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Our December 2015 ebulletin is out now!
Stop treating brain injuries as a crime problem
We published a report on the over-representation of young people with brain injuries and other brain impairments in the youth justice system. The report, by Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Dr Pratiba Chitsabesan and Dr Nathan Hughes of the University of Birmingham, calls for health, education and family-based interventions and an end to treating brain injuries and impairments among young people as a crime problem.
Holloway: The beginning of a revolution?
Our Senior Associate Rebecca Roberts, and Claire Cain of Women in Prison call for the managed reduction of the women's prison population alongside the planned closure of HMP Holloway in north London. In a comment piece on our website, they discuss the 'merry-go-round' of penal reform, arguing that criminal justice is part of the problem and cannot be fixed. Their call is echoed by Rona Epstein, in another comment piece on our website.
The devil in our midst?
Helen Mills, our Research Associate, has had an article published in the Probation Journal, discussing the response that convicted sex offenders receive in the community. Helen has produced an abridged version on our website.
Breaking the silence
Last month we launched the Breaking the silence comment series. Authored by Madeline Petrillo of the University of Portsmouth, the series offers a platform for criminalised women to tell their stories. We've added another two articles to it this month. One is Rosie's story of losing a child, violence at the hands of her husband, ostracisation from her community, and the damage of short-term sentences. The other is Alice's story of mental health problems linked to sexual abuse, abuse from her partner, the loss of an unborn child, and repeated incarceration in mental health institutions and prisons.
Our Christmas crackers
2015 has been a particularly busy year with a range of publications, online outputs, events and conference. We've drawn together a few of our highlights here.
None of this would have been possible without the backing of our members, supporters, partners and funders. Thank you for your support and we look forward to working with you further in 2016.
All we want for Christmas is yooooooou
If you are not already a member, perhaps you might consider joining. There are a range of member benefits, including a say in the Centre's strategy and development and advance notice of events. Standard membership is £30. We also offer a reduced rate of £20 for students and those on a low income.
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Getting in gear for a lower drink driving limit
Former Scottish Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill MSP, argues that Scotland's already lower drink driving limit should be reduced further. England and Wales should also follow Scotland's lead. He's also written us a piece on the politics of community justice arrangements in Scotland.
Blown away by Gove?
Professor Joe Sim of Liverpool John Moore's University isn't. He dissects Michael Gove's agenda and puts forward his own proposals for transformation.
Grappling with vomiting binge drinkers
Professor Tim Hope of the University of Salford writes about the future of the police constable.
Forgotten behind prison walls
Mike Guilfoyle's latest reflection from his time as a probation officer recalls supervising 'Jim'.
Yule not want to miss this
The January issue of the British Journal of Criminology is now available. It includes two open access articles: on probation privatisation in England and Wales and on online identity theft.
Alternatives to criminal justice: building social justice solutions
At this workshop on Tuesday, 19 January we'll be discussing how to prevent, reduce and repair harm in ways that don't rely on punishment and exclusion. It's fully booked but we may be adding a second workshop on the same date if there's enough demand. If you are interested in participating, add your name to the waiting list.
The health of prison staff: what does the evidence tell us?
Join us for this event on Tuesday, 1 March 2016, where we'll be discussing the origins of high stress levels and low well-being experienced by prison staff.
New report on racism and policing in Britain
A report by the Runnymede Trust, out this month, examines the state of policing and its effects on black and minority ethnic communities in contemporary Britain. It coincides with the release of the Ministry of Justice's 'Race and the criminal justice system: 2014' statistical bulletin, which show that black and minority ethnic people continue to be disproportionately targeted by every criminal justice agency across England and Wales.
Policing the crisis
You can now watch footage from last month's 'Policing the crisis' conference held by Defend the Right to Protest. There are talks by co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter Toronto Janaya Khan, former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, and many more.
Police propping up other services
Mary O'Hara wrote a piece in The Guardian that explains how the police are facing increasing demand because of cuts to health and social services.
'Deplorable' errors in police funding formula
A report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee criticised the Home Office for errors made in the review of the police funding formula, reported The Guardian.
Check out these statistics from the Ministry of Justice on race and the criminal justice system in 2014:
438 - the number of extra years of imprisonment added to prisoners' sentences in 2014, according to research by the Howard League, reported in The Guardian.
'Sometimes I feel like if drugs had not been invented, some people would have killed themselves because of their grief of what they've been through. If they haven't got something to help them alter their mood, they would just think of suicide. Because I've thought of suicide. I've done it enough times. When I got raped in January, I took an overdose and tried to set myself on fire. My legs were on fire. I've got burn scars because I tried to kill myself when it happened. So it's suicide you turn to or you turn to drugs.'
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Release date: 23rd September 2013
"Nothing but the fall of ashes from which no phoenix can rise," say Atlantic-straddling outfit Distant Correspondent. The band's helmed by David Obuchowski (Goes Cube), who recruited Emily Gray (Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia), Michael Lengel, Edith Frost (signed to Drag City) and Tyler Wilcox to what was originally a completely secret project.
Their songs were written largely by collaboration, albeit separately – David sent the vocal and guitar parts to Michael, who provided the bass and drum parts. Those tracks have grown and evolved since the addition of the other members, including Oxford-based Emily who added moving lyrics and narrative touches.
The quartet's first single for Static Caravan, 'Shatter', is the first offering from an album they're releasing in October on Hot Congress/Old Flame Records. It underlines just why they've been hotly tipped by websites such as Oh My Rockness and Vice's Noisey blog. The 7" features two songs of woozy, atmospheric indie rock, combining gentle melancholy with brooding yet beautiful melodies. The Cocteau Twins are an obvious touchstone, but at times the four-piece also recall Red House Painters' enchanting melancholy and song craft.
Lead track 'Shatter' is a bittersweet song whose ethereality and pop hooks dovetail gracefully, in a way reminiscent of Besnard Lakes. Topped with Edith Frost's fragile, world-weary vocal, it then breaks down into expansive guitar pop propelled by a driving rhythm section and the kind of swirling, dream-like melancholia which reminds of Do Make Say Think, while Emily Gray's closing monologue is stark and poetic, complementing the song's epic sheen.
