constructed as a set of kind of irregular elements in a stone wall, lets me draw with this, so that pressure can control how big the stone elements look. And all of the elements come out, not in a random jumble, but as they were originally oriented in the original wall that they were photographed from. And so, being able to do this just a little bit you can see how it's not an unlimited set of elements.
There are probably 8 or 10 or so elements in there. I can easily come up with what looks to be a very random texture. And that's a case of where this becomes a very useful tool where you want to create textures that appear random, and yet it's coming from a subset of elements that's not infinite. You know, if I start looking around here, I see this here, and this here, and I thought I saw another one over here, but because they're at different scales, that starts to hide the fact that there aren't an infinite number of elements in this.
But the idea is disguising repetition through things like randomness or size change. You can very effectively create what looks to be a very convincing random brick wall, where any other way to do that would be rather difficult. And here we just spayed it out in a few moments. So this is another case of how you can construct elements that can do a very specific type of things. The last thing I want to say before we get in here.
I'm just going to draw a couple of these. The way these were done, it does take some time. First a photographic beginning had to come to get these elements, and then they had to be individually cut out as layer elements. So I was using selection tools in order to do that in creating individual elements as I constructed it. And then I created enough of them so that they don't seem to be repeating too often. This does get into a little bit more of complex nozzle-making, but it does show you that if you invest the time to, in this case, photograph something that has a almost puzzle-like break-apart quality to it, you can then use selection tools and layering in Painter to create these individual elements.
And now that we're talking about that, let's actually create a Nozzle element. And the way it's done is through layers. Anything you want to be a Nozzle element ultimately has to start life as an individual layer. And I'm going to go and just get a very different tool here. We'll just grab some Chalk. And what I want to do is create the word Painter so that it comes out with the individual letters just in a random fashion.
So for each element, I'm going to need to create a new layer. So here's Layer number 1. I'm going to want to change color for each of these. So I'll call up my Color palette. And on this layer, I'm going to do P for Painter. Then I'm going to create a new element, change the color, do an A, and just go through this procedure one element at a time so that I end up with all of the letters of the word Painter on individual layers. One more for T. You don't even need to arrange these in a logical fashion.
They can be arranged anyhow you want. You know, I could put the E over here, because they're going to all be individual elements coming out randomly anyway. So we've got seven layers, each one representing one of the letters in the word Painter. Next thing I need to do is group all of these together. So if I just go up here, I can say Select All layers. So first we select them, and then I go back up and I'll say now I want to group the layers. So now we've got those seven letter layers in a single group.
That is the format you have to present the nozzle-making capability in order for it to know what to do with it. So they have to be grouped together. The other thing I'm going to tell you before I even get to making these, it makes sense to save your elements in this format right now, because you may want to come back later and somebody may say, why don't you put 1 and 2 in there so it includes version of Painter. So that'll be all of the letters and the numbers of Painter 12 will come out of your nozzle. So if I save this file, and it has to be in the RIFF format, I can always come back here, make a couple more layers, put a 1 on one layer, a 2 on the other layer, put it into this group, and then I'll be able to use this group to make another nozzle that also includes more Nozzle elements.
So what we're going to do now is take this group and convert it into a nozzle. To do that, we'll go up to the Window menu. If we go to the Media Library Panels, we want to go to Nozzles. We will just move this over here. In the flyout menu for Nozzle Libraries we'll find there is a command, Make Nozzle From Group. Well, we've got our group, so we want to make a nozzle from it. So we'll just hit this command and what it will do is it'll make a new file. What it quickly does is it looks at the height and width of all of these elements as they would fit in a rectangle.
And then they make a grid using the largest widths and heights to put all of these elements in. So this will become the nozzle file and all I need to do at this point is save it as a RIFF file. So we'll go ahead and we'll say Save As. I'm going to want to save this in the chapter12 exercise folder, and we'll go ahead and we'll just call this Painter Letters. We're one step away from spraying this out now. So go ahead and save it.
At this point I can close that file. What we want to do now is also go ahead and save this is as our master file. So once again, I'm going to call this Painter Letters, but I'm going to call it Master. So this will let me know that this is the actual file with the groups in it. It's not the flattened gridded file. This is the file I can always come back to and add more content to. So I'll have that just in case I ever want to change it. Now the final thing we have to do is we have to load the nozzle file.
