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Alternative models of security price equilibrium
Courtenay, Roger A. (1997) Alternative models of security price equilibrium. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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The major determinant of the performance of financial markets is the nature of the
information available, both in terms of the overall quality of the information held by
investors, and the distribution of information amongst investors. The nature of this
issue makes it difficult to model realistically. This thesis marks an attempt to gain
insights to the behaviour of securitiesm arkets by investigating the consequences of
relaxing, in a realistic way, some of the restrictions on information in existing models.
The core of the thesis consists of formal models of the stock market. The first of these
is a development of the information aggregation literature, and in particular the model
of Hellwig (1980). It looks at the ability of prices to aggregate information that is
dispersed among agents who specialise in acquiring information about particular
components of the factors that determine the future stock value. We find that
narrowing the extent of specialisation beyond a certain point will inevitably lead to a
reduction in the informativeness of the market price.
The second model is also a development of the information aggregation literature, and
looks at the implications of investors obtaining private information about the extent of
liquidity trading. We find that such a framework gives rise to the possibility of
multiple equilibria and price 'crashes'. The third model is an extension of the second
in which the acquisition of information is made endogenousa, nd shows that the main
results of that model are retained. It also shows up the dominance of the cost of
information about value, rather than about liquidity trading, in determining the overall
informativeness of the price.
After investigating the possible consequences of, and providing evidence for, the
existence of positive feedback trading we investigate the behaviour of a market in
which investors exhibiting such behaviour are combined with investors who trade on
the basis of value in a form as in De Long, Shleifer, Summers & Waldmann (1989,
1990a). We then apply results from Hart (1977) to determine the conditions under
which manipulation can be possible. A number of model characteristics are shown to
be possible depending on the specific form of the feedback trading. We finish by
adding shocks to the system, as in De Long et. al., and look at the effect of both
competitive and monopolistic speculation. We find that competitive speculation may
be more destabilising than monopolistic speculation, and that positive feedback
trading is more destabilising when it acts after a delay.
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|Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
|H Social Sciences > HG Finance
|Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):
|Securities -- Prices, Stock exchanges -- Econometric models
|Official Date:
|October 1997
|University of Warwick
|Theses Department:
|Warwick Business School
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|Hodges, Stewart D.
|Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) (R0042933408) ; Warwick Business School
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Culture watch: Bach 5 Keyboard Concertos
Thirty-four-year-old Iranian pianist Ramin Bahrami went to study in Italy as a teenager shortly before his father, a political victim of the regime, died in jail. Bach, the pianist told an Italian newspaper, saved his life. And that is how he plays Bach's first five piano concertos, as matters of life and death.
Some of the movements, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, conducted with extraordinary vitality by Riccardo Chailly, set out to break speed records (five concerti on a single CD is a feat). The performances have a rhythmic litheness that makes you want to get up and dance. But Bahrami also has a mystical side. The slow movement to the F Minor concerto is out of this world.
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In a further worrying sign that Pepsico has lost its remaining marbles, the company is about to roll out a super-promotion which includes about a billion cans of Pepsi plastered with images of (now deceased) pop uberstar Michael Jackson.
This is apparently to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Jacko's famous album Bad. And obviously keys in with Pepsi's new strategy (actually it's a variation on its old strategy) of being a 'music platform' as opposed to a drink.
Pepsi recently shifted most of its advertising into Omnicom: TBWA Chiat Day in the US and BBDO elsewhere. This part of its new 'Live for Now' campaign seems to be the work of TBWA.
Jacko, of course, is more potent dead than alive – he went from being the world's biggest entertainer (and a pretty good one when Quincy Jones was producing him) to being a complete shambles later in a life that was tragic, even by Hollywood standards. So this latest rave from the grave seems a touch tasteless. He died less than two years ago.
His relationship with Pepsi was always a bit tormented too, his hair famously caught fire filming a commercial for Pepsi back in 1984, which didn't help his mental state. Here's one from that campaign, with his brothers, and barnet, still in place.
