text: How Demetri Martin Mixes Death Drawings, Deadpan One-Liners and Kevin Kline in His First Movie (Q&A) 6:15 AM PDT 4/15/2016 by Ashley Lee FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Dean Still - Publicity - H 2016 The heartfelt dramedy 'Dean' — premiering Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival — marks the stand-up comedian's directorial debut and also stars Gillian Jacobs and Mary Steenburgen. Everything you'd figure would be in a Demetri Martin movie is in Demetri Martin's new movie: quirky acoustic music, statement-making sketches and deadpan one-liners that observe everyday life. But the heartfelt dramedy Dean — the stand-up comedian's directorial debut, which he also wrote — features these elements while tackling a tough topic, as it follows a young adult coming to terms with the death of his mother. "A lot of people who are attracted to showbiz go for the potential of escape, and it's interesting to try to do a project that turns the other way," Martin, 42, tells The Hollywood Reporter. "What if I lean into the heaviness of my life and make something out of it?" Ahead of the world premiere of Dean — also starring Kevin Kline, Gillian Jacobs and Mary Steenburgen — on Saturday at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, Martin chats with THR about translating his distinct comedy to a feature film, editing with "magical" 1970s music and selfishly including footage that's close to home. How did this movie begin? I did this Comedy Central sketch show [Important Things With Demetri Martin] a few years ago and got to try to get my sensibility of comedy to work for on-camera narrative storytelling. I had a bunch of ideas for a movie; a couple of them were higher concept, and I thought, let me write something manageable that I can direct, rather than trying to sell it. Maybe I should start with something more personal and grounded. What inspired the plot? I lost my dad when I was 20. This was a shock to all of us — he was 46. Years have passed, but it's so crazy how alienating that kind of a loss can be and how much it stays with you and changes your life. You can be fine, but I still have days I miss my dad as much as two weeks after he died. It's the first big thing you'll never get over. Anger is a lot easier to deal with than grief. Anger, you can do something: You can slam a door, you can blame someone, you can hang up on someone. It feels active, even if it's misguided. Grief is so debilitating. You want to blame someone, but there's no one to blame. I wanted to treat the idea of grief and how we all grieve differently. In stand-up, I like telling jokes about balloons and dogs, so I hadn't found a place where I felt comfortable putting that. In film, I can deal with emotion in a deeper way. How was it having Kevin Kline as your onscreen father? I got lucky because I didn't know Kevin before — he has very little to gain, as far as I can tell. Having him agree to do it was already such a nod of approval and confidence. He's got a warmth and a pathos and commitment to the emotions and can still do comedy, at the same time. I'm not a trained actor, for Christ's sake, I already have that that I'm fighting. I probably learned as much about acting as I did about directing. As we started doing scenes, I realized, it's been so long since I had a dad. I never got to be an older guy with a dad; I was pretty much a teenager. It was weird to sit with him on set and have this rapport — I wasn't even sure if I was doing it right. My idea of a dad is from a different me. What's the toughest part of writing a feature script over a stand-up act? There's a different vulnerability — in stand-up, I can adjust in real time, but I'm making a much bigger gamble and prediction in a movie. I wanted to be true to my tone and what I think I am, but I can't just be a guy walking around saying one-liners, right? I had to find the most organic ways. Trial and error — if it doesn't work, it just looks like I'm shoehorning a joke in there. It's not a big, hilarious movie, but there are moments of, "I'm glad that bit works." You include drawings in your stand-up. How was it bringing that to film? I'm always looking for ways to make long flights pass faster. I can read, write jokes, I'm sure I can watch something on the TV that's crammed right in my face there, but my notebook has become a place where I can daydream. I've been working on my next book of drawings for a while, and I thought, it'd be interesting to make a character out of that part of myself. If he's an illustrator, I can show what he's feeling and develop his journey through his work. Even though it's a fictional story, I like that intimacy of what a creative person does when they're trying to come up with stuff and express themselves. Some scenes use music strategically. How did that happen? It was just one of those magical little things. I got to the edit, and I was going to start with some homemade music, but it wouldn't be cinematic. I looked through the music I own and love, and I came across a Pete Dello album and put a song against some footage. The quality of his voice in those 1970s analog recordings — there's something about it that matched what I was trying to do with the heart of the movie. The more of his music I put to the movie, the more I understood how the story would unfold. I emailed him, and he was gracious and gave us a good deal. What's that footage at the end of the movie? That's me and my mom — I'm 3 [years old] there. My mom got early-onset Alzheimer's eight years ago, so the genesis of my movie was the loss of my father, but in the process, I was losing my mom. I thought, we haven't seen fictional Mom, but she's the beating heart of the movie. I selfishly figured, the story's over, and I could just put one of my parents onscreen for a second. If anyone notices, great, but it's not the point; that's more for me. And it also explains why I don't look like Kevin Kline. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Ashley Lee email@example.com cashleelee


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Reality and Expectations a Year Later
The last Free National Movement (FNM) administration had a tough time from 2007 to 2012. The financial crisis in 2008 left the FNM playing catch-up. The crime problem it could never bring under control. The roadwork project could not come to an end.
The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) had all the ammunition it needed in the 2012 general election campaign. It attacked and attacked, exposing the challenges the FNM had during its term. The PLP also promised the world. The party, or its members individually, promised to bring the crime problem under control; to get rid of the roadwork contractor; 10,000 immediate jobs; a commission of inquiry to examine FNM actions; national health insurance in a year, etc.
The PLP said it "Believed in Bahamians" and that a "gold rush" of dreams was coming if only we re-elected Perry Christie as prime minister. Bahamians inhaled the intriguing electoral opiate the PLP was selling and had sky-high expectations for the party. The PLP did not say it would bring incremental change or mere stability. It promised it all.
A year later, Bahamians think what was promised is not being delivered. After eight months in office, in a year when the FNM governed for the first four months, the murder count was not a record again as was becoming the annual expectation. Instead, it was the second highest murder tally in our modern history. This year we are again on pace for around 100 murders, slightly better than before but nowhere near what would be argued as success. Other crime categories this year have declined slightly, but it is too soon to declare a permanent trend. The level of crime and violence in The Bahamas is still far too high for such a small place.
On the economic front joblessness too has declined slightly, but it remains high. The rate of unemployment dropped from 14.7 percent to 14 percent nationally, according to the latest labor force survey released by the Department of Statistics in February. The results of the survey refer to the period October 29 to November 4, 2012. In the previous Labour Force Survey, released in May 2012 and representing the period April 23 to April 29, 2012, unemployment nationally decreased from 15.9 percent to 14.7 percent.