'Badlands' on the flip is another slice of gauzy dream-pop which wouldn't have sounded out of place on 4AD in the 1980s and early 1990s, all glistening guitar melody, throbbing bass and hypnotic, interlocking vocals. Its haunting refrain – "Death is not an option that I can afford" - adds to the spectral feel; all these ingredients combine to result in sparse but lilting, summery pop with a hint of darkness underneath the surface.
On the evidence of this pair of songs, they'll be burning brightly for a long time yet.
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Check out our 8th graders on the front page of the MAY 11, 2018 online The Boston Globe, featuring their STEM excursion to the Costa Rica rainforest this past April.
Closing opportunity and achievement gaps while preparing our students for career success! Congrats to Boston Public Schools and O2 For Life Rainforest Foundation for the focus on opening doors through international trips.


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I'm excited to announce that I have partnered with Great Homeschool Conventions to share news and information about their upcoming convention year. Disclosure: I am compensated for sharing this information with you, but all opinions are my own.
To start, you should know that I have only been to one homeschool convention ever. Here in New England, conventions are few and far between (hint, hint – we need a GHC up here).
I know that this convention has so much to offer beyond seeing curriculum options up close. It gives us an opportunity to connect in person with like minded homeschooling parents and provides encouragement and helpful sessions about a variety of homeschooling topics. While you're busy learning new things (or browsing the offerings of hundreds of vendors), the kids will have plenty to do at the Children's Convention and teen sessions.
So go get your planner. Now! I'm not yelling, just strongly suggesting…
Here are the Great Homeschool Convention Dates for 2014:
- Greenville, SC March 20-22
- Cincinnati, OH April 24-26
- Ontario, CA June 12-14
Freebies for your Homeschool:
As a special treat for readers, Great Homeschool Conventions and Creation Ministries International have come together to offer homeschooling families this free digital bundle.
- Why Does a Good God Allow Bad Things? (Video download, presented by Gary Bates)
- The Greatest Hoax on Earth? by Dr Jonathan Sarfati (ebook/epub download format)
- Creation Magazine (Digital Edition)
I'll be sharing more information about the upcoming conventions soon. And I'm planning on attending the South Carolina event (road trip!) with my girls, so if you'll be there too, drop me a line so we can meet up! 🙂
Do you attend a homeschool convention every year? Why or why not? Tell me in the comments!


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An American Indian Chief called King Quabbin lived in this area centuries ago. The word Quabbin means "Many Waters".
Located in New Salem, Massachusetts,Quabbin Reservoir is one of the largest man made public water supplies in the United States. It was flooded in the late 1930s after 4 towns in the valley of the river were relocated and their infrastructure dismantled, it is fed by three branches of the Swift River & seasonally by the Ware River. Now it is mainly used to supply public water to Boston and many towns and offers a limited range of recreational activities.
We headed there today with New England Oddities meetup group and saw a few turtles, a baby snake and a bear!


text: Happy St Patrick's Day to all our friends and customers! The market is open tomorrow as usual from 10 am until 12 noon for all your local, handmade, quality produce. Remember you can ring in your order to be sure that you get what you want. The market number is 087-1368393. Do you have friends coming up this weekend and need a cream cake? Or have you ordered your organic chicken for the Sunday roast? We have beautiful eggs, sourdough bread, yeast bread, scones, soda bread, potato bread; in fact we have all you need to remember that Irish taste of home this Patrick's weekend.


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It's time once again to crank up the old vcr for MY favorite Yule flick, "Christmas Holiday," in which Deanna Durbin essays the role of a singer in a whorehouse and introduces Frank Loesser's "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year,"---I'LL SAY!---while Gene Kelly gets shot down in a hail of gunfire at the climax. "Meet Me in St. Louis" it ain't. Though with that title you'd think it WOULD be.
This opened during the 1944 Christmas season, and while I don't have the actuarials at my fingertips, it's a safe bet that this sub rosa film noir was responsible for at least a few Yule suicides amongst unforewarned filmgoers. ("Momma went to the Bijou and never came back.") Directed by the great Robert Siodmak, who helmed this one between making "Phantom Lady" and "Cobra Woman". . .the same year!
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A Christmas Tradition Around These Parts
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Deanna Durbin's movies have bought so much joy to so many people around the world. Her movies are so much better than the trash that comes from Hollywood today! Deanna Durbin was Winston Churchill's favourite actress - and he was a smart man as we ALL know!
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by Rep. Eric Cantor, July 1, 2010
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Since the passage of the health care law, a number of questions have arisen. Although I did not support it, the law is truly transformational. For that reason, it is important that the information available tells a complete picture of what it will mean for you, your family and our country. Three important facts:
Costs Go Up, Not Down
Under the new law, costs will approach $1 trillion over the next 10 years. Since the president signed the law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has reported that it will cost an extra $115 billion to implement—money not in its original estimate. A former CBO director warns that the new law will likely "raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $554 billion in the first 10 years." After it was passed, we further learned from the administration's own actuaries that it will increase, not decrease, overall health care spending. Finally, by cutting some costs, the law does extend the solvency of Medicare. However, the savings from these cuts are not put back into the Medicare program, and instead the money is used for new programs not related to seniors.
Medicare Services Are Not "Guaranteed"
The May AARP Bulletin reported that the bill includes "$390 billion in savings from Medicare over 10 years, with basic benefits protected." The government's official actuaries report that it cuts $575 billion from Medicare. More troublesome, they report that as a result, "[providers] might end their participation in the program (possibly jeopardizing access to care for beneficiaries)." The actuaries predict that cuts to this program will force out of Medicare Advantage half of the seniors currently enjoying it. Congress can pass laws that contain feel-good phrases like "guaranteed benefits," but if doctors and other providers no longer participate in the program, the words are meaningless.
You May Lose Access to Your Doctor of Choice
Don't just take my word for it: I encourage you to ask your doctors whether Medicare reimbursements are fair. Ask them about the government establishing payment policies that restrict how they can treat you and what medicines they can prescribe. Even the American Medical Association acknowledges that without significant changes to Medicare payments, many doctors will no longer participate in the program. Notably, the changes advocated by doctors' groups were not included in the new health law.
