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Breaking Serve Happens More In The Ad Court
Returning in the Ad court is intrinsically more important than it is in the Deuce court, because this is where over 75% of the break points are played. The Ad court is where more of the big points live in our sport, and interestingly where more returns come back in play.
In a lot of ways, there is very little difference returning in the Deuce court and the Ad court. But there are definitely differences.
Maybe the Deuce court is a place to attack more, which means you also miss more. Maybe the Ad court is a place to make balls and neutralize serves with consistency. Every match can be a little bit different, so I don't think there is any set formula for exactly why.
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Your 50th Birthday Gift: the right trip
Here are suggestions for the right trip for a 50 birthday:- I had mine on a plane flying towards Hong Kong.
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For your sense of confidence, take a trip that has a little sizzle: a boat on the Ganges? an elephant ride in Northern Thailand? a walk through a Dowery Market in Pushkar? a visit to a poignant museum about apartheid?
For introspection: travel solo but in a group. You will learn new dynamics away from friends and away from home. …
Music Application for Traveling
Staying in a hotel room can be isolating; try Songza. This is a free application for a smart phone. Songza has all kinds of free music and it categorizes it by genre and by what you are doing. So for instance, classical music for reading brought up YoYo Mah playing a lovely cello piece. Music makes a room away from home feel warmer and friendlier.
Join us on a trip this Summer to Argentina…
Digestion on Airplanes?
Though we do not mention it, most of us get indigestion on long flights. On our trips, we serve balanced and delicious food but on the plane, it is every woman for herself.
Counter indigestion with:
–eat before the flight not on it.
–drink lots of water, even ask the attendants to fill up a water bottle so you have it at hand. Too bad for the people who have to move when you need the facilities.
–bring goodies with you: dried fruit, nuts, even quickie oatmeal or cereal ( they always have milk on board).…
To Walk or Not To Walk, that is the travel question
How much walking do our trips have? Can anyone participate in Argentina or others?
Most www.womenstravelgroup.com trips include some walking, but women should ask the following questions when they eye a trip:
1. How much in length and/or time? A slow walk over a short distance like in a walking tour might be hard on the back also. While we are walking, feel free to ask for a place to sit or a minute if you need to regroup or retie your laces or your brain.…
How To Complain
We inspect all our hotels but if you go on a trip and are unhappy, here is how we suggest you complain:
1.Get an authority figure from the hotel, not the desk clerk, and if need be wait there until someone shows.
2. Get their card and make sure they are in fact a manager.
3. Ask them to sit down away from the desk, that makes you an equal and makes this a business meeting.
4. Describe your issue, enhance with photos you took or timing you noted ( like a pillow from housekeeping took from 8:30PM untl 9:11PM, detail is convincing.…
Our group is different from Other Women's Tours
The Women's Travel Group believe that a smart investment in travel should not include: tourist shopping, too much free time, or itineraries which are short to make them look cheaper.
Tour Time Wasting Shopping: why would you waste time going to a diamond store or a carpet emporium when you are paying $hundreds to see a new country? Diamonds can be bought on the internet, and carpets in every department store. Now a fun street market might be valuable for the ambiance and photo ops.…
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We have chosen a luxury river cruise for Thanksgiving for The Women's Travel Group. We like the itinerary, the deluxe amenities and the food we do not have to cook. Here are general reasons why a river cruise works for women:
1. River cruises are more intimate, with smaller numbers of guests.
2. The boats dock in towns, so you are not a 'prisoner' on board and your stroll is not limited to a deck.…
Don't Lose FF Mileage: Another Tip
On many trips, our tickets are written in the destination and are given to you when we arrive. On our last trip to Ethiopia, we had 4 domestic flights on the excellent Ethiopian Airlines. We found that without the part of the ticket kept by gate staff, we were unable to get ff credit on the Star Alliance Group. On our Argentina Trip August 2013 we will again have domestic flights……
Here is our tip: photograph the full paper boarding pass before you board and before the ticket is torn by gate staff.…
Electronic Travel Tips for Technical Dummies
Travel Tips for the Electronic Age from The Women's Travel Group
Smart phones, tablets and Kindles accompany us on travel these days. Even the least technical of women carry at least one of these items. www.thewomenstravelgroup.com shares new tips with you.
1. If you use a lot of electronic items, bring a power strip. This will enable you to safely plug in extra items. This must be packed, not carried on.
2. Keep your Kindle or Tablet wrapped when traveling in dusty areas.
Back from Ethiopia with WTGroup
Each year we offer one super adventurous trip for both our women and a few men. This year it was Ethi opia. Attached are some of the photos of the tribal South near the Sudanese border. The trip was totally safe, Ethiopia is a Christian and Tribal country with an excellent airline, clean simple lodging, lots of spaghetti. Wildlife, tribes, mountains, early churches, Jewish history. Its a wow.


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I'm pushing a grassroots effort in Deutsche Bank to promote GWT widget sharing. There are many teams that develop web applications using Google Widget Toolkit. At the same time, there are UX teams designing great widgets to solve problems and producing common style guides and other efforts to get look and feel common across the bank. This is great, but it shouts for code sharing of Ui artifacts so we aren't duplicating effort all over.
There's been attempts to have internal groups provide widgets to the company, but this approach is wrought with problems. The same thing was done at IBM and I saw the same issues with the approach. Team depend on an external group responsible for a toolkit. The toolkit faces headaches for teams, such as lagging behind the latest technology, being in conflict with, or not going far enough to meeting team needs, development standards not enforced, the internal budget issues, and differing goals from dev teams that use it, just to name a few.
I think the solution is something more grassroots from the project teams. How about a marketplace of assets and ideas. Each team can browse it and pick what would benefit them. Here in RTP we have several teams that develop GWT and have begun doing just this: meeting and talking about the UX design problems we are tackling with GWT. We are showing off the widgets we created, and we are now putting together a platform to share GWT widgets within the company. We want to make the platform the right way, using many of the same reusable artifacts we are sharing.
These widgets would be as-is at first, but an open source model may be a future expansion. I'm also pushing for the platform itself to be open source. Since this is a grassroots thing (started by us, the developers on our off hours and spare time), it would be cool to give back and see it benefit others.