Whatever, Pepsi's 'Live for Now' may prove to be an acid test of crowd-sourcing, 'let's all be happy,' stuff against good old ads that say something about the product. Pepsico wants to drive Pepsi up from about ten per cent of the global market to challenge Coke's 25 per cent.
Here's Jacko from Bad.
Bit phoney though, isn't it?
This is a bit more like it, from earlier album Off The Wall (if you ignore the costume).
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Retrias wrote:Plasma Sergeant , look different than most marines
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@Papaskittels - haha, you're not the only one who has thought that, the second incarnation of the army looked even more space wolf than the current third incarnation. Any ideas on how to make it not look so spacewolfy?
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Knightley wrote:@Rev. Reiko - Cheers! I put a lot of effort into trying to learn how to do faces. No worries about reading the whole thing either, most forum dwellers I think like to look at pictures and there's plenty of that in here, and for those who want to read a bit I've got fluff stories
@Chrono - Thanks mate, Your eye is keen my friend, I tried a base of Astronomicon Grey instead of Fortress Grey followed up with a black wash and I found that the recessed areas are now left much darker. I also find that the Fortress Grey has much better coverage with the new base, so while in WIP the models will look much darker, never fear though I bring them back up to the same colour as the rest of the force.
Knightley wrote:Yes! page 7!
Knightley wrote:I have a fair few, This weekend I'll take them all out and do a large group shot (well it might not seem that large in hindsight)
I don't know if I'm working fast but I work constantly, I get about an hour and a half painting a night, except on Thursday's when my partner is doing studies at university so I have the entire night to paint - coincidentally that's tonight
Opinion time: I've had an idea sitting in my head about the Paladin Terminators and I'd like to get some feedback on it.
Currently the army has a Fortress Grey look about it, there are some small pockets of Red (Techmarines) Black (Term Chaplain) and Blue (Term Libby). I am wondering if on the Paladins I take the armour from the Dark Grey base coat and only bring it up to Codex Grey, give that an edge highlight or Fortress Grey and a top highlight of Spacewolf Grey, I'd still keep the Blue weapon blades and Red weapon housings. What do you all have to say?
Knightley wrote:@Rev. Reiko - Oooooh White helms with white weapon housings, I hadn't even considered that! Might give them a bash for the next push (including the battle cannon pred/razorback) I wonder if having white in light grey could end up being lost as the colours are too similar? hmm, I could have the same dark grey from the Paladins with white helms, and the Paladins could have a dark bone colour (or even a light bone)
@Markillius08 - re the Purgitation squad, I have 2 boxes of PAGK's one is going to be for my Purifiers, the other was going to be for the Purgitation squad with the remainder of the CC weapons kit bashed in to the next tac squad, I do like the Idea of the LoD models for them, My concern is the fire motif might get confused with the purifier motif which is also based around fire. I feel I will have to think on it and hope that the new fine cast range will include LoD models for me before I commit to it.
I do like the idea of purple however, I reckon a liberal wash of Badab Black could make it quite regal as well, of course I would then have to try get more purple into the force to justify it, more thinking will be required I think.
Ok, how about the 'Elite' choices having the dark grey armour (providing it looks ok) with light colour on the helms (in this case white for purifiers and bone for Paladins) I don't currently have the codex on me but are there any other elite choices they can have?
Knightley wrote:Cheers Markillius, quite a few on the elite choice list. I may leave my Ven. Dread as Fortress grey as I put quite a bit of time into him and a repaint doesn't entice me enough to make him darker, the other ones make sense though, I have a vindicare which needs a trip to Mr S. Green and a repaint and I'm not about to get warband's so I could very well do elites as the Dark Grey. sounds like a plan.
I had a look at both of your Sig blog links but couldn't see any updates, is there another place you're updating?
dantay_xv wrote:Why not paint as you sid but try a thin coat of gloss over the top, to give it a shiny sheen
Knightley wrote:@Mark - Yeah, it was. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best general in the world and not knowing what the other army can do really didn't help either ( I knew they would tickle, just not that much)
@Ice - Cheers man, Epic battles, the ones where you have 5 marines on an oblong base and tanks the size of a phone's SIM card? if so I used to play that back in 1989 before I started 40k. What would I have done differently?
