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What makes Mid Wales such a great last minute destination?
Mid Wales - a perfect last minute destination
Bordering England, Mid Wales makes for a great quick last minute getaway.
Mid Wales is home to the Brecon Beacons, a favourite among walkers and paragliders alike. Whilst people are busy walking through the hills and mountains the scene up above is not that different. A favourite landing spot can be found at the Brecon Beacons National Park Centre, just off the A470 some 4.5 miles south of Brecon. It makes for some interesting watching, plus there is lovely countryside to explore here.
North of Brecon beyond Builth Wells is the Elan Valley, now a series of reservoirs with beautifully ornate dams controlling the water levels, this is stunningly pretty countryside and should be on the to do list for all that visit Mid Wales. Continue upwards through the Elan Valley to reach the Cambrian Hills. At the T-junction you can turn left to head to Ceredigion or right will take you back towards Rhyader through more stunningly beautiful countryside.
There is also the small but perfectly formed Town of Hay on Wye, famous for it's bookshops and of course the Hay Festival - when the Town is packed with fans of literature and arts.
Mid Wales has something for everyone to enjoy, there are Castles to visit, nature reserves to discover, vineyards and much more.
We've put together a list of a few great things to do in Mid Wales below...
- Visit the Royal Welsh Show at Builth Wells in July
- Hire a small boat for a day out on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
- Look round every bookshop in Hay and come home with no books - I bet you can't!
- Take a picnic to White Castle and enjoy a glass of wine from the White Castle Vineyard nearby
- Spend time discovering the history of Tretower Court and Castle on the A479
- Discover the Crannog at Llangorse Lake and hire a canoe to see it from another perspective
- Visit Powis Castle and Gardens at Welshpool
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"Two years ago, Republicans and Democrats had similar views of the fairness of the tax system," Pew said. "Today, 64% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say the present tax system is very or moderately fair; just half as many Democrats and Democratic leaners (32%) view the tax system as fair."
The divergence is most pronounced at higher income levels. More than two-thirds (68%) of Republicans with incomes over $75,000 now say the tax system is very or moderately fair — a big jump from 37% in 2017. Only 21% of Democrats with incomes over $75,000 agree, down from 40% two years ago.
The partisan divide can also be seen in questions about the fairness of the U.S. economy. "Currently, 63% of Americans say the 'economic system unfairly favors powerful interests,' while just 34% say it is 'generally fair to most Americans.' About twice as many Democrats (81%) as Republicans (40%) say the country's economic system is unfair," Pew said.


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Milton Friedman (31 July 1912 – 16 November 2006) was an American economist noted for his support for free markets and a reduction in the size of government. In 1976 he was awarded Nobel Prize in Economics.
- A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
- From Created Equal, the last of the Free to Choose television series (1990, Volume 5 transcript).
- Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output… A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.
- The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
- So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not.
- Interview "Milton Friedman Responds" in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
- I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere.
- Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
- I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
- Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
- There's a smokestack on the back of every government program.
- Interview (10 February 1999) in the video production Take It To The Limits: Milton Friedman on Libertarianism.
- Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. The U.S. is now 45 percent socialist.
- Article "We have Socialism, Q.E.D.".
- Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful.
- Free to Choose (1980) p.148
- With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
- Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X
- The broader and more influential organisations of businessmen have acted to undermine the basic foundation of the free market system they purport to represent and defend.
- Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin
- Every friend of freedom… must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
- "An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" in The Wall Street Journal (7 September 1989)
- The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933
- National Public Radio interview (Jan 1996)
- The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instability in output was, of course, the period between the two wars, which includes the severe (monetary) contractions of 1920-1, 1929-33, and 1937-8. No other 20 year period in American history contains as many as three such severe contractions.
This evidence persuades me that at least a third of the price rise during and just after World War I is attributable to the establishment of the Federal Reserve System… and that the severity of each of the major contractions — 1920-1, 1929-33 and 1937-8 is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities…
Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes — excusable or not — can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power wihtout any effective check by the body politic — this is the key political argument against an independent central bank…
To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the central bankers.
- As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
- I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.
- As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
- The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.
- Interview with Brian Lamb, In Depth Book TV (2000)
- The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.
- Financial Times [UK] (7 June 2003)
- I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, "How do you hold down government spending?" Government spending now amounts to close to 40% of national income not counting indirect spending through regulation and the like. If you include that, you get up to roughly half. The real danger we face is that number will creep up and up and up. The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes.
- Interview by John Hawkins (16 September 2003)
- There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you're doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I'm not so careful about the content of the present, but I'm very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else's money on myself. And if I spend somebody else's money on myself, then I'm sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government. And that's close to 40% of our national income.
- Fox News interview (May 2004)
- Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!
- As quoted in Opinion Journal (22 July 2006)
- The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
- As quoted in The Power of Choice (January 2007)
- If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.
- Cited by Market Skousen in Milton Friedman's Last Lunch, Forbes.com 12.11.06
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
- The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
- Introduction
- Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era.
History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
- Ch. 1 "The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom"
- Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.
- Ch. 1 "The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom"
- With respect to teachers' salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
- Ch. 6 "The Role of Government in Education"
- A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Governments never learn. Only people learn.
- Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- I am a limited-government libertarian.
- If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can only gain at the expense of another
- Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
- One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
- The business of business is business.
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.
- We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.
- We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work.
- What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.
- On the country which gave him the Nobel Prize.
- What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!
- In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.
- If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
- Everywhere, and at all times, economic progress has meant far more to the poor than to the rich.
- Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest. The benefits of a tariff are visible. [Union workers] can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.
- I am a libertarian with a small l and a Republican with a capital R. And I am a Republican with a capital R on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
- Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
On drug prohibition
- I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
- It is because it's prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.
- One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
- So long as large sums of money are involved — and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal — it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.
- There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.


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Sounds are used ubiquitously in the animal world to communicate.
Animals listen for sounds that inform them about events happening at a distance.
They make sounds to send messages to each other. If you sit anywhere in nature
and listen, you begin to hear a symphony. Some sounds mark and defend territory,
other sounds are mating signals, others sounds are emotional expressions, yet
other sounds are warnings. Birds sing to declare ownership of territory, to
attract mates, and to send messages to family members. Wolves howl on clear
moonlet nights to speak to each other and to express a deep feeling and
sensitive humans who hear them sing also share that deep feeling.