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"Show me evidence for God, please, GoForBroke, and I will gladly believe in him. "
Hmmm, okay, so if God is by defintion supernatural, why do you only accept scientific or naturalistic evidence of God?
Or are you willing to accept other forms of evidence/logic?
If so, there's a philosophy major I am subscribed to called Telemantros, who may be able to give you the logic/evidence you're looking for. I really do suggest you take a look at his videos: starting with "Religious Experiences: Introduction (Part 1 of 5)" The whole series is about 10 videos long, and explains a LOT better why religious experience should be counted as reliable form of evidence a lot better than any of my videos. (please disregard his videos where he ventures into abiogenesis and evolution because it's obvious that's not his are of expertise)
Okay. I watched Telemantros's arguments.
Here is one of the most important places the argument falls apart (though I can name one other hole, if you like):
Telemantros claims that "if they object to religious experience, they do so arbitrarily". Meaning, if we accept sense experience (e.g. sight) but reject religious experience, we do so arbitrarily. Meaning, we are picking on religion.
Because, if you can see natural things (like bears), why can't you feel supernatural things (like God)?
Here is why we accept the former and reject the latter: the former is *independently verifiable*. The latter is not.
Let me solidify this with an example. Let us assume that you claim to have *seen* a bear. Now, under normal conditions, I would have absolutely no reason to reject your claim. Why? Because I've seen bears too. I've seen them at zoos, I've seen them in pictures, and anyone else with access to these things (which is the majority of people) can verify that they have seen them too. So bears are an established entity.
But let's say I have some reason to reject that you really saw YOUR bear. Well, then I could require a photograph. Even this could have been photoshopped, though. Or it could have been another bear at another time. So we can never truly prove that you saw the bear. But, with a photograph, you at least have strong evidence that I should provisionally consent that you saw a bear unless I have strong reasons to believe otherwise.
Now, let's return to religious experience. Let us assume that you claim to have *felt* God. We immediately have problems because I've never had an experience where I think I "felt" God. And what is worse for having me personally as an audience is that I personally had experiences where I *thought* I had felt God but later rejected that claim. Further, a large percentage of the world population has never had the same experience you have and also don't have any reason to believe it.
You can't take a photograph. You have no way of measuring, quantifying, or recording the experience. Your claim, in comparison to the bear, is very weak. All you have is your emotions. But you have no way of justifying that these emotions came from a supernatural being.
So these are entirely different experiences.
Bears can be justified through the thousands of experiences of them that we all have had. The existence of bears is *independently verifiable* by all human beings on earth. If anyone doesn't believe, you can quickly show them a photograph or even take them to a zoo if you have to.
Religious experience has none of these properties. It isn't independently verifiable. Therefore our rejection of it isn't arbitrary.
"a large percentage of the world population has never had the same experience you have and also don't have any reason to believe it."
There's not a valid reason to reject an experience. Surely because some percentage of the population has never experienced does not make an experience you have invalid.
"you can't photograph it or quantify it"
The religious experience can be photographed and quantified using a functional MRI machine.
Also, I think Telemantros elaborates in another video why he believes you would have to reject sensory experience if you reject religious experience in another video.
You can quantify the emotions using an MRI but you can't quantify *God* using an MRI. My point is, the person was claiming to have experienced *God*, not brain activity.
In the case of bears, I am claiming to have experienced seeing a bear and the existence of the bear *itself* can be quantified in the form of a photograph of *it* (rather than a photograph of the *brain activity* I had when *I* was seeing it).
Upon being presented with that photograph, another person can *immediately* have the experience of seeing my bear *themselves*. They don't just have to look at an MRI of *me* having the experience.
In other words, using an MRI as evidence of God would be like using an MRI showing brain activity in my occipital lobes as evidence that I had seen a bear. All you would know from that situation is that the neurons in my occipital lobes were firing (which could happen for thousands of reasons that have nothing to do with bears), not that I'd seen a bear. The same is true for MRI evidence of God.


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In our society with more people worldwide and more older people in Western Europe, the demand for food, energy, water, healthcare and security increases whereas the resources decline. New use of ICT, big data and the internet of things allow us to more efficiently and effectively answer the increased demand. Economic chances arise, for the country as a whole and for regions. Especially in 'smart cities' lots of activity occurs in this field. The MRDH (Rotterdam The Hague Metropolitan Area) has also defined its next economy actions around this to establish (amongst others) the region as the digital gateway to Europe.
On the other hand, globalization and the openness of the internet make us vulnerable. Cyber crime, cyber terrorism and cyber war can impact our infrastructure. Black outs, manipulation of electronic patient files, theft of mission critical company data and remotely opening bridges are examples of this. A social responsibility arises for the government and all parties involved to make our society cyber resilient. Especially with regards to our critical infrastructure. The risk of a disrupted society should be dealt with.
A national cyber testbed could be a key element in dealing with this threat, especially with respect to the Internet of Things ecosystem. A facility to test our critical infrastructure on cyber responsiveness, for research & development, for awareness and training, for standards and norms, etc. A testbed independent of -yet cooperating with- foreign testbeds (e.g. Singapore, USA, Japan). A testbed useful for the critical infrastructure organisations, large and smaller ones. A testbed with critical mass compared to all individual initiatives and thereby allow individuals to carry out more extensive and cross-sector testing. A testbed as an economic initiative with international potential (European Cyber Testbed) and local employment opportunities. A testbed leveraging the successful triple helix initiative of The Hague Security Delta: Science, private and public organizations working together.
National Cyber Testbed (NCT), the way forward
This programme researches why such a testbed is necessary, what it should look like and how it should be organised and financed.
On 14 February 2017 the results of the research have been presented in a report (in Dutch).
Already three organisations, TNO, KPN and the City of The Hague have given their support to the development of the National Cyber Tetsbed. Read more


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Russia Says Relations With U.S. At Lowest Ebb Since Cold War but Sees Signs of Hope After Trump's Speech to Congress
Russia's deputy foreign minister said on Tuesday that relations with the United States were at their lowest ebb since the Cold War, but hoped they could improve under U.S. President Donald Trump.
Russia will analyze Trump's debut address to Congress later on Tuesday for signs of any change in the U.S. stance, Sergei Ryabkov told parliament in Moscow.
