South Africa is a very ethnically mixed country, with people of all skin colors and because of this diversity is often referred to as the "rainbow nation". Since the various population groups living side by side -but not always conflict-free- , the relationship between the non-European majority and the European-born (white) immigrants and their native-born descendants was strained by complex problems and unrest with serious impact on the history and politics of the country. After its election victory in 1948, the National Party, Party of mostly Dutch-born Buren, cemented one the world's outlawed system of apartheid. The change in policy began in 1990 and succeeded by the long struggle of the disadvantaged majority of political leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and other personalities. With the parliamentary elections of 1994, political life in the country changed radically and for the first time brought an equal voting rights for all citizens. South Africa is one of the few countries in Africa, which has never been a coup. Free and secret elections, but only in favor of the white population, have been performed since the 19th Century. The country's economy is the most important and most developed in the entire African continent.
South Africa has a large differentiation of climatic and orographic large units and vegetation zones. They range from extreme desert in the Kalahari on the border with Namibia to subtropical forests in the southeast and along the border with Mozambique. The region around Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate. In winter, there is only snow in the higher mountains.
The variety of wildlife can be seen in hundreds of small wildlife sanctuaries, and the great national parks, of which Kruger National Park is the largest. In South Africa are more than 300 species of mammals, over 500 bird species, more than 100 species of reptiles and numerous species of insects at home. South Africa is home to more than 20,000 different plants. In the fynbos region, a stretch of land in the Western Cape, one finds more than 9000 species that make this area one of the most ecologically diverse places on earth. Many species are endemic, that is located only in the Cape.


WASHINGTON--In addition to the conference sessions planned on the Education Department's appropriation for the next fiscal year, House-Senate negotiations are set to begin on two other education-related spending bills for 1989. The measures include funding for school asbestos-abatement grants, Indian education, and education programs operated by the National Science Foundation.
The asbestos program could receive its first increase in four years if the $65 million recommended in the House version of HR 4800 survives the conference panel's scrutiny. The Senate bill allots $40 million--the same amount earmarked in fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988.
The NSF, which is covered by the same bill, would receive $1.89 billion under the House version--$1 million more than in the Senate bill and $19 million more than in the current fiscal year.
The House bill would earmark $171 million for science and engineering education, the full amount allowed under pending reauthorization legislation and $32 million more than current funding. The Senate bill provides only $156 million.
Indian-education programs, which are included in HR 4867, appear likely to win small increases for 1989. The Education Department's Indian programs, funded at $66.3 million this year, would receive $68.2 million under the House version of the bill and $72.3 million under the Senate version.


