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Corporate branding research has established that Lifeline has a 96% brand recognition, much of which has been earned from the 24/7 Lifeline Telephone Crisis Support Service 131114, and our recycle shops. Another strong component of Lifeline's place in the Australian community is specialised training, not only the training course to join our crisis telephone support service, but also the suite of skills-for-life-training programs.
Our agency's twin missions of providing skills in crisis support and suicide prevention, alongside strategies to care-for-carers, are woven into our highly complementary range of deliverables. Being skilled to acutely and astutely listen to someone (ACCIDENTAL COUNSELLOR FOUNDATIONS) may enable a frontline worker or caregiver to better recognise domestic violence (DV-ALERT, DV-AWARE, OPENING DOORS), a mental health problem (MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID), or risk of suicide (safeTALK, MIND YOUR MATES, ASIST), all the while being mindful of self-care (CREATIVE THERAPY TOOLS, mindfulness @ work). That is the reason this range of training is dubbed skills-for-life.
Unlike other training, this type of participation keeps on giving well after completion of the workshop.
As one participant told us, "I have been to everything you have to offer. Can't get enough of what you do.
Ever had to step into the shoes of The Accidental Counsellor?
The Accidental Counsellor Workshop will provide you with necessary skills and tools to be able to step into the shoes of an accidental counsellor momentarily, respond appropriately, efficiently and effectively to people in crisis or distress when there may not be a professional immediately available.
In community services work, we may often be the first point of contact for someone in crisis needing immediate assistance. Even without a formal qualification in counselling, a toolbox of counselling techniques and questioning frameworks provides the necessary support to clients when they are anxious, angry, experiencing loss or in a challenging time in their life.
Participants gain a greater understanding of how to communicate more effectively and learn strategies to help foster effective and trusting relationships with clients or peers. In this workshop, we ask participants to reflect on personal values and beliefs and how they influence interactions with clients. How you respond will create an impact on the person in need of support or assistance and often determine the outcome of your interactions. The workshop is flexible and interactive, encouraging participants to ask questions, share their experiences, practise skills and engage in self-reflection.
2 Day Workshop
- Module 1 The Accidental Counsellor
- Module 2 Barriers to listening
- Module 3 Values and beliefs
- Module 4 Understanding emotional crisis
- Module 5 Understanding conflict
- Module 6 Dealing with behaviours of concern
- Module 7 Professional boundaries
- Module 8 Self-care
1 Day Condensed Workshop
If you can't take 2 days to attend the extended version, you need not miss out!
Our 1-day condensed workshop is an abbreviated version of our telephone crisis support training and covers active listening skills, communication techniques and so much more.
Workshop Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between effective communication and counselling
- Gain toolbox of counselling techniques
- Communicate more effectively
- Adopt questioning frameworks
- Recognise someone in crisis needing immediate assistance
- Support clients when they are anxious, angry or using challenging behaviour
- Reflect on personal values and beliefs and how they can get in the way of good listening
- Be ethical when dealing with sensitive information
- Be able to set boundaries and limits yet still maintain an appropriate level of involvement
- Appreciate the importance of debriefing and caring-for-you-as-carer after emotionally-charged interactions
- Share experiences, practise skills and engage in self-reflection
Accidental Mediator
Ever had to step into the shoes of an accidental mediator?
Conflict and difficult conversations are best dealt with in the early phases and yet that is most commonly not how things happen. We often try to avoid, pretend we don't notice, we collude or we simply don't know how to support the healthy resolution of a situation.
The Accidental Mediator 1-day workshop is about ability and skill to step into disagreements, disputes and conflict with wisdom, clarity and confidence.
At the end of the day you will:
- Know the basic mediation principles to support others in conflict
- Have the key skills necessary for holding a difficult conversation
- Have skills for calming yourself and others down
- Be able to identify what keeps you from having the difficult conversation and a technique to overcome those challenges
- Understanding what conflict is and how it affects us.
When disputes or conflict are not addressed, they tend to fester. In the workplace, that may lead to time off work, stress, general dissatisfaction and grumpiness. It also tends to drag down a team, as the preoccupation is with the conflict. When we are in conflict we are not our wisest self.
The Accidental Mediator is about how we avoid difficult and challenging interpersonal situations. You will gain insight into how you tend to respond in conflict and why, then what you can do to break that pattern. Whether at the office or at home, skills to calm a situation, to deliver a difficult message or to have confidence to take that difficult conversation are useful.
State Debt Recovery Office
The State Debt Recovery Office (SDRO) is the fines division of the New South Wales Office of State Revenue operating call centres at Maitland, Parramatta and Lithgow. These offices are responsible for the receipt and processing of fines and debt collection issued by various government agencies and authorities, and administering the fine enforcement system for the collection of unpaid fines.
The distress of many callers and the need to equip call staff motivated the development of a partnership between the SDRO and Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter.
"A Call to Action" was designed to train and empower SDRO staff in the appropriate responses and to assist in keeping the callers with thoughts of suicide safe. Participants learned to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and respond in ways that help increase immediate safety and link the person to further help.
A total of 234 staff completed suicide prevention training: 2-day LivingWorks ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Training) to 36 Managers and Supervisors; 4-hour LivingWorks safeTALK to 198 call centre staff; 1- day Accidental Counsellor Training to all staff. A total of 468 training units were delivered over six months and continues to be delivered during each intake/induction round.
Comments from participants:
"It was great and has made me more aware of how to deal with someone at risk of suicide."
"Great course, great trainers and powerful knowledge imparted to me."
"Thank you for opening my eyes to the signs – so important."
"I was really impressed with this course – it has really made me more aware."
"Thank you for an amazing two days and a potentially life changing experience."
Was this training successful?
Managers and supervisors were asked before training commenced, What training in helping a person at risk of suicide have you had before? Twenty-eight said none at all, one said one day, and seven said up to three hours. They were then asked, at the beginning of training how prepared do you feel to help a person at risk increase their suicide safety? Eighteen responded that they were not prepared at all, eighteen believed that they were party prepared, but no-one thought that he or she was mostly or well-prepared.
On completion of training, the 36 managers and supervisors were asked the question again, and the response was the inverse of the pre-training responses: none were not or partly prepared, eighteen were mostly prepared, and eighteen felt well-prepared to help a person at risk increase suicide safety. Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter and the State Debt Recovery Office have together created a workforce that is ready, willing and able to respond to a suicidal caller. An additional outcome of this training is that each staff member is now able to transfer these skills to make a difference in their own communitiesView available dates on the Training Calendar
An Introduction to - THE ART OF WELLBEING
- 1. SKILLS FOR GROWTH – Creative Compass
'Knowing yourself is the beginning of all Wisdom'
Having a strong centre within us is what enables us to face all things well. Connection to this sense of self leads to a growing ability in connection with others and a wider world.
This short course provides an introduction to Transpersonal Art Therapy as a way of equipping ourselves with tools to support our life journey.
We will look at:
Personal reflection
Exploration of our psychological parts
What it means to be authentic
Life experience vs desire
Accessing our own wisdom
How do we get there? Our ability to transform
An enjoyable and therapeutic module, using creative expression, meditation, visualisation and movement that has the potential to bring you to a place of greater meaning and fulfilment.
