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Parenting is hard. No one ever said it was easy but the older my four get the more challenging it becomes and the more serious the consequences of getting it wrong.
So I, like everyone else I know, am doing my best and hoping that I am not making too many mistakes or causing too many psychological problems for them in later life. A lot of the time I try to take a similar approach to the one that my parents took. That seemed to work well for me in the main. But the way my children respond to my parenting is very different to my experience.
Let's take back chat as a good example. It is rude, prolongs arguments beyond what is necessary and suggests that the child has the upper hand. When I was a child you did it at your peril. The only people you would dare to back chat were your siblings. Not your parents or other people's parents or, heaven forbid, teachers. Back chat wasn't tolerated at home. I just wasn't allowed to do it and that was that. And my children aren't allowed either. But they do. Every day. Each time they answer me back I pick them up on it just like my parents would have done but it makes not a jot of difference. I just can't seem to make them understand how totally inappropriate it is.
Today my eldest lost her shoes. She left them behind after PE and when she went back they were gone.If I had lost my school shoes my world would have come to an abrupt end. Her defence was that she needed some new ones anyway so what was my problem? She's right - she does. But surely that isn't the point? And despite my best endeavour to explain to her that losing shoes was unacceptable, she just didn't get it.
My conclusions? Maybe it's not the way that I am parenting but the external influences that are causing the problems. The television is full of people giving back chat. " Whatever!" is a national catchphrase. Whereas when I was a child Grange Hill was a bit edgy but only on once a week, my children are bombarded by images of children kicking against authority all the time. Even the Disney channel serves up a regular helping of stroppy pre-teens. And the shoes? Well generally the message seems to be if it's broken or lost just buy a new one.
So perhaps I am fighting a losing battle. It certainly feels that way. But I can't give up. Surely, the children will get the hang of it eventually and start behaving as I would like if only to smooth their passage through domestic life. And if the shoes are lost she did need some new ones so why get aerated about it? Nobody else's parents do apparently - just me! Perhaps if my kids ever have children of their own they will see what it was that I was trying to do and appreciate it. Time will tell.


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And here's the crochet scarf that I started way back in February. I've been picking it up every now and then, intermingling with other things I've made to ease the boredom, then finished it a couple of nights ago. I blocked it yesterday, along with another choker I made months ago!, so now I just need to buy some beads to decorate the ends.
20 March 2011
More blocking and gifts
Here's my wonderful spring season swap gift - just gorgeous. Thank you Claire xx
2 comments:
- Jenevieve said...
Lovely swap gift! The scarf and choker look lovely, I have to say that I'm not very good at blocking, I tend to just let things curl! :) x
- 20 March 2011 at 15:28
- Mom2fur said...
Everything is very pretty! I have a Christmas scarf I need to block. Never got around to it so it will be for next year. It makes me wonder why some patterns lay nice and flat and others curl in on themselves. And why does this happen more with knitting than crochet? Hmmm...
- 27 March 2011 at 17:38
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The overall strategy of Research Focus #1 is the development of immunogens and immunization strategies that induce broadly protective antibody responses to HIV. This is based on characterizing and understanding broadly protective monoclonal antibodies and antibody responses and harnessing the information gained to develop immunogens and immunization strategies to induce broadly protective responses. There is a strong focus on broadly neutralizing antibodies as these have been shown to be protective in robust nonhuman primate (NHP) models, but some non- neutralizing antibodies may have protective qualities that might be exploited in vaccine discovery. Immunogen testing in animal models will lead to optimal immunogens and immunization strategies being evaluated in small-scale human trials.
We believe that the recent identification of a larger group of broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (bnMAbs), progress towards determining the structure of Env proteins and the Env spike, advances in the design of scaffolded immunogens are all guiding us towards success in developing a protective vaccine. Furthermore, improved technologies to evaluate immune responses, such as deep sequencing of antibodies, B-cell receptor sequencing and single cell methods to isolate antibodies, are all highly promising developments.
1. Fully define the antibodies and epitopes associated with broad neutralization of HIV. Neutralizing antibodies are the best correlate of protection for many viral vaccines and, for HIV specific neutralizing antibodies provide robust protection against mucosal challenge in the macaque models. Therefore, a major goal of HIV vaccine research should be the discovery of immunogens and immunization strategies that can elicit broadlyneutralizing antibodies, given high sequence variation in HIV Env. As part of this discovery effort, it is important to fully map the landscape of antibody recognition of the HIV Env spike (the sole target of neutralizing antibodies) using the larger numbers of potent broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies recently available. A full complement of broadly neutralizing epitopes targets can then be exploited for generating immunogens with optimal precision.
The broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies are, in themselves, valuable tools for guiding vaccine discovery. These antibodies often have unusual characteristics. As we accumulate information on a large panel of antibodies, the requirements for broad neutralization will become clearer. This effort could be assisted by site-directed mutagenesis studies on the antibodies to determine those residues crucial for neutralization.
2. Determine the broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies that provide the best protection. Clearly, the property of antibodies that interests most in terms of vaccine discovery is protection from acquiring infection. Neutralization is simply a property that can be readily measured in laboratory experiments. Because collecting this data would require large-scale human passive immunization trials, a representative animal model would be valuable. Titration of the newer broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibodies in an appropriate animal challenge model will better define the relationship between protection and both neutralization and antibody specificity.
3. Determine the contribution of extra-neutralizing mechanisms of anti-viral antibody activity. There are suggestions from a number of studies that extra-neutralizing mechanisms may provide protective effects. Given the difficulties of generating immunogens that elicit broadly neutralizing antibodies, the possibility of protection against HIV by non-neutralizing antibodies needs further investigation.
4. Explain how and why a subset of HIV-infected individuals makes potent broadly neutralizing antibodies responses. Although the field has not yet described immunogens or immunization strategies capable of eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies responses, natural HIV infection does generate such responses in percentage of individuals. The sera of these donors can be diluted by hundreds of fold and they are still able to neutralize many different isolates of HIV, a property that one would like to induce through vaccination. Investigating how these donors evolve such responses could provide vital clues for vaccine discovery and a number of strategies will be pursued to understand the critical factors that lead to the development of such responses. Furthermore, in-depth study of humoral and cellular immune responses in the same subjects will help define the link between these responses.