"It will be important to analyze those signals and approaches which will be a part of Trump's first appearance as the head of a superpower," the RIA news agency quoted Ryabkov as saying. "It would be desirable to believe that changes in Washington will create a window of opportunity for an improvement of a dialogue between our countries."
In Washington, Trump's opponents accuse him of already getting too close to Moscow. A U.S. congressional committee is investigating contacts between Trump's election campaign and Russia to see if there were any inappropriate communications.
Relations between the two nuclear powers are strained over a number of issues, including Ukraine, the war in Syria, and relations with Iran.
Ryabkov said Russia had not discussed with Washington the sanctions imposed over the annexation of Crimea, but said it would be easier for to work with the United States on the Syria crisis if they were lifted.
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S2E14: Goshen Carmel – Filmmaker
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By Colleen Flaherty
Killeen Daily Herald
COPPERAS COVE — About 900 motorcycle Santas participated Sunday in the 18th annual Tri-County Toy Run, which collected a tractor trailer full of toys and $12,100 for children's charities in Bell, Coryell and Lampasas counties.
Tri-County Toy Run committee chairwoman Lydia Cody, of Copperas Cove, celebrated in a Mrs. Claus costume after the event, which began in Temple and ended at Ogletree Gap Park in Copperas Cove.
"We had a great turnout with a beautiful day," she said. "People bundled up and little bit, but everything was great."
It took the better part of 30 minutes for riders to filter into the park, and equally as long for them to leave the parking lot of Temple's American Legion Post 133.
Riders arrived starting at
9 a.m. for breakfast provided by the post, and began to line up on their bikes about an hour before their noon departure. By the time a police siren announced the beginning of the ride, only a few bikers' Santa hats and tinsel and Teddy bear-adorned bikes broke up the sea of chrome and black leather.
Member jackets from at least a dozen different biker organizations could be seen.
Committee treasurer Jerry Caballero waved riders out of the lot, to a near-deafening roar of engines. Despite the ride's size, it's the one of the area's safest, he said, attracting people from as far away as Dallas and San Antonio.
"With 18 years of service here, we have support from all the police departments from here to Copperas Cove," he said. "They escort us all the way and block all the roads."
The 40-mile route to Ogletree Gap was dotted with community police vehicles and fire trucks, waiting to block highway on-ramps as the caravan passed.
Many of the overpasses en route were also full of riders' friends and family members, waiting to snap a photograph of the procession that seemed to snake back for miles.
At Ogletree Gap, committee members waited to greet riders with chili, and the area Christian Motorcyclists Association provided hot and cold beverages.
Representatives of the ride's 18 target charities, which will provide more than 6,000 area children with toys this Christmas, also waited to collect their loot. Toy run staff distributed boxes of toys based on the charities' sizes, in addition to Walmart gift cards that had been purchased with riders' cash donations.
Charities were selected based on their minimal government funding, Cody said.
Staff from the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Bell and Coryell County, or CASA, served 293 foster children last year. The toy run could mean the difference between having a Christmas and not having one for many, program director Lisa Wilkerson said.
"They're one of our huge donations," she said. "A lot of our kids wouldn't have Christmas otherwise."
Such children have motivated Temple resident Chet Poling to ride in the run each year since 2002.
"It's a great event for kids," he said. "It gives them a hope for having a Christmas."
It's also a good reminder of what Christmas means, he said. "A lot of people lose perspective of what Christmas is all about."
For more information on the Tri-County Toy Run, go to tricountytoyrun.org.
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On May 4, 2014 Saskatoon runners will line up to take part in a global race that will take place simultaneously across six continents in over 35 locations. The Wings for Life World Run is the first event of its kind: a race with no finish line.
Runners will take off from starting lines across the globe at the same time and instead of trying to be the first to reach the finish line, they will try to outrun a "catcher car". The car will leave the starting line 30 minutes after the runners and will advance at a set speed, gradually accelerating over time.
"It's up to everybody to set their objective — how far can they get and how fast can they get there before the car catches them," said race director Geoff Langford.
The final male and female runners to be caught by the car in each location will be named the local champions and the final male and female runners across the world will be the global champions.
Each local winner will win an all-expense paid trip to the race location of their choice next year while the global champions win an all-expense paid trip to anywhere in the world along with a trip to a race their choice.
Saskatoon is the only Canadian venue for the event, joining locations such as Busselton, Australia; Barcelona, Spain and Cape Town, South Africa. Since the event is happening simultaneously around the world, each location had to fit with specific parameters. Runners will also encounter different climates, terrains, and conditions depending on which location they chose.
"We had a number of places across the country that we looked at, but Saskatoon fit [the parameters] really well and we got a great reception from the province and from the city of Saskatoon," Langford said. "It just came together quite easily."
The race begins at 10 a.m. UTC, which means Saskatoon runners will take off from Prairieland Park at 4 a.m. From there, participants will head east on Circle Drive and finally south on Highway 11 towards Davidson.
Co-ordinating such a large scale event has posed problems, especially since organizers have no previous experience to draw on.
"As far as I can tell this kind of concept has never been done before, so there's a lof of creating it as we go — working with traffic management and the province, highways and the city," Langford said. "The method of the event and closing roads is quite difficult for everybody. It's been interesting for everybody that's been involved."
100 per cent of the events proceeds from the run will go towards the Wings for Life Foundation, an organization which funds research to find a cure for spinal cord injury.
"It's really a fundraiser," Langford said of the event. "This is a big global splash event to raise awareness for the charity and to raise funds as well."
This will be the Wings for Life World Run's inaugural year, giving runners the chance to experience the world's first global run.
"There's going to be quite the camaraderie and sense of craziness out there as people are competing," Langford said. "It will be one of those experiences people will remember for a long time."


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Eradicating Zombies at Veterans Park
October 30, 2015
by Bob Gibbs
Currently, there is a horrible zombie problem at the Pelham Veterans Memorial Park. To help in eradicating this problem the Pelham Parks and Recreation Department has formed the Pelham Zombie Patrol. The PZP, under the guidance of Parks and Recreation Director Brian Johnson, held their first weekend of recruit training in hopes of forming a large contingent of trained zombie-fighting soldiers.