Sounds link animals in social groups. The continuous uttering of repetitive
sounds is a common method of parent and infant communication. Infant Canada
Geese, for example, emit a peeping every second or so and their parents emit a
low pitch short" honk" every four or five seconds. This auditory link is more
important than a visual link in keeping the family unit together. When the geese
flock flies together, there is continuous honking that links the group. Since
they cannot maintain visual contact in a V- flight formation, sound
communication allows the group to stay together.
As I write, the constant calling of sea gulls outside reminds me of the
chatter in human groups. I can hear the persistent high-pitched peeping a young
gull demanding attention and food from the adults. I know without looking that
the supplicant is crouched low with his head down bobbing up and down with each
cry. The sound and the behavior are always linked. This is an example of a fixed
action patterns. The young gull is persistent because the adults are ignoring
him. He hopes that his fixed action pattern will act as an innate releaser and
an adult will feed him. However, the adults have turned off their automatic
response. He is now about five months old and should be getting his own
food. Adolescents of many species have difficulty making the transition to adult
A meaningful sound can be compared with a molecular message that locks into a
receptor and activates a response. Sound receptors are built into every brain to
detect distant features of the environment that require identification and
response. The reception of sight and sound signals together are important to
identify and localize events out there. A novel sound triggers an orienting
response; stop, look and listen carefully to identify the source of the sound.
An unexpected loud sound triggers a startle response that is composed of
orienting and flight movements, associated with fear.
The brain extracts several kinds of information from the components of
sounds, such as pitch, loudness, timbre, location and direction of movement.
The direction of the origin of a sound is determined in the brain by differences
in volume, pitch and differences in the time of arrival in the right and left
ears. If sound from the left is louder than the right, differences of arrival
time of a few thousands of a second are enough for the brain to compute
direction of origin of a sound. Changing arrival times inform about movement of
the sound source. The ear is shaped to collect sounds from in front. Sounds from
the rear are lower in volume. The Doppler effect is a sudden drop in pitch of a
travelling sound that passes in front. An approaching train may sound its horn
and, as it passes you, the pitch drops. When you are alerted by a sound to the
presence of danger, you have to stop and listen carefully to identify and
localize the sound. As with vision, scanning the environment provides more
information. You may turn your and tilt you head slowly to get different samples
of the sound.
Animal communication begins with sounds that declare specific meanings such
as the alarm cries of squirrels and monkeys, bird songs that regulate mating and
social activity and human grunts, shouts and cries that attract attention,
signal danger and express emotion. Rhesus monkeys, for example, make 15
sounds that are associated with facial expressions. Monkeys in danger make
short, sharp threatening calls with eyes wide, ears flat, mouth wide open.
Relaxed monkeys 'coo', with lips pouting and open. Monkeys identified threat
calls with facial expressions, just as human infants match voice to face,
starting at two months old.All animal share fundamental strategies
of sound communication.
As a rule, the meaning of sound communications is species specific, although
there are some basic and old sounds that are shared among diverse animal
species. Ehret and Riecke, for example, suggested that the squeaks made by baby
mice in the nest are similar to human infant sounds. They found that mouse
mothers react to the calls that contain word-like groups of three tones at 3.8,
7.6 and 11.4 kilohertz. The lowest frequency was the most critical as it is in
human communication. It is difficult to understand a voice from which the bass
frequencies have been removed.
Andlam and Fee studied the basal ganglia – forebrain interaction in birds
learning to sing. They stated: "Birdsong is a complex motor behavior that, like
many human motor skills, improves with practice. Songbirds learn to sing by
imitation, using auditory feedback to compare their own vocalizations with the
memorized song of a tutor. Learning birds initially produce a highly variable
juvenile song that, after thousands of repetitions, converges to a stable adult
song, often a remarkably precise imitation of the tutor song. Like many learning
tasks in mammals , this goal-directed behavior requires a basal
ganglia-thalamocortical circuit known as the anterior forebrain pathway…
evidence suggests that the basal ganglia are necessary to express recently
learned behaviorand that changes in neural activity in response to
learning appear first in basal ganglia circuits."
Sound is created when waves in the air interact with our brain. Waves are a
fundamental feature of the universe. Waves, are oscillations or vibrations. A
vibrating string is fixed at both ends and transfers its motion to surround air
molecules. My study of waves has taken many forms, but none more important than
observing waves on water surfaces. When water surfaces move, they naturally
create waves, often in complex patterns. Waves on water have the characteristics
of sound waves, light waves, and the waves we create in our electronic circuits.
We have brain waves that can be recorded with scalp electrodes. When we are
resting and relaxing low frequency sine waves dominate in the range of 10 cycles
per second (10 Hz). A sine wave is a pure wave with a smooth contour and a
steady rhythm.
Waves can be measured in term of the their amplitude (height) and frequency
(rate of oscillation). A wave length is the distance from one peak to the next.
Water wave models can demonstrate the properties of sound waves which include
propagation, reflection, refraction, absorption and interference patterns.
When sound waves reflect off surfaces we hear resonances and echoes.
When you are considering a Tsumani wave, you want to know the speed of
propagation of the wave so that you can estimate the time of arrival on a
distant shore. Water waves involve water molecules in an up and down motion ( in
an elliptical path). In a most intriguing fashion, a wave is an epiphenomena of
water that moves forward even though water molecules move up an down. If you are
sitting in a boat in the middle of the ocean a Tsumani wave moves your boat up
and down but so gently, that you hardly notice. When the wave comes ashore,
everything changes: the wave height increases as the ocean floor rises until the
wave breaks and water lunges forward, crashing into the land with a powerful
destructive force.
When we describe musical sounds, the pitch (frequency) and loudness
(amplitude) are the two most important measurements. Sound waves in air at 20° C
travel about 343 meters/second. Waves in air enter the ear canal and crash into
the ear drum causing it to deflect and move the three tiny bones in the middle
ear which move the tympanic membrane on the cochlea.
Sound waves transverse the ear canal and deflect the tympanic membrane which
causes the small bones of the inner ear to produce a fluid wave in the cochlea.
The organ of Corti in the cochlea converts the fluid waves into nerve impulses.
