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The CTA brings the two sides of the industry as the only UK-wide organisation that actively promotes coach tourism while delivering key benefits to operators and suppliers. Coach operators and supplier members benefit hugely from close working partnerships that helps them create more exciting tourism products that attracts even more customers to their tours and day trip programmes.
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Summer is here and let's face it, we all have some tweaking to do to get our beach-ready body back. At least I know I do! Salads are without a doubt the ultimate diet food in order to lose weight and/or maintain it. But seriously, does it have to be the same old boring rabbit food? I think not! This chickpea salad is so fresh, bursting with summer flavours and will not leave you feeling hungry, I guarantee it. If you are trying shed some pounds, get fit for your big day or just love to eat well, this is for you.
Salad Ingredients
1 19oz can chickpeas – rinsed and drained
1 cucumber , diced
1 yellow or red pepper, diced
1 pint cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 cup red onion, diced {I like them diced small}
2 tbsp {or as desired} fresh cilantro, chopped {picked from my own plant that I grew this spring, thank you very much!}
1 3/4 tsp cumin
Dressing Ingredients
1/4 cup shallots, thinly diced
1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/3 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed
Salt and pepper to taste
Combine all salad ingredients in a large bowl and mix all dressing ingredients in a separate bowl. Pour dressing over salad and mix together by gently flipping the ingredients. Salt and pepper to taste… and here you have it!
I hope you love it as much as I do!
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Noun. a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterised by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.
Chloe in the Hackney Marshes, makeup by Grace Vee
Recently I had the rare chance to photograph a beautiful expecting mother a few days before she gave birth. Thank you so much for letting me shoot you Camille!
Shot on both 120mm and 35mm film at Camille's home in Camberwell, London.
Most of my friends in London live in and around Hackney in the East and I fell in love with the vibrant multiculturalism, the council estates right next to cafes serving cold brew coffee. Beautiful parks filled with tiny portable bbqs, pubs serving antipodean craft beers with their mushy peas, and an astounding number of fried chicken shacks and delicious curry joints. For better or worse gentrification is seeping into this neighbourhood. But hopefully it'll stop here. Liss is a costume and production designer for film and television in London, plus she is always creating wild outfits to wear at summer festivals across Europe, so her Hackney bedroom is overflowing with hats, wigs, scarves, sunglasses, fur, leather, paisley and sequins. While staying with her recently I coerced her into playing dress-ups with me on the streets of her neighbourhood. While she was initially hesitant, the shoot coincided with Lissy's philosophy about clothing: Continue reading
Driving further down that way than you have before, not knowing quite where you're going, following directions from the locals, that's how you find the sweet spots. And how one of the last swims of summer was in a deep rock pool, clear as glass, surrounded by beds of mossy seaweed and crumbling ochre cliffs.
Featuring the lovely Sian, who also snapped a couple of me. Shot on 35mm film in Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsular, Melbourne.
Ruby and Celeste in Cactus Country.
It was hot, and the stereo was broken so we sang acapella All Saints, on the day I drove two hungover friends out of Melbourne, way way out, to Cactus Country in Strathmerton.
Just 10 bucks got us entry into the spiky wonderland. The excitement at the seriously amazing amounts of different cactuses there were meant I got stabbed and scratched quite a few times before I came to respect just how sharp the thorny beauties are.
When we'd had enough of the dusty desert heat we drove to the Murray River and dipped ourselves into the cool milky waters. We'd driven so far we were swimming on the border of Victoria and New South Wales.
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Photographing Vera, Flora, Lara and Ella of Jail Bait couldn't help but remind me of my erstwhile days in an all girls band in high school. We were called The Go Luckys and for one brief year we wore studded cuffs and handmade denim skirts to perform all over Nelson city at the Rockquest, summer skate comps, and poky little bars.
These girls have been friends for ever but formed the band about a year ago and are having the best time playing music together. They ain't stopping anytime soon. Check out the story I wrote about them in the latest Capital magazine.


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I think the best approach to enjoying "Ang Larawan" is the one in which the viewer temporarily breaks off with its original version as a play and watches it as a movie as if it was originally conceived and produced as such. Having read the play and having seen the production of the musical version years ago, I was telling my wife, this could be a sleeper, especially so that I have developed this habit of dozing off on a film if its first ten minutes fail to interest me. But she made a bet that I wouldn't because the language of Larawan, which is Filipino (although I think it is Tagalog at its finest) would keep my interest piqued and help me stay awake. Then, the film started to roll.
I wasn't just awake, I was fully engaged. From the opening sequence, in which I was debating with myself whether the set was in Intramuros or the old Villavicencio house in Taal, Batangas, to the final scene when the last procession of the La Naval in October 1941 before the war broke in December that year was shown, the movie had me on a roller coaster of emotions. And my verdict: Say goodbye to your play Nick Joaquin. This play of yours is no longer your own. We are part of it now.
The two ladies, Candida and Paula, describing themselves as "lukaret" had me rolling in laughter. I haven't heard that word in a long time, and Rolando Tinio, the translator, managing to insert that in the sequence after the fallen high society dames realized that they were being stupid for thinking that their electricity was cut off during a blackout war drill is pure genius. Don Perico's song "Hindi simple ang buhay", the wailing of a morally-compromised ex-poet and successful politician hits the level of the guts. Ay! — the shock of recognition when I remember that the once and future President, Raul S. Roco, considered a career in poetry before going to law school. The Conga sequence provides much of the comic relief and keeps everything interesting, as if telling the audience, we know this is heavy stuff, let's dance.
But Larawan takes you to that part where Candida and Paula are confronted with the ten thousand dollar question, to sell or not to sell their old man Lorenzo Marasigan's obra maestra. I was half-laughing and half-crying at this scene, asking myself what would I do if I were in their shoes? Being the husband of an artist and knowing the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as Shakespeare puts it, I know it might happen to me or my children once (God forbid!), and we will have to choose: a prized artwork or the next meal? Having lived a daily and meaningful existence with an artwork that adorns the abode, one's experience of parting with great art for a paltry sum feels like eternal damnation, an unforgivable act of shame, and a prostitution of one's life and humanity.
Yet still, Larawan has a final highlight that throws the audience in cathartic ecstasy. As the elder Marasigan siblings threaten to drag Paula and Candida out of the house, the hermit artist comes out of his room, embraces the sisters, and looms large on the screen, his face full with the expression of love, hope, and defiance against the onslaught of the call to go with the modernizing way of the world. Meanwhile, the La Naval procession outside approaches the house and the camera zooms in on the Virgin Mother whose miraculous intercession is credited for the Spanish victory over the invading superior Dutch forces several centuries ago, as if to say that where all hope is gone, the fire and brimstone of war at your door, your siblings and friends have sold you out, and the last drop of energy in your bones about to give, the devotion to the Virgin Mary is the last sanctuary for all of us battered souls.
