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Burgess Hill Girls A GSG School
- Burgess Hill Girls
Keymer Road
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
- Head: Kathryn Bell
- E email@example.com
- W www.burgesshillgirls.com
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked junior school
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: West Sussex
- Pupils: 485
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: Day £13,800 - £16,950; Boarding £27,300 - £30,450 pa
- Open days: September, November, February and May
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- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Burgess Hill Girls Junior School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Traditional values clearly do matter here; but this school comes across as modern and engaged. Extra clinics and one-on-one support means no one falls behind. Pupils say it's easy to ask for help. There are plenty of trips out, from Greece to the Old Bailey; and the lower sixth annual challenge to race the sun, setting off at sunset to walk across the downs to reach Beachy Head by sunrise, dressed up for the occasion as nuns, football players and pirates; the nuns, appropriately, treating everyone to...
Traditional values clearly do matter here; but this school comes across as modern and engaged. Extra clinics and one-on-one support means no one falls behind. Pupils say it's easy to ask for help. There are plenty of trips out, from Greece to the Old Bailey; and the lower sixth annual challenge to race the sun, setting off at sunset to walk across the downs to reach Beachy Head by sunrise, dressed up for the occasion as nuns, football players and pirates; the nuns, appropriately, treating everyone to...
What the school says...
At Burgess Hill Girls our focus is on girls and the way they learn, the skills and talents they have and the best way to encourage their personal development. Every year students at Burgess Hill Girls perform exceptionally well in their external examinations, but this is only part of the story. We offer all our students a wide range of opportunities to challenge and bring out the best in them, so that they are able to find and develop their individual interests and talents.
Burgess Hill Girls is a successful day and boarding school for girls between 2 and 18 years of age, with boys welcome in the Nursery. The school is small enough that children are known as individuals yet large enough to offer breadth, choice and opportunity. The Sixth Form are given responsibility and independence which prepares them well for the next stage of their lives. The vast majority go on to universities the length and breadth of the UK, from Exeter to London, Oxford to Cambridge, Cardiff or St Andrews to name but a few. Our girls are enthusiastic and motivated learners and their attitude to learning is evident in everything they do, including our consistently excellent examination results.
The interests of our students are diverse and our single-sex environment encourages the girls to enjoy and thrive in all subjects. ...Read more
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Since 2014, Kathryn Bell. Vigorous, friendly and energetic – would be the last woman standing against battalions of establishment men; and in fact was the only female head ever appointed at her last post at Ackworth school. Previously second deputy head at Ardingly, and earlier teaching posts at Burgess Hill Girls, Brighton and Hove High, Hazelwick and St Michael's Burton Park. Has four grown up children, one of whom has had some educational and health problems, which means she has particular empathy with parents struggling with SEN.
Determined to dispel the myth of girls' schools being fluffy and pink, and Burgess Hill Girls has undergone a recent rebrand to stamp out all traces. Girls need 'to punch above weight in all disciplines', says the head, who has no time for...
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Special Education Needs
In the Junior School we pride ourselves on swiftly identifying any possible SEND requirements. Following this, we put in place a tailored support programme, which entails support delivered in small groups. If the SEND support required is more significant and complex, parents are offered the option to pay for 1:1 specialist support. This style of support programme, along with the tailored educational provision throughout the school, means that the value-added for the whole school is measured by ISI as exceptional. The senior school's learning support framework aims to identify the needs of every pupil including those with SEND, EAL or the more able. A staff learning support group allows members of each department to meet regularly and share classroom strategies to cater for those on the SEND register. Pupils with special needs are supported within the classroom, and a small number are withdrawn for special help in our newly establish Learning Support Centre. Our belief is that no pupil should slip through the net. The 2014 inspection recognised excellent support for SEND, EAL and pupils of all abilities. Many parents wax lyrical about the support for able pupils.
|Provision for in school
|ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
|Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders
|CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia
|English as an additional language (EAL)
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|HI - Hearing Impairment
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|MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty
|MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment
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|OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
|Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
|PD - Physical Disability
|PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
|SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
|SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication
|SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
|Special facilities for Visually Impaired
|SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty
|VI - Visual Impairment
Careers intervention used by this School
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Will's letter to the book club:
I've been having a fascinating time following the blog posts from the Two Roads Book Club. Your posts have been wonderfully revealing — about the books, about your fellow club members, and especially about the personality and quirks of the person whose turn it was to blog. It's been fun to be a fly on the wall. But it was only natural that my passive observer days would come to an end! In February, I finally got to attend of your meetings in person — and had the immense book-club responsibility of choosing the book we would all read.
Someone once told me that most people think that the opposite of talking isn't listening, it's waiting for your turn to talk. Sometimes, I think, book clubs fall prey to this — all the members already know what they think about a book; then they all take turns giving their opinions; then they go home. Not much listening; a great deal of waiting for one's turn to talk.
