Currently, a public debate has developed around the fairness of the City's approach to selecting a company to run the pilot program. On May 3 the Star Tribune detailed HourCar's response to the staff recommendation; the local company contends it is just as capable of providing on-street car sharing as the Daimler AG-owned Car2Go.
"On-street" car sharing programs are an exciting new approach to offering car-based mobility without requiring car ownership. From the user perspective, the most important feature of these programs is that cars do not have an assigned "home" — when you are done with your rented car, you just park in any legal space, log out, and walk away. I think that users will find that flexibility very appealing compared to traditional "assigned-space" car sharing programs like ZipCar and the locally-run HourCar. There is a lot more to say about the differences between these two types of system, and I'm sure we will also hear more about HourCar, Car2Go, and the city's selection process.
But I think a different issue will, in the long run, have both broader and deeper implications for the future of innovative approaches to transportation in Minneapolis. I hope that Mayor Rybak and the City Council appreciate the importance of choosing a provider that is able to provide detailed data for use in research, analysis, and evaluation.
The flexibility provided by on-street car sharing services make then an exciting new development in urban transportation. As the City has recognized by pursuing a carefully-controlled pilot program, new systems must be evaluated thoroughly and methodically. This is especially important in an urban context, where both the benefits and the costs of new technologies will be experienced by many people.
Therefore, I call on Mayor Rybak and the City Council to ensure that any on-street car sharing program which operates in the City of Minneapolis is required to produce detailed data — not merely summaries or reports — which describe each trip made by a car-share vehicle.
User privacy is a critical concern. Public data should never allow identification of individual users without their consent. However, privacy concerns should not be used as a scapegoat to avoid collecting or releasing data. There are no technical barriers to producing useful data that does not identify individual users.
The staff recommendation of Car2Go cites that Car2Go was selected in part because "the size of the fleet will provide [a] large amount of user data." I'm glad to see this, but I'm not satisfied. I hope that, regardless of what vendor is ultimately chosen, the City develops a contract that explicitly requires detailed per-trip data collection that will be available for public research and analysis. The city should require vendors to demonstrate plans for collecting, storing, and publishing this data in a manner that preserves user confidentiality.
Streets.MN contributor Brendon Slotterback used the Nice Ride trip data to visualize the density of bike share traffic on roads and trails in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
MinnPost produced an animated look trips over the course of the day, and published the source code for their visualization so that anyone can use and expand upon it.
A group of student researchers at the University of Minnesota discovered that bike-share stations are associated with increases in business traffic at some types of local establishments. Their study was presented at the national meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
Without the data provided by Nice Ride, this and other knowledge would not be available to the citizens of Minneapolis. If the City selects an on-street car-sharing provider that does not provide similarly robust data, we will have missed an opportunity to thoroughly evaluate how car-sharing systems meet or miss the needs of Minneapolis residents, and to expand our broader understanding of transportation systems.
Andrew Owen is the director of the Accessibility Observatory (http://access.umn.edu) and a research fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Cool! It's nice to see that Car2Go has a good start on this already.
Their current API only provides the location of check-ins and check-outs, however. There is so much more we could learn by capturing full GPS traces for each trip — we would effectively have a fleet of ~300 probe vehicles continuously monitoring traffic conditions and speeds throughout the city. Not to mention the insights it would provide into how people make route choice decisions.
To be a bit poetic about it, data are the seeds of discovery. From this researcher's perspective, instrumenting hundreds of vehicles with GPS equipment and then not recording their detailed paths would be like cultivating a crop of heirloom tomatoes and then letting them fall and rot on the ground.
I'm pretty sure Nice Ride only has check-in/check-out location data too. The maps have been done by routing from the start to end stations.
Regarding full GPS traces, given the degree to which it's been shown possible to match up even anonymous data with users, you kind of seem to gloss over the privacy issue. That said, if it gets them a discount, maybe people will be fine giving their consent.
Nice Ride bikes aren't GPS-equipped, so while it would be nice to have that data, it's not a "wasted data" situation like we're facing with car-sharing.
Thank you Andrew for taking time to write a post on this issue. In all the brouhaha I had not considered the data piece It certainly seems reasonable to ask for transparency.
I get the comparison to Nice Ride, but it seems a little off in that Nice Ride is a non-profit that received a large initial public investment (not local of course, but federal through the non- motorized transportation pilot…RIP) and Car2Go is a private business not looking for a direct public subsidy — at least as far as I know.
But they should certainly be asked to share data publicly, and I hope they would. And I love the folks at Hourcar and if there is a case to be made for them to part of the pilot, I'm all for it. And I admit to not having a research background — in fact my only knowledge of API is Asian Pacific Islander which I assume is not what you meant! – so I'll yield to others with a stronger academic background.
But mainly, I'm ready for curbside, "point to point" car sharing to make it to Minnesota. No delays, please.


The update should fail with an insufficient storage error thrown.
The update fails, but we lose the original old app in the process. This means that you will no longer be able to launch the v1.0 packaged app that was originally installed on the device. If you restart the phone, the app icon switches to a generic, greyed out version. Clicking it allows you to "restart the download." Sounds like what happened here is that we mangled the install failure logic to "restart download" and update logic where we should retain the old app as functional if we fail to download.
Definitely a blocker - this is dataloss if you update to an app where you do not have storage to fit the update, as you will lose the original packaged app installed.
We were actually not losing data, but we reverted the app installation state to "pending" instead of "installed". With this patch we fail correctly, and keep the app launchable.
Julien, can you take a look at the gaia side?
sorry, I can't apply it on a clean b2g18 tree... should I use a mozcentral tree instead ?
Hmm....does this bug fix a different scenario such as the following?
Result - app update fails and the app can no longer be launched. If you restart the phone, the app enters the exact same state described in this bug - it enters the generic icon when clicked, tries to re-download the update.
Which makes me think that this bug is fixing the general error case, right?
> Hmm....does this bug fix a different scenario such as the following?
> - it enters the generic icon when clicked, tries to re-download the update.
the app update fails after the network timeout. We can still launch the app, including after a restart.
> keep the app launchable.
> Julien, can you take a look at the gaia side?
We do catch the error (there is a SystemBanner message that there was an error while downloading the update, and there is the "INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE" message in the log).
So this seems fine to me.


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Beschreibung
Die Kerakera-onna wird als gigantische, fast den gesamten Himmel bedeckende Frau beschrieben. Sie zeigt sich zunächst nicht, aber ihr hämisches Kichern ist deutlich zu hören. Sie steigt ihrem Opfer nach und kichert, bis dieses sich verstört und genervt umdreht, dann zeigt sie ihr Gesicht und lacht höhnisch. Sie soll übertrieben geschminkt sein und ihr Mund wirkt unnatürlich groß. Das Opfer läuft meist panisch davon und wird bis zur Erschöpfung von der Kerakera-onna gehetzt. Abweichende Geschichten behaupten, man werde wahnsinnig, wenn man ihr Lachen höre, und das Opfer fange an, selbst unkontrolliert zu lachen. Die Kerakera-onna selbst fügt dem Opfer keinerlei physischen Schaden zu, sie lebt allein von der Angst des Menschen, belästigt, verfolgt und ausgelacht zu werden.

Hintergrund
Beschrieben und abgebildet wird die Kerakera-onna unter anderem in dem berühmten Werk Gazu Hyakki Yagyō (画図百鬼夜行; Bilderbuch der Nachtparade der 100 Dämonen) des Autors und Zeichners Toriyama Sekien aus dem Jahr 1776. Sekien merkt an, dass ihm Geschichten um die "Kicherfrau" in Liederform schon häufiger zugetragen worden seien. Bei seiner Version der "Kicherfrau" ließ Sekien sich offenbar von frühchristlicher chinesischer Literatur inspirieren: von dem Sammelband Wen Xuang (文選) des Prinzen und Philosophen Xiao Tong aus dem Jahr 520 n. Chr. Darin findet sich die Anekdote um eine junge Frau aus der Provinzstadt Yangcheng, die dem Autor schmachtend nachgestiegen sei (sehr zu dessen Missfallen). Sie habe ständig kirchernd über Stadtmauern und Balustraden gelugt und sei dabei so penetrant gewesen, dass sich selbst die Anwohner über sie beklagt hätten. Sie sei dem Prinzen selbst nach ihrem Tod weiter nachgestiegen.

Die Kerakera-onna wird dem Genre der rachsüchtigen Geisterfrau zugeordnet. Sie fällt damit in dieselbe Kategorie wie andere, bekannte Dämonenfrauen, wie zum Beispiel die Kuchisake-onna, die Hone-onna und die Taka-onna. Wie auch die drei vorgenannten Wesen, gehört die Kerakera-onna zu jenen weiblichen Yōkai, die vorgeblich besonders Rotlichtviertel heimsuchen sollen. Gerüchte und Anekdoten um rachsüchtige Geisterfrauen erfreuten sich besonders im 18. Jahrhundert während der Edo-Zeit und der Meiji-Zeit in sogenannten Yūkaku (遊廓), lizenzierten und damit legalen Rotlichtvierteln, großer Beliebtheit.

Siehe auch
 Warai-onna: Yōkai-Dame, die in dunklen Bergwäldern umgehen soll und mit ihrem hysterischen Gelächter jeden wahnsinnig macht, der es hört.