Thousands of Bahamians have become discouraged, however. They no longer look for work. Many feel the only major plank of the PLP economic plan worth looking forward to is Baha Mar – a deal, in its current incarnation, made by the FNM. The thousands of immediate jobs promised by some PLPs seem a mere election promise. Progress is coming slowly. There is no immediate gold in sight.
The party too has had to fight through several self-inflicted crises. The gambling referendum was a debacle. The current Gaming Bill has angered many Bahamians. The problem here is that the Christie government can't make a decision and move on from the issue. The leadership of the party appeared to want to legalize web shops, but it was afraid to do so as a result of church opposition. The people voted against the changes proposed in the referendum after a poor performance by the prime minister in the run-up to the vote. Many people are now angry that the government has before it a draft bill to authorize online gambling for the established resorts, and to allow legal residents to gamble. Bahamians would be the only ones not able to gamble in The Bahamas.
The PLP, of late, has also been embroiled in immigration controversy. It says it wants to stop issuing work permits to domestic laborers – a move that seems excessive to many. It has also pledged a more aggressive enforcement of the country's immigration laws, meaning a crackdown on the issuance of work permits to all foreigners. This has caused uncertainty in the business community.
While Bahamians were sold hope of a "gold rush" and immediate solutions under the PLP, we have seen incremental change and some confusion. The PLP's problem is it irresponsibly promised too much and Bahamians want what they thought they were going to get. The governing party will not be able to deliver on all it pledged. The people now realize this. While they should never have believed all those campaign promises were possible, anger now exists toward the party in charge because it is failing to deliver the grandiose dream.
Who knows how it will all end. Only 20 percent of the mandate is now gone. If Baha Mar is able to bring forward 4,000 jobs to 5,000 jobs, that might make the people happy enough before the next general election to think favorably of the PLP.
A weak, near non-existent opposition also keeps the PLP viable. So despite a slow start in year one, the gold rush administration is still in the game.
Editorial from The Freeport News
May 8, 2013

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Apocalypse/Theme decks
Burial[edit | edit source]
Burial is a theme deck from Apocalypse.
|The best way to win with the "Burial" deck is to play an enormous horde of Zombies and swarm your opponent. Strength of Night, which can give all your Zombies +3/+3, certainly helps. The deck has over twenty Zombies, so you should be able to quickly stink up the table with them. If you ever run into a Zombie shortage, Grave Defiler and Phyrexian Arena can help you get more.
The "Burial" deck contains a lot of versatile cards. Llanowar Dead gives you both early-game mana and a beatdown threat. Play Foul Presence on your own creature and then tap it to kill other creatures-or play it directly on an opponent's small creature to kill it. Putrid Warrior can cause everyone to lose or gain one life. Usually you want everyone to lose one life, but opt for the life gain if you're low on life or if you have Phyrexian Arena in play. Soul Link can also boost your life total if you play it on one of your creatures that's attacking successfully, or you can use it to neutralize an opposing threat. It also goes great on a blocker, ideally Grave Defiler.
Zombies are cheap and plentiful, but they fall apart rather easily. That means the "Burial" deck might have trouble against a deck with lots of big creatures. One way to deal with them is to gang up on attackers. Also, don't forget that Grave Defiler can regenerate; it can hold off a big creature indefinitely. The deck is also stocked with creature-kill spells, which range from the straightforward (Annihilate, Death Grasp) to the tricky (Dead Ringers, Consume Strength). And because green has the biggest creatures, the "Burial" deck includes a couple of Phyrexian Reapers that are custom-made for rubbing them out.
Since the "Burial" deck has three colors, getting the right color of mana can be a problem. For example, Llanowar Dead can give you black mana, but you must have black mana to play it in the first place. If you feel like you're having too many mana problems, try adding extra cards that can provide more than one kind of mana. Of course, that would mean you'd have to get rid of some of those precious Zombies![1]
Lands (21)
5 Forest
3 Plains
10 Swamp
Creatures (23)
Enchantments (3)
Instants (7)
Sorceries (3)
Artifacts (3)
The 2 rares in this deck are Death Grasp and Phyrexian Arena.
Pandemonium[edit | edit source]
Pandemonium is a theme deck from Apocalypse. It features the Penumbras vertical cycle.
|Having trouble deciding which color to play? With the "Pandemonium" deck, you can avoid the issue by playing all the colors. All of them. Your opponents will cower in fear as you unleash a variety of different threats. And with the Apocalypse set's Penumbra creatures at your disposal, the threats continue long after the cards go to your graveyard.
Playing the "Pandemonium" deck is all about being able to get the right mana. Multicolored decks can be tricky to play because you'll often draw spells of one color and lands that produce another. By using mana-fixing cards such as Lay of the Land and Harrow, you get the colors you need when you need them. Gaea's Balance can also fix any color deficiency, but be careful if your opponent has any counterspells. If Gaea's Balance is countered, you'll have already sacrificed five lands and you won't get them back.
In most games you won't have anything to attack with for several turns. That's okay-you'll be busy getting all five basic land types so you can play your more powerful spells. The Penumbra creatures provide early defense, and with their back-from-the-dead ability, you shouldn't hesitate to trade one for another creature in combat. Because your opponent can sometimes bring out a whole swarm before you play any threats, don't be afraid to play a card like Emblazoned Golem early, before you can pay its maximum kicker cost. The same is true for the "domain" cards. Tribal Flames kills a 2/2 creature when you have two kinds of land in play just as well as it does when you have all five.
The "Pandemonium" deck has several weaknesses. It's vulnerable to flying creatures, and it doesn't do well against decks focused on controlling the board. To give the deck some sharper teeth in the late game, as well as to help against control decks, consider adding Urza's Rage. If you're still having problems, try adding some more utility cards, such as Allied Strategies or Exotic Curse. Finally, if you want to get serious, think about adding a creature that will make other players jump when it hits the table. Maybe Cromat would get your opponent's attention.[2]
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Enchantments (4)
Instants (7)
3 Harrow
Sorceries (10)
The 2 rares in this deck are Last Stand and Penumbra Wurm.
Swoop[edit | edit source]
Swoop is a theme deck from Apocalypse.
|You've seen theme decks with lots of flying creatures before. What makes the "Swoop" deck different? Two things: It's got green in it, and it's bouncy! The way to win with this deck is to distract your opponent while your squadron of airborne critters pecks your opponent to death.
How do you distract your opponent? That's where the green cards and bouncy cards come in. Big green creatures provide ground defense while you mount your air attack. You can use spells that "bounce" permanents, such as Temporal Spring and Repulse, for several purposes: To buy time to whittle down your opponent's life total, to clear a path for your flying attackers, or to save important cards you control by returning them to your hand or library so you can play them again.