5. Determine immunogens and immunization strategies that favor the elicitation of HIV broadly neutralizing antibody responses in model systems. Although classically small animal models, such as mice and rabbits, are used as "gatekeepers" to determine whether to proceed with the immunogen in humans, this approach may be not be appropriate for HIV immunogens because of the complex antibody maturation. We must take advantage of our knowledge to generate high-throughput model systems that evaluate immunogens and immunization strategies for their ability to elicit broadly neutralizing antibody responses prior to testing in humans. An example of such a strategy is to create knock-in mice that carry germline forms of the different human monoclonal antibodies and screen Env antigens induction of murine B cell. It is anticipated that iterative cycles of vaccination followed by analysis of B and CD4+ T cell responses to guide re-design of immunogens and immunization strategies, will be needed to generate optimal vaccines.
6. Development of strategies to focus antibody responses on conserved HIV Env epitopes. A recurring theme of HIV Env immunization in soluble protein or particulate form is the generation of Abs that are either non-neutralizing or that neutralize in an isolate-specific fashion. A number of groups have explored potential strategies to focus Ab responses on conserved regions of Env and to dampen responses to non-desirable. Although these strategies have been unsuccessful so far in eliciting bnAb responses, they have provided us with an armamentarium of approaches that can be drawn upon to augment more promising immunogens and immunization regimes.
7. Design, engineer and produce a pure stable Env preparation that mimics the antigenic profile of the functional Env spike. A number of strategies to generate a pure stable Env preparation that mimics the antigenic profile of the functional Env spike are ongoing. Using co-crystallization and methodologies like cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-elctron tomography, resolution technologies may eventually provide enough molecular detail to allow the rational design of stable trimmers.
8. Increase the durability of Ab responses to Env to the level observed for successful human vaccines. One goal of HIV vaccine research must be to increase the durability of Env antibody responses by testing a variety of novel direct approaches. Studies on the preferential induction of Tfh cells by vaccination will likely contribute to immunization strategies giving more durable Env responses.


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No. 5
Autumn 2016
William Kentridge
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro
The Voice of the Enemy
Back when Mexico City was still around I used a lovely yellow helmet. High up a telephone pole I would listen to others' conversations. The sky was a tangled mess of cables electricity hummed along, wrapped in soft plastics. Every now and then a thick blue spark would plummet to the ground. That was what gave me my reason for being up that pole. I had every tool you could imagine on my belt, but I preferred to use a set of short pliers with serrated teeth. To heal any wound I would clamp them down and the light would flow once again.
There was a movie theatre across the way, with a cardboard castle set on the marquee. Further off, a tall building kept its red spots on to warn passing airplanes. You could hear the planes' engine noise, but there was no way to spot them in a sky so dense.
The Electric Supervisor made sure we kept our ears tuned in to what was coming over the wires. Our enemies were drawing nearer. I did not know who they were, just that they were getting closer, so we had to listen to calls and try to find something odd in what was being said. One rainy day I heard a strange voice. It was a woman talking as if she has something to hide, her soft voice enunciating the words 'birdseed', 'glow', 'magnolia' and 'broken balcony'. I was there to keep track of these conversations and make sure nothing out of order was going on. This time I heard those random words, which rang out like some silly code. I was supposed to denounce what was being said, but I did not do a thing; I let someone, somewhere else, try to understand what I could not grasp at all.
A few days later I learnt about the palm trees that had been burnt to a crisp. The enemy had incinerated a neighbourhood where there were still plants left. Without moving from my post, I had no idea if the city was expanding or shrinking. Sometimes loyalist troops spoke on the wire, their voices mixed in with bugles and cornets; then you would hear a bomb go off, and the raspy voice of another militia would come through.
On the corner telephone pole across the way something very strange happened: the yellow helmet on that head did not move for hours. I tried to figure out if my buddy had died, my fingers bleeding from trying to call so many numbers, all busy. While I was looking at the completely still helmet, I began to hear those softly timorous words again: 'bedchamber', 'cinnamon', 'statue'. I all too envyingly imagined that those words were a kind of message for someone else, while for me they were rather doleful. I did not speak to the Electrical Supervisor on that occasion either.
Once, in the middle of the night, an explosion rocked me. I opened the circuit box and an acrid line of smoke rose from the photoelectric sensors. I turned on my flashlight; I had enough battery power for a few weeks but there was something that made me think I would not spend that much more time up that pole.
The Supervisor would say it whenever he called: "Whoever controls the cables controls the city." The enemy had cut the light, the theatre was a cloud of smoke enveloping a reddish hue, but the phones were still working. A woman's voice came to me, this time saying 'fragrance', 'planets', 'sweets', 'smooth stones'. I could not report her this time either. Slowly, fearfully, with exact cruelty, I had come to understand just how wonderful the voice of the enemy could be.
I must have fallen asleep when they took my buddy down from the post. Then it was my turn, when a gloved hand yanked at my back. I was so intoxicated from inhaling that malignant air that I had forgotten how to get out of the burning city.
It has been weeks, maybe months, that I have been living in a room with metallic walls. They showed me a terrible picture on the computer screen. It is called City of Palaces, and it shows the movie theatre with its cardboard castle, the high building opposite, the cables I once spent so much time taking care of. "There are 67 of them", my captor's voice told me. He was right. I had been in charge of 67 cables and was entrusted to protect them from our heedless enemies. For days (which just as well could have been nights) I had restored the light and kept protective track of the calls. Only once had I deliberately damaged a cable, just a few days before being taken down.
Now only photographs remain of the city that was. If they were to follow that damaged cable my keepers would be able to enter into the maze and follow the mess of wires until coming to another photograph, all the way to the house where that special voice lived. I have in front of me those 67 cables that marked my life. One of them could take us to that woman. I know which one it is, but I am not going to say.


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Your Turn: December 11
The '80s were cool
Re: "Zero clues why '80s bands got 300th gig," front page, Tuesday:
It's on the FRONT PAGE?
Edward Benavidez gets slammed over and over for his playlists! And it continues to Page 5 for yet three more columns.
First, the music groups chosen are OK with a lot of us. Fancy that! But this obsession with detailing Benavidez's music list is a pure waste of journalistic space. Good grief! Talk about pounding a guy! And a good sub would be Madonna? Grrrrrrr!
This makes it harder and harder to remember why I keep subscribing to this paper.
Donna Howington
How about Bubba?
Gentlemen, the new Texas A&M football coach must abandon the name Jimbo. Completely at odds with the Texas culture. Down here we use names like "Billie Bob."