- 2. SKILLS FOR GROWTH – Travelling Deeper
'It is the conversation we have with ourselves in the dark that is most telling'
This module follows on from the foundational work done in the Creative Compass course.
Here we take stock of our experience in light of insight gained and intentions made during the last module. At this point it can be helpful to look at the mechanics behind our success or frustrations in personal development.
What interrupts change?
Patterns, Triggers and Pitfalls- shadow
Dialoguing with parts
Furthering Authentic living
Symbol of Healing
An enjoyable and therapeutic module, using creative expression, meditation, visualisation and movement that has the potential to bring you to a place of greater meaning and fulfilment.
'The key to a stress free life is in the moments spent just being'
True stress reduction that is sustainable is found through authentic, connected, intentional living where we can be comfortable not striving but instead, truly experiencing our lives.
Stop, Observe, Understand, Learn, Act and Rest – our formula for gaining insight into how to find our anchor amidst a busy world.
This workshop uses creative techniques, meditation, visualisation and movement based on principles of Transpersonal Art Therapy, to reach a holistic understanding that you can continue to implement in your life every day from here on to live a life less impacted by the damaging effects of stress.
Take the power back!
'Life isn't about finding yourself, its about creating yourself'
George Bernard Shaw
In this upbeat soulful workshop we check in on where we see ourselves on our life journey and where we would like to be. We ask questions about Happiness and Fulfilment and explore how Intentional living can bring us an Inspirational Life experience.
Playing with ideas on our Archetypal drives, recognising our true calling and conscious living, alongside tools to tap into choice based freedom.
This workshop uses creative processes, meditation, visualisation, psychodrama and movement based on principles of Transpersonal Art Therapy to give you a lived experience of an Inspired Life!
'Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.'
Kahlil Gibran
The fullness of life contains the full range of emotions, many that we find painful and ill equipped to deal with. Problematic times only become crisis when we don't have the right tools to know how to journey through them.
This workshop is a safe and respectful place to engage with new perspectives to face the shadows and strategies to heal the past and face the future.
Creative processes, dialoguing, meditation, visualisation and movement practices founded in the holistic model of Transpersonal Art Therapy provide the basis for this program. All interested are encouraged to make prior contact so as to ascertain if the content is suitable to your needs.
- 6. LIKE AND SHARE – Educators Resource
What is Art Therapy and how can it be used in schools, welfare and community programs to promote positive self awareness, authenticity of character and social integrity?
Art Therapy is everywhere, existing alongside peoples struggles with pain and desire for meaning. Our modern framework focuses on happiness through our external circumstances where true happiness is found in strengthening an individuals connection to their inner world which in turn influences their relationships and interaction with the world at large.
In a nutshell, reach a person on the heart level and you can change their life experience.
This short course offers resources for providers to enhance their programs with activities that can be interwoven with existing content. Giving you the ability to further support those in your care.
DV-alert (Domestic Violence Response Training)
CHCDFV001 - Recognise and Respond to Domestic and Family Violence
Lifeline Newcastle and Hunter on behalf of Lifeline Australia RTO 88036 delivers DV-alert, Lifeline's free nationally recognised training program that enables health, allied health and frontline workers to confidently:
- RECOGNISE signs of domestic and family violence
- RESPOND with appropriate care
- REFER affected individuals and families to relevant support services
Since 2007, Lifeline has been delivering DV-alert (previously known as DiVeRT) in different parts of Australia including remote and rural locations. Since it was first developed, DV-alert has expanded to wider range of audiences to provide a more tailored approach that recognises the complexities of domestic and family violence as an issue.
DV-alert is funded by the Department of Social Services and is supported to contribute to one of the outcomes of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022 - services meet the needs of women and children experiencing domestic and family violence.
As a nationally recognised training program, DV-alert is mapped out against the unit of competency CCHCDFV001 - Recognise and Respond to Domestic and Family Violence. Participants who complete the training and assessment will receive a statement of attainment. Find out more about the benefits of DV-alert.
For more detailed information and for bookings, visit dvalert.org.au
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) aims to enhance a caregiver's abilities to help a person at risk avoid suicide. Participants learn to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide and respond in ways that help increase immediate safety and link the person to help.
Key Features
ASIST facilitates involvement. Participants will spend over half of the workshop in the same small group with one of the two trainers. Learning is stimulated by audiovisuals and teaching. A suicide first aid model provides the framework for the workshop and skills practise.
The workshop provides opportunities to learn what a person at risk may need from others in order to keep safe and get more help. Participants consider common factors that may flag potential suicide risk.
ASIST has a training focus. Personal and professional experiences that participants bring contribute to everyone's learning. Experiences with suicide and intervention are focused on the overall learning goal—to provide suicide first aid.
Participants are also encouraged to share and reflect on their attitudes about suicide and suicide intervention and hear those of others. People are invited to reflect on how these attitudes may affect their caregiver role with a person at risk and to appreciate diverse perspectives. The workshop encourages honest, open and direct talk about suicide as part of preparing people to provide suicide first aid.
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Participants are also encouraged to share and reflect on their attitudes about suicide and suicide intervention and hear those of others. People are invited to reflect on how these attitudes may affect their caregiver role with a person at risk and to appreciate diverse perspectives. The workshop encourages honest, open and direct talk about suicide as part of preparing people to provide suicide first aid.
Although it is highly standardised, ASIST has been used in a range of settings with trainees from a variety of backgrounds and countries. ASIST has been implemented in secondary and post-secondary schools, mental health centres, hospitals, social services, public safety agencies and numerous other community settings.
Evaluations of ASIST outcomes have shown that participants demonstrate increased intervention skills, and that ASIST training has led to positive changes in both knowledge and attitudes.
ASIST is based on principles of adult learning. It values the experiences and contributions that participants bring and encourages people to share actively in the learning process.
Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter conducts at least one ASIST workshop in the region each month.View available dates on the Training Calendar
Suicide Prevention Awareness Program
LivingWorks safeTALK is a half-day presentation to increase suicide awareness. This program alerts community members to signs that a person may be considering suicide. It acknowledges that while most people at risk of suicide signal their distress and invite help, these intervention opportunities are often overlooked. safeTALK participants learn to recognise when someone may have thoughts of suicide and to respond in ways that link them with further suicide intervention help.
Suicide alert helpers contribute to a suicide safer community. It is intended that safeTALK participants will be better prepared to:
- Recognise that invitations to help are often overlooked
- Move beyond common tendencies to miss, dismiss and avoid conversations around suicide
- Notice and respond to situations in which thoughts of suicide may be present
- Apply basic TALK steps (Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe)
- Connect the person with thoughts of suicide to suicide first aid help and further community resources
Suicide alert community members are better prepared to become a vital link in connecting people at risk with further help. safeTALK is designed to complement the LivingWorks ASIST workshop (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). The programs share the same beliefs about suicide and preventing suicide. However, each presentation has a specific role.
safeTALK Outline
safeTALK is a brief program that shows how alertness to suicide risk can be followed by basic (TALK) steps that facilitate links with further suicide first aid help. The emphasis is on fulfilling this vital linking role with community resources rather than full engagement in a suicide first aid intervention.
safeTALK is a presentation rather than workshop format. It will stimulate people to think and hopefully act differently when signs of potential suicide risk are present.