1) Rolled better
2) Not put the Purgitation squad in the bell tower (I put them there because I didn't know DE had better range than me)
3) Bulked out the squads more, small groups of 5 leads to more pain tokens when they get wiped out
4) Not DS the Terminators without backup or a ward staff - they weathered a massive amount of fire power but still didnt do anything worthy
5) Rolled better
6) Brought something that could attack first, however I'm not sure if marines have anything that could do that anyway
7) Not taken Interceptors, the jump is entirely situational and they didn't really preform that well.
8) Rolled better
Knightley wrote:Hahah, the planetary reader has a 'bug'
I've had the technicians troubleshoot and they believe that have it fixed


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A special court today awarded varying jail terms of up to three years to three officials of Rathi Steel and Power Ltd (RSPL) who were convicted in a coal scam case pertaining to irregularities in allocation of Kesla North coal block in Chhattisgarh to the firm.
Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar sentenced RSPL's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Udit Rathi and Managing Director (MD) Pradeep Rathi to three years imprisonment while AGM Kushal Aggarwal was awarded two years in jail. They were taken into custody after their conviction yesterday.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh each on RSPL and its CEO, Rs 25 lakh on the MD and Rs 5 lakh on the AGM.
In the second conviction in the coal scam, RSPL and the three of its officials were yesterday held guilty with the court observing that they had "deceived" the government by making false representation even before the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The court had convicted them of the offences including cheating (section 420) and criminal conspiracy (section 120-B) of IPC.
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The three accused were earlier granted bail after they had appeared in court pursuant to summons.
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Just call me Santa — today I got the last of my Christmas packages for the States packed up and shipped out. Whew. Only 10 days until Christmas Eve (yikes) and nearly a full week after my "very latest day" I wanted to send them, but they're out there, in the Austrian postal system and out of my hands. (It's very much like the feeling I get when I'm on a plane and it starts rolling down the runway — whatever's going to happen, there's nothing I can do about it now.)
I actually really enjoyed getting everything wrapped, bubble wrapped, sorted out into boxes, taped up and sent out. I'm really missing everyone at home, and the gifts were both chosen and sent with a lot of love. It'll be hard to not be there on Christmas morning, to not get to see everyone's faces when they open their gifts. But having to get everything together now, with 10 days to go until Christmas, is actually introducing a little bit of the feeling of excited anticipation that comes from giving Christmas gifts into this earlier time. It was really fun to imagine my family members receiving and opening the boxes, and the gifts inside. It's giving me some of the warm and fuzzy feeling of Christmas Day, but a little bit early, which is nice.
The boys helped me get everything packed up. They were very excited, too (although Benjamin is a little frustrated that he can't open his gifts now).
And now, I can rest a little. There's still a lot to do: get the tree, decorate the tree, finish shopping (only a few more things to get), wrap gifts, maybe do some baking. But a big part of my pre-Christmas "to do" list is done now, and that's very satisfying and very liberating. 10 days out from Christmas I usually start to feel the pressure of getting everything done. Right now, I'm looking at what I need to do over the next 10 days, and it seems completely reasonable and quite doable. I think I'll watch a Christmas movie and enjoy the difference.


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Labor Day Weekend has passed. No matter what the calendar says about when Fall starts, this is the end of summer. And the start of the school year (although most school system that I know of have started already). No matter how many years I've been out of school, there's something about September that feels like the beginning of the year. I always see it as a pre-January new year to look at my goals, the year that's passed so far, and what can I do to make the rest of the year strong and successful. Spring may be nature's rebirth, but Fall feels more like that to me.
It's as though we get a fresh start – or a clean slate to keep with the school metaphor – for looking forward to and planning for the rest of the year. For me, it means the start of a new bullet journal, since I tend to fill up each one in about four months and given my crazy summer of writing, it also means looking at what really worked for the last several months and what didn't and how I can make the coming months productive while keeping a more manageable schedule.