With the help of 45 adult and student volunteers, residents big and small showed up at the park for training. The park's recreation center was setup as a recruitment site to sign up the volunteers. The PZP built a special cage to hold a captured zombie. For many recruits this was the first zombie that they had seen live.
The recruits were given laser weapons and training before going out into the training course. Once on the course the recruits received more training in tactics and teamwork. Unfortunately, during the training there was a real zombie attack. The recruits needed to fire their weapons for the first time, not as a training exercise, but to kill the attacking zombies.
Many of the recruits were scared, but they all overcame their fears and defeated the zombies.
There will be a second weekend of training by the Pelham Zombie Patrol this weekend, Oct. 30 and 31 starting at 7 p.m. at Pelham Veterans Memorial Park. Refreshments will be available. There is a $10 fee for each recruit.
See the PZP website for more information: www.pelhamweb.com/pelham-parks-and-recreation/urgent-alerts/are-you-aware-of-the-pelham-zombie-problem.
Director Johnson stated, "This is a community event and not a fundraiser. We actually couldn't pull it off without the community." Johnson wants to thank the following for all their assistance in helping the PZP to eliminate this year's zombie problem at the park.
Woody's Automotive – light tower and junk cars
Jean-Guy Auto – junk cars
Hirsch Lumber – awesome fire features and fire wood
Budget theatre 4 U – TVs and sound system
Zelonis excavation – trail work
Bob's Tees – Zombie Patrol T-shirts
Brussard Contracting – zombie cage
Chunky's Theatre – popcorn
Jim Greenwood PTV – filming and editing
Pelham Police – traffic barrels for parking area
Cast of over 50 local kids
Resident Loic Jussaume – golf cart
Resident Joe Farris – fire builder and so much more


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'In the zone'
The 'zone' that all top performers and athletes enter is a hypnotic state. Whether they are aware of it or not these successful achievers are self hypnotising in order to block out any unnecessary thoughts and distractions and so reach their maximum positive focus. Visualising success has now become widely used for greater achievement but has been a mainstay of hypnotherapy for a very long time.
Being taught these techniques by an expert can be a powerful aid for all who wish to perform better in any capacity, from professional golf tournaments to public speaking. It allows us to be able to reliably call on the very best of our abilities without blocks or negativity.
Widespread secret
Hypnotherapy is the secret weapon of many of the worlds top achievers including performers, business people and sporting champions (Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo, Jack Nicklaus, Ian Woosnam, Greg Rudedski, Adrian Moorhouse, Roger Black, Andy Cole, Jimmy Connors, Mohammed Ali, Nigel Benn, Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno, Michael Jordan...) have all openly admitted their secret.. they used hypnosis to achieve more. However to maintain their advantage over contemporaries most people keep it a secret.
How to perform well
In order to pass a test or interview, or to deliver a brilliant performance of any kind, your mind nees to do four things well: prepare, focus, believe and deliver.
With hypnosis coaching we develop your ability to remove
- anything that stops you preparing
(eg. reducing procrastination)
- anything that stops you focusing
(eg. resolving internal conflicts)
- anything that stops you believing
(eg. ending negative self talk)
- or anything that stops you delivering
(eg. improving poor recall).
We then work on improving
- everything that helps you prepare
(eg. increasing motivation and effective goal setting)
- everything that helps you focus
(eg. finding 'the zone' using self hypnosis)
- everything that helps you believe
(eg. anchoring positive experiences)
- and everything that helps you deliver
(eg. improving confidence)
With these four elements improved your best performances are likely to follow.
Hypnotherapy helps with the following kinds of performance:
- Sports performance
- Concentration
- Interview preparation
- Public speaking Issues
- Exams and tests
- Stage fright
- Driving issues
- Memory building
- Problem solving
- Sales performance
- Speed reading
- Studying (improvement)
Comprehensive approach
Using Hypnotherapy and NLP can improve success by:
1) establishing effective goal setting
2) improving response to stress
3) improving motivation
4) removing negative associations
5) instilling positive belief
6) practicing success
7) improving recall
8) improving focus
9) accessing our best on demand
10) enjoying and rewarding our own successes
*Required disclaimer: Results, symptoms and treatment may vary from person to person, all individual cases are taken on merit.
Treating performance issues with hypnotherapy, depends greatly on the nature of the issue but may involve:
Guided imagery
To take you somewhere tranquil, peaceful and relaxing. Nearly all clients benefit from learning how to relax. When we know we can calm down and relax however stressful the situation we build a sense of effectiveness and a confidence in our ability to manage our own thoughts and emotions. This frees us up to give our best when we need to.
Using hypnotic suggestions
for building self-esteem and motivation
Generally this is the first treatment most clients receive. Nearly everyone benefits from initial work on building self esteem. This is because the sense of belief in our abilities influences how we feel, think, motivate ourselves and behave.
Goal setting
Whether a driving test, interview, presentation or cup final it is possible to prepare to the best of your ability every time. Clients can be coached towards reaching their own goals using advanced NLP techniques.
Removing blocks
Negative associations that limit your ability to perform at your best can be explored and released using hypnotherapy and hypnoanalysis or may be completely removed using NLP.
Drawing on our best
Clients can learn how to draw on previous experiences of confidence and success to develop a winning mentality rather than focusing on negative history to drag themselves down. Using NLP anchoring these positive feelings can be reproduced at any time, giving you a great boost when it really matters.
Mentally rehearsing success in 'the zone'
In a state of deep hypnotic relaxation clients can learn to block out distractions and unnecessary thoughts and reach their maximum positive focus. Success can be repeatedly 'tasted' and visualised in clear detail, preparing the mind to automatically function at this level.
Improve mental function
With unnecessary thoughts and distractions blocked out, post hypnotic suggestions to improve recall and mental performance become highly effective. The mind can begin to believe in its own abilities and start to work at its free flowing best.
Clients can learn how to combine all these techniques for themselves so as to put themselves in the zone, visualise their approaching success, summon their very best frame of mind and perform at their utmost whenever they need to.
- Timeframe:
This varies from person to person depending on the targets and performance levels required.