The problem with 2,000-page bills that completely overhaul our health care system is the many unintended consequences. Many of them will negatively impact seniors, small-business people, doctors and other medical professionals and the economic future of our country. Considering the impact that this law will have on seniors, it's important for you and your family to have access to accurate information.
Eric Cantor, R-Va., is the Republican whip of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Poll: Most Tea Partiers Believe Too Much Made of Problems Facing Blacks
A new CBS News/New York Times pollfound the Tea Party movement is 89 percent white and just one percent black.
It also looked at the views of Tea Party supporters on race issues. Asked if too much has been made of the problems facing African-Americans, 52 percent said yes.
That compares to 28 percent of Americans overall who say too much has been made of the problems facing blacks, and 23 percent of non-Tea Party whites who say as much.
Sixteen percent of Tea Party supporters say whites have more opportunities to get ahead, compared to 31 percent of all Americans who believe whites have more opportunities to get ahead.
Seventy-three percent of Tea Party supporters say both races have equal opportunity, compared to 60 percent of Americans overall.
A majority of Tea Party suppers believe the Obama administration treats both blacks and whites the same way. But one in four believe the administration favors blacks over whites, an opinion shared by just 11 percent of Americans overall and seven percent of non-Tea Party whites.More from the Poll:
Tea Party Supporters: Who They Are and What They Believe
Tea Partiers View Palin, Beck and Bush Favorably
Tea Party Activists Small but Passionate Group
"Birther" Myth Persists Among Tea Partiers, All Americans
Most Tea Party Supporters Say Their Taxes Are Fair
Read the Complete Poll on Tea Party Members (PDF)
Read the Complete Poll on What Tea Partiers Believe (PDF)
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,580 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone April 5-12, 2010. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
An oversample of people who describe themselves as supporters of the Tea Party movement were interviewed, for a total of 881 interviews. The results were then weighted in proportion to the adult population. The margin of error for the sample of Tea Party supporters is three points. This poll release conforms to the Standards of Disclosure of the National Council on Public Polls.


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Welcome to Butler County Bassmasters. We are a tournament trail based out of Morgantown, KY. We pride ourselves on being a very versitile trail, fishing several different bodies of water in Western and South Central Kentucky.
Butler County Bassmasters was founded in 1988 when several men in Aberdeen Baptist Church got together and decided to put together a bass club. In the early tournaments, they would meet at the church with their two man boats and jon boats and take off from there. Strip pits and Mud and Green Rivers in the county were the main tournament sites.
Since then, the trail has grown. The boats have gotten bigger and so has the water. Butler County Bassmasters now fishes all over Western and South Central Kentucky. We try to fish a good mix of rivers and different types of lakes to help our competitors become the best all around anglers possible.
This trail is not for everybody. If you want to focus on one body of water, it ain't for you. But if you want to test yourself against different conditions on very different bodies of water, this is the place. Drop us a line if you want info on new membership.
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So February is over. Does America feel more informed about black history since 28 days ago?
Does it ever at this time of year? Or, to the extent that America is informed about the history of black people this week, is it any more so than it was last September, or last Thanksgiving or last, say, May 21? Assuming, for a moment, that America was about as informed about black history last May 21 as it is this week — and let's face it, it is — to what extent is that due to anything that happened during Black History Month this year? Or any year, at least lately?
Yes, I am going to suggest that Black History Month has outlived its usefulness, as have many others. I suggest governments let go of the genuflective proclamations, and that schools not pay special attention to black history in February, as opposed to year-round. Note: I'm writing about its current "usefulness." The point is not that Black History Month never should have existed, nor that black history isn't important.
More specifically, I submit: Black history is no longer meaningfully neglected by mainstream America. We must be realistic about what it would mean for America to acknowledge the role blacks have played in America's history and let go of Black History Month: Surely, we are not waiting for all Americans to be able to do mini-recitations of the histories of A. Philip Randolph and Phyllis Wheatley, or be cognizant of the fact that there was slavery in New York City.
After all, this is a country where we regularly hear complaints that mainstream Americans barely know facts such as when the Revolutionary War was. The question is whether mainstream America has incorporated a basic awareness of black history into the hazy mental filmstrip of the national historical consciousness. From what I see, it has.
We can take it as far back as 15 years for evidence. It was, as they say, the little things that told the story. A traveling museum exhibit of the Henrietta Marie slave-ship artifacts was launched in 1995 and broke attendance records in 20 cities over the next decade. The organizers of a 2001 centennial celebration of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., highlighted the racially discriminatory side of the original event.
The sheer below-the-radar obscurity of these things is their value, as well as the fact that in any given year, there are countless similar phenomena going on. They show that an awareness of black history has penetrated our national consciousness in a way that would have pleased Carter G. Woodson, who inaugurated Negro History Week in 1926. They go on and on: In 2004, white historian Eric Rauchway wrote a book about that Buffalo Exposition, quite unconnected from the aforementioned commemoration planners, memorably highlighting the black man who made a valiant effort to rescue President William McKinley from an assassin's bullet.
And a larger turn of events tells the same story. After all, we now have a National Museum of African American History and Culture — which will have its own location on the Mall in Washington, D.C., by 2015. Surely that, along with the funding it has been granted and the considerable national publicity it attracts, indicates some uptick in acceptance that black history is part of American history.
Or what about the Pulitzer that Isabel Wilkerson's chronicle of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, will likely get? Also, imagine telling, say, Stokely Carmichael in 1967 that in 2010, a book about the harvesting of a black woman's cancer cells (Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) would be as ecstatically received as Wilkerson's and be made into a film?
The days when black history could be described as marginalized in American life are now, themselves, history. Yet somehow we hold on to a delicate contradiction under which all of the things I have mentioned and so much more are true, but we say that America is still "insufficiently aware of" black history. Isn't it really just that we're used to Black History Month, the way we're used to an old armchair? It's no longer that we think it's accomplishing anything. It's just, in our minds, supposed to be there because it always has been.
It is often charged that a writer chooses a stance like this one out of a recreational quest to be "controversial." Maybe some do, but that's not where this is coming from. Writing, for me, is not a matter of sitting down and working up ways to make people angry. I simply write what I feel, with a suspicion that I am not alone, and I almost never am.
