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Van Solutions
Understanding Your Needs
We never forget that commercial vehicles are job-specific; what's perfect for one client might be unsuitable for another so our process will always start with you
The first step within our van solution is taking the time to understand your business. This will mean working closely with the fleet and operational teams, often visiting depot locations, questioning end users and identifying positive changes or opportunities in working practices.
We will carry out reviews of the vehicle specification that you require and the manufacturers that you use. Plus we will work with carefully chosen partners on a fit-out consultation to deliver the optimum fit out specification at the minimum cost and weight.
Powerful Deloitte software combines with our in-house tools to model whole life cost comparisons based on short-listed vehicles and specification while we may also run vehicle trials with you to test proposed vehicles before you opt for them.
The benefits to you:
A bespoke solution which meets the specific needs of your business
Detailed reviews providing useful insight and recommendations to help you make decisions
Access to powerful tools to help you select the right vehicles to meet your needs and reduce costs
New opportunities identified to make your van fleet even more efficient
Reducing Your Van Costs
We can identify opportunities to make cost savings at every step of the process, and none is more important than when you come to select your vans. This has a big impact on the whole life costs of your fleet, and our award winning Van Specifer tool combines with our Cost Optimiser tool to compare costs.
We also use the latest fleet software from Deloitte to model whole life costs and compare how different vehicle models will impact costs throughout the vehicle lease.
As well as comparing vehicles to understand which is the most cost effective, we have a focus on what we call 'rightsizing'. This means analysis of your vehicle usage to understand if the job can be done just as effectively in a smaller, lighter vehicle which would save you money.
During the life of your vehicles, downtime costs you money so we are focused on minimizing it. The service that we provide ensures that vehicles are fixed quickly, conveniently and to a high standard to mitigate the impact on your business. We can also provide rental vehicles at short notice to plug the gap and keep your business moving.
The benefits to you:
Analysis and recommendations identify savings at every step of the process
Support and comparison to help you to select the vehicles that will deliver cost savings on an ongoing basis
Access to unique tools to accurately compare vehicle costs
Rightsizing approach to make sure your drivers are in the most cost effective vans
Reduced downtime to ensure that you are driving maximum value from your vehicle fleet
Downtime Management
Routine maintenance and unscheduled garage visits are unavoidable in even the most reliable and well-managed fleets. The challenge for every fleet manager is to get the vehicle fixed, back on the road and doing its job as quickly as possible. Every minute your van isn't working for you, it's costing you money and possibly affecting your customers.
Arval Downtime Management has been proven to reduce those 'off-the-road' hours by up to 15 per cent. It works so well because we believe getting you back on the road is an hour-by-hour issue, not a day-by-day one. Our accredited technical experts will assess repair work and chase progress every step of the way to ensure minimum downtime with maximum peace of mind.
Over time, we have built a trusted service and repair network which we monitor and audit on a regular basis. This ensures that all repair work is carried out quickly, and to a high standard. It's a nationwide network including sites which are open 24 hours a day and a mobile service to deliver maximum convenience to your business.
The benefits to you:
To speed up the process we will proactively chase progress
Our dedicated technical experts will assess, question and monitor all repair work so you don't have to
You will receive regular progress updates keeping you informed so that you can plan
We will liaise with suppliers and manufacturers on all parts delays to minimise waiting time
Through breakdown services liaison we will provide 'live' incident monitoring giving you full visibility

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We was incorporated since 1993 to manufacture a wide & diversified range of carrier & industrial protection products for the electrical power, oil & gas, water & the telecommunication industry.
Our factory is capable of producing a broad and diversified range of UPVC, PVC and Polyethylene (PE) extruded products of various shapes and sizes.
In its strive to become a market leader and deliver a high quality products to its customer, TEGAS VENTUREs testing laboratory is equipped with the most advanced testing facilities.
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The 13th Annual Bar & Restaurant Show will hit the Jacob K. Javits Center in NYC on June 26th and 27th. Operators today can't pigeon-hole themselves into concepts like "I'm a nightclub operator" or "I'm a restaurateur." Today's market place often demands more than the usual revenue streams. Club guys basically sell air and booze, and restaurateurs throw in food. Money from before-hours or late bar sales may keep a place afloat or help it suddenly thrive. More than ever, nightclub operators recognize the need for a food component/kitchen since it helps the venue maximize corporate catering revenues and provides early revenue streams. Look around town and see the pairing of the restaurant with the lounge as the norm. Trade shows give hospitality managers the latest info that can change red ink to black. I asked Steve Wesler- CEO and producer of The Bar & Restaurant Show for On-Premise – to tell us all about it.
What will make this 13th annual show a lucky bet?
The lucky bet is that I guarantee attendees will leave with more information and knowledge then when they arrived. After years of hearing from On-Premise Food and Beverage Professionals' owners and operators complain that they are overwhelmed, with no time to attend Las Vegas trade events and no one to help them develop better tools to succeed, it became obvious to me that this is the right approach for the industry; keep it local, keep the educational series relevant and simple, bring in new and hot products and services that can only be seen at our show, and make the show floor fun and user-friendly.
What type of innovations will visitors see and be able to bring back to their bar or club?
Social media and how the competition is using it is the latest innovation that has developed with the acceptance of the smartphone. How do you create an app that will increase traffic and not cost a fortune? They will be able to compare different approaches and products so they can make an educated choice among the various new apps available at the show. New digital signage, quick printing for advertising, social media awareness, and POS systems will all be highlighted through product displays as well as through our seminars.
Tell me about the liquor components to the show.
There are a few components when it comes to spirits and wines. Cachaca from Brazil, new whiskey brands, spirits directed toward women, acceptance of kosher wines for everyone, as well as the New York World Wine & Spirits Competition, that takes place during the show. This Competition is produced by Anthony Dias Blue, and hundreds of new wines and spirits are being judged for medals that these manufacturers can use for promotion and advertising. This is where so many new brands come before they hit the street.
Who is showcasing their products and who typically attends?
Brand manufacturers, distributors, APP developers, POS, craft spirits and beers, NY wines, kosher wines, furniture, bar games, mixers, music, lighting, signage, ATMs. The people that attend are owners and operators of bars and restaurants, beverage and food directors, distributors, importers, casino staff, caterers, bartenders, chefs and their staffs.
Nightlife is constantly evolving. What are some of the innovations or trends now commonly used in the industry that were hawked in the last 13 years?
One of our sponsors is the Hero Campaign, which promotes having a designated driver. They promote this through the bars and restaurants to make sure they don't over pour. This is a national trend which is being an absolute trend throughout the industry.
Other trends include more computerization through POS, and inventory control systems that help multi-unit establishment control theft and keep their employees honest.
One of our seminars is The New York Cocktail Scene Trends, moderated by Mike Ginley of Next Level marketing. The panel includes representatives from Zubrowka Vodka, Pisco Porton, Ultimate Vodka, and a mixologist from the Boom Boom Room. These guys are on the front line of what is happening in NYC and throughout the US and world.
Age verification is much more sophisticated than it used to be. Systems now can identify phony licenses and IDs quickly.