One of the reasons I've so enjoyed reading your blog reports, is that you all seem both very eager to convince each other and very open to being convinced. The perfect combination. I wanted to choose a book that plays to this — so I chose a book my mother and I had disagreed about: THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mohsin Hamid. We were both in awe of the book with it's probably-unreliable narrator spinning a tale that travels from Princeton and New York City to Greece to Lahore, among other places. And we were both greatly moved by the theme of loss — everyone in this book has lost something that can't ever be brought back. But where we parted ways, on our first reading, was the ending. I thought at the time that there was one ending and you just had to be clever enough to figure it out. Mom thought the ending was purposefully ambiguous — that you could never know what really happened. The book led Mom and me to a discussion that will always stay with me — how to know whom to trust.
So I was very excited to see what you all would think about the book and especially its ending. I had come to believe that Mom was right — that the ambiguity was not just purposeful but essential. But after our Two Roads Book Club meeting, I realized that a reader could acknowledge the essential ambiguity of the novel's final scene — and yet gain a deeper understanding of the book by trying to puzzle out the ending as though it could actually be solved.
It was a splendid evening — fueled by delicious wines and a perfect library setting — during which, I think, we all got to learn more about each other as we shared thoughts on which character was the pursuer and which the pursued. You brought my attention to many aspects of the book that had eluded me even after several readings. Like all of the best book club discussions, it wasn't an argument — it was an exploration. On the flight home, even though in preparation for our meeting I'd just re-read THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, I read it again — and learned even more from it. Though when traveling through airport security, I would caution against making a big display of the book's jacket. The title raises eyebrows among the screeners and patters-down.
I can't wait to see what you choose next. And can't wait for my next visit to the Two Roads Book Club.
With thanks and admiration,
One response to "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Thank you for this letter, Will. It was lovely to meet you and discuss a fascinating book. It is definitely one that demands a second, and perhaps a third, reading.
Next on our book club list is Suite Francaise, can't wait to hear what everyone makes of it.
All best, Francesca
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cooling effects a molecular slowdown.traveling near speed of light also effects an aging slowdown per einstein? wouldnt the slowed aging also involve a molecular slowdown?
The speeds of molecules are typically about the speed of sound, rather than the speed of light. The effect due to relativistic effects would be tiny.
it would seem that the slowed aging of the traveling twin would be due to a slowed metabolism & molecular activity therein associated?
Theoretically, yes.
You are forgetting one important thing RELATIVITY the effects of time dilation ONLY apply to objects that are travelling at high speeds with respect to each other therefore the individual molecules in an object are travelling at low velocities with respect to each other and there is no significant change. travelling near the speed of light has absolutely no effect on the molecules in the object that is travelling at high speed. It is this vital fact that the laws of physics are the same everywhere and for objects travelling at high speed and the velocity of light is fixed that creates these relatavistic effects.
travelling near the speed of light has absolutely no effect on the molecules in the object that is travelling at high speed.
... the relative amount of metabolization must indeed be different.
When a cosmic ray proton impacts atomic nuclei of air atoms in the upper atmosphere, pions are created. These decay within a relatively short distance (meters) into muons (the pion's preferred decay product), and neutrinos. The muons from these high energy cosmic rays, generally continuing essentially in the same direction as the original proton, do so at very high velocities [~0.998c]. Although their lifetime without relativistic effects would allow a half-survival distance of only about 0.66 km at most, the time dilation effect of special relativity allows cosmic ray secondary muons to survive the flight to the earth's surface.
does jetlag have biophysical effects? might this apply?
The extended life is only from our stationary point of view. The fast moving muon decays in the same time as if it was stationary from its point of view. this proves that the fast moving particle does not experience itself a slowing down of time
assuming an unchanged metabolic rate & that the twins' hearts are good for 100 ticks, the twins rejoin @ 99 ticks & both die on the next tick [heart worn out]. the traveling twin will have died "younger"?
Quote from: CZARCAR on 24/11/2009 10:35:32assuming an unchanged metabolic rate & that the twins' hearts are good for 100 ticks, the twins rejoin @ 99 ticks & both die on the next tick [heart worn out]. the traveling twin will have died "younger"?If each twin was good for 100 ticks of their tickers, assuming the travelling twin moved through space really fast, he might only have reached 97 ticks when he meets with his twin again, but the stationary twin would be at 99 ticks.From each twin's perspective, his metabolism is unaffected and identical to his twin. However, their relative metabolisms really are different. The stationary twin will expire 2 second sooner.The term "rate" could be confusing. The metabolic rate of each twin is equal relative to each ones frame of reference, but it is not equal relative to each other's frames of reference. Time really does pass more slowly for the traveller relative to the static twin, but because time itself passes more slowly, it is impossible for the traveler to know it is passing more slowly within his frame of reference. How could he know? Everything is effected.For example, if the static twin could magically observe his traveling twin, he would notice that the twin's voice is a bit deeper than usual because he is hearing it relative to his timeframe. However, the traveler would not notice anything unusual at all. Frequency is a function of time, so even although the waves are stretched from the static twin's perspective, they are not stretched from the travelers perspective.