In Judaism, this is the time for the High Holidays, the most sacred days of the Jewish calendar. It's a time for repenting and atoning for sins, but something I learned as an adult makes this more meaningful to me now. In Hebrew, the word for sin translates most directly to "missing the mark." I like that idea –looking at the target and seeing where I hit or missed my goals whether professional or personal.
And there are definitely some arrows that didn't make it to the center or even onto the target – with writing, my husband, my family. I'm taking a look at my goals in each of the areas of my life. Some are more easily actionable than others. Some I will only be able to take some small steps on rather than the large moves I'd hoped to back in January, or in December of last year, when I created them.
But what I'm finding is that because I worked to create goals that matter to me, my priorities and my career, I'm okay with taking only incremental actions. That's a big change for me. Usually, I either throw up my hands in frustration and give up on the goal, even if it was something I wanted, or beat myself up for not doing more. This year, I'm better at noticing that I may have missed the mark, but I can return to the starting point and move forward from there.
Over the course of my posts this month I will be writing more about missing the mark – and why I've found it to be a great way to hold yourself accountable without beating yourself up, something I'm sadly quite good at – along with creating a clean slate in your life by getting rid of the clutter and the importance of using desire as a planning tool. Because, you know, it always comes back to desire for me and I want desire to be a greater part of your life as well.
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This is not so much a report, as a handy-dandy glossary for law enforcement officials to know what to call the different varieties of dangerous violent extremists.
In it, you get defintions of animal-rights extremists, anti-abortion extremists, black separatist extremists, yada yada yada.
First, I could have reduced the content of this report to one sentence:
Any group which advocates or conducts violent acts in pursuit of its political/ideological goals may be characterized as extremist.
But that would be too easy. Instead, the report goes into detail that would often be amusing if it were not potentially alarming.
Take the definition of Racist skinheads:
(U//FOUO) Groups or individuals who combine white supremacist ideology with a skinhead ethos in which "white power" music plays a central role. Dress may include a shaved head or very short hair, jeans, thin suspenders, combat boots or Doc Martens, a bomber jacket (sometimes with racist symbols), and tattoos of Nazi-like emblems. Some are abandoning these stereotypical identifiers.
To be honest, the first thing I thought upon reading this description is that I really hope WPHT talk-radio host Michael Smerconish (who shaves his head) does not wear jeans or Doc Martens.
Then I thought, this is really useful, because it essentially says, skinheads dress this way, except when they don't.
It can be argued that this report indicates that DHS is not targeting rightwing extremists for political reasons, and there is some merit to that interpretation.
On the other hand, what really bothers me about this report is that it is amateurish and virtually useless to law enforcement agencies. It contains no group names, no web links to other sources, no indication of geographic areas of operation, no estimates of numbers ... nothing of conceivable practial use.
Want to know the truth? If DHS had simply out-sourced reportage on violent extremism to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it would have saved money and provided law enforcement with an actual, useable intelligence reference.
The disquieting truth is that the creation of DHS was a gigantic mistake. Violent extremism (whether domestic or Islamic) is decentralized, opportunistic, tactically flexible, and has a face that is constantly changing.
So what did we do to combat it? We created the largest bureaucracy in American history, centralized law enforcement authority, and staffed the department itself with hacks and cast-offs from the Departments of Justice, Labor, FEMA, etc.
Let me be clear: this is a problem that the Obama administration and Security Czar Napolitano have inherited rather than created, but there is no reasonable expectation that we will see major structural changes to DHS.
And if the recently released reports are any indicator of the overall quality of work at our primary homeland security agency, government has once again lived down to my expectations.


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On Dec. 18 the California Supreme Court denied a motion to hear Brookfield's appeal regarding the Fourth Circuit ruling in Liberty v. Brookfield Homes. The court, in the case of Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. v. Brookfield Crystal Cove LLC (Cal.App. 4 Dist., Case No. G046731, August 28, 2013) effectively opens the door to common law causes of action outside of the once-exclusive remedy of the 10-year old Right to Repair statute, known as SB 800.
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Når margin blir mainstream. Forhandlinger av ekteskap, foreldreskap og slektskap i mediene.