My suggestion is to take a few letters out of his given name and go with "J. Jimmie Fisher." I can already hear the radio announcer three years from now: "Ol' J. Jimmie has really got them Aggies rolling."
I hope coach Fisher remains at College Station for a lifetime.
David L. Hall
'Tis the season
As TV news begin showing usual videos of thieves stealing packages from doorsteps, homeowners with security cameras think these will help catch the bad guys. But even if the Police Department is able to ID the thieves, they rarely have the resources to go after them.
To make matters worse, delivery services continue placing packages in locations easily seen from the street — like up against the front door.
Too bad they don't have the common sense my USPS delivery lady does. We have an understanding to just toss my packages into the front flower bed where they can't be seen be seen from the street and where I always look for them.
Better soiled boxes than stolen ones.
Sammy Telles
An oligarchy
With a great deal of concern over the actions of our Congress currently dominated by the Republican Party, I have but one question to ask: When did our democracy turn into an oligarchy? I ask as a citizen no longer wanting to be affiliated with a party.
In the past few weeks, especially regarding the damage to the Affordable Care Act inflicted by POTUS, I see harm to the average Texan and to Americans as a whole — harm that will be exacerbated by the tax reform legislation.
The Senate proceedings were a travesty. Despite warnings from many, a bill that was not available for reading until the last minute was ushered through, 51-49, with all but one Republican supporting it. If you have not paid attention to the math, you must read the bill and act. If not, you will weep unless you are part of the few who will profit.
If you write our senators, you will get only a standard, partisan response. I have decided I can make the most impact at the ballot box and encourage others to do the same.
It has been said that we deserve the government we get. That is very true, judging by the way you vote — if you vote at all.
I submit that we are now taxed not as our forebears were, without representation, but by representation that has turned into an oligarchy.
James L. Larabee
No immunity
To those who would claim the president is immune from prosecution, let me say this: only in a tin-cup dictatorship. The president, in fact, is not the chief law enforcement officer of the country. You see, that title goes to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whom based on his convenient lapse of memory seems to have a tiny basic understanding of truthfulness.
Keep in mind that incompetence is all that is required for removal. Lies, collusion, fraud, conspiracy, high crimes and misdemeanors have put this presidency in jeopardy.
Viva la USA.
William O'Brien
Trump in tatters
RE: "Trump rips FBI as biased, damaged," Dec. 4:
We have a malignant narcissist residing in the White House who was nothing more than a mediocre TV personality. Now this incompetent, dangerous liar has the audacity to malign the FBI, the most efficient law enforcement agency in the U.S., if not the world.
Thank God we still have a Constitution and law in general to protect us from this tweeter in chief, at least for now. The president has the vocabulary of a spoiled toddler and has absolutely no clue how to be the commander in chief, and he thinks the FBI is in tatters, the worst in history.
No, Mr. Trump, you are the one in tatters and the worst in history.
Jason Chapel, Spring Branch
Rectify land grabs
Now that Donald Trump has taken protected national monument status away from large chunks of federal land in Utah, he should take the logical next step and return the northern Virginia lands taken after the Civil War.
Give Arlington Cemetery back to Robert E. Lee's descendants. Give the Pentagon and the strange expanse of Navy land overlooking the Pentagon back to the state of Virginia. Downsize Washington, D.C., physically, not just financially by cutting Social Security to help fellow rich guys.
William E. Larson, Universal City
Here we are. Recently, we have been inundated with information related to inappropriate behavior by high profile media and political individuals. A long-ago phrase comes to mind: "Morality, like art, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
We should keep this in mind when evaluating whom we support.
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Around 10 shipping containers are floating in Suva Harbour, Fiji, after the general cargo ship they were being loaded on to sank.
The Panama-flagged MV Southern Phoenix listed and sank during loading operations in the early hours of Saturday morning. The crew had to evacuate as the vessel took on water. Mooring lines were cut and the vessel was towed away from berth where she sank.
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Reincarnation - some thoughts
Thousand-petaled Lotus: symbol of reincarnation and immortality
You would think that, being a phoenix and all, I'd not only be on board with reincarnation, I'd be driving the wagon.
That has not been the case. I have been on the fence over this topic, leaning first one way and then the other, changing my mind pendulum-like from yes to no to maybe mostly because I could not reconcile my beliefs about the nature of the spirit with the beliefs familiarly held by most major spiritual teachings.
I have finally come to the conclusion that yes, I do believe in reincarnation – thought the details are subject to change without notice – but with a twist.
What settled the question for me was, not surprisingly, the yin/yang nature and behavior of spirit and energy.
Energy continuously cycles from the material to the immaterial to the material, et cetera and so on. That's the nature of spirit and energy. That's what it does…it cycles. If it didn't, breakfast wouldn't be the most important meal of the day, and a Three Musketeers bar wouldn't be a pick-me-up at 3:00 PM. If energy didn't cycle, you wouldn't burn calories by running or swimming. You wouldn't ever be happy or sad, you would be emotionally numb.
If energy didn't cycle, you would never change at all…which would be a blessing for some people and a curse for others!
"The ancients' belief in reincarnation produced many cyclic images of existence..." – from "The Wheel" by Barbara J. Walter from The Women's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
It was once believed that the Sun died every night as it was submerged into the ocean to be reborn the next day. Another image of cyclic existence is the moon that disappears roughly every 27 days to be reborn after three dark nights. Then there is the annual cycle of the leaves that fall from the trees in autumn and decompose to feed the roots, nourishing the next years' growth in spring, long considered the "season of rebirth."
You can't name one material thing that doesn't cycle back into immaterial energy because everything does, even if, like plastic trash bags, it takes tens of thousands of years, everything eventually cycles from the material to the immaterial, and then feeds, indeed nourishes the creation of the material.
The thing that we know now that we perhaps did not know before is that matter IS energy. Through our knowledge of the behavior of waves and particles, we can say that matter is just energy gone solid. Light and heat and other forms remain as energy in a not-solid state.
Your body is obviously energy gone solid. However, in every cell of your body, there is a spark of non-solid electrical, spirited energy. Your cells vibrate to a particular frequency, your brain operates on electrical impulses, your heart beats to the rhythm of an electrical discharge. When these electrical charges cease to operate, your body ceases to operate. The material portions of your body will decompose and become energy for some other form of matter.
