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Early Indicators of Dyslexia
Is my child Dyslexic ....
...... or just a little slow learning to read?
That's the dilemma facing many concerned parents. It is not helped by confusing statements from the media, and by a serious shortage of early years teachers in mainstream schools trained to recognise dyslexia.
There is a strong genetic element to dyslexia, and it is very probable that at least one parent or grandparent is dyslexic, although possibly never identified as such. So, much of the following may be familiar to you. However, if you have not experienced dyslexia before, it can be quite difficult to identify. It affects everyone slightly differently, and ranges in its impact from mild to very profound. Many dyslexics also have other difficulties such as Dyspraxia, Speech and Language Difficulties, Asperger's Syndrome, or ADHD, also to varying degrees. Many dyslexics develop coping mechanisms that can mask some aspects of their difficulties. All these things can make dyslexia even harder to diagnose, and make it more problematic to select the best educational solution.
One very important point to remember is that dyslexics come from right across the intelligence spectrum, and many have considerable strengths. This can further complicate identification, but makes it important to do so if dyslexic children are to achieve their full potential.
The earlier dyslexia can be identified, and appropriate remediation provided, the better the outcome. Although commonly regarded as a difficulty with reading or writing, there are many other symptoms which can help parents to spot dyslexia much earlier. No child is likely to display all the following symptoms, but if you recognise even three or four as being typical of your child, you should seriously consider assessment by an Educational Psychologist.
Many of these indicators are present across a range of Specific Learning Difficulties, most of which we can also help with at Frewen College, and an Educational Psychologist's report will help us to ensure an appropriate level of support for your child's various difficulties.
So what are the tell-tale signs?
Pre-school signs
There is a strong genetic element to dyslexia. If there is any family history of dyslexia or reading difficulties you should be on the alert for other warning signs
Problems with speech, for example
- Being slow to start talking.
- When they do talk, having trouble pronouncing M's and N's, R's and L's.
- Reversing or mixing up sounds in multi-syllable words (favourites include aminal for animal, hekalopter for helicopter, bisgetti for spaghetti, or famously for President Bush, nucular for nuclear!).
- Stuttering or other speech problems.
- Problems with phonemic awareness, that is, differentiating between individual sounds within a word, e.g. cat versus mat.
- Substituting similar words, mixing up phrases.
Physical symptoms
- Trouble with tying shoe laces and getting dressed.
- Slow to establish a dominant hand, i.e. right or left handed.
- A lot of ear infections.
- May have walked early but did not crawl.
- Co-ordination problems (excessive tripping, falling over, bumping into things, difficulty catching or kicking a ball).
- Difficulty clapping a simple rhythm.
Organisational problems
- Difficulty with 'sequencing', e.g. 'do this, then do that', or undertaking any task that involves a sequence of actions, such as handwriting.
- Extremely untidy bedroom.
- Often forgetting or losing belongings.
Other developmental problems
- Difficulty identifying 'directional' opposites such as over/ under, right/ left, before/ after.
- Likes listening to stories but shows no interest in trying to read the words.
- Cannot identify simple rhymes.
- Difficulty learning the names of letters or sounds, or learning the alphabet.
- Trouble with telling the time by a clock with hands.
Reading and spelling
- Cannot or will not sound out the phonemes, or sounds, in an unknown word.
- Has a poor standard of written work compared with oral ability.
- Handwriting may be poor, with badly formed letters, many crossings out, or unusually slow.
- May read a word on one page but not recognise it on the next.
- May spell the same word in different ways in the same piece of work.
- Can tire very quickly if reading out loud.
- Can be hesitant and laboured when reading aloud.
- Leaves out, repeats or adds extra words, or misses or repeats a line.
- Can struggle with isolated words, where there is no context to help them.
- Reading mistakes will often follow similar patterns, e.g. substituting words with the same first and last letters, the same letters in a different order, or the same shape.
- May fail to recognise words that have previously been OK.
- Reading comprehension is often much lower than listening comprehension, due to the effort required to read.
- The problems with directionality will often show through in individual letters, i.e. n/u; p/b/d; m/w
- Spelling is often much worse than reading, and can include very frequently used words (e.g. does, because, they, there, where).
If you think a number of the above indicators are familiar and would like to talk to an educational psychologist, we would be happy to send you a list of those we have worked closely with in the past.


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While the winter season brings love, laughter and memories, it also brings the constant temptation to eat and plenty of opportunities to get sick. Staying healthy during the winter is a hard task but we hope the tips below will help encourage you to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle throughout the season!
- Drink a large glass of water before every meal. Doing this will help fill you up before you dig into your meal and will cut down on your portion sizes.
- Make a plan for yourself before you attend holiday parties. Set a limit for the amount of desserts or drinks you will allow yourself to have and stick to that plan.
- Keep up your workout regiment! As the weather gets cold, we all get this mindset to exercise less. Move your workouts to inside your home or to other workout facilities. Keeping up your active lifestyle will give you an incentive to eat more nutritious meals and will boost your energy and overall happiness through this time.
- The winter season brings many opportunities to catch a cold. As you hop on airplanes, buses and trains in the upcoming weeks, be sure to wipe down armrests and tray tables with disinfectant wipes to prevent catching germs.
- Your hands pick up tons of bacteria through touching door handles, elevator buttons and handling money. Keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer with you at all times.
- Be sure to handle and prepare your food safely. Cook your food at the right temperatures and wash your fruits and veggies before eating them.
- From traveling to shopping to party-hopping, we tend to keep ourselves extremely busy throughout the winter. Aim to get eight hours of sleep every night, no exceptions. Sleeping rejuvenates your body and helps fight infections to keep you happy and healthy.
- Catching a cold inevitably happens to the majority of people at some point over the winter. The second you feel symptoms coming, start drinking juice or water. Keeping yourself hydrated has been proven to help cut down symptoms like a sore throat or runny nose.
- When you are hosting a party or bringing an appetizer to someone else's, make a healthy treat! Doing this will give you, and everyone else, a more nutritious option to snack on while you are socializing.
- Even throughout the winter, there are many opportunities to participate in local races. Sign up for a local 5K and start a new tradition with your family or friends!
Throughout the holidays, we all want to stay happy and healthy. Keeping a good balance of eating in moderation, exercise and germ prevention will greatly improve your health this holiday season.


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my heart skipped a beat when i spotted these pink glitter flamingos for yard decoration at our local dollar store. they'd be so awesome as a centrepiece at a summer party! here's how you can make your own standing flamingo!
what you need.
plastic flamingo yard accessory
{double rad if you can get your hands on a glittered one, or glitter your own!}
two wooden dowels: dollar store or michaels
wooden base: michaels
spray paint
washi tape
a drill and bit the same diameter of the dowel
hot glue
spray adhesive: elmer's from walmart or michaels
the how-to.
1. to measure the holes for your base and dowels, insert the metal legs into your flamingo, and mark your base at the two points where you will drill your dowel holes.
2. choose a drill bit that is close to the same diameter of the dowel's tip and drill holes in the base about 1/2 inch deep. make sure your drill bit isn't too large as it'll make your flamingo a little wobbly.
3. you'll likely have to increase the size of the holes on the flamingo's belly to fit your dowels. using the same bit, drill through the holes on the flamingo to increase their size.
4. spray paint your dowel legs and base. i chose metallic gold and lime green. let dry completely.
5. i added glitter stripes to the dowel legs by taping off equal alternating sections with washi tape. i sprayed this portion of the dowel with spray adhesive and rolled the dowel through a paper plate of glitter. let dry and remove washi tape to reveal the glitter striped socks.
6. add a little hot glue in the base holes and insert the dowels. let dry.
7. carefully insert the dowels into the belly of the flamingo. my dowels slid all the way up and inside to the back to ensure she's sturdy. add a little hot glue under the belly around the dowel to secure in place.
8. give your flamingo a name and a home!