Repulse, Rushing River, Coastal Drake's ability . . . these seem straightforward, but you can pull off a lot of tricks with them. Sure, you can just get some damage through by bouncing potential blockers and attacking. But try this: Wait for your opponent to gang-block one of your bigger creatures. Then, before damage is assigned, bounce one of the blockers. Often, your attacker will survive and destroy any blockers left in play. Here's another trick: Let's say one of your creatures is about to die in combat and take an enemy creature with it. Wait for combat damage to go on the stack, then bounce your own creature. Even though it's no longer in play, its damage will still be dealt to the enemy creature. Then you can replay your rescued creature.
There are two ways to go to improve this deck. One is to put in more creatures that change colors along with more spells that take advantage of this effect (like Jaded Response). Or you could remove the color-changing theme entirely and just focus on beatdown creatures and bounce spells. The Invasion set's Kavu Climber and Kavu Titan are both excellent candidates for a "stomp and bounce" deck. Replay the Climber to draw another card, or play the Titan as a 2/2, then play Repulse on it and replay it as a 5/5. It's like watching a rerun that gets funnier each time you see it![3]
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Enchantments (4)
Instants (4)
1 Confound
1 Repulse
Sorceries (6)
1 Wash Out
Artifacts (2)
The 2 rares in this deck are Mystic Snake and Yavimaya's Embrace.
Whirlpool[edit | edit source]
Whirlpool is a theme deck from Apocalypse.[4]
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Enchantments (3)
Instants (10)
1 Confound
1 Exclude
2 Jilt
1 Opt
2 Stun
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The 2 rares in this deck are Suffocating Blast and Whirlpool Warrior.


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|Mycological Resources on the Internet
|The best thing about this list of mushroom websites is how exhaustive it is, meaning that you can find a website devoted to any aspect of fungus which interests you. The worst thing about this list of fungus websites is how exhaustive it is, meaning that it might take a lot of digging around to find a website devoted to the aspect of fungus which interests you. There's a separate listing of websites dealing with the classification of all fungi, including lichens. Last visited in January of 2008.
|There are lots of photos of American fungi here, in groups of 10 photos per page. The navigation could be made easier - at the moment, you have to return to the index page each time you want to get to the next group of photos. There's also a good website links page.
|Fungi Images on the Net
|This website contains links to 1600 different fungus photos scattered across the internet. Unfortunately, you have to know the name of the fungus to find the photo, so it's not much good as an initial identification guide.
|Treasures from the Kingdom of Fungi
|This website features photographs of fungi from various areas of the world, which you have to proceed through one at a time. The fungi are great, the photos are good but not quite big enough, but there's no information at all about what the fungi are, where they were found or what their life cycles are.
|As the authors point out, Australia has around 250,000 species of fungi and only 20 mycologists, so there are lots of undescribed species. The researchers who maintain this website are developing a target list of easily identifiable Australian fungi, and when I visited in March of 2003 this list had grown to around 100 species. This list is in fact a photo gallery of mostly pretty cool looking fungi! There's also an amusing list of strange facts about fungi which explains the origin of Santa Claus, among other things.
|Macrofungi of Costa Rica
|This website has a section which has Costa Rican fungi listed by family, unfortunately if you're try to identify a fungus and don't know the name or family then you have to search each species page by page.
|The Hidden Forest
|This individual's private website has a huge number of fungi photos, and an excellent identification guide.
|New Zealand Fungi
|It bills itself as the "gateway to all things fungi in New Zealand", and it pretty much achieves its goal, containing an excellent list of links to private, government and commercial fungus sites, as well as the extremely good images made by the "photo fungi foray group". Last visited in January of 2005.
|The New Zealand site: fungi
|This sub-section of a larger site showing photographs of New Zealand contains a fantastic set of photo galleries of some of New Zealand's wonderful and colourful fungi. There are some great photos on this site, including one of a moth killed by fungus.
|Tom Volk's Fungi
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How Piggy French overcame despair to win gold at World Equestrian Games
PUBLISHED: 15:49 18 September 2018
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East Anglia's Piggy French has won team eventing gold at the World Equestrian Games. But why did she almost quit the sport and how did she get her unusual nickname? Sheena Grant reports.
East Anglian-born eventing star Piggy French is returning from the World Equestrian Games in the USA with a team gold medal six years after seeing her dreams of competing in the London Olympics cruelly destroyed.
Piggy, riding Quarrycrest Echo, was victorious alongside team mates Gemma Tattersall, Tom McEwen and individual gold winner Ros Canter, who together become the sixth British team to secure a world title.
Here, we take a look at the life and career of one of our most successful riders, who was born Georgina French in 1980 and is from North Elmham.
Why is she called "Piggy"?
Apparently, the nickname was bestowed upon her at a young age by her sisters, who thought she looked like Piglet, from Winnie the Pooh.
When did she start competing?
She came from a 'horsey' family - her mother and sister competed too. Her first championship level ride was in 2001 at the young riders' European Championships, where she took a team gold. Other notable successes include winning the Individual Silver medal at the 2009 Europeans at Fontainebleau. She is also a past winner of a number of top level events including Blenheim and Burnham Market and been runner-up at Badminton.
What happened at the London Olympics in 2012?
Piggy, who is now based in Northamptonshire, had to miss the London Olympics and the 2013 European Championships after a succession of injuries to her top horses. She has said competing in the home games would have been a dream come true and that missing out hit her hard, causing her to question whether she even wanted to continue in the sport.
Earlier this year, she told BBC Sport: "I wanted to give up at a few stages. I was so desperate to get back to the top and over-tried to get there and sometimes things just aren't meant to be and the harder you try and more desperate you are, the more it just keeps going wrong. I started to not enjoy the sport and not enjoy riding so much - and I've always, since as long as I can remember, just loved working with horses."
How did she bounce back?
Piggy took a break from the sport, fell in love with partner Tom March and had a baby, which, she says, gave her a different perspective and more balance in her life. "Having a break from the sport, I realised there is no justice in horses and (what had happened previously) wasn't my fault," she has said.
How did she get to this year's World Equestrian Games?
Piggy and Quarrycrest Echo have enjoyed a number of good results this year, winning at Chatsworth in May and two top level Norfolk events in March, Burnham Market and Great Witchingham, before being confirmed in August as part of the British eventing squad for the World Equestrian Games, running from September 11 to 23.
Does she still dream of Olympic success?