It's not in any library at this point. It's just an independent file that is a nozzle file. So I can go ahead and close this and we'll create a new image to spray on, and we'll go back up to the Nozzle Libraries flyout menu, and we'll say Load Nozzle. So we'll click on that. And let's go back to our exercise file, in chapter12, and we want to grab the Painter Letters file.
That's the one that was flattened with a black background and so we'll grab that. And now that nozzle file is loaded, nothing changes to tell you that other than you've just loaded it. But if you now go to our nozzle file, I can now spray that out. Now you see it's coming out randomly and I'm rotating it. If I don't want to do that, once again, this is where you consider, how do I want this to come out? Well maybe I want to control the size, but I don't want the letters to be all rotating like that. So something simple like just Spray-Size-P.
Now they're coming out -- all the letters randomly, but they're not rotating anymore. Now finally, you have this independent nozzle file, but you may say, I want to use this so I'm going to be creating a library with a bunch of different things in it. So what I want to do at this point is add this nozzle that I've created to a library. And there can only be one nozzle active at a time, which right now is this Painter Letter Nozzle. So if I want to save it to a library, I have to be sure that's the active nozzle, and we do indeed know that that's correct.
But once again we go back to our Nozzle Libraries flyout menu and I can say Add Nozzle to Library. So I go ahead in here and whatever we name it is going to be what its name will be in the library. So we no longer need the RIFF format designation at the end of it. We'll just say OK. Sometimes you have to close the Library panel and open it back up for it to be registered in the display here. So let's go ahead and we'll close this, and then we'll go back and open it up. And there it is.
So it's now in the library. So that lets me go here and I can play with this and then if I want to select this, I've now got my Painter file. This is a pretty nonsensical display of how to use it. Obviously, you can come up with much more creative ideas how to do it. But this shows you the process now for being able to create your own nozzle files. And once you've gone through it two or three times, it's a very fluid procedure to do and hopefully it'll get you into creating lots of different nozzle files.
I know a few years ago I was doing a lot of work where I needed to play with the backgrounds of portraiture, and I often had to lay some grass in there. So I just made a nozzle file where I drew on a bunch of layers different little tufts of sets of grass, and I saved that as my grass file, and then I was able to open that up. And I could instantly go in and start spraying grass into the background. Then ultimately it'd become a painted part of a file. But it was a very quick way to add the texture of grass in an area where I needed it.
So anytime you're working on something that would require a lot of hand labor, you want to stop and think, maybe a nozzle file of a bunch of elements would be a way to do this much quicker than I could ever do if I was drawing something individually by hand. So nozzles and Image Hoses are a very powerful tool that let you express yourself with a mark-making style that you could never do in traditional media. And that's where I'd like to think of this as something it's kind of through the looking glass, and lets us explore and utilize the fact that were in a digital world rather than an analog traditional world.