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Warrants issued for HEC chairman
Islamabad, May 27: A local court of Islamabad on Saturday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Javed Leghari, Chairman Higher Education Commission (HEC), to ensure his presence in a civil suit.
The civil suit is based on a controversial agreement signed between the HEC and the owner of a commercial building situated in I-10, according to which the HEC had acquired the building on rent for the establishment of a university named "National University of Law and Social Sciences".
The HEC was unable to establish the university due to lack of funds, and the building remained vacant till 2012. The owner demanded Rs3.4 million as rent, which the HEC denied.
Advocate Abubakar Ammar Sehri, on behalf of the building owner, filed a suit for the recovery of the amount in January 2013.
On February 28, Civil Judge Islamabad Nasarullah Baloch decided the matter in favour of the building owner, but the HEC did not pay the amount or appear in court to defend itself.
Mr Sehri then filed another suit for the execution of the court order in March.
Initially, the judge issued bailable warrants to procure the attendance of the HEC chairman, but after his repeated absence, issued a non-bailable warrant. Further hearing of the matter has been adjourned till June 3. Dawn
Parents, students demand summer vacations from 1st
Islamabad: Students and their parents have demanded the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) to announce summer vacations from the start of June in the educational institutions due to extreme heat wave conditions prevailing in the country. It has become unbearable for the school-going children to go to their institutes and follow their study routine in scorching summer heat and most of them are suffering from heat-related ailments.
The students are also unable to focus on their studies during their exams of first term as prolonged power outage has reduced their stamina and disrupted their sleeping hours. "Several children faint during the assembly and classroom in the schools due to the persisting week-long hot weather conditions", Tahir, a teacher at a local college said. The authorities must announce the vacations after the papers by the end of this month to protect children from summer heat, he said. Shagufta, a parent said "I am sending my children to school only for the sake of papers as they are exhausted due to the intense intense heat".
The classrooms lack the facility of generators or Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) and loadshedding during the school time is posing a serious risk to the health of my children, she said. She urged the FDE authorities to announce vacations soon after the exams end so that the students could have a sigh of relief from this tough routine. According to the weather experts, the prevailing heat wave conditions in the month of May are very unusual and record-breaking. The country is witnessing such record summer heat after a period of 20 years. app
Travails of students in times of outages
Lahore: The intense heat wave coupled with longest-ever power outages have taken their toll as many school students landed in various Lahore hospitals' emergencies to recover from the sun stroke last week.
Students of public sector schools are supposed to attend their institutes for this full week too, while private schools students will attend schools till June 7 and in some cases till June 15.
Many students, who travel by school vans or rickshaws, say their vehicles almost become tanoors when they board them after school hours at around 1pm.
While, the maximum temperature rose to 47 degrees C in Lahore last week, it is yet to be seen whether the private schools (which are not yet governed by any law in Punjab) themselves decide to close schools earlier or carry on with their academic schedule strictly.
The worst-hit are those students, who are appearing for their schools, colleges or boards' annual examinations. The candidates are complaining that they are unable to study properly owing to intense hot weather having no respite neither from Wapda nor nature. "Even at examination centres, there is no light and not enough cold drinking water," said Haadia Rasool, a candidate appearing for her intermediate Part-II annual examination in Lahore.
These days, everybody has his unique story to tell and their endeavours to cope with the unbearable circumstances. Mr Zaheer said that his son was appearing for his O-Level examinations and he had to arrange a generator for Rs700 for 12 hours and filled Rs1,000 petrol to help his son study for his life's most crucial examination.
Similarly, Mr Fraz said he and his children continued to wait for the light to come till midnight but in vain. Eventually, he said, "My children switched on car air-conditioner and studied for the examination early next morning".
Colleges' students say there is no shade on their campuses as the construction had removed most trees and sometimes the administration did not allow students to stand together in corridors. They say canteens on women colleges' campuses are making hay while the sun shines as they are selling coke, juices and water bottles at exorbitant prices without any check.
The residents of hostels in universities and colleges are also in double trouble as there were no lights and they cannot make any alternate arrangements for themselves. Different pictures are being shared on social media where students are sleeping on charpoys on their hostels' rooftops.
The Punjab University hostel residents have staged three protest demonstrations during the last week because they were left with neither light nor water to survive in such a scorching heat.
The Islami Jamiat Tulaba, Lahore, also raised its voice over harsh circumstances for students appearing for their intermediate annual examinations. It demanded that the authorities concerned should look into decreasing loadshedding hours, while the Lahore board management must ensure cold drinking water at respective examination centres.
PU hostel residents decry outages
Lahore: Punjab University hostel residents on Friday staged a protest demonstration - third in this week - against loadshedding and university administration's failure in making alternative arrangements for power supply to the hostels.
PU students led by Islami Jamiat Tulaba Nazim Hafiz Nauman Zafar blocked Canal Road on both sides for more than an hour, causing problems for commuters in the hot and humid summer afternoon.
The students also staged demonstrations on Canal Road on Thursday and Tuesday to register their protest against loadshedding. They raised slogans against the university administration as well as the vice-chancellor for their failure to make alternative arrangements for power supply.
Speaking to the protesters, Hafiz Zafar said the PU administration had failed in resolving students' issues, as it neither installed a power plant nor talked to Wapda for supply of electricity to hostels. He said hostel residents were suffering amid 20-hour power outages. He said even water was not available in hostels.
The IJT representative said the PU administration should install a grid station or solar power system like other universities. He demanded that the varsity administration should ensure supply of water to hostels.
PU Hall Council chairman Dr Muhammad Akhtar negotiated with the protesters and assured them that the university administration would address the electricity issue in the university in general and hostels in particular. Later, students dispersed peacefully. Dawn
PU announces results
Lahore: PU Examinations Department has declared the results of MA Archaeology, Part-I Supplementary Examination 2012, MA Mass Communication, Part-I Supplementary Examination 2012, MA Philosophy, Part-I Supplementary Examination 2012, MSc Geography, Part-I Supplementary Examination 2012 and MSc Physics, Part-I Supplementary Examination 2012.
Detailed results are also available at PU website www.pu.edu.pk
QAU campuses in provinces, abroad on the cards
Islamabad: Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), the country's premier higher learning institution, has planned to open its sub-campuses in all four provinces and overseas.
"We currently have only one campus i.e. in Islamabad and now want to open sub-campuses. Of late, I wrote to the heads of the four provincial governments to apprise them of our intention. I asked them to identify the places, where we could or should open our sub-campuses. We've got a positive response, especially from the Sindh and Balochistan governments, which have offered us plots for the purpose. Things are moving in the right direction and I am sure the day is not far off when we'll have campuses in other parts of the country, too," QAU Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Masoom Yasinzai told this scribe.
The QAU vice chancellor said that there was also a plan to open a sub-campus in Dubai, the port city in the United Arab Emirates.He said that 1.2 million Pakistani expatriates, mostly from the lower and middle classes, lived in Dubai and they were concerned about their children's future due to availability of limited educational opportunities, especially those of higher education.
"After doing my homework, I went to Dubai half a dozen times, met the relevant officials and made the presentations. You can open educational institutions everywhere there. Dubai has a 'Knowledge City', which houses educational institutions. There are lots of buildings in place. If you meet their criterion, then the authorities allot you a place to begin operations. You just have to pay a certain amount of money for it. After getting a nod from Dubai authorities, we found a local sponsor for the project. At that proposed sub-campus to be operated by the sponsor, we'll provide the faculty, offer courses and conduct examinations. The sponsor will give us a proper share of its profits," he said.
Professor Yasinzai said that after approval by the QAU Academic Council and Syndicate, the proposal to open the varsity's Dubai campus was pending the president's consent."Once the green light is given, we will be the first public sector university to open a sub-campus in Dubai. It will help children of 1.2 million Pakistani expatriates get modern, quality and affordable higher education on their doorstep," he said.
The QAU vice chancellor said that Oil and Gas Development Company Limited had agreed to build a hostel for 300 girls students on the premises."The OGDCL management has approved Rs60 million for the construction of the girls hostel under its social welfare programme. The design for the building has been cleared by the relevant departments, things are in place for the start of work and now, we are gearing up for the groundbreaking ceremony within a week or so," he said.
Professor Yasinzai said that Teka, a Turkish company, had agreed to donate and install 200 computers for girls and boys students."During a recent tour to Iran, hosts took me to Zabal, a far-off, poor town, to show a university the like of which I've not seen even in the west. What impressed me the most there was a building of two spacious halls each with 1,000 Internet-connected computers for girls and boys. I returned wishing to have the same on my campus, too, so that our students could use computers even after the closure of computer labs. Recently, I got in contact with Teka representatives and apprised them of my idea. They approved of the idea and agreed to provide us with either the building or 200 computers. We opted for the computer offer. I'm hopeful that the facility will be there before long," he said.The QAU vice chancellor said that the establishment of a medical educational institution on the campus was in the works. The news
Balochistan confirms 5,000 teachers jobs with 'strings'
Quetta: The government of Balochistan has regularised services of 5,000 male and female teachers recruited two years ago under the Aghaz Haqooq-i-Balochistan package.
They had been appointed in BPS 14 to 16 for two years.
Their services had been regularised after a meeting between the Secretary General of the National Party, Mir Tahir Bizenjo, and the Chief Secretary of Balochistan, Babar Yaqub Fateh Muhammad, on Friday.
Mr Bizenjo met the top Balochistan government official after assuring the teachers that their problems would be solved.
An official notification issued on Friday by the education secretary said that teachers' services had been regularised in "their respective grades with immediate effect with a changed nomenclature as JET (B-14), JAT (B-14), SST (B-16) and SAT (B-16) of their respective grades."
The teachers had been protesting for the last many months demanding regularisation of their services. The provincial government had promised to resolve their problem but because of a ban imposed by the election commission their services could not be regularised.
However, the official notification said that the teachers would submit an affidavit not to claim any back benefits of service, seniority and pay. They would submit another affidavit to ensure that they are not students and doing two jobs on fake documents.
The education department would re-verify their documents, including educational degrees and residential status of all teachers who had been regularised.The notification further said that on the basis of the individual re-verification by the director schools and production of a certificate to this effect, the secondary education department will issue individual regularisation orders.
It said that these teachers would not be entitled for benefits of up-gradation of SST from BS-16 to BS-17.
They would be entitled to B-17 only after fulfilment of the required qualifications.
Their services, the notification further said, would be terminated without any prior notice if they would not complete their prescribed professional qualification within three years. Dawn