The next Olympic Games are at Tokyo in 2020. Piggy has said: "There will never be another London but there will be other Olympics and I would very much love to have a go for one of those. I would feel like I had let myself down if I hadn't got to an Olympics."
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Regarding Rampage.@CraigsBar I agree that we still need extended format support, hopefully we will get it at some point. I have now got all game options on one cart.@seanb I've done a lot more work on Rampage. Don't feel bad or crawl into a hole [emoji23] RAMPAGEPress " The Console Pause Button ( P ) " To pass both Title Screens ( If I used Fire Button 1 to pass the Title Screens, it would load option 1 in control option screen ) Use Joypad 1 to Choose Option Control, Six options are now available ( If you press Joypad 2 Button 1 ( G ) then you will load the original version of the game ) Hidden little extra The new version is available here.
Awesome work looking forward to playing this.
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HSE refuse Abbeyleix hospital talks
THE HSE has confirmed in writing to the local action committee that it will not sit down to discuss the terms of reference for consultation on Abbeyleix Community Nursing Home.
Action committee PRO, Gary O'Keeffe said they have been going around in circles over the last number of weeks trying to get the HSE to enter into discussions with them. But in a letter to the committee this week, the HSE declined to agreen an agenda. "(We) are not in a position to discuss the broad parameters of the consultation process at this stage."
"They have no intention of sitting down with the Abbeyleix group. We were invited to send in a submission, but the committee feel that is not a meaningful or workable way to do things," said Mr O'Keeffe.
In early December, the High Court was told that the proposal to close Abbeyleix Community Nursing Unit had been set aside, to allow a period of consultation with residents and medical staff. The committee, who were mandated by the residents of the nursing home and their families to represent them, have continued in vain since to get the HSE to enter into discussions. This is the first contact the committee have had from the HSE despite numerous letters and phone calls.
"Unless we sit down with the HSE, anything else is a fudge and disingenous to the residents and their familes. Despite chasing the HSE for weeks to sit down to discuss the terms of reference of this consultation, we've just been going around in circles. We're fuming with the attitude of the HSE, it's not in keeping with what they promised," he said.
Mr O'Keeffe said the HSE claimed that the consultation would be 'robust, open, meaningful and transparent."
"That's a total contradiction. How can they put those two sentences in one letter," he questioned. The Action Committee PRO said they had sought clarification from the HSE and Minister.


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Governor Terms of Reference
Terms of Reference
1. The Federation Governing Body (FGB) will operate at all times in accordance with the requirements of the Education Acts; the School Governance Regulations; the Local Authorities Scheme for Financing Schools and all other relevant legislation.
2. The governance structures and operating arrangements set out in this document will be reviewed annually by the FGB. They are underpinned by the specific policies; standing orders; codes of practice and other delegations of Ifield and King's Farm Schools (I&KFSs).
Governance Structure and Membership
3. Whilst the Federation Governing Body as a whole remains responsible for the Governance function of the Federation, in The Cedar Federation Model there are three distinct areas of work delegated by them.
The Governance structure and number of meetings each school year is set out in Appendix A.
In addition to the main FGB are three committees:
- Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee
- Finance & Resource Management Committee
- Teaching, Learning & Assessment Committee
The proposal (in Appendix A) is that there are "up to" six meetings in a school year for the Finance & Resource Management and Teaching, Learning & Assessment Committees in recognition of the workload associated with covering two schools. The reality of course may be that these Committees are able to effectively conduct business with less than six meetings.
4. The key responsibilities of each committee are shown in Appendix B and membership of each committee in Appendix C.
General Principles
5. All matters which can legally be delegated to Committees should be delegated.
6. Governors should be able to indicate their preferences for Committee membership, as described in paragraphs 9-11 below, but agreement of membership will be a function of the FGB. It is open to the FGB to co-opt additional members to individual committees.
7. All Governors will, in liaison with the Executive Headteacher and Head of Schools of I&KFSs, develop a link with classes in each school. The nature of the link to be agreed between the Governor and each Head of School.
8. In addition to the School Plans for I&KFSs there should be an overarching Federation Strategy. The Federation Strategy will form part of each of the school plans which sets out the Federation's overall vision, aims, and objectives for both schools along with how and when these will be achieved and associated responsibilities for delivery. Preparation of a Federation Strategy, for approval by the FGB, should be a first order priority for the Leadership, Strategy and Improvement Committee.
Appointment of Governors to Committees
9. Governors will be asked to indicate which individual responsibilities they are prepared to take on to be presented to the FGB for approval at the Autumn meeting.
10. The Federation Executive Headteacher (FEH), and Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee will produce a recommendation, based on overall FGB needs, for membership of individual Committees. This is to be presented to the FGB for approval or amendment at the Autumn meeting.
11. The Chair of Governors can appoint new Governors to Committees between annual meetings, after discussion on preferences.
Budgetary Timetable
12. The budget is driven by the Federation Strategy and School Plans for I&KFSs and follows the Financial Year Planner :
- Autumn and Spring Meetings
Committees consider areas of expenditure taking into account the relevant sections of the I&KFSs Plans. Costed proposals will be presented to the Finance & Resource Management Committee, who will recommend affordable proposals to the FGB.
- Summer
Committees consider areas of expenditure taking into account the relevant sections of the I&KFs Plans. When the Local Authority has informed the Schools of the funds delegated for the Current Year, the Finance and Resource Management Committee, at the Budget Meeting, consider areas of expenditure taking into account these and other items of recurrent income and expenditure for the preparation and approval of each Schools Budget for that Year and adoption by the FGB.
13. Subsequent changes to funding or costed expenditure proposals will be taken into account by the Finance & Resource Management Committee by adjustments to the relevant (I or KF) School Budget by virement or other procedures authorised by the FGB.
Federation Governing Body – Operating Arrangements
The main responsibilities to be managed by the Federation Governing Body (FGB) are outlined below:
Responsibilities which cannot be delegated:
- To draw up the Instrument of Government and any amendments thereafter.
- To review the standing order for the election of the Chair and Vice Chair of Governors including the length of the term of office.
- To elect (or remove) the Chair or Vice Chair of Governors
- To appoint (or dismiss) the Clerk to the Governing Body
- To hold at least three FGB meetings each school year
- To appoint and remove Co-opted Governors and Associate Members of the Governing Body
- To suspend a Governor
- To decide which functions of the Governing Body will be delegated and to whom
- To receive reports from any committee or individual Governor to whom a delegation has been made and to consider whether any further action by the Governing Body is necessary.
- To review delegation arrangements annually.