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Exhibitions of the collection of American cultural historian R. PAUL FIRNHABER
Rolan Paul Firnhaber is an American writer, researcher and cultural historian now living in Estonia. His life work has involved him in the study of prehistoric art, particularly rock art and cave art left by the "ancients" over the past 35,000 years. In addition to over 30,000 photographs of prehistoric art, his 60 years of travels and work on five continents has also resulted in a modest collection of cultural art and artifacts. He brought his collections with him when he retired and moved from the USA. His collections of "findings" is periodically displayed in his "home gallery" in Viljandi.
The five galleries at Kondase Centre will feature seven specific collections – "Daumier on Culture", "Faces", "Textiles", "Little objects", "Dance of Death", "Icons" and "Favorites".
Honorè Daumier (1808-1879) was a popular and important artist/caricaturist during France's 19th century struggle to become a democracy. He produced mostly stone lithographs, but for a time made wood engravings as well. Twenty of his most important engravings comprise this gallery: "DAUMIER ON CULTURE." They were made in the 1860s as the Grand Salons and Expositions ere emerging in Paris. All are originals and are from a collection of over 170 original Daumier prints in Firnhaber's archives.
The "FACES" gallery is a collection exemplary of a long-time fascination with portraits of people in the news and subjects of backyard fences conversations across America. Here are vintage TIME and LIFE magazine covers dating back to the 1930s, plus a selection of "8×10 glossies," vintage silver prints from popular media originally having served as publicity photos.
"TEXTILES" displays not so much a collection but rather an accumulation of things made of fabric/textile, most from obscure places in the world. From a personal "grandma quilt" to a 6th century Coptic textile medallion to an Islamic Prayer Rug and a Tibetan Buddhist Thangka, these are things that are seldom seen together and gather only for an exhibit.
In the same gallery is a collection of "LITTLE OBJECTS" or "smalls" as the collector categorizes them. These five groupings are objects from cultures world-wide, mostly slipped into a bag or backpack and carried along home because they didn't take up much room. They are grouped as follows: "Metal Things" that come from India, Tibet, Nepal, Africa and America, "Wood Things" from Easter Island, New Guinea, Africa, as well as grandfather Jordening, "Clay/Ceramic Things" from the Americas, North and South, and something special from ancient Egypt, "Pottery" mostly from the traditions of the Southwest American Pueblos (Hopi, Santa Clara, Acoma, etc.) and"A Few Antiquities" featuring some very old coins, clay oil lamps, pottery from ancient Holy Land, everyday Roman objects and even several Egyptian things.
The "ICONS" collection grew from a long-time interest and some serious studies in the spread of Byzantine ideas and objects as well as an academic background in the study of world religions. Orthodox Christianity was important in this dynamic and the icon was integral to it, particularly in Greece and Russia. 15-20 traditional icons are in this display, plus a small grouping of a much larger collection of cast brass Old Believer's Icons. Here the interface with Estonian culture is visible.
Sharing that gallery is an important collection of "DANCE OF DEATH" art and artifacts. The several 16th century murals in churches and cemeteries (cf. Notke's Surmatants in Niguliste Kirik in Tallinn), in response to the plagues and epidemics of that time, spurred the 500 year tradition that followed in Europe. In this gallery are original prints from the followers of the Holbein tradition, from the Emblem Books tradition of the same period, and from the periodic borrowing of "death-as-a-skeleton" depictions in modern renditions, particularly in response to the tragedy of wars.
The single exception is the upstairs gallery entitled "FAVORITES" which is just that: objects and art that Firnhaber has lived with for many years and are still important to him. Plus a few things only vaguely considered art, including some "found art." Favorites!
Overall, these exhibits are not designed to represent a comprehensive view of a subject or category. Rather they display some of the collections and findings of one individual's studies, work, travels and life. Each object in these collections can be seen as a container for histories and memories, from one person's perspective, he considers worth keeping. For Paul Firnhaber, they are delightfully important!
R. Paul Firnhaber invites people for a museum hour every Saturday at 12 at Kondas Centre.
Written by
Paul Firnhaber and Mari Vallikivi


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A damaged house by the hailstorms is seen in Dongkou, Hunan province, April 18, 2013. [Photo by Teng Zhizhong/Asianewsphoto]
According to Hunan's Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, the hailstorms have affected 105,000 residents and forced the evacuation of more than 9,400 people.
Nearly 200 houses collapsed and 11,000 houses were damaged to varying degrees. The storms have also destroyed about 3,900 hectares of crops.
Hailstones were as large as 1.8 cm in diameter in the city of Jishou. Wind speeds hit 22.6 meters per second at Hengshan Mountain, a renowned scenic area.
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Bankruptcy is sometimes called the "Fresh Start Bankruptcy". It allows you to eliminate your unsecured debts like Credit Cards, Medical Bills, and Payday loans while still keeping your home and personal possessions.
Many people ask, "When is the right time to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy?" By the time you are asking this question it is past time to consider filing! Just look at your credit card statements. If you pay only the minimum payment it will take 20 years or longer to payoff the balances. As a rule of thumb, you need to earn about 3 times more than what you owe if you want to payoff that debt in a reasonable time frame. That means if you owe $20,000 in credit cards, payday loans, medical bills, etc., you need to have NET earnings of at least $60,000.
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is what most people think of when they hear the word "Bankruptcy". Chapter 7 Bankruptcy will allow you, the Debtor, to eliminate most of your unsecured debt. Some examples of Unsecured Debt are:
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is a quick and easy way to clear away your unsecured debt. It will allow you to keep your homestead, car, and often all of your personal property. The "Automatic Stay" goes into effect the moment that you file bankruptcy making it illegal for creditors to call and harass you. Further, there is no limit to the amount of debt you can discharge. I have filed bankruptcies for people with $300,000 of debt and more. The bankruptcy process is usually completed within 110 days. Compare that to a 5 year repayment plan that many money management companies suggest and it is obvious how much more efficient the Chapter 7 bankruptcy process is.
There are many places to get more information on the internet. One good source is the Court's own website for the Northern District of Texas which covers most of the DFW area. http://www.txnb.uscourts.gov/ . You can also contact my office at 817-494-3344 and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the bankruptcy process.


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The Monster Series version of our Wall-Mount Fold Back Rack features two 3x3" 11-gauge steel uprights (90" in height), with 1" hardware, 2" hole spacing throughout, and keyholes on the outside of each upright. These units are available in two depth options (41.5" and 21.25") and include a quality MG Black finish plus a quick-attach pull-up bar, Monster J-Cups, and optional stringers.