What are people in the industry NOT doing now that they used to do?
Smoking, doing drugs on site, putting drunks out on the street. Managers of these establishments are more aware of the liability that is present everyday in their establishment. Fire liability is a constant issue if bands and performers use smoke and fire. Insurance will not protect licensees if drugs are found on the premise and if you over pour to your patrons. There is also much better age verification now, as compared to everyone years ago having a phony ID.
What makes your spirits competition unique?
It all goes back to who the judges are; Anthony Dias Blue of Blue Lifestyle, is the editor of The Tasting Panel and the executive director of the San Francisco Int'l Spirits and Wine Competition. He heads our competition. The judges include VPs, directors, sommeliers, journalists, and presidents from such places as Corton,Junoon, Landmarc Tribeca, Bourgeois Pig, Gin Palace, and Huckleberry Bar.
Are mocktails a real trend? Have bars promoted and seen an increase in serving these to sober patrons, designated drivers, or families? What's the audience for mocktails?
One of the hardest things to do when you go out with friends and family is to be a teetotaler. Our Mocktail Competition is unique and the first of its kind. It allows customers to feel like they are drinking but without the side effects of alcohol. Is it trend? According to the Hero Campaign, designated drivers are looking for more than soda and fruit juice. The Mocktail Competition, sponsored by Ocean Spray and one2one.com, has created many new recipes that are unique and quite tasty. The winner can walk away with a $1,000 prize; 2nd place:$750, and 3rd Place:$250. The judges rate the cocktails on taste, appearance, originality, aroma, and overall impression. Participants have six minutes to make four drinks.
Why New York? What makes it the right place to hold this show?
There are more establishments with a liquor license within 100 miles of NYC than any place on earth. And where else can you see the best theatre, museums, a wide range of hotels, great restaurants and bars, visit Little Italy or Soho, see sports, sightsee, and more. New York City is the entertainment capital of the world and that is why we are here.


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Oh, you thought Goa couldn't get any better? Think again. Because when you add Anjuna, The Doors, a hostel by the beach and all of it at INR 280 a night, it's a bumper prize! So, check into The Roadhouse Hostel, y'all!
Riders On The Storm, Stay At This Doors-Themed Hostel In Anjuna For Just INR 280
Roadhouse Blues
Conveniently located in the centre of Goa's heart, in Anjuna, Roadhouse Hostel {a chain of hostels across Goa and a few other places in India} is a dream come true to music lovers and backpackers. A bright yellow house, with psychedelic paintings on the steps to start off with, it's a throwback to the hippie era. Except that there's WiFi to bring you back to present time.
The dorm rooms – kitted with bunk beds for two, four, six or eight people, have been divided into mixed ones and separate ones for the ladies. If you really want to live like a backpacker, they have non-air-conditioned options, but no one will judge you for wanting the air-con! The living area is super fun, with mattresses on the floor to just chill out and make new friends. The life-size painting of Jim Morrison there will make any musician want to start strumming a song. Ideally, Roadhouse Blues, because well…
Break On Through
While we could really lounge all day here, chatting, reading books, lurking in the little garden on colourful bean bags, what makes this hostel even more of a winner is that it's a 15-second walk from the popular Anjuna German Bakery. And from the beach. And from the flea market. You get the drift, yes? Needless to say, it's well-worth meandering around the hostel to really soak up the Goa sun, culture, and balmy seaside air. And at beds starting from just INR 280, I think I may just move to this hostel. Come with me?


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Sugary drinks are helping fuel the obesity epidemic in the United States, according to an article in the October Harvard Health Letter. Americans consume 174 liters of sweetened beverages a year, or double the amount consumed 30 years ago.
Adolescents have the worst habits overall. Between 10 and 20 percent of their daily caloric intake is from sugary drinks. Harvard epidemiologist and physician Carlos Camargo says sweetened colas, teas, lemonades, sports and energy drinks have no nutritional value. "There [are] no vitamins or minerals. There is nothing else that comes along with that water except for calories."
Camargo says good nutrition depends on diet and exercise. "You need to exercise and you need to remove unnecessary calories and there is no better place to start than with the number one contributor of calories in the diet of many Americans, which is the sugar water."
The Harvard Health Letter documents the link between sugary drinks and weight gain, which Camargo says the beverage industry has slowly come to acknowledge . "The last two or three years there has been a shift in the industry as legislatures around the country are basically figuring out ways to ban soft drinks from schools. They have come around to think that maybe there is a little excess consumption. And I think that is a promising sign."
The Harvard Health Letter recommends several more healthful and non-fattening alternatives to sugary drinks, including low-calorie beverages such as unsweetened teas, coffees, seltzers and, yes, plain old water.


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Still getting the hang of things...
Quote from: syntonica on December 09, 2019, 10:15:26 pm Still getting the hang of things...One tip for reducing the overhead of the milliseconds:Code: Pascal [Select][+][-]T1: QWord; …...T1 := GetTickCount64; ...... writeln (GetTickCount64 - T1); Winni
Hi!GetTickCount64 is defined as milliseconds since systemstart.It relies on the OS ticks.It is the same 'exact' as now is.WinniPS: After 5.8E14 years it will wrap to 0!! Take care!
Does your FFT routine use complex numbers? I have a routine that does it in place in a 1024 sample window, no complex numbers needed.
In old days a lot of companies were happy that they had Windows NT 3.5 - a "stable" Windows. But from time to time NT crashed. Nobody knew why. Then the logic appeared: MaxDWord Milliseconds are 49.xx days - and then the server crashed. So you had to reboot the system after 48 days. And the GetTickCount64 came around and everybody was computing, when the overfow will happen ....Winni
Oh, cool! The docs said: "It is useful for time measurements, but no assumptions should be made as to the interval between the ticks."
GetTickCount64 returns an increasing clock tick count in milliseconds. It is useful for time measurements, but no assumptions should be made as to the interval between the ticks.
How trustworthy are the docs? Apple's are pretty awful, even to the point of just being flat out wrong, and not because they're outdated.
Here's my code in C/C++. I just use it as static methods. It's been specifically stripped down to only work on 1024 sample windows. Unfortunately, the original has no attribution.
Quote from: syntonica on December 10, 2019, 12:04:28 amHere's my code in C/C++. I just use it as static methods. It's been specifically stripped down to only work on 1024 sample windows. Unfortunately, the original has no attribution.Thanks. I filed it for future reference. But yeah, it is really power of 2 only, not mixed radix.Currently the 400 samples are related to camera and lighting, (400/10s = 40/s), but while it would be a whale to change, you never know long term. But in general the various physical factors get priority over the samplesize.I got my mixed radix from this page https://www.simdesign.nl/components.html but originally I did only 10/frame, so performance was not THAT important.Meanwhile I tripled the number of cameras and it is going in the direction of hundreds/frame.
40 seems an odd number for video, though.
I'm used to the usual suspects when it comes to frame rates. Also, I'm assuming that FFT is used to transform luminance and color channels to the frequency domain? So much interesting stuff out there, so little time to look at it all!