Responsibilities which may be delegated:
- To recruit Governors as vacancies arise
- To maintain a register of Governors' Business Interests
- To regulate Governing Body procedures which are not set out in law and record these as Standing Orders
- To assign individuals to monitor specific priorities of the School Plans
- To appoint a SEND Governor to discharge duties in respect of pupils with Special Needs.
Committees – Operating Arrangements
14. The following arrangements will apply :
- The Committees, except Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement, will meet up to six times a year, between FGB meetings
- The Finance & Resource Management Committee will, where possible be the last in the cycle of Committee meetings to allow recommendations from other committees
- Committee Chairs, as necessary, may call additional meetings
- The Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee will meet as required but not less than three times a year. A representative from each of the other committees should attend each meeting of the Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee
- All Committee meetings should take place in good time for draft minutes to be provided in advance to the FGB meeting so as to allow decisions and recommendations to be reported
- The Committee Chair, or in their absence another member, will report back to the FGB
- The Chair of Governors and the Federation Executive Headteacher (FEH) are ex-officio voting members of all Committees.
- If the FEH is unable to be present at a meeting, a member of the Leadership team will be nominated to attend
- The quorum for any Committee meeting and for any vote is three Governors who are members of the Committee including the Chair of Governors and FEH.
- Each Committee will elect a chair annually, at the Autumn meeting.
- All Committee members who are Governors have voting rights
- Associate Governors have no voting rights
- The Committee has the right to co-opt up to two additional members on an annual basis.
- Any Governor may attend any Committee meeting as an observer and, with the approval of the Committee, may contribute to discussion but not vote. A Governor attending as an observer will be required to strictly honour the confidentiality and sensitivity of any issues discussed in a committee as specified by the chair of the committee.
- A senior member of the school staff (drawn from I&KF staff), and appointed by the FEH, will service each Committee
- The clerk will minute all Committees
- The Committee Chair and the servicing member of school staff, with the support of the clerk, will draft Committee agendas. The clerk will circulate the written agenda, in advance of meetings, together with all relevant papers.
- Each Committee has a responsibility to ensure that all statutory matters, including review of policies, are carried out at the appropriate time. The chair of each Committee will arrange for each Committee member to be provided with a list of the statutory matters relevant to the responsibilities of the Committee.
- The School Plan for each school (I&KF) is managed by the Executive Headteacher and Head of School of each school. Each section will be considered and approved by the appropriate Committee on an annual basis and taking account of the overarching Federation Strategy.
- School Policies are allocated by the FGB to an individual Committee for monitoring and review
- All Committees will have a role in the work of the Nursery, Sixth Form Centre, Post 19, Woodland, and Off-site visits.
Specific Governor Responsibilities
15. Will be as follows:
SEND Governor: Andrew Sparks
Safeguarding & Child Protection: Andrew Sparks
Children in Care: Andrew Sparks
Early Years: Vacancy
Health & Safety: Rev Martin & Caroline McIntosh
Sixth Form: Sue Dunn
Pupil Achievement: Tony Smith & Sue Dunn
Pupil Premium: Paul Jackson
Responsibility for training: Clerk
Induction of new Governors: Vacancy
Careers Guidance: Sue Dunn
Artsmark Iwan Davies
Performance Management of Executive Headteacher: Three governors required to be chosen from the panel agreed as: Andrew Sparks, Tony Smith, Richard Martin, David Williams
Monitoring Governors and Governors with Specific Responsibilities
16. To monitor an identified target or statutory function of the Governing Body and report to the Governing Body. It is expected that at least one monitoring visit will be made during the year, with two other visits or discussions about a focused issue. Other forms of communication such as telephone calls emails, etc may be substituted for a visit. A visit does not necessarily have to take place during the time when students/pupils are in school, and could be just as effective as a meeting between governor(s) and the lead professional at the end of the day as mutually agreed.
17. The purpose will be to :
- Gain an understanding of the scope of the activities the schools are conducting to achieve success.
- Undertake any necessary training (in or out of school) to enable effective monitoring of the areas/subject.
- Monitor the progress of school activities towards the target or duty.
- Evaluate the extent of success at the end of the set timescale.
18. A visit to the schools will be arranged with reference to the Executive Headteacher and Head of School and in accordance with the Governor Visits policy. A report will be no more than 1 side of A4 in length (not including any data), be submitted for approval by the Head of School and/or any lead professional within the school within 2 weeks of the visit, and then be lodged with the clerk of governors for distribution as soon as possible.
Signed............................................................. Date.....
Chair of the Governing Body
Appendix B – key responsibilities of FGB Committees
Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee
The Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee is a small group of Governors including the Chair and Vice Chair working more closely with the senior management of the school who know the school well through school self-evaluation (SEF) and develop strategies and plans for Federation and School Improvement.
Key responsibilities
- Recommend and monitor the structure of the Governing Body (including its Committees)
- Review the effectiveness of the Governing Body
- Review and Update the School Improvement Plans for I&KFSs taking account of Ofsted recommendations; the KFS school improvement partner and acknowledged good practice
- Have oversight of cross committee responsibilities in order to ensure effective join up and delivery
- Ensure the dissemination of information to relevant committees
- Determine the overall staff complement for I&KFSs for agreement by the FGB
- In conjunction with the Executive Headteacher and Head of Schools of I&KFSs, contribute to agreeing the structure of the School Leadership Team in each school, taking account of and authorising any subsequent changes to costed expenditure with support from the Director of Finance and Resources.
- In conjunction with the Executive Headteacher, be involved in the recruitment of senior staff at Head of School & Assistant Head Teacher level in each school.
- Lead the Discipline Committees and Discipline Review Panels for I&KFSs
- Determine the Complaints procedure for I&KFSs for approval of the FGB and dissemination to parents
- Keep under review the admissions policies for I&KFSs
- Actively look at links with other schools as part of continuous improvement (sharing best practice) and as a means of strengthening the I&KFSs Federation
- To determine the timing of the Executive Headteacher appraisal review cycle and appoint three Governors to act as reviewers alongside an external advisor forming the Executive Headteacher Performance Management Committee in line with the federation pay policy.
- To consider and approve the recommendations of the Executive Headteacher in relation to the performance management of the leadership team in line with the federation pay policy.
- To consider and approve any uplift to be applied to the School's pay scales for teachers and support staff.
- To monitor the application and effectiveness of the pay policy, ensuring pay decisions are linked to evidence of performance and the criteria for pay progression are applied consistently, fairly and objectively.
Teaching, Learning & Assessment Committee
The Teaching, Learning and Assessment Committee focus on the delivery of the annual School Plans, undertake monitoring and evaluation activities against School Plan priorities and report to the FGB as a whole.