Literatur
 Michaela Haustein: Mythologien der Welt: Japan, Ainu, Korea. ePubli, Berlin 2011, ISBN 3-8442-1407-0, S. 26.
 Hiroko Yoda, Matt Alt: Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien. Dover Publications, New York/Mineola 2017, ISBN 978-0-486-80035-6, S. 179.
 Kenji Murakami: 日本妖怪大事典. Kadokawa Shoten, Tokio 2005, ISBN 978-4-04-883926-6, S. 136.

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Rose Marie Rusnock, 79 of 106 Duncan Ave., Ellport passed away at UPMC Presbyterian on April 19, 2010 at 10:10 A.M. Born in Ellwood City on October 20, 1930, Rose was the daughter of the late Ralph and Elizabeth Devitt Sulia. She was married to John J. Rusnock on May 10, 1952. John passed away on January 2, 2010. She was a member of Holy Redeemer Parish and the Ellwood City Hospital Auxiliary. Rose enjoyed gardening. She is survived by 5 children. Veronica and Jim Shingleton of Goshen, KY, Melissa "Mickey" Rusnock, Loretta and Sam Barry, John and Terri Rusnock and Lisa Sacco all of Ellwood City, a brother, Anthony and Rose Sulia of Ellwood City, 12 grandchildren, Jason Shingleton, Kelly Kleinhelter, Kory Sauer, Christopher Rusnock, Sam Barry, Krystal Meyer, Jenna Barry, Brandon Rusnock, Eric Rusnock, Shane Rusnock, Rachel Sacco and Michael Sacco, 8 great grandchildren, Kaitlyn, Jacob & Isabel Shingleton, Alex, Kaleigh & Zachary Kleinhelter, Brady Sauer and Dylan Meyer. Besides her parents and husband she was preceded in death by 2 brothers, Frank and Salvatore Sulia. Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at Holy Redeemer Church on Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 10 A.M. Interment will follow in Holy Redeemer Cemetery. Friends may call at the Joseph A. Tomon, Jr. Funeral Home and Crematory, 97 Grim Avenue, Ellport on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 P.M.
Veronica, I just learned of athe passing of you mother. My deepest sympathy, prayers and thoughts are with you. I just finished the study of the book "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn. If you read it you will, without question, find peace and rejoice for both your mother and your father. Hang in there "partner".
I'm sorry to hear of the passing of your mother.
The Rusnocks have had a rough year.
Feel blessed that the Lord allowed you to have had both parents for so many years of your life.


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Keanu Reeves reunites with Alex Winter on Bill and Ted 3 after 28 years
By Adrija Dutta
Bill and Ted are going to be back again soon with their hilarious adventures! Marking a 30-year gap since the first movie, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter finally reunited for the making of this iconic sequel.
The cast filming began in the beginning of July and several snaps of the duo have flooded the internet. In addition to seeing Reeves and Winter back together, the makers have also excited us with an exciting storyline.
"Yet to fulfill their rock 'n' roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends set out on a new adventure, when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it and bring harmony to the universe," a release from the makers. "Along the way, they will be helped by their families, old friends, and a few music legends."
Bill & Ted Face the Music making was announced on March this year and ever since then, fans have been wanting to see this iconic duo. The makers have been planning on the script since 2010 but it is now that the shooting has finally begun. And since it has been a long time since the last movie, viewers and producers preferred a reboot over a sequel.
Solomon, the scriptwriter, also revealed that the film had been facing funding issues and also contributed to its delay. In addition, it was also unclear about expenditure as the film isn't set to release internationally. But now everything seems back on track. And we finally got to see the duo's glimpses.
Reeves playing Ted Logan is being featured with long hairdo and was seen to be returning to the infamous phone box.
Bill & Ted Face the Music is set for release on August 31, 2020. And it can't be any more late.
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Have a look at the following images. Take a look at them. They are both from a city with roughly the same amount of population within a margin or error.
The city of Valkenswaard has population around 30K.
The next image is take from a suburb of Cleveland, OH.
they together have about 20K population.
As you observe the images consider changing economic situations or loss of capital to the region as a whole. If you, yes you the reader, were considering the creeping degradation of economic trepidation and a foreign onslaught, which would you personally want to defend? Or rather, would you believe in staying in, 'fighting' for so to speak?
I raise this question, rhetorical thought, in the hope of connecting the idea of space and value to our personal as well as our community.
A few questions to ask yourself?
Why is it that in the US in a majority of spaces where 'families' reside, there is little to no people to be seen walking about regularly, unless they 'are doing fitness'?
What does civic space mean to you?
What type of space do you like to be apart of?
Which space would you 'fight for'?
Lastly, does space impact cultural characteristics? Who is defining the space that we reside with in?
Do we accept the decisions that have been made for the spaces that we reside, or can we begin to question how the spaces around us have been derived and begin to ask the questions, can we do better?
And if we can, why not start today, and begin in rethinking our civic space and the spaces in which we reside?


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Google working on AR headset codenamed 'Project Iris'
(IANS) Google is working on an AR headset codenamed "Project Iris".
According to two people familiar with the project, Google has recently begun ramping up work on an AR headset, internally codenamed Project Iris, that it hopes to ship in 2024, reports The Verge.
Google's upcoming device would use outward-facing cameras to blend computer graphics with a video feed of the real world, creating a more immersive, mixed reality experience than existing AR glasses from the likes of Snap and Magic Leap.
The device is reportedly still in early development, is powered by a custom Google processor, and runs on Android
A recent report claimed that Google is actively hiring to create an "Augmented Reality OS (operating system)" for an unspecified innovative AR device.
A senior Google executive Mark Lucovsky said in a LinkedIn post that he will lead the Operating System team for AR at Google.
"If you are interested in joining me on this journey, I'd love to talk," he posted.
He previously spent four years as General Manager for Operating Systems at Oculus VR/Facebook/Meta.
Earlier in his career, Lucovsky was at Microsoft for 16 years before working at Google from 2004-09.
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Could anyone who has the CoC extension for BRP, please upload it or provide a file link. Would really appreciate it, thanks.
I don't think that is even an option due to the licensing. CoC has it's own ruleset, so you're probably not likely to find it posted here.
I saw a couple of links to the fgwiki but the page no longer exists. I'm looking for the 'eldritch horror' extension.
Unless he provides a link to it on site, we're out of luck. I was looking for that extension too. I'm not sure it's CoC ready though. He did say it was a brief example.
I have the extension. If anyone wants it PM me your email address and I'll send you the file. Failing that it is quite easy to make you own extension following the documentation supplied with the BRP ruleset. I'm partway through an extension for the Laundry.
Alchemister, file emailed. I'll keep you updated with the Laundry extension.


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Buena Vista (Platón Sánchez, Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave)
We have collected many facts about the tiny town of Buena Vista, as well as photos, maps or statistics.
So you will learn about this incredible town of 5 inhabitants of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave.
The town of Buena Vista is located in the Municipality of Platón Sánchez (in the State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave). There are 5 inhabitants. In the list of the most populated towns of the whole municipality, it is the number #90 of the ranking. Buena Vista is at 107 meters of altitude.
The Mexican authorities declared this village as uninhabited in 2020.
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Other towns in the Municipality of Platón Sánchez
Do you want to locate the town of Buena Vista? You can find it at 12.4 kilometers, in direction Southwest, from the town of Platón Sánchez, which has the largest population within the municipality. To enjoy the Buena Vista location through satellite images, at the bottom of our webpage you have an interactive map.
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Location map of Buena Vista in Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave: Use the controls in the upper left area to zoom in (+) or out (-). This is a satellite photo centered in Buena Vista, which is marked with the following symbol
Need to locate a certain Buena Vista building on a satellite photo? In this link we have an updated image, where you can see the streets and houses of the village..
The population of Buena Vista (Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave) is 5 inhabitants
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The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) is in family Strigidae. Owls are classified into two general groups: the typical owls of family Strigidae and the barn owls of family Tytonidae. Asio flammeus is a species of typical owl. Owls belonging to genus Asio are known as the eared owls, which are characterized for tufts of feathers resembling that of mammalian ears. These "ear" tufts may or may not be visible. Asio flammeus will display its tufts when in a defensive pose. However, its very short tufts are usually not visible. The Short-eared Owl is an owl of the open-country and grasslands.
Asio flammeus, the Short-eared Owl, is a medium-sized owl averaging 34-43 cm in length and weighing from 206-475 grams. In general, the Short-eared Owls have large eyes, big heads, short necks, and broad wings. Its bill is short, strong, hooked and black. Its plumage is molted tawny to brown with a barred tail and wings. The upper breast is significantly streaked (Alsop 2001). Wingspans range from 85-103 cm. Females are slightly larger than males. The yellow-orange eyes of A. flammeus are exaggerated by black rings encircling each eye, and large, whitish disks of plumage surrounding the eyes like a mask. The word flammeus is Latin in origin meaning "flaming, or the color of fire".
Geographic Range
The Short-eared Owl's geographic range extends to all continents except Antarctica and Australia. Asio flammeus is considered to have one of the largest distributions in the world. A. flammeus breeds in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean, Hawaii and the Galápagos Islands. This owl is partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of its range. The Short-eared Owl is known to relocate to areas of higher rodent populations (Ehrlich 1988). It will also wander nomadically in search of better food supplies during years when vole populations are low. See a map of the Short-eared Owl's distribution across the New World.
Nesting and Reproduction
The Short-eared Owl nests on the ground in prairie, tundra, savanna, or meadow habitats. Nests are concealed by low vegetation, and may be lightly lined by weeds, grass, or feathers (Ehrlich 1988). Approximately 4 to 7 white eggs are found in a typical clutch, but clutch size can reach up to a dozen eggs in years when vole populations are abundant. There is one brood per year. The eggs are incubated mostly by the female for 21-37 days. Offspring fledge at a little over four weeks. This owl is known to lure predators away from its nest by appearing to have a crippled wing (Alsop 2001).
Sexual maturity is attained at one year. Breeding season lasts from March to June, peeking in April. During this time these owls may gather in flocks. During breeding season, the males make great spectacles of themselves in flight to attract females. The male swoops down over the nest flapping its wings in a courtship display (Ehrlich 1988). These owls are generally monogamous.
Diet and Foraging Habits
Hunting occurs mostly at night, but these owls are diurnal (active in the daytime), crepuscular (active during the twilight), as well as nocturnal (active at night). The Short-eared Owl tends to fly only feet above the ground in open fields and grasslands until swooping down upon its prey feet first (Alsop 2001). Several owls may hunt over the same open area (Kaufman 2000). Its food consists mainly of rodents, especially voles, but it will eat other small mammals and some large insects (Ehrlich 1988). Its flight is known to be characteristically floppy due to its irregular wingbeats. The Short-eared Owl may also be described as "moth or bat-like" in flight.
Short-eared Owls have a scratchy bark-like call. A raspy waowk, waowk, waowk or toot-toot-toot-toot-toot are common. A loud eeee-yerp is also heard on breeding grounds. However, Short-eared Owls are silent on the wintering grounds (Alsop 2001).
1. The Short-eared Owl has been known to territorially compete with the Barn Owl.
2. The Short-eared Owl may nest on recovered or replanted mines. This nesting adaptation was observed farther south than the breeding range Asio flammeus would normally occupy. This makes the Short-eared Owl one of the few species to which strip-mining has become an advantage!
Owl Eyes / Vision Adaptations
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Q: What does the following note in Django's documentation mean? While browsing the docs for Django's UUIDField, I saw the following