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Phyllis Klein, LCSW
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by Phyllis Klein, LCSW and Perie Longo, PhD, MFT
Poetry Therapy and the Impact of Poetic Dialogue
From the beginning of time, poetry has been a means for people to express their deepest emotions and create healing in ritual and ceremony. In Greek mythology, we know that Asclepius, the God of Healing, was the son of Apollo, god of poetry. Hermes served as messenger between the two worlds to communicate between the gods and humanity. He carried the caduceus, "the winged rod with two serpents intertwined, which has become a symbol of the medical profession" (Poplawski, 75). Poems have also been viewed as carriers of messages from the unconscious to the conscious mind. Wherever people gather to mark a moment, they speak from heart to heart, with poetry.
In the counseling office, perhaps you have read a poem to a client that seemed to capture an issue she/he was struggling with, offering not only understanding, but hope. After the tragedy of 9/11, the airwaves and internet rang with poems of solace. When war in Iraq was imminent, a website developed where people could send poems expressing their feelings: Poets Against the War. Within days, thousands of poems were posted.
Mary Oliver, in her poem, "Wild Geese," says, "Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine." (Oliver, 110) Joy Harjo, in "Fire" says. "look at me/I am not a separate woman/I am the continuance/ of blue sky/I am the throat of the mountains." (Harjo, 25) The fourteenth century Persian poet Lala speaks about poetry:
I didn't trust it for a moment
but I drank it anyway,
the wine of my own poetry.
It gave me the daring to take hold
of the darkness and tear it down
and cut it into little pieces. (Barks, 11)
These are lines to carry in our hearts, because they open us to beauty, a sense of self, healing, truth, and human connection, and all this in just a few words!
At conception, we are born to the rhythm of the heart, growing in the fluid darkness until one day we stretch our way into light. With our first cry, we make our first poem, a sound that reverberates in our mother's heart, and when she cries in response, we hear our first poem. And so it continues, the voices of those who care for us convey all of the emotions we will come to know as our own, words, that if written down, would be poetry. It's that simple. Poetry is giving sound and rhythm to silence, to darkness, giving it a shape, turning it to light. When we read a poem that speaks to our experience, there is a shift, a click within. Someone has understood our darkness by naming their own. We feel less alone. Therapeutically, the "I" of us gathers energy and insight. Our world expands.
The following poem illustrates the concept of writing a poem to give darkness and suffering a voice. It was written by a participant in Phyllis' poetry therapy group, part of an intensive day treatment program for women addicted to alcohol and drugs. This poem states the truth of the author's experience in a haunting and beautiful way, giving the reader the opportunity to relate to what it feels like to be "broken."
Today I didn't care
whether or not they stared
didn't have time to put on airs.
Yesterday was a different story
wanted to look like a morning glory
fresh and bright couldn't tell
I was up all night.
Sometimes I can hide behind
my colored lines other times
I feel like a stained glass
window that's just been shattered
pretty pieces everywhere. (Klein, 16)
Rather than diminish the excellence of the poet's art, the poetry therapist enhances it. Poet Gregory Orr, in his book Poetry and Survival says "…the elaborative and intense patterns of poetry can…make people feel safe…the enormous disordering power of trauma needs or demands an equally powerful ordering to contain it, and poetry offers such order" (Orr, 92). Poetry structures chaos.
Dr. James W. Pennebaker, one of the most widely published researchers on the benefits of writing, says in his book, Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions, that writing about emotional topics improves the immune system by reducing "stress, anxiety and depression, improves grades in college (and) aids people in securing new jobs." (Pennebaker, 40). "Disclosing secrets beneficially reduces blood pressure, heart rate, and skin conductance." (Pennebaker, 52). Gregory Orr says that when we share secrets "we take a small step from survival to healing; a step analogous to the one a poet makes when he or she shares poems with another reader or an audience." (Orr, 88)
In a therapeutic environment, the trained facilitator addresses the healing elements of poetry: form and shape, metaphor, metamessage, the words chosen, and the sounds of the words together (alliteration and assonance). These elements, in association with each other, carry the weight of many feelings and messages at once, creating a link from the secret internal world to external reality, from the unconscious to the conscious.
Because a poem has a border, a frame, or structure, as opposed to prose, the form itself is a safety net. Strong emotions will not run off the page. A poetry therapist might ask his/her clients to draw a box in the center of the paper and write the words inside. Metamessage implies the ability to carry several messages in one line that "strike at deeper levels of awareness than overt messages" (Murphy, 69). Through the capacity to convey multi-messages, clients are able to experience merging as well as individuation/separation. The poem allows for a trial separation and then a return to the therapist for merging and "refueling" through the therapist's understanding of the poem. If the therapist says he/she appreciates a particular metaphor and how the words flow, the client feels loved and heard. In reading a poem aloud, the client may become caught up in his/her own rhythms and feel caressed.
An important question students of poetry therapy ask is how to find the right poem to bring to a group or individual. The best poems to start with are those that are understandable, with clear language, and a strong theme, as well as emotions that reflect some hope. Another essential element is that the poem must resonate with the mood and/or situation of the group or individual. This is called the isoprinciple, a term also used in music therapy for the same purpose. Dr. Jack Leedy says that "the poem becomes symbolically an understanding- someone/something with whom he/she can share his/her despair" (Leedy, 82)
A woman in Perie's cancer/poetry support group recently published a book of her poems and writings titled, I Can Do This: Living with Cancer-Tracing a Year of Hope. This title contains the critical word hope, for that is what we need in our lives to sustain us and heal. In her poem. "The Uninvited Guest," Beverley Hyman-Fead writes:
I feel fortunate my tumors came to me
in the fall of my life…
I'm grateful for this uninvited wake-up call, …
Would I have appreciated the beautiful
images the moon makes in the still of the night?
No, I have my tumors to thank for that. (54)
She was able to write this poem in response to a Rumi poem called "The Guest House." This poem, written so long ago, reframes the meaning of suffering saying:
This being human is a guest house,
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, A depression, a meanness….
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows…
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond. (Barks, 1995, 109)
Perie chose this poem to bring to the cancer support group because it might engage the attention of the group members, perhaps to think about how their illness was a "guide," and what they had learned about themselves in the struggle. Another important response might be: "This makes me so angry! How could I ever want to invite in the darkness?" Whatever the emotional reaction, the poem is a catalyst for helping the reader to access and express feelings in a supportive, safe environment. Reading a poem a second time helps the client feel even more deeply the content and emotion. Also, lines spoken spontaneously will often form the first lines of poems.
After a poem is read, the therapist might then ask participants for lines in the poem that speak to them, or to which lines they are most drawn. This might be followed by questions for discussion of an emotional nature. Considering the Rumi poem, the therapist might suggest they discuss: What am I to experience in this life? What am I not inviting in? How can my place of work or home be a Guest House? How is the Guest House like your heart? Comments center around what the poem emotionally means to the reader, not what the poem means intellectually. Through group discussion, time to write and read what was written in the group, both members and facilitator can learn to think differently, perhaps applying newly formed concepts to existing behaviors and attitudes.
For instance, if one has felt like he/she was victimized by illness, through discussion and writing of this or another pertinent poem, she/he might be enabled to begin thinking about how to move toward acceptance. Even writing about rage toward illness is an important step. There is a beginning of some resolution within the poem. Rumi says to be grateful, and in her poem, Beverley, who is far along in her emotional healing process, is able to thank her illness, which gives her hope.
Another kind of healing that poems can provide is illustrated by poems written in response to the other. Here are excerpts from poems that Perie and Phyllis wrote:
Maybe angels are
corrected,
old times resurrected, misguided love
back on course to lift the inner flute…
The moon is ripe with hope
but don't look there, angels hover
at elbow bend, between your toes
rows of them, wings of leaves or breeze…
Notice when they arrive
how their wings vary,
some traditional-fully feathered…
others blossomed like heather…
There are those with only goosebumps
not always on the back,
and some no wings at all,
just scratched knees trying to get off the ground.
– Perie Longo
Phyllis responded:
Maybe angels
were with me the day
my sister and husband were run down
on the road in New York, guided my
thoughts to what it would feel like to get hit
as I crossed the street in San Francisco.
Surely angels, familiar with misfortune
and emergency rooms,
watched as my sister and her husband,
almost as big as a small
bear, stepped off the curb, his size what saved them.
Accident angels hovered, caressed, willed them
to survive. Saw the ambulance come.
Did friendship angels, familiar with compassion and coincidence
Did they bring me to the sangha* and the teacher who spoke
about bearing unbearable pain?
Perhaps they remember what it was like to walk,
have shoulders without wings.
Do they know when humans will enter the next life,
and when the unopened tulips
on my table will bloom, die, resurrect?
*sangha-a Buddhist congregation
-Phyllis Klein
Gregory Orr talks about "The Two Survivals"-survival of the poet, in that the poet struggles to engage with the disorder to write a poem, and in the act of writing, "bring order to disorder." The other survival is that of the reader, who connects with poems that "enter deeply into" him or her, leading to "sympathetic identification of reader with writer." (Orr, 83-84) This kind of connection can be heightened with direct dialogue because the reader and writer cross back and forth from one role to the other, deepening the possibility for empathy and sympathetic identification.
To illustrate this concept, we return to the two poems we wrote about angels. Perie wrote her poem when her daughter was going through a very difficult period. For Perie, the whole poem is for her daughter whose nickname was "angel-pie." The last three lines of the poem, and some no wings at all /just scratched knees/trying to get off the ground, is a message to encourage and empower her daughter, and more broadly for anyone who is feeling discouraged, traumatized, or troubled. When Phyllis received Perie's poem, she took the theme of angels and wrote her own family story about terrible pain and hope. The poems transcend the theme of angels because there is an even deeper content here-the theme of ordinary people becoming heroes, and the rebirth and reconciliation that can come from tragedy. Also, as is often the case with poetry, there is an unconscious connection as both authors write about family.