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I am a Junior Research Fellow at University College working on theoretical astrophysical fluid dynamics.
My broad research interests are accretion discs, black hole jets and dark energy. I am currently investigating the physical reason for the cyclic flaring behaviour in accretion discs surrounding stellar mass black holes. I am also interested in understanding the physical mechanism responsible for jet production from black holes. I have developed a relativistic fluid model to calculate the emission from blazar jets and to determine their properties.
I have conducted undergraduate tutorials on general relativity, special relativity, thermodynamics and optics. I am currently a tutor for the 3rd year undergraduate general relativity and cosmology course.


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Whether you're a current smoker, a former smoker, or someone who just lives where a smoker once did in Lititz, PA, you've probably had some experience with the difficulties of cigarette smoke removal. Smoke stains get into your clothes, on your skin, in your furniture, and even can seep into woods and walls. For residents […]
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Visitors to OnTheSnow.com have chosen [R197R, Keystone Resort] in the Colorado Rocky Mountains as having their "Favorite Terrain Park" in the Rocky Mountains. The data period for voting was January 2010 when a Nielsen audit showed 2.3 million unique browsers logged in to the world's most visited Web portal. OnTheSnow.com is published by Mountain News Corp.
The ski resort with the top average score (on a scale of 1 to 5) in each category, and a minimum number of entries, receives the award. Visitors then ranked them in five categories: Overall Favorite, Best Nightlife, Most Family-Friendly, Best Downhill Terrain, and Best Terrain Park.
"User-generated content is a very powerful and effective way Web visitors have to communicate with each other," said Mountain News Corp. President and Publisher Rob Brown. "Skiers and snowboarders are relying on the word of their peers when they make resort choices."
Keystone is one of the closest major resorts to the Denver area, an easy 90-minute drive from Denver International Airport. The resort is known for its more than 2,800 acres of skiing and riding terrain on three mountains, its snowcat skiing with Keystone Adventure Tours, one of the largest night terrain parks in North America, and excellent restaurants.
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- Favorite Rockies Downhill Terrain: Snowbird, Utah
- Favorite Rockies Family Friendly: Park City, Utah
- Favorite Rockies Terrain Park: Keystone, Colo.
- Favorite Rockies Nightlife: Telluride, Colo.
See all 2010 Visitors Choice Award winners
OnTheSnow.com is the Web's most visited snow skiing and snowboarding site with Nielsen-audited 2.3 million unique monthly visitors. The site offers ski reports, news resort reviews, Web cams, and value deals for virtually every ski resort in the world. Click for the complete list of the 2010 OnTheSnow Visitors Choice Awards. There are 13 International Editions of OnTheSnow, published in seven languages.


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In this 'Monster Hunt' clip, the real monster is the naughty human baby
LOS ANGELES — Monster Hunt, the marital-arts/fantasy film that may or may not be China's highest-grossing movie of 2015, is coming to 30 U.S. theaters Friday in all its oddball, computer-animated glory.
If you're anything like us, you've heard about Monster Hunt — but still aren't exactly sure whether you should bother checking out the movie that, according to state-run media in China, beat Furious 7 to become China's 2015 box-office champ with $381 million. (Some reports have disputed that figure, saying it was inflated by giveaway tickets and other means to put the local film in front of the U.S. import.)
SEE ALSO: Disney put 500 Stormtroopers on the Great Wall to promote 'Star Wars' in China
In this 90-second clip (above), debuting exclusively on Mashable, you'll get an idea of what the English-dubbed version looks and sounds like. Distributor FilmRise is also releasing a subtitled version in the original Mandarin, which you can see in the trailer (below).
Monster Hunt takes place in a mythical world where monsters are in charge, while humans more or less keep to their own domain. A man gives birth to a monster baby Wuba, who is pursued by both species.
But in the clip above, it's the human baby that's being the real monster.
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Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
"Children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities can face additional safeguarding challenges. Governing bodies and proprietors should ensure their child protection policy reflects the fact that additional barriers can exist when recognising abuse and neglect in this group of children. These can include:
- assumptions that indicators of possible abuse such as behaviour, mood and injury relate to the child's disability without further exploration;
- being more prone to peer group isolation than other children;
- the potential for children with SEN and disabilities being disproportionally impacted by behaviours such as bullying, without outwardly showing any signs; and
- communication barriers and difficulties in overcoming these barriers.
To address these additional challenges, schools and colleges should consider extra pastoral support for children with SEN and disabilities." (KCSIE, DfE 2018)
Staff should be extra vigilant when working with young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
The designated safeguarding lead should liaise regularly with the special educational needs co-ordinator, the behaviour lead and the attendance lead, maintaining a culture of vigilance and being alert to any relevant new information or concerns.
All schools must have regard to the principles of the SEND code of practice 0-25 years.
- The Code of Practice (2014) covers the 0-25 age range.
- It includes guidance relating to disabled children and young people, as well as those with special educational needs (SEN). Disabled children and young people may not have SEN but are covered by this guidance as well as by the Equality Act 2010.
- There is a clearer focus on the participation of children and young people and parents in decision making at individual and strategic levels.
- There is a strong focus on high aspirations and on improving outcomes for children and young people.
The principles of the code of practice are:
- Children, their parents and young people are involved in discussions and decisions about their individual support and local provision and have the information, advice and support they need to enable them to participate in such discussions and decisions.
- Children, young people and parents are involved in planning, commissioning and reviewing services.
- The needs of children and young people are identified early and there is early intervention to support them.
- Parents and young people have greater choice and control over their support.
- There is greater collaboration between education, health and social care services to provide support.
- There is high-quality provision to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND.
- There is a focus on inclusive practice and removing barriers to learning.
- Young people are supported to make a successful transition to adulthood.
It is the right of every child and young person to receive an education that enables them to make progress so that they:
- Achieve their best.
- Become confident individuals leading fulfilling lives.
- Make a successful transition into adulthood.
Every school is required to identify and address the SEND of the pupils it supports by:
- Building the identification of SEND into the school's overall approach to monitoring the progress and development of all pupils.
- Doing everything they can to meet pupils' special educational needs.
- Ensuring that pupils with SEND engage in activities alongside their peers.
- Designating a teacher (a SENCO) to be responsible for coordinating SEND provision.
- Informing parents when they are making SEND provision for a child.
- Publishing an up-to-date SEN information report on their website about the implementation of the school or setting's policy for pupil with SEND.
- Identifying a governor with specific oversight of the school's arrangements for SEN and disability.
- Making the quality of teaching and progress for pupils with SEND a core part of the school's performance management arrangements and professional development for teaching and support staff.
- Ensuring they have structured processes in place to identify any underlying needs such as learning or social communication needs, in addition to any environmental factors such as bullying, home factors, which may be impacting on a child's behaviour.
Definition of SEND provision
Special educational provision is educational or training provision that is additional to or different from that made generally for others of the same age, ie provision that goes beyond the differentiated approaches and learning arrangements normally provided as part of high-quality, personalised teaching.
Broad areas of need
Four broad areas of need give an overview of the range of needs that should be planned for, not to fit a pupil into a category.