Some organisations may choose to train a large number of people in safeTALK, while inviting key people, designated as suicide first aid resource persons, to attend a LivingWorks ASIST workshop.
Call Dr June Anderson for bookings, 02 4940 2000.
Mental Health First Aid Training
This course teaches adults how to assist other adults who are experiencing a mental health crisis or a mental health problem. The program has been well evaluated and found to be effective in improving mental health literacy, reducing stigma and increasing helping behaviours.
Mental health first aid is the help given to someone dealing with a mental health problem or crisis. Until appropriate professional treatment is received or until the crisis resolves. Participants will learn the signs and symptoms of these mental health problems, where and how to get help and what sort of help has been shown by research to be effective.
Who can attend an MHFA course?
Any interested adult can attend. This course is not a therapy or support group, rather it is an education course. Our instructors are trained by Mental Health First Aid TM Australia, and more information about MHFA Australia can be found at www.mhfa.com.au
The Standard Mental Health First Aid Course has also been endorsed for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points for a number of professions. This includes nurses, pharmacists, fitness instructors, social workers, physiotherapists and others.
MHFA Training can provide members of the community with:
- Skills in how to recognise the signs and symptoms of mental health problems
- Knowledge of the possible causes or risk factors for these mental health problems
- Awareness of the evidenced based medical, psychological and alternative treatments available
- Skills in how to give appropriate initial help and support someone experiencing a mental health problem
- Skills in how to take appropriate action if a crisis situation arises involving suicidal behaviour, panic attack, overdose or threatening psychotic behaviour
Recognising the signs of suicide
"We need to overcome the silence in the community around suicide and be responsive to the early warning signs of suicide among family and friends, school and work colleagues, by strengthening people's awareness and ability to take action."
A Contributing Life, the 2012 National Report Card on Mental Health and Suicide Prevention National Mental Health Commission, 2012
Mind Your Mates is a 40-minute toolbox tool to develop suicide prevention awareness, a Workplace (Mental) Health & Safety initiative introduced by Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter and ResCo Services in 2009. Since then, over 280 mine workers in the Hunter Valley have completed the program as well as over 200 members of Men's Sheds across the region. This brief module, can be presented within an induction day format to small groups, assists recognition when someone may be at risk of suicide and what to do when suspicions are confirmed.
- 97% of respondents felt more able to recognise a mate who may be having suicidal thoughts
- 95% of respondents felt more confident to ask a mate if they are thinking of suicide
- 99% of respondents felt confident about knowing where to refer a mate who is having suicidal thoughts
- 96% of respondents felt a greater sense of being able to be involved with the care and welfare of their workmates
If someone is experiencing suicidal tendencies or who is exhibiting signs of depression, having a co-worker who can identify the problem could literally be a life saver.
Mind Your Mates Outline
(Typical 40 minute session)
Invitation to talk about the stigma and taboo that often prevent us from having serious conversations about suicide.
Talking about myths
Exploring the myths surrounding suicide and debunking them.
Recognising signs
Looking at the warning signs of acute distress or despair such as changes in appearance, change in mood, loss or a series of losses, giving possessions away.
Preparing to ask
How to listen appropriately
Asking the question
The importance of asking about thoughts of suicide, how best to ask.
Know where to refer someone to the help they need and deserve.
Call Dr June Anderson for bookings, 02 4940 2000.
The ancient wisdom behind mindfulness combines with the latest research on neuroplasticity and thinking from leaders in the business world. Clearer thinking, the ability to make calm, considered decisions and freedom from feeling overwhelmed by a seemingly never-ending workload are just some of the benefits that a practice of mindfulness can bring to the workplace.
Forward-thinking people in business and institutions are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits of mindfulness training. According to the psychologist Daniel Goleman, being mindful "is now the yardstick by which pioneering organisations and their leaders are being judged. Today's leaders not only have to be emotionally intelligent, but also mindful."
Mindfulness training supports the development of a more effective, productive, creative and peaceful workplace and dramatically reduces levels of stress in the work environment. Stress is believed to trigger 70% of visits to the doctor and 85% of serious illnesses. Thus, when you consider that stress in the workplace reduces productivity, increases management pressure, severely restricts workers' creativity and interferes with job satisfaction, investing in mindfulness training could be one of the most cost effective decisions you make all year.
"Based on the 2,600 year-old tradition of Buddhist meditation, mindfulness is not new or New Age. What is new is bringing its potential to the offices and conference rooms of businesses and corporations." Pamela Weiss, Founder of Appropriate Response 2012.
Mindfulness coach Charlotte Thaarup gives you the foundation for starting to integrate mindfulness into work life. You will also gain specific skills to train attention span, calm down and reduce being overwhelmed, as well as practical mindful skills for running meetings, emailing and time (self) management.
Call Dr June Anderson for bookings, 02 4940 2000 or book and pay online.
Opening doors: saying no to domestic and family violence
Domestic and family violence (DFV) is more than an individual issue, it is a community issue and can no longer be kept behind closed doors. Victim/survivors have the right to feel and be safe from the person using violence but stigma, financial difficulties, concerns for children, hopes and dreams can entrap them.
Frontline workers can play an important role in assisting victim/survivors to be aware of the power and control patterns that underpin DFV. Rather than miss, dismiss and avoid the signs that a person before you is living in DFV, awareness training provides a set of skills to, first, have ears to hear, second, have the words to address what the ears have heard and, thirdly, have knowledge of community resources for appropriate referral. Such a response from key members of the helping community is a way of saying no to domestic and family violence.
But there is more that we can all do in our day-to-day lives, as individuals and as a community, to show those who are suffering that they are not alone. Together, we can put a stop to domestic and family violence. It is beholden upon all of us — every single citizen of this diverse, vibrant nation — to take a stand against domestic and family violence; to commit to protecting the vulnerable; and to make it clear to those who would hurt another, within a relationship of intimacy and trust, that we will not tolerate, excuse, condone or accept their behaviour.
This training develops skills for frontline workers to initiate a difficult conversation and to open doors for victim/survivors to say no to domestic and family violence.
1-day workshop with our Lifeline trainers for managers and frontline workers
Call Dr June Anderson for bookings, 02 4940 2000 or book and pay online.
Lifeline Training Centre, 12 Maitland Road Islington
No on-site parking, diagonally opposite is Wickham Park Hotel
Lifeline Training Cancellation and Refund Policy
For an individual participant who has paid a course fee, if cancellation is made more than 48 hours before course commencement, a refund will be made less a 20% administration fee. If a training participant can provide a medical certificate or show extreme personal or other hardship that necessitates withdrawal 48 hours or less before course commencement, a refund will be made less a 20% administration fee. If cancellation is made less than 48 hours before course commencement without such proof of illness or hardship, or the person booked does not attend, no refund will be made.
If Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter cancels a course for whatever reason, a full refund will be made or payment can be rolled over to the next available course on instruction.
In the case of a group booking of five or more participants for which a rate has been negotiated, if the booking is cancelled more than seven days but less than 14 days prior to commencement of the planned training, a 20% administration fee will be charged. If cancellation of a group or organisation booking of five or more participants is made less than seven days before course commencement, 50% of the negotiated rate will be charged.
Lifeline Shop Refunds
New Items
Please choose carefully. Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter does not give refunds if you simply change your mind or make a wrong decision. You can choose between a refund or exchange where goods are faulty, wrongly described, different from a sample shown to you or don't do what they are supposed to do. Please retain your receipt for proof of purchase.