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This dissertation examines how marriage, parenthood and family are negotiated through the media. In the course of three articles I examine three different media debates from a discourse theoretical angle. In the first article, I analyze a controversy regarding attitudes towards the Equal Marriage Act. Thereafter, I delve into a debate on surrogacy. Finally, I turn my attention to discussions in the media on stepfamilies. Each debate illustrates a common aspect: They reveal conflicting understandings and interpretations of how family and parenthood are defined. These perceptions are influenced by official family policy in Norway, under which Norwegian biotechnology acts are among the strictest in Europe. Through the three debates, I examine different counterpublic positions that violate dominant norms attached to family and kinship. The analyses reveal both strengths and weaknesses attached to this form of identity-struggle. A major achievement is that counterpublic actors contribute new language and categories to express emerging social family roles, in which the concept of family is expanded. The main vulnerability disclosed is that the participants of the debates often draw upon victim discourses, risking a reproduction of the inherent hierarchical relationship between minority and majority. The dissertation's most important contribution is its demonstration of how these debates delineate what a family is and can be, despite the normative ideal of nuclear families.
In addition to a lengthy introduction, the thesis consists of three articles, of which two are published in peer-reviewed journals and the final in a peer-reviewed book.
The first article, «Struggle for a counterpublic position», published in Sosiologi i dag 4/2010, investigates the massive media debate that took place after the distribution of the Free Speech Prize to Nina Karin Monsen, April 2009. Nina Karin Monsen has repeatedly been referred to as a representative for a marginalized and oppositional voice; a position that rarely achieves acknowledgment in the media. This position has a lot in common with the counterpublic position, which is often placed in conflict relative to the mainstream media. Does Monsen hold such a counterpublic position in the debate about the Equal Marriage Act? What other kinds of groups may inhabit the counterpublic position in this debate? In relation to the debate about marriage institutions in the spring of 2009, this analysis reaches the conclusion that it is difficult to identify a real counterpublic position. The critical voices against marriage, within which a real counterpublic position could be held, are silenced. The Gay Rights Movement and Monsen both draw upon the powerful victim discourse, a discourse that seems to grasp better advantages, both rhetorically and politically, than the counterpublic position.
The second article, «The victim paradox. Public debate on surrogacy», is published in Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 1/2013. The media debate on surrogacy intensified in 2010, when a single mother became stranded in India with her baby twins. The article examines the Norwegian media debate on surrogacy (2010- 2012). The main focus of the article is the types of speech act these counterpublic positions draw upon to gain acceptance and rights, i.e. speech acts enabled and restricted by the biopolitics of the Norwegian state. Since little research is done on surrogacy in Norway, this article aims to place the Norwegian debate in a broader international context, with a focus on Indian and American surrogate mothers. The analysis concludes that Norwegians in the debate concurrently normalize and negotiate dominant discourses regarding parenting, family and kinship. A paradox attached to the media debate is revealed: while Norwegians place themselves in victim positions towards the state to gain rights, Indian and American surrogate mothers hesitate to draw on this victim discourse. Hence the roles of dominant versus dominated within the North–South divide, or from a socioeconomic perspective, are seemingly reversed.
The third and last article «From nuclear families to star families. Cohabitation experts' power and the internet's counter narratives» (Fra kjernefamilie til stjernefamilie. Samlivsekspertenes makt og nettets motfortellinger) is published in the book Å være sammen. Intimitetens nye vilkår. Here, I investigate the concept of stepfamily and collaborate on a new notion attached to new forms of kinship – star families (stjernefamilier). Star families incorporate the family types analyzed in the two preceding articles of this dissertation; the «surrogate family» and the «homosexual family». Through a comparative analysis of internet forums regarding the topic of family, and relationship columns in the mainstream media, the following questions are explored: Where is the boundary for inclusion in stepfamilies? How are these boundaries defined? The analysis concludes that while experts recreate the perception of traditional nuclear families as being based on biological kinship, online debaters promote new understandings of who can be in a family together.
Artikler inkludert i avhandlingen. Artikkel 2 er tatt ut på grunn av begrensninger i opphavsrett fra forlaget.
Artikkel 1: Kampen om den motoffentlige posisjonen. Sosiologi i dag, 4/2010.
