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The Supreme Court has nullified the Sowezi Central parliamentary seat held by MMD's Lucky Mulusa.
This follows a petition by losing Patriotic Front candidate Newton Malwa.
Acting Deputy Chief Justice Florence Mumba says Mr Mulusa's 2011 election victory was marred with corruption.
Justice Mumba in her judgment stated that Mr. Mulusa prior to the elections donated 1-thousand kwacha to Vwanganai Evangelical Church of Zambia and asked the congregants to vote for him.
It was further stated that the former Solwezi law maker also donated 100 Kwacha and promised to buy musical instruments for the church.
The nullification of Solwezi Central parliamentary seat brings the number of seats that have been nullified after the 2011 elections to 7.
Meanwhile, Mr Mulusa has told ZNBC news that he will not re-contest the seat but will go back to the people to seek their guidance.
Mr. Mulusa says there are other positions through which he can serve the people.
And the Supreme Court has declared UPND Kabompo west MP Ambrose Lufuma as the dully elected candidate.
A panel of Supreme Court judges comprising acting chief justice Lombe Chibesakunda, deputy chief justice Florence Mumba, Hildah Chilombo, Munyinda Wanki and Elizabeth Muyovwe said in the judgment that the high court misdirected itself when it held that the
lection of Mr. Mulusa after PF losing candidate Newton Malwa petitioned him on grounds of electoral malpractices to win the election lacked merit.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court has declared Mr Lufuma as the dully elected parliamentarian for Kabompo Westsaying the appeal by PF's losing candidate Joy Chijilo lacked merit.
Ms Justice Mumba said the Supreme was in support with the high court findings that MR CHIJILO'S witnesses were not credible as they were giving contradicting statement to the Court.


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They Dine in Hell, Apparently...
The color disappeared from my face when my father told me about who we were going to have dinner with later today. "The Brooks family is a lovable sort, Ethan," he said as he poured himself some coffee one sunny morning. He took his daily dose of caffeine -- black, of course. I, myself, sat there silently at the counter with a spoon of bran cereal in my mouth (yes, bran) and half-a-cup of orange juice in one hand, and what made me look worse was my blank expression which no one seemed to notice.
My cousin was sitting next to me, poking at his leftover Chinese food he had a habit of eating for breakfast while listening intently to my father. Riley, did after all, love a good dinner with people my father worked with. This apparently was the only subtle side of his need to party.
"So, uncle, the Brooks family...who are they exactly?" Riley asked slowly.
My father sat at the other side of the counter with his back facing Daniela, who was cleaning the dishes. He looked up at Riley briefly then back down to the morning paper on the table. "Mr. Brooks is a very recent business partner of mine. I thought to insure the continuation of our partnership, as well as its future, I suggested we'd get our families together to get to know each other better." My father said, not being as curt as he usually was.
At the corner of my eye, I saw Riley's cat-like grin appear. Oh boy, I thought to myself dryly, here comes the nastiness.
"So, this "Mr. Brooks"...? Does he have any children?" Riley asked, mocking innocent curiosity. My father stopped reading in the midst of taking a sip of coffee. He set his mug down and looked at Riley sternly, like a school teacher lecturing a bully. "Yes, two daughters," Riley's face instantly brightened, but dimmed quickly, "And before you get any ideas, the oldest is married and the youngest is Ethan's age or younger."
Riley became quiet for a while, but suddenly piped up, "Is the oldest happily married?"
I watched my father sigh and get up from the counter, taking his coffee with him. "Exceptionally happy, from what her father told me." He muttered before leaving the kitchen.
Riley shrugged and whispered to himself, "So the father says..."
"Not everyone is willing to sleep with you, Riley!" I heard my father yell from the hallway. I spat out my juice, half-coughing while trying not to laugh, unlike Daniela.
Though, in the midst of this comical breakfast, the fact that I was going to see Lynette again dawned over me once more. Now, Ethan, I mentally said to myself, what are you going to do to fix this?
After finishing my cereal, I practically dashed to my bedroom. Now, my room was actually a very foreign place to me. I mean, the only time was in here was to sleep (What? Did you think I slept in the study every night?), and to drop off my school bag. Unlike other teenagers, the study was my sanctuary rather than my bedroom.
Once I settled on my bed, which was unspeakably tidy, I flipped out my cell to call Ashley. I had her number on speed dial for cases such as these.
"....Hello?" The voice from the phone echoed, sounding rather drowsy.
"Ashley...Wait are you asleep?" I asked.
I heard her yawn. "No, quite the opposite, really. I'm at theater rehearsal, remember? I told you I would be here before you left my house last week."
Oh yeah...Ashley had signed up for theater to get extra credit. I think this time they were doing the musical, Wicked, and she wanted to help out with the costumes as well as make-up. "Yes, yes I remember. But you have rehearsals on Saturdays?"
"It's a dress rehearsal, Ethan! Like I would miss a dress rehearsal!" she practically screamed through the phone.
"Okay..." I drawled out slowly. "Anyway, Ash, I called for some advice on a new issue." As soon as I said that I heard her mood lighten up a bit. "Really now?" Ashley piped up eagerly. "Is this about your cousin, Riley? Because I know how to castrate a man..."
I sighed slowly. "No, Ashley. It's about Lynette." There was a moment a silence, so I continued to explain what was going on, "My family is having dinner with hers."
I was staring at myself in the mirror. Daniela forced me to wear something nice, so I was sporting a nice black suit. The jacket was left open, and the first buttons of the white I wore underneath were unbuttoned. Daniela also made me wear my "nice shoes" that I swear hadn't seen the light of day since my sixteenth birthday bash.
My blonde hair was ruffled and looked as though it was messed up on purpose. Daniela said I looked good, but I personally thought I looked as though I just woke up.
"Ooh, the Chace Crawford look, eh? It actually suits you, Ethan." I saw Riley standing in the doorway, with his hair jelled back making look much older than he actually was.
I scoffed and made a pose at the mirror. "It scares me to know that you know who that actor is, Ri." I heard him chuckle and he walked over to pat me on the shoulder. "You look good, dude." He muttered from behind me.
By the time we got to the car and started driving, it seemed far too soon when we arrived at the Brooks estate. I admit their house was a real beauty. Nice, big, and white with Classical Greek styled-columns and spacious, green gardens, but I knew that the house was pretty old compared to my family home, although I still found it impressive.
But what happened next, was just something I found ridiculously amusing for the rest of my life. There, skipping in a big black dress that was slightly hiked up was Lynette Brooks trying to make it to the front door. I didn't think that my father and my cousin had seen her yet because they were too caught up in a disagreement to acknowledge their surroundings, but I most certainly did.
And when she tripped....Ah...that image shall forever be imprinted into my mind.