The Organ of Corti is suspended on a membrane that supports hair cells that
convert membrane fluctuations into nerve impulses. Hair cells are tuned to
different frequencies, so that the output from the cochlea is already divided
into frequency bands. Outer hair cells adjust the gain of the cochlea.
According to Corey: " Hair cells respond to the vibration of the basilar
membrane by pushing back on it, exerting force with just the right amplitude and
phase to amplify the vibration, especially for faint sounds, by 100-fold or
more. The movement of the basilar membrane is amplified from hundredths of
nanometers to around a nanometer for the quietest perceptible sounds, from a
nanometer to several nanometers at conversational level, but not much at all for
loud sounds. In a healthy ear, movement is therefore not linearly proportional
to sound level, but shows a compressive nonlinearity… outer hair cells in each
region of the long organ of Corti only amplify sound of a particular frequency
so that each region is exquisitely tuned to a characteristic frequency (CF) and
not to other frequencies. Inner hair cells then sense the amplified vibration,
and send a frequency-specific signal to spiral ganglion neurons of the eighth
cranial nerve." (Corey, D. Sound Amplification in the Inner
Ear: It Takes TM to Tango. Neuron, Vol. 28, 7–9, October, 2000)
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Through a mixture of lectures, seminars, and tutorials, our award-winning teaching team cover methodological, ethical, historical, medical, cultural, and empirical aspects of military psychiatry.
We've designed four modules to introduce you to the field, explain advanced concepts and help you understand the impact of extreme trauma on civilians.
Application status Closed
Duration One year FT, two years PT.
Study mode Full-time, Part-time
Credit value UK 180/ECTS 90
Course intake 25
Course leaders Professor Edgar Jones
Course contact for further information Programme Administrator - Rasheduzzaman Tusar
Programme Coordinator - Jacqueline Szczerbinski
Programme Administrator - Rasheduzzaman Tusar
Programme Coordinator - Jacqueline Szczerbinski
Course contact form Postgraduate admissions
Awarding institution King's College London
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Department of Psychological Medicine
Division of Academic Psychiatry
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How both soldiers and civilians prepare themselves, cope during times of conflict, and adjust to peacetime life are core issues of the MSc War & Psychiatry. Find out more from Professor Edgar Jones; Programme Leader of this ground-breaking programme at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.
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How do members of the armed forces and civilians cope with the psychological trauma of war? To answer this complex question and more, you'll explore existing literature, the latest research, and the development and practice of military psychiatry.
We'll help you compare the psychology of different nations and look at the subject from both a theoretical and practical point of view. Then you'll reflect on how this relates to work in psychiatry, NGOs, emergency, or anti-terrorist services.
You'll complete a dissertation which gives you a chance to personalise the course to your own interests. This will also challenge you to identify, plan and propose solutions to problems at the forefront of the field.
Read more about the course on our webpages.
"Students hear from guest speakers throughout the year – we bring in a range of experts including counter-terrorism specialists, members of the armed forces, and clinical psychiatrists."
Professor Edgar Jones, Course Leader
You will be taught through a mix of lectures, seminars and tutorials.
War and Psychiatry
Lectures (40 hours) | Seminars / Tutorials (20 hours) | Field/lab/studio/ supervised learning (10 hours) | Self-study time (330 hours)
Advanced Concepts in Military Psychiatry
Lectures (10 hours) | Seminars / Tutorials (14 hours) | Field/lab/studio/ supervised learning (10 hours) | Self-study time (366 hours)
Civilians and Extreme Trauma: The Impact of Warfare, Disasters and Political Repression
Lectures (40 hours) | Seminars / Tutorials (20 hours) | Field/lab/studio/ supervised learning (0 hours) | Self-study time (340 hours)
Lectures (10 hours) | Seminars / Tutorials (2 hours) | Field/lab/studio/ supervised learning (0 hours) | Self-study time (588 hours)
The above is based on 27 academic weeks. Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Students are assessed on their coursework. Coursework can include written assignments such as essays and portfolios. Some optional modules offered by the Department of War Studies may include an examination.
Examination (0%) | Coursework (100%) | Practical (0%)
Regulating body
King's College is regulated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
Other related courses
Psychiatric Research MSc
War Studies MA
History of War MA
War and Psychiatry (40 credits)
Advanced Concepts in Military Psychiatry (40 credits)
Civilians and Extreme Trauma: The impact of warfare, disasters and political repression (40 credits)
Dissertation (60 credits)
Applicants should have either:
A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in medicine or psychology
A Bachelor's degree in any subject
Other qualifications and experience which demonstrate an ability to undertake the programme
Applications must be made online using King's online application portal apply.kcl.ac.uk and a non-refundable application fee of £70 applies.
Selection is made on the basis of the application and references. Applications are normally processed within two weeks of receiving references. All applicants are welcome to visit the department by arrangement, and students from unusual, i.e. non-biological, backgrounds are normally interviewed.
You will be asked to submit the following documents in order for your application to be considered:
We recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible. Our first application deadline is the 26th March 2021. After this date, the programme will remain open only if places are still available and will be closed as soon as it is full. For programmes that remain open beyond this date, the final application deadlines for the following fee statuses are listed below:
EU or overseas (international) fee status: 30th July 2021
Home fee status: 27th August 2021
Please note, you will not be eligible for an application fee refund if you apply after the first application deadline in March, and we are unable to process more offers as places are filled before the final application deadlines above.
If you don't have a suitable qualification for direct entry to a UK university, or if English isn't your first language, our academic preparation courses can help you get ready for study in the UK.
These tuition fees may be subject to additional increases in subsequent years of study, in line with King's terms and conditions.
When you receive an offer for this course you will be required to pay a non-refundable deposit to secure your place. The deposit will be credited towards your total fee payment.
The UK deposit is £500.
The INTERNATIONAL deposit is £2,000.
If you receive an offer on or before 31st March, payment is due by 30th April 2021.
If you receive an offer between 1st April and 30th June, payment is due within one month of receiving the offer.
If you receive an offer between 1st July and 31st July, payment is due within two weeks of receiving the offer.
If you receive an offer on or after 1st August, payment is due within one week of receiving the offer.
If you receive an offer from late August onwards, payment is due within 2 days of receiving the offer.
If you are a current King's student in receipt of the King's Living Bursary you are not required to pay a deposit to secure your place on the programme. Please note, this will not change the total fees payable for your chosen programme.