Lookups on PostgreSQL
Using iexact, contains, icontains, startswith, istartswith, endswith,
  or iendswith lookups on PostgreSQL don't work for values without
  hyphens, because PostgreSQL stores them in a hyphenated uuid datatype
  type.

Is this something related to using UUIDField? Or is this a general note for any string values? If so, can someone provide an example of where these operations don't work with strings without hyphens?

A: I realize this is primarily about Django and how it handles uuid columns. However I must point out the the contention "PostgreSQL stores them in a hyphenated uuid datatype type" is at best misleading if  not incorrect. Postgres stores then as a uuid type it displays hyphenated but they can be queried with or without the hyphens. DEMO:
create table uuid_demo( uuid_col uuid, description test) ;

-- generate uuid to use in demo
select gen_random_uuid()
-- result f76fe42f-4328-479f-a446-93307fa21c1a

insert into uuid_demo(uuid_col, description)
   values ('f76fe42f-4328-479f-a446-93307fa21c1a'::uuid, 'With dashes')
        , ('f76fe42f4328479fa44693307fa21c1a'::uuid, 'Without dashes');

-- with hyphens and with type cast
select *
  from uuid_demo
 where uuid_col = 'f76fe42f-4328-479f-a446-93307fa21c1a'::uuid;

-- withou hyphens and with type cast
 select *
  from uuid_demo
 where uuid_col = 'f76fe42f4328479fa44693307fa21c1a'::uuid;

-- with hyphens and without type cast
select *
  from uuid_demo
 where uuid_col = 'f76fe42f-4328-479f-a446-93307fa21c1a';

-- without hyphens and without type cast
 select *
  from uuid_demo
 where uuid_col = 'f76fe42f4328479fa44693307fa21c1a';

-- all 4 vereions produce the same result

 drop table uuid_demo;

So it is not Postgres that cannot handle uuid's without hyphens. In this case it is Django that can not handle uuid's without hyphens.