Feeling bad for her, I jogged towards her as she sat there in pure embarrassment. "Need a hand?" I said softly, lending it out for her to take.
Lynette's mouth opened and closed several times like a fish; her face was completely blank. I grinned a little, but put my hand out a little further. She stared at it for a moment, but eventually took it and lifted herself up.
Bending over to dust herself off, I was stifling back a laugh when the front doors opened and a woman came out and particularly gasped, "Lynette!", very, very loudly.
Lynette stood up straight in a split second. She attempted to walk, but I saw her wince in pain and she instantly grabbed hold of me. Her grip was painfully strong around my waist. "Hi, Alexis," Lynette said sweetly, clutching me tighter. "I was just welcoming our guests and since I was so happy to see Ethan, I decided to give him a great. Big. Hug." Then the giant, bone shattering hug came into play, and I swear I think I cracked a rib.
I mentally sighed heavily. And so, I face the fury of Lynette Brooks.


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Dark Corners Of You...
There are no corners in the mind.
No limitations to what you can achieve even when it is subtly implied since birth you will acomplish nothing in life.
That you are nothing,that you should not have been born.
The amount of rubish in dumpt on a child because they are easy targets it is amazing!!....
And sad
I remenber the times I would(i am a very light sleeper),not sleep and just lay in the dark and pray this was not my real family.
That somewhere out there existed a family that was waiting for me to come home,that they love me.
I dont do that anymore instead I do not acknowledge any of my relatives,including the one who gave birth to me.
I am solitude.
If solitude was a person.
I spend my time at work or alone either at home or in places my body rests.
I am me,whatever that is.


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Telephone: 8332 4799
Post: 357 Greenhill Rd,
Toorak Gardens, SA, 5065
Named after joint Nobel Prize recipients, Sir William Bragg and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg, the seat has been held by Liberal Members since its creation in 1970.
The Bragg electorate currently includes the following suburbs and towns: Ashton, Basket Range, Beaumont, Burnside, Carey Gully,
Cleland, Crafers, Dulwich, Erindale, Glen Osmond, Greenhill, Hazelwood Park,
Heathpool, Horsnell Gully, Kensington Park, Leabrook, Leawood Gardens, Linden
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Former Premier David Tonkin (1970-83), former Deputy Premier Graham Ingerson (1983-02), and current Deputy State Liberal Leader Vickie Chapman (2002-) have represented local constituents in the South Australian Parliament.
Local residents are encouraged to contact the electorate office with any queries or issues they would like addressed.


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The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed utilityman Alfredo Amezaga to a minor league deal with an invite to spring training at Camelback Ranch. Amazaga, 34, hasn't played int he majors since 2011 when he played for the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins. He struggled that season and only received 87 plate appearances. He couldn't get his numbers above the Mendoza line, batting just .187 in his short time in the majors. He had an on-base percentage of just .247 and an abysmal slugging percentage of just .195. However, Amezaga won the Mexican League batting title this winter, giving hope that he can continue to progress. In the Mexican League he had a solid batting average of .344 with an on-base percentage of .384 and a slugging percentage of .480 in 227 official at-bats. Amezaga has the ability to play several positions. In 2011 he played second base, third base, short stop, left field and right field. In the seasons before, the majority of his playing time came at center field. If his bat has indeed finally come around, he could prove to be a viable utility infielder off the bench that the Dodgers have been looking for. Drafted by the Anaheim Angels in the 13th round of the 1999 amateur draft out of St. Petersburg College in Florida, he has also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates as well as the Angels. Related Posts:…Or Maybe Not, Colletti Signs Weaver and AmezagaDodgers Acquire Schumaker from St. LouisMatt Kemp Makes His Mark In Dodgers History2010 Dodgers Complete Minor League SigningsDodgers Rivera Joins Disabled List Party
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Energy systems are among the most complex and consequential technological systems. They have manifold impacts on both society and the environment, shaping economic and social opportunities and threatening harm on a planetary scale. Tracing the evolution of these systems and conceiving societal interventions that will nudge them in new directions is a crucial area of my research. In 2016-2017, I am serving as a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, organizing events and writing about low-carbon energy innovation policy for the United States. In 2015-2016, I worked with public policy doctoral students Kurt Birson and Alfred Sarkissian to prepare case studies of grid-scale batteries and solar photovoltaic electricity generation for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis.
This work builds on the book Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System (MIT Press 2011), written with Richard K. Lester, the head of the MIT nuclear science and engineering department. Based on a three year study with colleagues at MIT's Industrial Performance Center and supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the book envisions an energy innovation system that is not only larger than today's, but also more diverse, more competitive, more entrepreneurial, and more deeply-rooted in the country's regional strengths.


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No, the bed is dry
Your mother shook you awake. "Come on honey, it's time for school!" she says. You wake up and realize that you didn't wet the bed. If you did it now, your mom would be suspicious and know that you did it on purpose so you went to the bathroom.
While in your homeroom, you feel the need to poop. Deciding that this would get you into diapers, you let go and filled your pants. After doing so, your teacher looks at you in disgust and sends you to the nurse.
In the hall, you pass by your crush, Abigail or Abby for short. You don't want her to see you like this, but sadly she does notice. How does she react?


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Top teams keep stumbling against the Kansas City Royals.
Luke Hudson stymied Oakland on five hits in seven innings, leading the Royals to a 7-1 victory in a doubleheader opener Friday night that sent the AL West-leading Athletics to just their second loss in 14 games.
"I don't know what it is," Royals manager Buddy Bell said. "I don't think we play any different."
Hudson (6-4) combined with Jimmy Gobble and Joel Peralta on a six-hitter. The A's, who began the day with a six-game division lead, had won six straight overall and 17 of 20 coming in, and they had won 12 in a row at Kansas City since May 30, 2003, outscoring the Royals 95-30 in that span.
Ryan Shealy had three hits and two RBI for Kansas City, which swept a three-game series at home against the Boston Red Sox from Aug. 8-10. The Royals, who had 15 hits, have the worst record in the major leagues at 44-79.
"At the point we're at, we don't consider anybody a bad team," Bell said.
In his previous start last Sunday in Cleveland, Hudson gave up 11 runs -- 10 earned -- in one-third of an inning, allowing the first 10 batters to reach base. He gave up hits to two of Oakland's first three batters before settling down.
"It was so bad last time I had to take some jokes and laugh about it," Hudson said. "I just had to let it go. I'm not going to let that get me. They told me that the last time it happened was a century ago.
"My four-seam command was a lot better today. I threw a lot more four-seam fastballs than I have been throwing. I was able to get it in and out of the zone and keep it down."
Bell was pleased to see the turnaround.
"At no time did I think it was going to be a repeat," he said. "The kid has pitched too well since he's been here. We all deserve a mulligan every once in a while."