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Here it is - the explosive full report into Gupta-linked company Trillian
Advocate Geoff Budlender is severely critical of Trillian's co-operation with his probe, the report into the investigation of Gupta-linked company Trillian Capital has revealed.
Trillian came under the spotlight after a company whistleblower alerted former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela that the company's chief executive' Eric Wood' had briefed senior staff on the replacement of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with Des van Rooyen.
"The conduct of Trillian Management in this inquiry has left me with the impression that what it says cannot be trusted," Budlender writes in his report, presented to the media at Trillian's Johannesburg offices during a press briefing on Thursday.
Budlender's report further affirms his previous statements that multiple requests for information and cooperation from Trillian fell on deaf ears and that Trillian management tried to put an end to the inquiry twice.


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Monday, November 18, 2013
$300,000 Fine Issued to Health Net
(Sacramento) – The California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) today ordered Health Net, Anthem Blue Cross, and Blue Shield of California to cease and desist from denying their members access to medically necessary speech therapy and/or occupational therapy. Complaints to the department show the plans denied coverage for these services without determining whether the services were medically necessary. Additionally, a $300,000 fine was issued against Health Net for repeatedly and unlawfully mischaracterizing requests for services as coverage issues rather than medical necessity issues.
"Medically necessary speech and occupational therapy are basic health care services that health plans must cover," said DMHC Director Brent Barnhart. "Today's actions will ensure that members receive the care required by law."
Additionally, the plans will be required to identify and reimburse members who paid out-of-pocket for medically necessary therapy after those services were inappropriately denied.
Full orders and accusations:
Health Net
Order: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2041/1384793223665.pdf
Accusation: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2041/1384791642571.pdf
Anthem Blue Cross
Order: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2039/1384793022072.pdf
Accusation: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2039/1384791148603.pdf
Blue Shield
Order: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2040/1384793131979.pdf
Accusation: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/2040/1384791390868.pdf
California state law, known as the Knox-Keene Act, requires health plans to arrange for and cover basic health care services whenever those services are medically necessary. If a health plan denies a consumer's request for a health care service, consumers have the right to appeal. The DMHC acts as a final arbiter of such appeals and administers its Independent Medical Review program to review denials based on medical necessity.
The DMHC regulates managed care health plans in California, protects the rights of approximately 20 million health plan enrollees, educates consumers on their health care rights and responsibilities, and preserves the financial stability of the managed health care system. Since 2000, the department has helped more than 1 million Californians resolve health plan problems through its Help Center. Information and assistance is available 24/7 at www.HealthHelp.ca.gov or by calling 1-888-466-2219.
Call the DMHC Help Center
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text: Show Hide image Culture 25 September 2008 Treasure in them there hills A remarkable theatre company has created high art in an impoverished, conflict-battered Rio favela Sign-up From the roof terrace of the Nós do Morro theatre in the Vidigal favela, Rio de Janeiro looks like the sparkling tropical paradise it would be in a perfect world. Ipanema Beach is just visible in the moonlight and the shanty towns stretching up the hills are spangled like Christmas trees with blue and orange street lamps. Inside the hot, airless auditorium the audience is settling in for a performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Babies snuffle, teenagers laugh and fidget. People greet one another with easy smiles and handslaps. This is not a rarefied, high-class crowd - it is drawn from a community in one of Rio's many poor and conflict-battered districts. Community theatre, in this case, does not equal wobbly amateur dramatics. The actors are young and beautiful, the staging slick and inventive. With no sets and the simplest of costumes, Verona is created before us - complete with walls, statues and towers - using the bodies of the performers alone. The romance between Silvia and Valentine, played by Roberta Rodrigues and Thiago Martins, is genuinely funny, human and touching in the hands of this remarkable theatre company. By the end, actors and audience alike are sweating in the sauna-like heat, but the spell of the drama is unbroken until the curtain call. "When we started over 20 years ago there was no culture of theatre in the favela," Guti Fraga, founder and director of Nós do Morro, tells me over a glass of evilly strong cachaça at an Ipanema restaurant the following afternoon. He is a lean, middle-aged man with a smooth, bald head and an intense but irreverent manner. Having worked as a travelling performer and a journalist, he came to Vidigal in 1980 and, inspired by community theatres he had visited in Brooklyn, New York, started the company. "When I came to live here it bothered me to meet so many very talented people with no opportunities," he says. "Nós do Morro started with nothing but a philosophy: to practise real solidarity, irrespective of social class, and to create work of excellence. The quality of the work is the most important thing." Initially the project was for the people of Vidigal alone, but over the years it has established a reputation across Rio and further afield. "People from the rich areas of the city will now come here to go to the theatre," Fraga says. "They might never have ventured to a district like this before." In 1992 Fraga met Cicely Berry, a coach for the Royal Shakespeare Company, and so began a working relationship that culminated in Nós do Morro coming to Stratford-upon-Avon to appear in the Complete Works season in 2006. The group returns to the UK this October to perform Two Gentlemen at the Barbican. The really big break for the company came in 1999, when it was approached by the directors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, who were looking for young actors from the favelas to cast in a feature film. The project went on to become City of God, Brazil's most successful film internationally. The child actors from Nós do Morro created some of the hardest-hitting scenes in its graphic, violent depiction of the evolution of the drug trade in a Rio favela. Their lives also provided its inspiration: the film raised the profile worldwide of the increasingly bloody armed conflict that was swiftly engulfing urban ghettoes such as Vidigal. "When Nós do Morro started we didn't see guns in the favela," says Fraga. "Now it's normal. I have lost a lot of people very dear to me. It is not something I can talk about." The smile disappears from his animated face, and he looks away. "Many times during rehearsals we have heard gunfights start outside between the police and the drug traffickers. We all have to get down . . . and then we get up and carry on rehearsing. We have become very resistant. It is calm now, thank goodness - until the next incursion." For the actors of Nós do Morro, the theatre company has provided a much-needed outlet for their creativity as well as an escape route from the tough existence in the favela. For some, it has even paved the way to stardom. Roberta Rodri gues appeared in City of God and subsequently featured in one of Brazil's biggest soap operas. "City of God opened up a new profile for actors in Brazilian drama," she says. "You can now see actors on TV who look like normal people from the favelas. You see a mix of races and social types, where before it was very selective." Thiago Martins, who also starred in City of God's excellent spin-off television series, City of Men, agrees. "It has made a difference both personally and in a wider sense. I see myself as equal now, intellectually, if not financially," he says. "We are like the representatives of the favelas in the outside world." Both actors continue to work with Nós do Morro and to live in Vidigal, though Martins has bought his mother a new house in a safer area of the favela. "Before, we were living in what you might call the 'Gaza Strip' of the favela. Our windows were blown out and our water was always going. I thought my mother deserved something better," he says. For Rodrigues, living in Vidigal is "both a choice and a necessity. I don't want to leave my parents and the people I grew up with, or a way of life I respect. " "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" is at the Pit, Barbican Theatre, London EC2 (8-18 October). More details: www.barbican.org.uk Alice O'Keeffe's novel On The Up is published by Coronet. She is a literary critic and former arts editor of the New Statesman. You can find her on Twitter as @AliceOKeeffe, or on Instagram as @aliceokeeffebooks. 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New York employees who have been in the workplace for decades may find that while general awareness about workplace sexual harassment has increased, the issue continues to be a problem. In a 1980 survey by the Harvard Business Journal, fewer than 30 percent of companies had a formal policy against sexual harassment and only 8 percent provided training in the form of manuals and films. Today, 98 percent of companies have sexual harassment policies in place and 70 percent have some kind of training. However, sexual harassment persists as a workplace problem as has been demonstrated with the high-profile firing of Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly on April 19.
The fallout from the Sterling case
New York residents may have heard about a class-action claim against Sterling Jewelry. The first claims were filed in 2008, and the matter eventually involved more than 69,000 employees. The plaintiffs alleged that the company engaged in promotion discrimination as well as sexual harassment against women. Among the allegations were claims of being groped or being asked for sex in exchange for promotions or other prime assignments.
Arbitration case against Sterling made public
New York residents who shop at stores such as Kay Jewelers or Zales may be interested to learn that Sterling Jewelers, the parent company of those retailers, is facing a class-action sexual harassment arbitration case according to the Washington Post. The class includes 69,000 current and former female workers in addition to statements from 250 former employees outlining an alleged culture of sexual harassment over two decades.
Women experience sexual harassment in all industries
Workplace sexual harassment occurs in all different types of New York industries in New York. In November, ABC News brought 10 women together who had all experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. While each of the 10 women worked in a different industry, a majority of them had experienced workplace sexual harassment on more than four occasions.
Survey reveals "Mad Men" misogyny lives on in advertising
The advertising business of the 1950s and 1960s was depicted as highly misogynistic in the New York-based period drama 'Mad Men," and fans of the highly rated show may be shocked to learn that sexual harassment still appears to be a major problem for the industry. The American Association of Advertising Agencies asked about 400 female advertising employees about their workplace experiences, and more than half of them said that they felt at least somewhat vulnerable to unfair treatment.