In speaking about poetry, it is also important to recognize that it can be an intimidating form of expression, carrying with it a need for perfection or a feeling like "I could never write a poem-my writing isn't good enough." In poetry therapy with groups or individuals, poems are never edited. Editing belongs in a poetry-for-craft setting. The objective of poetry therapy is to use the poem as an entry point for the writer, and it is a helpful way to work with transcendence of the inner editor, that resides in us all. To address a way to think about writing poetry, we turn to the words of our colleague, Robert Carroll, MD, who writes,
Read it aloud
pass it through your ears
enjoy the
ride and
the difference between poetry and prose
is that poetry is broken
into lines-
(Carroll, 1)
Anyone can write poetry! It is our natural right and human instinct. All we have to do is allow the words to move and inspire us. The National Association for Poetry Therapy (NAPT): Promoting growth and healing through language, symbol, and story (http://www.poetrytherapy.org), has much useful information on its website including more examples of how to use poetry therapy with clients. We, in the Association, are like-minded psychiatrists, psychologists, college professors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and educators-all of us are also poets, journal writers, and storytellers who have experienced healing through the written and spoken word, and want to share it with other clinicians as a skill they might like to develop. Poetry for self-expression and healing is used with mothers, children, and adolescents; battered women, the elderly, the depressed, the suicidal; those living with terminal illness, the bereaved, those with HIV, the mentally ill, and now hurricane victims and soldiers returning from Iraq who suffer post traumatic stress. We also exchange poems with each other, across the country, that have been effective in helping others heal. This exchange continues the healing rhythm and heart of poetry therapy.
As Jelaluddin Rumi says:
Out Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Barks, 1995, 36 )
Let's find each other along the way.
Barks, C. (tr.) (1992). Naked Song. Maypop Books.
Barks, C. (tr.) with John Moyne. (1995). The Essential Rumi. NY: Castle Books.
Barks, C. (tr.) and Green, M. (1997). The Illuminated Rumi. NY: Broadway Books.
Carroll, Robert, MD, (2005) "Finding Words to say it: The Healing Power of Poetry" eCam 2005:2(2)161-172.
Harjo, Joy, (2002), How we Became Human, NY: W.W. Norton and Company.
Hyman- Fead, B. (2004) I can do this/ Living with cancer: tracing a year of hope. Santa Barbara Cancer Center: Wellness Program Publishing.
Klein, Phyllis, ed. (2001). Our Words-The Women of Lee Woodward Center Speak Out, SF: Phyllis Klein and Women and Children's Family.
Leedy, J.J. (Ed.). (1985) Poetry as healer: Mending the troubled mind. NY: Vanguard. Orr, G. (2002) Poetry as survival. Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press.
Murphy, J. M. (1979). The therapeutic use of poetry in Current Psychiatric Therapies, vol. 18. Jules Masserman, ed. NY: Grune & Stratton, Inc., pp. 65-72.
Oliver, M. (1993). Wild geese. New and selected poems. Boston: Beacon Press.
Pennebaker, J. (1990) Opening Up: The healing power of expressing emotions. NY: Guilford Press.
Poplawski, T. (1994) Schizophrenia and the Soul in The Quest, August, 74-79.
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Perie Longo, PhD, MFT, is a Registered Poetry Therapist (RPT), poet, poet in the schools, and poetry therapist in Santa Barbara. Perie is the past president of National Association of Poetry Therapy. She can be reached at http://www.perielongo.com
Phyllis Klein, LCSW, CPT, is a psychotherapist, poet, poetry therapist in San Francisco and Palo Alto and was on the Board of National Association of Poetry Therapy. She can be reached at http://www.womenstherapyservices.com
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When Dr. Dolittle is giving CPR to the bear, the bear is completely dry. If you just rescued something from the water, it should be wet.
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Why we should remember Boorong, Bennelong's third wife, who is buried beside him
Sydney's Government House, circa 1802, where Boorong was brought when she fell sick with smallpox in 1789.
Mitchell library, State Library of New South Wales
Meredith Lake, University of Sydney
More than 200 years after Woollarawarre Bennelong's death, the NSW government has purchased the land where he is buried. On the north side of the Parramatta river, the unmarked grave site will be turned into a memorial to the great Wangal leader.
But Bennelong is not the only person interred at the spot. Boorong, his third wife, lies alongside him. She has intrigued me for years, since I first began researching the role of Christianity in the encounter between Eora and Europeans. She is not famous like Bennelong, or his second wife Barangaroo. So who was Boorong? And why should we remember her too?
Indigenous lives, the 'cult of forgetfulness' and the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Colonial sources only give us a few glimpses of Boorong. She is discussed briefly in letters by the first chaplain, Richard Johnson, and his wife Mary, with whom she lived for about 18 months in 1789-90.
Other first fleet officers and a few later colonists also mention her in their journals, using a range of names including Abaroo, Araboo, Aboren and Aborough – as well as Booron or Booroong. These mainly incidental references are coloured by the Europeans' perspectives and agendas. There are no surviving records produced by Boorong herself – no equivalent to Bennelong's letter.
Still, pieced together, these fragments suggest Boorong played a significant role in the initial interaction between black and white Australians. She was the first Indigenous person to have a substantial encounter with Christianity and its Bible. She was also a political go-between, a cross-cultural broker, and a survivor.
Boorong's background
Boorong was the daughter of Maugoran, a Burrumattagal elder, and Goorooberra, whose name means "firestick". She belonged to the Parramatta area, "the place where eels lie down". Born there in the mid-1770s, she was about 12 when European colonists arrived.
Boorong caught smallpox during the epidemic of autumn 1789. Some of Governor Phillip's men found her sick and brought her into their camp for attention. She was nursed by Arabanoo, an Eora captive at Government House. Arabanoo caught the disease and died – along with as many as half the local Eora, including Bennelong's first wife, whose name is lost to history.
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Boorong, like Bennelong, was one of the survivors. According to Lieutenant Watkin Tench, she was then "received as an inmate, with great kindness, in the family of Mrs Johnson, the clergyman's wife".
We don't know what Boorong thought of the Johnsons, what her agenda was, or how free she felt to stay or leave their hut. But Richard and Mary encouraged her to wear clothes, to speak English and to make herself useful around the house. The clergyman – an evangelical – taught Boorong the Lord's Prayer and tried to convey an idea of "a supreme being". His hope, he wrote to a friend, was to see "these poor heathen brought to the Knowledge of Christianity".
The Reverend Johnson also "took pains" to instruct Boorong in reading, presumably using the Bible as a text for lessons. She thus encountered a new language, a new kind of literacy, and the technology of books and writing. These language skills meant she later got caught up in the political negotiations between black and white.
Early Sydney politics
By 1789, Governor Phillip had made virtually no progress in understanding the Eora – and had resorted to kidnapping people to establish a channel of communication with the local tribes.
After Arabanoo's death, Phillip's officers took in two more warriors by force. Coleby soon escaped his shackles, but Bennelong stayed longer – gathering information about the colonists and forging strategic relationships with Phillip and others around Government House. But then Bennelong, too, escaped – dashing English hopes that he would broker some kind of understanding between the two sides.
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In this context, Phillip's officers turned to Boorong, as well as a boy Nanberry, to act as go-betweens. On and off, between May 1789 and November 1790, they reluctantly relied on her as a translator and mediator with the Sydney tribes.
Boorong translated when Johnson and Lieutenant William Dawes went to find out who had speared Phillip at Manly Cove in September 1790.
Boorong also accompanied the officers on several visits to Bennelong during the spring of 1790, and conveyed their repeated requests that he come back to the British camp.
In late October, Bennelong indicated a willingness to go and visit Phillip. Barangaroo, Bennelong's wife at the time, opposed the trip so strenuously that the officers offered a guarantee of safety: "Mr Johnson, attended by Abaroo (i.e. Boorong), agreed to remain as a hostage until Baneelon should return".
Boorong rejects white society
There was a rapproachment of sorts between Bennelong and Phillip. And by late summer 1791, numbers of Eora were routinely staying in the town. The Rev. Johnson thought this new state of affairs had been "principally brought about" by Boorong, the "little girl" he had taught.
Boorong herself did not stay in the English camp. In October 1790, she returned to the bush neither converted to Christianity nor convinced of the colonists' way of life. She continued to visit the Johnsons occasionally for at least five years after that, but in Mary Johnson's words she did so "quite naked" and "evidently preferred [her] own way of life". An image of Boorong, now held by the Natural History Museum in London, depicts her at her brother Ballooderry's funeral in December 1791.
By 1797, Boorong was married to Bennelong. Barangaroo had died a few years previously, and Bennelong had survived a round trip to England. Boorong and Bennelong lived together with a band of perhaps 100 Eora survivors on the north side of the Parramatta river.
Around 1803 they had a son, known as Dickey, who as a young adult converted to Christianity, received baptism, and became probably the first Indigenous Australian evangelist.
We do not know the details of Boorong's death, sometime around 1813. But in 1815, an Aboriginal elder known as "Old Philip" told ship's surgeon Joseph Arnold that Bennelong had "died after a short illness about two years ago, & that they buried him & his wife at Kissing Point".
In 1821 Nanberry, by his own request, was also buried alongside Bennelong – but that's another story. In the meantime, let's not memorialise Bennelong in a way that erases Boorong and her contributions as a negotiator and survivor.
Meredith Lake, Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney
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Do not accept any limits in your life. Once you put limits in mind they become a reality.
The reasons given for not succeeding in life like lack capital, knowledge, qualifications, skills, and competence among others are not limits. They create opportunities for doing better. Whenever you face challenges ask yourself, how can you do better?
Life has no limit except those we impose on ourselves to comply with current practice.
Put a slogan 'In life there are no limits' in your mindset.
Do not accept the word impossible in your mind. A challenge becomes impossible as soon as you accept it in your mind.