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With such a diverse of backgrounds, our graduates have a huge range of career destinations across academia, the armed forces, and the public sector.
Some apply the knowledge from the course to clinical work. Some are interested in the historical side of the subject. Others are working in policy or charity.
We organise regular presentations and individual meetings, to help you understand the opportunities your degree opens for you, and to discuss the next steps in your career.
Having left the US Navy in 2006, I entered the world of combat journalism and returned to the place I was deployed - Afghanistan. It was there that I came to see up close the psychological impact of modern conflict, both among NATO troops and among Afghan civilians. Of course, little was known then in mainstream media about such challenges and the peculiarities of how they played out in active theatres like Iraq and Afghanistan. The War and Psychiatry MSc was - and still is the best medical, historical and psychiatric view into the lives of an entire generation of veterans. As I work towards completion of my Master of Divinity - and ultimately ordination in the priesthood - I bring with me a greater understanding of many of the psychological and spiritual needs of my parish, many of whom will be veterans.
For me, undertaking an MSc in War and Psychiatry has been one of the best choices I have ever made. I studied history as an undergraduate, and coming from Japan, An inter-disciplinary approach to the very important debate surrounding military psychiatry has meant that the course has allowed a level of intellectual creativity, fully nurturing my existing knowledge of history, without losing sight of various academic fields that contributes greatly to the study of military mental health.The MSc in War and Psychiatry is such a unique and distinguished programme that it often sets me apart from other people with postgraduate degrees. After graduating, I interned at the Embassy of Japan in the UK and am currently working for a strategic communications consultancy.
Every lecture and seminar covered a unique fascinating topic, following the development of combat-related psychiatry from its inception to the present day. Whilst the course was certainly challenging, I felt inspired and supported every step of the way and encouraged to develop my own areas of interest; something which I have taken away with me and continue to use today. Having graduated in psychology a few years previously, the MSc gave me specialised insight into this fascinating, much needed and increasingly expanding area of mental health. As a direct result of the MSc I was offered an Assistant Psychologist position at Combat Stress (The Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society) and am thoroughly enjoying being able to apply what I learned and researched in practice.
The MSc War and Psychiatry course is an excellent choice for those thinking about undertaking a masters. It offers a rich, diverse and challenging programme of study exploring military history and combat related psychiatry from WWI through to current day. The course is one of a kind and so offers a unique experience covering a wide range of topics, which made every lecture and seminar distinctive and interesting. Prof Edgar Jones and guest lecturers were dynamic and insightful and leading experts in their fields.
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Although I have planned on buying the requested GF bread, having flour leftover from other GF baking, thought I would give bread making a go. Although I used a recipe off a web site, they had linked back to the original which is here
Go down to Champion Sandwich bread for the original recipe - which I had to adapt as I didn't have everything needed! However, if you decide you want to make up the Brown Rice flour blend from scratch, here in the UK some changes are needed:
1 1/3rd cup brown rice flour
1 1/3rd cup tapioca starch/flour (interchangeable)
1 1/3rd cup cornstarch - British cornflour, the kind we use to thicken sauces
1 tablespoon potato flour - here use dried potato flakes
Here is my version for 1 loaf rather than 2. Make sure everything is room temperature:
2 level cups of GF Plain Flour (Asda in my case - no bean flour in it)
1/2 level tablespoon xanthan gum
1/2 level tablespoon ground linseed steeped in 1 tablespoon boiling water
1 level teaspoon salt
1/4 level cup powdered milk
1 1/2 large beaten eggs (One egg was beaten then measured, it filled a 1/4 cup so half was used plus another whole egg)
1 dessertspoon of butter
1 teaspoon vinegar - not malt
1 dessertspoon of honey
1 slightly rounded teaspoon of instant - put in the flour kind of yeast as it was all I had
1 cup of warm water.
Grease a loaf tin.
Mix together in a bowl, the yeast, flour, xanthan gum, powdered milk and salt.
In an electric mixer bowl on low speed and using the paddle attachment, (you will need an electric mixer or very strong muscles to beat this enough!) mix together the vinegar, butter, honey and eggs for 30 seconds.
Add half the dry ingredients and mix until just blended.
Add the other half and mix for 30 seconds or until fully blended.
With the mixer turning still on low speed, gradually add the cup of warm water until used. Once fully blended in, increase the speed to medium and blend for another 4 minutes.
Your mix should look like a cake mix or very thick batter:
This next bit is where things didn't time out the same.
The recipe suggests leaving the mix for 50 to 60 minutes in a warm place. I covered mine with greased cling film and put it into the airing cupboard but after an hour, nothing had happened. If you have a proving drawer you are onto a winner here!
I don't so did it the hard way.
I put my small top oven onto its lowest setting, when the light went out, I switched it off, put in a bowl of boiling water on the bottom shelf, placed the bread on the top (making sure the oven did not feel too hot otherwise it would kill the yeast before it would have chance to get going) and draped a tea towel over the bread. A bit fiddly but it kind of creates a tent. I had to do this twice.
Once risen to just above the tin, remove from the oven carefully (treat it a bit like a souffle at this stage), turn the oven to 190C. When ready place your loaf pan in:
Here again, I went a little astray.
It says to cook the loaf for 50 to 60 minutes. Mine went brown after 20 minutes so I inserted the thermometer into it and it read 98C. I had misread the recipe which says when it reads 200 it is ready. Obviously they meant 200F rather than 200C. Eventually I got to 200F in about 30 minutes, by which time it was getting very brown.
I left it to cool in the tin and had a real struggle getting it out (I shall use my silicone pan next time). Eventually it came out and it was left to go cold:
However we got around that slightly by trimming of the bottom and sides. It was cut in half then sliced along its longer side to give decent sized slices. We got 8 and the trimmings were made into breadcrumbs:
I can't really work out what it cost for those precious 8 slices - maybe around £1.30, but reckon with more practice (if I needed to), they would get taller and less brown so more slices, maybe 10 or 12 might be available.


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Dogs are more than pets — they are family. But even well-behaved dogs can bite. In many cases, a bite can be avoided. Teaching children how to stay safe is especially important. This is because they are the ones most likely to be bitten.