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In Māori mythology, Tu, a fierce warrior, a son of Ranginui, Sky Father, and Papatūānuku, Earth Mother personifies the origins of warfare. In the best-known version of the myth, of all gods, only Tu is brave enough to stand up to his brother, the god of winds, Tāwhirimātea, who regularly attacks the earth. In anger Tu retaliates against his other brothers, Tāne, Tangaroa, Rongo, Haumia who did not assist him in his stand against Tāwhirimātea.
Tu's reaction sets the pattern for future warfare. Men make war now because Tu did so in the beginning. The war chant performed by warriors going into battle was believed to have composed and performed for the first time by Tu.
The tattoo design is contemporary Māori and is purely decorative. It has no significance in a traditional sense. For many years I used a section of an old recovered kauri wood log as a chopping block. When the time came to replace the block I split it in half. To my surprise the grain looked interesting and I decided to create a work using it. Despite its extremely resinous nature creating finishing difficulties, the chopping block, instead of becoming ash became "Tu Matuenga," Māori God of War.
—Rex Homan
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Paoa, Te Ātiawa
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Rex Homan was born 1940 in Thames, New Zealand of Māori, Irish and Scottish ancestry. He lived in Auckland in his early years before moving to the Bay of Plenty. Rex has earned international recognition as a wood sculptor in the 1960s and 1970s and began working in bronze in the 1980s. His current work is influenced by the culture of the Pacific and displays uniqueness in its diversity of form and dramatic flow of lines. Rex has exhibited in solo, group and jury shows. He has won several national awards for "National Wood Skills" and is represented in corporate and private collections worldwide.
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Here Comes Treble is the name of Andy's a cappella group in Cornell. They were first mentioned in Andy's appearance in Gay Witch Hunt.
Andy's a cappella group has been a recurring motif throughout the show since his debut.
In the episode Launch Party, Andy sings "Take a Chance on Me" by ABBA with his a cappella group backing him up on speakerphone. Actor John Michael Higgins is one of the other voices. Here Comes Treble is portrayed by the University of Virginia Hullabahoos.
The members of Here Comes Treble, class of '96:
- Carl 1 and Carl 2 (not on speaking terms after they ended their civil union)
- Jingle Jangle
- Sandwich (scheduled to undergo gastric bypass surgery)
- Boner Champ (aka Andy - got this nickname for humping a snowman)
- Broccoli Rob
- Doobie (now a school bus driver)
- Pubey Lewis & the News
- Sparerib
- Hopscotch (his mom won't let him out on weekends)
- Lunchbox
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Some of you know that I've been part of a role play writing group for well over two years now, and how being part of that great group awakened a writing bug that I never knew I had. Well, it's time to tell the story of my part in a "little" story that is finally ready to be shared.
Way back in April 2011, a member of that group, Dawn Treadway, approached me and asked me to read a few chapters of a book she had been working on. The title of that work was Dark Dreams, and it related the story of a member of a race of daemons who had escaped from a hell-like realm with a pledge to protect humanity from the races that remained there. It is a paranormal adventure romance involving him and a human woman with some unusual abilities of her own.
The story was terrific, with really deep, well-developed characters, and I found a few editorial issues and moved some things around just a bit and sent the chapters back to her. Then she shocked me by asking if I wanted to be the official editor of that novel.
I was floored. I had never done anything like that before, and I told her so. At that point, Patricia and I hadn't even been published yet. But she insisted. "You are the one I want to do it," was basically what she said. So a few days later I received the entire manuscript. I asked her what kind of editing she wanted, and she basically wanted me to give her any changes I thought might make the story better, as well as any copy editing, and then she would decide how to incorporate them.
Of course, I have a full-time job, so the going was slow. I fed her each chapter as I went, and over the course of the next few months, polished the product. Over the course of those months, I had some suggestions for story points, dialog, etc. Between the two of us, we worked out how we both thought the story would go, and it got to the point where she offered me a co-authorship.
That story was finally finished a few weeks ago, after adding a prologue and epilogue and setting the book up as the first in a potential series, Children of Sheol. So now, we have a full-length novel. What to do?
Along became my other writing partner Patricia Laffoon. She had found out about a Harlequin writing contest, So You Think You Can Write? Patricia and I didn't have anything ready for it, but she knew Dawn and I did. So, she said, "You should go for it."
So a few e-mails and a phone call later, Dawn and I decided to submit it. And now, the posts are up, and our first chapter is available to read!
Let me be clear, this is Dawn's baby. I feel incredibly privileged that she allowed me to be as big a part of it as I am. Sheol and its related realms are her world. And I think you would really enjoy them.
Here's what I ask. If you like paranormal romance, I would invite you to read our first chapter and pitch at the link below. If you like it, I'd ask you to give us at least one vote (starting October 2nd). If you like it enough, you can actually vote every day from October 2nd thru the 11th. Or you can poke around on the site and find lots of other romance stories that you might like. You are allowed to vote for one entry per day, and it can be the same one or different ones.
The technology today is amazing. Dawn and I met in person exactly once, since she lives 3000 miles from me. Yet we were able to work together for over a year to produce a novel, and submit it electronically for this contest. Patricia and I have never met face to face, yet we were able to write a story that was good enough to produce two publishable shorts.
I hope you enjoy Chapter 1 of Dark Dreams, and if you follow me, you just might see a couple more excerpts from the novel that might make you love it even more!