However, the energy that mobilized your body, that formed your thoughts and held your memory, your spiritual energy, has not disappeared, just as the electricity that fuels your light bulbs doesn't disappear when you turn off the light. That energy still exists, it just no longer exists in the same place.
So, where does it go? Look around….it's everywhere…spiritual energy is everywhere. You continually breathe in spirit every minute of every day! (Latin inspire and expire derive from spirare which gives us the words for both breathe and spirit).
Some Daoists believe the body is born with ten souls or spirits, three from the heavens called hun that are nourished by breath energy, and seven called po that come from the earth and are nourished by food energy.
Human Lotus: symbol of one way to practice to achieve immortality.
It is your job in this lifetime to work with these souls on the energetic level (through tai chi, qigong, meditation, etc.) until you bring them into perfect balance and harmony at which time they merge into a single soul and you become an Immortal. Some beliefs about Immortals continue on to include physical immortality. In others, it is believed the physical body dies, but they are often regarded as "light" beings, consciousness of Self is retained; You would still be You with the same thoughts, ideas, and memories.
If your ten souls do not merge into a single soul during this lifetime, the ten souls return to their origins, the hun to the heavens and the po to the earth. They mix with other hun and po souls, and eventually inhabit a new body when the time is right. However, since they have scattered since their last incarnation, they do not return as a group. It is possible that some people who recall a past life are recalling the past experience of one (or several) of the past experiences of a hun or po soul.
Personally, I think it goes beyond even that. If thoughts are things, how much more then is your life energy?
With all the millions of cells in your body, all the millions of little life-giving charges released into the atmosphere when your body is finished with them, it is very likely that there are millions of bits of you floating around, each with some thought, idea, or memory that you held as an incarnate being. I don't believe that each bit of spiritual energy is a personality as such. However, each of those thoughts, ideas, and memories is something that was unique to you, a treasure that is no longer available to the material plane. They can no longer be used in a meaningful way because they need a physical plane on which to manifest.
However, here is an interesting thing: all those energetic spirits released at the demise of the body have known each other for a while, and have become quite familiar with each other. I believe it is very possible, likely even, that their energetic familiarity works just like a magnet; it attracts them to rejoin in their next physical body. In sufficient critical-mass numbers, enough to "remember" their chosen ideal, they may even do so for the purpose of continuing to complete some theory or idea they had begun to formulate in a previous existence.
The Egyptians believed that the three souls of a person stayed together only if the body had been preserved. The body acted as a magnet to attract the souls. The Ba roamed around as a human-headed bird, the Ka was tomb-bound and required food, drink, etc, the Akh journeyed to otherworld sometimes as a bird. However, if the body were allowed to decay, the souls would dissipate.
I think those little sparks of life energy don't hang around the old body all that long, they move on to combine in other ways with universal energy. Remember, this is what spirit and energy does; it's the nature of spirit and energy to cycle from immaterial to material. It doesn't want to hang around; it's ready to move on.
This is not to say that former human energy always returns to a human just as a plant does not always decompose to feed the next generation of flower, fruit, or vegetable. Some of your energy probably ends up somewhere else, and some of the spirit you enjoy in your body right now may have come from other planes, or even other galaxies.
I know that may sound a little far out, but consider: you look up into the night sky and see stars. That star light, that light energy, has traveled millions, perhaps billions of miles, but as soon as it touches your eye, you touch it, too, and you accept it into yourself and absorb it just as you take in air, sunlight, moonlight, and last night's salmon dinner, and that's a good thing!
You know how confined and depressed you feel if you are stuck in a rut in day-to-day living. Imagine how you would feel if you were stuck in a rut from lifetime to lifetime with the same thoughts, same ideas, same spirit for eternity! You need that cyclic, energetic exchange; you need, from lifetime to lifetime, to have an infusion of new energy to create new bonds with universal energies, to think up new ideas, to imagine new beginnings.
This is how we, as a species, are able to progress. This is what we do, we un-form and re-form energetically, spiritually, to share information and inspiration, and ultimately to enhance our bond with each other and the universe.


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Beppu, Japan
April 1980
Just like the winds that blow through Wyoming, the thoughts posted here are varied - some a strong tirade and others merely a whisper.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Foreign Friday
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Very beautiful - and tranquil looking.ReplyDelete
Love the red!!ReplyDelete
I dont remember the other posts of this. They are beautiful! I bet the light coming through at all angles is lovely and enchantingReplyDelete
Very nice capture, Nancy. Love the red and the white blossoms. I enjoyed looking at your other Torii gate posts. One really gets a taste of the Japanese culture in these structures.ReplyDelete
Are those cherry blossoms? Nancy, you post such beautiful pictures. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Very pretty! For the first year since we lived here, we have no cherry blossoms because we had to take down the tree, so I really enjoyed this photo. Thanks!ReplyDelete
The beautiful flowering trees next to the red tori gates makes a beautiful picture. Isn't it time you branched out into landscape quilts?ReplyDelete
Beautiful!!! Wouldn't you love to have that to walk through every day ....ReplyDelete
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The internet has the capacity to connect families across continents, to bring together social groups so that they can fight for change and to unite writers with their readers, but the dark side of the internet is how easy it is for people to unleash the worst of themselves on people they don't like.
Today, experts have warned that there is a link between cyber bullying and domestic violence, but there is a lack of attention on how these issues interact.
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid, has said, ahead of a conference on cyber stalking and harassment:
"It is critical that we make the link between this vicious online harassment and cyberbullying and real-life violence against women.
"We need to understand that this is part of a domestic violence spectrum and we have to challenge this type of misogyny because it is the backdrop that allows that violence to take place."
Public figures like Laurie Penny and Caroline Criado-Perez have faced the most extraordinary and disgusting abuse and threats, but it is not only those in the public eye who suffer harassment and bullying over the internet. Men, women and children can all be victims of cyber bullying. A recent report by the NSPCC revealed that 10% of children faced daily abuse at the hands of internet trolls. The case of Hannah Smith, who killed herself after being bullied online, was a tragic example of what cyber bullying can do.
Claire Lilley, the NSPCC's safer technology expert, said:
"We are particularly worried about the impact of these risks on younger children, and this is what our forthcoming report will focus on. We must ensure young people have the confidence to speak out against this abuse, so that they don't feel isolated and without anywhere to turn."
When it comes to internet abuse more generally the gender issue is undeniable. Female journalists and campaigners seem to be more likely to be harassed and threatened online than their male counterparts and women who have left violent partners are at risk of being tracked down and threatened.