Black History Month has accomplished what it was established to do, and part of acknowledging that is to let it go — with a spirit of joy and victory. Do I think it's an issue of code-red importance that every February we pretend that America learns anything serious about black history? Of course not. But since about 1995, what Black History Month has reminded me every year is that the battle it was designed for has been won. Maybe we can think of it as a month celebrating America's having come to celebrate black history.
Stranger things have happened; things develop new uses — Kleenex was invented as a makeup remover.
John McWhorter is a regular contributor to The Root.
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Protecting and Preserving a Natural Wonder
The Scarborough Bluffs are stunning but relatively hidden gems on the Lake Ontario waterfront. Majestically they rise above stony shores and tower overhead. Ruggedly beautiful, they have been steadily eroding with the passage of time and exposure to wind and waves. Over the years, unsafe attempts from members of the public to access the Bluffs have often led to dangerous and even tragic circumstances. That's why, as you'll see in the following video, Toronto and Region Conservation wants everyone who shares a love for the Bluffs to have their voices heard on its future.
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Women have recently shown a heightened interest in the world of investment and require knowledge and advice that address their women specific requirements.
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Over The Years, Many People Have Told Me They Wished They Had Learned About Money When They Were Children
It's unfortunate that there is no formal curriculum about money management and budgeting in the majority of our schools today.
Many years ago when I taught forth grade students, we started a project of selling pop corn to the other students after school. First, we went to the bank to get a loan. The only reason we were actually able to get a loan, I think, is that the father of one of my students was the bank president. Our 'marketing department' called the paper to let them know we were getting a bank loan and they printed a front-page story. The publicity was so good that parents would buy popcorn along with their children.
A fresh look at goal setting -- the new year is an ideal time for deciding where we want to focus our new aspirations
I love the automatic structure the calendar year provides in terms of a time line for reviewing our progress.
Perhaps you're already familiar with the Yale study (although some say it never took place), which reported that the 1953 graduating class at Yale was interviewed and only 3% had written specific goals for their futures. Twenty years later, that same 3% was found to have a higher net worth than the other 97% combined.
This story illustrates the power and importance of goals. They provide us with targets—something to aim for. In other words, they give life direction.
In addition, goal setting is a method of anticipating and preparing for the future. It is an effective way of picturing what we want to achieve and what we want our lives to be like. We can then move towards those images in an intentional way.
A Reader Recently Asked Me About Dealing With An Inheritance, So I Will Be Addressing Those Issues In This Article
It may be likely that you will receive an inheritance at some point in your lifetime, most often from a parent. It is important to realize and respect that along with the money, an inheritance often carries a variety of emotional reactions.
I often hear clients speak of the burden of the inheritance and the strong wish to use the money in a prudent manner. Some want to make sure a portion of the money continues to be passed down in the family. Many remember the effort required to accumulate the money and want to be good stewards of it. Since the money may significantly alter your current and future living conditions, the emotions can be mixed and varied.
Hiring A Financial Consultant
A WITI member wrote me asking when it might be most appropriate to use a financial planner so I thought I'd offer some suggestions.
Almost anyone can benefit from the advice of a financial advisor just as anyone could benefit from the advice of a seasoned expert in any field of concern.
There are a few specific times when contacting a financial planner is especially important.
Do You Ever Wonder Where Your Money Goes Or Why You Don't Have More?
In order to maintain a healthy relationship with money, we need to be aware of how we spend money. We want to make sure we are actually spending it on what is important to us. Tracking our spending and creating a budget is a first step.
Working from a traditional budget has some inherent complications because we're dealing with the past. The real power comes from is looking forward and deciding how the money will be spent in the future. Consequently, a budget or spending plan needs to be an active, working document that is reviewed and revised frequently. Our lives change from day to day so our budgets need to adjust accordingly. If an unexpected expenditure is necessary, revise the spending plan immediately, making the necessary adjustments. That eliminates surprises.


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When We Rise
In the wake of the nearly universally panned Stonewall, ABC is taking another stab at a dramatization of gay history. In February, the miniseries When We Rise will follow the LGBT struggle from Stonewall to today.
The UN will keep its LGBT expert
A group of African nations has failed in an attempt to halt the appointment of a United Nations special expert on LGBT issues. The expert, a Thai professor, will investigate violence and discrimination against LGBT people on behalf of the UN, but African diplomats said it was inappropriate to focus so much on "sexual interests."
Read more from the Associated Press.
More than rememberance
The world held the Transgender Day of Remembrance on Sunday, holding vigil for those who were killed in the past year because of their gender identity. Members of the trans community, however, are increasingly urging people to focus not just on those who died, but on the successes of trans folk, and how to protect them in future.
The evil bisexual problem
At the Washington Post, Zachary Zane says it's time for Hollywood to stop portraying bisexuals as evil. Sexual fluidity, he says, is too often used as a metaphor for moral fluidity.
A soccer rivalry became heated on Sunday when Spanish player Koke called superstar Cristiano Ronaldo a faggot. "A faggot with a lot of money, you bastard," Ronaldo allegedly retorted.


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Introduction and Background Paper
My project area is Palouse Falls, which is located specifically in La Crosse, WA. I chose this location because I have heard numerous times of how amazing the falls are and I felt this would be a great opportunity to finally see the 198 feet high falls. Palouse Falls interestingly enough doesn't reside in Palouse County; its closest recognizable city is La Crosse or the smaller town of Washtucna, which are in Franklin County. The towns run right along Highway 26. However even when in these towns you still face a little drive either down Ward street Or get onto 261 to get to Palouse falls state park. ("http://wwwfs.org/")
Geologic Setting, Historical, and Geological significance
More than 12,000 years ago the largest and most powerful scientifically documented freshwater flood to occur on earth happened in the Pacific Northwest. During the last ice age, ice sheets, could be over 10,000 feet in thickness, an Ice Sheet called the Purcell Trench lobe advanced southward blocking the river in the Clark Fork Valley in northern Idaho and Montana with a 2,000 foot high and 30 mile wide ice dam.
A glacial lake was created that covered much of present-day northern and western Montana under approximately 2,000 feet of water in a 200-mile-long lake. ("Waymarking"). Eventually, water got into the ice dam, which broke down the dam from the inside. The water exploded out of the lake, swept across northern Idaho into eastern Washington, then rushed southwest across the Columbia Plateau, and split at a bluff--part of the flood traveled east but the main thrust traveled down the Columbia River. The floodwaters, moved up to 60 miles per hour, which in turn caused the soil to be stripped away and helped to create created the 198 feet...