No, inside whatever frame you are your heart will beat 'the same' as measured in it, no matter what that frame of reference is, near a neutron star or the moon, or 'speed'. The age difference will only become obvious in a 'twin experiment' and if your heart contain one million 'beats' before you die then that 'million' will be what it ticks, no matter your frame of reference.
Sounds very deterministic for your ''hypothetical'' number of heart beats. By that logic, everyone's heartbeat should be predeterministically-known somehow.
Quote from: yor_on on 29/11/2009 19:33:37No, inside whatever frame you are your heart will beat 'the same' as measured in it, no matter what that frame of reference is, near a neutron star or the moon, or 'speed'. The age difference will only become obvious in a 'twin experiment' and if your heart contain one million 'beats' before you die then that 'million' will be what it ticks, no matter your frame of reference.Assuming your "No" is answering the original question, then what you say is true. However, relative to each other, they are no longer the same age, so there had to be a relative "slow down" (and relative "speed up")
No It's about frames of reference. It's like every one of those frames is a 'bubble of time'. Normally we don't notice that different frames will change our 'age' relative each other. And this thing called 'frames of reference' is to me a very slippery definition too as you always will be able to go up or down in size in every frame you define and so be able to say that even what you first called your 'frame of reference' when 'split apart' into smaller constituents will have a different 'aging' to it. That's one of the main headaches for me.But never the less, it's not about 'time' slowing down on it's own. It's about comparing two frames of reference relative each other before and after an acceleration (twin experiment).There is a difference. If you accept that you in whatever frame you are will find your heartbeat being the same as measured by your clock then you also must accept that the 'time' inside that frame hasn't changed for you.What has changed is the time relative, ah, whatever other frame you compare it against, before acceleration and after And as I said, it's a very slippery subject.
Can i make it known, if you don't mind, that a very long time ago that i made a prediction that the assumptions made by relativity could be found to be erreneous. I based the idea on the fact that everything remains relative, even down to the molecular level. Would it surprise many to find in some distant future when this technoogy is available to experiment on the macroscopic level, that when one twin moves at relativistic speeds from earth and returns, to find his age has asymptotically-aged - so there is no difference between his twin?I want it also known, that when i said this could be an inconsistency, i was ridiculed horribly.
Macroscopic bodies are composed of atoms. Why would those atoms be affected any differently than the atoms in atomic clocks?
It may not be impossible to conduct the experiment. I'm a bit behind on high stability clock technology, but these days it might be possible to build a non-atomic clock that is sufficiently stable to conduct a test on a satellite. Would a crystal consisting of a millions of molecules be sufficiently macroscopic for the test?


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2016 May Special Called Presbytery Meeting
The Reverends Bill Ward, Julie Raffety, and Kim Hulen have requested a called meeting of the Presbytery to be held May 1, 2016 at Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church, 5021 Wheeler Rd, Yorkville, IL 60560 (map) at 3:00 pm (immediately prior to the installation service of Rev. Jennifer Olson at the church) for the purpose of establishing an Administrative Commission to respond to the action of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, Loves Park, to leave the PC (USA).
John Rickard
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Called meeting of the Presbytery of Blackhawk
3:00 pm, May 1, 2016
Au Sable Grove Presbyterian Church, Yorkville, Illinois
The meeting was called to order at 3:00 pm by Vice-Moderator, Dottie Morizzo and opened with prayer.
The Stated Clerk declared that a quorum was present based on the registration sheet.
The purpose of the meeting was read: To appoint an Administrative Commission to respond to Bethany Presbyterian Church, Loves Park action to leave the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
On behalf of the Moderator and Stated Clerk the following names were presented to the Presbytery for their appointment.
Reverend Kathie Luke, pastor, United Presbyterian Church, Freeport
Reverend Anita Stuart Steva, pastor, Middle Creek Presbyterian Church, Winnebago
Reverend Bob Kopp, pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Belvidere
Reverend Jim Tilley, associate pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Rochelle
Ruling Elder Ed Conklin, 2nd/1st Church, Rockford
Ruling Elder Martha Logeson, Westminster, Rockford
Ruling Elder Sue Flott, First Presbyterian, Belvidere.
There was discussion. No other names were put in nomination.
There was a motion/2nd and approval to appoint the Administrative Commission as presented.
Motion to adjourn/2nd and approved.
The meeting was closed with prayer by Vice-Moderator, Dottie Morizzo.