The broad areas of need are:
- Communication and interaction
- Cognition and learning
- Social, emotional and mental health
- Sensory and/or physical needs
Special educational provision and support
- Teachers are responsible and accountable for the progress and development of the pupils in their class, including where pupils access support from teaching assistants or specialist staff.
- High-quality teaching, differentiated for individual pupils, is the first step in responding to pupils who have or may have SEND. Additional intervention and support cannot compensate for a lack of good quality teaching.
- The identification of SEND should be built into the overall approach to monitoring the progress and development of all pupils.
- Schools and settings can take their own approach to record keeping but SEND provision should be recorded accurately and kept up-to-date. Ofsted will expect to see evidence of pupil progress, a focus on outcomes and a rigorous approach to the monitoring and evaluation of any SEN support provided.
- Class and subject teachers, supported by the senior leadership team, should make regular assessments of progress for all pupils, where pupils are falling behind or not making expected progress given their age and starting point, they should be given extra support.
- Once a potential special educational need is identified, schools should take action to remove barriers to learning and put effective special educational provision in place. This is "SEN support" which should take the form of a four-part cycle – assess, plan, do, review. This is known as the graduated approach.
The graduated approach
The four stages of the cycle are:-
- Assess
- Plan
- Do
- Review
The graduated approach starts at whole-school level. Teachers are continually assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing their approach to teaching all children. However, where a potential special educational need has been identified, this cyclical process becomes increasingly personalised.
- Individualised assessment leads to a growing understanding of the barriers to and gaps in the pupil's learning.
- Continual reflection on approaches to meeting the pupils' needs leads to a growing understanding of strategies that enable the pupil to make good progress and achieve good outcomes.
The SEND code of practice makes it clear that class and/or subject teachers are directly responsible and accountable for all pupils in their class(es), even when pupils are receiving support from a teaching assistant or other specialist staff, within our outside the classroom.
The responsibility and accountability for the progress and development of pupils with SEN lies with the class or subject teacher, not with the SENCO or the learning support department.
Solihull Health Visitors service works in partnership with families and other key professionals from a variety of agencies and organisations, including the voluntary sector to deliver the healthy child programme (0-5 years). Promoting and safeguarding the health and well being of all children; including the unborn child, is a high priority of this service. Maternal mental health and providing support for parents and other family members antenatally and within the first year of their baby's' life is another key priority for the service. When a child starts school, their care will be transferred to the school nursing service who will continue to offer support, if required and appropriate.
Any client and professional can refer to this service:
Chelmsley Wood Primary Care Centre 0121 329 0118
Hurst Lane Clinic Team 0121-747 2977
Solihull School Nursing service comprises qualified community nurses (and school nurse assistants who work under the direction of school nurses) who are trained in a public health approach to deliver early interventions which are preventative in nature. The service is available to all children (excluding those attending nursery who are supported by the health visiting service) and young people attending local authority schools within the borough of Solihull.
Tel: 0121-746 4459 (south)/0121 770 1919 (north)
Children's Community Nursing Service
Tel: 0121 746 4436
The children's community nursing service assess and manage the health needs of children and young people aged 0-18 years with:
- Short –term conditions e.g. nasogastric management
- Long term conditions
- Complex health care needs requiring nursing interventions
- Life-limiting and life threatening illness, including those requiring palliative and end of life care
The child must be registered with a Solihull GP
Children's Learning Disability Service
Tel: 0121 746 4436
The Children's Learning Disability Nursing Service assesses and manages the health needs of children and young people aged 0-18years with:
- Moderate to severe learning disabilities and an additional health need
- The child must be registered with a Solihull GP
Community Paediatrics
Tel: 0121 746 4476
Community paediatricians are doctors who specialize in developmental, behavioural and social difficulties of children. Referrals can be made to the community paediatrics service by GP's, health visitors, school nurses and in some circumstances school staff or social workers.
The conditions assessed and treated by community paediatricians include:
- Communication/Interaction disorder/autistic spectrum disorder
- Global/developmental delay
- Neurodevelopment disorders such as cerebral palsy
- A variety of syndromes
- Microcephaly/macrocephaly (small or large head)
- Gross motor delay
- Metabolic disorders
- Speech and language concerns
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Dyspraxia
Paediatric Physiotherapy
Tel: 0121 746 4422
Paediatric physiotherapists treat children and young people who have physical conditions which affect normal childhood development. Paediatric physiotherapists use techniques which contribute towards the overall development of children with physical conditions/development needs in order that they can become as independent as possible in childhood and onwards to adulthood.
Paediatric Audiology Service
Tel:0121 424 1846/7
The Paediatric Audiology Service assess and manage the hearing needs of children and young people aged 0-18 years.
Updates and changes
These pages are updated regularly and should be used as the main source of information. Printed versions should be used with care as they can become out of date.


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For updated information please refer to the Celestyal cruises main page.
7-day Iconic Aegean cruise
What a rich program this cruise offers! A unique itinerary including four top Greek islands (Santorini, Rhodes, Crete, Mykonos),
alongside two less known gems of the Aegean Sea: Chios, with its mastic gum trees and houses decorated with sgraffiti and beautiful courtyards decorated with intricate pebble mosaics, and Symi, a jewel of an island, once a haven for the ship-building and sponge industries.
The cruise begins with Istanbul, a city of unique characteristics that marked the Aegean civilization through the centuries, and Kusadasi, gateway to Ancient Ephesus, where one of the seven wonders of antiquity stood for 120 years, the Temple of Artemis.
7-day cruise ports of call & itinerary map
|Lavrio (Athens), Greece
|Istanbul, Turkey
|Kusadasi, Turkey
|Santorini (Thira), Greece
|Ag. Nikolaos (Crete), Greece
|Rhodes, Greece
|Symi, Greece
|Chios, Greece
|Mykonos, Greece
|Lavrio (Athens), Greece
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- T. Berk - Pennsylvania, USA
We did expect more Greek cuisine than the ship had and the set menu in one of the restaurants got to be very boring after a week.
Again it needs to be said that the manner in which restorations are occurring is disappointing. It was sad seeing the ruins in Knossos (Crete) with the use of concrete blocks to restore ruins and concrete beams painted to try and make them look like timber. This is the wider story of how the wonderful history of Greece and its ruins are being restored and the Greek government needs to step in so that work is done properly.
Overall we'd do this cruise again in the future. Most enjoyable.
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NBC: Florida Health Officials May Have a Second Non-Travel-Related Case of Zika
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may have found a second species of mosquito
EDITOR'S NOTE: All of the 1,404 cases of Zika in the continental United States previously reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been travel related.
However, small, local outbreaks of Zika virus are fully expected in southern states such as Florida, Louisiana and Texas, which are home to the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that most commonly transmit the virus.
This week health officials in Florida identified what appears to be the first locally transmitted Zika virus infection, and NBC News reports below that a second possible South Florida case of locally spread Zika has been diagnosed. There is also unpublished evidence in Brazil that suggests there may be a possible second mosquito species that can transmit the virus.