- Exploring the changes in the Painter 12 interface
- Customizing brushes and selecting painting styles
- Laying out the optimal workspace
- Controlling color with the color palettes
- Adjusting brush size and stroke attributes
- Working with texture-aware media
- Quick cloning with the Clone Source panel
- Auto-Painting with the Underpainting, Smart Stroke, and Restoration palettes
- Preserving transparency in layers
- Creating layer masks
- Painting with symmetry
- Working with the Image Hose
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text: Sociology, Gender and Social Work http://hdl.handle.net/10523/84 2016-09-26T03:53:33Z The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country Case Studies http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6770 The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country Case Studies 2017 Cresswell Riol, Katharine S. E. It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines was negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. The focus is on the first key guideline – "Democracy, good governance, human rights and the rule of law" – with an emphasis on civil society participation in global food governance. Case studies of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are presented. These represent major emerging economies that blur the line between the Global North and South, and exhibit different levels of human rights realization. The book first provides an overview of the right to adequate food, accountability and democracy, and an introduction to the history of the development of the right to adequate food and the Right to Food Guidelines. It presents a historical synopsis of each of the BRICS states' experience with the right to adequate food and an analysis of their related periodic reporting to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as well as a specific assessment of their progress in regard to the first guideline. The discussion then focuses on the effectiveness of the Right to Food Guidelines as both a policy-making and monitoring tool, based on the analysis of the guidelines and the BRICS states. 2016-09-08T02:58:03Z Refugees, Immigration, Multiculturalism, and their Implications for Biculturalism http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6655 Refugees, Immigration, Multiculturalism, and their Implications for Biculturalism 2015 Eketone, Anaru At the same time as the Māori people were slowly getting a degree of traction over recognition of their status as indigenous people in New Zealand, it was complicated by the mass immigration of Pacific, Asian and African peoples. It is projected by Statistics New Zealand that by 2026 16% of the New Zealand population will be par t of the Māori ethnic group but 26% will be of Pacific Island or Asian heritage. This population change, and the prospective increased refugee settlement in New Zealand, has significant implications for health, education and social service providers, many of which have benefited from the Government providing resources to lift Māori achievement and lessen Māori deprivation. In recent years a shift has developed from a focus on bi-cultural approaches to one of multi-cultural approaches. This paper argues that these terms are not mutually exclusive, and discusses some of the contentious issues that have crept into the discussion on multi-culturalism, immigration and the worldwide problem of refugees. This article is based on a presentation to the Third International Indigenous Social Work Conference in Darwin 2015. 2016-06-28T21:00:39Z Commentary: The potential for the use of karakia at the beginning of the restoration process http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6654 Commentary: The potential for the use of karakia at the beginning of the restoration process 2012 Eketone, Anaru In pre- colonial Māori society, when a released prisoner or slave was returned to their home people, special karakia were used to remove the negative noa they were under, thus restoring their intrinsic tapu. The author discusses whether karakia can be used in contemporary times to restore the mana and tapu of modern- day released prisoners to aid them in their journey of rehabilitation. He also questions whether this practice of restoring tapu and the sense of tapu has any use for survivors of sexual crimes as part of their healing. 2016-06-28T20:59:04Z Maori parenting, from deficit to strength http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6653 Maori parenting, from deficit to strength 2012 Eketone, Anaru We have all grieved, been enraged and depressed about the death of Maori children at the hands of whanau. We can all name Maori children who have become terrible bywords for the failure of some Maori families to protect and nurture their children. 2016-06-28T20:57:18Z The purposes of cultural supervision http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6652 The purposes of cultural supervision 2012 Eketone, Anaru If you are working in the social services sector, over 40 and Maori, chances are that you will have been asked to provide cultural supervision for a younger Maori worker. However, when you ask what do they mean by cultural supervision, after a slightly panicked look, you can get a variety of different answers. They all know that it is supposed to be done, that it is considered important, in fact some are required by their employers or contracts to have it, but until very recently few seem to know what they actually wanted. This article reports on a brief research project as part of a Masters in Social Welfare programme that interviewed Maori social workers and Maori and Pakeha social work managers about their expectations and experiences of cultural supervision. The participants were asked four questions about the purpose of cultural supervision, who should get cultural supervision, the qualities of a cultural supervisor and problems they had encountered in cultural supervision. 2016-06-28T20:55:43Z Tapuwae: a vehicle for community change http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6651 Tapuwae: a vehicle for community change 2006 Eketone, Anaru In indigenous community development there has been a reliance on critical theory to inform and underpin practice. In this article constructivist approaches such as Native theory provide an alternative theoretical basis to community development in a New Zealand Maori context. The study describes a Maori community development initiative in the southern South Island of New Zealand that was evaluated using Barr and Heshagen's ABCD framework of examining the inputs, outputs, processes and outcomes of a project. The conclusions supports a Native Theory approach that focuses on a community's strengths, using it's cultural processes where projects must be constructed on a case by case basis. 