Second-Hand Clothing and Goods
Whilst Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter endeavours to ensure that items sold in the eight Hunter-based Lifeline Shops are of merchantable quality, second-hand goods are classed as seconds and are therefore non-refundable.
For Frontline Workers
Safety Planning And Response (SPAR) is a 4-hour module that provides de-escalation training for frontline workers, combining elements of our Accidental Counsellor course content (Module 4 Understanding Conflict; Module 5 Dealing with Difficult Clients; and Module 6 Professional Boundaries and Self-Care) with additional components aligning with the VET sector.
SPAR content aligns with VET Units of Competency CHCCOM403AUse targeted communication skills to build relationships and HLTCSD306A Respond effectively to behaviours of concern. Topics covered include:
- Alarm reaction and the stress cycle
- De-escalation toolbox
- Physical intervention and self-defense'
- Positive behaviour support
- Professional boundaries
- The importance of self-care
SPAR has the capacity to be tailored to a specific workplace and is an ideal module to include in workplace health and safety training for those organisations with workers in the field.
About the Trainer
SPAR trainer with Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter, Belinda Connell (BWS, DipPP) has a background in NSW Police and child protection as well as social work experience in both government and non-government agencies. Belinda relays her extensive knowledge about de-escalation techniques used within government agencies for frontline workers, especially those who approach people in their homes.
Call Dr June Anderson for bookings, 02 4940 2000.
A school approach to suicide prevention
Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter has developed the schoolALERT program to support high schools in their desire to ensure staff and parents are more suicide aware, alert and armed with response. Trained staff and parents will provide a safety net for vulnerable young people and be more confident to take action, protecting those in their care at risk of suicide.
The schoolALERT program provides the following training:
LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
Recommended for significant members of staff such as Year Heads, School Welfare or Guidance Officers. Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) is a two-day interactive workshop in suicide first aid, the verbal equivalent to physical first aid or CPR. Participants learn to recognise when someone may be at risk of suicide, to respond in ways that help increase their immediate safety, and to link them to further help. Participants consistently say that they feel better prepared to respond helpfully to a person at risk of suicide, and that ASIST training has led to positive changes in both knowledge and attitudes about suicide.
Living works safeTALK
Awareness program suited to all other staff members, parents and friends of the school. safeTALK is a half-day presentation to increase suicide alertness to signs that a person may be considering suicide. The program acknowledges that while most people at risk of suicide signal their distress and invite help, these intervention opportunities are often overlooked. Participants learn to recognise when someone may have thoughts of suicide and to respond in ways that link them with further suicide intervention help. Suicide alert helpers contribute to a suicide safer community.
"Our students will greatly benefit from the teachers and parents being more alert to the risk of suicide."
Feedback from schoolALERT participant, St. Francis Xavier's College
If you would like more information or to book a schoolALERT for your school, contact Robyn 02 4940 2000 or email email@example.com.
Workplace Mental Health and Safety
Increasingly, organisations are acknowledging that the 'H' in WH&S is not only about physical health. The mental health of employees is a significant consideration on not just their well-being but also on the company's bottom line. Employers are recognising that mental health problems reduce performance and lead to increased absenteeism. Having a mental health savvy workforce or, as one of our toolbox programs is called, the ability to Mind Your Mates, builds stronger workplace wellbeing and employer reputation.
Our multi-modal training in mental health awareness and suicide prevention training can be adapted to suit most workplaces. Members of our training team can come to you and, when a client based in the Hunter has branch offices outside the region and wants whole-of-organisation training, we can travel to meet that need.
Such was the case with Emeco, an organisation that provides earth moving equipment to mining companies and contractors in three regions: the Hunter, Mackay and Perth. Emeco is also an organisation with a strong sense of corporate social responsibility. In September 2011, when Lifeline invested in a 'Saving Lives Overnight' pilot program, Emeco underwrote the payment of telephone crisis supporters to work the midnight to 6am shift, bringing greater sustainability to the way Lifeline recruits, trains and retains staff and volunteers.
Not only does Emeco's management 'talk the talk' about suicide prevention, but also 'walks the walk'. Emeco's workforce is 83.5% male, and we know that men are four times more likely to die from suicide than women. Most of Emeco's workers also live in remote and regional areas, and we know that suicide rates are higher there than in metropolitan areas. In recognition of these combined risk factors, and in alignment with the corporate funding pledge to Lifeline, Emeco commissioned a multi-modal suicide-safer education program for staff in Emeco's three centres - Rutherford, Perth and Mackay - delivered by members of Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter's training division March-May 2013.View available dates on the Training Calendar


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Punjab National Bank, India has chosen Queue Pro for managing their queue management system as part of their customer service improvement. The system has been designed to cater the special needs from PNB. The special feature of branch based deployment with centralized synchronization for reporting has given PNB to address full time connectivity challenge when rolling out nationwide, yet getting the centralized reporting and management. The card reader options with validation from banking database for queue routing has enabled PNB for sentimentalizing the customer based on their transaction volume. The system has been implemented by Forbes Technosys Ltd., India.
Queue Pro is an effective & systematic queue management system designed to ensure discipline & guided client experience. Clients are selecting the services from a touch screen kiosk, choosing a token and waiting in an allowed place. The system is announcing the tokens with displaying the counter number in a giant screen for obtained expected services. The branch manager can view the statistics on waiting clients from his desk and can rearrange the counters in line with the traffic of clients. This has taken the clients services to the next level. The management will get the data and summary of information about the number of customers and service matrix, time and other special reports.
Punjab National Bank, India opened for business on 12 April, 1895. Now with over 72 million satisfied customers and 5697 domestic branches, PNB has continued to retain its leadership position amongst the nationalized banks. The Bank enjoys strong fundamentals, large franchise value and good brand image. Over the years PNB has remained fully committed to its guiding principles of sound and prudent banking irrespective of conditions. Bank has been earning many laurels and accolades in recognition to its service towards doing well to society, technology usage and on its overall performance.
Forbes Technosys Limited (FTL) is a pioneer in Transaction Management Solutions. FTL provides services, solutions and networks that enable customers to manage their transactions more efficiently at a lower per transaction cost. FTL's customers include leading telecom companies, power & utilities, banks and financial institutions, airlines and government departments. FTL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Forbes & Company Limited (F&CL).
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What is hiding behind a simple click?
Simple. We click wit our mouse cursor on a link to a web page. Or with our finger on a mobile phone or tablet touchscreen. Whatever. We interact with the web. Anything we can assimilate to a "click".
What happens next? Many things. Perhaps too many. Consider this image:
This is the ecosystem of companies that can be activated after clicking. Between us and an announcing company, there are many other companies: advertising agencies, user-tracking websites, supertargeted placement of ads, etc.
Our data flies and bounces from one website to another. Trackers, ad allocators and other sites receive information from our web cookies, our browsing history, the list of our friends, etc. etc. etc.
When we accept "terms and conditions" we leave our door open for others to negotiate with our intimacy. According to this research the average number of this type of sites that an Android app contacts is 500. The record was achieved by a innocent-looking volume equalization application: 2000 websites.
There is much talk of data transparency with respect to our right to access and understand the information that governments use in their decisions.