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Eaters Agreement
Co - Occurring
Carers Corner
"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are."
- Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time
Common co-occurring disorders include:
Affects millions of people worldwide and the depth of ones depression can vary significantly. When im depressed I feel very lethargic, Iack motivation and energy. I think very negatively. I feel like I'm swamped in darkness and suffocated with too much emotion or none at all. I may feel tearful or I may feel like I cannot cry or express emotion at all. I will feel lost, isolated and alone and I will withdraw from everyone and everything and retreat into my hermit like state where I feel safe. I just feel like I want to totally numb out or forget my emotional and psychological pain and distress.
Anxiety is variable and comes in many forms. It often accompanies an eating disorder as anxiety will often come hand in hand with food, the action of eating and the fears and distress afterwards. Other anxiety provoking situations may include, but are not limited to, social situations, solo speaking, crowds etc...Feelings may include; a knotted stomach (butterflies in stomach), sweaty palms, nausea or sickness, rapid breathing, difficulty catching your breath, panic attacks etc...
Body Dysmorphia
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is often accompanied by an ED (but not always) it is categorised as having intrusive negative and distorted thoughts about your physical appearance and its size. Being over critical and obsessing over what you hate or want to change about your body.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - OCD
OCD effects people differently. The three elements of the disorder are;
Obsessions – repeated unwelcome, distressing thoughts, worries, doubts, images etc...
Emotions – the "obsession" causes an intense feeling of anxiety and distress.
Compulsions – the neutralising behaviours or "repetitions' the person has to perform to relieve the distress the obsession has caused.
Then a temporary relief is achieved but it is an ongoing cycle.
Some compulsive behaviours include;
Contamination fears
Tapping and repeating
Order and organisation ....
Bipolar disorder or any other associated mood disorder is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain resulting in uncontrollable extremes in mood, from episodes of depression and mania or hypomania and even mixed episodes.
Bipolar Mania Symptoms;
feeling very happy, elated or overjoyed
talking very quickly
feeling full of energy
feeling self-important
feeling full of great new ideas and having important plans
being easily distracted
being easily irritated or agitated
being delusional, having hallucinations and disturbed or illogical thinking
not feeling like sleeping
doing things that often have disastrous consequences – such as spending large sums of money on expensive and sometimes unaffordable items
making decisions or saying things that are out of character and that others see as being risky or harmful
Bipolar Depression Symptoms;
feeling sad, hopeless or irritable most of the time
lacking energy
difficulty concentrating and remembering things
loss of interest in everyday activities
feelings of emptiness or worthlessness
feelings of guilt and despair
feeling pessimistic about everything
waking up early
Patterns of depression and mania
If you have bipolar disorder, you may have episodes of depression more regularly than episodes of mania, or vice versa.
Between episodes of depression and mania, you may sometimes have periods where you have a "normal" mood.
The patterns are not always the same and some people may experience:
rapid cycling – where a person with bipolar disorder repeatedly swings from a high to a low phase quickly without having a "normal" period in between
mixed state – where a person with bipolar disorder experiences symptoms of depression and mania together; for example, overactivity with a depressed mood
If your mood swings last a long time but are not severe enough to be classed as bipolar disorder, you may be diagnosed with a mild form of bipolar disorder called cyclothymia.
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/bipolar-disorder/symptoms/
BPD symptoms include;
Difficulty forming and maintaining relationships
Distorted perception of oneself and the people and the world around them
Severe mood swings
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD can develop and stem from many catalysts, such as, intense anxiety, stressful/damaging/painful experiences, such as varying forms of abuse, violent crimes, life threatening or dangerous experiences, bullying etc....
PTSD will often vary in symptoms and severity and may produce flashbacks, nightmares, painful intrusive stressful memories and changes in your reactions and response to certain things...
Self-harm can take many forms and there may not always be a trigger or a specific reason as to why one may self-harm. Your reasoning for self-harming may change over time and evolve with your circumstances e.g. personally, emotionally, your mental/physical health.
Reasons for self-harm could include;
Feeling like you need to punish yourself
Feeling like you don't belong
To feel in control
Expression of distress e.g. emotional pain/trauma
To relieve bad feelings and overwhelming tension, anger, hatred of yourself
A repose to thoughts you may be having e.g. negative or emotional
Other Co-Occurring complications include;
- Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Alcohol and / or substance abuse
- Schizophrenia
- Me
My scars are faint but I see them. I look at them sometimes and see the emotional pain behind each one. I feel those feelings all over again. I never felt the physical pain with each cut for I found the emotional torment harder to bear, it numbed out the rest. I felt the release with every cut as the blood ran down my arm it was like a pressure lifting and all the bad and emotional feelings were disappearing as the blood left my body.
When I was numb, I couldn't cry.
When I cried, it was because I couldn't speak.
Other Emotional Issues include;
Low Self-Esteem - having a poor perception of yourself, feelings of unworthiness and a sense of low self-worth. You may feel like you don't deserve anything or anyone.
Anger Management Issues - angry outbursts that may be unpredictable and may catch you unawares. Losing tour temper quickly and in an overly aggressive way, maybe even at the smallest of things. The anger felt may not necessarily be directed toward others but more towards yourself.
Suicidal thoughts/ideations - can occur for many reasons, some people may feel trapped in an abyss that they feel there is no way out of. You may feel hopeless, unworthy, unloved. You may have personal/health/financial worries etc.... No matter how dark it may seem, I urge you to believe that things will improve by reaching out and asking for help. There is always someone there to listen. Anonymously at the end of a helpline, or via your GP or A&E.
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
― William W. Purkey
- Anonymous -
Not my story
You see me smile
Not my pain
You may notice my cuts
Not my scars
You can read my lips
Not my mind
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Welcome to this page on Edie's website. This may be the place where you will find the name of your relative: a soldier, medical staff, patient or one of the many people named by Edie in her diaries. We have done our best to trawl through the 400 plus pages of her diaries for all those names and we think we have found most of them.
One of the most rewarding aspects of putting the diaries online has been the occasional contact from people who have recognised their relative. It is amazing that, 100 years after Edie spent those five years nursing in France (from October 1914 until she was demobilised on 22 December 1919), these reunions are occurring. We welcome your getting in touch. Please use the Visitors' Book or email me at ediesdiaries@gmail.com.
For some of those listed below (about 30 at the last count) I have done a separate individual page. You can see them all listed here.
Dick Robinson – Edie's great nephew.
The names list may be best viewed on a desktop computer
The names are listed in four categories:
Medical staff: Doctors, Matrons, Sisters, Nurses, V.A.Ds. etc
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen: Officers, other ranks, (including forces of other countries)
Others ( a wide variety of names of other people mentioned)
Family and friends of Edie
We have now indexed all four volumes of the diaries as well as the three early letters.
Early Letters (ELs). Here is the link: http://anurseatthefront.org.uk/introduction-to-the-diaries/early-letters/
Four Volumes of Diaries. For more information on accessing the full original versions please click here.
'Other' refers to some other page on the website and is given a direct link.
If you see the name of a relative of yours or a unit in which you are interested, make a note of the date(s), then click on the link above for the appropriate volume and scroll through that volume to find the date. Please use the Visitors' Book if you would like to tell us more about the person or unit. We have already received some amazing contacts from descendants of those mentioned.
The list still needs checks for accuracy. We are very happy to receive any corrections or, if you have further information which will improve the list; for example first names of people where they are missing or links to entries in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register. Again please use the Visitors' Book.
Items in blue mean that we are uncertain whether the entry in the diary is about that person. Those in red signify some uncertainty about who the individual might be.
Information in purple italic is kindly supplied by Sue Light who has been a wonderful source of information and encouragement. See this page on Sue's website regarding tracing descendants: http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/147.html.
1. Medical Staff: Doctors, Matrons, Sisters, Nurses, V.A.Ds. etc
It is not always clear whether officers named here are primarily medics or soldiers.
QAIMNS = Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service
QAIMNSR = Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (Edie's unit)
TFNS = Territorial Force Nursing Service
ADMS - Assistant Director of Medical Services
20/03/16, 9/4/1916
3 22/5/16, 14/7/16, 2/8/16
Allen (nurse)
18/03/1916; 09/04/1916
Ambulance trains (A.Ts.) 2.2 14/03/1916; 03/04/1918
4 14/07/1918; 19/09/1918; 11/10/1918; 06/12/1918; 07/12/1918; 13/12/1918; 14/12/1918; 20/12/1918; 25/12/1918
American nurses/sisters/hospitals
4 30/06/1918; 19/09/1918; 24/10/1918
Andrew, Miss
Arbuthnot-Lane, Sir William
Armstrong (nurse)
Atkinson, Miss (New Zealand VAD)("Atky") born 1860
19/05/1916; 29/05/1916; 09/08/1916
Baldrey, Miss (Matron)
Ellen Elizabeth Baldry QAIMNSR
[Click here for page on Ellen Baldrey]
Barclay-Smith (Assistant Matron)
Jeanie McPherson, QAIMNS, died 28/04/1916. CWGC
[Click here for page on Jeanie B-Smith]
Barfoot, Colonel ( Assistant Director of Medical Services, Etaples)
St Bartholomew's Hospital nurses 2.1 20/11/1915
Bell (nurse)
Billing, Captain (M.O.)
[Click here for photo of officers]
Birdy (nurse? name unclear - could be Binding)
Black, Colonel
Blakely, Acting Principal Matron
Maud Mary, b. 06/03/1874, Ireland; Principal Matron QAIMNS, Le Havre
[Click here for page on Maud Blakely]
Bond (nurse)
Bowlby, Sir Anthony
Boyd, Mr
Boyle, Colonel
Burnett (nurse)
Canadian nurses/sisters/hospitals
4 30/07/1918; 02/08/1918; 24/10/1918; 18/12/1918; 19/12/1918; 20/12/1918
Chaplin, Mr
Charlesworth, Miss (Nursing Sister)
Annie, QAIMNSR. Address in 1918 was The Hall, Wombwell, Yorkshire
Clements, Miss (Matron)
Mary, b. 27/01/1875. Matron QAIMNS
Collard, Captain
Collins (Collings) (nurse)
21/05/1916; 19/06/1916; 01/07/1916; 26/07/1916; 28/08/1916
Congleton, Miss (Matron) ("JHC")
Jessie Hume, b. 12/11/1872 in Dundee. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Jessie Congleton]
28/07/1915; 31/07/1915; 10/08/1915; 14/08/1915; 26/08/1915; 28/08/1915; 06/09/1915; 07/09/1915; 12/09/1915; 05/10/1915; 06/10/1915; 08/10/1915; 13/10/1915; 14/10/1915; 22/10/1915; 18/11/1915
06/01/1916; 12/01/1916: 29/01/1916; 30/01/1916; 23/03/1916
Constable (Nursing sister,)
Nora, QAIMNSR. Born in Ireland circa 1875. Her family were living in Charlbury, Oxfordshire during the Great War.
Click here for page on Sister Nora Constable
16/10/1915; 18/10/1915; 16/11/1915; 18/11/1915
14/03/1916; 17/03/1916; 25/03/1916; 12/04/1916; 13/04/1916; 18/04/1916
10/06/1916; 19/06/1916; 20/06/1916; 11/07/1916; 12/07/1916; 14/07/1916; 21/07/1916; 07/08/1916; 14/08/1916; 15/09/1916; 26/09/1916; 27/09/1916; 28/09/1916; 10/10/1916
Coulter, Sister
Susanna, QAIMNSR. b Norfolk
[Click here for page on Susanna Coulter]
Craig (batman)
Craig (VAD - female)
Cummings (nurse)
DADMS - Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services
2.2 02/01/1916
Daly (nurse)
Davidson, Captain
Denne, Miss (Matron)
Ethel Mary, b. 03/12/1872 in London. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Ethel Denne]
Denton, Miss (Matron)
Annie Blackley, QAIMNSR. b. 26 Nov 1868 in Birkenhead, Liverpool; died 1957 Worthing, West Sussex. Had previous service during the Boer War
01/08/1915; 02/08/1915; 05/08/1915; 19/08/1915; 28/08/1915; 20/09/1915; 06/11/1915; 13/11/1915
Eardley, Miss
Winifred, b. 27/02/82
[likely to be, needs confirming]
Ernest (VAD)
Flether, Mr
Franklin, Major (D.A.D.M.S.)
French hospitals 2.2 20/01/1916; 26/01/1916
Garrett, Miss (nurse)
Gascoigne (nurse - ex Bart's hospital) Elsie Vera Orby
German sisters and orderlies
4 18/10/1918; 17/12/1918
Gibbens (nurse)
Gifford, Lady (convalescent home for nurses)
Ginboal (name unclear - nurse - could be Gunboal, Sinboal or Sunboal)
Gray, Colonel
Gregory, Mr
Gregson, (Nursing Sister)