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Ask the Expert: Should I take a lump sum from my pension to invest?
PUBLISHED: 05:30 20 October 2018 | UPDATED: 12:05 26 October 2018
Our reader wants to know if taking a lump sum from her pension to invest in a rental property makes good tax sense. Carl Lamb of Almary Green responds.
I am aged 58 and have a private pension worth about £400,000, thanks to a really good job I had in my 30s and 40s.
I currently earn about £35,000 a year and I plan to keep on working at least until I get my state pension.
I would really like to take out about £120,000 from my pension fund to buy another rental property now (I already own one small flat which brings in an additional net income of £6,000 a year), which would add to my current and future income and assets.
I understand I can access my pension but wonder if it makes sense from a tax perspective?
Response from Carl Lamb of Almary Green
Firstly – and perhaps most importantly in your case – you should bear in mind that once you start taking taxable withdrawals from your pension pot, you are subject to a drastically reduced annual allowance for your pension contributions.
Before accessing the pot, your annual allowance is £40,000 but once you've taken withdrawals beyond your tax-free lump sum entitlement, the annual allowance drops to just £4,000 – so that's the maximum you can contribute in the year.
Any contributions above the annual allowance will be subject to a tax charge.
If you are still working you may want to continue to contribute more than £4,000 per year to your pension, particularly if you are a member of your workplace pension scheme and benefiting from employer contributions. It may therefore not be to your advantage to trigger the reduced annual allowance.
One option to consider might be to access your tax-free lump sum – usually 25% of the total pot – and put the rest into a flexi-drawdown arrangement but – critically – don't take an income from it at this stage.
In your case, this nearly achieves your £120,000 requirement, so you may perhaps be able to fund the shortfall from other sources.
The other thing to bear in mind is that, if you withdraw more than your tax-free lump sum from your pension pot, the excess will be assessed as income for tax purposes and may tip you into a higher tax bracket – so you could pay 40% income tax on part of your withdrawal.
Finally, it's important to ensure that you leave enough in your pension fund to provide you with the income you need in retirement.
I appreciate that your rental properties will provide income, but I do recommend that you take advice before taking a withdrawal from your pension savings to make sure that you can still achieve your objectives.
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Asian shares edge up as investors cautiously optimistic on Clinton win
SINGAPORE: Most Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday ahead of the US presidential election, with investors optimistic but cautious over improving prospects for a win by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The Mexican peso, which strengthens as the perceived chances of an election victory by Republican Donald Trump fall, retained its strong gains from Monday.
The dollar, which also advanced on Monday, edged slightly lower.
Boosting Clinton's chances of winning, and markets globally, was a statement by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday standing by its July finding that Clinton was not guilty of criminal wrongdoing in her use of a private email server.
That came after the FBI announced on October 28 it was reviewing additional emails relating to the server while Clinton was secretary of state, sending markets around the world tumbling.
Must Read: Final US vote polls show very tight race with Clinton edge
Clinton is seen by investors as offering greater certainty and stability, and, until last week's stumble, had been seen as the likely victor in Tuesday's presidential vote.
While polls last week showed Trump closing in on Clinton's lead, at least five major polls on Monday showed Clinton still ahead.
But investors remained wary, noting Britain's shock vote in June to leave the European Union had defied most polls and bookmakers' odds.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.3 per cent.
But Japan's Nikkei surrendered earlier gains to trade 0.2 per cent lower, weighed down by the yen's rise following Monday's losses.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng index ticked up 0.3 per cent.
China's CSI 300 index index added 0.5 per cent, with a weaker yuan outweighing bigger-than-expected declines in both imports and exports and a smaller-than-forecast trade balance in October.
The MSCI World index was little changed, maintaining its 1.6 per cent gain seen on Monday, its biggest single-day jump in almost 19 weeks.
"As markets head into the US election, a final recalibration of risk is in train," Michael McCarthy, chief market strategist at CMC Markets in Sydney, wrote in a note.
"Asia-Pacific markets were the first to adjust to the political shift, and may trade more modestly today after roaring back to life yesterday."
Overnight, Wall Street shares soared between 2.1 and 2.4 per cent, recording their biggest one-day percentage gain since March 1, with the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average recovering all their losses from the previous week.
The dollar, which recorded its biggest one-day increase against the yen in almost four months on Monday, surrendered 0.1 per cent to trade at 104.33 yen on Tuesday.
The US currency was little changed versus the Mexican peso at 18.58, after sliding 2.3 per cent on Monday, its biggest one-day drop in six weeks.
The Mexican currency is seen as a proxy for bets on the US election because Mexico is considered most vulnerable to Trump's trade policies as 80 per cent of its exports go to the United States.
The euro which retreated 0.9 per cent on Monday, was little changed at $1.10385.
Crude oil futures were mixed as concerns about the stronger dollar and doubts over OPEC's planned production cuts ate into the broad revival in risk appetite.
US crude slipped 0.1 per cent to $44.86 a barrel, after advancing 1.9 per cent on Monday. Global benchmark Brent rose 0.15 per cent to $46.22, extending Monday's 1.3 per cent jump.
As some caution returned after Monday's exuberance, gold climbed 0.1 per cent to $1,281.12 an ounce, erasing some of its 1.7 per cent loss from the previous session.


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Wolters Kluwer releases TaxWise Mobile
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Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has released TaxWise Mobile, an app that provides a mobile interface for tax preparation and integrates with TaxWise Online, Wolters Kluwer's web-based tax prep software.
Mobility is fast becoming a necessity for accounting professionals who have come to expect remote capability from their software. TaxWise Mobile allows both tax professionals and their clients access to the tax preparation process via their smartphones, computers, or tablets, without needing to visit the office.
On TaxWise Mobile, taxpayers can fill out information, upload documents, and review their prepared tax return. The taxpayer can then e-sign the final return and send it back to their preparer through the app for e-filing. Once the return has been filed, the app can also track the progress of the return and refund.
"Wolters Kluwer is expanding our expert compliance capabilities with technologies that enable an end-to-end mobile experience for high volume, seasonal tax preparers," stated Shannon Bond, vice president, preparer segment, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting North America. "TaxWise Mobile helps tax preparers reach more clients, where they are, which is critical in today's mobile society."
TaxWise Mobile debuted during the IRS Nationwide Tax Forum in National Harbor, Maryland. For more information, click here.


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"With self-discipline most anything is possible."Theodore Roosevelt
via How to Do Something Even When You Don't Feel Like Doing It.
"With self-discipline most anything is possible."Theodore Roosevelt
via How to Do Something Even When You Don't Feel Like Doing It.
The secret is showing up.
Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you–the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
Organizations can always benefit from better habits. Every day. Do that first.
A simple practice of intentionality: before you do the next action online or at work, pause a moment, close your eyes, and mentally say your intention. Why are you doing this? Is it out of compassion for others, or yourself? Is it to make someone happier? To improve the world? Out of gratitude for the work and kindness of others?
And then, as you do the action, be mindful of your intention.
This is a small step, but in those few moments, you will be living an Intentional Life.
A great reminder to think and act with intention instead of mindlessly.
I Think You Should be More Controlling in 2012.
My wish for you as the calendars turn is that you focus your efforts, both personally and professionally, on the stuff you can control. It's the only thing you can do. Literally.
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These egg muffins are so yummy. I am always trying out different ideas in order to get those egg whites in to me for breakfast! These are so versatile, and you can add what ever ingredients you like, bacon pieces, peppers, mushrooms , use your imagination! I used left over roast chicken, chorizo, feta and spinach in mine. These will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days in an airtight container and they are so handy to grab and go in the mornings, or anytime of the day! Great idea for healthier lunch boxes for school too.
120g Roast Chicken, shredded
30g Chorizo
30g Feta
1 Egg
3 Egg Whites
Handful of Spinach, chopped
Black Pepper to taste
Whisk the egg and the egg whites and season with some ground black pepper.
In a muffin tray divide the egg mixture, this recipe makes 6.
Add some chorizo, feta, chicken and spinach to each of the 6 muffins and place in a pre heated oven, 200 c and bake for 15 – 20 mins.
If you are using ingredients like bacon, mushrooms or peppers, you will need to fry them off before adding to the egg mixture!
Nutritional Information
Each muffin is equal to 93 calories, carbs 0.7g, fat 5g, protein 10.5g. If you are using different ingredients this will change the macros. These are based around my macros so I need high fat, high protein today!
Much love,
Jen xxx.