The goal with this design was to create a more space efficient, wall-mounted version of our standard Monster RM-3 Rack; one that could be conveniently folded inward or outward against a gym wall, yet still offer the sturdiness and versatility of a stationary Monster unit. To achieve this, our engineering team developed a unique hinge-and-pin system that is both easy to install and rock solid. In use as a squat stand, pull up rig, or power rack, the feel with the Monster Fold Back Rack is miles beyond lighter setups that use thinner steel.
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For optimal support, Rogue recommends including a pair of stringers with your Fold Back Rack order (these are selected by default in the dropdown menu, but can be deselected if you choose, which will slightly reduce the overall price). Our custom-compatible stringers are made from laser-cut and formed 11-gauge steel and finished in our MG Black powder coat. They measure 59" long x 10.125" tall, and extend 0.8125" off the mounting surface when installed. One stringer is used to mount the top hinge brackets and the other for the bottom hinge brackets. They can be mounted to a standard wood stud wall (4 studs required for installation). All required hardware (16.375" x 2.5" black wood lags and washers) is included, but any customers attempting to secure the stringers to a wall construction other than wood stud will be responsible for acquiring the correct hardware.
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The Fold Back Rack is available in two depths: 21.25" and 41.5" (the exact dims from mounting face to the inside of the uprights are 21.275" and 41.525"). In the Short version, the sides of the rack will position flush against the wall whether you swing them inward (towards each other) or outward. With the Long 41.5" depth rack, the sides can still fold in or out, but if both are moved inward, there will be a slight overlap—so to open up max space, you'd want to fold either both sides outward or one inward and one outward. For most setups the 21.25" is the best choice. Choose 41.5" if you need more space in the rack for gymnastic movements.
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John Dickinson of Motionworks posted a fun challenge: see how far you can get with just the effects from After Effects' Stylize menu in half an hour. Thanks to CC Threshold RGB + CC Kaleida I ended up going a rainbow 8-bit look and made some cool Tron-ish background patterns. Enjoy!
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Guilloché Pattern Experiments
I've been playing with Nab's After Effects port of subBlue's Guilloché pattern generator. Guilloché patterns are those swirly, Spirograph-ish designs that you see on money and other sorts of engraving, and Nab's script lets you make AE masks out of them.
You can't animate the masks directly inside the script palette itself (although you can generate them at multiple keyframes along a single mask path), but that isn't really a problem — I managed a lot of neat effects using a single static shape. These patterns work especially well as inputs for the Radio Waves effect — add a generous amount of blur and glow, and boom, instant animated BGs.
Here are stills of a few things I came up with during testing. If your screen's 1920×1080, they make decent wallpaper:
I still want to experiment a bit more, but once I have things worked out I'll do some presets and tutorial stuff for your downloading enjoyment.
Non-Fractal Wallpaper, For Once
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Abstract fractal wallpaper created with AEFlame.
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St. Michael's Church
High Street
St. Michael's is at the lower end of the High Street in Sittingbourne, next to the cinema, and almost on the corner of Bell Road/High Street. St. Michael's has its main entrance on the High Street, and is fully flat to the pavement.
The church is a short walk (about half a mile) from the train station – when you leave the train station, head left down St. Michael's Road. On a Sunday there is no bus service into the High Street.
On a Sunday there is a small amount of free and unrestricted parking in the High Street, but it can fill up fast (limited to 20 minutes Monday-Saturday 8am-6pm). There is also free, unrestricted parking on Bell Road and residential streets close by.
St. Michael's Road Car Park is immediately behind the church. This is a council run car park, and costs £2 for 2 hours (from 8am to 6pm every day) – you can access it from St. Michael's Road (please see map). There is also a council carpark at Swale House (the council offices on Bell Road). This is accessed from St. Michael's Road behind the church. If you are coming down Bell Road towards town, turn left for St. Michael's Road Car Park and right for Swale House Car Park. More information about council run carparks can be found at http://www.swale.gov.uk/cp-sittingbourne/
St. Mary's Church
Park Road
St. Mary's church is situated on Park Road, Sittingbourne, which is fully residential. The entrance to the building is down a pathway (accessible from Park Road or from Unity Street behind the church), and is completely free of steps.
There is unrestricted, free parking on Sundays on all surrounding roads. During the week (Monday-Saturday), it is mainly limited to two hours (from 8am to 6pm or residential permits).
We aim to be a safer church. For more information about safeguarding please click here: https://www.churchofengland.org/safeguarding/promoting-safer-church-safeguarding


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As a movie lover, I am a big fan of the sincere re-imagining. When a new artist pays tribute to an old one through their work, it can be an amazing collaboration. I especially enjoy films that take antiques and give them an updated twist. Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, set in year 2000 New York City, is a fantastic example.
The fact that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan - written by Andres Heinz - seamlessly merges a modern white swan vs. black swan story with a performance of Swan Lake isn't the first thing that appealed to me when trailers and images of the movie started to appear. At first I was intrigued by the idea of seeing Natalie Portman in a thriller, assuming that she would only do one worth watching.
It's unfortunate that films and stage productions do not share the same genres. Black Swan is more of a tragedy than a thriller. Though it has some spooky moments, it is much more sad than thrilling. I'm almost tempted to take a feminist stance, and shake my fist at yet another story where the heroine suffers for daring to be a woman. However, I didn't interpret Black Swan as being ignorant to these themes, but sympathetic to them. No one in their right mind would choose the starved and solitary life that Nina (Natalie Portman) leads in order to be perfect, but she knows nothing else.
Nonetheless, I didn't see Black Swan for the story or the cast, but for the costumes. When I learned that the ballet costumes, and much of Nina's wardrobe, were created by my favorite fashion designers, Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte, the news wasn't as exciting as I would have thought. This may only be because the pairing seemed like a perfect fit. Based on what I originally knew of the film, if you had asked me to guess who the producers picked to make the costumes, I would have guessed Rodarte.
Their feminine but unusual aesthetic is ideal for the themes of Black Swan, which follows a young ballet dancer through her descent from minor dysfunction into total madness. The dialogue is low key, and there are a lot of contemplative scenes with the tormented Nina. Strong visuals help keep the story alive, and the Rodarte costumes and wardrobe pieces certainly deliver.