Oakland manager Ken Macha was not surprised by Hudson's performance either.
"Previous performance has no bearing on what happens that day," he said. "You make good pitches you get 'em out. He made good pitches today."
Joe Blanton (13-10) gave up two runs and eight hits in six innings. While he didn't walk any batters, he hit two with pitches.
Kansas City took a 2-1 lead in the sixth on Joey Gathright's sacrifice fly, which followed Emil Brown's leadoff single, a single by Shealy on a liner in front of left fielder Jay Payton, Paul Bako's sacrifice and a hit by pitch against Angel Berroa.
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Milton Bradley put Oakland ahead in the first with an RBI single, but Mike Sweeney hit a run-scoring double in the third.
- Oakland played its first doubleheader since June 8, 2003, when it was swept at Philadelphia. The A's have not swept a twinbill since Aug. 22, 1998, against Detroit.
- Kansas City played its 200th doubleheader, its second in seven days.
- David DeJesus was hit by a pitch leading off the first inning. It was the 10th time this season he has been hit, which tied him for fourth in the AL.
- Kansas City was 5-for-17 with runners in scoring position after going 7-for-40 in its previous four games.


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Shalyapin Palace Hotel, Kazan
- Free WiFi in lobby and free parking
Main amenities
- 123 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- Massage/treatment rooms
- Business center
- Airport shuttle
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Garden
What's around
- In Ploshchad Tukaya
- Soviet Lifestyle Museum (0 mi / 0.1 km)
- Bauman Street (0.1 mi / 0.1 km)
- Anatomical Museum (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Millennium Park (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- Kazan State University (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
Shalyapin Palace Hotel, Kazan
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $46
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed
- Suite
- Suite
- Studio, 1 Bedroom
- Presidential Suite
- Studio, 2 Bedrooms
- Standard Double Room Single Use
- Studio, 2 Bedrooms
- Standard Twin Room
- Standard Twin Room
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- Standard Room, 1 King Bed
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 123 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 5 floors
- Check-in time starts at 2:00 PM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one *
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (7 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Restrictions apply *
- Pets allowed (dogs and cats only)
- Free WiFi in public areas
- WiFi in rooms *
- Train station pickup *
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free self parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
In the hotel
- Full breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Sauna
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 8
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
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Special features
DiningCapella - This buffet restaurant specializes in Russian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Piano Bar - This lobby lounge specializes in international cuisine and serves dinner and light fare.
Shalyapin Palace Hotel, Kazan's small print
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- Shalyapin Hotel
- Shalyapin Palace
- Shalyapin Palace Hotel
- Shalyapin Palace Hotel Kazan
- Shalyapin Palace Kazan
If you require a visa to enter the country, your property may be able to help with the supporting documents needed to obtain one. To learn more, you can reach out to the property via the contact details included on your booking confirmation. The property may charge for this assistance, even if you end up cancelling your reservation. All arrangements are solely between the property and yourself.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- A mandatory registration fee for foreign citizens is charged at this property.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Cribs/Infant beds are available for RUB 580 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of RUB 1500 per vehicle (roundtrip)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for an extra charge
Train station pick-up service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.4 /5 from 44 reviews
Good location
was rhe first place I been in Russia that people wasn't rude. form the doorman to the restaurant staff were extremely nice and helpful
Hotel is located right in downtown and close to Kremlin, shopping center, metro and restaurants.Great location. Rooms are small. The personnel is very pleasant, outstanding service. Receptionists speak good English. There is no safe-box in rooms so one has to leave valuables in the safe-box at the reception. Free continental breakfast is tolerable. The internet is the weak point of this hotel. It offers free internet in the lobby but if you want to have it in your room they will charge a very high price - 20$/day (700 roubles/day). There is a piano in the lounge but once I tried to play (after asking a permission from the bar attendant) the security came and told me that it is not permitted - there was no sign saying that one cannot play it. Overall it is a good hotel and I enjoyed staying there.
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In the Netherlands € 2.5 billion worth of food is thrown away each year. Fruits and vegetables account for a high share and are often thrown away not because they are uneatable, but sometimes simply due to being oddly shaped or colored.
Among regular exercise, a health diet that includes a variety of fruits and vegetables is an important element of living healthy. Fruits and vegetables are not only a source of fibres, but also contain micronutritions that support a variety of body functions.
In recent years a trend towards increased awareness and efforts towards maintaining a healthy lifestyle and diet has been particularly noticeable among students. However, students are often constraint by tight budgets and affordable fruits and vegetables are a high priority for many.


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Observation Exercise
This exercise will help you practice your customer observation skills and also help you to develop a broader range of ideas for the project. Simply watching potential customer behaviors (unobtrusively) and talking to people is an excellent way to identify product opportunities. Any time that you are out and about is an opportunity to observe!
This exercise is scheduled to help your 2.009 project idea generation in the second week of lab.
There is also an optional, special tutorial on Friday, September 16 at 5 PM in 3-370 to help you develop skills for observing and learning from potential users.
One member of your lab section should complete the web form below and submit it for your entire section. After picking your section in the combination box, assign each section member to one venue to go and observe. Since there are more options than section members, all places will not be assigned. After all section members have been assigned, submit the form. Your section and the course instructor will receive an email with the venue assignments.
Details of how to complete your observation task are with the observation submission instructions.
Venue list with suggestions
|an airport
|an art museum
|Council for Arts at MIT provides free general admission for MIT students to the Harvard Art Museums, Institute of Contemporary Art, and Museum of Fine Arts (details)
|an art studio
|MIT Student Art Association, MIT Glass Lab, Mucky Kids Art Studio in Cambridge
|a children's museum
|Boston Children's Museum has $1 admission on Friday nights 5-9pm
MIT Museum has Paper Circuits Idea Hub program noon-4pm on Sunday, 9/18 (free admission with MIT ID)
|a composting or recycling center
|Cambridge has 4 drop-off food scrap locations
Cambridge recycling center is open Saturdays 9am-4pm
Earthworm Recyclers
|a construction site
|a dog park
|Boston and Cambridge dog parks
|a fair or festival
|things to do in Cambridge on Saturday, including Curious George Birthday Bash, Danehy Park Family Day, Revels RiverSing
Eastern Massachusetts list, including The Big E
|a farm
|Belmont Acres Farm in Belmont (farmstand open Saturdays 1-5pm), Drumlin Farm in Lincoln
|a fire station
|a garage
|search for "auto repair shops" to get a list of ones nearby
|a gym
|Harvard Square
|a homeless shelter
|Directory of shelters in the Cambridge & Boston area
Food pantries and/or soup kitchens
|a hospital
|a makerspace
|Artisan's Asylum, a community fabrication center in Somerville (tours at 2 & 4pm on Sat/Sun)
Parts and Crafts, a kid's makerspace in Somerville has open shop on Saturday, noon-2pm.
|an orchard
|Massachusetts Pick Your Own Farm listings
|Have an idea for a great place to do your observation exercise? Let us know where your'd like to go!
|a park
|Quincy Market
|a race
|Survival Beach race on Saturday, 9/17 in Revere, MA (North of Boston, Revere Beach MBTA Station)
Your First Mud Run on Sunday, 9/18 in Holyoke, MA (Western MA - need car)
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|a shipping and receiving location
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The Business Academy Bexley has spent almost £300,000 fixing leaks, flaking steelwork and broken boilers in the £31 million Norman Foster-designed building.