We should also think about what we can do and how to regulate who uses our data. That is, it should be transparent to us who is accessing them. Developing new user tools can be a way to help this.
Here is an example of Anne Helmond and Alexei Miagkov who again will organize this year the Summer School on Digital Methods which specializes in how to unveil and visualized lay who is tracking us.
And its always worthwhile to watch the enlightening documentary "Terms and Conditions May Apply."


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Could the holiday season possibly be more crass, more commercial, its office parties more drunken or rowdy?
Well, yes.
That is the verdict of cultural historians who study Christmas, a subset within what we might call ''holidayology.'' In the early 19th century, it seems, Christmas in America was so raucous and violent, so threatening to the New World's Puritan sense of decorum that a group of wealthy, conservative gentlemen, some of them writers, took it upon themselves to reinvent a benign, de-carnivalized, family-centered version of the holiday.
This new domestic, market-friendly Christmas, argues Stephen Nissenbaum, a leading Christmas expert at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and author of ''The Battle for Christmas,'' was intended to replace a bacchanalian, carnival-like holiday marked by ''crass materialism'' and observed by such practices as drunken caroling, gang violence, even extortion. That took the form of a trick-or-treat scheme in which working-class revelers demanded gifts of money and food in exchange for refraining from wreaking havoc on rich people's homes.
Americans were apparently always ambivalent about Christmas. The Puritans shared the early Christians' belief that Christmas, in Mr. Nissenbaum's words, ''was nothing but a pagan festival covered with a Christian veneer.'' (In other words, bah, humbug!) In 1621, just a year after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Gov. William Bradford, America's original Scrooge, ordered Puritans taking Christmas Day off back to work. And in 1659, Mr. Nissenbaum notes, celebrating Christmas in Massachusetts became a criminal offense.
But the need to lighten the winter solstice, the darkest days of the year, with logs, candles, holly, mistletoe and, Mr. Nissenbaum argues, even evergreen trees, proved stronger than the ministers' disapproval. So did the desire to gorge on freshly slaughtered lambs after a long meatless season. So eventually Christmas, at least a moderately Christianized rendition of it, became respectable.Continue reading the main story
So did gift giving, much to the thrill of merchants. The earliest American reference to a commercial gift that Mr. Nissenbaum could find is a diary entry on Dec. 29, 1796 noting that ''Daniel Livermore made a present of an Almanack to my son Cyrus.'' (Almanacs are not even in Toys R Us's toy registry.)
Leigh Eric Schmidt, an associate professor of religion at Princeton and the author of ''Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays,'' says that by the early 19th century the Twelve Days of Christmas had given birth to a ''substantial holiday marketplace.'' Originally, he says, Americans favored gift-giving on New Year's Day. By the 1830's and 1840's, people were shopping for both days. But by the century's end, Christmas had clearly triumphed as the premiere retail holiday.
In her book ''Christmas in America: A History,'' Penne Restad, a historian at the University of Texas, writes that merchants' growing dependence on Christmas prompted another benchmark in consumer celebration: a Presidential decision in the 1930's to move Thanksgiving from Nov. 30 to Nov. 23 and thus advance the buying season. Mr. Schmidt said, ''To find a noncommercial Christmas of yore, you have to go back to 1800.''
But even that supposedly purer, simpler Christmas with chestnuts roasting over open fires is also what Mr. Nissenbaum calls ''invented tradition.'' Angered by being deprived of sleep by drunken Christmas carousers (who had prompted New York to form its first police department), John Pintard, a prominent New York City merchant in the early 19th century and his friend Clement Clarke Moore, who wrote ''A Visit From St. Nicholas,'' helped create many of the ostensibly longstanding traditions, among them, Santa Claus. Jolly old St. Nick was not a ''creature of ancient Dutch folklore'' brought to America by Dutch immigrants, Mr. Nissenbaum says, but a toy-pushing peddler invented by Mr. Pintard and his stuffy friends to help domesticize Christmas. And for merchants, Santa was truly joy to the world.
Mr. Nissenbaum argues that similar efforts are now under way to co-opt and sanitize the last excuse for a holiday blowout: the merchant-supported efforts to replace New Year's Eve revelry with liquorless street fairs, pioneered in -- where else? -- Boston. These ''First Night'' celebrations, as they are known, are catching on in other American cities, providing a new generation of historians with future research topics.Continue reading the main story


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This past Sunday the New York Giants found out they would not be going past Week 17 this season. After losing to the San Diego Chargers 34-14, in addition to both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Arizona Cardinals winning, the Giants dropped to 5-8 and were eliminated from playoff contention this season. Giants' defensive end, Mathias Kiwanuka, said the plane ride home was "a tough one."
When it comes to the future of the organization Kiwanuka stayed positive.
"We made all the corrections and the goal is to make sure those don't come back up again now," and that the team needed to, "stay focused and make sure that we play our responsibility and trust the man next to us and don't let those things happen," noted Kiwanuka.
Kiwanuka mentioned the ability of the defensive line to step up in the big moment.
"Whenever there is a play that needs to be made, we all take it upon ourselves to go out there and make that play," stated Kiwanuka. "We have to be able to do that within the confines of the defense and that's what the issue is right now." Generally this season fans have seen poor decisions made by the Giants on all levels, and it has cost them more than in the past; something many hope to see corrected next season."
Another issue that has contributed to New York's lack of success includes a great deal of injuries. Among the starters who went down throughout this season, the Giants lost: Chris Snee, Dave Baas, David Wilson, Stevie Brown, Corey Webster, as well as injuries to Jason Pierre-Paul.
"We're not at the point where we're going to make excuses but I do feel like we have taken on a lot of adversity," said Kiwanuka.
While the Giants are aware they will not go past week seventeen this season, there are three regular games left for the team to play
"We have a lot to play for," admitted Kiwanuka. "You have to make sure you do it to the best of your ability."
Even so, going out this season will be no easy task. This upcoming Sunday the Giants play the 11-2 Seattle Seahawks. Kiwanuka believes the game will be "helpful." He said, "This is a great opportunity to get one." Even so, the Giants have a lot to fix before Sunday.
"We just have to make sure we're doing it effectively and we're able to make plays when we need them and get stops when we need them and come out with a win," noted Kiwanuka.


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State Swim Meet – Medley Relays
State Swim Meet – Sunday Preview
Team Scores after Saturday:
1. Bitterroot 253
2. Lewistown 136
3. Sidney 124
4. Conrad 97
5. Chinook 94
6. Big Sandy 61
Browning, Fairfield Residents Selected to Receive Governor's Humanities Awards
MISSOULA — Six Montanans will be recognized during the Governor's Humanities Awards Ceremony on January 26, 2017 at 3 p.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda, Helena. Honorees are Chere Jiusto, Helena; John Murray, Browning; Hal and Sheila Stearns, Missoula; Karen Aspevig Stevenson, Miles City; and Dorothea (Dottie) Susag, Fairfield. The ceremony is free and open to the public.