As Neate says:
"Greater access online is putting women at increasing risk of being tracked down by violent former partners – we live our lives online now and the structures in place to keep women safe in these spaces just haven't caught up."
"Services are struggling to provide even basic care – how are they meant to cope with this new challenge? Services are being pared down to the bone and in danger of ceasing to exist at all."
The internet is so new and offers so many avenues of communication that society is only just catching up to its possibilities – both good and bad. As Neate points out, in a time in which domestic violence charities are facing cuts, it is even harder to take the steps necessary to combat internet based type of abuse.
So, what can be done? All too often debates over internet harassment seem to capture the scale of the problem, but are lacking when it comes to solutions.
A button on twitter in which people can report abuse is a good first step. Websites like Ask.fm, due to the anonymity of those who ask questions, can easily be a tool for bullies and needs to change. If possible parents should warn children away from using websites like Ask.fm, but I realise that this may not be enough. Beyond that Ask.fm has to fulfil their pledge to increase the number of moderators and make it easier to report abuse.
In terms of how state services should respond to online abuse, Stella Creasy MP, who has faced rape threats over twitter, has said that there needs to be more training of police officers to respond to threats over twitter and that tech companies also need to take more action.
Creasy said,
"If I received a bomb threat through the post, there is a protocol for dealing with that, but if I receive it online there is nothing in place.
"We have to challenge this attitude that women just have to learn how to deal with these online threats, that they should be ignored."
More widely there has to be cultural changes. Misogyny has to be continually challenged and people need to learn that its shameful to respond to people you don't like with threats of violence and abuse. As Caroline Criado-Perez says,
"It's not just about addressing social media, it's about tackling a deep-seated cultural problem, which takes time and financial investment – and this government is just not interested in that."
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2 Responses to "The internet has changed the world, but we need to wake up to cyber bullying"
Lets see more of these trolls and anons outed, named and shamed, and fined and imptrisoned. Its the only way to clean up the internet.
I've been stalked by a man who I met online and never even met. I only entertained him because I dropped him for someone else initially as I wasn't interested and felt guilty about it – I had no interest in him physically, psychologically or emotionally. I even tried forcing myself to like him at one point because I felt bad about not finding him in the least bit attractive when he was seemingly being so nice (typical). I had some health problems and he was giving me unsolicited advice, but initially thought he meant well. I had more important things to worry about and focus on which I usually do and ignored the warning signs. His name is Ian Dorrell from Worcester Park in Surrey, UK (in case anyone looks him up – stay away). He has been stalking me via Jonathan Cainer's horoscopes (…) which lie and put ridiculous ideas in his head, such as me being interested in him when I'm not and me being attracted to him which I never have been. Then I saw he was constantly stalking me and posting delusional things on his Twitter – writing cryptic messages in Tweets and Favourited tweets as messages relating to spurious rubbish he'd read on horoscopes. Insane. And just because I wasn't interested in him he started abusing me and my family such as posting vile comments and jokes about my mum dying who's in care with early onset dementia, my dad, myself and anyone else I knew. He's never even met me, my family or anyone I know. Threatened to physically hurt me. He hacked my Twitter account and stalked, abused and harassed me for months, sitting behind a computer and cowardly dishing out insane abuse because his pride was hurt at being rejected. Completely delusional and unable to accept reality. He is extremely low-class, unattractive and has low intelligence (despite thinking himself smart and attractive) and completely lacks perspective and self-insight. Typical stalker profile. Disgusting, repugnant, low-quality, scum.
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Dental Emergencies
Dental emergencies can be frightening and often painful. If you are having a dental emergency, the team at Scotia Square Dentistry can help with same-day emergency dental services.
If you are in severe pain, it is essential to make an appointment with your dentist as quickly as possible. The pain caused by dental emergencies will almost always gets worse without treatment, and dental issues can seriously jeopardize your physical health.
If a tooth has been knocked clean out of the mouth, it is essential to see a dentist as soon as possible. When a tooth is forcibly removed from the mouth, tissues, nerves and blood vessels become damaged. If the tooth can be placed back into its socket within an hour of being knocked out, there is a chance the tissues will grow to support the tooth once again.
Follow these steps:
The dentist will try to place the tooth back in its natural socket. Often, the tooth will reattach, but if the inner mechanisms of the teeth have been seriously damaged, root canal therapy may be necessary.
A crown or filling might come loose while you are eating. Once it is out of the mouth, the affected tooth may be extremely sensitive to temperature changes and pressure.
If a crown or filling has dropped out of the mouth, make a dental appointment right away. Keep the crown in a cool, safe place because it may be possible for the the dentist to reinsert it.
If the crown is out of the mouth for a long period of time, the surrounding teeth may shift out of place, and the problem tooth may sustain further damage.
The dentist will first to see if the crown still fits. If it does, it will be reattached to the tooth. If decay is present, it will be treated and a new crown will be made.
Teeth are very strong, but they are nonetheless prone to fractures, cracks and breaks. Some of these are painless, but if the crack extends down into the root, it is likely that the pain will be intense. Fractures, cracks and breaks can take several different forms, but are usually caused by trauma, grinding and biting. If a tooth has been fractured or cracked, be sure to see the dentist as quickly as possible.
Where a segment of tooth has been broken off, here are some steps that can be taken at home:
The nature of the break or fracture will limit what the dentist can do to repair it. If a fracture or crack extends into the root, root canal therapy may be the only effective way to retain the tooth. If there is a complete break, the dentist will usually affix the fragment back onto the tooth as a temporary measure.
We are always welcoming new patients, with a special welcome to our new patients from R Dental! We're open late and on Saturdays so get in touch today.


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A Rooting Interest in the Bottom Line
To some, the capacity crowds at Nationals Park this week for Red Sox games have been a heart-lifting sight. This is what baseball in Washington was always supposed to be: a roaring crowd of about 41,000 in a beautiful ballpark on a perfect, balmy summer night.
To others, the sold-out scene has been an embarrassment for loyal local fans of the Nats, who watch as zealots of the visiting Red Sox occupy one-half of the seats and easily out-cheer the home crowd. It's a sight with which they are all too familiar. At the home opener, Phillies fans, invited to come on down by team president Stan Kasten, made a full house of 40,386 possible. Since then, vocal fans of the Mets, Phils and Orioles have also helped the Nats have five healthy crowds that averaged more than 30,000. In three weeks, Cubs fans will occupy Nats Park and make it feel like the Unfriendly Confines to Washington fans.