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Primordial tracks, marks made by plants and animals on rock formations: this is the inspiration and the image evoked by Fossil, the" Jurassic" tile collection designed by Kasia Zareba for Ceramiche Refin's creative research laboratory.
Last year Ceramiche Refin's research arm, DesignTaleStudio, launched the "Create your Tile" competition inviting tile design concepts from professionals across the globe.
Among over 800 entries submitted, the jury chaired by Italian designers Alessandro and Francesco Mendini awarded the first prize to Fossil, the project created by the young Polish designer Kasia Zareba.
The Fossil collection revisits the prehistorical imprints left by plants and animals on rock formation. The original sketches were inspired by the physical impressions left by the grooved, coiled shells of extinct sea creatures called ammonites.
A succession of fine, irregular, trembling lines drawn by hand, a sequence of marks that interrupt one another and overlap just like the signs of time in prehistoric and archaeological excavations.
Unique, unrepeatable signs recalling the most natural aspects of life, forms that everyone can interpret in their own way, according to their own imagination. "In the subtle motifs, one's imagination can see different figures. They bring to mind the regularities of form found in the natural world," said Zareba. "Some people can interpret the ornament as strokes of fur, others see in it the tree rings of annual growth or the surface of rams' horns."
Available in brown, beige or grey, the 60-by-60-centimetre tiles are presented in five hand-drawn patterns generated by the motion of signs heading off in different directions to create intriguing optical illusions and full and empty volumes. Fossil tiles are designed to be mixed randomly to create a simple, natural and elegant atmosphere for indoor settings.
The Fossil collection received the 2015 IIDA/HD Product Design Competition award in the Hard Surface Flooring category. It was also awarded Best of Competition at HD Expo 2015.


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I'm just generally tired, so I'm taking the day off. Here's an "open" thread.
If you haven't seen it yet, below is the CBC documentary, graciously supplied by "forwhomthetollbuilds". Very kind of him to take the time to record and upload. All three parts are below. Part III is the only one of real interest.
Obviously, the producers chose to exclude the information which I was hoping would finally begin to see the light of day. Thus the title of this post. I'll try to pick up my armor and rejoin the fight next week but, for now, I can't help but feel a bit dispirited.
Have a good day and try to remember to play nice, keeping in mind, of course, The Golden Rule.


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Sudan's main rebel group and the Khartoum government have signed a security agreement which is being hailed as a key milestone in reaching a comprehensive accord to end Africa's longest war.
The agreement over the deployment and strength of government and rebel military personnel was signed Wednesday after some three weeks of negotiations between Vice President Ali Osman Taha and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) leader John Garang.
"This is a historic occasion…. It has paved the way for a comprehensive peace agreement," said Taha after exchanging the signed text of the agreement with Garang, AFP reported.
Under the agreement, which is linked to an already agreed six-year post-war interim period of self-rule for the south, most government troops stationed in the south will be withdrawn under international supervision.
"With this agreement, the direction and orientation for peace in Sudan is irreversible"
John Garang,
"We will go into this agreement with resolve, energy and focus so that we resolve the remaining issues," Garang said.
"With this agreement, the direction and orientation for peace in Sudan is irreversible," he added.
Nuba agreement
Most SPLA forces deployed in the Nuba Mountains and the Southern Blue Nile region will be redeployed south of a north-south border cutting through the country which became independent in 1956.
Coordination between and command of the two armies will be assumed by a Joint Defence Board made up of officers from both sides.
Both groups of fighters will be "considered and treated equally as Sudan's National Armed Forces (SNAF)", the agreement stated.
The Sudanese civil war, which pitted the north against the South, started in 1983 and has claimed more than 1.5 million lives. A further 4 million have been displaced.
Combined military units
The agreement also stipulates the formation of new military units made up of forces from both sides of the conflict.
"The Joint/Integrated Units shall constitute a nucleus of a post-referendum army of Sudan, should the result of the referendum (held after the six-year interim period) confirm unity, otherwise they would be dissolved and the component parts integrated into their respective forces," the text read, AFP reported.
Questions of power-sharing and of the status of three regions in the centre of the country, the most contentious issues, are still being discussed.
They will include 24,000 troops in the south, 6000 in Nuba Mountains, 6000 in Southern Blue Nile and 3000 in Khartoum.
The two sides also agreed to an internationally monitored ceasefire, which will come in to effect from the date of signature of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement, details of which have yet to be worked out.
Witnesses said delegates clapped as representatives from the government and the SPLA signed the deal near Lake Naivasha, some 90km from Kenya's capital Nairobi.
Questions of power-sharing and of the status of three regions in the centre of the country, the most contentious issues, are still being discussed.


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My name is Mitu. I am 8 years old. I live in Dhaka city. I am in class 3. I goes to school on foot and return home by rickshaw. All the teachers of my school are very friendly and helpful. I have one brother and one sister. My elder brother reads in class vi and my younger sister reads in class 2. They are sharp. My father's name is Nurmuhammad. He is a businessman. My mother's name is Mrs Lucky Akter. She is a house wife. She looks after the whole family. My hobby is gardening. I also watch tv, hear songs and music. The name of my favorite sports is cricket. In the afternoon, I play cricket with my friends. My aim in life is to be a school teacher. During my leisure leisure I read novels and story books. Sometimes I take part in social activities I help the poor. I teach the illiterate.
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Post Payson:
Scenic drive into Payson yesterday with a Brother to photograph a Masonic Lodge Installation. Because of a recent snow storm in the area, I took a a very warm jacket; which I never wore.
Standing outside of the Lodge reminded me of spring skiing in the 80s. The bright sun reflecting off of the fresh snow, was naturally filling in the shadows. It made the scene look like it was lit for a commercial shoot. It's funny how I always seem to take mental notes of time and day when I see something like today. You never know when details like that will come in handy. Ninety minutes later, we were making our way back down the hill to the cool desert below.
The Cubes / ©2015
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
Day one of a new year
Greetings all.
It's been an entire year since I've posted anything on this blog. With all the craziness that has been the last 12 months, there's no real surprise that this outlet has been neglected for so long. Well my friends, it's time to rectify that. I'm not promising a post a day but, I will do my best to post as many new images as possible; in a timely manner, to keep things fresh. I hope you will join me on my year long journey into whatever it is "I see" as life unfolds before us.
Tony Hernandez
E.T. Mobley "Gettin funky"
©2015 Tony Hernandez Photography
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East Midlands Food and Drink Festival
The East Midlands Food and Drink Festival, the largest regional celebration of British Food and Drink in the country, will take place on Saturday 1st (10am 5pm) and Sunday 2nd October 2011 (10am 4pm) at The Cattle Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbary, LE13 1JY.
Organised by the Melton Mowbray Food Partnership, The East Midlands Food and Drink Festival brings together a fabulous selection of local specialities and much more from some of the country's finest producers.
Tickets, which are available from www.goleicestershire.com Tel: 0844 888 518, are just £5 for pre-booked tickets. They are also available from Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, Melton Mowbray and Leicester Visitor Information Centre, Town Hall Square, Leicester
For more information see www.eastmidlandsfoodfestival.co.uk
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I am intrigued about Judith Lean's hypothesis that large summer Arctic sea ice melting is affecting global winter temperatures, which I wrote about for YFCC&M here, and which Lean described for me in this short interview.
So I looked at HadCRUT4 seasonal temperature anomalies, comparing them to the previous year's decline in Arctic sea ice extent, and there does seem to be some correlation:
Winter average global temperatures are lately running far below those of other seasons, and seem somewhat correlated to the previous year's September melt.
I'll have to calculate more numbers, but there does seem at least the possibility that some negative feedback is suppressing global average temperature compared to what they would be otherwise, which might be a portion of the hiatus.