Artikkel 2: Offerposisjonens paradoks. Offentlig debatt om surrogati. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 1/2013.
Artikkel 3: Fra kjernefamilie til stjernefamilie. I: Lorentzen, Jørgen og Wencke Mühleisen (red.) (2013): Å være sammen. Intimitetens nye kulturellevilkår. Trondheim: Akademika forlag.
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He has his own treasure basket which consists of wooden teethers (the 'I love you' made by his Daddy), a rattle, interlocking discs, beads on a string (all made by my Grandad) and a sensory ball.
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Trinity College Dublin Disability Service Strategic Plan 2015-2020
The Disability Service (DS) Strategic Plan (2015-2020) outlines the alignment between the DS activities and Trinity objectives, and provides information on how the DS aims and objectives will be delivered over the coming five years. The DS has embarked on a major transformation in the provision of services and organisational change, in order to achieve our ambition of being the number one choice for disabled students in Ireland.
We are committed to providing modern, integrated, high quality, and cost effective front-line services that make a real difference to the Trinity community. This will be achieved through an innovative approach and continuous review of service delivery, whilst also maximising opportunities for partnership/joint working. DS activities will be an evidenced-based service that is customer-focused and customer-facing.
Pathways to Trinity - Disability Service Strategic Plan 2011-2014:
Disability Service Strategic Plan 2011-2014 - (pdf 1.1mb)
The Disability Service has developed an Outreach, Transition, Retention and Progression Plan 2011- 2014 which aims to develop clear and effective support systems at all stages in the student journey from university entrance to graduation to employment.
- Phase 1 Pre-entry, admission and the first year experience
- Phase 2 Building and maintaining a university career
- Phase 3 Progressing through Trinity to employment
- The Disability Service Strategic Outreach, Transition, Retention and Progression Plan 2011 - 2014 - (.docx 350kb)
- Disability Service Objectives for year III (2013-2014) . (.doc 456KB)
- Disability Service Objectives for year II (2012-2013) of the DS Strategic Plan (.doc 45KB)
Trinity and National Policy related links:
Both documents set a target of 22% for non-traditional students, including those from a socio-economically disadvantaged background, those with a disability and mature students. The previous target of 15% was exceeded in 2008, and the number of students registering with the Disability Service has increased significantly over the last 10 years.
- Disability Service External Quality Review 2014
- Higher Education Authority (HEA) Strategic Plan 2015-2020
Disability Service Annual Symposium
- Disability Service First Annual Symposium 2012
- Disability Service Second Annual Symposium 2013
- Disability Service Third Annual Symposium 2014
Disability Service First Annual Symposium 2012
Phase 1: The Disabled Student Journey a new transition model is emerging:
- Pathways to Trinity - Paper - (.doc 563 KB)
- Pathways to Trinity - Presentation (ppt 5.5mb)
Disability Service Second Annual Symposium 2013
Phase 2: Models of Support for Students with disabilities on Professional Placements:
- Support for Students with Disabilities in Professional Practice: Perspectives of Stakeholders - TCD - (MS Powerpoint 1MB)
- A Model for Supporting Nursing and Midwifery Students with a Disability on Placement - UCD. - (MSPowerpoint 1.1MB)
- Professional courses - A student perspective - Emma Clarke (MS Powerpoint 376KB)
- The Development and Implementation Plans for UCC Fitness to Practice Policy - UCC. (MS Powerpoint 1.24 MB)
- Developing a model for the communication and the provision of Reasonable Accommodations in professional placements - Declan Reilly, TCD. (MS Powerpoint - 1.4MB)
- Draft Guide for Students with Disabilities on Placement booklet (MS Word 9.31MB) - Declan Reilly TCD
Disability Service Third Annual Symposium 2014
Phase 3: Career Pathways is a new and exciting initiative funded by the Genio Trust, which aims to support students and graduates with disabilities as they transition to employment.


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Clinton K-12 Adviser Talks Higher Ed., Early Childhood, But Few K-12 Specifics
Does presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton agree with the Democratic Party platform, which blasts away at a "test-and-punish" culture and says parents should be able to opt their children out of standardized tests? Exactly what would implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act look like in a Clinton administration?