Difficulties attracting pupils and staff meant the academy was forced to pay teachers "over the odds" to work at the school, in deprived Thamesmead.
The academy, sponsored by property developer Sir David Garrard, was one of the first of the Government's semi-independent, state-funded schools.
At its launch in 2003, Tony Blair hailed the academy as "the future" of state education, but results have remained low.
The academy's chief executive Sam Elms said she hoped redundancies would not be necessary to reduce the £500,000 deficit, caused largely by a building which is "incredibly expensive to run".
"It has had a number of huge problems, including the paint peeling off the steel-work, leaks, boilers that have broken," she said.
"We have spent probably about £280,000 of that deficit on the building. We have paid slightly over the odds for members of teaching staff because it has been difficult to recruit staff in Thamesmead and to retain them."
A high turnover of headteachers meant the academy was forced to hire the current principal, Christina Moon, at short notice last summer.
Both Ms Elms and Ms Moon earn between £120,000 and £130,000. Ms Elms said Ms Moon was "worth her weight in gold".
The academy has been left short of state funding, which is allocated per pupil. It has capacity for 1,350 pupils aged three to 19, but only 1,100 are on the roll.
The academy was placed on a hit list of failing schools two years ago but has been taken off after recording its best GCSE results last summer.
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Gr3g3: Since Wayne Weaver clearly stated that the team would stay away from big free agent signing this offseason, do you think this is something that will stay with the Jaguars for a long period of time, or do you expect them to jump right back in the free agent pool after a year or two off?
Philosophies are constantly changing in the NFL, but the Jaguars face greater economic challenges than many teams with the size of the market and a non-established fanbase. This is a franchise that must overachieve to keep its proverbial head above water, and reckless spending is not in their "game plan." Don't expect the Jaguars to have an offseason strategy similar to that of the Washington Redskins anytime soon, especially considering the $100+ million they spent last offseason in contracts and the minimal return they received.
Gr3g3: Also, With Barnes most likely walking, should the team try to draft a tackle in the first round? If the top tackles are gone by the time we pick, would you expect us to trade down, or look at another area of need?
I'm a firm believer in the best available player drafting theory, but if Khalif Barnes indeed moves on, and all signs point to that happening, the team really doesn't have anyone behind him that can step in so they would be forced to address the left tackle position in the draft sooner than later. Assuming all of the top-rated tackles are gone by pick eight, the smart move would be to attempt to trade down assuming there are teams looking to move up, which may be easier said than done. If that isn't possible, the team should indeed address another of the many areas of need.
IowaJag: The Jaguars have stated in the past they follow the BAP philosophy, which was obviously not the case. Why should we trust Gene Smith to truely follow BAP? Also, what kind of relationship will he and Del Rio have?
You never know what a team's draft board looks like because the main board is guarded better than Fort Knox, so we can only assume that the team didn't follow the BAP philosophy in the past (and I would assume that). Can you trust Gene Smith? I don't know, but you have no choice, he's the new general manager. As for the relationship between he and Del Rio, it doesn't really matter because Smith is in charge. If there is any conflict it is likely that the media and fans would never know about it.
SuperEWD: Derrick Harvey, Quentin Groves, and Mkristo Bruce are young and signed through next year, but who is going to be cut at the DE position next year? Someone has to go. Are there any players on the team that are Gene Smith favorites? Or are there players on the team that were solely on the team because of Gene Smith? If so, do you think this could play into who stays and who goes?
I'm pretty confident that the team will keep the best talent at defensive end, keeping in mind the players ages when evaluating their upside. A good general manager's "favorites" will be the players he believes will perform on the field, or else he and his favorites will all be looking for new jobs.
JagHombre22: The Jaguars are way under the cap, Maurice Jones-Drew wants a new contract, Sensabaugh is a free agent but is becoming a good safety, and Khalif Barnes seems to be walking away from the Jaguars without at least an offer to stay. How do you convince Wayne Weaver to spend the necessary money to appease all three?
Convincing Wayne Weaver to part with his money was easy last year and it helped lead to a 5-11 season. Unless there are some incriminating photos available of Weaver, it is highly unlikely that anyone will be able to convince Weaver to pay many more big signing bonuses after being burned so bad so recently.
Tealout435: What must the Jaguars do to compete for a division title next season?
There's a lot of work that needs to be done. David Garrard needs to play like the Garrard of the 2007 season, the offensive line must get healthy and be dominant, the wide receiver position needs to make more plays, the defensive line has to stop the run and be able to rush the passer, and the secondary needs to cover better. If all of those things happen and Tennessee, Indianapolis, and Houston all take steps back, sure the Jaguars can compete for a division title.
Sec124Cap: Do you think Tim Shaw will make the team next year? I love him...
Do I think he'll make the team? I'm picking him for Defensive Player of the Year and Offensive Player of the Year. He'll narrowly miss out on Special Teams Player of the Year.
Jaggator1: Do you think Jack Del Rio will end up being the DC for next season?
No. If Jack is the DC, who will he fire after the season?
RJinTampa: Will Fred Taylor finish his career as a Jaguar?
To be perfectly honest, I think that decision is entirely up to Fred. If he's going to be a member of the team in 2009 he'll likely have to take a significant pay cut and work out in Jacksonville, both things he may not be willing to do.
Midstater: How does the importance of this offseason compare to others in the team's history? Could it be classified as the most important one given last year's record?
Every offseason is the most important offseason in team history. The team needs to rebuild quickly before some of the fans that the team relies on to sell seats give up on them because they're no longer a winner. Winning and losing goes in cycles in the NFL and the fans must be patient.
Midstater: How much do you think the landscape of the AFC South will change with Dungy no longer in Indy?
If you're asking about the Colts taking a step back I don't think it will happen. As long as they have Peyton Manning they will be a very good regular season team. Bob Sanders only played in six games and they still went 12-4.
Jagsfan30: I know things can not be made right over night, but how long do you think Wayne Weaver will give Gene Smith? Who has more juice right now, Gene Smith or Jack Del Rio?