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"Once completed, 1/JBR will rise 46 floors above the Arabian Gulf and feature a total of 163 units, including two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments, as well as five-bedroom penthouses with minimalist interiors, subtly incorporating luxury elements," he noted.
"In total, the high-rise development will comprise a gross floor area (GFA) of over 45,000 sq m, with the built-upon area (BUA) spanning 74,000 sq m," he added.
Meticulously designed to offer the utmost privacy, apartments on the top 15 floors will feature private lobbies, with semi-private lobbies for the first 30 floors. In addition, all apartments on the 31stfloor and above will have private elevators, operated using personalised digital key cards.
Dubai Properties has appointed Edge as the design architect and lead consultant for 1/JBR.
In collaboration with WSP, one of the world's leading engineering professional services companies, the award-winning Dubai-based architecture firm is working closely with the master developer's in-house project management team to ensure that all phases of the construction progress on schedule, said Al Kindi.
The main contractor for 1/JBR is Dubai Contracting Company (DCC), one of the key players in the field of building construction in the UAE.
Martin Baerschmidt, the founding partner and managing director at Edge, said: "We designed 1/JBR keeping in mind two primary goals – waterfront views and spatial clarity. The minimalist aesthetic permeates every aspect of the building and its interior design."
"As a result, each space conveys a sense of serenity that is not commonly found in residential buildings. Inspired by Emirates Towers, one of Dubai's most iconic mixed-use developments, 1/JBR, upon completion, will redefine Dubai's skyline as it becomes one of the most slender towers in this city of skyscrapers," remarked Baerschmidt.
To ensure residents enjoy easy access to their homes with minimal traffic snarls, Dubai Properties has worked closely with Dubai Municipality and Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) to plan a dedicated roundabout, said Al Kindi.