The Reverend Dr. John Rickard
General Presbyter/Stated Clerk
Teaching Elders: Jan Chandler (Gardner, Church of Hope), Conley Zomermaand (Oswego), Jennifer Olson (Yorkville, AuSable Grove), Hope Sibson (Member at Large), Betty Weidert (Honorably Retired)
Ruling Elders: Dottie Morizzo (Elizabeth, Schapville Zion), Ken Mozingo (Oswego), Jay Roth (Morris, First), Laurie Walker (Yorkville, AuSable Grove), Judy Sleezer (Yorkville, AuSable Grove)


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Area woman tells her adoption story
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Ann Carter, a single, career woman, tells us what she experienced over a period of 14 years beginning with considering, at age 43, adopting a child; at age 46 actually adopting one; then two years later, a second toddler; and then rearing them.
She does this by showing us photos that she took of them and by quoting e-mails, journal entries, letters and free verse poetry that she wrote from 1996 to 2010. She did not write any accompanying narrative.
When Carter began to think of taking on a child, she had the usual concerns of any prospective parent, but particularly those of an adoptive one: What would be involved? Would her application be accepted by the authorities? What sort of child would she get? Would she be able to rear a child properly? What would other people, including her aged parents, think of her oriental child? And so on.
In 1998, she traveled to China and adopted a two-year-old girl whom she named "Helen," after her favorite aunt.
Her experience was favorable enough that two years later, she traveled to Vietnam to adopt Rose. But the Chinese were no longer allowing adoptions.
While single motherhood has become common in the U.S. — over half of today's babies are born to single women, and increasing numbers of single women are adopting children — this was not so much the case in 1996.
Being a single mother is not an easy life, as Carter tells us. The course of childhood development in its broad outlines is well known, but each parent has to deal with his or her child's peculiarities as best as he or she can. Carter, a first time single parent had no experienced relatives close by to go to for help, advice, and support, and instead had to depend on friends and any number of books on the subject.
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As we read "Spiders," we see her gaining self-confidence while she learns to parent and to deal with her children as they grow up.
She seems to have done it well, for as of the book's writing, Helen was in middle school and Rose was in upper grade school; they were doing reasonably well there and in their communities.
Carter managed to keep her sanity and to keep functioning at her various life tasks as well as to produce children's books, poems, and paintings.
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Manhattan area readers will recognize many of the places that Carter mentions.
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Simple neighborhood minutes to Turkey Creek Wildlife Sanctuary and the Beaches. Easily accessible to Winn-Dixie and local restaurants.
I stayed here for 8 weeks and found many inexpensive and free things to do. Joined a Wednesday hiking group, local beaches (best at Billies on beach and down in 2 I tried in Vero Beach), dolphin tour near Grills on track 1 in Melbourne and pontoon boat around pelican island preserve, Enchanted Woods preserve and environmental center off Wabasso Rd. If you are looking for fancy this is not for you, but the bed was comfortable and quiet to sleep, the kitchen well stocked for light meals. The owner was able to get hot water fixed in kitchen while I was out one day. I was very lucky on the weather, which can't be depended on.
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The house was spacious and perfect for our family of four! There was even a pack and play for our little guy to use. We really enjoyed our stay and would have rented the house longer but it was booked. Orlando was only an hour drive away. The house was decently clean when we arrived, there were plenty of kitchen supplies to use, and the grill was a bonus! The neighborhood was quiet and we never heard anything. I would definitely recommend renting this house to anyone looking for a little home away from home.
I chose this rental based on its location being central to the wedding venue and reception. It was a perfect location and allowed the bridal party to dress and prepare there with plenty of space. The owners really did think of everything you could need on a vacation, were extremely helpful and very accommodating. They readily answered all my questions via email. I highly recommend this property, close to beaches and shopping.
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Newly released: update to SDK 2.0 public preview
Today we released another update to the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0 public preview. This release contains important product improvements that add up to a more stable and feature-rich product. This updated SDK lets you get serious about finalizing your applications for commercial deployment and, later this year, for availability in the Windows Store. Please install, enjoy, and let us know what you think.
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I don't have cable, so I couldn't watch it - I really wish ESPN didn't take over so much of the skating, especially international events! Oh well, I'm glad it was good coverage. :frown2:
I don't have cable, so I couldn't watch it - I really wish ESPN didn't take over so much of the skating, especially international events! Oh well, I'm glad it was good coverage. :frown2:
ESPN coverage so much better than ABC! Less about fluff and more about skating. I wish ESPN did the long programs instead... and I bet they would have shown Jahnke. That was my biggest complaint about the weekend - no Jahnke and he finished 6th and he's a proven international competitor and his programs rock this year in terms of entertainment value (I think).
I hate the friggin sky cam. Hate it. For some reason I didn't mind it on Cohen & Rosenthal but otherwise Arghh. And although I think this year's camera work was much better in the long- I got tired of the close-ups and upper body shots in the ladies short (& mens to a lesser degree.) I wish they'd do a wide angel on replay to give a better idea of height/speed.
That said, I am greatly appreciative of seeing the almost the entire final 2 flights of men, women and dance; but why did we not see the Scott/Fein program that was the 3rd best free?