Some dog behaviors may signal that a dog is aggressive, afraid, or protecting his or her territory. These are 3 situations in which a dog is more likely to bite. Watch for these signs:
Growling, snarling, or barking
Crouching with the head low or the tail between the legs
Fur that's standing up, erect ears, a stiff body, and a high tail
Obvious injury or pain
If a strange dog comes near you, stand still, keep your hands down, and avoid eye contact. If you're knocked down, curl into a ball and cover your head, neck, and face. Remember these tips, too:
Ask before petting a dog you don't know.
Never leave a child alone with a dog — even the family pet.
Avoid dogs that are cornered, chained, in a car or behind a fence.
Don't play rough with any dog.
Don't break up a dog fight.
Don't surprise older dogs. A dog that's deaf or blind may bite.
Keep your face away from a dog's head.
Don't disturb a dog that's sleeping, eating, or caring for puppies.
Rinse the bite with running water. This may help clean away bacteria. Then, wash the wound with warm, soapy water for at least 5 minutes. Cover it with a clean bandage, and call your healthcare provider. If the bite is bleeding heavily, apply direct pressure and raise it above heart level until the bleeding stops.
Your area may have a law about reporting dog bites. If so, report the bite to the local health department and animal-control agency. And try to find the dog's owner. You need to know if the dog's rabies vaccine is current.
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As the two victims of 2015 shark bites reflect on their encounters, experts weigh-in on what caused the local summer of the shark.
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. -- Kiersten Yow has a different relationship with the ocean these days.
Though she's visited Carolina Beach and the Outer Banks the past two summers, she hasn't waded back into the water since the summer of 2015, when she lost part of left arm and suffered damage to her left leg when a shark attacked her.
Despite the traumatic encounter, the Asheboro teenager, seen smiling in the pictures that grace the "Support Kiersten Yow" Facebook group, hasn't been soured on the coast -- she just sticks to the pool these days.
"(I) really don't have any interest in going back in the ocean," Kiersten said in an email. "There are many other activities to enjoy too."
Kiersten was one of eight people across North Carolina to have encounters with a shark in the summer of 2015, an unusually strong showing of sharks for which experts still debate the cause.
This week, Kiersten arrived at her first day of high school, the kind of typical teenage experience she desperately wanted to have after the injury.
"I wanted to get back to normal and do what my friends were doing," she said. "I couldn't change what happened but I could look ahead to the future and make the most of it."
Life after the shark encounter has, understandably, been a period of adjustment for the teen. She's had to cut back on sports she once played, but filled her time with new interests like managing the volleyball team last year; volunteering; rejoining the marching band, in which she now plays the trumpet; and taking extra coursework so she can graduate with an associate's degree.
"For the most part, I have found my new normal," she said. "I have to do some things differently, but have figured out the way that works for me."
In place of the limb she lost, Kiersten now has a myoelectric hand, an iLimb Quantum to be exact, which works with the muscles in her arm to operate finger movement and perform pre-programmed grips and finger patterns.
"It was fairly easy to learn and adjust to," she said. "I did go to occupational therapy to practice various activities. It is just thinking about opening and closing your hand to make the motions. I am grateful that the surgeons were able to reattach my arm muscles in a way that makes this process much easier."
Since her initial hospital stay in 2015, she has undergone three surgeries to help rebuild tissue she lost on her left leg and reduce the persistence of pain down the road. She will require one more surgery, but her mother, Laurie, said they want to hold off for now.
"We are going to give her time to be a teen for a bit," Laurie said.
Moving forward
Kiersten was not the only beachgoer whose life changed in an instant in the summer of 2015. Hunter Treschl, a teenage boy from Colorado, also lost his arm in an attack in Oak Island.
In an email this week, his mother, Sarah, said he graduated from high school in May and now attends Grinnell College in Iowa, studying political science and economics. Hunter wears a prosthetic arm sometimes, Sarah said, but "mostly finds life easier without the prosthesis."
She added he's been able to maintain a typical teenage life, especially the freedom of driving his car. He, like Kiersten, has made return trips to the beach, including one special visit to the Bahamas with Discovery Channel's "Shark Week."
Back to normalcy
Between 2010-14 and 2016-17, the N.C. coast saw 18 total encounters, said George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File. This year, he said he only has reports of one in June in Wrightsville Beach. That incident has been disputed, as the man injured was trying to catch the shark by Johnny Mercers Fishing Pier and could have been hurt by a hook.
Burgess said the question isn't why 2017 has seen possibly only one encounter, but why 2015 was such an active year.
"What you have done is return to normalcy," he said. "You had an odd year where there was too much activity."
What brought such a concentrated number of sharks off the Cape Fear coast that summer is still up for debate. But Burgess believes it could have been spurred by fresh water runoff from heavy rains (an attraction for bull sharks, which are believed to be what attacked Yow and others), warmer water from the south and more schools of fish. These are in addition to the swelling number of people taking to the water during the summer months, he said.
Chuck Bangley, a postdoctoral fellow with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, said that was all compounded by a heat wave that transitioned spring into summer much quicker than normal, causing a shift in marine movements.
"It seemed to have triggered a mass migration," he said, of one prevailing theory. "A lot of marine life are cued by temperature shifts or they are cued by their food moving around."
In all, Burgess said it was a perfect storm of events.
"It was a potpourri of things that went on," he said. "I was reviewing everything and there was no one smoking gun. It was a suite of different things that overlapped."
Research into shark behavior in the area is still ongoing. The N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher will participate in a year-long study of sharks and other marine life up the Cape Fear River.
But as more people congregate on the coast with each passing year, Burgess said chances are high the state could see another summer with a rash of encounters on the coast.
"More humans means more encounters," he said.
As for Kiersten, she doesn't plan on dipping back into the ocean, but a return trip to Oak Island to visit family isn't out of the question.
"I still enjoy walking on the beach, I just don't care to go in water where I can't see what is coming," she said.
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LEEDS Tykes announced their arrival in top-flight rugby in some style yesterday with a battling victory over title hopefuls Bath at Headingley.
The newly-promoted Yorkshiremen caused one of the biggest upsets in Premiership history with their 10-6 triumph as Scotland flanker Cameron Mather crossed for the all-important try two minutes after the interval.
Although Bath responded with a devastating late assault on the home line, Leeds' defence proved their equal and coach Phil Davies could not hide his delight at the tremendous win.