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SEATTLE — When police were called to handle a rowdy young male around Greek Row just north of the University of Washington early Sunday, it had nothing to do with students. The problem was a marauding bear.
They tried to capture the black bear alive after finding him underneath the back deck of a home in the Ravenna Park neighborhood, a few blocks north of the fraternity and sorority houses, but he died after being jolted with stun guns and hit with tranquilizer darts.
More than two dozen city and university police officers responded and state wildlife personnel joined in the chase through back yards, over fences and down driveways for more than an hour late Saturday night and early Sunday.
"This was not Winnie the Pooh looking for a way back to the three-acre wood," state Fish and Wildlife Sgt. Kim Chandler told The Seattle Times. "This was a 150-pound wild black bear — and trying to find his way out of the U District, I guess. I don't think he even knew how he got there. I certainly don't."
'He was just trying to get away'
The bear, apparently about 3 years old, leaped over a fence and fled across garage roofs and fences after being hit by a tranquilizer dart loaded with powerful drugs, and an electrical jolt from a police Taser gun slowed down the animal only briefly, Chandler said.
"He wasn't out to eat everybody. He was just trying to get away," the 30-year wildlife veteran said.
Police finally cornered the animal on a sidewalk and fired another Taser. Chandler administered another tranquilizer dart and the bear died soon afterward.
"We did everything that we could less than lethal — the drugs, the Taser. I think that combination just didn't work out right," Chandler said.
"I think everyone was extremely disappointed at the particular outcome, that we weren't able to have the bear relocated, but our mission is safety — public safety," police Officer Sean Whitcomb said. "A bear out in Seattle, it's just not a good combination."
Two bears north of city?
Fish and Wildlife agents believe the bear could have been one of two that were seen Friday in the Shoreline area, north of the city. They speculated that he traveled south at night and slept during the day.
Chandler said he was not that surprised to be awakened at home to deal with a bear in the city.
"I have learned over the years, never to say never. If people say they've got a bear in my backyard, I have to believe them," Chandler said.
Not so for Gary Jackson, who lives half a block from where the bear was cornered.
"You hear about bears in Issaquah," a suburb about 15 miles east of the downtown area, Jackson said. "That's where they live, but this close into the city you don't expect it."
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Forum: Addons
Hercules RMX2 GOLD
话题: Hercules RMX2 GOLD
发表时间 Thu 14 Aug 14 @ 3:05 pm
- Changed Loop panel to follow the new updated default mapping.
发表时间 Thu 14 Aug 14 @ 3:06 pm
I already installed this skin but is missing one very important thing that is in the default skin: the Menu of Master.
发表时间 Thu 11 Sep 14 @ 10:02 am
发表时间 Thu 11 Sep 14 @ 12:19 pm
发表时间 Wed 17 Sep 14 @ 6:41 am
Anyways, i ll put this (Effects on Master) in my list for the next update.
发表时间 Wed 17 Sep 14 @ 8:44 am
Best regards
发表时间 Wed 17 Sep 14 @ 9:55 am
Anfry wrote :
Thank you very much, that, I think, is important because in this way is possible to add the Equalizer effect at the master out and is possible the calibration to have an optimized sound.
Best regards
Best regards
Map one of the custom buttons on the left or right deck with the following command:
deck master effect 'eq 10 bands' active or
deck master effect 'eq 30 bands' active
发表时间 Thu 16 Oct 14 @ 4:09 pm
deck master effect_show_gui 'TypeHereThePluginame'
which will dock/undock the FX GUI in the Browser, where you can adjust, enable etc.
发表时间 Thu 16 Oct 14 @ 8:00 pm
warum steht bei der Gold und bei der Black Version die Regler für das Mic und für den Kopfhörer Out auf voll offen,obwohl sie am Controller zugedreht sind?
发表时间 Sun 13 Mar 16 @ 5:16 pm
I have a problem with my new controller hercules RMX2 and VDJ8
I used to use the pitch reset button after playing a mix on the deck I set the next song.
Now I downloaded a good and smoothly skin from this website (Hercules RMX2 Gold is the name)
Next to both decks I see a pitch slider with a sort of key lock circle in the middle of the slider and i have also a button named KLCK. Neither of both seem to do something when pressed.
How can I designate a reset pitch action to the key lock circle in the middle of the slider or this action to the KLCK button.
Remark: on the console RMX2 there isn't such a button to press. With my former console RMX I used to have this button. Pity hercules does not use this button anymore. But maybe there is a workaround in the software of VDJ8
Thanks a lot
发表时间 Tue 23 Aug 16 @ 3:27 pm
pitch 100%
and please don't post the same problem in different threads in future.
发表时间 Tue 23 Aug 16 @ 3:33 pm
Do you know if it is neccesary to map also a button beatlock to such button or is this the same as the option Smart play on the deck options?
发表时间 Wed 24 Aug 16 @ 4:36 pm
[although in a limited way beatlock can achieve the same result as smart play]
beatlock is a scratch option [try it to see how it works], smart play is probably the option you want.
发表时间 Wed 24 Aug 16 @ 4:54 pm


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The official programme takes place on 8 and 9 November 2018, but with so much news happening in CEE territories, Connecting Cottbus kicked off a day early with a panel presentation focusing on selected territories playing catch-up in the field of film incentives. The presentation also gave a perspective on how far the industries in the region have come, and how rapidly they are developing.
Polish Film Institute's representative Marzena Cieśluk told attendees that Poland is poised to launch a 30% cash rebate plan (now in front of the Parliament) at the start of 2019. The incentives will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis for qualifying Polish expenses on films and TV projects, with 47 m EUR available per year. The rebate is capped at 3.6 m EUR per project and 4.6 m EUR per applicant. There is a minimum required spend of 1 m EUR for a feature film. Qualifying projects must have 75% of their budget in place, and there is a 28 day evaluation period. The rebate will be distributed after the final financial report is submitted. No funds will be distributed during the production. The programme, which will be administered by the Polish Film Institute, is expected to attract international productions to Poland. Poland is also launching a new scheme for distribution support in January 2019 for the distribution of Polish films abroad. Polish production companies can apply for up to 10,000 EUR per foreign territory with a cap of 30,000 EUR per film to support foreign distribution of a Polish film. Polish films have been finding surprising success in release especially in the UK in the past two years.
Romania will offer a rebate of 35%, going up to 45%, if 60% of the story is set in Romania. The minimum spend in Romania is 20% of the film's budget/100,000 EUR, with a cap of 10 m EUR. Romania has earmarked 50 m EUR per year for the rebate. Films and TV series (8 parts for a mini-series, and 20 parts for a dramatic series release per year) are eligible. The proposal requires that all funding be in place when the project applies for the rebate, and the project must have spent the funds within 2 years, with money refunded only after the final audit is submitted. The cash rebate will be refunded within 3 months. The rebate was initially aimed at foreign productions, but its lower requirements also make it possible for national films to benefit. The programme began functioning in October and is awaiting its first decisions. It will function through 2020. Romania also has a proposal for its new film law, which was opened for public discussion and is awaiting approval. The new law will provide support for minority coproductions, with two funding sessions per year. An influx of capital from required industry tax contributions would raise the amount in the film fund from the current 12 m EUR to 45 m EUR annually.
Cyprus is the latest country in the region to announce its 35% cash rebate programme. The programme was announced in October 2018 and applications are now open. Both film and TV projects are eligible to apply. The minimum spend is 200,000 EUR with a cap of 1.5 m EUR. The rebate will apply to funds spent in Cyprus. The rebate programme is expected to increase domestic production, minority coproductions and productions services on the island.
Rolandas Kwiatkauskas, director of the Lithuanian Film Centre, said that since introducing tax incentives five years ago Lithuania has supported 83 films through the scheme. Lithuania requires a minimum spend of 43,000 EUR and has no cap. The incentives apply to all expenses incurred by a Lithuanian service company, both inside and outside of Lithuania. Investment into the scheme, which comes through private investment, is expected to reach 16 m EUR this year with turnover of 84 m EUR, up from 11 m EUR in the past. On 1 January, the rebate will increase from the current 20%, going up to 30%. The new law is expected to pass at the beginning of December and will be in place for the next five years. Most of the funding is going to TV production, but Lithuania is also expanding minority coproductions, with eight supported in 2018.


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A number of customers have asked me recently about jewelry care and cleaning, so I thought I'd do a short series of posts on the topic.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard people say about their favorite pieces of jewelry, "I love it so much! I never take it off!" Don't do this. Wearing your jewelry throughout all of your daily and nightly activities not only puts it at risk of physical damage like scratches, dents, and breakage, it also invariably exposes it to all kinds of chemicals and substances that can stain or damage the finish.
You should take off your jewelry when you,
- wash the dishes
- wash your face or shower
- sleep
- exercise or play sports
- apply lotion or sunscreen
- do housework
You all are pretty smart, and I don't think I need to explain most of these. It may seem like wearing your jewelry while you wash your hands or shower is pretty harmless, and mostly it is, but soaps leave a film that dulls the stones and metals of your jewelry and leaves it looking dingy. Nobody wants that. And don't forget about that drain! I'll never forget how sad I was watching my diamond stud slip through the shower drain at the gym! It happened so fast, and I was sick about it! Which brings us to exercise. Obviously exercise and sports will not only get your accessories dirty, but you also risk injury, loss, etc.
I guess you know my secret now. I'm totally guilty of all of these! I definitely have a checkered past of abusing my jewelry, but I'm really trying, and I think I'm doing better. Nobody is perfect, and that's why we have ways of cleaning and repairing your jewelry! In my next post I'll share which cleaning products I like best, as well as some do it yourself concoctions I've found that work!