Key responsibilities
- Support the Executive Headteacher and Head of Schools of I&KFSs and staff in their aim to enable all pupils to make good progress by providing a wide range of high quality, barrier-free challenging learning experiences and opportunities. These include:
- Access to the full statutory National Curriculum,
- Religious Education in accordance with the Kent Agreed Syllabus,
- Relationships & Sex Education
- Learning and development requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage, Sixth Form, Post 19 and Foundation Learning,
- Woodland Teaching & Learning,
- Resolving complaints about the curriculum.
- Monitor pupil achievement & outcomes
- Monitor Pupil Data including Statutory & Additional Target Setting, Children in Care, Bullying incidents, Racial incidents, Safeguarding, Exclusions, and PTFA
- Evaluate and monitor Pupils' Personal Development, Behaviour and Wellbeing
- Monitor Pupil Attendance
- Recognise the impact of others, such as families and relations with the world outside I&KFSs and, on the education and wellbeing of pupils at both schools – considering these as appropriate
- Review policies in relation to statutory requirements to ensure they are fit for purpose
- Review acknowledged good practice in other schools and consider whether and how this can be applied to I&KFSs – as part of driving continuous improvement in teaching, learning and assessment
Finance & Resource Management
The Finance & Resource Management Committee focus on the delivery of the annual School Plans, undertake monitoring and evaluation activities against School Plan priorities and report to the FGB as a whole.
Key responsibilities
- Produce and approve, on behalf of the FGB, the Annual Budget in accordance with the Federation Strategy and I&KFSs School Plans
- Review I&KFSs Financial Policies and Strategic Plans, and the management of resources and financial position as necessary
- Monitor the Revenue and Capital budgets to ensure compliance under the I&KFSs internal financial controls
- Be responsible for the write off of no longer required or serviceable assets above a specified value as delegated to the I&KFSs Head of Schools and Executive Headteacher from time to time
- In collaboration with the I&KFSs Head of Schools and relevant School staff, be responsible for monitoring the upkeep and maintenance of the School's asset and where required recommending appropriate measures to the FGB to rectify inadequacies
- Undertake an inspection of I&KFSs assets 3 times a year in conjunction with a representative from the Teaching, Learning & Assessment Committee and make such recommendations as appropriate and necessary to the FGB
- Consider recommendations from other Committees and submit comments to the FGB on financial feasibility of the recommendations
- Monitor the School Governors Allowances Policy
- Keep an overview of the I&KFSs Voluntary Funds
- Monitor all aspects of Health and Safety within I&KFSs to ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation and regulations
- Review and implement the Ifield School's Health and Safety and Lettings policies in line with all current legislation, to include:
- The Woodland
- The Smile Centre
- Nursery
- Post 16 provision
- Take regular measures as necessary to encourage the correct practice of Health and Safety regulations on the part of all school personnel
- Undertake a Health and Safety inspection of I&KFSs school sites 3 times a year.
- Consider, in cooperation with the Executive Headteacher and I&KFSs Head of Schools and relevant School staff, improvements and innovations to the school premises
- Monitor all aspects of staffing within I&KFSs including the application and update of the relevant School policies including the federation pay policy
- In conjunction with the Executive Headteacher and Head of Schools of I&KFSs, review and agree policy and procedures for the pay and reward of staff, grievance procedures and the management of absence and special leave
- To monitor the application and effectiveness of the pay policy, ensuring pay decisions are linked to evidence of performance and the criteria for pay progression are applied consistently, fairly and objectively.
- Provide a summary report on finance and resource management to the FGB 3 times a year.
Appendix C – Membership of FGB Committees
Leadership, Strategy and School Improvement Committee
Chair : Mr Andrew Sparks
Members : Mrs Abigail Birch
Mr Iwan Davies
Mrs Sue Dunn
Mr Chris Jackson
Miss Maddy Jones
Rev Richard Martin
Mr Andrew Sparks
Teaching, Learning & Assessment Committee
Chair : Mr Tony Smith
Members : Mr Tony Smith
Mrs Sue Bates
Mrs Abigail Birch
Mrs Sue Dunn
Mr Chris Jackson
Mr Paul Jackson
Miss Maddy Jones
Mrs Caroline McIntosh
Miss Michelle Murray (TBC)
Finance & Resource Management
Chair : Mr Andrew Sparks
Members : Mr Andrew Sparks
Mrs Abigail Birch
Mr Chris Jackson
Miss Maddy Jones
Mr Pawel Masloch
Mrs Clare Stoddart
Mr David Williams
Mr David Johnson (TBC)
iSparc Project Mrs Clare Stoddart
The Cedar Federation Governor Links September 2019/20
Chair of Governors Andrew Sparks
Key Stage
Ifield School
King's Farm School
Early Years
Ifield Nursery
Cedar Class
Key Stage 1
Caroline McIntosh
David Johnson
Barn Owl
Key Stage 2
Andrew Sparks
Clare Stoddart
Michelle Murray
Key Stage 3
Rev. Martin
Pawel Masloch
Key Stage 4
Tony Smith
Iwan Davies
Key Stage 5
David Williams
Sue Dunn
Post 19
Other Governor Responsibilities
A Sparks
Pupil Premium
P Jackson
A Sparks
Health & Safety
Rev Martin & C McIntosh
Training Governor
Early Years
Sixth Form
S Dunn
Children in Care
A Sparks
Pupil Achievement
T Smith & S Dunn
S Dunn
I Davies
Staff Governors without specific Governor Responsibilities in School
Mrs Abigail Birch
Mr Chris Jackson
Mr Paul Jackson
Miss Maddy Jones


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Australian Native Grasslands
Australian Native Grasslands: Guiding Landscapes and Communities in Transition
This project explores the values driving the management of grassland conservation reserves and the influence of these values on grassland quality. Historical data collation and field monitoring has been carried out for grassland sites in the West of Melbourne, and interviews with grassland managers conducted. Community attitudes towards grasslands, and the influence of these attitudes on management values was also explored. The findings in each of these areas, and the interaction of the parts, contributes to a greater understanding of how grasslands can best be managed in an urban context.


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Today I fawned over a collection of old New York imagery from the late 1800's through the end of the last century that The Museum of the City of New York recently released, wondering what corner bar now stands where an old city tenement had endured. The cache of images left me feeling wistful about the latest on the Lower East Side's kill list, as it was recently announced that on top of Max Fish and Pink Pony's imminent closings, Mars Bar will shutter in 2011 as well. Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable was famous for her outspoken 1963 New York Times article on the demolition of the original Penn Station in favor of Madison Square Garden, called "How to Kill a City." She wrote: "Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn't afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed." It's hard to be both a New York nostalgist and also feel positive about change and progress in the city, but are the cookie-cutter developments set to replace Mars Bar things that we really want?