Good, stable organizations don't fire head coaches and GM's after just a year or two. Gene Smith has a major task ahead of him and as long as the team is heading in the right direction, I can't see Wayne Weaver dismissing him anytime soon. As for "the juice," Del Rio had it last year, throughout last offseason and he helped turn a Super Bowl contender into a last-place team. It's Gene Smith's turn.
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In priase, eventually, of Russell Martin
The first question posed to Clint Hurdle in the immediate aftermath of his team having taken two of three games from the Los Angeles Dodgers was about a supposedly-injured pierogi.
The last question was about Russell Martin.
The response on Martin and the effect he's had since joining the Pirates was worth the wait.
"Across the board he brings a significant edge to everything he touches," Hurdle assessed. "He probably has impacted a pitching staff more than any other catcher I've ever had, every pitcher.
"He's made every pitcher better."
Like last season, the Pirates have probably gotten more out of their pitching staff this season than they had a right to reasonably expect given all of the moving parts that have once again been involved.
So far, at least, they've survived injuries in the starting rotation and changing closers in mid-stream.
And they've gotten surprising if not stunning mileage out of this year's reclamation projects, Edinson Volquez and Vance Worley.
GM Neal Huntington deserves credit for that.
So do Hurdle and pitching coach Ray Searage.
But Martin might deserve more credit than anyone.
And the impact he's had has been felt far beyond what Martin has been able to accomplish with the pitchers.
"Everything he does, he talks baseball all the time with these guys, he challenges guys in the dugout, the pitchers, everything," Hurdle continued. "There's not anybody that he won't challenge or have a hard conversation with, him and I, all of it."
On the field Martin is probably the Pirates' second-most valuable player, behind Andrew McCutchen.
Off the field Martin might have no peer in terms of what he means to his teammates and to the team.
"It's a baseball guy that loves to compete, loves to play, hates to lose," Hurdle said, "and shows up every day ready to crank it up again."


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By Keith N Fisher
To those who read my blog each week: I'm sorry. I got caught up in stuff and didn't post last week. It's the first time I've missed, but I feel like a flake.
I took a turning point chapter to critique group this week. It was one of those, put your character in peril so they can overcome, type of things, but it wasn't strong enough. After getting feedback about the writing, I asked my group what they thought. Should I make it stronger? Does the character need more peril?
The next several minutes were spent bouncing plot twist ideas off each other and I came away with a renewed sense of purpose. I was reminded of the old axiom, coined by others, in act one, put your characters in a tree. Act two, throw rocks at your character. Act three, get your character out of the tree.
I once heard Josi Killpack add more to it. She suggested that we throw rocks and set fire to the tree. We shouldn't be in a hurry to get our characters out of peril because it doesn't give them a chance to grow, and it isn't believable.
I'm also reminded of how this relates to real life. Every one of us has problems. I prefer to call them trials because overcoming them helps us grow. Eventually, passing through enough trials will help us be the people God intended us to be.
After critique, I began to think of myself as a sadist who enjoys putting my beloved characters into terrible circumstances. Then I remembered the axiom above. If I want to write a great book, I must turn on the heat of tribulations. I'm not sadistic, I'm a loving creator.
May you have the courage to be cruel to your characters. Help your protagonists grow, but go easy on the antagonists.
Good luck with your writing---see you next week.
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The day after Thanksgiving, Robbie Ftorek was having dinner at a friend's house when his phone rang unexpectedly.
"It was a surprise," he said, describing himself as "not much of a phone guy." But, when he saw an unknown number, he thought he should answer it.
On the other end was Norfolk Admirals president Michael Santos, who shared three calls with him over the next two days and ultimately offered Ftorek the head-coaching job in Norfolk.
In hockey, major changes like this often develop quickly.
On Saturday night, during the time Santos and Ftorek were still talking, the Admirals imploded on the ice again, allowing five unanswered goals in the third period and losing 5-1 to the South Carolina Stingrays. Twenty-four hours later, Santos hired Ftorek to replace Rod Aldoff, the man appointed by the Edmonton Oilers last summer as Norfolk's coach.
"I told him I would fly him in," said Santos, "and (Ftorek) said, 'No, I am going to pack up my car and I'll be there tomorrow.' "
So, he drove from New Hampshire the next day. By Tuesday afternoon, Ftorek was at Scope and called a mandatory, two-hour team practice that didn't end until 8 p.m.
Santos admitted the decision to remove Aldoff just 17 games into his stint as coach of Norfolk's ECHL team didn't happen overnight.
The final straw came when the Admirals lost three games in three days.
"When we weren't able to win at all on the road this past weekend, that is when we decided to make the move," he said.
In Ftorek, Santos found what he hopes is the experienced and successful salve for a hemorrhaging Norfolk squad that has only won twice this season and owns the worst record in the ECHL.
"When there's the lack of success we've had here, and there's a coach like Ftorek out there, you don't wait," he said. "They're not available often, and they're not available long."
Despite beginning his 27th year coaching professional hockey this week, Ftorek seems to approach this opportunity with youthful anticipation.
"All I'm thinking about is getting my first game," he said. That will come at home at 7:30 tonight against Reading.
It is deeper than that for him as well. He believes players must prove they deserve a spot on the team, but acknowledges that he "has to sell (himself) to them," too.
In some ways, his experience speaks for itself: 334 NHL games, an Olympic silver medal, membership in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. He's also a two-time AHL Coach of the Year, led the Albany River Rats to a Calder Cup Championship in 1995 and has his name engraved on the Stanley Cup.
"He's a winner," Admirals forward John Kurtz said. "He's won at all levels. It's very respectable."
Norfolk captain Josh Brittain looked at things more practically. He said the team's first two practices were "incredible," describing Ftorek as "detail-oriented." He added that with Ftorek watching over them, they "can't really get away with anything, even the smallest, minor detail."
Long-term goals haven't been established yet, but Ftorek said he knows they must play exceptionally well to overcome this woeful start to the season. For now, he's focused on the day-to-day.
"I can't worry about tomorrow until we take care of today," he said.
Ftorek's plan for this team is still under development, too. But, his philosophy is simple, and his message is clear: Do what I say.
"There is no right way to play the game of hockey; there's no wrong way to play the game of hockey," he said. "It's just the way your coach wants you to play. It's the same in any business. Whatever the boss says, that's what you should be doing. If you're not doing it, then you probably won't be around for long."


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Outside the building on the first day of the public hearing of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, representatives from the Care Leavers Australia Network (Clan), an advocacy and support group for people who grew up in Australian institutions and suffered abuse, gathered in the wind and rain to make their presence felt.
Inside, the commission would hear from two men who were assaulted as children by their former scout leader, the since-convicted paedophile Steven Larkins. It also heard from former scout leaders and employees who faced the hearing to answer questions as to how a man who was the subject of police investigations and numerous allegations of suspicious behaviour was allowed to remain working with children for years.