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Four reasons why routine dental visits are important
Even though most of us think we have a healthy set of teeth, it's still important to visit the dentist every now and then. In fact, regular dental visits are one of the best things you can do for your teeth. In this post, we'll discuss the reasons why going to the dentist for routineRead more


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This is a county wide program for first graders where we provide a breakfast for them & their parents. It encourages the parents to come into the schools and read with their kids. And yes, it is literally Green Eggs & Ham!
We have been doing this since 1996. It started out with one school who really needed help to encourage parents to get involved. That is how the idea began- Breakfast, reading, prizes, etc… It has grown to 48 schools. We feed over 7,000 people in 5 mornings, and we do it with a lot of volunteers from our Beaches team, as well as lots of our friends here in the community. It's just one of those programs that makes ya feel good!
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Has the Health Care Industry Become more Business Oriented
According to a report published by the researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice earlier this year, evidence-based research has declined in the U.S. health-care system and corporate greed has degraded the entire system.
Health care is a prominent global industry, a key responsibility of the government as well as businesses, but more than that, it is an essential human right. However, certain financial forces such as insurance companies, hospital networks, and regulatory groups are beginning to corrupt care and undermine the bond between doctors and patients.
Pay-For-Performance Medical Contracts
Pay-for-performance schemes are widely used by private payers and Medicare in the U.S. to improve the quality of health care and reduce costs. However, there's little evidence whether or not these criteria actually improve quality or do any good to patients.
As per such policies, physicians are directed to meet stringent metrics for testing and treatment. But, these metrics don't take into account the individual characteristics and preferences of the patient or differing expert opinions on optimal practice. Instead, they're generic and population-based, which is why they are ineffective when it comes to improving patient outcomes. Say for example even for the most simple of pain that can be cured without much of medication, doctors will suggest a list of opiates, which on long term basis can cause serious health issues.
Perhaps, this is the reason why the report by the Commonwealth Fund shows the U.S. health-care system is the most expensive in the world. However, when it comes to health outcomes, the industry performs worse than 11 other industrialized nations in terms of health access, efficiency, and equity.
Physicians who achieve their targets are not only rewarded with a bonus from the insurer but are also given high ratings on insurer websites. Physicians who deviate from such metrics, on the other hand, are financially penalized through lower payments and can suffer from poor ratings on healthcare review sites.
Situations, where the patient visits a doctor with a minor health issue and comes out with huge medical bills, have become common these days and there is still no proper solution to curb this situation. Lack of awareness among patient adds to these and works in the advantage of such physicians who involve in such practices.
In case of travelling that's becoming even more important to check if the country you are staying is part of medicare reciprocal agreement countries. For example, when you're an overseas visitor or relocating to Australia, it's important that you find out if you will be covered by Medicare, otherwise even in a public hospital you could be charged more than $1,000 a day in hospital fees alone.
Insurers Dictating Medications
Playing the insurance game has become an uphill climb for the patient.
Medical insurance are to help patients when in need of urgent money, but the monopoly in health insurance sector has forced us think if is good for a patient or not. The terms and conditions specified in the medical insurances forces a patient to use health services not as per needed by him but as per the requirement of health insurance companies.
WellPoint, one of the largest American health insurance companies, recently outlined treatment pathways for cancer. The company further announced that it would pay physicians an incentive of $350 per month for every patient treated as per the designated treatment protocol.
WellPoint is just one among the several insurers who are offering a positive financial incentive directly to physicians for using specific medications. This is leading to a scenario wherein patients may not get the health treatments that are best for them. Instead, they may get those which the insurance companies think might be right for them.
Medical Research Influenced by Financial Incentives
According to the report produced by The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice in 2015, the pharmaceutical industry has influenced medical research in its favor by selective reporting, targeted educational efforts, and incentivizing prescriber behaviour that influences how medicine is practised.
The report further emphasizes how finance is playing a far more important role than the rigorous scientific process in medical research at present. Drug trials that show positive results are quickly published and promoted, while the results of trials that do not show beneficial effects remain unpublished or are suppressed by the sponsors. Suppressed data related to ineffective drugs and devices may endanger patients who are subjects in clinical trials or who may subsequently use them for treatment.
Even today you can easily find medicines that if consumed can cause serious health problems. Many research results show just the minor positive result but hide the hazardous side effects the medicine will have on a later stage. Medicines are brought into the market based on how much profit it can generate instead of how much wellness it can bring.
Industry-supported trials dominate the medical field, with an almost exclusive focus on health problems that expand the market share.
Outrageously Expensive Medical Bills
According to the financial advice company NerdWallet, medical bankruptcy is the most prevalent cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S. Americans pay three times more for medical debt than the bank and credit-card debts combined. Moreover, it's important to note that those who went bankrupt because of medical bills were not those without insurance. In fact, three-fourths of those people who become bankrupt due to medical bills were covered by some form of health care coverage.
The study also concluded that 63 per cent Americans have received medical bills that were more than what they expected to pay. Worst of all – several bills were a result of hospital errors and almost half of Medicare insurance claims contain billing mistakes.
These practices are making it clear that in today's healthcare system, power belongs to insurers and regulators who control money, and not doctors or patients. Health care is a more profit-driven industry than ever before; where patients' interests are of little or no significance.
High medical bills aren't only the patients' problem. Any kind of medical facility needs to be familiar with the medical billing services in order to thrive.
Awareness is the key
Healthcare was and is always meant for the better of humanity but vested interest of few has turned it into a money-making business by playing with the life of those who put blind faith in them. There is a need of more awareness and even strict laws that can if not fully remove then at least have some control over all the wrong practices going on in the health sector. Efforts are needed not just from the Government side but also from the patient side who should become more aware of the health industry.


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We offer a free scrap car collection service in and around Grangetown (TS6), West Yorkshire. Having a car that is a non runner can be a real problem you will still be expected to keep the vehicle taxed if it is still on the road. Do not pay a company to collect your scrap car. We will tow your old car for free!