— Dr. Jim Palermo, Editor-in-Chief
NBC NEWS — Florida health officials said they were investigating a second possible case of Zika spread locally, and Brazilian scientists said they feared they may have found a second species of mosquito can transmit the virus.
The two Florida cases — one in Miami-Dade county and another in Broward county — both appear to have no connections to travel to Zika-affected areas, and neither appears to have had sexual contact with a Zika-infected patient, but Florida officials are still checking both possibilities.
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Robert Salas is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, class of 1964. He served seven years on active duty before separating from the Air Force in 1971. While on active duty he worked as a Weapons Controller, flew target drones, commanded inter-continental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program. From 1974 until his retirement in 1995 he worked for the Federal Aviation Administration as an aircraft structures certification engineer. Since 1998 he has worked as a mathematics teacher. In 2005 he published the book Faded Giant with co-author James Klotz which details his UFO incident while stationed at Malmstrom AFB, Montana in 1967. In 2013, he published "Unidentified - The UFO Phenomenon," providing new details on the phenomenon as a whole. On September 27, 2010 he co-sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC where he and six other ex-military witnesses testified to the reality of the UFO incidents at U.S. nuclear weapons bases. In May 2013, he participated in the Citizen's Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club, Washington DC. Mr. Salas has spoken at International conferences in Norway, France, England, Ireland, Germany, Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil.
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Instead of shoveling snow on Christmas, entertaining the in-laws at Hanukkah or unsuccessfully looking for a party on New Year's, you could be drinking eggnog poolside; singing carols on deck, while overlooking the sea; eating multi-course holiday meals, prepared by professional chefs and enjoying New Year's Eve with enthusiasm (and with no worries about driving home). That's right. You could be celebrating on a relaxing, warm-weather cruise.
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Cruising during the holidays is anything but the typical week-at-sea experience you might find during less festive times of the year. Many cruise lines — and officers, staff and crew — embrace the holiday season with a cheery vigor that goes beyond the symbolic Christmas tree, occasional Santa appearances, elaborate turkey dinners and New Year's Eve midnight countdowns.
But while celebrating a holiday at sea means you can avoid the associated cooking and cleaning — not to mention escaping from crazy relatives or bonding with the family members you actually do like — you'll have the best experience if you put a little effort into planning the best cruise for your brood and setting the right expectations. From choosing the right cruise to packing advice and tips on what to expect onboard and off, here's everything you need to know about spending a holiday at sea.
Booking a holiday cruise
In general, Christmas and New Year's holiday cruises are often the most expensive of the year. Cabins at this time are usually in high demand by passengers because schools are on break, and many families want to take vacations during these weeks. However, with many families cutting back on travel, the holiday seasons for 2008 and 2009 will be a little different. As of this writing in November 2008, there are deals on 2008 cruises to be found, even at this late date. You might be surprised at how affordable a warm-weather holiday can be, and these last-minute bargains are worth a look, even if you'd previously decided not to go away this winter.
It's also unlikely that 2009 holiday cruises will book out a year in advance, as many Christmas sailings have done in the past. So, if you're optimistic about next year's winter getaway, keep an eye out for early-booking deals and last-minute bargains, and don't worry so much about ships selling out.
On the flip side, air travel at this time of year continues to be extra-expensive. Before you book that last-minute, rock-bottom rate, make sure you can afford the airfare to your departure port.
Here are a few more tips for booking holiday cruises:
When to book: In general, if you want to lock in your preferred itinerary, ship, cabin and dining group and have as much time as possible to look for affordable airfare, book early (nine to 12 months in advance). The downside? You might end up paying a premium for this level of security. However, the prediction for 2009 is that travelers will not be booking so far in advance, so you can safely wait a little longer to book next year and get the cabin you want without overpaying. If price is your foremost concern, you can wait for deals to come out, often within three months of sailing. But you might get stuck in an inside cabin or with your family spread throughout the ship, rather than in adjoining cabins.
Flights: When booking airfare, remember that flights at this time of the year can be outrageously pricey and often are oversold. Try to reserve your flights early (but not too early, as flight times can change after you book), and you may want to consider all your options, such as using frequent flyer miles or buying the cruise line's air package. You might even want to choose a cruise departing from a city close to home so you can avoid flying altogether. Another tip: At this time of year, it's a very good idea to fly into your departure city a day early. With flights so crowded, a delay or cancellation due to weather or overbooking might cause you to miss your cruise. There's no guarantee you'll get on the next flight out if there's a problem with yours.
Cabins: The holidays are a perfect time to splurge on a balcony, so you can make the most of your warm-weather escape and have more room in your cabin for presents and decorations. Families should consider family suites that sleep multiple people comfortably or book adjoining cabins. Large groups might want to book the head of the clan in a large suite that can be a central gathering point and location for private holiday parties. But book early: The best cabins — particularly family suites and anything with a balcony — may be booked way in advance by true holiday cruise aficionados who celebrate this way every year.
Itineraries: Think about whether you'd like to spend holidays in port or at sea. Ships on a regular weekly schedule are likely to maintain their normal itineraries, so you may end up in a port on Christmas Day where everything's closed but the cathedral and the beach. On the other hand, cruise lines with vessels that sail varying itineraries will often try to arrange for ships to spend big religious holidays at sea. If you want to be at sea on Christmas and/or New Year's, take that into consideration when choosing a trip. Also, think about your preferred balance of sea days and ports days. Cruises that last longer than seven days incorporate a lot of at-sea time into their itineraries, while certain lines (Windstar and Oceania, to name two) focus on port-intensive itineraries.
Ships: Entertain the big-ship-versus-mid (or small)-ship debate. Larger ships — with space for huge playrooms, swimming pools with slides and video arcades — are a great choice for families with school-age kids. However, these ships can sometimes seem overrun with youngsters during holiday sailings and are not always ideal for quiet, adults-only getaways. Mid-size ships are more conducive to parents with young children who want to socialize with other adults or multi-generational groups looking to make everyone happy. Small luxury ships tend to have fewer kids and a more mature clientele. If you're taking kids of any age, be sure to look into the youth program before you sign up. While most mainstream and premium ships have youth facilities, some offer more creative and large-scale programming than others. Babysitting options vary by line, and options for very young, still-in-diapers tots may be limited.
Pre-trip planning
Packing for a holiday cruise can be a little different from a regular cruise. You'll want to bring special holiday outfits for Christmas and New Year's Eve. In addition to your tuxes and party dresses, you might consider accessories like Santa hats, reindeer antler headbands, party hats, colorful beads or other festive items you might want to wear.
For Christmas or Hanukkah, consider decorating your cabin to get in the holiday spirit. Creative cruisers have been known to decorate cabin doors with wreaths, holiday cards and photos. To spruce up your cabin's interior, pack a small artificial tree (disassemble it for easy packing), electric menorah (you can't light candles in your cabin), strings of lights, inflatable decorations and stockings. If you're bringing Christmas or Hanukkah presents, leave them unwrapped if you're flying to the homeport, and pack some scissors (in checked luggage, please), tape and wrapping paper to doll them up once onboard. (For great gift ideas for cruise lovers, visit Cruise Critic's Holiday Gift Guide.