Writing as Quijano de Manila, Nick Joaquin himself describes in his essay, La Naval de Manila, the experience of seeing this annual procession,
"Many an October evening while watching this procession of La Naval, and having divined, by a general excitement, the approach of the image, he has heard the cries and trumpets of the passing concourse. He has seen her blaze into vision against the skies of his city, born upon cloud of incense and music, her face on fire with jewels and mysterious with the veneration of centuries, with gleaming rainbows forming and falling all about her and silken doves bobbing whitely among her flowers of gold and silver—Oh, beautiful and radiant as an apparition!—the Presence at Lepanto, Lady and Queen and Mother of Manila, the Virgin of the Fifteen Mysteries."
The play ends with Bitoy Camacho's elegiac pleas among the ruins of the Marasigan house as he calls on Candida, Paula, and Lorenzo Marasigan who died in their house during the war. The movie cuts off the sequence and with good reason. This is a movie and not a play. The language of the film is light and shadow. Where the play ends with a speech, the film ends with a scene of a life long gone but beautifully preserved in images and song.
Tolstoy would have approved. While the movie doesn't preach, hope is a theme that permeates its every scene; hope that springs from the love between sisters and the sisters and their aged father. It was love that moved the long retired artist to paint an obra maestra to save his daughters from the poverty and the onslaught of decay in the last days of old Manila; the same love that kept the sisters together and ultimately what moved them not to sell their father's dying gift. And love it is that kept the characters of this movie and the inhabitants of old Manila to preserve the tradition of the La Naval, a brotherhood amidst destruction and death animated only by faith and hope in the Mother of God.
I emerged from this film with a profound infection of love and hope. Living in the conditions similar to old Manila, a threat of nuclear war from North Korea, despair among the citizens where a phony drug war is used to subterfuge institutional abuse, I imagined myself as the patriarchal Lorenzo Marasigan with that unforgettable expression on his face as if to say the words that are also the rallying cry of this film: contra mundum!
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by Nick Joaquin
Our Lady of La Naval de Manila


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Diagnosis Cancer: Is Breast Removal the Best Option?
About 230,000 American women will learn they have invasive breast cancer in the coming year. Many will make the choice to have the affected breast or both breast removed to address this disease. This decision, for many, may come even if the case of cancer doesn't necessitate such invasive action. New research is showing that taking this course may not be in a woman's best interest even if the prophylactic benefits could bring peace of mind.
A recent American study has cast a growing trend in breast cancer treatment in a less than favorable light. Researchers ultimately found that mastectomy combined with reconstruction in early stage breast cancer poses much greater risks for women while also costing them a fair amount more. That form of treatment was compared with the results of a less-invasive lumpectomy combined with radiation.
To arrive at its findings, the study looked at data related to more than 100,000 breast cancer patients. Researchers found that more than 50 percent of patients who opted for the mastectomy and reconstruction treatment option ended up experiencing complications within two years of diagnosis. Those who chose the less invasive route had more positive outcomes. What's more, the costs associated with mastectomy and reconstruction were much higher.
Over the past 10 years or so, more American women are choosing mastectomies followed by reconstruction surgery to treat early stage breast cancer. The reasoning behind the move is largely an attempt to eliminate the chance of a recurrence even if the indications are low for a return of cancer. Popularized by celebrities choosing this route, more invasive treatment is quite often not medically necessary.
Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are strongly urged to talk to their doctors about all treatment options. In early stage, low-risk cases, a less involved treatment method may prove to be the wisest choice. More invasive treatments, however, could be medically advised if risks for return are especially high.


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Newly sworn-in Justice Brett Kavanaugh took an active role on his first day on the Supreme Court bench.
FOX's Jared Halpern has more from Washington:
Chief Justice John Roberts welcomed Justice Kavanaugh to the court, wishing him a long and happy career. Kavanaugh's family watched arguments, so did retired Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Kavanaugh asked several questions about 20 minutes into the first hour of arguments; a case dealing with sentences for crimes considered violent.
Outside the court there were protests, along with more than a 100 people who lined up to watch arguments inside.
As the junior most Justice, Kavanaugh's duties include taking notes at a weekly closed-door conference and serving on the court's internal cafeteria committee.
In Washington, Jared Halpern, FOX News.
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- Important Advantages of submitting to the web directories
- Helps to get a website indexed by search engines
- Link Building Improving on search engine ranking
- How to list your Blog/website in the web directories
- For SEO benefits….
- Pick and Include your Main Niche keywords
- Brief and Nice Description
- Select Best suited Category
- Read the Sumission Guidelines of the Web Directory before submitting
In the previous post I explained about what are web directories and how the web directories used in link building process and Importance of the Web directory. In this post I show you the SEO benefits of the web directory submission and how to post in to a Web directory.
Important Advantages of submitting to the web directories
Helps to get a website indexed by search engines
In the SEO Backlink Building process, you can submit your website that will be listed on one of the well-established web directories it is certain to go a long way to helping get your website indexed in the major search engines. Because the established web directories already are high traffic areas, they're probably be crawled often by the search engine spiders, it has the advantage of helping search engine Indexing as well as ranking.
Link Building Improving on search engine ranking
The most important directory benefit or benefit of listing with several directories is 'link- building'. The more directories you're listed with the higher are your possibilities for a much better position in the search engine result.
Once a site has been properly listed in the web directories, it is highly useful to improve ranking and display in the search engines that links are coming from a valued and a trusted community, which is the case with the well-establish web directories. If you can to include high-quality sites in the link profile this really is certain to benefit improving the ranking in the search engines like google. Also, inbound one way backlinks which are relatively categorized tend to be more desirable compared to reciprocal links.
How to list your Blog/website in the web directories
The directory submission is very easiest process , just by entering your Blog URL, Description , Keywords But you should some SEO Guidelines to get more benefits and notice their rules to list in their Directory.
For SEO benefits….
Pick and Include your Main Niche keywords
When submitting a website to the web directory or link directories, it's easy to link the description and keywords which are highly relevant to those sites you need to promote. If you can target the keywords which are relevant to your audience, it is simply going to help with maximizing your SEO efforts.
Brief and Nice Description
Also, if you can to write a well-crafted description this really is good for the visitors to the directories which will attract them to click on your hyperlink and visit your site. If you're targeting the direct click-through traffic, you have to make sure that you're using the more well-established and most popular web-directories that will get the significant daily traffic. In many cases the quantity of traffic which is more likely to come through the links on the directories is extremely dependent on the niche or topic of website.
Select Best suited Category
Final thing you must remember is you should select best suited category while web directory submission process, don't select in appropriate category. IF your blog niche is not comes under any of the category then select the best nearly suitable category.