(Via Curbed). The current plan in place for Mars Bar is a 12-story, 60-unit building by BFC Partners (shown above), who have solidified relocation agreements with the current Second Avenue residents, though they have not yet negotiated such a contract with Mars Bar. Plans may include a 2-year closure for the ramshackle bar, only to reopen as a glossy version of its former self.
While many have expressed concern for such a loss, one person gung-ho for the development is owner Hank Penza, who told the Times: "They won't choke me, I didn't get off the boat yesterday with a pound of spaghetti in my hand," noting that he was likely to "ultimately get a space that's three to four times the size."
When explaining the lure of Mars Bar, Nate Freeman of the New York Observer states it best: It's a bit of a sore thumb on Second Avenue. Mars Bar is garish and gross; it's on a street that's so clean you could have a blanket-less picnic with your tofu from Whole Foods, which is conveniently located right next door. Mars Bar is loud, dirty, and full of unapologetic malcontents, seemingly of another age; outside people pass by, quickly and looking down, on their way to buy a bottle of Riesling and some organic kale for the night's salad. Mars Bar serves up cheap whiskey and cancer; directly around the corner, Daniel Boulud serves up House-Made Pappardelle "Gourguignon" at DBGB. Mars Bar is not a nice place, and this is what makes Mars Bar one of the best.
It's one of those places I made sure to pass while walking with people who had never been south of 14th Street (or to New York in general) so I could get a decent read of them by their reaction (usually either "What a cool building," or "Is this a safe area?"). Many people could never understand what a perceived eyesore like Mars Bar could mean to a neighborhood, but the loss seems more about the principle—a hallmark of change that belongs to every generation, whether they'll learn from it or not. Demolishing Penn Station in 1963 proved to be so traumatic to New Yorkers that a preservationist spirit overpowered the modernist aesthetic of the time inspiring Mayor Robert Wagner to sign the 1965 New York City Landmarks Law, creating the Landmarks Preservation Commission we know today.
I'm not saying that Mars Bar should be preserved; I'm not one of those people who claims that the Lower East Side is dead, either. There is no comparison between tearing down one of the greatest Beaux Arts buildings in New York and shuttering a few crumbling venues—but a collection of these institutions add up and amount to the overall feeling that pervades a neighborhood, and ultimately, a city. I'm just wondering if we can experience hindsight, if the ongoing battle between preservation and modernity will once again influence how proactively New Yorkers become involved in envisioning the future of their ideal city, like they were once inspired to do (post-Penn Station projects that were halted by concerned New Yorkers included a parking lot in the middle of Central Park, and plans to build a Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have paved over Greenwich Village and what is now SoHo). As one blogger writes in regard to the supposed modernity of Penn Station reconstructed all those years ago: "I'd like to go back in time, drag the architects into the present, and ask them: what, you thought we would all be wearing George Jetson jumpsuits, queuing patiently for the Atomic Express? The reality is a waiting room with insufficient signage, a great hall that isn't, and a Hudson News thronged with balding guys, ties askew, furtively paging through battered porn mags."


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"If people are being so careless about their children's health, what else are they being careless about? If you're willing to forego something as essential as health insurance, what else are your children going without? If you can't afford to insure you're {sic} kids, don't have them."
This was a comment I received on a post about not having health insurance. The same commenter accosted another commenter for being unable to afford health care while her husband was in graduate school.
Also on big babble…How do you know when a trend is over? When 6 year olds start sporting it.


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Our fishing season for Red Snapper is limited at best. I have never caught one, but I hear it is fun to hook em! It's on my bucket list of things to do, go big game fishing one day.
On a different note, classes are going well at the Eastern Shore Art Center. This is my last week of teaching there. This week is The wonders of watercolors!
This piece is actually two paintings, cut and woven back together.
Red Bird, 9 x 12
Red Snapper, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 36
Day 21 of the 100 days~100 paintings


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Windows Update: We couldn't complete the updates, Undoing changes
If you've ever had problems with Windows Updates before and found yourself in a constant loop of applying updates to be followed by 'we couldn't complete the updates, undoing changes', then you'll know just how infuriating this whole process is.
The most likely explanation is a corrupt update, or something else on your system is preventing the update from installing.
Thankfully there is something we can do to clear the problematic Windows Updates from the system, and let them re-download to try again.
From Windows 8 onwards you have the following options to get into safe mode.
- Press Shift and click Restart to boot you into the Advanced startup options screen
- Open Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced startup > Restart now.
- Type shutdown /r /o in an elevated CMD prompt to reboot your computer into Advanced Boot options or Recovery console.
Or if you're old skool or still using Windows 7 you can use the old fashioned bashing of the F8 key on startup
Once you have entered Safe Mode of your desktop, you have three options. I recommend you do option 1 first and then reboot and see if problems persist, if they do. Come back and move onto steop 3, and then worse case scenario step 3. As I mentioned previously you may also want to look into no other software on your system, is preventing the update from installing before venturing onto step 3!
1] Run Command Prompt as administrator. In the CMD box that appears on the computer screen, enter the following strings of text, one at a time, and hit Enter.
net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
Now browse to the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution folder and delete all the files and folders inside.
Restart your computer. It should be able to boot to Desktop.
2] Open Control Panel > Programs and Features > View installed updates. Here you may uninstall the offending update which you may have installed recently, just before your problem started.
3] Use System Restore to restore your computer back to a prior good point.


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Anthropology and Education Quarterly (AEQ) is the journal of the Council on Anthropology and Education, a professional association of anthropologists and educational researchers which is a section of the American Anthropological Association that meets at the AAA Annual Meeting.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal that draws on anthropological theories and methods to examine educational processes in and out of schools, in US and international contexts. Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions.
Access to AEQ
- Members of the Council on Anthropology and Education receive AEQ as part of their membership.
- AEQ is also available for AAA members at AnthroSource.
- For more information on suscriptions to AEQ please visit the publishers' Web site.
- View a sample issue here.
Author Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, following the guidelines available at AEQ Wiley-Blackwell's Web site
Editorial Information
Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Laura A. Valdiviezo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Associate Editors
Fida Adely, Georgetown University
Katherine Bruna, Iowa State University
Jill Koyama, University of Arizona
Reynaldo Reyes, University of Texas, El Paso
James Seale-Collazo, University of Puerto Rico
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Lori Ungemah, Guttman Community College at the City University of New York
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Working After a Sudden Disability
For your working life, you've operated like everyone else. But what happens when you have a sudden disability -- like a spinal cord or brain injury? To what extent can you -- or should you -- modify your work?