For New Year's, you might want to bring your favorite bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine onboard. Just check your cruise line's alcohol policy to make sure ship's security won't take your beverage from you when you try to board.
Families and large groups might want to get into the spirit by printing up matching T-shirts or hats to wear onboard.
Taking a cruise during the holidays by no means requires you to forego the celebration. In fact, cruise lines go all out for the holidays. The ships' restaurants will offer holiday menus with seasonal favorites: turkey with cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving, potato pancakes and jelly donuts for Hanukkah, roast turkey or ham on Christmas (with eggnog to drink) and midnight buffets for New Year's Eve. The ships are decked out with seasonal decorations — autumn leaves, pumpkins, trees, menorahs and wreaths.
For adults, there are holiday parties in the ships' lounges, special holiday drinks and religious services led by priests, rabbis or ministers. For the kids, count on visits from Santa, holiday snacks, craft-making and storytelling. Passengers of all ages can enjoy special performances by the ships' entertainment staff and special guests, caroling, tree- and menorah-lighting ceremonies and seasonal movies shown on in-room TV's and onboard movie screens.
For more details on the onboard offerings of specific lines, see our pieces on onboard festivities.
In port
In some regions, particularly the Caribbean, the holiday week is a time of islandwide celebrations that can make a trip memorable — and give you a hint of real island life (as opposed to the limited views one normally gets from one day in port). Take a look, for instance, at St. Kitts, where the island's national carnival runs from December 15 through January 2; activities vary, but expect parades, revelry and folkloric performances.
However, other destinations pretty much shut down on Christmas, with stores and attractions closed to visitors. Grand Cayman is so dead on Christmas that no ships are calling at that port that day. Also, beware of Boxing Day (December 26). Many Caribbean islands with British roots, such as Antigua, Barbados, Grand Cayman and St. Kitts, celebrate this December 26 holiday, and generally shops and sites are as closed up, as on Christmas. One exception: On Nevis, Boxing Day is a huge horse racing day at its Newcastle Racetrack.
In general, island retailers have gotten savvy to the fact that cruise ship visitors mean big business, and cruise lines know which islands to avoid on holidays. Carnival, for one, tells us that all the islands it visits during the holiday season keep stores open and excursions running so as not to lose out on those tourist dollars. But, before you set your heart on eating at a specific local restaurant or taking a particular tour, check to make sure they're operating on the day you're in port.


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By Eric SchweibenzOn December 27, 2012, ALJ David P. Shaw issued the public version of Order No. 45 (dated October 11, 2012) granting-in-part Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Funai Corporation, Inc., P&F USA, Inc., Funai Service Corporation, MediaTek Inc., MediaTek USA Inc., MediaTek Wireless, Inc. (USA), Ralink Technology Corporation, Ralink Technology Corporation (USA), and Realtek Semiconductor Corporation's (collectively, the "Respondents") motion to compel in Certain Audiovisual Components and Products Containing the Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-837).
According to the Order, Respondents filed a motion seeking an order compelling Complainants LSI Corporation and Agere Systems LLC (collectively, "Complainants") to produce information relating to Complainants' domestic industry allegations. Specifically, Respondents sought (1) the spreadsheet used to derive information contained in Complainants' amended complaint and (2) all "teardown reports" of Funai products accused of infringing the patents-in-suit.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany at The Metropolitan
Author: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum, presents Tiffany's works in the context of his career, discusses his artistic themes and his devotion to nature, and sheds new light on his technical virtuosity. She has illustrated her text with many of Tiffany's watercolor presentation drawings, selected from more than four hundred examples in the Museum's collections. Many of these drawings, made by Tiffany and his artists over a period of forty years, are reproduced here for the first time.


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When a teenager buys a smartphone in Seoul, it comes with something extra — a government-mandated surveillance app that tracks the user's location, text messages and browsing history.
The same is true of any smartphone purchased in South Korea by anyone 18 or younger. The software (mandatory after the passage of an April 2015 law) blocks kids from pornographic websites, sends an alert if certain keywords like "bully" or "pregnancy" are used, and monitors the amount of time they spend on their phones. It may seem like an altruistic plot to keep kids safe, but critics say at least one of these electronic babysitters — an app called Smart Sheriff — isn't the type parents would want watching their children.
As it turns out, the app contained a number of potentially dangerous flaws that made it relatively easy for hackers to intercept the location, browsing history and personal information of the app's 480,000 users.
Two independent testing organizations in Canada and Germany released scathing reports that compared the electronic monitoring app to a babysitter who would leave the doors unlocked.
As it Turns out, the app contained a number of potentially dangerous flaws that made it relatively easy for hackers to intercept the location, browsing history and personal information of the app's 380,000 users.
The problems with Smart Sheriff became so dire, in fact, that the app was pulled from the marketplace in early November.
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The conundrum is becoming increasingly common. And while a mandatory monitoring law most likely wouldn't fly in the United States, parents want help monitoring their children, though they don't want these monitoring methods to put their children at greater risk. And there may be unintended consequences.
"Children become anxious with all the monitoring," says Joanie B. Connell, author of "Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life." "They learn it's unsafe to be on their own. They grow up anxious of all the unknown dangers out there and stay tethered to their parents through technology."
When children are electronically monitored, it adds another layer of stress — for children and parents. "It's not only harming them, but us as well," Connell says. "Parents have become bundles of anxiety — one parent recently told me he had his sitter text him a photo of his children every hour so he could make sure she hadn't run off with them."
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On the other hand, there's also plenty of evidence that using technology to track and monitor children has a positive side. With more than 450,000 children reported missing in the U.S. each year, the burgeoning wearable tech industry offers a virtual safety net.
Take the hereO GPS watch, for example. This child-friendly watch for children as young as 3 years old uses real-time GPS tracking so parents can know where a child is at any time. While critics contend wearable devices are no substitute for watchful parents, there's something to be said for a device that will send an immediate alert and exact location if a child wanders away. The watch also has a panic button and tamper alert.
And this new breed of wearable devices can send not only GPS alerts but also blood pressure and temperature readings.
"In the past, limited technology required parents to rely on their own eyes and ears to monitor their children," says Arturas Vaitaitis, the founder and chief technology officer of wearable tech company Mondevices. The company's product MonBaby is a wearable tech for babies that sends an alert to parents' smartphones when a baby rolls onto his or her stomach (back-sleeping is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics). The device also tracks breathing movements.
"Now," says Vaitaitis, "technology is completely shifting the way we monitor our children in a positive way."
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Lucintel Profiles Top Global Home Care Products Manufacturing Companies
The global home care products industry, which has experienced good progress in recent years, expected to carry on with its growth momentum for the near term. The market is expected to reach $146 billion in annual revenue within the next five years.
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Lucintel, a leading global management consulting and market research firm, has conducted a competitive analysis on global home care products industry and presents its findings in "Top Five Global Home Care Products Manufacturing Companies: Performance, Strategies, and Competitive Analysis."