In his opening address, Justice Peter McClellan said: "I did not adequately appreciate the devastation and long-lasting effect which sexual abuse, however inflicted, can have on an individual's life.
"It is reported to us that when it occurs in residential institutions, sexual abuse is almost always accompanied by almost unbelievable levels of physical violence.
"Many of the stories we are hearing will shock people."
Clan member Yvette Parr and her two sisters spent about two years in the 1950s in the Convent of the Good Shepherd in Melbourne, where Parr said they faced abuse and neglect after being abandoned by their father.
"We were subjected to some, I don't even know how to explain it," said Parr, trailing off.
"My little sister started wetting the bed again and the nuns made her wear the knickers on her head and wet sheets around her shoulders and paraded her around and called her 'smelly'. Awful stuff.
"[My sisters] don't want to be here but they don't stop me – they support me because I'm here for them, too."
Parr – who said she was also sexually abused as a child – has never had counselling and doesn't know what she wants to hear at the commission.
Sunday was a sleepless night for her. She said she didn't know that Larkins had gone on to work at Kendall Grange, a school for troubled boys where more than a dozen former students allege they were abused by a St John of God brother during the 1970s and 1980s.
"I'm here to support these kids and the people that have got the courage to be here today," she said. "Just so they know that they are loved. Because we're family to them.
"I'm here to tell my story because I back up what happened to the other kids."
Clan executive officer Leonie Sheedy said the group had been calling for this royal commission since Clan was established in 2000, when 300 people attended its first meeting in Ashfield. Sheedy said they were naive to have held the meeting in a church – many people were too traumatised to enter a building that represented the abuse they suffered as children.
For close to 15 years Clan has lobbied for the royal commission, a Senate inquiry and a compensation scheme. Members sent 10,000 postcards to former prime minister Julia Gillard, who announced the commission in 2012.
"I want a light shone on this hidden history," Sheedy told Guardian Australia.
"There are 500,000 Australians who were raised in the 800 or more orphanages and children's homes, and we're invisible.
"We haven't spoken about our trauma and abuse and neglect because as children we were told that we were no-hopers in life, that we were going to end up as prostitutes and in jail. It takes us half our lifetime to find our voice, if we do at all."
Sheedy and her fellow Clan members hope that their presence encourages more people to come forward with their story and shift the burden of shame "squarely on the government, the churches and the charities who failed in their duty of care to you as a child".
"Don't take this story to the grave, because your story won't do anybody any good in the coffin," she said.


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Hi all,
I have a My Book Live, i use it for store security database. So now i want to set a password for Public folder in My Book Live. I try to do the same the direction below but it didn't work.
How can i set password for that folder or remove that folder or disable it
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06-03-2012 05:11 PM - last edited on 06-03-2012 05:13 PM
This one is easy.
Enable SSH.
Download a Secure Telnet client like PUTTY if you're using Windows.
Log into to MyBook Live's Linux operating system.
Use the **nano** text editor to alter a file named /etc/trustees.conf
Change it to:
Also make the same change to /tmp/trustees.mod
Finally use this command:
settrustees -f /tmp/trustees.mod
If you change the Public share using the Dashboard UI you will need to re-apply the changes above but why you would wish to change the Public Share in the Dashboard is a bit beyond me as all you can do is change its comment.
With this change ONLY the owner user (or admin ) has access to the Public share. Even works for FTP. The FTP client will be able to see the Public share but won't be able to access it.
I'm not sure how this will affect the iTunes server and the DLNA server.)
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing
I don't like the whole idea of changing the Public shares but some users might find this helpful
For standard users it will be much easier just create a private share and not store any data to the Public folder.
When I trty to access /etc/trustees.conf, I get "permission denied". This is when I log in with username:root password:welc0me. Why is this!?!?


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"Johnathen, you know you can't come down here?" I hiss at him as I open the basement door.
"Well at least bring me some up" Johnathen says his eyes flicking to Cindy.
"Fine" I sigh. "Cindy, keep him here"
I run back down the stairs. "It's okay, Robert. He's not coming down" I say. He gets out of his hiding place and sits down.
I grab a plate then scoop a selection of food on to the plate. Then standing up just as I'm about to turn around.
"What will happen if he see's me?" Robert asks.
"He'll kick my ass but luckily wont call the police..... Possibly kick you out" I say then run back up the stairs.
As I approach the top, I slow down then completely stop. Johnathen has Cindy pressed against the wall and is kissing her passionately. Cindy's hand are caressing his face.
While I know there feelings for each other I find my self frozen and blinking continuely. Then Cindy spots me. She pulls back and Johnathen turns to spot me sighing.
He moves one arm out of the way then Cindy race's off down the stairs. "Well that was weird" I note.
He raises an eyebrow then stands up properly. "Thanks for coming up at just that moment. It was brilliant timing" He says sarcastically.
"Glad to help.... Here" I shove the plate at him. He takes it and places it on the table outside the basement door.
"What are you hiding down there Rose?" he asks. "This can't be about Cindy's sister"
I freeze and Johnathen takes the advantage to move quickly past me then down the stairs. "Noo" I call after him and follow him down. He's frozen at the bottom and I see him staring across at Robert Carter.
Johnathen turns on me. "Get him out now..... Seriously, Its not just who he is but I'm have three FBI's and one police officer over in two hours"
I freeze.
"Oh, crud" Cindy whispers.


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Are environmental characteristics in the municipal eldercare, more closely associated with frequent short sick leave spells among employees than with total sick leave: a cross-sectional study
Environmental and occupational health
It has been suggested that frequent-, short-term sick leave is associated with work environment factors, whereas long-term sick leave is associated mainly with health factors. However, studies of the hypothesis of an association between a poor working environment and frequent short spells of sick leave are few and results are inconsistent. Therefore, we aimed to explore associations between self-reported psychosocial work factors and workplace-registered frequency and length of sick leave in the eldercare sector.
Employees from the municipal eldercare in Aarhus (N = 2,534) were included. In 2005, they responded to a work environment questionnaire. Sick leave records from 2005 were dichotomised into total sick leave days (0–14 and above 14 days) and into spell patterns (0–2 short, 3–9 short, and mixed spells and 1–3 long spells). Logistic regression models were used to analyse associations; adjusted for age, gender, occupation, and number of spells or sick leave length.
The response rate was 76%; 96% of the respondents were women. Unfavourable mean scores in work pace, demands for hiding emotions, poor quality of leadership and bullying were best indicated by more than 14 sick leave days compared with 0–14 sick leave days. For work pace, the best indicator was a long-term sick leave pattern compared with a non-frequent short-term pattern. A frequent short-term sick leave pattern was a better indicator of emotional demands (1.62; 95% CI: 1.1-2.5) and role conflict (1.50; 95% CI: 1.2-1.9) than a short-term non-frequent pattern.