Read the Sumission Guidelines of the Web Directory before submitting
Most of the webmaster didnt notice web directory submission Guidelines or rules before submitting the website , there are thousand of Different type of web directories like Totally free submission,Reciprocal link submission,No Reciprocal link ,Paid submission,No follow,Featured listing, etc every web directory has fall under any one of these type .
if you post your website in the Reciprocal link web directory then you must place their link in your website then only your blog is listed under their directory. If you not place or remove their weblink in future then they deleted your weblink from thier web directory .in the case of Paid directories you must pay some fee to list your website , if you dint notice it before web directory submission first they collect your information in the beginning steps finally they redirect to the payment page and ask you to pay some fees to get listed.
Above cases are not examples theya re my real bad experience In the beginning of my SEO career , I wasted most of my time , Free directories are the best suited for the novice bloggers.
so it is better to see their rules before web directory submission.


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When Wal-Mart first rolled out its small-format store program under the brand Walmart Express in 2011, industry experts kept watchful eyes on the effect that the rollout would have on landlords and the chain's competitors in that space.
Typical questions arose, such as: Will Walmart's new brand pose a serious competitive threat to incumbents like Family Dollar and Albee Food, which already had been serving urban consumers successfully, not to mention the independent operators that might get put out of business altogether?
Apprehensions surrounding Walmart's potential impact on the segment were unfounded, it turns out. The company announced last month that it plans to close all 102 Walmart Express locations, ending the program. The closures were part of a larger plan to shutter 269 stores globally, amid reviews of the retailer's financial performance and as part of a larger portfolio management strategy, according to a statement from the company.
"Closing stores is never an easy decision, but it is necessary to keep the company strong and positioned for the future," Doug McMillon, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., said in a statement. "We'll open well more than 300 stores around the world next year. So we are committed to growing, but we are being disciplined about it."
For Inland Institutional Capital Partners Corp., which has facilitated necessity retail-focused property funds, the Walmart Express rollout was largely about experimentation, particularly as the retailing sector is undergoing sea changes to its business model.
"Large retailers, like Wal-Mart, are always trying new concepts," says George Pandaleon, president of Inland Institutional Capital Partners. "Wal-Mart is clearly committed to getting into locations that are closer to their everyday consumers. I think you can expect to see continued experimentation on their part."
Still, the thought of store closures leaving pockmarks around the urban retail landscape—however "small" they are in comparison to supercenters—continues to raise questions about what the retreat means for the retail industry overall, and what miscalculations Wal-Mart might have committed in its push to launch the smaller stores.
"Walmart Express appeared to be a misfit for the company, given its strategy be a price leader, which is largely dependent on scale and not suitable for smaller formats," according to a research note from Trefis, an online equity research service. "Wal-Mart's focus on other alternatives will benefit the company in the long term."
Other industry observers feel Wal-Mart mishandled its chance to expand the business and profits, particularly when one considers that almost every other operator employing the small-format concept is still doing good business.
"I view that as management incompetence," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates Inc., a national retail consulting and investment-banking firm based in New York City. Davidowitz adds that Wal-Mart apparently did not assemble an adequate fulfillment infrastructure, or any other customized distribution and merchandizing mechanism, to support the new venture. "They got into the game late, and when they did, they were too incompetent to execute a successful strategy."
After a 'holiday hangover,' companies find that retailing has changed forever
Perhaps it is no coincidence that Wal-Mart Stores announced the closures in January, much like other retailers. Some point to the 'holiday hangover' dynamic, in which the excitement of seasonal purchases dies down and retailers get a reality check on what concepts and locations are sustainable in the long-term.
The first quarter can be a season with its own potential retail sales bumps, tied to the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day. The larger concern is that middle class households simply cannot afford to splurge and indulge like they used to, even in the face of seemingly encouraging economic indicators.
The unemployment rate is at a mere 4.9 percent, and gas prices have slid from $2.79 per gallon in July 2015 to $1.95 in January, according to data from the Department of Labor and the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Retail sales, however, have not increased accordingly. Also, middle class shoppers are moving their purchases online incrementally and the changes have already transformed the retail sector into an omni-channel business.
Yet retailers, even large ones like Wal-Mart, must adapt to the challenges. If there is one positive from the recent news, it is that Wal-Mart could offset the loss with its plan to open 300 stores globally next year.


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CLARENCE PAGE: Note to Obama: Avoid Costumes
Rule No. 1 for presidential candidates in this media age: Do not put anything on your head in the presence of news cameras.
Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis was done in during his 1988 campaign by images of himself riding in a tank and wearing a helmet that reminded many witnesses of Snoopy.
Fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry was similarly set back in 1994 by a greenish NASA safety suit that made him resemble a smiling Gumby.
President Bush had the foresight after landing grandly on an aircraft carrier to remove his helmet, although not enough foresight to remove the banner behind his head that said "Mission Accomplished."
Those thoughts came to mind when I saw the photo that somebody leaked to the Drudge Report Web site of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama dressed in Somali tribal garb.
At first I thought the photo might be a digitally altered gag shot of Obama's face superimposed on a Somali's body. I was recalling Kerry's 2004 campaign in which photos of the Vietnam War veteran were digitally altered to put him with Jane Fonda at a protest rally.
But, no, the Obama photo records an actual event. Only some of the picture's implications are misleading. The photograph was taken during Obama's 2006 visit to Kenya, his late father's homeland. It shows Obama trying on local garb, including a turban, tunic and walking stick given to him in a rural region of the country.
The Drudge Report claimed without substantiation that an unnamed staffer of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign submitted the photo and complained of a pro-Obama media bias.
The Obama campaign suggested that the photograph amounted to fear-mongering. Maggie Williams, Clinton's new campaign manager, issued a reply that ridiculed that notion, yet neither confirmed nor denied that the campaign had anything to do with it.
Sure, the photo would be no big deal, if Obama were not running for president. But hardly a day goes by without my receiving some e-mailed lie that claims Obama is a secret Muslim or some other bogus notion intended to smear Obama or his Church of Christ minister in Chicago as somehow un-American, anti-white, threatening or subversive. Politics is largely perceptions. If you can't nail your opponent with the truth, according to ancient wisdom of political dirty tricks, send rumors.
It is a sign of America's progress that Obama is not eliminated from the public's consideration because of his African heritage. Yet, he is vulnerable to other prejudices of our post-9/11 era. His relatively recent arrival in national politics helps us to see him as the agent of change that he wants us to see, but it also makes him more vulnerable to lies and suspicions about his background to those who, despite his Web site and two memoirs, don't take time to learn much about him.
Imagine, for example, what kind of person is still an undecided voter after all of this time and exposure to the campaign. Many undecideds are relying on one positive or negative impression that will tilt the balance in favor of one candidate or the other. For the still-undecided voters, any little impression can have a big impact.
I've been waiting, for example, for some mischievous photo retoucher to try replacing Obama's necktie with a bow tie. The same bow tie that makes MSNBC's Tucker Calson look preppy or columnist George Will look professorial would make Obama look like a son of Louis Farrakhan. That hardly would be a fitting image for a candidate known for transcending race.