Mabel Mary; QAIMNSR. b 24 April 1874 Bradford, Home address and of mother: Finchley area of North London.
Hamilton-Watts, Sister
Madeline or
Madeline Hamilton Watts. Sister, TFNS
Hansard, Sister
Ethel Maud, Sister (Bart's trained)
[Can't confirm as no service file, but only one medal index card fits this name.]
Hartigan (Matron)
Helena, b. 8/4/1878 in Ireland. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Helena Hartigan]
Heny (nurse)
possibly Lillian Emma Heny
Hey, Captain
Hickman (nurse)
[possibly Lilian Beckett, née Hickman]
Hindle, Hilda (nurse)
Howe, Mr
Hutchinson, (Nursing Sister)
Ethel b. 1875 in Nottingham. QAIMNSR.
[Click here for page on Ethel Hutchinson]
15/10/1915; 18/10/1915; 21/10/1915; 23/10/1915; 25/10/1915; 02/11/1915; 18/11/1915
Indian hospital
Johnson, Captain
Johnstone (nurse)
Johnstone (VAD)
Jones, Miss (Matron)
Kaberry, Miss (Assistant Matron)
Mabel Lydia Kaberry, b.15/05/1877. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Mabel Kaberry]
Latham, Miss K M (Sister)
Kathleen Mary, b. 1881, Richmond, Surrey. QAIMNSR
[Click here for page on Kathleen Latham]
Lawton (nurse)
Leach, Mr
Leedam (Sister)
Ida Blanche, b. Litherland, Lancs 1878
[Click here for page on Ida Leedam]
Lowery, Mr (American medical officer)
McBride (nurse)
McCarthy, Miss/later Dame Emma Maud
Matron in Chief, France & Flanders
(see page on Dame Maud McCarthy)
McCorqudale (Staff Nurse)
Janet, b 1879 Port Askaig, Islay
[Click here for page on Janet McCorquodale]
MacFarland (nurse)
McFarland (VAD)
McKenzie, Captain
Mackintyre, Major
Mahoney (nurse)
Mair (Staff Nurse)
Jean Dixon; b 25 Feb 1887. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Jean Mair]
Marriott, Mr
Martin (nurse)
Martin, Major (M.O.)
Martin/Mortin/Mostin – unclear (VAD)
Martyn, Captain/later Major
[Click here for page on Capt/Major Martyn]
24/05/1916; 25/05/1916; 26/05/1916; 30/05/1916; 18/06/1916; 22/06/1916; 26/06/1916; 03/07/1916; 08/07/1916; 12/08/1916; 15/08/1916; 22/08/1916; 28/08/1916; 09/09/1916; 03/10/1916; 04/11/1916; 10/11/1916; 15/11/1916
Mason (nurse)
Matthews (nurse)
Maxey (nurse)
Kate Maxey (nursing sister), born 1877, Spennymoor, Co. Durham. TFNS.
[Click here for a detailed page on Kate Maxey - with photograph. She was clearly a best friend of Edie] 2.2 18/03/1916; 21/03/1916; 23/03/1916; 31/03/1916; 18/04/1916
3 12/05/1916; 13/05/1916; 17/05/1916; 18/05/1916; 19/05/1916; 20/05/1916; 03/06/1916; 10/06/1916; 14/06/1916; 20/06/1916; 22/06/1916; 14/07/1916; 16/07/1916; 21/07/1916; 30/07/1916; 14/08/1916; 08/09/1916; 17/09/1916; 23/09/1916; 26/09/1916; 27/09/1916; 28/09/1916; 17/10/1916; 18/10/1916; 1&2/11/1916; 07/11/1916; 10/11/1916
Middleton, Miss (nurse)
Moore, Colonel
Nicol, Sister
Nicholas, Sister
Nicholson, Major (name unclear - looks like Major Nicholins)
Nottingham Children's Hospital nurses
O'Neill (orderly - Irish)
Orderlies
ELs 09/12/1914
1 5 mentions
2.1 10 mentions
3 19 mentions
Palmer (nurse)
Parbury, Dr
Paterson (nurse)
Payne, Sister
Randle, Captain (St Bartholomew's doctor)
Raper (Nursing Sister)
Olive Louise; TFNS. Born circa 1887 in Great Wakering, Essex
Ray, Major
Rentzsch, Miss (Assistant Matron)
Ethel Maude, b. 5 April 1870, London. QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Ethel Rentzsch]
Ritchie-Thomson (Nursing Sister)
Mary Lamont; QAIMNSR, Born 21 August 1870 in Tobermory, Isle of Mull.
[Click here for page on Mary Ritchie Thomson]
Scholbred, Mr (MO) (possibly Sholbred)
Schreiner (VAD)
Either Ursula Hester Schreiner or Frances Lydall Schreiner, both South African believed to be sisters. Frances wrote a book called 'Hospital Sketches'
Scott (nurse)
Scott, Captain
Segundo, Major
Sheard (nurse)
Simpson, Joyce
possibly WAAC officer (women's army)
Slogett, Sir Arthur Thomas (Director General of Medical Services)
Smith, (D) (nurse)
Smith (Assistant Matron)
Jeanie McPherson Barclay, QAIMNS, died 28/04/1916. CWGC
[Click here for page on Jeanie Smith]
Smith, Miss Jeanie McPherson Barclay-Smith. See 'Barclay-Smith' above
Smith, Miss Gertrude Mary Wilton
See 'Wilton Smith' below
Smith, Miss Winnie (nurse),
Winifred (Winnie)
Stephenson, Sister
Steen, Miss (Matron)
Lavinia Elisa Caroline, b. 20/01/1869 St. Petersburg (matron). QAIMNS
[Click here for page on Lavinia Steen]
Summers, (Staff Nurse)
Marian, b. 1892 Kingstone, Barnsley, Yorks
[Click here for page on Marian Summers]
Sutherland (VAD)
Swanzy, Olive Adelaide (nurse/VAD?)
[Click here for page on Olive Swanzy]
M R T, Captain
O T, Captain
R T, Captain
Thomas, Sister
07/12/1915; 18/01/1916; 24/01/1916; 01/02/1916; 10/02/1916; 11/02/1916; 26/03/1916; 27/03/1916; 28/03/1916; 30/03/1916; 05/04/1916; 12/04/1916; 19/04/1916
Thompson (nurse?)
Thomson (nurse)
Thorboon, Colonel
Tilney (nurse)
Constance, B. circa 1887. During Great War mother living in Ashburnham Road, Bedford. Post-war Miss Tilney had connections in South Africa.
Toby the dog See Matron Wilton Smith below
Truslove (nurse)
Annie Elizabeth, b. Circa 1875 in Warwickshire
Tully, Sister
Elizabeth; Born in Scotland; family connections during Great War with Morebattle, Kelso
Tunley, Miss
Mabel Mary, b. 10/07/1870 (Matron)
[Click here for page on Mabel Tunley]
Turnbull (nurse)
Turner (VAD)
VADs (nurses)
20/05/1916; 25/05/1916; 27/05/1916; 31/05/1916; 01/06/1916; 02/06/1916; 17/06/1916; 28/06/1916; 06/07/1916; 08/07/1916; 31/07/1916; 06/08/1916; 19/08/1916; 02/10/1916; 10/10/1916
Waite (Sister)
Lilian Julia, b. about 1865 London or Surrey
[Click here for page on Lilian Waite]
28/09/1916; 26/10/1916; 1&2/11/1916; 15/11/1916
Walker, Sister
Walker (VAD)
Wallace (nurse)
Watson (nurse)
Watts - see Hamilton-Watts above
Weirle, Sister (name unclear)
Welford, Miss (VAD)
Wheatley (nurse)
Williams, Miss (Assistant Matron)
Williams (VAD)
Williamson, Staff Nurse
Wilson (nurse)
Wilson (Assistant Matron)
Wilton Smith, Miss ("Miss W S") (matron)
Gertrude Mary, b. 14/04/1872
[Click here for page on Miss Wilton Smith and her dog, Toby]
08/05/1916; 09/05/1916; 16/05/1916; 03/07/1916; 15/08/1916; 17/08/1916; 18/08/1916; 20/08/1916; 22/08/1916; 23/08/1916
There are lots of additional mentions of "matron" (and her dog, Toby!) throughout Volume 3 which we assume also refer to Miss Wilton Smith.
Wood (nurse)
Woods, Sister
Wynn (nurse)
2. Soldiers, Sailors,Airmen: officers, other ranks, (including forces of other countries)
Where known we have added a link ('CWGC') to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Register
4th Army
47th Division
Americans/"yanks"
Anderson, Mr
Australian patient of Danish descent (birthday on 18 August)
Baden Regiment, 111th
Bairnsfather, Captain Bruce
Barber, Albert Edward
(appendix patient) - CWGC
L/Cpl 9189, Essex Regiment
Belgian forces
Belgian Cavalry and Infantry
Bell-Irving, Captain Malcolm McBean
See newspaper cutting on this page
Bewley, Colonel
Berrel, John (patient) - CWGC
Private 2827, Seaforth Highlanders
Black Watch corporal
Blogg, Edward Basil DSO - CWGC
Major, Royal Engineers
(see also Mrs Blogg section 4)
[Click here for page on Major Blogg]
Boden, Colonel (light railways)
Bordon Men (Bordon Camp, Hampshire)
Buffs, the (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Burke (patient)
Cameron Highlanders
Cameronians
Canadian band/concerts/minstrels
Canadians (patients)
2.2 01/02/1916;
3 11/09/1916; 02/10/1916; 12/10/1916; 20/10/1916
Canadian Scottish Pipers, 13th Battalion
Canadian soldier "in from the trenches"
Canterbury Infantry Regiment (NZ)
Cassilis, Earl of
Chambers, Robert - CWGC
(see also Chambers, Mrs in section 4)
Chitty, Sergeant Henry Leonard
(patient)- CWGC
Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Christie, Colonel
Cooper, J (1/8 Warwicks. Private - ?) See poems on this page
Cooper, Thomas (patient) - CWGC
Private 1633 Yorkshire Regiment
(see also Cooper, Mrs in section 3)
Day, Corporal
Dennis, Private D.J. (6th Buffs) See poems on this page
Douglas, Colonel
Drummer boy/bugler (patient)
Eanright, Mr (ex Sergeant Major)
Easey, Sergeant - CWGC
Faulkner (amputee/gunner) - CWGC ?
Flying Corps
Fox, Corporal ("& his lunies" - minstrels)
Fraser (batman)
French forces 1 20/04/1915; 05/05/1915; 11/05/1915
2.1 22/09/1915; 27/09/1915; 28/09/1915; 30/09/1915; 13/10/1915; 18/11/1915
2.2 12/01/1916; 31/01/1916; 02/04/1916
3 14/06/1916; 21/09/1916; 28/09/1916; 18/10/1916; 03/11/1916
French, Sir John
Geddes, Colonel
Haig, Sir Douglas
Hammond, Captain Paul - CWGC
East Lancashire Regiment
Hendry (wounded officer from Paris -see also Hendry, Mr in section 3)
Hunt, Corporal
Indian forces 1 14/05/1915
Jenkins, Colonel
Joffre, General Joseph
Jolley, Major (RAF)
Kerr, Charlie (patient who died - pneumonia/gassed) - CWGC
Private 8209, Manchester Regiment
[Click here for page on Charles Kerr]
Kerr (patient - piper/sapper)
Kitchener, Lord
Lennox, Rifleman James/"my ill boy"(patient - pneumonia/shrapnel in lung)
- CWGC
Rifleman 1925, Royal Irish Rifles
See special page on Rifleman James Lennox
13/07/1916; 14/07/1916; 15/07/1916; 16/07/1916; 17/07/1916; 18/07/1916; 19/07/1916; 21/07/1916; 23/07/1916; 25/07/1916; 26/07/1916; 27/07/1916; 28/07/1916; 29/07/1916; 31/07/1916; 02/08/1916; 03/08/1916; 04/08/1916; 05/08/1916; 07/08/1916; 08/08/1916; 11/08/1916; 12/08/1916; 13/08/1916; 14/08/1916; 15/08/1916; 17/08/1916; 18/08/1916; 20/08/1916; 23/08/1916
Limbrick, George Thomas Alfred (patient) - CWGC
Private 1265 Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Maddox, Sam (patient)
McLaughlan/"Mac" (patient)
Middleton, F G (patient) - CWGC
Serjeant 639, Lancashire Fusiliers
Miles, Captain
Moroccan forces
Moules (patient)
Murphy, Sam (patient)
New Zealand forces
28/06/1918; 30/16/1918; 27/08/1918; 30/08/1918; 12/09/1918; 19/09/1918; 14/12/1918; 17/12/1918; 18/12/1918; 19/12/1918; 20/12/1918
Ordinance band
Ormrod, Captain/Major
Partlin, James Edward (patient) - CWGC
Serjeant 15967, Border Regiment
See special page on Sgt Partlin and family
Phillips, Captain
Pierce, Sergeant Major (NZ patient on train)
Pilots (ships)
Plumer, General Herbert
Porter, General
Portuguese soldiers
Riley, S(taff) S(ergeant)
Rogers (patient from Sandwich)
Royal Engineers (RE)
Royal Field Artillery (RFA)
Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA)
Royal Horse Artillery (RHA)
Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI)
Royal Naval Division (RND)
Rudman (patient)
Sands, Major
Sanger 'Lord' George (son of - patient)
Sawdon, George Herbert -CWGC
Sapper 59612, Royal Engineers
Shepherd, Captain (Aide de Camp to General commanding 8th Division)
South African forces
Stewart, Sir John
Stirling, Captain
Stragnel, Mr (FC Officer - ? Forces Chaplain)
Tailors, French army
Tank Corps/tanks/Whippets
Thackeray, Frederick Rennell - CWGC
Colonel, Royal Field Artillery
Toms, Captain
Uhlans
Vernon Lee, Mr (patient - musican)
Wanstall, Private Ernest
[Click here for page page on Ernest Wanstall]
Warwicks
Württembergers
Yoxall, Lieutenant
Agnes/"Lace girl"/"Little French girl" - living in Bailleul
Albert, Prince
Ashwell, Lena - concert party
Belgians, refugees, civilians
4 19/08/1918; 26/11/1918; 07/12/1918; 10/12/1918; 12/12/1918; 14/12/1918; 19/12/1918; 20/12/1918
Buccleuch, Lord
Chauffeurs ("Drivers", "Lady Chauffeurs", "chauffeuses") - VADs
3 13/05/1916; 16/05/1916; 18/05/1916; 19/05/1916; 22/05/1916; 23/05/1916; 01/06/1916; 28/06/1916; 14/07/1916; 15/07/1916
Chinese ("Chinks")
Christian, Princess (of Schleswig-Holstein)
Cooper, Mrs (mother of soldier, Beverley Yorks.) (see also Cooper, Thomas in section 2)
Crown Prince (German or Prussian)
Baxter, Mr
Directeur of Asylum (M le Directeur)
Douglas, Miss (VAD driver)
Drivers - see Chauffeurs above
English, Miss (VAD driver)
English Lady (wife of French doctor who owns house with grounds visited by Edie and other nurses)
Ernestine/La Belle Ernestine/Hostess of the Village
Eu, Comte d' (Count)
Field, Mr Ben (actor)
Fisherman in Etretat 2.2 30/01/1916; 14/03/1916; 17/03/1916; 25/03/1916; 25/04/1916
Fisherman in Le Tréport 4
French civilians 2.1 04/08/1915; 12/09/1915; 01/11/1915; 18/11/1915
2.2 29/11/1915; 13/03/1916
George V/the King
Girdlestone, Mr (padre)
Graham Jones, Mrs (chief chauffeur)
Guernsey, Lady
Gwynne, Bishop Llewellyn Henry (Bishop of Khartoum)
Helena Victoria, Princess (of Schleswig-Holstein)
Hendry, Mr (father of wounded officer - see also Hendry in section 2)
Indian Prince/Etretat cremation
Indians 3 27/09/1916
Irish band (possibly orderlies)
Jesuit Priest
Kaiser ELs 09/12/1914
Kluck, General Alexander von
Landlady (Hazebrouck)
Lice/"Insect companions"
Other See also poems
Mirbach, Count Wilhelm von
Pepin, Van (spy)
Perrott, Lady Ethel Lucy
Other See newspaper cutting
Poperinghe, Mayor of
Nun(s)
Padre, Church of England
Padre, Church Army
Padre, Jewish/"Jew padre"
Padre, Presbyterian
Padre, Roman Catholic
Parry Evans, Mr (padre)
Red Cross ambulance driver
Red Dominoes
Sanger, 'Lord' George
Scott, Canon
Tailor, French from La Bassée
Trappist monks
VAD drivers - see Chauffeurs above
Wain, Mr
Wallen, Miss (Miss Wallen's hut)
Washerwomen in Etretat
Wilson, Ethel (relation of unnamed patient)
Wilson, President Thomas Woodrow
4. Family and Friends of Edie (Click here to see the family tree)
Appleton, Alfred James (brother) referred to as "Jim" or "Taff"
Appleton, Amy (sister-in-law, wife of brother Edward)
Appleton, Dorothy (niece, daughter of brother Edward and Amy)
Appleton, Edward (father)
Appleton, Eliza (mother) - "you" in the diaries
ELs 11/10/1914; 09/12/1914; 22/02/1915
Appleton, (Rev) Frederick 'Fred'(brother)
Appleton, John Guy 'Guy' (brother)
Appleton, Lila 'Lil' (sister)
Appleton, Mabel 'Madge' (sister)
Appleton, Minnie 'Min' (sister)
Appleton, Olive (niece, daughter of brother Edward and Amy)
Appleton, Sydney 'Syd' (brother)
Appleton, Walter 'Bud' (brother)
Blogg, Mrs (see also Blogg section 2)
Chambers, Mrs (see also Chambers, Robert in section 2)
Eve (no surname)
Gibb, Hilda (HG)
Ledger, Mary Elizabeth (Madge's daughter/Edie's God daughter?)
Sharpe, Mrs
Twins/foster babies
04/01/1916; 30/01/1916 ("twin foster babies"); 25/03/1916 ("foster babies")
Warner, Mr
Finally a special thank you to Gerry Hall who did the hard graft on producing this index for us.