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Remember using "clag" at school. Great for paper mache, pasting and collage. Anything that doesn't need a really strong hold. You do use a couple of tablespoons of glue, because this recipe is to make it go further.
- 1 cup of plain flour
- 1/2 cup of water ( I didn't find this enough, but use it as a start then add more as you mix to get the right texture)
- 2-3 tbsp of any craft glue
- In a bowl, add flour then slowly add water while stirring until smooth, make sure you get rid of any lumps.
- Mix in the craft glue and combine well.
- Add more water if too thick and more flour if too runny. You want a "watery porridge" type consistency.


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I hope this message finds you well. While the weather is changing to warmer temperatures, it still feels off. We would typically hear the sounds of kids laughing and playing outside on a regular basis, yet it is quiet. However, there is still laughter going on inside houses, and thank you to staff, parents, and students for that.
When the governor originally announced that we were closing for three weeks (and one of those being our Spring Break), we initially laid out a "Sprinter's" plan. We jumped headfirst into this phenomenon, and everyone has done a fantastic job. I truly believe we are ahead of the curve right now because of the work that everyone has done. However, with the announcement we will be out for the entire month of April with a strong potential for longer, we must revisit that approach. We need to switch from "Sprinter" to "Distance". We have said that we will continually re-evaluate our approach, and we know we need to make a change.
To that end, starting next Monday for teachers, Monday will be a "No New Instruction Day". Instead, it will consist of virtual office hours, virtual collaboration for teachers, professional development, and lesson planning. The hope is that by the end of the day Monday or early on Tuesday, each teacher can publish a rough agenda of their plans for the week. I think this will also help ease the anxiety for parents and students as we move forward. For next week, since we don't have school on Friday, that means new instruction will only occur on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The intent is that we are going to slow down and work to create quality and consistency. I am committed to doing this model for the next two weeks, and then we can reassess and go from there.
Thank you to everyone who has taken a difficult situation and tried to make the best of it.
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What To Wear to a Summer Wedding '19
Kicking off the Base London manual for 2019, is the ever so suave Stephen Kelly; style consultant and co-founder of MenStyled.com. He's had a chat to us about the top suits, colours and shoes to wear this Wedding season. So whether you've got a long list of weddings to attend or even your own in the pipeline, this summer.. Take note on how to spice up your style.
Now everyone knows the main cliche options for a wedding suit – Navy or Grey work suit, now not saying this is a bad thing – "But there's a few things you can do to add some interest and colour to your outfit".
First of all, why not experiment with some light suits and fabrics – "It's a joyous occasion after all, so its a great opportunity to add something brighter to your style". Check out some of ASOS.com's lighter formal collection.
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On top of a lighter suit – or if you're too attached to your Navy or Dark Grey work suit, "A colourful tie or pocket square, can really brighten your look". A simple, yet effective accessory such as this, can make all the difference – and can turn the most 'Dull Work Suit', into a fun, wedding appropriate style.
Go as bold as you want with some floral designs or stick to a bold, plain shade to make the perfect statement with your accessories.
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If you're a bit more adventurous, you can even opt for a mix and match style suit – with perhaps a lighter or pattern style blazer, with more subtle / muted tailored trousers. Or you could even rock a patterned waist coat, or a contrasting shirt to jazz up your look.
The most essentail note of all – is to "Make sure your suit fits you properly", not too baggy and not too skinny. "When it pulls to much at the buttons, you know it's a little too tight".
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Stormy's follow up to Operation Desert Stormy came through and delivered on many levels. It was really funny. And not just stupid porn funny but had some classic moments. But that's true because there were some really good people who know what they were doing in this movie. Directing, editing, scenery etc were all really good.
The men were my favorite part of this movie which is no surprise coming from me because I heart the male porn stars. Well not all of them, there are some scary ones out there. But the main ones in this movie are dear to my heart.
Evan Stone can do no wrong in my eyes, unless it's an ugly girl. I love watching him. He replaces Steven St. Croix as Stormy's character's husband. They said he needed an identify change to get away with a new actor. Evan was hilarious and has a giant penis he used many times. Lucky Stormy gets a piece of it while they are riding around on a boat. It was a really hot scene. Best part was when she is sitting at the very front of the boat while he eats her out. Even also takes part in an orgy with a group of cannibals. Thankfully no one's penis was eaten.
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The other men who make this movie are the dynamic duo of Marcus London and Tony De Sergio. They are back as the studly secret agents ready to fight bad guys and bang ladies. Lucky them get to tackle Stormy for her first boy/boy/girl scene. I'd like to be the meat in that sandwich. Stormy takes those two penises like it's nothing. Really good scene that gave me lady wood. They were also really funny and have this chemistry that makes them fun to watch and work well together. Plus there is a great scene where Tony is running around in that Borat style green bathing suit, amazing!
The supporting actors all did a good job. Randy Spears is the sex charged boss who likes his blond assistants big and busty. Tommy Gunn plays some evil guy but I was only paying attention to him when he was naked. His body is rock hard. You could bounce a quarter off his pecs. I would like to bounce my vagina off his penis.
Sammie Rhodes is a scene-stealer as the lab assistant who get's into Stormy's vagina. Nina Hartley makes a cameo as the Queen of England who apparently has quite the bush going on. I wonder if that is really true about the queen.
Then of course there is Stormy. The one-woman powerhouse behind this whole production. I would like to give her a high five for what a great job she did. Plus her acting/comedy chops were pretty good. I wish I always looked that good after washing up on shore after a ship wreck. But I always enjoy her movies and this was no exception.
This was pretty much a regular movie that just happens to have sex in it. I never say that about porn movies, which is a really good thing. I will definitely be watching this movie again. I get I could trick my mom into watching it. Although she knows me so will probably know what I'm up to.
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This week was incredibly hot and humid. I've never been able to fall asleep without a blanket or something covering me, but this week I managed to sleep with no clothing or coverings. I have a nice red Vornado fan, but even with that I was too hot. So, I reluctantly dragged my air conditioner over to the window and ran it all night long. I don't like using it because it's noisy, expensive, and environmentally unfriendly, but the alternative was sleeping in a pool of sweat. Even so, it was like my bed was a marsh.
Finally, the humid weather turned into a massive downpour on Saturday. When I left my apartment to go see Sandy, the water was ankle-deep on the crosswalks. Good thing I was wearing sandals. When the rain stopped, the heat came back, this time with 100% humidity. Sandy and I went to Vegetarian Haven, and I gorged on their amazingly realistic fake seafood, before we went to see a movie.
"Train to Busan" is a Korean take on the typical zombie movie. A divorced dad takes his daughter on a high-speed train from Seoul to Busan to visit her mom. As they depart Seoul, a fast-zombie plague breaks out, and one infected person gets on the train. The train soon becomes filled with zombies. Despite traveling almost as fast as flying, the zombie plague precedes them to the stations down the line. The armed forces respond (and are overwhelmed) very rapidly, considering that the train trip to Busan is only a bit longer than the duration of the movie.
The photography was quite clever. Many of the scenes are filmed in the washrooms on board the high-speed train, where the survivors are hiding. There are several shots where the camera pans around the actors, filming them from all sides in one continuous take. Despite the washroom having mirrored walls, the camera never appears in the shot. The only way I can see that they could have done that would be to build a washroom set made of multiple removable panels. As the camera slides around the actors, the panels would shoot upwards out of the way, slamming back down as the lens passed by - all soundlessly, and with the actors managing not to react to parts of the set moving at high speed right next to their faces.
(spoiler alert)
In a departure from typical North American zombie movies and shows, all the main characters end up dead. As in "Yeonpyeong Haejeon", the stars have heroic death scenes.