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Ana Hamu was a Māori woman of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) in northern New Zealand. She was a woman of high rank. Hamu was closely related to Eruera Maihi Patuone.

Hamu was baptised on 5 October 1834 by the Revd. Henry Williams and adopted the name Ana.

Hamu was the widow of Te Koki, a chief of Te Uri-o-Ngongo Hapū. They had at least two children together, Te Ahara and Rangituke. She later became the wife of the chief Pukututu.

Te Koki and Hamu gave the Church Missionary Society (CMS) permission to occupy land at Paihia.

Hamu gave her signature to the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840, and was one of only a few women to sign the treaty.

She was connected with the CMS Girls' School in Paihia, where she kept the Māori children within bounds by her presence.

She was believed to be approximately 60 years old when she died in 1848.

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Posted by Daniel Krausz on September 9, 2018 at 5:19am in Introduce Yourself!
My name is Dan. Been composing and doing audio post work for many years. I'm self taught beginning with the drums when I was 9 years old then later the piano when I was 14.
At age 15, I was deeply affected and influenced by the John Williams score for Star Wars when I saw it in the movie theater in 1977 (showing my age now). I tell people that when I walked out of that theater that day, the experience forever changed my life's trajectory and I new exactly what I was going to strive for from that point forward.
From there, I slowly started to build a home project studio starting in the analog world then transitioning slowly to the DAW world from around 1988 to 1993. There were many steep learning curves and struggles along the way as I had to learn the technical aspects of digital production on the computer which, at the time, was very intimidating to me! The rest as they say - is history.
Although I still haven't "landed" my dream gig yet, I have been fortunate enough to have some brief successes throughout my life in the music and audio production world. I'm proud to say that I was able to actually make a decent living at it for about 12 years from 1999 to about 2011.
I still do some intermittent music editing and scoring work for a popular television daytime drama series for one of the major networks a few times a year. I try and compose at least one major orchestral work a year which usually takes several weeks to complete as I work around my day job.
I'm also currently involved with the sound design and music production for an original Audio Drama series. We've released our first 1 hour long episode a few months ago. For now, that project is entirely a labor of love.
I'll try to contribute as much as I can and share some of my work here. See in the threads!
I introduced myself to the forum today and thought it would be proper to reply to some other recent introductions. I see yours is from September, but no replies yet! Hmmm... So I started here.
Your story is one I can relate to... I haven't had the production opportunities that you have had, but I have had lots of performance opportunities over the years, and yes ... a day job to support my music habit.
Hope to see and hear you in the forum posts.
You are very experienced musician, I would like to listen to your creativity!
I see you've had some fairly broad experience and can understand why you were/are taken by John Williams' compositions.
I've had a few successes in the past including having a composition and an arrangement included on a vinyl LP record (now that's a long time ago) and have sold several thousand scores over the past (what seems like) 150 years of striving. Now and again I get to hear some of them performed live - great fun.
But like they say, it's the journey that's the enjoyable bit - not the getting there.
Again, welcome! I look forward to hearing some of your music and reading what you have to say about music and life in general.
Wow, I've been away for a few days, come back and see this… I posted my introduction several months ago so I'm quite pleasantly surprised by these responses! I'm looking forward to hearing your compositions as well. I've already posted 3 pieces on the forum if you'd like to hear some of my music. Two of them are in the Music Critique and Analysis area of the forum (Opus# 1 & Insect Wars). The other one I entered into the Animals Contest and is called "A Squirrel's Life". I'm proud to say I placed second. All of the entries were incredibly creative! As far as looking to the future is concerned, the two top things on my bucket list are 1) Getting the opportunity to score a feature film and 2) Having one of my compositions performed live by a professional orchestra some day. I'd die a happy man if those two things ever came true :-) See you in the threads!
I wonder why your post has suddenly appeared after all this time!
I have already listened to and commented on your 'A Squirrel's Life' in the Comps thread and I placed you either 1st or 2nd - memory's a bit dodgy nowadays….incidentally, I came third. And thinking further along that line, I seem to recall coming third in the previous comp....must try harder!
Getting to score a feature film would be a real coup de cinéma - good luck with that one.


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March 13, 2020 March 13, 2020 Pharmaceutical Industry Editor
Gilead's remdesivir COVID-19 treatment will be made available to the US Military.
The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) has reached an arrangement with Gilead Sciences to provide the investigational coronavirus drug remdesivir to American troops confirmed to have COVID-19.
In February the Food and Drug Administration approved Gilead's remdesivir COVID-19 treatment for clinical research. Remdesivir, which was initially developed to treat Ebola by Foster City, a California-based company, has also shown some success in treating coronaviruses (Cov), including Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS.
Gilead's remdesivir COVID-19 treatment
Gilead's remdesivir investigational COVID-19 drug treatment is administered intravenously. At present remdesivir is undergoing two independent Phase 3 clinical trials in China and some other COVID-19 affected countries and one by the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD) for safety and effectiveness.
In the NIAD research, the first volunteer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha was an evacuee from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, who had tested positive for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus and was hospitalised.
Under the Gilead-U.S. Army agreement, the Department of Defense (DoD) will be supplied with remdesivir at no cost to the Army Medical Materiel Development Program.
In a press briefing from the 5th March, Army Brig. Gen. Michael Talley, commander general of the USAMRDC and Fort Detrick, Maryland, said:
"Together with our government and industry partners, we are progressing at very fast rates, revolutionary rates almost, a constant effort, and this is in order to deliver effective treatment and prevention products that'll protect the citizens of the world and preserve the readiness and lethality of our DOD service members.."
Gilead rumps up remdesivir production
Gilead has already accelerated the manufacturing of the most promising COVID-19 treatment remdesivir in preparation for increased needs.
Gilead's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Merdad Parsey said last month that the rate of Gilead's remdesivir COVID-19 treatment development "reflects the pressing need for treatment options and the shared commitment" of industry, government and health officials "to respond to this public threat with the highest urgency."
Army Brig. Gen. Michael Talley, commander-in-chief of USAMRDC and Fort Detrick, Maryland, added in the press briefing that, many companies besides Gilead are designing virus therapies but none are in clinical studies.
In addition, private enterprises and federal researchers are working to develop a coronavirus vaccine. The Walter Reed Army Research Institute, and the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command staff are conducting animal studies for a vaccine they started developing shortly after the outbreak started in Wuhan, China.
Officials expect a vaccine to be operational by next winter, should COVID-19 become an influenza-like seasonal illness. Currently, a number of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies across the globe are currently racing to bring a viable COVID-19 vaccine on the market.
Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul A. Friedrichs told reporters during the press conference that:
"We are trying a variety of medications and testing them in different scenarios so we hope that we will have some medical countermeasures available sooner" than a vaccine.
The new coronavirus, which was officially declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week, has already infected more than 1,800 Americans. Europe was declared to be the current epicentre of the outbreak, in a WHO tweet.
"Europe has now become the epicenter of the #COVID19 pandemic, with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of the world combined, apart from #China.
More cases are now being reported every day than were reported in 🇨🇳 at the height of its epidemic"-@DrTedros #coronavirus
— World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) March 13, 2020
Yesterday, President Donald Trump suspended all flights from Europe to the United States, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Ireland. But the UK may still be added to the ban list, should more people become infected, the President stated today.
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Q: msbuild package task fails to include assembly DocumentFormat.OpenXml I have a visual studio 2010 solution building an mvc 3 site.  One of my class library projects references the assembly DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll.  When I compile locally and on the build server, the xml assembly shows up in the bin, but msbuild on the build server tries to package it up, this one assembly is missing from the package.  The only difference I can see is that DocumentFormat.OpenXml is strongly named.
Are there special steps to package and deploy an assembly reference that is strongly named?  Do I have to install it into the GAC or something?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