But there is another perspective: the view from the owner's box. Those invading fans sure do make the turnstiles spin. The poor Nats, all they do is rake in the money. As far as they care, root for anybody you want, as long as you buy a ticket. And have a $6 beer.
How can a team that's had the worst record in baseball for the past two years, and one that usually has a rock-bottom payroll, be ranked as the second-most profitable team in the sport in 2008 by Forbes magazine? How can the Nats, who often draw only 17,000 fans on weekday nights against mediocre opponents, have revenues at the gate that will be ahead of about a dozen major league teams at the end of this season?
The answer is on display right now. The fans of visiting teams pay the Nats' bills and much more. This week, Red Sox fanatics, many of whom traveled from New England to get the prime seats they could never score in Fenway Park, will generate three straight sellouts, including 41,517 on Tuesday night. But the Red Sox throngs are just the most extreme example of a general trend. Every season, the Phils, Mets, Cubs and Orioles play 24 games here -- and bring their fans. Some years, the Yankees or Red Sox come, too. There's always Opening Day. And the Nats are sure to be home for one or two of the big holiday weekends -- Memorial Day, July 4th or Labor Day.
How powerful is this almost guaranteed visiting-team gate to the Nats? It's strong indeed, because Washington has the advantage of East Coast geography, natural rivalries and transplanted fans. Early in the season, there were lamentations that the Nats ranked 29th in attendance out of 30 MLB teams. It was an illusion. The invasion just hadn't begun.
Now, it's in full swing. Since mid-May, home series against the Phils, Orioles and Mets have moved the Nats up to 27th in attendance. By the time the Red Sox leave town, they'll likely jump past four teams to 23rd. In a month, after a Fourth of July home weekend plus seven games against the popular Cubs and Mets, the Nats' ears will be ringing -- from cheers for the other team and their own cash registers.
By then, their average attendance will rise to about 24,500 a game. That will probably put Washington ahead of Pittsburgh, Oakland, Florida, Cleveland, Baltimore, Tampa Bay and Toronto at the gate, and maybe Kansas City, Cincinnati and San Diego, too. Even if the Nats slip back a bit by season's end, the bottom line will look fine. The Nats, because of their major-market ticket prices, will easily surpass the revenue at the gate of all 10 of those teams and probably others, too, like the Twins and Braves.
The core question about the Nationals is not whether they'll generate enough revenue to stay in Washington. That's a lock. In addition to beating about a dozen teams in revenue at the gate, the Nats then collect revenue from various other streams, including revenue sharing from high-spending teams such as the Yanks and local TV revenue (almost $25 million this year from the Orioles). That doesn't include the Nats' share of MLB's national TV contract, merchandizing and Internet revenues.
The Nats can take in enough money to live comfortably in Washington indefinitely. As a business proposition, they function quite nicely right now. Too nicely? The broader issue is whether the Lerner family, who may be the wealthiest owners in baseball, will be content to let the fans of other teams subsidize a low-budget tail-end team.
For years, the Orioles have lived on the kindness of strangers. Where do the Red Sox get the most fans on the road? "Definitely in Baltimore," Boston Manager Terry Francona said. "It's very convenient for New Englanders to fly down there." Last year, the Orioles averaged 38,557 fans when the Red Sox and Yankees came to Camden Yards 18 times. For all their other games, they averaged 19,937 -- roughly half as many.
The Nats maintain that the last thing they want is such subsistence living. "Every team wants to win because that's how you make the most money," Kasten retorted yesterday. "A team's expenses are constant. So if you win, your attendance goes up and your revenues go up. And you make more money on every thing else, too," like merchandize and concessions.


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Atencion! Atencion! SCAD's Alpha Psi Omega and Multicultural Alliance Theatre bring you their take on Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights!
In the Heights is a musical set in the course of three days, taking place in a Hispanic American community in Washington Heights, New York.
Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is known for his smash-hit, Hamilton, first constructed the popular stage play in 1999 but didn't get the spotlight it deserved until 2005.
The show has been praised for its hip hop and Spanish-infused musical numbers, exciting and authentic dancing, mixed with its amazing multi-cultural ensemble cast! The show and the cast has won many awards, including a Tony and Pulitzer for their album based off the music from the show.
Personally, In the Heights is one of my favorite Broadway musicals because of its sound and heart.
As a person of color, I know how beautiful it is to see your cultural incorporated on a screen or even a stage, however, you don't have to be Latino, or even a minority, to be inspired by the show-stopping play.
These SCAD students have been working hard for weeks just to bring this astonishing Broadway-adapted play to our school. The cast includes unique individuals who are honestly one of the best group of performers I've ever seen.
Check out the musical on May 11-12 at Arnold Hall. Admission to the show is $1.


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Which Are The Best Adjustable Beds in Boneville GA?
In addition to replacement mattresses that are literally adjustable you are able to also buy sleeper sofas that are adjustable. A few of the prices for all these items are listed here so you can have a very clear idea of what you can expect to spend for an adjustable bed, mattress or frame:
Pillow Top Reversible Mattress
The Empress mattress is actually a traditional pillow top mattress for adjustable beds using the workhorse 312 coil innerspring. It has an off white Damask cover with a open quilt design. Pillow top lies on both sides of the mattress for extended use. Starts off at $500 and climbs in price with the size.
Premier Mattress Bed
Fully personalized selections and features. Innerspring luxury preferences in soft, medium or extra firm. The best sleep position for the head and feet is really within reach by using user-friendly hand controls and the Premier's Swift-Adjust motors. The Premier type comes standard with a high-density foam foundation along with a heavy-duty base crafted with material that will not warp, break or squeak. Starts at approximately $1500 for a plush top twin and naturally goes higher with price. The most costly one I saw was for about $4k and it was a king Firm Talalay Latex Core with Plush Quilted Cover. By all means, these can get very expensive but they seem exceedingly comfortable!
Adjustable Bed
Adjustable Bed & Pillow Top Mattress is sold at approximately $3k and the smaller insize options start-off at around $600.The following is actually a description I is covered for one online: Dual King Lifestyles E-91 adjustable bed having a ireless and computerized massage. It includes a Comes with Sleep worthy Pillow Top mattresses. Adjustable beds safeguard and improve enrich sleep and relaxation.