Age (= < 40 / >40 years) statistically significantly modified the association between the 1–3 long-term sick leave spell pattern and commitment to the workplace compared with the 3–9 frequent short-term pattern.
Total sick leave length and a long-term sick leave spell pattern were just as good or even better indicators of unfavourable work factor scores than a frequent short-term sick leave pattern. Scores in commitment to the workplace and quality of leadership varied with sick leave pattern and age. Thus, different sick leave measures seem to be associated with different work environment factors. Further studies on these associations may inform interventions to improve occupational health care.
The public sector in general and the municipal health care sector in particular is challenged by high sick leave rates among home-care personnel
The National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE) conducted a national survey of the municipal eldercare in Denmark in 2004–2005
It has been suggested that frequent short-term sick leave is associated with work environment factors, whereas long-term sick leave is associated mainly with ill health and reduced workability
Generally, younger age is related to a higher frequency of spells
Apart from the effect of age, inconsistencies in the reported associations between work factors and sick leave are considerable. This was suggested to be due partly to the different measures of sick leave themselves
The high levels of sick leave in the elderly care indicate that early detection of unfavourable changes in the working environment may be instrumental in maintaining the employees' wellbeing, productivity and viability within the institution or company. According to the literature, an association between total sick leave length and a poor working environment may be more likely to be due to a frequent short-term sick leave pattern than a non-frequent long-term sick leave pattern
This study draws on workplace-registered sick leave data to explore if sick leave patterns, i.e. the number of short-term sick leave spells or merely their duration, are associated with self-reported, unfavourable psychosocial work factors. If associations can be identified, the employers' sick leave register may be a fruitful source for initiating preventive work environment measures.
This study aims to explore associations between sick leave patterns and psychosocial work factors in elderly care and thereby enhance the potential for using the employers' sick leave register to launch interventions aimed at improving the working environment and, hence, the employees' wellbeing, productivity and viability.
A cross-sectional design was chosen because we wanted to use sick leave measures as an indicator of a poor working environment; not to study causal pathways.
We used workplace-registered sick leave data from municipal eldercare workers in Aarhus, Denmark. Questionnaire data on the working environment were collected by the NRCWE, Copenhagen in 2005.
Study population
Survey data on psychosocial work factors were merged with workplace-registered sick leave records from 2005. Sick leave from 2005 was chosen because all of the respondents had answered the questionnaire at some point between 18 February and 18 July 2005. Employees were included if they had been employed and had been working throughout 2005 and had received a questionnaire (N = 3,346) (Figure
Figure 1
Flowchart of the selection of eldercare employees into the study
Flowchart of the selection of eldercare employees into the study.
Sick leave patterns
Data on absence in 2005 were retrieved from the workplace records, which also contained stated reasons for each absence spell. Only spells related to sick leave were included. The dates of the first and the last day of each sick leave spell were available for each individual. A sick leave spell was counted in calendar days regardless of whether all of these days were work days. Overlapping, consecutive or duplicate sick leave spells were merged into a single spell.
First, sick leave was measured as the total number of sick leave days including all spells ended in 2005. We dichotomised this measure into 0–14 days and 15–581 days
Second, sick leave was categorised into patterns with short, long or a combination of short and long spells. We defined short spells as spells lasting zero to seven calendar days. This definition has also been used in other studies
Based on the above-mentioned measures, the sick leave patterns were:
Length of sick leave per year:
Spell patterns:
Psychosocial work environment factors
The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ)
The environmental factors suggested to be the most important variables in explaining the self-reported high levels of sick leave among eldercare workers
Socio-demographics and potential confounders
Age (= <
Statistical analyses
Univariable and multivariable logistic regression models were applied to find associations between total sick leave days/spell patterns and unfavourable scores in work factors and general health.
In the first analysis, using total sick leave days as the independent variable, we adjusted the model for age, gender, occupation and number of spells (
In the second analysis, using spell pattern as the independent variable (0–2 short-term sick leave spells was the reference), we adjusted the models for age, gender, occupation and total sick leave days categorised in four (
In the third analysis, using spell pattern as the independent variable, we again performed the same adjustments as mentioned in the second analysis. Based on the literature, we expected that unfavourable work factor scores and total sick leave length were more likely to be due to frequency of spells than duration, and that this association would be more pronounced among young employees than among their older colleagues. Long-term spells, on the other hand, were believed to be more strongly associated with poor general health than short-term spells. In this analysis, emphasis was on the odds of having unfavourable work factor scores / general health scores among eldercare workers with many short spells compared with few, but long spells (reference). We also sought to establish whether these associations were stronger among young employees than among older colleagues by including an interaction term between age and spell pattern.
The scale reliability coefficient (Cronbach's alpha) of work factors used from the COPSOQ was calculated. To establish whether the work factor scores and general health scores were statistically significantly different between total sick leave categories and sick leave patterns, t-test, one-way ANOVA and chi2 was applied.
The significance level was set at p < 0.05. The results are shown as crude and adjusted figures.
STATA version 12.1 was used as statistical software.
Approval (2012-41-1290) for using workplace-registered sick leave records and questionnaire data was obtained from the Danish Data Protection Agency:
The questionnaire was answered by 2,534 employees, which yielded a response rate of 76%. Non-responders were more likely to be young and male than responders (Table
The majority of the eldercare workers (75%) had less than 15 sick leave days in total. Twenty-one percent had no sick leave in the study period at all. A low frequency of short-term spells, defined by zero to two spells, was present among 54% of the employees (Table
Male workers (83%) were more likely to have 0–14 sick leave days in total than female workers (75%). Young employees were more likely to have more than 14 days of total sick leave (28%) and 3–9 short spells (26%) than older colleagues (24% and 18%; Table
Work factor scores
The scale reliabilities were; emotional demands (ά = 0.81), demands for hiding emotions (ά = 0.60), influence (ά = 0.76), meaning of work (ά = 0.70), commitment to the workplace (ά = 0.73), role conflict (ά = 0.68), and quality of leadership (ά = 0.90). Work pace was derived from a single question.
Compared with those who had less than 15 sick days, those who had more than 14 sick days were more likely to have high work demand scores, whereas those who had less than 15 sick days were more likely than the former to have high job resource factor scores (Table
The same trend as that described for total sick leave days was evident for the spell patterns; few and short-term spells had the most favourable mean work factor scores; and the scores turned more unfavourable the more frequent and/or the longer the duration of the spells (Table
Total sick leave days
We estimated the odds of having unfavourable work factor scores among eldercare workers with more than 14 sick leave days compared with 0–14 days (Table
0–2 short-term spells compared with any other spell pattern
Crude analyses showed that the odds for having unfavourable work factor scores were significantly higher for employees with spell patterns featuring 3–9 short spells or 2–13 mixed spells than for employees with 0–2 short-term spells (Table
The odds of having a fair-poor general health were most strongly associated with 1–3 long-term spells; even after adjustments, the odds ratio was statistically significantly different from one; 2.10 (95% CI: 1.1-3.9).