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Sarah Vine: Chanel's new man is the Pitts
Sarah Vine 17 October 2012
Brad Pitt is a beautiful man, but he's not the right man to sell Chanel's classic No5 perfume in its new commercial. Here's who they should have hired
Full marks to Chanel for using a man in its new advertising campaign for No 5. It's nice, for once, not to see a perfume advert that involves naked anorexics, wild animals or sub-Fifty Shades of Grey shenanigans.
But Brad Pitt? Really? I mean, he's a good-looking man and all that, and of course he's an A-lister; but I'm not sure that he and No 5 are natural bedfellows. No 5 is the grande dame of perfumes. Pitt's just not interesting enough for her, even if you take into account that he's married to Hollywood's queen of weird, Angelina Jolie.
And then there's the script. Excruciating. Even John Malkovitch or Simon Russell Beale would struggle to pull off a line like: "The world turns, and we turn with it... plans disappear... dreams take over... Chanel No5: inevitable" . For Pitt, who can act, but not beyond a certain point, it's just too much of an ask.
Mainly, though, the problem is that he's not sexy enough. He's too much of a pretty boy. No 5 is all about seduction adventure, mystery. The strong and silent type. And we all know there's only one man for that particular job: Daniel Craig.
Here's a gratuitous picture of him:
Chanel/Brad Pitt advert update It's cruel, but very, very funny. Sometimes things can be a hit for all the wrong reasons... http://teamcoco.com/video/brad-pitts-chanel-ad-just-got-even-weirder
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Governor Bandaru Dattatraya has expressed grief over demise of legendary sprinter Milkha Singh, who breathed his last in Chandigarh at the age of 91.
In his condolence message, the Governor said that Milkha Singh was a great sportsman who has left an indelible mark on the hearts of crores of countrymen. He will always be an inspiration to young talent and sportspersons. He added.
The Governor prayed has for the peace of the departed soul and strength to the family members to bear the irreparable loss.
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I'm still alive! I know it's been months since you've seen me!
Sebastian may be in a marketing business, but we haven't heard much at all about the next game, not to mention Nintendo's habit of delaying anticipated games. Anything is possible I guess.
I must apologize for my recent extended absense caused by the end of the semester, practice, etc. I hope and intend to be around more often especially in the next couple of weeks!


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Bernie Sanders Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency
When Bernie Sanders made the decision to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, we knew it would divide the Democrats. Bernie, an Independent, was shocked by the very positive response the young people made to his promises. He was able to attract more than 30,000 millennials to his rallies. They were promised free college tuition, $15 an hour minimum wage, student loan payments and much more.
As an Independent, he did not express to the young people the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans. His speeches attacked the so called "Establishment". His audience was left with a negative image of the Democrats and the Republicans. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat who was bludgeoned by the Republicans and Bernie's poking at her was the beginning of the end for Hillary. The crowds and the noise
turned Bernie into someone we didn't recognize anymore. He complained that Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DWS), the Democratic Party Chairperson, was doing everything to hurt his campaign. He claimed the debates were rigged by her. He went so far as to spend $millions to defeat DWS in her Democratic Primary in Florida.
We could not understand why Bernie would have so many progressives turn against Hillary, for example: he made an issue of Hillary advocating for $12/hour while he wanted $15/hour. Masses of progressives decided to turn against Hillary for Bernie. The mantra "Feel the Bern" was picked up by many Blacks, Hispanics, and
Whites in leadership of the Democratic Party.
Bernie became a man possessed who was drunk with power. He ultimately lost the Democratic Primary to Hillary Clinton. By that time she was beleaguered and worn down. Meanwhile, the Republicans and Donald Trump's goons were bashing her daily. The combination of Bernie's and the Republicans' bashing led to her defeat.
We wonder what Bernie thinks of the Trump victory that he had a hand in. Many claimed that Bernie was trying to bring Hillary closer to the Left and not operate as a Moderate. That was a costly move to get Hillary to be more liberal than she already is. What a price to pay that resulted in a Trump presidency.
Hillary Clinton would have made a great president of this great nation. She has been in politics since the
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Bernie has blood on his hands in this case as Hillary is defeated by a babbling idiot who will bring this country down further than George Bush did. Bernie has nothing since the election, he is lost in the wilderness, and he has been trying to form a movement that will never happen. The millions of young people
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 17, 2012
Amendment No. 1
GENERAL FORM FOR REGISTRATION OF SECURITIES
Pursuant to Section 12(b) or (g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
ERA GROUP INC.
818 Town & Country Blvd.
(Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code:
Title of each Class to be so Registered
Common stock, par value $0.01
Name of Each Exchange on Which
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer ý Smaller reporting company
INFORMATION INCLUDED IN INFORMATION STATEMENT
AND INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE IN FORM 10
CROSS-REFERENCE SHEET BETWEEN INFORMATION STATEMENT AND ITEMS OF FORM 10
This Registration Statement on Form 10 (the "Form 10") incorporates by reference information contained in the Information Statement filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto (the "Information Statement"). The cross-reference table below identifies where the items required by Form 10 can be found in the Information Statement.
Item Caption
Location in Information Statement
"Summary," "Risk Factors" and "Business"
"Risk Factors" and "Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements"
"Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial Data," "Capitalization," "Selected Historical Financial Data," "Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Data" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation"
"Business—Facilities"
Directors and Executive Officers
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
"Risk Factors," "Management" and "Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions"
"Business—Legal Proceedings"
Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant's Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters
"Summary," "Risk Factors," "The Spin-Off," "Capitalization," "Dividend Policy" and "Description of Our Capital Stock"
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
Description of Registrant's Securities to be Registered
"Description of Our Capital Stock"
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
"Indemnification and Limitation of Liability of Directors and Officers"
Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
"Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial Data," "Selected Historical Financial Data," "Unaudited Pro Forma Financial Data," "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Index to Financial Statements" including the Financial Statements
Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
"Changes in Accountants"
ITEM 15. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(a) Financial Statements
See "Index to Combined Financial Statements" beginning on page F-1 of the Information Statement.
(b) Exhibits.
The following documents are filed as exhibits hereto:
Form of Distribution Agreement between SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Era Group Inc.
Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Era Group Inc.
Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Era Group Inc.
Form of Common Stock Certificate of Era Group Inc.
Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 7, 2012, among Era Group Inc., the guarantors named therein and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., on behalf of itself and the other initial purchasers named therein (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to SEACOR Holding Inc.'s current report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 7, 2012 and incorporated by reference herein (File No. 333-175942)).
Indenture, dated as of December 7, 2012, among Era Group Inc., the guarantors named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
Form of Amended and Restated Transition Services Agreement between SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Era Group Inc.
Form of Tax Matters Agreement between SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Era Group Inc.
Form of Employee Matters Agreement between SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Era Group Inc.
Era Group Inc. 2012 Share Incentive Plan.
Form of Stock Option Grant Agreement pursuant to the Era Group Inc. 2012 Share Incentive Plan.
Form of Restricted Stock Grant Agreement pursuant to the Era Group Inc. 2012 Share Incentive Plan.
Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2011, for a U.S. $350,000,000 Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility by and among Era Group Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and other financial institutions identified on Schedule A thereto (filed as Exhibit 10.25 to SEACOR Holdings Inc.'s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 24, 2012 and incorporated by reference herein (File No.: 001-12289)).
Separation and Consulting Agreement dated as of November 28, 2011 (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to Amendment No. 4 to Era Group Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC on March 9, 2012 and incorporated by reference herein (File No. 333-175942)).
Separation and Consulting Agreement dated as of September 30, 2012.
Form of Indemnification Agreement between Era Group Inc. and individual officers and directors.
Form of Era Group Inc. Management Incentive Plan
Form of Series B Exchange Agreement between SEACOR Holdings Inc. and Era Group Inc.
Letter re Changes in Accountants.
List of subsidiaries of Era Group Inc.
Preliminary Information Statement of Era Group Inc., subject to completion, dated December [ ], 2012.
* To be filed by amendment.
** Previously filed.
*** Filed herewith.
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
By: /s/ Sten L. Gustafson
Name: Sten L. Gustafson
Agreement, dated as of December 22, 2011, for a U.S. $350,000,000 Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility by and among Era Group Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. and other financial institutions identified on Schedule A thereto (filed as Exhibit 10.25 to SEACOR Holdings Inc's annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 24, 2012 and incorporated by reference herein (File No.: 001-12289)).