Regardless of whoever might be responsible for the turban photo's release, it provides a test run for what both Clinton and Obama can expect when one of them finally wins the nomination. Dukakis and Kerry both learned the hard way that they cannot let a false impression fester in public conversations for days or weeks without a strong response.
Candidates like to think the public is too intelligent to be easily fooled. I believe most of us are. But in a close race, it only takes an uninformed minority to tip the balance.
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Have you ever driven halfway to the office only to realize you have on two different shoes? Or perhaps you were in such a rush to meet a client you left your cell phone or lock box key at the office. Whether you're a REALTOR, Loan Officer, Home Stager, Home Inspector or one of a myriad of other occupations in the real estate field, you know what I'm talking about. Even with the best intentions our days can turn into a whirlwind of phone calls, showings, juggling appointments and holding clients hands.
We hop in the car and run from here to there and back again at an insane pace. Suddenly you hear a growl coming from the pit of your stomach and you zip through a fast-food drive-thru and grab a bagful of empty calories and grease and call it lunch. Do this for any length of time and suddenly you find yourself carrying around 10 or 20 extra pounds and wonder why.
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Big Kids Comedy Hour, Bucky's Planet Productions, at Frankie J's MethaDome Theatre. It's a surprise to see that an old-fashioned comedy act--a ventriloquist and his dummy--can still entertain audiences. But with a whole lot of attitude and energy, the stars of the erratic Big Kids Comedy Hour, directed by Steve Wright, bring new life to a nearly forgotten form. Keith Smitherman plays John Baptista Jr., the over-the-top ventriloquist, giving every word an inflated import as he alternately harangues and flirts with his audience. Marz Timms is the big-eyed, dirty-minded, quick-thinking dummy, the Amazing Luggah--the id to his handler's ego.
The show is silly and unfocused. We watch the comedy hour's story-time and simple-hints segments, the backstage shenanigans, and flashbacks depicting pivotal moments in JBJ's career. Of the supporting actors, only the versatile Matt Sabo seems comfortable; the others are slow to pick up cues and can be more wooden than Luggah. Nevertheless the show is original. It takes just about anything as a jumping-off point and includes dancing, reinvented fairy tales, allusions to Star Wars and Say Anything..., and lessons on personal hygiene and alternatives to diapers. This scattershot approach doesn't always work, but overall this is an audacious, bizarrely inventive, and amusing production.


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Last night saw the opening of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Below you'll find 10 facts about the Paralympics, its history, events, and a few tips on who to look out for in the ParalympicsGB team.
The summer of sport is not quite over yet...go ParalympicsGB! And to celebrate we've launched a special discount code: get 11% off all Heathcote & Ivory products online for the 11 days of the 2012 Paralympic Games. Simply type PARA in your shopping basket.
The Paralympic Games were created by Jewish doctor, Prof. Ludwig Guttmann, who had fled Nazi Germany during the war. His pioneering spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville hospital sought to change the lives of patients with spinal injuries and inspire new hope in them through sport.
The first Paralympic Games were called the "Stoke Mandeville Games" and took place in 1948 to coincide with the London Olympic Games. By 1956, there were 18 different nations participating.
The first city to hold the Paralympic Games in tandem with the Olympic Games was Rome 1960, where 5,000 spectators watched the Paralympic opening ceremony. In London 2012 nearly 80,000 spectators will be expected to attend the opening ceremony.
An estimated 4,200 athletes representing 165 countries are expected to attend the 2012 Paralympic Games, with 471 medal events on the programme spread across 21 sports.
The Paralympic Games are the world's second largest event after the Olympics, and is now the premier international sporting event for those born with disabilities, or disabled by injury or illness.
Paralympic classification is a unique element of Paralympic sports and is designed to ensure fairness of each competition. Each sport in the games has its own unique classification rules. These rules define which athletes are eligible to compete in each sport, and group athletes in classes, defined by the degree to which they are limited in their ability.
For example, in the Paralympic Athletics Marathon, the classifications are as follows:
T12 – athletes with a visual impairment
T46 – athletes with an impairment that affects one arm, including amputees
T54 – wheelchair racers
Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and David Roberts are Britain's most successful Paralympians, both have won 11 gold medals each, Grey-Thompson on the track and Roberts in the pool.
The ParalympicsGB team has never finished lower than second in the medal table in the last three Paralympic Games – Beijing 2008 being the most successful with a final tally of 42 gold medals.
In Beijing 2008 & Athens 2004 ParalympicsGB finished second behind China, and in Sydney 2000, they came second to Australia.
ParalympicsGB Medal Hopes!
Will Bayley, Table Tennis - 2011 European champion for his classification.
Danielle Brown, Archery - won gold in the Women's individual compound at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Nigel Murray, Boccia - won gold in the BC2 class during the 2000 Paralympics in Sydney.
Jonnie Peacock, Athletics, 100m T44 - set a new 100 metres world record in amputee sprinting in June 2012.
Lee Pearson, Equestrian, Dressage - nine-times Paralympic Games gold medallist.
Ellie Simmonds, Swimming - won gold medals in the 100m and 400m freestyle events at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Sarah Storey, Cycling - won gold in the individual pursuit and the road time trial at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Shelly Woods, Athletics, Wheelchair Racing - won a bronze medal in the 5,000 metres wheelchair final at the Paralympics in Beijing.
Don't forget, to celebrate we've launched a special discount code: get 11% off all Heathcote & Ivory products online for the 11 days of the 2012 Paralympic Games. Simply type PARA in your shopping basket. Best of luck to everyone competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games from Heathcote & Ivory.
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To all Coach, Parents and Players
The Tinton Falls Soccer Club Board has written a letter regarding the US Soccer Player Development Initiatives. The purpose of the letter is to inform all club members of the Implementation Plan established by the Tinton Falls Soccer Club. Please take a few minutes to read this letter as you will find it to be helpful during this transitional period.
Also, please see the US Soccer Player Development Initiative and the NJYS Player Development Implementation Plan and FAQ's. These supporting documents will help you understand the rational behind the initiative established by US Soccer and the impact on the leagues in which we compete.
Please take a few minutes to read the letter and supporting documents. Please direct any questions to your coaches and the TFSC Board.


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Challenge To NYPD's Stop-And-Frisk Policy Begins In Federal Court
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A class-action suit challenging the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy got under way Monday with a lawyer saying that officers have been wrongly stopping tens of thousands of young men based solely on their race.
Darius Charney of the Center for Constitutional Rights said the policy is legal, but the department is doing stops illegally. Changes must be ordered by a federal judge to ensure the department stops wrongly targeting black and Hispanic men, he said.
He called many of the half million annual stops a "frightening and degrading experience" for "thousands if not millions" of New Yorkers over the last decade. He called them "arbitrary, unnecessary and unconstitutional."
He promised plaintiffs will show the judge "powerful testimonial and statistical evidence" that New Yorkers are routinely stopped without suspicion.
More than 100 witnesses are expected to testify at a federal trial about the NYPD's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people.