State Swim Meet – Butterfly Preliminary
The following swimmers have qualified for Sunday's Butterfly Finals:
Boys 8&Under 25 yds
- Tyler Jette, Bitterroot 21:15
- Tegan Jones, Conrad 21:26
- Ryan Unruh, Sidney 21.86
State Swim Meet – Backstroke Preliminarys
The following swimmers have qualified for Sunday's Backstroke Finals:
Boys 8&Under 25yds
- Jason Chaplin, Bitterroot 20.14
- Kohen Sullivan, Chinook 20.21
State Swim Meet – Freestyle Preliminarys Pt.2
The following swimmers have qualified for Sunday's Freestyle finals:
Boys 8&Under 50yd
- Daniel Tilleman, Chinook 35.40
- Tyler Jette, Bitterroot 36.05
State Swim Meet – Breaststroke Preliminary
State Swim Meet – Freestyle Preliminary
The following swimmers have qualified for Sunday's Freestyle finals:
Boys 8&Under 25yd
1 Daniel Tilleman, Chinook 15.16
- Jason Chaplin, Bitterroot 15.58
State Swim Meet Results- Individual Medley
State Swim Meet Results – Freestyle Relays
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- Bitteroot 1:10:99
- Scobey 1:12.37
- Conrad 1:18.60
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Fujifilm has been indulging a recent obsession with retro-ism. First there was the sublime Fujifilm X100 with its fixed 35mm-equivalent lens, and now we have this less niche but no less lovely X10.
Retro revival
Like its more serious X100 stablemate, the X10 is aesthetically stuck in the past. While the X100 is undeniably '50s, looking like a Leica M3 that's been assimilated by the Borg, the black paintwork on the Fujifilm X10 evokes later rangefinder cameras.
The faux-Vulcanite covering and engraved top plate are visual and tactile treats, but the retro-icity extends beyond merely the aesthetic.
Manual zooming
The first surprise comes from the manual zoom ring. Not just that it feels gleefully old school twisting the lens to zoom on a compact camera, but that it doubles as the on-off switch. As you twist, you get a satisfying click to announce that X10's powering up, then continuing to turn the ring makes the lens extend.
The only drawback to this is that there's rather a large portion of lens protruding from the body at all times, but the slimness of the rest of the design means it all still feels more compact than the Canon G12 and Nikon P7100.
Other old-school touches include a push-on lens cap – sadly it'll probably go walkies one day - and a threaded cable-release socket on the shutter button.
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There's also an optical viewfinder, and it's easily the best in class – a light-gathering joy to peer through, making the teensy windows on the Canon G12 and Nikon P7100 seem unusable.
The controls are well thought out and it all feels nicely balanced. The EV dial is positioned on the back right corner of the top plate, where it could be easily knocked – a problem we also found with the Nikon P7000 and P7100 - but it's thankfully quite stiff to move.
Shooting down its rivals
The X10's larger-than-average (2/3-inch) EXR CMOS sensor is mightily impressive, pumping out glorious images at almost every ISO setting. The autofocus is pretty quick, and holding your zooming hand on the pin-sharp Fujinon lens helps keep shots reassuringly steady.
The sole disappointment is that video footage could be smoother - but surely you're waiting for a video camera retro-styled like a Bolex to capture any future YouTube moments, no? So are we.
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Randall Kiggins, one of Tims buddies, stopped by for a few hours to hang out with Tim one afternoon (unfortunately for me) he rode his bike over. Well, that just opened a can of you know what!!!!! Because all Tim wanted to do was ride his bike. Noooooooooo. That didn't seem to help. Since Tim had just received his new Leather Vest which was given to him by Marine Corps League Marines Helping Marines. ( A bunch of nice retirees). He thought it only fitting to take the bike and the vest for a ride. I starting yelling and screaming at him. Randall, Dave and Tim started laughing at me saying why nothing is going to happen,its just around the block. Not funny boys. Then Tim uses his famous line "Mom whats the worst that could happen" and we all know how that line came about! boy some times I just wanna............
Hope all this makes sense. He is doing better but not great. He has his good days and then his bad. But we are all coping.
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In July 2008, E. Lynn Harris published Just Too Good to Be True, a book about a college football star whose single mother insisted he remain celibate.
"I didn't think I could write in the voice of a 21-year-old straight boy," Harris told USA TODAY at the time. "I'm very curious to see how my fans will take to this." He needn't have worried: The novel became a USA TODAY best seller.
The popular Harris, who died Thursday in Los Angeles at age 54 of undetermined causes, had 10 USA TODAY best sellers, including this year's Basketball Jones.
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He dealt with the then-taboo topic of bisexual and gay black men in his 1994 debut, Invisible Life. Harris worked for a decade as an IBM executive before he started writing,and built an audience selling Invisible Life from his car as he visited beauty parlors around Atlanta.
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I have a small sample, es-300-fbo-srgb, supposed to showing how to manage gamma correction in opengl es3.
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GL_FRAMEBUFFER_SRGB is disabled, so no linear->sRGB conversion is executed.
I blit the content of the fbo to the default fbo back buffer (through a program). But since the texture of this fbo has the sRGB component, on the read values a wrong gamma operation will be performed because they are assumed in sRGB space when they are not.
a second gamma operation is performed by my monitor when it renders the content of the default fbo
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Peter Sudnick is retained counsel for the Police Officers Labor Council. He established his own firm, SudnickLaw, in 2008 after working as a partner at Dean & Fulkerson, a full-service law firm in Troy. He graduated cum laude from Detroit College of Law, now Michigan State University College of Law. He is a labor and employment attorney specializing in legal counsel to employers in the transportation service industries and public sector police unions including Detroit Police Lieutenants and Sergeants Association and Warren Police Officers Association. Peter has a unique combination of experience handling contract negotiations, grievance and interest arbitrations, unfair labor practice proceedings, unit clarification petitions, labor injunctions, EEOC complaints and civil litigation involving the defense of wrongful termination, sexual harassment, and race, sex, age and handicapped civil rights actions. He has been retained to represent the interests of active uniformed employees in the historic Detroit bankruptcy case. Peter has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and Michigan Employment Relations Commission. He also served as an adjunct professor at Macomb County Community College and was listed as one of Metro Detroit's Top Lawyers in 2010 in dbusiness, Detroit's premier business journal.
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John Goldpaugh is retained counsel for the Police Officers Labor Council (POLC). John has been representing the POLC, the Detroit Police Officers Association, and other police unions the entire length of his career, which began in 1978. After graduating from the University of Detroit in 1969, he began his law career as a clerk for Norman Lippitt while attending the Detroit College of Law, now Michigan State University Detroit College of Law. He graduated Detroit College of Law Magna Cum Laude in 1979 and stayed on with the Lippitt law firm until 1983 when John took over the practice entirely. Through Goldpaugh & Associates, John defends officers in their disciplinary cases and other departmental matters, including those involving internal affairs investigations, force investigations, Office of the Chief Investigator investigations and police shootings. John is an expert on police rights, including Garrity. Over the years, he has spoken at many police seminars and training sessions regarding these rights. John also defends police officers criminally and represents many members for all of their personal legal needs. His private practice includes criminal and domestic relations matters.


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The Romanovs are coming. Whether it's Russian literature, poetry, ballet, art or pre-Revolutionary dynastic tragedy, Americans can't seem to get enough of the Romanovs. When the Faberge exhibition came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1996, it broke all attendance records for a decorative arts show. This year we have ''Anastasia,'' an animated movie. We have the Romanovs at galleries, in museums, on the auction block and, of all places, at the New York Public Library. After only three weeks, the catalogues have run out for the library's new exhibition ''The Romanovs: Their Empire, Their Books.''