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Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed they have broken the Ligue 1 transfer record in completing the signing of Javier Pastore from Italian club Palermo for €42m.
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Season 2, Episode 4: Making Good Decisions: How Professionals use the Safe & Together Model Critical Components to help adult and child survivors
Season 2, Episode 3: "Cultural Tsunami": How the Safe & Together Institute Seeks to Transform Systems
4 Ways the Concept of Trauma Bonding Works Against Survivors
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About Episode 4, Season 2
What do practitioners need to pay most attention to in domestic violence cases involving children? What kind of evidence do courts need to hear evidence if they want to make good decisions related to custody and access? The Safe & Together's Model 5 Critical Components is the foundational guide to domestic violence-informed assessment and decision -making. The Mapping Tool, Pivoting to the Perpetrator and other tools and techniques all derive from these Critical Components.
In this episode, David and Ruth dive into each of those Critical Components including:
the history behind their development
how they can help drive systems change
how their application can prevent victim-blaming
how they allow practitioners to consider important factors like cultural trauma without allowing it to be an excuse for perpetration
Learn more about the Critical Components:
Foundational Elearning: "Safe & Together: An Introduction to the Model"
Comprehensive Elearning: "Safe & Together Model CORE Training"
Purchase Safe & Together Model Cards which include the Principles and Critical Components
More About The Podcast
You asked, we answered. Amidst our current, global political and social upheavals, during movements, activism and testimonies, during legal cases, fear and victim-blaming – we've heard your voice asking for clarity, insight and thoughts about how all of this is reflected in the Safe & Together Model. Many of the stories and news pieces we hear about from our partners all over the world involve complex questions, yet the beginnings of change and hope are based on the sound, simple principles of the Model.
To that end, in our new podcast, "Partnered with a Survivor," S&T's Executive Director and Founder, David Mandel and Ruth Stearns Mandel offer a raw and intimate glimpse into their personal and professional partnership and what it means to truly partner with a survivor, raise a family based on S&T principles and engage in social change at every level. This is a podcast for practitioners and parents, partners and employers, coworkers and friends – and anyone else who may want clarity, understanding, hope and healing.
What does it mean to give consistent consent? What is coercive control? How do you probably see it or feel it every day? This is a podcast you'll wish you had heard when you were a teenager. In unsure, confusing times, it's our goal to widen the audience for the Safe & Together Model-associated material to survivors, their family members, and even perpetrators. For professionals familiar with the Model, it will offer another angle on the issues addressed by the Model. For those who don't know Safe & Together, it offers a connection to the themes and ideas behind the work.
These podcasts are a reflection of Ruth & David's on-going conversations which are both intimate and professional and touch on complex topics like how systems fail victims and children, how victims experience those systems, and how children are impacted by those failures. Their discussions delve into how society views masculinity and violence, and how intersectionalities such as cultural beliefs, religious beliefs and unique vulnerabilities impact how we respond to abuse and violence. These far-ranging discussions offer an insider look into how we navigate the world as professionals, as parents and as partners. During these podcasts, David & Ruth challenge the notions which keep all us from moving forward collectively as systems, as cultures and as families into safety, nurturance and healing.
Note: Some of the topics discussed in the podcast are deeply personal and sensitive, which may be difficult for some people. We also use mature language to describe some feelings. Finally, we use gender pronouns like "he" when discussing perpetrators and "she" for victims for two reasons: 1.) statistically, more men are perpetrators than are women when it comes to domestic violence, abuse and coercive control; and 2. For clarity's sake, sticking with one pronoun causes less confusion for the listener. We know there are many men who are in abusive relationships and we are not invalidating their situations.
About the podcasters: David and Ruth are committed to creating systems and cultures of nurturance and safety. David Mandel founded the Safe & Together Institute which trains systems in domestic violence aware practices from a child safety lens. Ruth Stearns Mandel is a survivor of complex abuse, child abuse and domestic abuse growing up in a cult. She is a former teacher and trainer using her experience to clarify messages and complexities around abuse and survivors.
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Season 3 Episode 1: "This is a collective male problem:" An interview with international journalist Grant Wyeth
Season 2 Episode 24: From Police Inspector to "Moral Rebel": An interview with Graham Goulden


This was my second visit to The Front Porch and I have to say it didn't disappoint. The food was just as fresh and tasty as I remember from my first visit. Today I brought a group of ladies that I work with and they enjoyed it as well. It was nice to come in the spring to see the gardens this time.
Another excellent get-together of our Downton Abbey group. We had the Garden Tea which consisted of soup (for me Creamy Broccoli), chicken salad, cucumber and BLT sandwiches, lime meringue cookie, decadent chocoate torte cake and a rasperry scone. Everything was delicious - our sever was quite enthusastic and sweet and the owner stopped by several times to ensure we were having a nice time. The tea room atmosphere was bright and cheery and there was a great selection of teas at the shop. Definitely will go back.
Overall a good experience. I would recommend tea warmers be used to keep the tea hotter for those of us who like to chat and take our time - perhaps we were a little too chatty - lol. All the food was very tasty and the scones were excellent. I loved that we all had our own pot of tea and so we had 4 different teas to pass around and try. Lovely setting, beautiful decor.