The Inspiration:
Black Swan will be released to video next week, and I'm very excited to get my hands on the bonus materials. I love to watch the documentaries that accompany my favorite films, and learn more about them from the perspective of the creators. In anticipation, I wanted to create a necklace inspired by the gorgeous black swan costume - the highlight of the ballet.
The Beads:
Choosing a palette took some time. There are quite a few colors to consider when using the film's images as inspiration - different variations of black, white, silver and red. Ultimately, I wanted to capture the intense, dark look of Nina's black swan transformation. I knew that if I tried to incorporate too many of these colors, the mood would be lost.
So I went with a simple black and red palette. I already knew that fringe was going to be essential, and I eagerly scooped up some ruby crystal teardrops that I've been dying to use. They perfectly match transparent ruby Miyuki rounds, and provide a contrast to all of my jet black selections. I had to work with what was already in my stash, so I combined shiny and matte in hexes, magatamas, and seed beads in two sizes.
It had the worst time convincing myself not to recreate The Chimera necklace, which also works with lots of fringe. Because I don't have metal findings as an option, there are only so many ways to put lots of bead strands together in one place. I did end up using a ladder stitch base, but with different approaches.
The straps are done in double St. Petersburg chain, with just a hint of the ruby red peeking out from the middle. The shapes and textures of the chain go so well not only with the fringe pendant, but the theme as well. They have a feathery look, that is more edgy than soft. I used magatamas for the center of the chains, which create a great raised effect and add some texture.
I think it might just be fit for the ballet.
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Experimental artist Tony Conrad is known for his innovative works in performance art, music, video, and fine art as well as his contribution to arts education as a longtime media professor at The University of Buffalo. A former Harvard math student himself, Conrad is widely considered to be a pioneer of minimalism, media criticism, drone pop, and noise music thanks to his lifelong dedication to deconstruction, abstraction, and self-empowerment.
Conrad got into filmmaking during his years spent foraging through the gritty landscape of a pre-Giuliani New York City, where he influenced The Velvet Underground (as a member of the band's first incarnation with Jon Cale), Andy Warhol (whom he referred to as copycat for his long-form film Empire), and German counterculture. His first film, The Flicker (1966) was revolutionary for structural filmmaking, subverting the concept of traditional narrative by using only five black and white frames to produce stroboscopic effects (it was reported that the film induced headaches or vomiting for some audience members during its 30-minute duration). Later, Conrad's interest in the psychoactive consequences of repetition and his ongoing affinity for minimalism lead to the collaborative LP, Outside the Dream Syndicate (1973), with German band Faust. The ground-breaking album, which featured Conrad's violin over hour-long deep base notes, continued to underscore the avant-garde artist's proclivity for deconstruction.
Director Tyler Hubby has taken on the tall order of chronicling Tony Conrad's epic career with part artistic portrait/part documentary, Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present, which is slated to screen Thursday, March 16 at the Ace Theatre in conjunction with The Broad Museum. The screening will be followed by a video and music homage to Conrad by artist Tony Oursler and Kim Gordon along with talk moderated by Henry Rollins. Conrad's work has had a dramatic impact on many other influential artists like Oursler himself, Mike Kelley and Robert Longo— all three of whom are part of the The Broad Collection, with Oursler currently on view.
We got the opportunity to chat with Hubby, who himself has edited over 30 documentaries and directed short films centering around progressive subjects like fetishism, bodily mutilation, and mental illness.
cinemathread: How did you first meet Tony Conrad? How did Completely in the Present come to fruition?
Tyler Hubby: I met Tony in 1994 shortly after hearing the record he made with Faust called Outside the Dream Syndicate. I knew of him as a filmmaker because I had seen The Flicker (1966) but was confused (as we all were at the time) about him having been involved in a legendary Krautrock obscurity. When that record was reissued on CD by Table of the Elements in 1993, a short tour was put together to support it and as the official videographer, I met Tony on the first day. I was filming him with my Sony Hi-8 camera and he said to me, "I have that same camera!" Over the years we continued to film performances and interviews and I put together seven short films about Tony that were to be released on DVD with a random shuffle option, but production was halted for various indie rock reasons and it didn't happen. I had all this unreleased material and in 2010 suggested to him that we make a single film out of it.
CT: Tony was an astute observer of the media. He also pointed out the challenges of documentary filmmaking within the context of Hollywood's love for narratives. Was it challenging to gain his trust when you first started this project?
TH: His awareness of the apparatus of media production was both an asset and a challenge. He knew how to control his persona and present himself, which made him a joy to shoot in that he needed little direction and would often tell me where he would prefer the camera. On the other hand, he could be wary of what was being filmed and sometimes would simply stop participating. His understanding of the power relationship between the photographer and the subject was complex and fluid as he knew both could have dominance depending on the context. Typically we assume the one holding the camera is holding the power but the one in front of the camera can often have even more. He has also had, I think it would be fair to say, an antagonistic relationship to narrative. Although he often resisted or confronted narrative forms in his own work he recognized its efficiency in its ability to communicate an idea.
Typically we assume the one holding the camera is holding the power but the one in front of the camera can often have even more.
CT: Can you speak about how you decided to choose which of Tony's projects to highlight? What thematic thread stood out to you the most throughout his colorful career?
TH: What really determined which works to include was a strong political subtext in the work itself. There are many themes of resistance and self-empowerment in the works. Even a work like The Flicker, which may seem at first blush to be an abstract or theoretical film, is actually a sensory trigger that allows the viewer to create their own imagery, their own cinema, and break from the reliance on narrative figuration. This idea of empowerment can be seen in his public access television interventions and even Tony's music is also about collective co-creation with the listener. The removal of the artist or composer from the work was a central theme.
CT: Was it a challenge to represent his audio/visual style through the scope of your own perspective as a filmmaker? How were you able to marry the two?
TH: I wanted to allow lots of screen time for his works and to keep the commentary to a minimum. The best way to understand his work is simply to experience it. I also knew I had to keep the film stylistically minimal. I didn't want my directorial hand to upstage Tony or his work. Where I was able to assert my voice was in the edit where I could really push a droll sensibility which I can't seem to get away from. Although there are two specific sequences where I created visuals for the music, I wanted to keep them abstract and trance-like so that they could function more as a subtext for the music and not a distraction.