Clearly with just about anything you purchase anyplace (offline or online) there is usually going to be a price difference still that's to be expected. Assuming that you purchase a twin bed obviously its going to cost much less than a giant king bed! These kinds of things should be considered anytime you are checking out beds, along with just how much room you have. Just because you want a king will not mean youmay have room for it, particularly with the adjustables ue to the fact that oftentimes they can end up being quite large with regard to size!
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To further customize your event, we can also provide props for group dances such as limbo sticks, hula hoops, beach balls, hats, maracas, and special lighting effects. We also provide Karaoke sing-a-longs.
Our staff can help you plan and coordinate your theme party by providing the appropriate theme music and appropriate attire.
We also provide state-of-the-art lighting effects, party enhancers, and a variety of group dances and games.
Our DJ staff will bring together great music and entertainment to create a truly memorable event. Our staff will work closely with you to transform your event into something unique. We will coordinate all the highlights of your event to ensure everything flows smoothly.
Most parties begin with a short cocktail hour (30-60 minutes) followed by dinner. Prior to the meal, a short speech or presentation is presented by the President or person in charge of the event. This is a good way to make your guests feel welcome and set the tone for the evening.
If you are planning a raffle or prize giveaways, we can help facilitate these events and really get people involved and excited.
From the beginning of your event, we will play light background music, always at an enjoyable volume level so your guests can easily converse. The music can consist of Classical, Jazz, New Age, Christmas, or any music that is appropriate for your event.
Our DJ staff will assist you and your committee in handling the raffles, games, sing-a-longs, etc. Please keep us informed as to what type of program you are planning for your event so that we will be prepared to best serve you.
After all the formalities have taken place, we suggest a group dance or ice breakers to get your guests in a festive mood.
Please feel free to contact our staff for more suggestions and ideas on how we can make your event more fun and festive.
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It was Wednesday, December 16, 2015, MIT Sloan decision day. The Admissions staff would be calling those who were admitted to Sloan and sending emails to those who didn't get in. I took the day off from work so that I could spend it with my wife, Erica; I had not told many my colleagues and I wanted to share the moment with my wife or have her support if I received the dreaded email.
My wife suggested that we go to a local café for breakfast to take our mind off the wait. We ordered breakfast and sat down and talked. I couldn't help but think about the possible call though. I pulled out my phone to check Clear Admit, a site where people self-publish their business school admission decisions. According to the tracker, MIT had started to call people overseas. I told Erica that they probably call overseas first because of the time difference. This convinced me to put the phone away and get back to our conversation. Twenty minutes later though, I checked again. MIT had started calling US students and even had called someone in Boston already. "Oh my god" I exclaimed to my wife, "they're calling US students". She convinced me to relax and put the phone down on the table.
10 minutes later, my phone started vibrating. Erica didn't notice it, but of course, I noticed immediately. The phone number was listed as "Cambridge, MA". "Erica, the phone is ringing!!!! It says Cambridge" I said. I recognized the voice immediately. It was Rod Garcia, Director of Admissions at Sloan; he was the person I interviewed with. Rod told me that I was being admitted to MIT Sloan and that I would receive official details via email later that day. My eyes started to water a little bit. Erica realized that I had been admitted and was jumping up and down.
Rod hadn't finished though. He continued to tell me that in addition to being admitted, MIT was also offering me a fellowship. At this point, what had started as slight waterworks turned into full blown crying. Erica sat in confusion unaware of what Rod was telling me. After I got off the phone, I told Erica and we embraced in the middle of the café for a good 2 minutes while people looked on it. I will never forget that moment, it was both the best phone call and one of the greatest moments of my life!
The next day, I went to the MIT bookstore, bought a MIT jacket, and drove home to Philadelphia for Christmas. I am still just as proud whenever I put on that jacket.


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Wouldn't have happened with my glasses on... - The Lyorn's Den
Tue Sep. 11th, 2007
01:47 am - Wouldn't have happened with my glasses on...
...and other news of the weekend.
Saturday I burned one of my kitchen towels in the microwave. Had I had my glasses on, I might have noticed that the towel was in the microwave... Fortunately, there's nothing wrong with my sense of smell.
A visit from the cat shrink
Also Saturday, I had a cat psychologist over to look at Big Cat and Little Cat. Little Cat, far from getting on the couch, disappeared below it and looked very worried, while Big Cat let himself be distracted from his newfound panic disorder by strange! interesting! people!. The psychologist recommended intervening if Big Cat felt threatened, and keeping the two apart during the day when I'm not home. I feel I'm shortchanging Little Cat, who loves company (unless it's strangers, who are not from around here). Le sigh. Also, I activated the cat dope dispenser, which, in theory, spreads the cat equivalent of the smell of freshly baked bread, garlic in hot olive oil, venerable books, or whatever the smell of "home" is.
Sunday I continued my quest for the perfect goulash and any good chocolate cookie. For once, I'm quite pleased with the results.
For the goulash: Chop four small-to-medium onions, one red bell pepper, four cloves of garlic, and a finger-sized piece of carrot. Put a tablespoon of goose lard in the pot or pan, fry the onions at medium-high heat until they become slightly transparent. Add 500g of diced beef (not too lean), the garlic and the carrot, fry until the beef isn't red on the outside anymore. Add the bell pepper, a cup of wine, a teaspoon of brown cane sugar, some freshly grounded black pepper, a tablespoon of mild paprika and less then half a teaspoon of hot paprika or chili, some thyme, a whole laurel leaf, and enough strong broth to cover the meat cubes nearly completely. Put the lid on the pot, turn the heat to low-medium, and keep barely boiling (stir occasionally) for an hour or ninety minutes. Then taste -- I found it perfect without adding anything, not even salt. Take out the laurel leaf. Put heat to max and dissolve a full teaspoon of starch with a little water (less than 40 ml, I guess) in a cup. Stir the mixture into the boiling pot for ten or fifteen seconds, then take the pot off the heat. Goes with pasta or rice or potatoes, feeds three (two, if they are hungry, or greedy).
Crunchy chocolate cookies
The quantities in this recipe are a little strange. I actually had to use the kitchen scales.