This company profile report briefly discusses the subject companies, their geographic footprints, financial metrics, market performance, marketing and corporate strategies, and provides a SWOT analysis of each player.
The industry has faced growing challenges from the increasing prices of petrochemical products, oleo chemicals, paper, and metals, which may negatively affect the profitability of the industry as these raw materials are used extensively. The continuous decrease in the value of the Euro has weakened the industry's overall revenue generation.
Within the home care products industry, many new innovative products have been launched in all categories with key brands, which is a good sales opportunity for the key players.
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John Legend, Bruno Mars, Ricky Martin Get Emmy Nods
NEW YORK (AP) — Music stars in competition for Emmys this year include Bruno Mars, Sara Bareilles, Ricky Martin and John Legend, who earned two nominations.
Legend and Bareilles each earned acting nods for their roles in NBC's "Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert." Legend also picked up a nomination as a producer of the special in the outstanding variety special (live) category.
Mars, an 11-time Grammy winner, earned a nomination for outstanding music direction for his first TV special, CBS' "Bruno Mars: 24K Magic Live at the Apollo."
Martin is up for outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or movie for his role in FX's "The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story."
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Legend, who has won several Grammys as well as an Oscar and a Tony, could become an EGOT — one of the rare entertainers to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul are also on their way to EGOT status: The composing duo earned a nomination for outstanding original music and lyrics for "In the Market for a Miracle" from Fox's "A Christmas Story Live!"
Pasek and Paul won a Grammy and a Tony for their work on Broadway's "Dear Evan Hansen," and an Oscar for "City of Stars" from "La La Land."
Donald Glover, who is having major success under his music moniker Childish Gambino with the hit "This Is America," earned four nominations, including three for his work on the hit FX series, "Atlanta," and one for hosting "Saturday Night Live." LL Cool J, as a producer, is nominated for outstanding structured realty program for Spike TV's "Lip Sync Battle."
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The Wilson Centre
Originally built in 1886, The Wilson Centre was a church institute for the education and instruction of the inhabitants of Long Newton.
It was refurbished in 2009 and offers excellent Wi-Fi facilities, state-of-the-art sound system with hearing loop, digital projector, electric drop-down screen incorporating stereo DVD and microphone system. Also, our fully-fitted kitchen is at your disposal.
The Centre benefits from excellent communication links to Durham Tees Valley Airport, with the A1, A66 and A19 all within easy access, and Darlington Station on the east coast main line, situated only six miles away.
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Esham: Sacrificial Lambz
Esham comes hard (again) with politics, of both the U.S. Government and the hip-hop world, on the brain.
It's hard out here for an MC these days. Between declining sales, the ever-cheapening of "ringtone rap" productions, and the bitter backlash from the "Hip-Hop Is Dead" movement, where do you turn? Any aspiring underground MCs could do worse than look at the track record for Esham, the pioneering Detroit horrorcore rapper who drops his 15th solo album, Sacrificial Lambz, this month. A solo project in the truest sense -- written, performed, and produced entirely by Esham -- the album is released on Esham's own Gothom Inc. label; a hungry independent response to a bloated, ailing mainstream.
Rounding out his second decade of dropping the "wicked shit" (having debuted with his first album at the tender age of 13, in 1990), Esham's usual blood-guts-sex fantasies are spiced up on Lambz with a new focus on politics -- both of the U.S. and the hip-hop world. The latter is front-and-center on "U Kill Me", one of the album's best cuts, in which Esham parlays his macabre lyrics into a paranoid statement about violence and martyrdom (and the convenient marketability of dead MCs) in hip-hop. On "Garbitch", Esham spits venom at flash-in-the-pan pop and hipster rappers, calling out both 106 & Park and the ironic MCs "wearing tight-ass sweaters". Perhaps most disturbing is the nightmarish acid trip of "Unholy Knights", in which Esham plays the role of a disturbed U.S. soldier in Iraq: "automatic weapon requires / murder for my country hired / I didn't mean to set that little boy body on fire!" For an even sicker bent, the beat on "Knights" features an angelic choral rendition of "Silent Night".
A native son of Detroit, Esham doesn't have to move far to see prime evidence of urban decay, despair and desperation in America. "Levies Broke" compares the crack epidemic -- what Esham calls a "hurricoke" -- to the Motor City's own Katrina, a catrastrophe from which the city has never really recovered. Moving from political to personal, album-closer "Substance Abuse" looks for some kind of redemption. Lambz features its share of Esham's usual violent fantasies and horror-movie theatrics, but there's an element of responsibility, and -- dare I suggest it -- hope, this time around.


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Scripture: Lectionary 479. Romans 8:12-17. Psalm 68:2.4.6-7.20-21. Luke
You may have noticed that some people have a necklace or chain or charm on
their wrist that has two Hebrew letters on it: CH and AY. It is
pronounced Kai with a stronger aspirate sound on the first letter. It
symbolizes life and is composed of the numerical value of eighteen. The
cure of Jesus consists in Jesus helping a woman who is severely bent over,
probably similar to the illness of osteoporosis. She has suffered this
illness for eighteen years. Jesus will make her fully alive without any
bent back problems. She lives out the symbolism of the eighteen in Judaism.
Usually birthdays or Bar Mitzvahs are associated with a gift of eighteen
dollars signifying the life giving experience of a birthday, jubilee, or a
Bar Mitzvah. Formerly the charm had a Scriptural verse on it. Jesus is
the giver of life to this woman who had suffered eighteen years. There was
conflict however in his doing this on a Sabbath and in a synagogue; the
chief of the synagogue confronts Jesus with his breaking of the Sabbath by
doing this healing. Jesus does not falter against the criticism; he shows
how reasonable any act of compassion is on any day of the week. God is
compassion as we learn from St. Luke. Compassion is certainly a part of
loving-kindness or the "hesed" of God seen in his merciful acts of
redemption for Israel and in God's covenant with the chosen people. Jesus
gives us the spirit of the law; the synagogue ruler was blind to this and
just gave the letter of the law to the compassionate precepts of the Torah.
Throughout the Gospel of Luke we discover the portrait of Jesus as a
compassionate person in his words, his actions, and his cures. Even his
parables emphasize compassion especially those that are only found in Luke
and not in the other Gospels. The parable of the Good Samaritan and the
Prodigal Son are examples of the compassion of God and Jesus seen in these
picturesque stories with a point of emphasis that is compassion. "What
Jesus has done for this woman is in fulfillment of his commission of
releasing captives from the bonds of evil (Luke 4:18). What Jesus does on a
Sabbath is truly a celebration of its deepest meaning , that is, release
from the effects of a fallen order. The Sabbath's purpose, as Jesus sees
it, is fulfilled not by forbidding works of compassion, but by encouraging
them." (Fr. Karris, O.F.M.).
The spiritual forces of evil and Satan are overcome. The crowd, unlike the
head of the synagogue, marvels at the compassionate work of Jesus in this
poor woman whose only hope was in God. We pray for deliverance from all
forms of evil—especially bad or rash judgments and from preventing a good
and compassionate work on a Sabbath, a Sunday, or a Friday—the days sacred
to the three monotheistic religions. The final petitions of the Our
Father are quite in harmony with what this story in Luke is all about.