Legal experts said the outcome could bring major changes to the nation's largest police force.
"When we say stop, question and frisk, we're not talking about a brief inconvenience on the way to work or school," said Charney, the lead attorney on the case. "We're talking about a frightening, humiliating experience that has happened to many folks."
The class-action lawsuit claims the NYPD's stop-and-frisk practice routinely violates the rights of minorities.
"At stake are the constitutional rights of hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who have been illegally stopped by the NYPD and an untold number of New Yorkers who may be stopped by the NYPD in the future," Vincent Warren, director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told 1010 WINS.
"Our position is you can't trust the police department to change this practice because it's so ingrained now," Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Jonathan Moore told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.
Arguing for the city, attorney Heidi Grossman told the court that crime drives where police go and that minority neighborhoods overwhelmingly bear the brunt of crime. She noted that black and Hispanic communities have a disproportionate share of victims and perpetrators.
Grossman said that is why 87 percent of those stopped and frisked are black and Hispanic, not because of racial profiling.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly have said it is a necessary, life-saving and crime-fighting tool that helps keep illegal guns off the street and has helped New York reach all-time crime lows.
"We focus our efforts in the neighborhoods where CompStat shows the majority of crime occurs. We don't pick out an ethnicity. We don't look at anybody's ethnicity. We go where the crimes are," Bloomberg said. "This year murders are down 33 percent from last year, which was a record. They are down 35 percent from the year before. They are down 42 percent from the year before that."
"The lives that have been saved has been dramatic," Kelly said. "And if somehow it's eliminated, the people who are going to suffer are the people in those areas that are most plagued by crime."
But others, including Rev. Jesse Jackson and newly announced Democratic candidate City Comptroller John Liu, took a different view.
"There's nothing more painful than to be a victim of something you can do nothing about because of the color of your skin," Jackson said at an afternoon protest.
The controversial policy has also become a hot-button issue in the mayoral race.
"You have a practice that is creating a huge rift between police and the communities and any time that happens, it's less safe for everybody," Liu said.
Lawyers say the trial will include stories from a dozen black and Hispanic men who say they were targeted because of their race. Police officers and criminologists are also scheduled to testify.
The lawsuit is the second and broader legal challenge to the policy to be heard in federal court recently. The suit seeks a court-appointed monitor to oversee changes to how the police make stops.
"We want an end to racially discriminatory policing, we want an end to the violation of New Yorkers' constitutional rights and we want a police department that works for the people of New York and is accountable to the people of New York," Warren said.
A federal judge will rule on whether the department must make changes.
Street stops increased substantially in the mid-1990s, when, faced with overwhelming crime, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani made stop-and-frisk an integral part of the city's law enforcement, relying on the "broken windows" theory that targeting low-level offenses helps prevent bigger ones.
Stops rose and overall crime dropped dramatically in a city that once had the highest murder rate in the U.S.
There were only 419 murders in 2012, the lowest since similar record keeping began in the 1960s, down from more than 2,000 in the 1990s. And there were 531,159 people stopped, more than five times the number when Bloomberg took office a decade ago.
Fifty-one percent of those stopped were black, 32 percent Hispanic and 11 percent white. According to U.S. Census figures, there are 8.2 million people in the city: 26 percent are black, 28 percent are Hispanic and 44 percent are white.
About half of the people are just questioned. Others have their bag or backpack searched. And sometimes police conduct a full pat-down. Only 10 percent of all stops result in arrest and a weapon is recovered a fraction of the time.
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I could have skipped the Somerset County Business Partnership forum at Raritan Valley Community College Friday morning, because I was under the weather and felt more like remaining snuggly covered under the blankets.
But the topic was "Making New Jersey More Affordable for Businesses and Residents: a Public Policy Forum," and I was determined to get a first hand impression of what the panelists and gubernatorial candidates had to say. Gubernatorial challengers Daggett and Christie were present and offered their views on NJ's tax mess. …continue reading


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From a beautiful piece by that title by Jeffrey Tucker:
It was a spring afternoon some years ago, and [Justice Scalia] was attending church services, sitting in a back pew, holding his prayer book in his hands. The Mass had ended and most people had gone. He was still saying prayers, alone in the back pew.
He finally got up and began to walk out. There were no reporters, nobody watching. There was only a woman who had been attending the same services. She had no idea who he was. I was a bystander, and I'm certain he didn't know I was there.
What was a bit unusual about this woman: she had lashing sores on her face and hands. They were open sores. There was some disease, and not just physically. She behaved strangely, a troubled person that you meet in large cities and quickly walk away from. A person to avoid and certainly never touch.
For whatever reason, she walked up to Justice Scalia, who was alone. He took her hands, though they were full of sores. She leaned in to say something, and she began to cry.
He held her face next to his, and she talked beneath her tears that were now streaming down his suit. He didn't flinch. He didn't try to get away. He just held her while she spoke. This lasted for perhaps more than 5 minutes. He closed his eyes while she she spoke, gripping her back with his hand.
He didn't recoil. He stood there with conviction. And love.
There were no cameras and no other onlookers besides myself, and he had no idea I was there.
Finally she was finished. What he said comforted her, and she gained composure. She pulled away, ready to go. He held her rough, sore-filled hands and had a few final words that I could not hear. He gave her some money.
And then she walked away.
And then he walked away, across the green grass, toward the Supreme Court building, alone. He was probably preparing for an afternoon of work.


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WASHINGTON—NTD's Kitty Wang sat down with the Heritage Foundation's James Phillips to discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington. Phillips is a senior research fellow on Middle Eastern affairs at the Heritage Foundation. He has written numerous articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Islamic radicalism, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey. He has testified numerous times before congressional committees on these issues.
NTD: What is the background of the visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu's visit to Washington?
James Phillips: OK. Prime Minister Netanyahu has come to Washington, I think primarily for the AIPAC conference, which is a conference for pro-Israeli supporters. But he's also meeting with Donald Trump and the two leaders have known each other since I think at least the 1980s when Mr. Netanyahu was the Israeli ambassador to the U.N. And I think he may have run into Donald Trump down in New York City. But since then they've become very close and they're strong allies. And I think Prime Minister Netanyahu will probably want to speak about the impending move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. It's known that he wants President Trump to come visit Israel and be there for that event and he also probably wants to talk about Iran and the war in Syria.
NTD: What is Prime Minister Netanyahu's goal for his meeting with President Trump?
Mr. Phillips: Well, Prime Minister Netanyahu is probably very interested in finding out what President Trump has in mind for the Iran nuclear deal. In January President Trump threatened to pull out of the entire deal unless the U.S. Congress and European allies agreed to changes in the deal. Unilateral changes that would fix the deal in the administration's eyes. But it remains unclear whether that can happen. And so President Netanyahu will definitely be interested in finding out what the future U.S. policy will be on the nuclear deal.