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Banking on the GIB: boom or bust?
26 October 2012, source edie newsroom
The Green Investment Bank is due to launch next month. Rolf Stein argues that there needs to be strict investment criteria to ensure it fulfils its objectives
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) was finally given European State Aid approval last week, after months of consideration, in the same week that the Enterprise & Regulatory Reform Bill cleared the Commons after its third reading and report stage.
The Bill will now move onto the House of Lords for consideration before securing Royal Assent. GIB will begin making commercial investments from October 29 with an initial fund of £3bn. The timing of the bank's launch coincides with the presentation of the Energy Bill to the House of Commons, which aims to deliver secure, affordable and low carbon energy.
This represents the largest modification of the energy market in a generation, which will require £200bn of investment. The legislation will need to encourage this investment, support the development of new renewable energy technology and provide a root to market.
The GIB will complement the aims and ambition of the Energy Bill; it represents an important step forward in realising the Government's ambitions for technological innovation and carbon-reduction in the UK market place and industry is fully supportive of these developments.
The specific remit of the GIB has been defined as providing additionality and green impact with a focus on delivering finance to areas where there is evidence of market failure - primarily offshore wind, non-domestic energy efficiency and waste infrastructure.
The GIB has a critical role to play in a challenging project finance market. The sluggishness of the economy has hindered the growth of the renewable energy market and this has been exacerbated by the investment hiatus created by the delay to the feed-in tariffs for solar and the Renewables Obligation (RO) bandings.
Furthermore, the market is already anticipating the successor to the RO system - the feed-in tariff with a contract for difference, which will create another investment hiatus until the details become clear under the Energy Bill.
One crucial role of the GIB will be to inject confidence and therefore unlock additional private funding to help the market secure the £200bn of investment required. Much of the additional investment and innovation required will come from independent developers and generators, who will depend on the GIB to unlock funding and capital flows. The GIB will only be able to accomplish this if it is allowed to act as a bank and borrow on the capital markets.
An area of potential concern is the criteria upon which investments are made. It is vital that, as part of its mandate, it will allocate significant resources to funding projects which involve emerging, high-efficiency technologies, particularly in the waste sector.
The RO banding consultation initially proposed varying levels of support according to the efficiencies of waste-to-energy technologies. When the banding outcome was announced in July of this year, DECC removed the differentiation between advanced gasification technologies and the more primitive ones. This lack of distinction risks the proliferation of rudimentary technologies because it removes the incentive to invest in technological innovation and improvement.
The remit of the bank's operations should focus on supporting the most efficient and carbon reducing technologies through to commercialisation. By investing in the most innovative technologies, the GIB can ensure that they achieve commercialisation thereby maximising its impact.
In the energy-from-waste market, the UK has the potential to become a world leader in advanced gasification technologies and it is important to identify unintended consequences of domestic policy which might run contrary to that objective.
Rolf Stein is chief executive officer at Advanced Plasma Power
| energy from waste | feed in tariff | green bank
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The English Coalition for Runaway Children (ECRC) is a coalition of organisations working together to improve policy and practice. Sarah Parker, Volunteer Coordinator of Catch22's Stoke and Staffordshire Missing and Child Sexual Exploitation Service tells us more about the work of the ECRC and her role as co-Chair.
The English Coalition for Runaway Children (ECRC) is a coalition of England-based organisations that work with children and young people who run away or go missing from home or care. It exists to ensure that children at a vulnerable point in their lives are safeguarded from harm through effective policy and appropriate services at both national and local level.
When I first began working with a missing and exploited children's service as a development officer, I was invited along to the ECRC by a colleague. For me, it was an absolute gift: it enabled me to network with other practitioners across the country to compare notes, share good practice (and frustrations) and raise issues of concern.
In 2018, I was invited to co-chair the ECRC together with Josie, Policy and Campaigns Manager for Missing People- a role I have had for the past six months now. We are working to increase the impact of the coalition nationally and to make sure services to missing children are not compromised by lack of resources.
It is refreshing and heartening to be able to work closely with other agencies, charities and local authorities who would normally view each other as competitors. Hearing different perspectives on the same issue is tremendously helpful and enriching, something I don't think we do enough. And together- with our combined skills, knowledge and resources- we are so much more able to ensure that vulnerable young people are given the very highest standard of support.
A good example of the ECRC's work is on the issue of return home interviews.
Delivery of these return home interviews (RHIs) is the responsibility of each individual local authority. This means that provision can be inconsistent and young people are faced with a 'postcode lottery' of services. There is also relatively little guidance on how RHIs should be delivered, and some research, as well as anecdotal experience amongst ECRC members, suggests that children in certain areas are receiving poor quality, ineffective interviews.
In 2017, the ECRC identified the need for more information about return interviews, particularly around what good practice looks like. Members worked collaboratively to develop a briefing based on their experience of delivering RHIs to children and young people across the country, which was presented both to Ofsted and the DfE. We raised concerns particularly in relation to the 72-hour window after a child returns from a missing episode during which the interview should be held.
Whilst we fully support the desire to ensure children receive prompt intervention and support, we stressed the fact that 72 hours can be too soon for a child who may have experienced traumatic events, and that we would rather prioritise successful and meaningful engagement with the child over slavish adherence to time targets. We highlighted the recommendation that the child should be able to exercise some choice over when, where and how the RHI is conducted and by whom.
At our next meeting, Catch22 will be sharing our experience of working across the whole range of child exploitation in our Pan-Merseyside Service. We are also continuing to raise concerns over children placed in care in another local authority area- often the most vulnerable children- who do not receive appropriate provision when they go missing.
To learn more about the work of the ECRC, visit the Missing People's site.
To learn more about Sarah and her team's work in Stoke and Staffordshire, visit the service page.