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LAW7318 - International law and economic, cultural and social rights
Securing the protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights remains a challenge in the 21st century. The significant advances in international human rights norms have predominantly been in the area of civil and political rights with economic, social or cultural rights being largely ignored, at least by developed states. Violations of economic, social and cultural rights happen on a regular basis but generally the victim of the violation is left without a remedy. Securing economic, social and cultural rights is difficult because of a perception of that breaches of such rights are non-justiciable.
Upon completion of this unit, students should:
appreciate the historical development of economic, social and cultural rights within the broader international human rights movement;
understand and be able to analyse and critically comment on the theoretical debates about protecting and enforcing economic, social and cultural rights, including debates about the hierarchy of different generation of human rights;
understand and be able to analyse and critically comment on international, regional and local approaches to securing economic, social and cultural rights;
have a comprehensive understanding of the international human rights obligations and standards pertaining to economic, social and cultural rights, including the relevant international treaties, customary international law, and the domestic means of implementing the international norms;
have a comprehensive understanding of the international human rights system as it relates to the protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights;
have a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms (or lack thereof) for enforcing economic, social and cultural rights;
understand and be able to analyse and critically comment on a number of specific challenges to the protection and promotion of economic, social and cultural rights, such as, the justiciability of claims concerning violations of economic, social and cultural rights, what are appropriate remedies for breaches of economic, social or cultural rights, and the effectiveness of different models of domestic implementation;
be able to critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the UN processes for protecting economic, social or cultural rights, including the state reporting system;
have an appreciation of current challenges to and debates surrounding the future of economic, social and cultural rights;
be able to understand, evaluate and apply policy arguments for and against reform of the system surrounding the promotion and protection of economic, social or cultural rights;
be able to identify or find the relevant principles, laws and precedents and apply them to resolve issues relating to economic, social or cultural rights;
further develop legal research, writing, and legal argument skills in the area of economic, social or cultural rights; and
further develop oral articulation of legal argument during class discussions.
Students may opt to complete in the assessment requirements in one of two ways.
Option A:
Research Paper (7,500 words) 100%
Option B:
Research Paper (3,750 words) 50%
Take-home Examination (3,750 words) 50%
24 contact hours per semester regardless of the mode of offering