"This result is not just for Leeds - it is for the whole of Yorkshire," said Davies, who in five years has guided the club up from National League Four.
"I asked for a big performance and I got one. I want a star team here, not a team of stars. Hopefully we showed we can add something to a quality competition."
Bath coach Jon Callard could barely disguise his disgust at a performance which confounded pre-season predictions of a strong challenge to Leicester's Premiership crown.
"I am disappointed for our supporters, who have travelled a long way to see that debacle," said Callard.
"Our eagerness to play clouded our judgement. We had plenty of possession from line-outs but didn't seem to know what to do with it.
"We were outplayed by a side which was more hungry and took their chances."
Newcastle, meanwhile, made their intentions for the new season clear for all to see with a dramatic late win over defending champions Leicester.
England international Dave Walder was the Falcons' hero after he gathered up a pass from Inga Tuigamala three minutes from time before jinking in under the posts for a stunning try.
"I think some of our passing was outstanding and the width we put on the game was phenomenal," said Falcons director of rugby Rob Andrew after the 19-16 triumph at Kingston Park.
"On another day I think we'd have scored five or six tries with better finishing and there aren't many sides who can say that against Leicester."
Leicester coach Dean Richards felt his side had done enough to get a result. "I felt that with five minutes to go we should have won," he said.
"We scored two tries to one and though I'd like to say they deserved it, we gifted it to them a little."
There was another big upset at Bristol where Sale pulled off a shock 35-25 victory, with wing Steve Hanley's injury-time try giving the visitors a bonus point and taking them top of the Premiership after its opening weekend.
"Our defence was good and, to be honest, I thought that we could have scored another two or three tries," said Sale coach Jim Mallinder.
While Mallinder made the long journey home in upbeat mood, there was nothing but misery for his Bristol counterpart Dean Ryan.
Ryan oversaw a number of high-profile summer signings, including Australian World Cup winner Jason Little and England prop Julian White, but his team did not deliver.
"I expect big players to play well," he said. "Some of them did and some of them didn't and it is clear that we cannot afford too many of these type of days."
Elsewhere, the kicking of Kenny Logan guided London Wasps to a 12-8 victory over Saracens but director of rugby Nigel Melville was not impressed with the manner of his team's win.
"We played too much of the game in our own half and from there you can't score tries," he said. "There was very little flowing rugby."


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Brisbane Roar Youth head in to Saturday's Foxtel National Youth League match with Adelaide United at A.J. Kelly Park (10:30am KO) refreshed and confident.
The side are itching to get on the park after last weekend's clash with Melbourne City was postponed after 40 minutes due to a thunderstorm.
Senior squad member Shannon Brady has been among the Young Roar's best in the opening rounds, scoring twice.
He says there is an element of responsibility for the Hyundai A-League contracted boys in the Young Roar side to set the tone and be role models.
"All the senior boys need to lead by example and set the scene for the young boys," Brady said.
"It's great that we've had a good start to the season and hopefully that continues on Saturday,"
The 20-year-old has been in scintillating form in the Young Roar's unbeaten start to the Foxtel NYL season and with eight Hyundai A-League appearances under his belt, has ambitions to return to the senior squad.
"All the boys have ambitions to play A-League and as injuries and fatigue kicks in towards the end of the season that's when chances pop up and it's great to have a strong NYL season," Brady said.
The Young Roar have a game in hand on the Reds who currently sit second in Conference A.
With a chance to record back-to-back wins and leapfrog tomorrow's opponents into second place, Brady says the focus is squarely on the Young Roar side and building on an impressive start.
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June Update! Voice goodness ~
Last time I posted I'd done some voice work for a character named Elithel in a Skyrim mod called The Master's Trial - http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/63532/?
The mod creator recently made a big update with lots of new lines and I'm really excited to share it! If you play Skyrim you can download his mod at the link above and choose the most recent file, 2.0.
Or if you don't play Skyrim I'll post up a review of the video when it becomes available.
You can find a segment of my voice work in the first part of the mod in a video review here: https://youtu.be/awWlsEJ6G1I?t=50s - Naturally, I am voicing Elithel, the Altmer (High Elf) wizard.
Also, the trailer for the audiobook Escort: A Shrine Maiden's Secret by Richard C. Shaffer is now available for viewing! You can click here for the video review and here for the author's blog on the post.
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Supporting resources - Week 1
This week we've picked out some resources which look at different types of questions. Most of them can be found on the National STEM Learning Centre website.
Sometimes registration is required to access specific files, this is free, quick and easy to do. If you are not based in the UK we recommend that you select Other on the first registration page as a UK postcode will be required for other types of registration.
This is very useful for planning effective questioning. The idea is to print the PDF and fold it in half and then laminate or glue it to make a bookmark. You can then keep the bookmark in a planner or on your desk to help plan for or think of questions to use in the lesson. Created by our very own Andrea Mapplebeck!
Video clip - Ted Wragg shares his years of research into question types and reveals that in the classroom, surprisingly, only four per cent of questions asked in secondary schools are "higher order" questions, requiring more thought and an extended answer.
Using Assessment to Raise Achievement in Mathematics [Registration required]
Head straight for Section 2: Using effective questioning techniques.
This guidance booklet was inspired by the documents Inside the black box (Black & Wiliam, 1998) and Assessment for Learning, beyond the black box (Assessment Reform Group, 1999) and outlines how assessment for learning can raise achievement.
And finally, some food for thought:
John Hattie: Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
A quick video on sharing learning intentions and success criteria.
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Strategic direction, marketing platform, and operational concerns dominate the issues confronting owners of creative businesses in the event industry. How do you differentiate your business in the face of ever-increasing and, at times, overwhelming competition? How can you take your business to the next level? What is missing? This class will discuss the 4P's – Passion, Philosophy, Platform and Process as they relate to creative businesses in the event industry. I will introduce journaling as a method of getting at the core of what your creative business. I will then discuss how to use the identified core to create a "Lookbook" that you can use with your potential clients. I will talk about the importance of process – having image match energy at all times. Finally, I will discuss growth and expansion and the importance of knowing the difference. The result: having your creative business in the event industry stand out simply by being the best, truest version of itself.