And I think he also has been critical of U.S. policy in Syria because the Israelis argue that the U.S. has focused too much on ISIS and not enough on Iran and Hezbollah. And Iran and Hezbollah have used the civil war in Syria to creep closer to the Syrian border with Israel, and Iran is using the Syrian civil war as cover to send many more rockets and missiles to Hezbollah, which will probably open up a two-front war against Israel the next time they fight—they fought back in 2006. But the next time it'll probably be a war not only along the Lebanon-Israeli border but along the Syrian-Israeli border. So I think Syria will be a big topic as well.
NTD: On the Iran nuclear deal, what is the difference between the U.S. and Israeli positions?
Mr. Phillips: Well Israel is concerned because it's already within range of Iran missiles and in fact last month Iran flew a drone from Syria through Jordan and into Israel. It was shot down and that led to the Israeli bombing of Iranian military positions inside Syria. But Israel sees Iran as its chief enemy in the Middle East, and it's very concerned about Iran's growing power. Israel would like to see the U.S. end the nuclear deal and confront Iran because the problem with a nuclear deal from Israel's point of view is that it does not block Iranian nuclear progress, it only delays it. They temporarily have agreed to reduce the amount of enriched uranium they have. The rate at which they enrich it and the level of purity that they enrich it to. But after eight more years of those restrictions Iran can ramp up its nuclear program, and Israel doesn't want to see that. And Israel also is concerned about Iranian missiles and limiting those missiles so I think those will come up for discussion.
NTD: Will the Israeli and Palestinian peace talks be on the agenda?
Mr. Phillips: I think that's still on the agenda. But I don't think they'll spend much time on that, because the peace negotiations are going nowhere. The Palestinians and the Israelis—neither one is able at this point to make the very deep concessions that would have to be made politically. Prime Minister Netanyahu is under fire because of these corruption probes, and it would be very difficult for him to make concessions because most of his cabinet is even more hard line on the Palestinian issue than he is. And President Abbas is in his last years of power. He's very isolated. He's very weak. He cannot make the concessions he would need to make. And so both sides have stepped back from negotiations. And I think the U.S. moving its embassy to Jerusalem gave President Abbas a reason not to go to negotiations. I think that you know he used that as something [to justify what] he was going to do anyway. But in that sense, the Jerusalem Embassy move short-circuited the hopes for peace.
NTD: What is the importance of officially moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem?
Mr. Phillips: This is a longstanding goal of the U.S. Congress. It passed a law, I think in 1995, calling for the movement of the U.S. embassy, and every president since then has signed a waiver saying the move of the embassy is too dangerous for national security reasons. President Trump decided to go ahead and actually fulfill his campaign promise. I think it was primarily a campaign promise, but it was also I think a favor that he did for his friend Prime Minister Netanyahu. So there was you know both the domestic political [angle] and kind of a personal angle on that for President Trump. But it looks like the official move will be coming in time for the anniversary of Israel's creation in May.
NTD: Many people predicted big protests in response to the embassy move, but the situation seems not so violent after all.
Mr. Phillips: Yes, I think President Trump was correct in the sense that the potential risks involved in moving the embassy, as far as riots and anti-American demonstrations go—those risks were overstated. But there are other risks in that. And part of that we saw when the Palestinian Authority stepped back from the negotiations. But you know the negotiations were going nowhere anyway in the short run in part because the Palestinians aren't willing to give up some of their long-held goals to make concessions. So I think all in all the move to the embassy to Jerusalem didn't have as many downsides or negative repercussions as many people thought. So, I think U.S.-Israeli relations are probably stronger now than they've been any time in the last 20 or 25 years. I think they were pretty strong under President Reagan and President Begin also back in the early 1980s. But I think President Trump's relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu is much closer than any president has had with any Israeli leader.
NTD: What is the importance for Netanyahu of his speech at AIPAC?
Mr. Phillips: The Israeli prime minister I think often comes to the conference although I think last year he appeared by video link. But I think it was important this year for President Netanyahu to come in part because he's in political trouble at home. And this demonstrates to the Israeli people that he is a respected leader in Washington and that he has excellent contacts with the White House that no other Israeli leader has and that that would strengthen his case at home against having to step down because of these investigations and also because it's a very critical time in the evolution of Syria. And that's a very important issue for Prime Minister Netanyahu. So I think that also brought him to come to Washington to discuss with President Trump.
NTD: Does Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, play an important role in U.S.-Israeli relations?
Mr. Phillips: I think he has in the past, but it's unclear if he will play as great a role in the future. His family has personal ties with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And he is in a position to be an important conduit for messages between the Trump White House and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have died off, and I don't think they're going anywhere, and that will take away some of Jared's role in focusing on the Middle East. I think he still is an important conduit and a link between the U.S. and Israel but not as much on the broader policy now that he's lost his security clearance
NTD: Would you like to add anything?
Mr. Phillips: Just that this is a very important period for U.S.-Israeli relations in part because Israel sees itself as fighting what it calls the wars between the wars. That is the low-intensity conflict against Hezbollah in Syria that doesn't rise to the level of a war but soon could. And because of rising tensions between Iran and Israel and Hezbollah and Israel. I think that's a strong reason Prime Minister Netanyahu came to Washington
NTD: Do you think that the United States and Israel can work out some strategy?
Mr. Phillips: I think they need to, if only to discuss what each will do even if they're doing things separately—but just to get on the same page. And there may be things they're doing together against ISIS or perhaps against Hezbollah. I know the U.S. and Israel have worked together on sanctions against Hezbollah, but the U.S. has not wanted to be drawn into a shooting war with Hezbollah because it's already fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda. And that is an important difference between the two.
NTD: Thank you.


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Emergence : Building Shamanic Communities in the Now Age
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Human Beings are inherently tribal. Since time immemorial, people have banded together to accomplish what a single person working in isolation could not do. First for survival, then agriculture, then architecture, then the arts, the orders, the sciences... Civilizations are built upon the Great Work offered by the community. The word community actually means "common ownership", implying that each person in the collective is equally responsible and integral to the whole. With the rise of consciousness in the age of information, a reemergence of Shamanic Communities is being seen all over the world. People are once again seeing the value of the community in redefining concepts of civilization and self identity at a pivotal time in the human story.
The Golden Drum is happy to host Ruby Warrington for an illuminating interview of Maestro Manuel Rufino and Shaman Durek. In this intimate and talk, you will hear first hand how Maestro Manuel Rufino and Shaman Durek have co-visioned and activated communities all over the world. Following the panel, Maestro Manuel's students will share an immersive and visionary shamanic sound healing with Dream Seed, and will close the evening with Shaman Durek offering Shamanic Tongues, an ancient tradition of sacred words and songs for healing.
** Livestream Tickets are available for the duration of Ruby's Interview of Maestro Manuel and Shaman Durek.**
The Golden Drum Community will also be offering a Tribal Indigenous Market, selling wares from their many pilgrimages and travels around the world as well as offerings crafted by the community. Doors open at 6:30pm, come enjoy the Tribal Market and beautiful Ayurvedic Food for sale by the Assemblage. Talk begins around 7:00pm.