Melt 115g of chopped dark chocolate over hot water. When melted take it off the heat and stir in 115g room-temperature butter. In another bowl, mix one large egg, about a teaspoon real vanilla sugar and 175g brown cane sugar well. Then add the butter-chocolate mix. Finally, add 175g sieved white flour, mixed with one teaspoon of baking powder and one teaspoon of baking soda. The resulting dough is very soft and sticky: put in the fridge for a quarter of an hour, then form it into something like a ball (with a spoon), and leave in the fridge some more. Only when you can rip off small pieces and roll them into walnut-sized balls without half of the dough sticking to your fingers is it cooled well enough. Form said walnut-sized balls, roll in sieved powdered sugar, and set on a baking tray: not too close, the balls melt in the oven and become cookies of roughly 5-6 cm diameter. Bake at 200°C for 10 to 12 minutes. Leave on the baking tray for another minute after taking them out of the oven, then let them cool on a grill.
The cookies are very sweet -- maybe next time I'll use less sugar, or a darker chocolate. (I had used one with 67% cocoa.) Also, very pretty: they look like miniature loaves of dark bread.
K___ and mad_freddy helped with cooking, baking and eating.


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If you have recently lost your job, or if you just want to do something different with your life, have you considered multi-level marketing? This can be a great career for people who want to be their own bosses and take charge of their lives. Keep reading for some great tips to help you get started.
You may have the magic touch when it comes to MLM, and perhaps relating to others is not your specialty. That's all the more reason why you should take great care to be patient with the members of your downline. It may not be as easy for them to succeed at multi-level marketing as it has been for you. Be sure to provide support and assistance consistently and give your team members time to succeed.
It is important to always check out any company you plan to do multi-level marketing for. You want to ensure you are working with a legitimate, reputable company. Check the company out with the Better Business Bureau, as well as the office of the attorney general. This will let you know if they have any complaints.
If you are looking to add people to your downline, you have to make sure to stay in touch with them once they get started. There are many people that put all of their energy into recruiting others then they abandon them once they sign up. You would make more money if you help them get on their feet.
Don't overuse marketing messages in your personal life. You love what you are doing, but not everyone feels the same, so tone down your communications, especially when it comes to family and friends. Excitement can lead to serious tension and awkward encounters among friends and loved ones. Pass on what you know without becoming obnoxious.
Learn the realities of MLM. You may have seen some marketers may sell products claiming that you can earn a lot of income quickly. Be careful of scams like this. Like other endeavors, you may not earn anything in MLM. However, hard work, a solid marketing strategy, and great marketing skills can help you see success.
Utilize other online websites to create leads for your MLM opportunities. You don't need to create your own blog. You could write articles on sites like Squidoo and InfoBarrel to generate potential leads to your products. These sites let you revenue share as well on the advertising on the sites, so it's a win-win.
Practice your networking skills. MLM takes a lot of networking chops for real success. You've got to learn how to be personable, interesting, and yet still humble. And on top of it all, you've got to somehow sell without it feeling like a sale. This all takes practice to get it down.
As you can see, multi-level marketing is a career that offers many opportunities for those who are willing to seize them. However, you have to know what you are doing if you want to enjoy success. Keep the advice you have read here in mind as you get started on your multi-level adventure.
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|Bongo: I Hate My Life And Want To Die
|Directed by: Deacon Search
Released: October 2004
|The first movie by newbie director Deacon Search, and I was actually quite impressed by how he executed it all, from the hype to the movie itself, which was rather fun although it held very basic scenery. The storyline has much to be said for - basically it's about Bongo going about killing everyone before kicking the bucket himself. I can only see good things about this director, and although this movie is rather quirky, it's definitely surpasses my expectations.
|Overall rating: 6/10
Bongo: I Hate My Life And Want To Die [3.87 MB]


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Concerned Parent Questions School Board
- Written by Sid Riley
At last week's regular School Board meeting a concerned mom and parent posed three questions to the Board. The mom was Mrs. Mary Margaret Farris, who is actively involved with helping her daughter cope with the new "Common Core" curriculum, testing, and teaching systems which are now in use in elementary schools in Jackson County.
Her first question dealt with the "Common Core" curriculum content and what options or choices of textbooks and subjects were left for local school systems to pick from. School Board staff responded by relating how some choices are available at the local level, but that a designated core of subject material must be covered.
The second question related to the new practice which is named "Cold Read", in which the student reads a document and then must answer a set of questions relating to what was read. These questions test reading comprehension, and often go beyond that by including questions which are related to the document which was read but require using deductive reasoning to answer. Mrs. Farris asked how it was fair for the questions to involve information which involved facts and data which the student had not been exposed to and thus had no basis for answering the question. The Board staff responded that she was correct, and areas had been found where questions were posed when no supporting information had been covered. "We are working actively to correct these areas," they stated.
The last question related to when the new Florida Tests would be put into use as a replacement for the Federal tests now used. She was told that the new tests would take effect during the 2014-2015 school year.
Board Chairman Chris Johnson commended Mrs. Farris for her involvement in her daughter's education. "We appreciate your input, and would welcome more parents to become involved in a similar manner," he stated.


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Do people value face-to-face contact when conducting business transactions and other interactions? Ragan Petrie and Catherine C. Eckel investigate this question in the latest issue of the American Economic Review.
In "Face Value," Ragan Petrie (Associate Professor of Economics at ICES and the Department of Economics at George Mason University) and Catherine C. Eckel (Ashbel Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas) used controlled laboratory experiments to investigate whether participants in a trust game use information gained from photographs of their counterparts in their decision making. Petrie and Eckel also investigated if subjects were willing to pay to have their counterpart's photograph revealed. Their results show that participants are willing to pay to have their counterpart's photograph revealed and efficiency is improved.
People pay attention to the appearance of others, and personal characteristics can affect many types of decisions. We ask, is there informational value in a face in a situation where trust and reciprocity can increase earnings? We use a laboratory trust game experiment where subjects are unable to observe a counterpart, must observe a counterpart, or can pay to reveal a counterpart's photograph. Both senders and responders are willing to pay to observe the photos, and we show that behavior, earnings, and efficiency are affected. When subjects are "face to face," efficiency is enhanced, and senders have higher earnings.


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New Edition – 170 Montauk
Includes 20% VAT
The New Edition of this famous Boston Whaler "All-rounder"is now available for the 2019 Season. This spacious model now enjoys an even quicker time to the plane along with a built-in fuel tank – leaving room for additional dry storage locker under the helm seat. The new stern bench seat option is so comfortable and provides great storage, but the real trick is that the back-rest folds down beside the seat cushion creating a very cool aft sun-bed! (There is also an option for aft quarter seat cushions with backrest!)
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