Lord, deliver us from every evil. Amen.
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5th September 1917 Wednesday
Scared, dirty and hungry in hell, but time for a nice cup of tea!
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"I was relieved later in the afternoon of the 5th, having been in 'Hell' for four days. My nerves were shaky and I was unshaven and dirty, and very hungry. However, when I was relieved I 'hared' across the open, regardless of enemy bullets or shells, and reached Burnt Farm safely. I had a cup of tea there, and then proceeded to the canal bank where I was welcomed by the Colonel, etc who thought I'd been killed! After a short rest I went on to rejoin the 13th R.W.F. at Malakoff Farm. We got no sleep that night for Huns bombing us from aeroplanes and sending out High Velocity Shells. It was most terrifying."
Douglas doesn't tell us how he made the journey to Malakoff Farm, but it was a distance of around 6 kms. A good way behind the lines but nowhere was safe.
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MIS is short for Management Information Systems and is the name of an academic discipline and major which focuses on solving business problems and creating new opportunities with technology. MIS is also often shortened to Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT). Learn more about MIS in this short video featuring students and faculty.
What is an MIS system?
MIS systems gather, process, and manage information. For example, MIS systems help customers order airline tickets online and withdraw cash from automated teller machines. MIS systems are also crucial in payroll processing, accounting systems, and in websites such as Amazon.com.
What are the salary ranges for MIS professionals?
Entry-level salaries for students with an undergraduate degree in MIS are between $50,000-$60,000. See http://isjobindex.com.
Who works in MIS?
MIS professionals are business-oriented, technically proficient individuals who are found in every type of industry from health-care and banking to media and gaming, as well as in the high tech industry such as Facebook and Lockheed Martin. The majority of MIS professionals work in user organizations such as QVC, Pfizer, Campbell Soup, NBCUniversal and consulting firms such as LiquidHub.
How is MIS different from computer science?
Computer science focuses on the technology itself and less on its business application. MIS professionals apply technology to business needs.
MIS and computer science courses may seem similar but there are major differences in their content and how they are taught. Computer science (CS) (occasionally termed Computer and Information Science – CIS) students take courses that will help them better understand technology, like math and physics classes. MIS students take courses that will help them understand business problems, like accounting and marketing. Neither one is better than the other – they're just different.
|Computer Science (CS) or
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
|Acquire business applications by building, integrating or purchasing systems
|Build and extend technology to solve complex problems
|Motivated by using the computer as a tool to solve problems or create digital innovation
|Motivated by how the computer works
|Emphasis is on understanding business problems and producing business innovation
|Emphasis is on programming complex software
|Integrate available components in high-level development environments
|Typically trained in writing large programs from scratch using traditional programming languages
|Analyze corporate "big" data with analytics
|Create algorithms that, for example, will sort the data
What do MIS professionals do?
MIS professionals are leaders who initiate, design, and apply technology to transform business functions and produce innovative products and services. Check out I love IT.
|Study business problems and implement systems to solve them
|Analyze problems and change business processes
|Application developer
|Develop software to gather and store data
|Data analyst
|Extracts and analyzes organizational data
|Project leader
|Organize a team of analysts, programmers and others to create an innovative solution
Learn more in this short video featuring MIS students
What type of programming do you do in MIS?
An MIS professional will know how to code but will typically lead others who code for a living. Some MIS professionals will write code to create innovative new applications (e.g., a new App).
What are the prospects for women in MIS?
Women are leaders in MIS in many of top firms in the nation. Learn more about women in IT.
What is the current demand for MIS workers?
There will always be a need for tech savvy business professionals. Remember, technology is the engine of business. For the most current placement rates see http://isjobindex.com.


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NOVA SOL, book one of the Brief History of Humankind Trilogy
Twenty years after the Planetary Rebellion, the Nova Sol colonists are still stranded hundreds of light years from Earth. The mysterious teleportation mechanism that allowed humans to settle the new solar system was eradicated in the natural disasters caused by the rebellion. The invention of a faster than light technology offers the 5 million colonists new hope for returning to their home planet. But difficulties arise while implementing the new stardrive. These difficulties will force President Benefacio to risk others' lives in order to get back to Earth.
Lurking in the background, the Bions - bio-nanites that were "awakened" during the Planetary Rebellion - are following their own agenda, which will put them at odds with the humans. Several humans - including President Benefacio's father - have spontaneously developed anti-aging abilities. Is this a freak occurrence or is there some greater force at work? Meanwhile, on Bastin, the desert planet, one of the original human colonists keeps a secret that will change the course of human history.
I have been a fan of fantasy and science fiction ever since I can remember. Growing up I used to fall asleep listening to CBS Radio Mystery Theater and spent Saturday afternoons watching Creature Double Feature on WLVI, channel 56. Also, I collected comics and ended up doing my master's thesis ("How Green Is Your Power Ring?") on the structure of the modern, American superhero comic book.My mother is a published poet and my father a world-class educator. I caught the writing bug from them at a very early age. I can remember scrawling short stories on scraps of paper in my bedroom late at night when I was supposed to be asleep. My old job allowed me to travel the world. I have been to the Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Sahara Desert, Machu Picchu and countless other spots in Asia, Africa and South America. I have also traveled extensively throughout the United States and am, once again, living in the Colorado Rockies.I have been inspired by both my travels and all the people I've met and worked with along the way. My family and friends have encouraged me over the years to make a living as a writer. I am now taking on the challenge of following my bliss. And enjoying every minute of it!
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Brief:- You may think conceptual art has to be motivated by a cerebral idea, but often it's not. It's more to do with hunches and entering a process where you don't really know what the outcome will be and you take photographs that attempt to document that process. For example, what would it be like to spend a week living on a boat? What would it be like to dress differently and out of character? Such 'ideas' are not necessarily 'visual' but the clearly have visual potential. They also bring up notions that you may not have thought about when approaching a photographic project: what 'home' and 'appearances' mean.
Maria Kapejeva, One Month. Maria Kapejeva's diptych above shows two portraits of the same person; the first was taken on the subjects arrival in India, and the second was taken a month later. What do these say about the country's influence on this young man? Maria Kapejeva based her work on a concept about change over time. The young man appears to have been influenced by his time in india – as if he has matured. It's very subtle, but you register the change in his clothes, facial expression and posture.
Umm – bollocks. Such a weak example of concept in photography. He may have travelled with those clothes, we all sit differently many times each day, and a suntan alters the appearance of our skin. Yes he may have been influenced by his time in India, in fact it is highly probable that he has, but this diptych is a very poor way of highlighting any possible influences. To infer that it does is misguided. I'm feeling let down by this shoddy example.
To see a great example of concept in photography I suggest seeing the recent work of OCA photography degree student Sarah Andrews (see here for the process) and (see here for the results).
Sarah has explored the concept of ageing and dying with photography from the natural world in Autumn, and her process involved exploring the photos with people who have life limiting conditions. This is how to explore conceptual ideas witb photography