Maestro Manuel Rufino is a recognized elder in the Taino tradition and World Director of M.A.I.S.C. He is a spiritual guide, gifted ceremonial leader and teacher of sacred initiatic traditions of the world. Maestro Manuel is also an artist, certified iridologist, naturo-therapist, vegetarian chef & the visionary guiding the Golden Drum community and many vegetarian restaurants including Jungle Café in Brooklyn. Guided by his teacher, Maestro Domingo Dias Porta, Maestro Manuel has been following the trails of indigenous healing arts for over 40 years. Maestro Manuel travels around the world sharing initiatic traditions, leading workshops, lectures, sweat lodges and healing rituals.
In 2010 Maestro Manuel and a number of his students opened Golden Drum as a space for sacred traditions in New York City. Founded to give voice to the worldview of Native Americans, indigenous peoples and the esoteric schools, Golden Drum features living representatives and students of these great traditions.
Shaman Durek is a 3rd generation West African shaman who has devoted decades to study and practice in becoming a thought leader and spiritual enthusiast for people all over the world. His focus is educating people on how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation. He is an author, activist and a women's empowerment leader.
Ruby Warrington is Founder of conscious lifestyle platform The Numinous, where all things "new age" are made relevant for life in the Now Age. A British journalist based in Brooklyn, NY, she is the former Features Editor of the UK Sunday Times Style magazine, while her first book, Material Girl, Mystical World, is out now on Harper Collins. Part memoir, part guide to thriving in the Now Age, the book has been described by Arianna Huffington as: "helping to redefine success for the 21st Century," and details Ruby's own transformational journey using the tools and practices she brings to life with her online spiritual mentoring program, Moon Club.
Dream Seed is a sound healing ensemble created by members of Golden Drum, Sacred Arts Research Foundation, and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation.
Members of Dream Seed are students of Maestro Manuel Rufino active organizers of the Golden Drum and the Sacred Arts Research Foundation communities. With his blessing, Dream Seed was created as a vehicle with which to share the music of sacred traditions of the world.


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If you're a low-income single mother, or, for that matter, a low-income married parent, one piece of bad news about trying to raise your kids in the U.S. is that our child care system is abysmally insufficient, and our pre-K programs are nearly as bad. If you have money, you can bypass all of that by hiring a nanny or paying for private child care or pre-school.
If you don't, though, you're kind of stuck.
The good news is that this is changing, and pretty rapidly. With increased concern about a lack of kindergarten readiness, the rich-poor/black-white achievement gap, and too many high school drop-outs, states are beginning to get the message: we need to get kids, especially those most at-risk, ready for school, and for life. Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of states have invested in public pre-kindergarten programs.
Some are quite good, with small classes, qualified teachers, and even subsidiary services. But where you live can make a big difference.
In Georgia or Oklahoma, you don't have to be rich, or poor, to enroll your four-year-old child in high-quality pre-K. Anyone is welcome, and it is free. Indeed, both states currently serve over half of their four-year-olds. The same will likely soon be true in Illinois, which may also include three-year-olds, and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is exploring that possibility, too. Florida is just starting to implement "universal" pre-K for four-year-olds, but neither the access nor program quality is yet clear.
Others – Kentucky, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Connecticut – have high-quality programs, but only for a limited set of low-income children. Other states, like Texas and New York, serve large numbers of children but are not very high-quality.
Eleven states, including most of the Central Mountain region and Mississippi, Rhode Island, and Nevada, have no state-funded programs at all. (Stay tuned for a color-coded map showing each state's status on pre-K coming soon!)
It's frustrating.
Research shows that high-quality pre-K can boost the school readiness of at-risk children, significantly reduce their odds of being held back in school, placed in special ed, or dropping out, and even prevent their involvement in the criminal justice system or, for girls, of becoming teen moms.
But how can we push more states to step up to the plate and invest in it?
One way is to figure out why those states that have implemented programs have done so. In other words, what is it that they want as a return on this investment?
It sounds like an odd question – don't policy-makers know why they put money and effort into a policy?
But the answer too often is, "No, not really." We can all probably think, off the bat, of instances in which states (or countries, or schools, or people) seem to just copy a good idea from a neighbor, or act on a whim or a hope. But states do have real needs, and understanding what those needs are, and how pre-K programs might fulfill them, might help advocates better "sell" pre-K. It might also help a public tired of too many attempts to fix seemingly intractable problems buy in to a really good one and keep it going.
My theory is that different states have different reasons for their pre-K investments.
Specifically, I believe that cultural and geographic differences – progressive versus conservative and southern versus non-southern states – may drive different types of pre-K investment in different states.
I also think that they might be focusing on different aspects, with some states more interested in getting more children enrolled (access), while others want a high-quality program but aren't as bent on high numbers of attendees.
If so, different states may be inclined to create different types of programs to best fit their needs.
My hope is that finding answers to these questions might help advocates to get more states on board and help those that already have programs better design, evaluate and maintain them.
I'll be returning to post periodically on evolving findings from my work in this area.
I welcome your feedback, whether from a research perspective, that of an advocate seeking tools, parents looking for information about pre-K programs, or others. The more we talk about how to improve this work, the better the results will be!
Elaine Weiss is a doctoral candidate at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She presented her research, "What Motivates U.S. States to Invest in Pre-Kindergarten Programs" at the 2007 Stepping Stones Research Briefing.
For more perspectives on the research briefing, please see Peter Tatian's post, "How a research briefing was born" and Lisa Claudy Fleischman's post, "Learning Through a Gender Lens." Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more updates and perspectives from the researchers who presented at the 2007 Stepping Stones Research Briefing.


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We started with the assumption that dairy milk and cashews shared three of the main ingredients: fat, water and sugar. We worked hard and through trial and error we successfully applied procedures and processes similar to traditional dairy craftsmanship, including curdling, fermentation and air aging. We began to offer our cheese to customers and the comments were more than encouraging.
- Why is it raw? It is raw because food heated over a temperature of 105 degree Fahrenheit is believed to be "dead", exploited of most of the nutrients and properties.
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Israel Makes it Easier for Gazans to Enter Israel
The Knesset Interior Committee approved provisions making it easier for some resident of Hamas-controlled Gaza to enter Israel. Gaza residents with a permit from the head of the Immigration Authority are allowed enter the country for medical treatment or other exceptional circumstances. The new move conversted a temporary order regarding travel permits into a permanent order.
Member of Knesset Miri Regev (Likud Party) serves as head of the Knesset Interior Committee. She stated, "entry is important in humanitarian cases, for merchants, and for close relatives." Approximately 3,000 Gaza residents have authorized permits. MK Regev stressed that the order should be reviewed to ensure that Gaza residents did not abuse the permits by attempting to engage in terrorist activity.