Terry, Peter and Suzie are my favorites and sometimes I am really in the mood for a good Buttonism.
Someone needs to put Kurt on Adderol.
Just partway through watching the ABC coverage Saturday night - being in Canada I don't get ESPN at all.
The ABC coverage is horrible. A full HOUR of fluff before ANY of the skating. Appalling, absolutely appalling. And the pieces....shudder. Katy Taylor waxing poetic about her barbie dream hummer? Is that supposed to make me like her? I actually enjoyed her skate, but can't bring myself to have much respect for her immature gas guzzling fantasies - didn't do her any favours. Has the girl not heard of global warming? The rising price of oil? The need to protect the environment? It wasn't cute. It just made her look spoiled and vapid.
Okay, now that that's out of my system, I was LOL at Dick Button's comments re: the ladies omnipresent Biellman and catchfoot mania. I wrote something almost exactly like that on the ladies FS thread for the Canadian championships - even down to suggesting a Zayak rule for the catchfoot/Beillman position. Button - who I'm not generally a fan of for commentary, hit it right on the nose when he said it's being used not only way to much, but to hide deficiencies skaters have in hitting classic positions in spirals and spins.
Good God, a fluff piece before every single lady pretty much.... I think I'll have to change the channel, tape it on my VCR and FF through the crap to the skating.
I used to like Scott Hamilton a lot as a commentator -- he's usually such a nice guy with his observations, and his opinions are usually totally on target. Unfortunately, I haven't yet forgiven him for his snarky commentary over Yagudin's LP at the SLC Olys. I understand that he has to hype the American competitor (i.e. Timothy), but his narrative overlaying Yagudin's incredible performance was really over the top. Apparently, everyone in the arena except SH realized that Yagudin was the clear winner; Scott's commentary really detracted from one of the best men's performances I've seen yet at the OLYS, IMHO.


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"I would be very focused on a narrow set of products," advises the CEO of web security company Symantec, Enrique Salem, also speaking at the Reuters Summit. "If you look at what happened at Sony over the last 15 years, they've diversified their portfolio and I would pick one or two things I wanted to spend all of my time on to make sure they are the very best in the market."
Another of Sony's options may be to seek closer cooperation with U.S. Internet giant Google.
Sony is already warming to Google's Android operating system - notably partnering with the Internet search leader on Google TV. The U.S. company could help tie together the Japanese company's treasure trove of content and products with Google's software and innovation - if that were to happen, industry watchers argue, Sony could then hope to take on Apple.
"It is now moving in the right direction but does not have the luxury of time that it had 10 years back," said CLSA's Goyal.
Whoever ends up running Japan's best known consumer electronics brand for the next 10 years should look to give its best people the space and flexibility to work and think freely, Apple co-founder Wozniak said.
"It's kind of like the liberal arts side of the company. The emotion, the heart has to be as strong as the brain and the engineering. Right now that doesn't really happen. Companies are all based on the money guys and who has done what before," he said.
For Stringer, the legacy he leaves may be that of the cost-cutter rather than the renaissance man he promised to be when he became the first foreigner to lead the Japanese company.
With Morita, Stringer shares a colorful past. Morita was the son of a soy sauce maker and a former Imperial army soldier. Stringer too served in the military, conscripted to fight in Vietnam after he arrived in the United States in 1964 with $100 he had earned as a truck driver after graduating from Oxford University.
Landing a job as a journalist at CBS after his discharge, he eventually went on to run the American broadcaster. He was knighted in 2000, an award he shares with Morita who was made an honorary knight in 1993.
Stringer, who is described on the company website as less of a numbers' guy than a creative leader, has had successes such as the Blu-ray optical discs victory over the alternative format HD-DVD. However, Sony under his watch has yet to find the game-changer able to wow consumers like an iPhone or an iPad.
Unlike Morita, remembered as the creative force behind the Walkman, Trinitron televisions and other hits that made his company a household name, or hands-on innovator Jobs, Stringer has been happy to let others show off the goods.
Jobs, a consummate salesman has personally launched Apple's most successful products over the past decade. Stringer on the other hand was not present at the launch of either of Sony's most important products of recent years, its new hand-held game device and the tablet computers it hopes can claim top spot behind Apple's iPad.
In the absence of any must-have gadget emerging from Sony's labs, Stringer has not been squeamish about cutting fat to lift the company's bottom line, a strategy that has delivered results for him throughout his career from CBS onwards.
"Stringer cut fixed costs especially for production sites, making Sony more resilient to stagnant revenue growth," said Yasuo Nakane, an analyst at Deutsche Securities in Tokyo. It has allowed him to keep pace with productivity improvements at rivals such as LG and Samsung.
Before taking over as CEO, Stringer had burnished his belt-tightening reputation by cutting $700-million in expenses at Sony's U.S. operations. More recently, in 2009, as Sony struggled during the post Lehman shock recession, he pared $3-billion more off Sony's costs by laying off 16,000 workers and halving the number of suppliers it uses to 1,200 companies.