Keegan – Patrick (Paddy), (Ayrfield and formerly of Drimnagh), 12th March 2017, (peacefully) in the care of Beneavin House Nursing Home, beloved husband of Frances, very sadly missed by his wife, his loving children Michelle, Alan, David, Raymond, Diane and Carol, son-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, sisters, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends, Rest In Peace.
Reposing in Jennings Funeral Home, Oscar Traynor Road, Coolock on Tuesday with family in attendance from 4-6pm.
Removal to St. Paul's Church, Ayrfield on Wednesday morning for 10am Funeral Mass, followed by cremation in Glasnevin Crematorium.
Family flowers only, donations if desired to Cystic Fibrosis Ireland.


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CGI in U.S. Communities
STEM@CGI in the U.S.
Building tomorrow's IT talent in our communities
STEM@CGI is a nationwide K-12 program that aims to train and mentor young people for STEM careers. It strives to provide experiences that inspire students with the drive to learn for a bright future in the digital workforce. The program focuses on students in demographics that are underrepresented in STEM fields, including women, minorities and the economically disadvantaged.
CGI launches local STEM Camps in five states as part of its Dream Connectors initiative
Fairfax, Virginia, April 18, 2017 - Through local partnerships, school-age children in six communities will spend a day learning high-tech skills from IT mentors, instructors and CGI professionals
See Moreabout CGI launches local STEM Camps in five states as part of its Dream Connectors initiative
The United States has many more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs available than people who are qualified to fill them. Over the next 5 years, it is estimated that American companies will need to add nearly 1.6 million STEM-skilled employees.
STEM@CGI is a program designed to help solve this, by helping build a diverse future workforce. Through the program hundreds of CGI members have worked with thousands of students in U.S. communities from Los Angeles, CA to Fairfax, VA.
STEM@CGI focuses on training and mentoring young people for STEM careers. It strives to provide experiences that inspire students with the drive to learn and create a bright future in the digital workforce. The program is aimed at students in demographics that are underrepresented in STEM fields, including women, minorities and the economically disadvantaged.
CGI professionals work hand-in-hand with schools, local governments, nonprofits and local businesses to plan and conduct activities and events that help bring STEM to life for every participating student. Our flagship program, CGI STEM Camp, teaches children about STEM-related careers through fun, interactive one-day events, provided at no cost to the students.
STEM@CGI also engages in workforce development initiatives. Three of our onshore centers - Belton, TX, Lafayette, LA and Lebanon, VA - participate in university capstone classes. We also launched a pilot community college internship program our Lafayette, LA onshore delivery center for summer 2018.
The roadmap for STEM@CGI links programs to specific and practical community objectives that can be measured, including:
Collaborating with higher education: By working closely with local colleges, universities, technical institutes and workforce development agencies, our STEM@CGI stakeholders help provide a highly trained workforce for IT careers.
Supporting K-12 students: We team with complementary groups across the public, private and nonprofit sectors to increase the number of young people who have access to the education and training needed to enter in-demand STEM professions.
For example, CGI professionals mentored four Lafayette student teams participating in the Congressional App Challenge for Louisiana's 3rd district, submitting the following apps: Rescue Me (watch video) – the winning app for the Louisiana 3rd district challenge!; Password Generator (watch video); Find Route (watch video); and Weather Overflo (watch video).
Developing innovative programs: Our U.S. onshore IT delivery centers serve as living labs for testing new programs while building relationships with community organizations and students.
Implementing best practices: We are both testing new ideas and learning from other industry leaders and scholars on the best ways to inspire young people to pursue STEM careers.
STEM@CGI: Building tomorrow's IT talent in our communities
CGI and Cigna working together to make STEM education inclusive
CGI and Cigna team up to create a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) camp for the American School for the Deaf, helping to bring STEM education to a diverse ...
Share Our Strength: Ending childhood hunger in Maryland
Share Our Strength: Ending childhood hunger in Maryland Share Our Strength® is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they ...
FYEF: CGI builds new portal for foster youth
CGI and FYEF developed a unique solution to ease the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency. The application, named My Safe Drawer is an innovative data repository solution developed ...


Tomorrow night at the Beachland Tavern! $12. Check out his new video and a free download of his World Cafe session below!
"The project of Goshen, Indiana-based singer/songwriter Tim Showalter, Strand of Oaks specializes in bold and anthemic indie Americana that draws from classic rock and folk, skillfully blending traditional singer/songwriter catharsis with stadium-ready melodies in the vein of artists like War on Drugs and My Morning Jacket. "
After bailing on the rain at the Burning River Festival - we headed back to the Beachland to catch Liz Longley. I only heard her name like an hour before being there, so not much was known other than some great opening slots and some songwriting awards. I can see why people like her music - a great voice and some excellent songwriting. We also found out, on several occasions, she's single.
What a rainy mess! Still glad we got there for some Christmas Ales & some eats! We did catch a little DJ Party Sweat action, a preview before he graces the stage at the Gay Games!
The night we drive back from Pitchfork, we attended the inaugural Alternative Press Music Awards. At this point I felt like I was just along for the ride, so I hadn't much time to prep for this experience. No prep was necessary, this show was all about Rock & Roll. What an impressive event!! The weather was stunning, the city looked amazing as a backdrop. A gorgeous sunset on the lake to our backside was just a bonus! Sure I didn't know many of the names being nominated, but there's no mistaking Joan Jett, Slash, Billy Corgan, Ice T, and Machine Gun Kelly! Way to represent Cleveland!
Less than a week from Country Concert & Queen w/ Adam Lambert, I was making my annual pilgrimage to the Pitchfork Music Festival with friends. This was also another year biking around Chicago - an excellent experience. I've learned that this show is more about the total experience, than it is trying capture & review each band - but there were some great ones this year. The Giorgio Moroder was one of my favorite… sets? I thought how this is probably the closest I'll ever come to seeing a Donna Summer concert.
Not my traditional festival, as you can imagine, but this one was all about family. I took my sister & my niece, both who were incredibly excited to see Miranda Lambert. I'm up for anything, so I was excited to see what this event was all about. I was *amazed* at the size of this place, needing to park what felt like 2 miles from the main stage. I wish I would have tracked my car location via GPS! Lots of camping, drinking, trucks, barely clothed youths, and lots of country music. Growing up with that - its no culture shock. Ultimately not the place to close out with kids. But overall, it was a good time!
The most recent album from !!! (chk chk chk) has such a superb dance party vibe, I have high aspirations for their Beachland Tavern show tomorrow night! Check them out!
Kitty opening, but had the stage banter of a vacuous 14yo. The music was OK, but the show was just her singing/rapping/talking over an MP3.
KITTEN on the other hand - was such a breath of fresh air. I've already worn out their album and waiting on the next album & tour!
Road Trip!! This time to Pittsburgh to catch Xavier Rudd with my best friend… This was also my first time seeing a show in the Altar Bar - great concept, but an awkward layout. Opening was Ash Grunwald who was quite the blues/rock powerhouse.
In prepping for this show, I dusted a lot of my Xavier Rudd MP3's off and enjoyed the trip down memory lane. The same experience was had this night, though I'd love to see some new stuff from him soon! Until then, check out his cover of Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time below.
Another year, another Melissa Ferrick show. Still some great stuff there (despite the utterly lifeless crowd that night).
Finally some details on this elusive "Downtown Festival" happening in Cleveland!
Downtown Records, which in 2011 launched its multiday Downtown Festival in the Big Apple is giving the North Coast a try.
The label, whose stable includes artists of just about every genre, but leaning towards indie, is teaming with the House of Blues to stage shows on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19 and 20, at HOB, the Grog Shop and Beachland Ballroom.
Other incarnations of the festivals will be held in New York City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Los Angeles and Houston.
A dozen artists and bands will play Cleveland. A two-day festival pass, $59, includes general admission access to House of Blues and Grog Shop festival shows, front-line access to all shows at HOB, a Downtown Festival T-shirt and laminate.
Australia's own Boy & Bear will be here in Cleveland at the House of Blues for some superb folk rock musings. Producing such a solid album with impeccable production, I'm expecting the same from their live show. Details from NPR below.
"The members of Sydney, Australia's Boy and Bear have enjoyed a fair amount of success: Their second album, Harlequin Dream, made its debut at No. 1 on the Australian charts. The folk-rock band, led by Dave Hosking and Killian Gavin, joins World Cafe guest host Michaela Majoun in the studio for a live set."