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Canada Marriages and Burials (National Institute)
The original content for this article was contributed by The National Institute for Genealogical Studies in June 2012. It is an excerpt from their course Canadian: Religious Records by Brenda Dougall Merriman, CG, CGL. The Institute offers over 200 comprehensive genealogy courses for a fee ($).
Marriage Records[edit | edit source]
The best kept of the three BMD records are the marriage records. This is because of their special double status, as both church records and as civil contracts. A couple were not only married in the sight of God and the congregation there present, but also in the eyes of the law had formed a union which would have effects on the inheritance of land and money. It was therefore important that the clergy keep accurate accounts of the marriages they performed.
In Québec, where church records and civil records were the same, the legal nature of the marriage record was bolstered by marriage contracts drawn up and supervised by notaries. The theological basis of marriage as viewed by the Roman Catholic Church, to which most of Québec society belonged, insured that the church records remained equally important despite the existence of the notarial records also. This can also be said of Acadian records, although the survival of early Acadian records has been more problematic. [1]
In the rest of Canada, the view of church marriage records was affected by the traditions and laws of England. There, marriages had to be performed by a priest according to the rites of the state church, with some few exceptions. The marriage in church had the same force as any other legal contract. When it became apparent that there was considerable traffic in clandestine marriages in the 18th century, Parliament had enacted a new way of recording marriages which made illegal records more difficult to procure.
As the various provinces which would later form Canada were organized, the governments imported ideas then prevalent in England about marriage along with other legal concepts. Since the right to perform marriages in the mother country was restricted to Church of England priests with a few exceptions, this idea naturally had a place in Canada also.
The Québec Act of 1774 had guaranteed French Canadians the right to praxes Roman Catholicism, and so marriages could be performed by Catholic priests without any legal difficulties. In fact, Roman Catholics in Québec had more rights than Roman Catholics in Britain at this time.
When the government of Ontario was established in the 1790s, the first idea was to establish a narrow range of who might marry, consisting of Church of England and Roman Catholic priests, but almost immediately exceptions were made, with Lutherans and then others being added to the list. The reason for this, here as elsewhere, was simply that there were not enough priests to cover the vast area of the new colonies. It was not reasonable for people to be expected either to wait for a priest to come by so they could be married, or to travel a long distance to find a priest at a time when travel was difficult and expensive.
The rule in Ontario was that if there was not an Anglican priest within a certain distance, someone else could be licensed to perform marriages. These were often Methodist clergy.
By the time the Methodists had begun their evangelical drives in the 1830s, there were many Methodist clergy in the countryside, and people could turn to them for marriage even if their own religion was something else. It was important that there should be a liberal minded clergyman in any area for couples to approach if they had difficulty being married by their own minister, for any reason. These reasons might be theological differences, difficulties over consent or approval of parents, 'mixed' marriages (where the bride and bridegroom were of different denominations) or some social situation.
In Waterloo County, Ontario, for example, the Lutheran pastor F. W. Bindemann came from a Reformed background and was quite unusually ecumenically minded for his time. From his arrival in the 1830s for thirty years he traveled widely in the area and was known to perform marriages for anyone who came to him. In fact, there is a story that his front parlour was once so crowded with couples that he saved time by saying, "You want each other? You've got each other. Two dollars, please." This is undoubtedly apocryphal and unlikely, but illustrates his liberality. His (incomplete) marriage records contain names of every ethnic and religious background in the county. Clergy like him could probably be found everywhere in the country.
Aside from this, couples who were uncertain of their reception by their own clergy (as some would be in Presbyterian circles under various circumstances, for instance), everyone knew that they could turn to the Church of England priest and he would marry them. The English tradition that a couple who came to be married to a parish priest had to be married (after the calling of banns, and in public) carried over to Canada. The status of the Church of England as a state (or government) church, as it was in Newfoundland, for instance, and in Ontario until the 1820s, should be remembered.
The message from all this is that researchers should remain open-minded about where they might find marriage records for their relatives. People might wait for a clergyman to come round to baptize their children, and would be unlikely to travel distances to seek someone to christen them. They could easily bury a family member without benefit of clergy, and often had to do so. Marriage, however, was more portable. People might not wish to wait, or might be obliged not to wait, and so would seek out a clergyman wherever they could.
Far-flung Marriages[edit | edit source]
If you have looked for a wedding in local churches in your area, but have not found the one you want, you must begin to look farther afield. Consider the possibility of a circuit rider or missionary.
If your relatives lived on an obvious transportation route, especially water, then the solution is to examine the places where people could go most easily. Those along the coasts of the Atlantic provinces, for instance, could easily board a boat and go to a large nearby town to be married. Those along the St. Lawrence and through the Great Lakes system to the Lake of the Woods might do the same, or cross the border into the United States.
In fact, the traffic between Ontario and New York state for marital purposes was considerable. This often had nothing to do with lack of clergy in one place or the other, or even convenience, but was simply a wish to combine a small trip with the wedding itself, creating what we might call a honeymoon. In 1857 the Ogdensburgh (N.Y.) Republican had an editorial which told that the cost of marrying in Canada had gone up, resulting in a flood of couples crossing Lake Ontario to be married in cheaper New York.[2]
And that brings us to an important but little-known phenomenon which we might call the 'railway marriage.'
Railway Marriages[edit | edit source]
From the time that the railway was established up to World War II, the railway marriage was a means for couples to be married easily, have a small trip or adventure into the bargain, and avoid the complications and expense of a wedding at home.
It was a simple matter. They would slip away (sometimes unannounced, sometimes with the knowledge of their friends) on the train, journey a short distance, seek out a church in the destination town, and be married. They might stay overnight, but perhaps not, and then return. Depending on the family's circumstances, they might have a house party or other small celebration once they were back. In the country, there was always the possibility their neighbours would hold a charivari ('chivaree') anyway.[3]
These railway marriages happened all over North America, so anyone with a lost marriage from 1850 to 1945 would be advised to consider the possibility. To find the likely town of marriage, obtain a railway map (many old atlases include railway lines) from the period, and follow the line to a logical place. The town is probably not far away, certainly not more than a day's journey. Hub towns, or towns at the end of a railway line are good candidates. Once you choose a town, see which churches were near the railway station. They are good possibilities.