Not that they are ordinary books. They were intended to delight the Czar and his family. The private Romanov libraries held luxurious coronation albums, imperial menus, presentation copies of regimental histories with the ribbon of the Order of St. George in the binding, a provincial town record book with a cover decorated in gold and silver threads. There's even a purple tome commemorating the assassination of Alexander II.
There are white imperial borzois posing for the camera, roses painted by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in 1914, and a watercolor of a Turk in a fur-lined green coat, baggy blue pants and red shoes, from an album of Ottoman costumes that dates to about 1830. These are books a nobleman could linger over for a long time in the fading light of a cold Russian winter afternoon.
They are on view through Feb. 28 in the Edna Barnes Salomon Room at the New York Public Library's Center for the Humanities at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Although all 124 items are from the library's collection, the show took years to assemble.
''This exhibition had been in the back of my mind since I came to the library in 1984,'' said Edward Kasinec, chief librarian in the Slavic and Baltic division. ''The library's 3,000 Romanov volumes had been dispersed throughout the library.''Continue reading the main story
Mr. Kasinec says the show is the first to take note of the centenary, in 1998, of the library's Slavic and Baltic division, the oldest organized department of its kind in the country, with 387,000 volumes and a favorite resource for such notables as Trotsky, Nabokov and Kerensky.
The Romanov show is organized by such categories as empire, war, exploration, work and leisure, culture and faith.The only thing missing seems to be late 19th-century novels by luminaries like Tolstoy; perhaps the Romanovs didn't like their point of view.
Since most of the Romanov men served in military units, there are books celebrating Russia's wars during the Romanovs' 300-year reign, and even a few ceremonial swords that came with the books. Some of the books document fascinating expeditions to the farthest reaches of the empire. Many of the items emphasize the outward appearance of the diverse ethnic groups that made up the vast Russian empire: their colorful dress, ''fierce appearance or peculiar practices,'' said Marc Raeff, co-curator of the exhibition. Writing in Biblion, the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, he adds, ''Little is conveyed about their daily lives, institutions or attitudes toward their Great Russian rulers.''
Nonetheless, ethnographers will be fascinated by the illustrated 1802 account of Captain Sarychev originally from the Pavlovsk Palace library. One picture from a voyage shows a Siberian Yakut shaman in an animated dance, apparently calling down the spirits to heal his patient.
Another section of the exhibition explains how the Romanov books, art and jewelry were dispersed after the Russian Revolution. Most books in the library's collection were purchased from the Soviet Government in the 1920's and 30's when it needed hard currency.
The Government even put the Crown Jewels up for sale. A poignant 1925 photo of the jewels arrayed on a cloth documents how desperate for cash the country's leaders were after the end of the civil war in Russia in 1921.
A few of these jewels -- or ones like them -- can be seen in a small exhibition, ''Imperial Treasures From the Romanov Family, 1613-1913,'' that A La Vieille Russie gallery (781 Fifth Avenue, at 59th Street in Manhattan) has organized in conjunction with the show at the library.
In addition to jewelry, Russian icons and works by Faberge, the gallery is showing 30 solid-silver dinner plates owned by the daughter of Nicholas I, Russian drinking glasses with the portrait of Nicholas I and several spectacular porcelain dishes from the rare, circa 1826, Nicholas I coronation service. Each depicts the imperial state eagle, the imperial crown and the chain of the order of St. Andrew. The border shows war trophies and lion heads in gold against a brilliant royal blue ground.
''The Hermitage has only one of the plates,'' said Peter Schaffer, co-owner of the gallery. ''We have a set.''
Other Romanov regalia can be seen in Sotheby's auction of ''Russian Works of Art and Objects of Vertu'' in New York on Dec. 5. The sale of 517 items includes a Faberge platinum, sapphire and diamond pendant from about 1910 (estimated to sell for $7,000 to $12,000); a Faberge gold and rock-crystal inkwell, circa 1910, with a gold laurel leaf finial (estimate: $25,000 to $30,000); six white dinner plates painted with sprays of flowers that were made in 1898 and 1900 at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory for the banquet service of Peterhof Palace (estimate: $2,500 to $3,500), and a milky white Faberge carved agate deerhound from St. Petersburg, circa 1900, that was in the collection of the late William Buchanan, the United States Ambassador to Russia (estimate: $3,000 to $5,000).
There is even a Romanov memento, a real collectible: the enameled coronation beaker, circa 1896, made for the coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra, with the two-headed imperial eagle on one side. It is estimate to sell for $1,000 to $1,500.
The library is presenting a film series on the Romanovs and the Russian Empire on Wednesday afternoons at 2:30 at the Donnell Library Center Auditorium, at 20 West 53rd Street in Manhattan. On Dec. 10, the final day of the series, the film will be Anatole Litvak's ''Anastasia'' (1956), which won Ingrid Bergman an Academy Award for best actress. And unlike the new animated ''Anastasia,'' which dispenses with the Russian Revolution in five minutes, this one can be seen free.Continue reading the main story


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The Strictest Discipline
Jesus did not say that everyone must cut off his right hand, but that "if your right hand causes you to sin" in your walk with Him, then it is better to "cut it off." There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them. Your right hand is…
Direction Of Discipline
Jesus did not say that everyone must cut off the right hand, but - If your right hand offends you in your walk with Me, cut it off. There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them. Your right hand is one of the best things you have, but, says Jesus, if it hinders you in following His precepts, cut it off. This line of discipline is the sternest one that ever struck mankind.
The Unchanging Law of Judgment
This statement is not some haphazard theory, but it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give will be the very way you are judged. There is a difference between retaliation and retribution. Jesus said that the basis of life is retribution— "with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you." If you have been…
The Undeviating Test
This statement is not a haphazard guess, it is an eternal law of God. Whatever judgment you give, it is measured to you again. There is a difference between retaliation and retribution. Jesus says that the basis of life is retribution - "with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." If you have been shrewd in finding out the defects in others, remember that will be exactly the measure given to you. Life serves back in the coin you pay. This law works from God's throne downwards (cf. Psalm 18:25-26).
Beware of Criticizing Others
Jesus' instructions with regard to judging others is very simply put; He says, "Don't." The average Christian is the most piercingly critical individual known. Criticism is one of the ordinary activities of people, but in the spiritual realm nothing is accomplished by it. The effect of criticism is the dividing up of the strengths of the one being criticized. The…
The Uncritical Temper
Jesus says regarding judging - Don't. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up of the powers of the one criticized; the Holy Ghost is the only One in the true position to criticize, He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding. It is impossible to enter into communion with God when you are in a critical temper; it makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. Jesus says, as a disciple cultivate the uncritical temper. It is not done once and for all. Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person's place.
Heedfulness or Hypocrisy in Ourselves?