Prudent management, however, isn't enough to lift the despair that has descended not just on Sony but on some other major companies in deflation-ravaged Japan since the bubble burst two decades ago.
In its May edition, Japan's Bungei Shunju, a widely read current affairs magazine, lamented the demise of Sony in a piece quoting an engineer who had left for a rival consumer electronics firm.
"It's obvious the days will never again come when we marveled at the quality of sound from a Sony FM radio, or the beauty of the images on a Trinitron TV, or the inspiration of the Walkman," the magazine said. "We shouldn't expect Sony to shine as it once did."
Pondering Sony's future again over his dumplings in Tokyo, Airboard creator Maeda is equally as glum. "I don't think Sony can change," he says. Not unless, he adds, "Sony has a leader like Steve Jobs."Report Typo/Error
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Pool Info: Swimming Pool Algae
What causes Algae problems?
Algae spores constantly enter the pool, brought in by wind, rain or even contaminated swimsuits or pool cleaning tools. When conditions are right, an algae bloom can occur in a matter of hours. These conditions include out of balance water, warm temperatures, sunlight and presence of nitrates, phosphates and/or carbon dioxide. A lack of proper circulation, filtration and sanitation is usually a contributing or the primary cause of pool algae.
Algae are a living aquatic creature that multiplies rapidly on warm, sunny days. Containing chlorophyll, algae utilizes photosynthesis to grow. That is, they take in carbon dioxide and expend oxygen as a byproduct. Algae can grow in the shade or sun, but most pool algae strains need some light to grow.
Algae need food to survive, and in a swimming pool there is no shortage of tasty food for algae. Nearly every contaminant or windblown speck of dust can feed pool algae. In pools with high bather count, or pools with high levels of debris or dissolved solids, algae has a smorgasbord of nutritious food. Even the dead cellular remains of previous algae blooms provide sustenance to future generations of pool algae.
Algae are always present in swimming pools, even clean and blue pools, at a microscopic size. It waits patiently for the opportunity to bloom – when the chlorine level dips and the pH rises or the pump or filter is not operating effectively.
What problems can Algae cause?
The first noticeable problem is that no one seems to want to go swimming. The second problem is that it requires effort and money to rid the water completely of algae. Third, once you experience a large algae bloom, it becomes easier for future algae blooms to occur. It is therefore best to use preventative chemicals and techniques to constantly control algae and prevent a bloom from occurring.
Algae can cloud and color the water, making rescue attempts difficult and reducing depth perception of a diver. Algae itself is not harmful to swimmers, but pools with algae may also be a safe harbor for pathogens like E-coli bacteria.
In addition to clogging up sanitation pathways in the water, algae also clogs up the pores in a filter, decreasing filter effectiveness and requiring more backwashing or filter media replacement.
It can hide deep in the crevices of a filter or in rough spots on pool plaster and tile, or behind the pool light and under the ladder treads. Some strains of pool algae will send roots into the plaster, and slowly degrade and stain pool surfaces. Algae can even grow under a vinyl pool liner, on the walls or floor beneath the liner.
Algae create a chlorine demand in the water for itself, consuming chlorine that should be working on other contaminants. As it expels carbon dioxide, the pH level of pool water can rise.
Algae are kind of like weeds in your garden. Unsightly, unwanted space takers that create more work for the gardener, and sap up nutrients and resources from the flora we wish to grow.
What types of Algae are there?
There are over 21,000 known varieties of algae! In the pool business we avoid all of the complication by classifying algae by the color they exhibit.
- Green Algae:
The most common variety, green algae will usually rear its ugly head immediately following a hazy condition in the water from insufficient filtration and/or sanitation. It is frequently found free floating in the water, although it also will cling to the walls. It reduces water clarity and is thereby distinguished from severe copper precipitation, which will impart a clear, green color to the water. Varieties of green algae also appear as "spots" on surfaces, particularly rough areas, or places where circulation is low. They also show up as "sheets", where large wall sections, or even the entire pool, are coated in green slime...UGH!
- Yellow Algae:
A wall clinging variety, also called mustard algae, is usually found on the shady side of the pool. It is sheet forming, and can be difficult to eradicate completely. Once begun, a pool owner could spend the entire season fighting yellow algae. Re-infection is common, as small pockets of yellow algae may survive treatment on pool toys, floats, cleaning equipment, swimsuits or within the pool filter. This variety is resistant to normal chlorine levels and must be dealt with firmly. Hit it hard!