However, almost any church is likely. Clergy at this time were very used to people coming to the parsonage seeking to be married, and if they had the necessary license (if required), it was a matter of a few minutes' work only. Clergy in denominations which required the marriage to be in church (such as the Roman Catholics) might require more notice, but Methodists and Presbyterians in particular could be quite welcoming. In these cases you may find that the witnesses bear the same name as the clergyman, as his wife and grown children would act in this capacity.[4]
One hint about these marriages might appear in a newspaper notice. If a couple were married secretly, or at least without previous announcement, then it became news for the community to share. If they lived in the country or a small town, the local newspaper might contain a reference which you can use. Here is an example from the Orono News (Ontario) of 26 January 1911:
Mr. Randolph Woodward and Miss Maggie Lunn made a trip to Peterborough the other week, and after a quiet ceremony returned home man and wife. They are now residing in Oshawa.
In fact, the Woodwards were married in the manse of the church nearest the train station, very handy for everyone, themselves and researchers alike.
One bride of 1934 made it clear that the reason for her 'railway marriage' was money. She and her groom took a male cousin and sister (as witnesses), journeyed forty miles on the train, were married, saw a movie and stayed overnight with another cousin before returning home. "We had two dollars when we left and two dollars when we got home," she said.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ A summary of this issue can be found in Terrence Punch, Genealogist's handbook for Atlantic Canada research (2d edition, 1997), p. 143.
- ↑ Quoted in the introduction to The missing marriages of Hastings County (Victoria District), 1850-1861 (1999).
- ↑ A charivari (pronounced 'chivaree') was a wedding celebration staged without notice, with a crowd descending at night (after bedtime) on the house of the newlywed couple. They would make a great deal of noise. The new husband was obliged to invite them in and give them drink, after which there would probably be a party.fckLRAlthough early charivaris were often directed at weddings with something unusual about them (such as an older bridegroom and young bride, or a bride of advanced years being married for the first time), they became more usual as a means of acknowledging the new status of the couple. They had a raucous reputation but many were no more than regular house parties. They continued in some rural areas past the mid-20th century.
- ↑ Later in the 19th century, some Presbyterian clergy were less relaxed about whom they might marry than before 1850, when the various schisms and theological controversies in Scotland had made everyone prickly.
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It's Babywise Friendly Blog Network Week! Our group will be writing on the topic of "discipline" all week long. Please see below for the full schedule.
Today, Cole from Twinning Babywise, is writing about some common discipline tactics. I love that she labels these as "delay tactics". They are, in fact, delay tactics… but they are often thought of as useful discipline methods. The problem, is that they are merely delaying the inevitable… the discipline part. These tactics are often open ended and parents often don't follow through on the "threats". She writes:
"I'm going to count to three! One….two….three….four…"
"If you don't come here right now, you're going to get a spanking!"
"You don't want to come? Okay, I'm leaving without you… here we go….I'm walking out the door…"
These, among many others, are discipline delay tactics. On the surface, the purpose of these statements is to offer the child a second chance to obey, but in actuality the point is release the parent from the responsibility of disciplining. Discipline isn't fun for the child or the parent, so they are hoping to avoid it by giving the child more opportunities to obey.
Head on over to Twinning Babywise to read all about what to do instead! She has 6 great suggestions for achieving first time obedience.
The ladies of the Babywise Friendly Blog Network are all blogging on discipline this week. Check them out on these days:
Monday: Valerie at Chronicles of a Babywise Mom
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WHEREAS: the act provides that the governor, upon determining that it is appropriate and in furtherance of the rehabilitation and training of inmates, may, by executive order, authorize the use of inmates of a penal or correctional facility owned by the state of Louisiana for necessary labor in connection with a particular project;
NOW THEREFORE I, MURPHY J. FOSTER, JR., Governor of the State of Louisiana, do hereby order the following:
SECTION 1: That inmate labor be and is hereby authorized to perform security enhancements at various locations at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, St. Gabriel, Louisiana, S.P. # 08-413-94B-4.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the City of Baton Rouge, on this 4th day of March, 1996.
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So it's that time of the year again.
Where we say buhbye to 2010 and sexy ourselves up so 2011 will dig us like an old soul record.
Pretty much every single person I know is knee deep in some mix of dreaming, scheming and reflecting right about now.
Putting a bow on things.
Writing lists of lessons learned.
Making gigantigorgeous plans for next year.
It's that whole yearly wrap up thing.
Taking stock of where you've been. Figuring out where you want to be.
Yada yada.
And parts of this end-of-the-year ritual are 100% pure awesome.
Other parts, not so much.
Hold the sprinkles
I've talked to five coaching clients in the last two weeks who were feeling totally angst-ey about the end of the year.
And when I asked what was up with the angst-ey bits, they all had basically the same answer.
They've each had a lot of suck happen this year.
And every single one of them was feeling this pressure to wrap up the ack into some neat little package before saying toodles to 2010.
Like they had to remix the suck and turn it into something positive. All of a sudden. On command.
Looking for the silver lining.
Finding the gift in the hard.
Being grateful for what they learned.
And not only that, but they had to do it before 11:59 pm on December 31st.
That, fab taters, is what I'd call a double dip of bullshit, served in a crap cone and topped with extra suck sprinkles.
File under "futile" (See also "annoying")
There is nothing more annoying than forced gratitude.
Which is not to be confused with real life gratitude. Which is actually the awesome.
But this forced stuff?
It's gross. And plastic. And pretty much totally useless.
Because you are where you are.
And you feel how you feel.
And, sure, there's a ton of things you can do to get yourself to a different place. But pretending you're there when you're not isn't one of them.
If you're feeling gnarly about some suck, acting like you don't isn't going to automagically turn ack into a unicorn.
And trying to look for the silver lining or find the gift when you're still mad or sad or hurting?
At least they meant well
And I get that it totally doesn't help when friends and family (and coaches and bloggers and… and… and…) start in with the platitudes.
Everything happens for a reason.
It all works out in the end.
Something good will come from this.
Something good may totally come from this. At some point.
But when you're in pain, that's not even a little helpful.
Because the ouch behind the mad and the sad and the hurt is right now.
That's what has your attention.
And that's ok.
Because you're totally allowed to feel the ouch for as long as you feel it.
I'm not saying it's smart to wallow.
But it's also not smart to whoosh past your pain because you feel like you should be at the silver lining part already.