CT: Tony seems to be an intensely multi-dimensional person. What was it like to try and capture certain sides of him during the interview process?
TH: The interviews were fairly straightforward and I prepared a lot for each one usually with a focus on a certain body of work or time period. Of course, Tony was known for being a contrarian and would often just change the subject and talk about what was interesting to him at that moment. Sometimes I would re-direct and sometimes I just let him roll because he would take things into new territory. When we were shooting outside, it was a whole different experience. As much as I prepared, I was also prepared to chuck everything and just go with what Tony wanted to do. I have compared it to wildlife photography, where you stalk your subject and see how they interact with the environment. Two of my favorite scenes were total accidents: when we were invited into the Good Wife soundstage, and the final scene where Tony conducts the traffic of New York. I could have never planned those things and they're magic.
CT: How has Tony's work, along with the process of chronicling his life, influenced your own perspective as a creative?
TH: I think Tony's constant resistance to received ideas and total openness to experimentation have guided me greatly in my own pursuits. Tony was one to trust his instinct and not fear failure. He said to a friend of mine about a show they were going to perform, 'Well, it'll work…or it won't,' and he meant it. He was OK with something not working because he knew that the next thing might be great. Much like Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies when I would hit a creative block or was unsure of an exhibition decision, I would ask myself, what would Tony do? Not that I would emulate his response, but that I would use his voice in my head to find my own path. Tony's music has been the soundtrack for most of my adult life and it always frustrated me that more people weren't aware of it. All these years of documenting him have finally fit together into this film. Some people have called it a warm or loving portrait, but if you knew Tony and his work, you loved him.


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Their summary of key points: • While Arts Council England understands and supports the aspiration to raise standards for students, regardless of background, we are concerned that the target of 90 per cent of pupils entering the EBacc is unrealistic. We recommend that if a school or college teaching Key Stage 4 is able to evidence clear rationale for pupils not put forward for the EBacc and demonstrate a suitable alternative programme of study, any rating of their performance should reflect this approach positively. • Cultural education is key to social mobility. Implementation of the EBacc needs to recognise the importance of social and cultural capital and ensure equality of access to cultural education and experiences to develop these key skills. • Arts Council England is concerned that proposed measures for implementation of the EBacc will further encourage a reduction in cultural subject selection and that the reduction of opportunity for qualified arts teachers will result in a reduction of skilled arts teachers able to develop the creative citizens of the future. • Arts Council England recommends that measures are put in place to promote and protect cultural education at Key Stage 3 so pupils are aware of the range of options available to them and the value that a cultural education can bring. • A broad and balanced education provides pupils with a range of skills and abilities required for further education or employment. Implementation of the EBacc needs to recognise the value cultural education can bring in developing these skills. • Cambridge assessment into the uptake of GCSE subjects finds that pupils considered to live in higher levels of deprivation are less likely to take more than seven GCSEs than pupils classified as living in lower levels of deprivation. Pupils living in lower levels of deprivation are more likely to take nine or more GCSEs than pupils living in higher levels of deprivation. • Arts Council England is concerned that, if required to take seven core EBacc GCSEs, pupils from deprived backgrounds will not have the same opportunity to study a broad and balanced curriculum as their more advantaged counterparts. • The Arts Council believes that a quality education is formed by a broad and balanced curriculum which includes a great cultural offer. It should be an offer available to all to support the social, moral, cultural and spiritual requirements that are also recognised as vitally important. We need to ensure that all children and young people, wherever they start in life, benefit from an inspiring cultural education. Read their full report here. The flaws in Attainment 8 – Part 1: page: 8 of 39 Should schools be most accountable to the community or the government? This is a special feature report published with The Futurist (Haringey) - Episode 01 – 2018 https://www.futuriststeam.co.uk/doclinks/201807-0001.html | View the digital version online | Get all the helpful links and extra resources | [ v1.0 ] 10 th Aug 2018
Calculating Attainment 8 and Progress 8 The calculation of Attainment 8 and Progress 8 follow a process something like this: Each individual grade a pupil achieves in their GCSEs is assigned a special point score, which is then used to calculate a pupil's Attainment 8 score. Firstly all pupils nationally are put into "prior attainment groups" based on their Key Stage 2 results, so that pupils are said to be grouped into pupil groupings with apparent similar "starting points" to each other. Their progress is monitored to the end of their secondary schooling (and beyond). Pupil's Attainment 8 score is worked out, points are allocated according to GCSE grades attained for all 8 subject slots, these points are added together to give the Attainment 8 score. Progress 8 is then calculated for individual pupils, this is said to be done solely in order to calculate a school's Progress 8 score. Schools are advised that "There is no need for schools to share individual Progress 8 scores with their pupils." They are further directed that "Schools should continue to focus on which qualifications are most suitable for individual pupils". With undisclosed individual Progress 8 scores (per pupil) assessed the school's next monitoring process is to create a school level progress score. This is done by adding together the Progress 8 scores of all the pupils in year 11 and dividing by the total number of pupils. As well as gaining school level Progress 8 scores schools will also gain a view of year group, class level and individual level Progress 8 assessments. Additionally schools will have all the standard demographic analysis too; ethnicity, gender, special educational needs (SEN), education health and care plans (EHC), free school meals (FSMs) etc. This data is rarely shared with the community and definitely contains within it a clear picture of what is going on, statistically speaking. A school's successes and failings are viewable in all kinds of dynamic stratifications (school, year, class, SEN, EHC, FSM levels etc) of this data. The flaws in Attainment 8 – Part 1: page: 9 of 39 Should schools be most accountable to the community or the government? This is a special feature report published with The Futurist (Haringey) - Episode 01 – 2018 https://www.futuriststeam.co.uk/doclinks/201807-0001.html | View the digital version online | Get all the helpful links and extra resources | [ v1.0 ] 10 th Aug 2018


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I gotta say, Dartmouth is really growing on me. Being a proud student of NSCC, I find myself spending more and more time here- yes, even outside of class! The stigma of "the dark side" is definitely not true. Dartmouth is full of wonderful people and wonderful magical things.
Outfit of the day:
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