If we are not heedful and pay no attention to the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other people are failing, and then we take our discernment and turn it into comments of ridicule and criticism, instead of turning it into intercession on their behalf. God reveals this truth about…
Heedfulness v. Hypocrisy In Ourselves
If we are not heedful of the way the Spirit of God works in us, we will become spiritual hypocrites. We see where other folks are failing, and we turn our discernment into the gibe of criticism instead of into intercession on their behalf. The revelation is made to us not through the acuteness of our minds, but by the direct penetration of the Spirit of God, and if we are not heedful of the source of the revelation, we will become criticizing centres and forget that God says - ". . . he shall ask, and He shall give him life for them that sin not unto death." Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
The Distraction of Contempt
What we must beware of is not damage to our belief in God but damage to our Christian disposition or state of mind. "Take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously" (Malachi 2:16). Our state of mind is powerful in its effects. It can be the enemy that penetrates right into our soul and distracts our mind…


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A mutual fund's expense ratio is the result of a calculation, as opposed to a type of expense. The ratio's numerator is the sum of a variety of administrative and operating expenses, while its denominator is an average of the fund's assets. It is expressed as a percentage - lower is better - and is a key indicator of a fund's investment quality.
In general operating terms, stock funds are more expensive than bond funds, international funds are more expensive than domestic funds and small- and mid-cap funds are more expensive than large-cap funds.
The largest component of a fund's operating expenses is the fee paid to its investment advisors or managers. A fund must also pay for record keeping, custodial services, taxes, legal costs, and accounting and auditing fees.
In addition to these conventional operating expenses, some funds also have a marketing, or distribution, fee commonly referred to as a 12b-1 fee. If this fee is charged, it is included in a fund's operating expenses, unlike a fund's sales charge, which is not considered an operating expense. In the mutual fund industry's early days, a provision in the regulations permitted funds to incur promotional expenses to help develop mutual fund activity. The maximum 12b-1 fee allowable is an annual 1% of a fund's assets. To be considered a no-load fund, the 12b-1 annual charge must be no more than 0.25%.
Many mutual fund observers find it hard to justify this type of fee. With the increasing popularity of mutual funds, how much more "promotion" is really necessary? Today, the 12b-1 fee is used almost exclusively to reward intermediaries for selling a fund's shares. There is a movement underway to eliminate the fee, but the fund industry as a whole is resisting the change.
Lastly, it seems that some mutual fund investors are not all that clear on how operating expenses are paid. The simple answer is that whatever is included in a fund's operating expense is charged against the assets under management. In other words, the fund's investors pay the tab. This is how costs reduce investment returns.
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driving up to NY from DC car was fine the after going up a hill it would rev hi--5,000 rpm, but no acceleration over 40 or so. I shut it off for 20 min, added STP gas treatment. Car ran perfect for the rest of the trip and ever since. Could it have been bad gas?
No lights and No codes, as per dealer 3K miles, also had fly by wire failure 2 times again intermittent. Also have had Dealer is saying never heard of any problem. Has anybody out heard of issues like this? Also have a jerking going downhill with no pressure on gas.
Last week I bought a brand new Mazda3 Hatchback. Only 6 days later the check engine light went on. I immediately brought it in to the dealer. When they started it to take into the service bay, the engine sounded horrid.
Long story short, they ran the computer and at least 5 codes popped up, originating, they think, with the oil pressure pump. They said neither they nor Mazda corporate had ever seen anything like it in a brand new SkyActiv Mazda (their words).
Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
At this point they are going to replace the oil pressure pump. I am not satisfied with this, fear long-term damage, and would like them to replace the car. It is only 6 days old.
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Old Sloatsburg Cemetery
Waldron section in west end of cemetery
|Richards Road, Sloatsburg, New York
|United States
|Owned by
|Town of Ramapo[1]
|5 acres (2.0 ha)[1]
|No. of graves
|Find a Grave
|Old Sloatsburg Cemetery
Old Sloatsburg Cemetery
|5.5 acres (2.2 ha)
|NRHP Reference #
|Added to NRHP
|July 23, 1999
The Old Sloatsburg Cemetery is located at the end of Richard Street in Sloatsburg, New York, United States. It began as the Sloat family cemetery with the burial of Revolutionary War casualty John Sloat in 1781. After a half-century of inactivity, it gradually was expanded to include 1,200 graves by the time of the last burial in 1949.
Its landscaping reflects several different eras of cemetery design. In the late 20th century, it became neglected and abandoned other than a few family plots that were maintained by those families. Residents of Sloatsburg organized a cleanup effort in the mid-1990s, which led to the cemetery's listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It continues to be maintained as a community effort.
The cemetery occupies a rectangular 5-acre (2.0 ha) parcel in the western section of the village, south of Eagle Valley Road and a short distance west of NY 17. The land slopes slightly westward, to a wooded hillside to the west, with a drum-shaped rise in the east where the members of the Sloat family are buried.[1] A gravel road from Eagle Valley leads into the northeast corner of the cemetery, leading first to a circle around the Sloat graves, then heading west to a smaller circle in the Waldron section of the cemetery, near the more recent gravesites, connecting with a dirt path from the end of Richards Road, the only other public access point. Three copses of trees are located throughout the otherwise open lot.
The Sloat family's section is a raised area 20 feet (6.1 m) above grade at the cemetery's eastern boundary. There are 30 gravestones here, starting with John Sloat's in 1781. The rest date from 1838 onward.[1]
To its west is a section known as "The Hill", with 72 stones dating to 1852, probably the date it was opened. They are laid out in a strict grid pattern of 20 by 20 feet (6.1 by 6.1 m) plots. The gently undulating ground, winding roadway and groves show the influence of the mid-19th century Rural Cemetery Movement.[1]
Continuing westward, two sections expanded in the early 20th century maintain the grid pattern but are much more level. The westernmost section of the cemetery, named the Waldron section after a local funeral director who oversaw much of the graves dug here in the second quarter of the 20th century, has four mausolea typical of that era. One memorializes a teenage girl who died in 1933 as a "martyr to the automobile age". Some section terraces nearby may have been meant for future expansions.[1]
In 1781, as the Revolutionary War wound down, John Sloat was accidentally shot and killed near the family home by one of the sentries his father had hired. He was buried on the knoll that is now the family's section of the cemetery. His infant son John D. Sloat would eventually become the first Governor of California.[1]
No other Sloats are known to have been buried with John until 1832. The cemetery remained strictly a Sloat family burial ground until 1852, when other members of the growing community joined them. A quarter-century later, in 1878, the Sloatsburg Cemetery Association was formed to manage the cemetery, no longer under family control. The next year it bought the 2.7-acre (1.1 ha) Hill Section from another local family and began selling individual gravesites rather than family plots.[1]
The association transferred the original section back to William Sloat in 1896. A decade later, in 1906, and again in 1912, it bought two acres mores to the west from another family. Local funeral director Warren Waldron bought the last parcel, on the west side, and began dividing it into plots. The association made its last lot sale in 1936 and disbanded. Waldron's, and the cemetery's, last burial took place in 1949.[1]
With no one to look after it, the cemetery reverted to the Town of Ramapo, which includes Sloatsburg. Some families continued to maintain their plots, but as a whole the cemetery fell into overgrown disrepair, with some headstones vandalized and even stolen. It is believed that at least 600 graves remain unmarked. After nearly a half-century of this, the village organized a community cleanup effort in the mid-90s and has kept it up ever since.[3]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Bonafide, John (February 1999). "National Register of Historic Places nomination, Old Sloatsburg Cemetery". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved March 11, 2009.
- ^ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ^ Kuykendall, Eugene (2004). "Old Cemetery". Village of Sloatsburg. Retrieved March 11, 2009.