And not only is this not smart, it totally doesn't work.
Because positive thinking doesn't equal bullshitting yourself.
It's all. Happening. In. S-l-o-w motion.
My Christmas kind of sucked.
Ok, actually, it sucked a lot.
Someone super close to me announced their surprise engagement. To a totally iffy person. At the dinner table. In front of everybody.
I was shocked. And horrified. And really sad.
After the big reveal, I spent the next four hours giving my Don't Lose Your Shit kit a serious workout.
And somehow I managed to avoid a total meltdown.
But by the time I got home I could barely talk without tearing up.
All I wanted was my drum, my monkey slippers and a bucket of macaroni and cheese.
You spin me right round, baby (right round like a record, baby)
The next day I talked to a sweet friend about le suck from the night before.
And they were totally trying to be helpful.
But they went straight to putting a positive spin on things.
Think happy thoughts.
Cheer up.
And, seriously, the marriage probably won't even happen because of this and this and this.
That last part?
Kind of funny, actually. And probably totally true.
But, right then, I didn't need unicorns.
I just needed to be mad and sad and all kinds of confused.
Stop the clock
There is no time limit on your pain.
No one gets to stand there with a stopwatch timing how fast you finish.
And, if they try, tell them to suck it.
Because, really.
If you're in pain and you're ready to put a bow on it, rock on.
If you're at the point where you can see the lessons you've learned and the gifts you've gotten, go you.
And if you're not, know that it's totally and completely ok.
Consider this your permission slip to be where you are.
And to feel what you feel.
And to get to that please-pass-the-unicorn part whenever you get there.
This isn't a race.
You're not behind.
And you don't have to push extra hard or run extra fast just because we're about to say sayonara to 2010.
You have plenty of time.
I promise.
Deep breath in.
Deep breath out.
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Kratom, or mitragyna speciosa, is a plant that was discovered by a dutch settler in the early 1800s. In southern Thailand, the use of kratom has been common practice by natives for thousands of years.
In spite of the rich history and tradition of kratom within Thailand, the Thai government passed the Kratom Act 2486 on August 3, 1943. The Kratom Act made planting the tree illegal and required existing trees to be cut down. Currently, despite the government's effort to control this indigenous tree, nearly 70% of adult males in southern Thailand use kratom. In 1979, Thailand scheduled kratom in category 5 of the Narcotic Act, which also includes cannabis and magic mushrooms and is the least punitive category. As evidenced by the 2010 proposal from the Thai Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), which sought to decriminalize kratom and recognize its traditional use as part of fundamental Thai culture, the Thai authorities today consider the attempts at restricting kratom use as unnecessary and faulty. The ONCB concluded that decades of widespread kratom use without any negative social impact, made prohibiting the leaf counterproductive. The report also officially revealed what many students of kratom's history have long suspected – that kratom was banned for economic reasons and not due to any concern over its social impact. During the decades preceding the 1943 Kratom Act, the Thai government was collecting substantial tax revenue resulting from the opium trade.


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Playbill.com is looking back at some special clips of Holliday to mark the occasion.
Judy Holliday performs "I'm Going Back."
"Is It a Crime?" from the film of Bells Are Ringing.
"Perfect Relationship" from the film.
Jack Lemmon and Judy Holliday: "Let's Fall In Love."
Dean Martin and Judy Holliday: "Just in Time."
Judy Holliday - "Razzamatazz."
Judy Holliday, Kay Starr, Janet Blair and Tyrone Power offer "Chattanooga Choo Choo."
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Mumbai-based fashion apparel manufacturer Spykar Lifestyle recently received $5 million (Rs 20 crore) investment from private equity firm Avigo Capital Partners. However, unlike most companies which use the funds to increase manufacturing, Spykar will do the opposite.
The company will soon hive off its four manufacturing units, located around Mumbai, into joint ventures. With this, the company's entire manufacturing will be outsourced. Currently, only 20 per cent of the company's brands are manufactured.
It is not just smaller players such as the Rs 90-crore (Rs 900 million) Spykar, which think in-house manufacturing is unviable. Big Bazaar, which has labels such as DJ&C and Knighthood, does not manufacture the brands it sells. ITC, which runs the Wills Lifestyle apparel retail business, does not have manufacturing facilities. Madura Garments prefers a mix of in-house production and outsourcing.
Six months ago, Big Bazaar sold all of its five manufacturing units. Big Bazaar CEO Rajan Malhotra said as the rupee appreciated, the manufacturing units across India started catering to the domestic demand. Hence players found this option more cost-effective.
"India is divided into sourcing centres when it comes to apparel manufacture -- east for ethnic wear, north for kidswear, south for readymade garments and west for menswear," said Malhotra.
Sanjay Vakharia, director, marketing, Spykar, said: "We want to be a branded company and not a manufacturing company. Our objective behind going for fully outsourcing production is to concentrate on brand-building. We have also set up a vendor development team, which is on the lookout for prospective vendors to manufacture our products."
Spykar plans to set up a high-tech design studio soon. This unit will create samples and give it to other manufacturing units to replicate.
Kamal Bose, general manager, sourcing and merchandising, ITC Lifestyle, said: "Companies are primarily following three models for outsourcing -- completely controlled, partnership and buyer-supplier. Our company had realised the potential of outsourcing manufacturing and gone for 100 per cent outsourcing from the day we began operations."
Karnataka-based Rs 1,050-crore (Rs 10.5 billion) Gokaldas Exports is among the largest apparel manufacturing companies and has seen its domestic business growing four-fold in the last one year. Ritesh Khandelwal, divisional manager, Gokaldas Exports, said, "Our domestic market turnover has gone up from Rs 25 crore (Rs 250 million) in 2006 to Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) in 2007." Next year the company expects this to go up to Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion).
The company claims that production for the domestic segment has seen a jump of 80 per cent in the past one year.
Even though there had been a slowdown in the textile sector, the apparel industry would not be affected as apparel makers had hiked supply to cater to the domestic demand, he added.
The outsourcing initiatives will help companies get the benefits of lower sourcing costs without getting into issues like economies of scale.
For instance, if an apparel company provides 50 designs to retailers only about 10 of them become top sellers and deliver economies of scale, say industry experts.


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