If you were hoping that the Democratic convention and surrounding hoopla here would provide the down-and-dirty answers to those questions, you may end up disappointed.
In speaking to Education Reform Now, Ann O'Leary, Clinton's top education advisor, instead hit big and broader themes, at times directly echoing Clinton's own speeches to the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.
"We really need to make sure that we improve our K-12 programs," O'Leary said. "It is a crime that we are making [students] pay for remedial education when they get to college" because K-12 schools were inadequate.
The Clinton campaign deliberately hung back, O'Leary said, from weighing in on K-12 when ESSA was under development. It didn't want to trip up the bill politically, she said. Now Clinton has moved on to an approach to K-12 that can be described as "TLC" or Teaching, Learning, and Community, O'Leary told the group.
On teaching, O'Leary said, Clinton wants to help bolster professional growth opportunities for educators. On learning, she favors the Common Core State Standards and wants to "update" learning to better get students ready for the workforce. And the "c" stands for community schools. Clinton wants to expand those models to better pair academics with support services.
O'Leary, who served as a top aide in Clinton's office when ESSA's predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act, was under development, said Clinton strongly supported the accountability provisions of the law, but thinks it lead to unintended consequences, like overtesting.
O'Leary showcased Clinton's higher education plan, which she noted was revamped with help from her rival for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton borrowed his idea for "free college" and instead put forth her own plan for allowing children from families who make less than $125,00 a year to attend public college for free. And O'Leary also noted Clinton's longstanding interest in moving toward universal prekindergarten.
She also hit on Clinton's early career working with the Children's Defense Fund to expand access to education for migrant kids and students in special education, as well as her work helping to bolster standards in Arkansas.
Clinton, O'Leary said, would not only be the first female president. She'd be the first "child advocate president."
Overall, O'Leary seemed bound and determined not to make news. The discipline was deliberate—she pointedly said that Clinton is not in the business of saying one thing in one room and something else in another.
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on the playground today,
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so that the little kids
wouldn't copy their dangerous moves.
I was the loudmouth
asking the ten year old girl
to stop throwing full bottles of water
at the playground equipment–
with a dozen other kids
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I wondered why more adults weren't
monitoring and stepping in…
I thought about bystander apathy
and how they must reason "It's not my kid."
I was a big loudmouth stranger to those kids,
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maybe, even though I was a nuisance to them,
stepping in and diverting their daredevil plans,
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SMM Philippine Delegation Assembly
Published by Fr. Federick B. Yumang, SMM in Philippines · 16 May 2019
Tags: NU, PHL, 527
Tags: NU, PHL, 527
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - The Perpetually Professed members of the SMM Philippine Delegation coming from different communities in Cebu, Dagupan City, Bulacan, Makati City and Quezon City gathered together at the Delegation House in New Manila, Quezon City from March 4 to 5, 2019 for the delegation assembly.
The first day was spent in prayer, reflection and evaluation of the life of the delegation for the past three years. This is in relation to the priorities set by the previous administration of former Delegation Superior Rev. Fr. Richard J. Magararu, SMM with his councilors Rev. Fr. Sherwin I. Nunez, SMM and Rev. Fr. Benjie A. Notarte, SMM concerning Montfortian Spirituality, Mission, Formation and Administration.
On the second day, the members shared also their reflections on the priorities of the delegation for the coming 3 years of the new administration headed by Delegation Superior Rev. Fr. Norwyn V. Baydo, SMM with his councilors Rev. Fr. Paul Arnel L. Lucero, SMM and Rev. Fr. Santiago E. Casing, SMM. In the afternoon, the group was joined by the Scholastics, Novices, Postulants and Collegians. The seminarians were also given the chance to share their experiences from their initial formations as Montfortian seminarians. Later around 4 o'clock, the delegation celebrated the Holy Eucharist presided by Fr. Norwyn with Fr. Paul Arnel and Fr. Santiago as concelebrants. After the Mass, the assembly was concluded with a simple meal together.
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