The Wald-test showed an overall statistically significant difference in the odds of having unfavourable scores in work pace, role conflict and general health between the sick leave patterns (Table
Effect modification by age
Age significantly modified the association between a frequent short-term sick leave pattern and commitment to the workplace and between frequent short-term sick leave and quality of leadership (Table
Signs of a poor working environment reflected in unfavourable job demand and job resource scores were consistently, significantly associated with employees having more than 14 sick leave days compared with those having less than 15 days. For unfavourable scores in work pace, demands for hiding emotions and being bullied, at least from time to time, as well as quality of leadership, this association remained present among employees with more than 14 sick leave days after adjustment for the number of sick leave spells.
After adjustments for the effect of sick leave length, unfavourable scores in role conflict and emotional demands remained associated with a frequent spell pattern, i.e. 3–9 short-term spells and 2–13 mixed spells, respectively, compared with a non-frequent short-term spell pattern. The strongest association with the long-term spell pattern was seen among employees with unfavourable work pace scores.
Our results neither confirmed nor denied the hypothesis that a frequent short-term sick leave spell pattern was more strongly associated with an unfavourable working environment than a long-term sick leave spell pattern after adjustment for the effect of total sick leave length.
The hypothesis about general health was supported by our results; hence, a long-term sick leave spell pattern was more likely to be associated with poor general health than a short-term sick leave spell pattern.
Age significantly modified the association between sick leave patterns and work factors in the hypothesised direction for commitment to the workplace. Compared with a long-term sick leave pattern, a frequent short-term sick leave pattern decreased the odds ratio of having unfavourable scores in commitment to the workplace among older employees as opposed to among the young employees whose odds ratio of having unfavourable work environment factors increased.
Other studies
Sick leave length
In the perspective of the job demands-resources model; long-term sick leave, irrespectively of spell frequency, is more associated to high levels of demanding work factors than short-term sick leave
Frequency of sick leave spells
A direct comparison between our study and studies also reporting short-term sick leave spells was possible. A high frequency of 1–7 days spells was associated with low levels of respect from a supervisor
High mean scores in emotional demands and role conflict were the only work factors that remained statistically significantly associated with having a frequent spell pattern after adjustment for total sick leave. This may imply that among employees in the eldercare sector, demanding work factors in general and emotional demands and role conflict in particular are more associated with frequency of sick leave spells than available resources at work. It contradicts the job demands-resources model which claims that frequent sick leave spells, regardless of the sick leave length, are likely to be more associated to low levels of motivational work factors than non-frequent spells
Some studies have also used a set of variables to describe the working environment
We found that long-term sick leave spells were significantly associated with unfavourable scores in work pace, demands for hiding emotions, quality of leadership and being bullied. These findings correspond nicely with those of other studies; a higher probability of having long-term sick leave spells was associated with high psychological job demands
This strengthening effect may seem surprising because sick leave spells of a long duration are viewed upon as health-related and not as a strategy deployed to cope with an unfavourable psychosocial work environment
We think of general health as an intermediate factor in the association between sick leave and unfavourable work factor scores. Long term sick leave is found to be predicted by the exposure of work demands in the study by Schaufeli et al. although it is recognised that health status may as well influence the long-term sick leave
Interaction between age and spell patterns
We found that a statistically significantly higher proportion of young employees (26%) than older employees (18%) had 3–9 short-term sick leave spells. This result is in accordance with results reported by other studies
We identified no studies that analysed whether age acted as an effect modifier in the association between sick leave pattern and work factors among health care employees. One study by Donders et al. investigated the moderating effect of age between work-related characteristics and frequent sick leave and prolonged sick leave among employees at a Dutch university
One possible explanation for this difference in similar study populations may be rooted in differences between the data sources. Our sick leave data are register-based as opposed to the self-reported sick leave length used in previous studies. We have previously shown that the precision in self-reported sick leave among young (19–29 years of age) eldercare workers was lower than the precision of register data and that eldercare workers were poor at recalling their sick leave and mostly under-reported the actual length by more than seven days
Strengths and limitations
We have contributed with new insight into how the frequency of sick leave spells interacts with sick leave length and how sick leave spells are associated with work factors and general health in the municipal eldercare sector.
It strengthened the validity of our results that the sick leave measures were constructed from register-based sick leave data. This reduced the risk of making trivial associations
We excluded 779 employees because they were not employed throughout the entire year of 2005. By that we missed 40 responders to the questionnaire about the working environment. They were younger (median age 40.1 years) than the study population, and 85% were occupied in home care. This might have caused selection bias toward the null hypothesis because their mean work factor scores were neither more nor less favourable.
Non-responders (24%) were more likely to be young, having more than 14 sick leave days in total and having more long-term sick leave spells than responders. This might have weakened the association between sick leave length / long-term sick leave spell pattern and work factors due to selection bias. Also, a possible underestimation of the association between spell frequency and work factors adjusted for sick leave length cannot be ruled out.
Two of the work factor scales; demands for hiding emotions (ά = 0.60) and role conflict (ά = 0.68) showed lower alphas than the 0.7-threshold that is widely recognised
We studied demands and resources found in a representative sample of Danish eldercare employees' to be associated with self-reported sick leave length (10;11). We have no evidence, though that these work factors uniquely describe demands and resources of the eldercare sector from a theoretical point of view. Future research should focus on whether information about sick leave patterns may be used to enhance interventions that aim at improving the work environment in this particular work setting.
Sick leave length was a better indicator of unfavourable scores in work pace, demands for hiding emotions, quality of leadership and bullying than a sick leave length below 15 days and a 0–2 short-term sick leave spell pattern, respectively. A frequent short-term sick leave spell pattern was a better indicator of unfavourable scores in emotional demands and role conflict than overall sick leave length. General health was strongly associated with the long-term sick leave pattern.
The present study could not confirm the hypothesis that an association between unfavourable work factor scores and total sick leave length was more likely to be due to the frequency of spells than their duration and that this association would be more pronounced among young employees than among their older colleagues. However, scores in commitment to the workplace and quality of leadership varied with sick leave pattern and age. These conclusions underpin that different sick leave measures may be associated with different work environment factors. Further studies on these associations may inform interventions to improve occupational health care.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
CMS conceived the study, carried out statistical analyses and drafted the manuscript. NTA supervised the statistical analyses. All authors participated in the design of the study, helped to draft the manuscript and interpreted the results. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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