- Black Algae:
Perhaps the most aggravating strain of algae, it can be extremely difficult to eradicate completely. This is not entirely accurate, but the difficulty in removing it fully is due to the strong roots and protective layers over top of the black algae plant. Black algae will appear as dark black or blue/green spots, usually the size of a pencil eraser tip, up to the size of a quarter. Their roots extend into the plaster or tile grout, and unless the roots are destroyed completely, a new head will grow back in the same place. The heads also contain protective layers to keep cell destroying chemicals from entering the organism. Like yellow algae, black algae can bloom even in the presence of normal sanitizing levels and proper filtration. This form of algae commonly enters a pool inside the swimsuit of a person who's recently been to the ocean, or from contaminated pool cleaning equipment, introduced by a well-meaning pool service company. They can also be
- Pink Algae:
Not really algae at all, but a form of bacteria, which appears as spots or streaks in corners and crevices. It is slow to spread and rare that it will bloom over an entire pool. Also known as pink slime or pink mold, it forms in the same manner as other biofilms, and prefers to attach itself to smooth surfaces, out of the way from your pool cleaner and pool brush, in areas of low flow or circulation. Like yellow strains, pink algae requires a high level of chlorine to treat effectively, and for best results, throw in all of your pool toys, floats, suits and cleaning tools into the pool during algae treatment. Removing ladders and pool lights for a good scrubbing is also good practice to prevent reinfection. Pink algae thrive when chlorine levels are low, or artificially suppressed with high levels of cyanuric acid.
How is Algae prevented?
Proper chemical balance and sanitizer levels will prevent many opportunities for algae to bloom. High pH and low chlorine (or other sanitizer) can give algae a great start. Using cyanuric acid (stabilizer or conditioner) to protect your chlorine from the sun has the added effect of suppressing chlorine activity, giving algae opportunity to bloom, unless chlorine levels are increased.
General cleanliness of the pool is also important. Organic material and bacteria contribute to algae growth. Regular brushing of seemingly clean pools is not only good exercise for you, but prevents dirt from harboring in the pores of the plaster, which is a good start for an algae colony.
"Proper Filtration" is a term we throw around a lot, and it refers to quantity and quality of filtration. Most pool filters should be run for a minimum of 12 hours per day, or longer if the pool filter is undersized or the filter media (sand or cartridge) is old and not as effective as it once was. Poor circulation can also play a role, especially for larger pools with inadequate plumbing or pump size. Using an automatic pool cleaner can help circulation immensely.
Using specialty chemicals or algaecides is recommended to provide a back up to normal sanitation and filtration processes and is completely necessary for many pools. These chemicals are described below:
- Potassium Tetraborate:
This algae treatment chemical, when added to the pool water in proper dosage, prevents algae from converting carbon dioxide into the fuel it needs for growth. For swimming pools, you can use a product manufactured under the trade name Proteam Supreme.
- Chitin:
Not an algaecide (meaning to kill algae) per se, but its properties might be called algaestatic (that is, to prevent algae growth). Chitin has the ability to coagulate and remove a wide variety of suspended materials and impurities from the water. This allows the sanitizer to more effectively kill contaminants unobstructed. It also improves the effectiveness of the filtration equipment. Sold under the trade name Sea-Klear, chitin can be a valuable weapon in your algae arsenal.
- Phosphate Remover:
Phosphate removers remove phosphates and nitrates from the pool, which are a very tasty food for algae. Pools can become contaminated with phosphates from fertilizers, mulch washing in the pool, or from heavy leaf and debris loads. You can test your pool for phosphates with testing strips, and treat for removal with PhosFree, or other brands.
- Filter Cleaners:
Filter cleaners are useful to keep your pool filter in top condition, ejecting oils, minerals and metals that clog or gum up a pool filter, and remove dead algae to prevent reinfection. Although not useful in killing algae, a pool filter cleaner used regularly will help your filter trap the particles that become algae food, in addition to trapping algae itself.
- Algaecides and Algaestats:
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds:
A low grade type of algaecide, Quats, as they are called, will usually have "10" printed on the bottle, representing 10% active ingredient. Although available at a lower cost, quats tend to produce a small amount of surface foaming and are not known as strong algae killers. They are most effective as an algaestat, that is, as a prevention, not a cure.
- Polymers:
Polymers are long, complicated chemical chains that behave in water both as an algaestat and an algaecide. They are available in percentage strength of 30 or 60%, are non-foaming, and work well as general, all around algae treatments. Poly-Quats are a blended compound of polymer and quats.
- Copper Based:
Copper is a proven algaecide and algaestat. Available in varying non foaming strength of 3 - 10%. it works very well on all types of algae, but it has the drawback of staining white plaster surfaces a light blue/green color if it precipitates out of solution. Some copper based algaecides are chelated, which means that agents have been added to prevent staining. Copper sulfate is often used for fountains and ornamental ponds to prevent algae, but is not recommended for use in pools.
- Silver Based:
Silver has been shown to be an effective bacteriostat, which means that it works to prevent bacteria from reproducing. Non foaming and effective with pink algae. In high doses, reactions with sunlight can cause colloidal silver to deposit as black stains on white plaster. When using copper or silver algaecides, the use of a sequestering agent is recommended.