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^ This! I have never understood this either. Just can't get my head around it.Originally Posted by reinventmyself
Look up ideas for a weekend getaway. It's really not that difficult. You admit to lazily putting the onus of the effort on him the entire first six months. You can invest a few minutes Googling options.
BTW, if he is a cautious guy, do NOT ask him to go on a getaway right now. Respect the lock downs or travel limits of places you might go. Maybe talk about it in September based on what is going on with covid and restrictions. You don't want to end up at a closed hotel, having an unenjoyable time because there are no drinks served at the beach cabana, etc. Its just not the time to test someone or feel you need to make a step in the relationship with travel
I agree with the part of the pandemic but if he's so cautious, guarded or whatever, I'd rather know now.Originally Posted by abitbroken
She's invested a year and has become attached. If he's still uncertain I'd rather know now so I can either move on to someone who's on the same page I am and not risk putting any more effort into something that isn't going anywhere.
I wouldn't invest a year in someone that I wasn't able to just be myself with. She's clearly not being herself if she's censoring the idea of merely going away for a weekend. Its seems like a symptom of so.ething bigger.
I'd travel with a man I wasn't serious with, but that's me.
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Hanging from a sterling silver ear wire, these square earrings are constantly in motion, opening and closing like a book. The pearls are 7.5 x 8mm Baroque Tahitian. Shown here with a tear drop shape, each pair of earrings will have slightly different shaped and colored pearls, since no baroque pearls are the same. All will be beautiful but each will be unique.


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The Alliance is always looking for ways to help our community members to always think of safety first. Our mission is to keep children and families safe by using prevention techniques. Here are some tips to think about and remember when teaching your child about potential predators.
According to the FBI, in 2015 there were 460,699 NCIC entries for missing children. In 2014, a 10-year-old girl was kidnapped in front of her own home in Missouri with a tragic ending. This is an unfortunate reminder that there are predators out there and parents need to be proactive to try to prevent more children from becoming victims.
Not every child abduction can be prevented; abductors are larger and stronger than their victims and are often clever. There are, however, ways to help keep your child safer. Here are five tips to ensure safer practices with your children:
That was the warning when we were kids, but it's probably best to leave that one in the past. First of all, it invokes the image of a scary person. In truth, an abductor will look like anyone else and they can approach children in a friendly way. Once they introduce themselves or claim to be a friend of a parent, they may not be a stranger in your child's mind. Stress to your child that they cannot identify whether someone is good or bad based on their appearance.
Second of all, there may be times when your child does need to talk to strangers. The important thing is to talk to the right stranger. It's tempting to tell your child to find a police officer, but children often can't distinguish between a police uniform and other uniforms, and abductors have used uniforms in order to gain trust. Helpful tip: If a child is lost or needs help, tell them to look for a mother with kids.
If an adult needs directions, help finding a pet or anything else, they should ask another adult, not a child.
This is a phrase that you would share with your children, especially as it relates to adults they should and can trust. They should know that if you send someone to pick them up from school or any activity, the code word will be used. Make it something funny or personal so it's easy for the kids to remember. A child should only go with someone who tells them that phrase.
We teach children to listen to adults and not to be disruptive, but there are times they should disobey and be loud. It's a good idea to practice with your kids. Give them a scenario and have them practice say no firmly and loudly, screaming, and running away.
Personalized shirts, a team uniform or clothing from your child's school can provide a potential abductor with valuable information. If they are able to call your child by name or mention their school or team, they may be able to trick your child into believing that they know them.
The most important thing when trying to keep your child safe from abduction is to communicate with your child. Talk to them regularly about the dangers and what they can do to stay safe.
Have any tips that you employ? Please share them below!
Originally authored by Sarah Parisi of Toddling Around Chicagoland in the Mommy Nearest Magazine
FBI Stats retrieved from http://www.missingkids.com/KeyFacts


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Building a Global Treasury Enterprise
by Kathy Hiebert, Senior Finance Manager, International Treasury, General Mills, Inc.
General Mills has enjoyed a long and illustrious history as a producer of favourite brands across the United States, but its international activities were relatively limited until two major acquisitions. The French company Yoplait, which sold yoghurt products across 70 countries, was acquired in 2011, and Yoki Alimentos, originally a multi-brand family-owned business from Brazil in 2012. Prompted by these acquisitions, General Mills has created a global treasury organisation that is equipped to support both its current international activities and future aspirations, as Kathy Hiebert, Senior Finance Manager, outlines.
Original treasury structure
Before embarking on our global treasury project, our treasury comprised 10 full-time equivalents at our Minnesota headquarters. We relied heavily on local finance teams who performed treasury activities locally with group treasury support, but we did not have a treasury centre outside the United States to support our international operations. Domestically, we utilised a treasury management system (TMS), but managed international treasury operations manually using spreadsheets.
Although treasury was a dedicated function, the international treasury manager role was part of a finance rotation. Following the acquisition of Yoplait, we recognised the need to bring specialist treasury expertise on board to manage the increased scale and complexity of our treasury activities, which was the point that I joined the company.


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Cally painter Dan Storey on staging his first exhibition – 27 years after he gave up art at school
PUBLISHED: 14:00 17 May 2018
Cally man Dan Storey gave up art at 15 despite loving it. Now 42, he tells the Gazette about his first exhibition, which is running until June.
Standing in his Cally Road workspace is Dan Storey, 42. Without hesitation, he puts brush to canvas – there's no sketching and no whitewashing.
"I've gone over all of it in my head," he said.
"I know what I'm going to do and I know what it's going to look like," said Dan, who grew up in Archway.
"There's no fear at all. There is no uncertainty."
Dan is quite confident in what he does, despite only having picked up painting again about two years ago.
When Dan was 15, he dropped out of school and consequently also gave up on the one class he actually enjoyed – art.
Thinking back to his art classes, he said: "I wasn't in school; I was in a place I felt I belonged."
But before leisure, "the bills have to be paid", so Dan has been putting his passion on hold for more than a quarter of a century.
During a period of unemployment, Dan found a canvas with a child's drawing on it in a dustbin.
He whitewashed it and "just went straight for the oil paints".
His creativity was sparked and soon he began painting on scraps of wood he took home from work he did as a freelance handyman.
After getting a full-time job in construction, he was finally able to "get back in the right frame of mind" and be financially stable, which allowed him to buy the equipment he needed.