2016-06-28T20:53:56Z Rethinking Children's Involvement in Decision-Making after Parental Separation http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6645 Rethinking Children's Involvement in Decision-Making after Parental Separation 2003 Smith, Anne; Taylor, Nicola; Tapp, Pauline This article argues that the assumption that it is a burden of responsibility for children to be involved in family or legal decision-making is problematic. Each child and family situation is unique, and children's perspectives provide valuable information on this. Children can communicate their views, intentions and difficulties provided that their social contexts and adult partners are sensitive to their perspectives. Within this context, the assumption that children lack sufficient age and maturity to participate in decision-making is questionable. The key issue is not the child's competence, but the adults' ability to provide a trusting, supportive and reciprocal relationship within which the child's voice and participation can be facilitated. 2016-06-27T04:25:08Z Respecting Children's Participation in Family Law Proceedings http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6643 Respecting Children's Participation in Family Law Proceedings 2007 Taylor, Nicola; Tapp, Pauline; Henaghan, Mark Ascertaining children's wishes/views in family law proceedings is a well-established statutory principle in cases concerning their guardianship, day-to-day care and contact in New Zealand. However, the legal system has traditionally been uncomfortable with the prospect of dealing directly with children in such cases. Their views, when sought, have been interpreted and filtered via a range of different professionals, fairly late in the overall process after conciliation services have failed to help parents reach agreement. Furthermore, they have been easily discounted within the Family Court through the application of 'age and maturity' criteria, and prevailing assumptions about what adults think is in children's welfare and best interests. The difficulty in operationalising the voice of the child has meant that–despite the child-oriented statutory rhetoric–children's voice and participation has really taken whatever circumscribed form adults think convenient or proper (Atwool, 2001; Fortin, 1998; Smart, 2000; Smith, Taylor and Tapp, 2003). This stifling of children's views has occurred because of the overwhelming dominance of adults' preconceptions about children's maturity and competence to contribute meaningfully to post-separation decision-making processes within the family and within the Court. Children have been shielded from the receipt of information and the opportunity to participate because of the burden of responsibility and compromised loyalties it is anticipated this would place upon them (Taylor, Smith and Tapp, 2001). However, this misdirected focus takes little account of children's own desire to express their views, and the research evidence now linking children's participation with their enhanced resilience (Pryor and Emery, 2004; Rayner, 2003). The UNCRC, and the theory and research valuing children as social agents, has recently led to a detectable shift in thinking and practice about the significance of children's views and participation in family law proceedings. This paper traces these changes within the New Zealand legal context and highlights the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to best facilitate children's engagement with the Family Court. 2016-06-27T04:22:54Z


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Kevin Durant looks ready to lead a new group of Americans to the gold-medal podium.
Durant picked up right where he left off in the 2012 Olympics with 25 points, and the U.S. men's basketball team routed China 119-62 on Saturday night in its opening game.
The new Golden State Warriors star scored 30 points four years ago in the gold-medal game, when the Americans held off Spain for the championship. Only he and Carmelo Anthony returned from that team, but the new guys were plenty ready for their Olympic moment.
"We just wanted to send a statement to the rest of the world," Anthony said. "Come out this first game and let everybody know that we're...


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"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true......"Woodrow Wilson
Oh this is so, so true. I must say since being in the shop environment I have seen a lot more of the world and how worried people are about everything. Some days I so wish that people realised at the end of the day it isn't about what we are in the world or how many things we have but it is about how you treat people, happiness, smiling and really just loving the journey... That is definitely the only lessons really I want my children to have and then to be themselves and let their lives unfold. Some people would call this naive but I call it LOVE!!!!! Have a simply magical week!!!!!
Well I can't believe it is over a month since I did my last post but the weeks of this year are just flying by..... The last day of winter break today and Andrew went to a friends house and Kirstie and I went and had a latte and looked at formal dresses. She will start her last Semester at school tomorrow, just incredible...When out looking at dresses we ran into our dear friends that we have known since we were both pregnant with our girls and they have grown up together, went to kindy, primary school and high school together.... They both went into change rooms with gorgeous black dresses and I just couldn't believe where the years had gone...I remember the girls doing a fashion parade for a children's wear shop when they were just walking and seriously that feels like just yesterday....Such different girls now but I think they will always be friends...and I love them both for that.... I wanted to show you a photo of my big boy...He is over 6 ft now and was looking pretty handsome in this photo I think.... he loves his sister to pieces... A little inspiration for this week...I hope everyone is smiling today, I know I sure am......
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
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