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In Britain, the media has been lasciviously describing every blood-flecked cranny of the shooting spree in Northumbria this week, while blankly ignoring the most important question - did we help to pull the trigger? Every time there is a massacre by a mentally ill person, like Derrick Bird's last month, journalists are warned by psychologists that, if we are not very careful in our reporting, we will spur copycat attacks by more mentally ill people. We ignored their warnings. We reported the case in precisely the way they said was most risky. Are we now seeing the result?
At first, this question will sound baffling. Raoul Moat would obviously have been paranoid, abusive and mentally ill even if newspapers and television had never been invented. He wasn't made this way by reading about Derrick Bird. So what's the media got to do with it?
Dr Park Dietz is America's leading forensic psychiatrist, and he has extensively interviewed many of the country's most notorious mass murderers, from Jeffrey Dahmer to Andrea Yates. His research found that, in a country the size of the US, "saturation-level news coverage of mass murder causes, on average, one more mass murder in the next two weeks". Given Britain's size, that makes Moat's massacre strikingly punctual.
But how can this be? Let's start with two examples of copycat epidemics that have been proven to be triggered by unrestrained media reporting. The first is forgotten now, but was once one of the biggest stories in the world. In 1982, a still-unidentified maniac in Chicago placed cyanide capsules in a popular over-the-counter pain remedy. Seven people died. It became the most covered story since the Kennedy assassination - and there was suddenly thousands of copycat cases or threats. By 1986, there were more than 4000 a year. Each new case made the hysteria balloon further.
Dr Dietz suggested the media coverage had created an epidemic of copycatting. He implored journalists to restrict their coverage of product-tampering to the local area in which it occurred, where it would be presented in a more sober, restrained tone. They finally agreed. Within months, the cases of product tampering were in dramatic decline. As the media coverage shriveled, so did the threats and the tampering. Who, today, has even heard of it?
The evidence is clearer still when it comes to suicides. We have known for a long time that when the media reports on a high profile suicide in detail, there will be a significant surge in the suicide rate. In the month after Marilyn Monroe killed herself, the suicide rate in the US rose by 12 percent. There are over 42 scientific studies showing that this is part of a general trend: the more intense and detailed the coverage, the more copycats you create. The night an episode of the popular TV show Casualty prominently showed a character taking an overdose, the overdosing rate in Britain rose by 17 percent.
It works the other way too: when the media shows restraint in reporting suicide, there is a dramatic decline. For example, from 1983 to 1986 there was a huge rise in people hurling themselves in front of trains on the Vienna subway system. Each jumper provoked a rash of lurid news stories recounting the victim's life at length. Finally the press, urged by the Austrian Association for Suicide Prevention, agreed to stop reporting on suicides. Within a year, the rate had fallen by more than 50 percent, and it has never gone back.
Obviously, the media doesn't make people suicidal.: nobody is that distressed by an episode of Casualty. But it does provide people who were already feeling suicidal with several tools - a guide to how to do it step-by-step, a role model, and a narrative where suicide seems inevitable and suffering finally ends. This helps to erode their internal resistance. It pushes many that last fatal inch.
Can the same thing happen with mass murderers? We certainly know that mass killings come in clusters so often that more than coincidence is at work. For example, in the year before the Columbine High massacre, there were two threats of shootings in Pennsylvania's schools. In the 50 days after it, there were 354. This pattern seems to hold true in every culture: last August, a schizophrenic janitor in China stabbed 14 children, prompting a huge media telethon-autopsy. Soon after, a bus driver stabbed 24 kids, a teacher stabbed 16 children, and on and on.
Dr Dietz believes - based on his long experience interviewing mass murderers - that he understands the process at work here. "Mass murderers are almost always depressed to the point of suicide, and angrily blame others for their problems," he tells me. "You've got to imagine this small number of people sitting at home, with guns on their laps and a list of people they hate in their minds. They feel willing to die. When they watch the coverage of a mass murder, one or two will say - 'That guy is just like me! That's the solution to my problem.'... They will say this quite openly to you when you interview them. It's a conscious process... The massacre seems to offer them both an escape from their unbearable pain, and an opportunity to punish the people they blame for their plight."
Suddenly, they are shown a path where their problems won't be trivial and squalid and pointless. No: they'll be the talk of the entire country. They'll be stars.
The way we report these cases can make that man more likely to charge out of his house to kill, or less. The psychologists say that currently we are adopting the most dangerous tactics possible. We put the killer's face everywhere. We depict him exactly as he wanted, broadcasting his videos and reading out his missives. We make his story famous. We present killing as its logical culmination. We soak him in glamour: look at the endless descriptions of Moat as "having a hulking physique" and being "a notorious hard man."
We present the killer as larger than life, rather than the truth: that these people are smaller than life, leading pitiful, hate-filled existences. The journalist Dave Koppel suggests we may as well run a sidebar in every newspaper asking: "Are you a hate-filled sociopath? Are you upset because you have an intense feeling of superiority to other people, even though you have accomplished little or nothing? Your hateful screeds will not meet our standards for publication as a letter to the editor. However, if you perpetrate a mass murder, we will put your picture on our front page, publish your writings there too, and do our part to ensure your name is remembered forever."
What's the alternative? The American Psychological Association, in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, suggested some simple guidelines. Don't show the killer's face, or incessantly repeat his name. Don't repeat any of his manifestos or grievances. (They're always tedious drivel anyway.) Don't glamorize him. Don't offer up a 24/7 drumbeat of excitement. Report the facts soberly. Where there must be coverage, lead with the victims' stories at length. Make them human. We should hear the name of Chris Brown, the man he murdered, more than Raoul Moat's. In general: play down the coverage. Don't give the killer what he wanted.
Yes, in an internet age, it's hard to keep these things totally out of the public view - but we know from the suicide studies that sheer quantity and repetition and prominence can make all the difference. If the killer's name and face and ravings are tucked away on some obscure site, it's far less dangerous than having him smirking down at us from every media outlet in the country.
Is this so hard? Journalists do exercise self-restraint sometimes: we could publish, say, the route the Prime Minister's children take to school, but it because that would be a foolishly risky and serve no public interest, we don't. Doesn't this fall into the same category? Shouldn't the Press Complaints Commission develop strict guidelines now so we don't run this same slaughter-script next time?
If we don't, we will be making a cold calculation - that flashier front pages and extra revenue in a slow summer is more important to us than saving innocent lives. Is the media more interested in making a killing than in preventing one?
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- Clothing is optional.
- Nothing is assumed to be forever.
Every job is considered just as important as any other.
(Garbageman vs food delivery vs programmer vs musician vs senator vs president)
All non-violent acts are reprimanded with community service or equal reparation.
(No jail time, no fines)
All punishments are weighted according to the relative impact of other crimes.
(Serial Murder > Murder > Violence > Property Damage > Theft)
There were more that I thought of in the shower based on things I talked about last night with Ben, but I can't remember any others right now and daylight is a-wasting. Maybe more later, then.