Now, Dan has beaten the odds and will be holding his first art exhibition over the next month.
While he was initially intimidated by the space provided by Lauderdale House in Highgate, just over the border into Haringey, Dan managed to paint about 20 artworks since August.
He says: "I know I had to do it. I wasn't afraid. I had to fill that room."
The paintings are inspired by Hampstead Heath, where he grew up, views he has seen when repairing pubs along the Thames, and pictures of several other landscapes that have been sent to him by friends or family.
He even goes so far as to describe his phone as a "sketchbook", as he often looks up images online to get inspired.
Dan is now hoping this exhibition will be the "springboard" to becoming a professional painter.
"The future looks quite confident," he said.
"I'm trying not to get too excited, but we will see what happens."
Dan's exhibition will run until June 12 at Lauderdale House, N6 5HG
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I've been at EC for a month and it was one of the best months of my life. Not only I learned a lot, I also had a lot of fun. EC has always something to make you feel as part of a group: a party, a breakfast, a trip. The staff is always warm and kind. And also, Montreal is a fantastic city with lots of beautiful places to visit.
Vitor's review of EC Montreal on MyLanguageTravel.com website:
I've studied in EC Montreal for a month, and truly, the only part of this experience that bothers me, is that it ends. I have no regrets about choosing to come to Montreal, to Canada and mainly to EC.
The school is the best, not only when it comes to learning, but also when it comes to meeting people and having fun. It provides lots of opportunities to make you feel as part of a group. There are lots of different activities. You're always partying, doing sports, studying, visiting interesting places, etc. You're just never bored.
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I like to think this week's Tuesday dinner is getting back to its roots, the crux of what you really want on a regular old Tuesday night: Food. Made quickly. And without too many dishes to wash.
Katia from The France Project understands.
Her recipe for poached eggs, toast and sliced avocado takes less than 10 minutes to throw together (and uses only one saucepan) leaving plenty of time for evening yoga classes, chatting with your spouse, tossing catnip-stuffed toy mice at your kitty and — especially for Katia — planning new episodes of her fascinating and fun podcast, The France Project, which explores France through interviews and stories by Katia and her guests (including yours truly).
Katia is an Australian expat living in Paris, where she balances a full-time job with podcasting and life with her lovely husband, Sylvain, and adorably tiny cat, Symphony. Like every Aussie I've ever met, Katia is an excellent cook and I'm delighted to share her tips for fast weekday meals.
Her Tuesday night schedule:
I work full time and after hours I'm often running around town interviewing people for the show or investigating potential topics. I take a yoga class after work on Tuesdays which means I don't get home until around 8.30-9pm, and my husband usually gets home late from work too. We get home, hug Symphony, throw something simple on the stovetop as we talk about our day, then collapse in front of the couch to watch TV.
Her number one weeknight cooking tip:
I always plan the week's meals in advance. Our Sunday morning ritual involves going to the market, which is located just around the corner from our place, so we do most of our weekly shopping then, with my plan in mind, and I try to fit in a visit or two to the greengrocer or butcher later in the week to round it all out. I'm an organizer at heart and having everything planned for the week gives me one less thing to worry about.
On cooking in quantity:
We try to make meals that will last for several days so we don't need to cook something new every single night. For example, last weekend we made your exquisite meatball recipe — by upping the quantities, we made enough for about four meals, one of which we popped in the freezer, and I had enough left over for a packed lunch for work!
Speaking of her freezer…
It's currently filled with leftover single servings of bolognese sauce, quiche, meat pie, lasagne, minestrone, various pasta sauces, as well as summer compôtes, stewed mirabelles and cubes of pesto for throwing in dishes over the winter months.
Her all-time favorite throw-together meal:
We call it "bits & pieces" because it really is just that, depending on what we have floating around! I always keep tins of smoked mussels and sardines in the pantry and, like any honorable French household, we always have cheese in the fridge. If I have time I'll scoot past the greengrocer to pick up some cherry tomatoes and fresh fruit, and I'll grab a fresh baguette. Throw all these things on a big serving board and you have a delightfully simple meal. It works really well for just the two of us or when we have unexpected visitors!
Poached egg with avocado
By Katia Grimmer-Laversanne
Serves 2
Note: "There are times when the freezer is empty or I really don't want to eat yet another bowl of soup," says Katia. "Our current favorite no-fuss meal involves just a few ingredients but is super satisfying. And en plus, it's super-quick — it's ready in the time it takes to poach eggs! As you can imagine, this is an amazing brunch dish too. Add a bit of bacon and Bob's your uncle!" I made this with a delicious egg from the Farmer's Market and baby spinach leaves instead of sprouts (which I had a devil of a time finding).
2 or 4 eggs, as fresh as possible (1 or 2 per person, depending on how hungry you are!)
1 teaspoon vinegar (for poaching the eggs — though I omitted)
2 thick slices of bread (Katia likes to use the pain aux céréales from her amazing baker. "I don't let them tranche it though," she says "since I like thicker slices for toasting")
1 avocado
A handful of sprouts (alfalfa, watercress or pea sprouts)
High-quality extra virgin olive oil
1/2 lemon
piment d'espelette (or black pepper)
Toast the bread. Poach the eggs by filling a saucepan 1/3 of the way with water and a teaspoon of vinegar. Bring to a simmer. Swirling the water with a spoon, carefully add the eggs and let poach on a gentle simmer for 2 1/2 minutes.
Whilst the eggs are poaching, prepare two plates with a piece of toast on each. Halve the avocado and remove the stone, then cut into slices, lengthways. Fan out one half of the avocado on each plate. Drizzle with olive oil and a little lemon juice. Decorate with the sprouts.
When the eggs are poached, remove with a slotted spoon and place on top of the toasts. Sprinkle everything with a tiny amount of piment d'espelette and serve immediately.
Symphony says: "This is how you'll feel after eating Katia's recipe. Meow."
(Non-food photos from Katia Grimmer-Laversanne.)


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Sarah Talalay of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:
Attorneys have reached a settlement agreement in a series of cases involving Heat superstar guard Dwyane Wade's business deals.
Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Peter Adrien announced Tuesday that a settlement had been reached in all the cases involving Wade and plaintiffs and former restaurant partners Mark Rodberg and Lauren Hollander.
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