"People need time to recover physically, of course, but they also have to adjust psychologically," says Barbara Trader, executive director of TASH, an advocacy organization for people with disabilities. "Some people decide they don't want to go through whatever is needed to return to their old job. In that case, they should work with vocational rehabilitation professionals to figure out a new job or career path."
But for many people, returning to a familiar workplace -- with all its human connections -- is a crucial part of recovery. Consultation with a wide range of professionals, from physical rehabilitation specialists to mental health therapists, as well as with supervisors and colleagues, can smooth the way back to a successful return.
Returning to Work
"All people need time to recover and envision a life they consider valuable," Trader says. "But the sooner they start preparing to return, the better. The longer a person stews about what's next, the longer it takes to get back in a job. So both physical and psychological rehabilitation right after a major injury is important."
What about less severe injuries, like broken bones? Though not permanent conditions, they nonetheless can be disruptive to workplace productivity.
"The first step is to identify how you can function best at your job level," Trader says. That may mean asking for certain tasks to be reassigned or for a reduced workweek. You could request workplace accommodations like modifications to the height of your workstation, rearrangement of your cubicle to fit a wheelchair, or special computer software or hardware.
Yet the most common modifications are not physical or structural, says David Fram, director of EEO and ADA services for the National Employment Law Institute. They involve policies and procedures, such as where breaks can be taken and for how long or how to adapt a schedule to accommodate treatment.
Reasonable Accommodations
When should an employee ask for such job modifications? It is important for an employee to ask as soon as possible for what Fram calls "reasonable accommodations," rather than wait until his performance suffers. Employers do not have to retroactively forgive performance problems. However, courts have ruled that employees need not be specific about their needs. Once an employee makes her condition known, it is up to the employer to analyze the workplace, determine job functions and devise necessary accommodations.
An employer does not have to accommodate "essential tasks." For example, it is essential for dockworkers and luggage handlers to lift heavy items. Employees who are no longer able to perform those tasks are not guaranteed jobs. However, they can request reassignment to managerial or administrative positions -- only if there are vacancies and only if they are qualified.
Many people for whom travel is an important part of their jobs find themselves derailed by a sudden injury. Creative solutions abound, including teleconferencing, shifting travel duties to a colleague, shipping materials separately so the employee does not have to tote them around and booking nonstop flights instead of those with connections.
Similarly, while regular, reliable attendance is considered an "essential task," employees with sudden injuries -- whether temporary or permanent -- might be able to work from home, either fully or partially.
What Constitutes a Disability?
While the law protects workers with disabilities, not everyone with a physical problem qualifies as "disabled" under the law. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a physical problem must be long-term and "substantially limit" life activities. By that definition, a broken leg does not qualify. In addition, the ADA covers only companies with at least 15 employees. Workers who become suddenly disabled should check with their human resources department, because some companies' policies are more generous than ADA provisions.
The Family and Medical Leave Act allows workers to take up to 12 weeks off per year without losing jobs or health insurance. However, it applies only to companies with 50 or more employees.
Though worrying about the future is natural, experts say employees who want to continue working can usually do so -- quite productively, in fact. Trader mentions a ventilator-dependent judge who still tries cases. Those stories are more prevalent than many people realize, she says.


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SAN RAMON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GE Digital (NYSE: GE) today announced it has completed the acquisition of ServiceMax, a leader in cloud-based field service management (FSM) solutions, for $915 million. The acquisition provides GE Digital with new capabilities in the $1 trillion market for industrial service, enabling customers to immediately gain more value from their assets and find greater efficiency in their field service processes.
"This acquisition advances our vision of building a Predix-powered industrial world. Improved productivity is critical for industry, and digitizing field services is a cornerstone of a successful digital industrial strategy"
Predix is the only software platform that offers complete connectivity from the edge to the cloud and computing capabilities at every level of the industrial software stack. Combining Predix with ServiceMax technologies will help industrial customers accelerate productivity outcomes for industry by combining cloud-based mobile applications with Predix. This acquisition brings together the use of digital twins, cloud applications and big data analytics with world-class field services domain expertise to unlock asset productivity for industrial customers. With this acquisition, GE will add analytics and insights into the ServiceMax logistics, workforce optimization and deployment models.
The ServiceMax platform provides a full suite of applications, including inventory and parts logistics, scheduling and workforce optimization, and work order management. As a result of this transaction, customers will be able to access these offerings from a modern rapid application development cloud and field-ready mobile platform that combines the strength of GE's deep domain expertise and advanced industrial portfolio with ServiceMax's field service expertise. The company will leverage the Predix platform to further the development of additional industrial applications focused on service delivery.
"This acquisition advances our vision of building a Predix-powered industrial world. Improved productivity is critical for industry, and digitizing field services is a cornerstone of a successful digital industrial strategy," said Bill Ruh, CEO, GE Digital. "By combining our technologies with ServiceMax, we continue to enhance the overall Predix technology stack for our customers. This transaction, along with our previous acquisitions of Wurldtech, Meridium, BitStew and Wise.io, is directly aligned with our strategy to drive growth both inorganically and organically by building the capabilities to support the digital industrial transformation through Predix, APM and the Digital Thread."
Together, the companies have already driven significant productivity for GE and going forward they will co-develop service products and accelerate commercialization in order to drive additional value for customers. GE estimates there is a market-wide opportunity to improve service productivity by $25 billion through the use of analytical tools.
Morgan Stanley acted as exclusive financial advisor to ServiceMax with Gundersen Dettmer LLP serving as legal counsel for ServiceMax. King & Spalding, LLP served as legal counsel for GE Digital. The transaction closed on January 10.
GE Digital connects streams of machine data to powerful analytics, providing Industrial companies with valuable insights to manage assets and operations more efficiently. World-class talent and software capabilities driving big gains in productivity, availability and longevity. For more information, visit the website at www.ge.com/digital.
ServiceMax is a leading industry provider of field service management software – an estimated $25 billion market worldwide. The company continues to reimagine and create solutions for the 20 million people globally who install, maintain, and repair machines across dozens of industries as the leading provider of complete end-to-end mobile and cloud-based technology for the sector. ServiceMax goes to every length — from joining technicians on service calls to publishing the industry's leading online publication — to help customers discover untapped innovation, unleash new revenue streams, drive efficiency, and most importantly delight their end-customer. To learn more, please visit www.ServiceMax.com.
GE Digital
Amy Sarosiek, +1 224-239-6028
Michael Busselen, +1 925-965-7850