- Gold Based:
Gold algaecides contain flecks of gold to fight the strongest forms of algae. Just kidding, there is no such thing as algaecide with gold in it – but at these prices, you may think so!
- Quaternary Ammonium Compounds:
- Chlorine Enhancers:
These are not algaecides, but work to provide a synergistic boost to pool shock when added separately, but at the same time. Sold under trade names like Mustard Buster, Yellow-Out or Yellow Treat, it is most effective on, you guessed it, yellow algae, but also works well on pink algae. Some chlorine enhancers contain sodium bromide, and some formulations are ammonia based. The addition of ammonia and lots of chlorine creates monochloramines, which act well on many types of algae. Sodium Bromide creates bromamines in the pool, at least temporarily. Chlorine enhancers have the distinction of working well in pools with high levels of cyanuric acid, over 50 ppm – which as mentioned earlier, makes free chlorine less potent and reactive.
Too late to prevent it...How do I Kill Algae?
First off, balance your water, paying particular attention to pH. Secondly, check your filter system and clean if necessary. Adjust valves for optimum circulation and allow it the pump to run 24 hours a day until the pool clears. Turn on automatic cleaners to help stir things up. Backwash as necessary, but only when pressure rises by at least 5 psi, or the flow rate is noticeably diminished.
For suspended green algae, shock the pool...hard. Put in as much hypochlorite as it takes to turn the pool a cloudy, bluish/gray color, which generally requires about 30 ppm of free chlorine. The higher your cyanuric acid level is, the more pool shock that will be required, to overcome the sluggish effect of stabilization. A general amount would be between 2 to 5 lbs of granular pool shock per 10,000 gallons of pool water – using more when cyanuric acid levels are above 30 ppm, or when the algae bloom is especially aggressive. Test the water the following day for pH and chlorine. If the chlorine level is still off the charts, that's good – if it has dropped to a low level within 24 hours, you missed the mark, and will need to shock the pool again, using slightly more this time.
Brush the walls and floors towards the main drain on a daily basis, and vacuum as needed. Using a flocculent may be a good choice after shocking, if the pool is extremely "swampy". If you cannot see the bottom of the pool, and it is filled with leaves and debris, it may be wise to drain the pool, acid wash and refill it. It is nearly impossible to restore clear water to a pool that is very dirty with debris.
After the chlorine level has come down below 5 ppm, add an algaecide and brush the pool again. When it all settles, vacuum the pool (to waste, if possible). Check and re-balance the pool water after it clears. Clarifiers can be used to assist a struggling pool filter. Remember to run the filter 24/7 until the water clears.
For algae which is not suspended, but only clinging to the walls, follow the same advice above, first shock with brushing, then add an algaecide, brush again, vacuum to waste (preferred) or vacuum and then backwash the filter. Use of a steel bristled brush is recommended for algae on plaster pools (use nylon brush on vinyl). Filter, Filter, Filter!
For black algae, the brushing part is very important. You must tear through the protective layers so the chemicals can destroy the plant from the inside out. Pumice stones work well to knock off the heads of black algae. (Don't forget to vacuum them up later and backwash them out of the filter ASAP).
Also effective on the black algae nodules is sprinkling granular trichlor over the spots (of course if they're on the wall this is next to impossible). Rubbing the spots on the walls with a trichlor tablet or stick can also be effective to knock off the heads and get some chlorine directly on the plant. Follow up with a dose of copper algaecide, or high strength polymers. Be sure to use only pool chemicals, never use industrial or agricultural herbicides in a swimming pool.
If algae have been an ongoing problem in your pool for several years, you may do well to drain the pool. Many years of algae builds up dead algae cells and lots of other solids in the water that contribute to its rejuvenation. Acid wash and/or pressure wash the pool, to kill the roots of the algae embedded in the plaster. For pools with repeat algae blooms, you may also check the level of phosphates in the pool, and look for sources of contamination from fertilizers or from soils washing in the pool during heavy rainstorms. Also look closely at the water balance and sanitation practices you have in place.
Next, change the sand if you have a sand filter or change the cartridge if it is a cartridge type. Sand should be changed every 5 years (or every 2 if you use Baquacil), and cartridge filters should have new elements every few years, depending on size. If you have a D.E. filter (good for you!), you should remove the elements, spray clean, soak in a 10:1 water/ bleach solution, rinse and replace. A well-functioning filter can prevent algae from returning.
Another item to look at is the size or condition of the pool filter. Far too many pools out there have marginal filter systems, meant to run 24 hrs per day. When these systems get old and tired, or the new owners only run it 12 hrs per day (or less), algae can take hold and take over.
For pool algae prevention, we need a combination of good filtration, sanitation and circulation. It may be time to consider changing the old filter. It's cheaper and easier to pay a little up front for more chemicals, electricity or better equipment than all the money and aggravation spent on fighting algae blooms.
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