The most volatile tinderbox area of the world where the danger of war exists is the Middle East. The key to peace and stability in the region is the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. In 1947 when the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the state of Israel, they also voted to establish an independent Palestine along side Israel. That decision has never been carried out. Until the Palestinian state is established the region will remain unstable.
The basis for peace and peaceful relations among all nations is mutual respect and coexistence even though social, economic and political systems may differ. However a precondition for this system of relations in the Middle East is the establishment of a free, independent and equal Palestinian state, a state which will be an equal partner in this system of relations.
The same type of unfounded claim is being made in relation to Iran by Israel and U.S. imperialism – that Iran is preparing to make nuclear weapons. Iran says they are using enriched uranium for peaceful nuclear power. No international inspectors have ever found evidence to the contrary. The fact is that Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Israel, which possesses several hundred nuclear weapons, has refused to sign this treaty. Israel is threatening preemptive strikes against Iran. Additionally, crippling sanctions which are doing severe harm to the people have been placed on Iran, led by the U.S, and U.S. naval warships threateningly patrol the area.
A "preemptive" strike against Iran would probably bring about a widespread conflagration in the region with devastating human and economic results for people throughout the region. There are no military solutions.
What is urgently needed is a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East with the elimination of all weapons of mass destruction under the supervision of the United Nations. Sanctions against Iran should be lifted immediately and diplomatic solutions should be negotiated. All naval vessels should be withdrawn from the area. International commerce should be allowed to proceed without the threatening presence of warships. The right to peaceful existence of every state in the region must be guaranteed, including, Israel, Iran and an independent Palestinian state.


S.G. Wong | Book Lovers Inc.
In Crescent City, the dead are always close.
At the point of death, people can choose to become Ghosts, tethered to the living. They can remain with their loved ones as invisible companions—or in the case of Crescent City's ghostly mayor, remain in office forever.


Wates Project Impact Report detailing social value activities undertaken throughout Year 4 of the contract with Brent Council.
Wates Project Impact Report detailing social value activities undertaken throughout Years 2 and 3 of the contract with Brent Council.
Wates Project Impact Report detailing social value activities undertaken throughout Year 1 of the contract with Brent Council.
Building Futures - 2 week programme case study 16-27 Jan 2017.
Do you live in Brent? Are you looking for employment or training opportunities in construction? Do you want to work with one of the largest contractors in the Borough? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Wates had a very significant and exciting year in 2014. For more information on our performance highlights, take a look at the Wates Annual Review.
More than two-thirds of local authorities and housing associations say delivering social value has led to better service delivery and community relations according to a new report released today by Wates and its partners.


With the growing popularity of online services (SaaS – Software as a Service) but also considering the complexity and expense of maintaining on-premises IT infrastructures, more and more companies are thinking about the adoption of fully packaged Office 365 offers.
Our customer, a worldwide services and consulting group, took the decision to extend its IT infrastructure to Office 365 using the hybrid mode.
The project started with the setup of an identity federation platform (Active Directory Federation Services based) within a highly available datacentre environment. Then, the e-mail (Microsoft Exchange) and collaboration (Microsoft SharePoint) platforms were the first environments hybridised and migrated to Office 365.
In less than 4 weeks, 1,200 mailboxes were transferred to the cloud in a transparent way for the users.
The most sensitive of them, some 300, remained hosted on the on-premises servers. The two e-mail environments work in full symbiosis.
Furthermore, users' accounts management and provisioning processes were reviewed in order to be adapted to the new hybrid environment.
The migration was also simplified and automated to its maximum in order to facilitate the onboarding and offboarding of the Exchange Online mailboxes.
Following this first step, this company is now fully committed to moving forward with the adoption of cloud services provided by Microsoft.
They are already thinking about implementing Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Intune as well as upgrading its Office 365 to E5 in order to migrate its on-premises Lync + Unified Messaging/Telephony platform to office 365.
All these projects are currently driven by Sword Technologies concerning architecture strategy definitions as well as project and change management aspects.
This type of project highlights the capacity of Sword Technologies to implement cutting edge technologies while performing gradual and user-transparent migrations.
Microsoft currently offers a free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8 to Windows 10 until July 2016. As a consequence Sword is regularly asked to carry out such projects.
Sword has just delivered a W10 migration for an architecture firm in Vaud. The goal was to provide the users with the latest Windows functionalities and to standardize the workstations' OS.
We started this project by a validation phase to enable application compatibility with Edge. Following this analysis and to guarantee interoperability, we implemented the Internet Explorer Enterprise.
To minimize impact upon users and business, we performed the migration in batches. The update was loaded beforehand on to all workstations using WSUS then launched manually by our teams. The downtime per user was no longer than 30mn.
Sword Technologies is carrying out more and more of these projects and has set up an easy and effective methodology to simplify user adoption.
As a Microsoft solution integrator, Sword Technologies delivered a workplace deployment project to a Geneva-based manufacturing company.
The challenge was to offer a flexible solution which fits the business requirements and specially the budget.
We decided to deploy a solution based on Remote Desktop Service to offer an effective work environment accessible from anywhere.
Our added value was to bring high level expertise in order to optimize the Remote Desktop Service administration and maintenance.
As a result our client is autonomous in the run phase, and we now act as an L3 support if required.
This project highlights one of our key differentiators: to have the ability and be willing to adapt our approach to a context and to fit our clients' needs and strategy perfectly.
Sword Technologies was commissioned to come up with an innovative and flexible solution for this client's work station management. Constraints linked to this project were clearly laid out. Sword Technologies had to come up with a solution for managing and supporting on- and off-site work stations, ensuring an advanced level of management (updating, anti-virus management, software deployment and reporting).
Drawing on its experience, Sword Technologies was able to propose a series of processes to manage employee arrival and departure as well as full management of the employee's work station based on Microsoft's Enterprise Management Suite (EMS) technology.
Sword Technologies was commissioned to rebuild server infrastructure all the way from the sizing study to the system launch.
Along with this project, a further technical challenge was to migrate directory services from OpenLdap to Microsoft Active Directory and centralise user and group management using a FileMaker base as an entry point.
Based on this success, Sword Technologies is now their favoured partner when it comes to IT projects.
Sword Technologies was commissioned to determine the server as well as client IT architecture. The latter was then rolled out, made available to users and is now operated and supported directly by Sword Technologies.
Within this start-to-finish IT project, Sword Technologies was responsible for the implementation of all agreements with various suppliers: hosting, connectivity, telephony, providing material.
In order to benefit from a service centre managed essentially by an outside contractor, one of our clients requested us to make available to his users a level-1 support team. This team, made up of six people on two separate sites, is responsible for some 2,000 users. The same team are also in connection with relocated teams on five other sites around the world.
There are many areas of activity: for example, work station systems (Windows 8.1 then 10), messaging under Office 365, the applications used, telephones (Android, Windows Phone or iOS) and videoconference rooms. Support is 24/7 with rotation and stand-ins organised by the team leader. Standard procedure is to gather requests in the form of tickets, analyse then solve the issue.
When the solution cannot be found directly by the level-1 team, tickets are redirected to more specialised groups, though following up on the ticket and communication with the user remain the responsibility of the original team.
Functioning this way and improved with time, a rating of 90% of solutions found has been achieved and maintained. Such good figures are the result of improved ticket flow through various groups as well as applying ITIL service management practices.


Selling A Business: Easier And With Less Stress.
You Can Reduce The Stress In Selling A Business By Making It Easier.
Selling a business is something that most business owners only do once. Like anything else done for the first time, and with no training or preparation, they don't do it very well. And it can be extremely stressful.
As with most things, the key to success and low stress in selling a business is appropriate preparation. Evaluate your business as if you were going to buy it. And take off the rose coloured glasses. You need to be as objective as possible.
If you were a buyer rather than a seller would you be confident that your business was worth what was being asked? And that you as the buyer, could transition easily into being its owner?
What areas of your business cause you to lack this confidence? That's where appropriate preparation is necessary. You want to eliminate areas where confidence about enterprise value, or about a smooth transition can arise. You want to present a prospective buyer with as close to a business in a box as you can manage.
Consider what is probably the best-known business in the world? MacDonald's. The golden arches. A franchise. Franchises are about the easiest businesses in the world to sell.
Buyers can be confident that if they apply the various proven systems and procedures that have been developed over the years, that they will succeed. These systems work, so owners need only work the systems. Little has been left to chance.
You mission is to make your business as close to a franchise as you can. That means that you must develop, prove, and document effective systems for each critical aspect of your business. Start with marketing and selling, because nothing happens until a sale is made. And continue right through your business process to include every key activity.
Present prospective buyers with a marketing and selling system that includes several proven effective ways to bring in customers. Refine it and back it up with experience based cost and related statistical information. Present prospective buyers with real data showing that investing $X in one of these systems will result in $Y in revenue, and $Z in gross profit. As long as Z is bigger than X buyers will be impressed. And if you have several of these, they will be more impressed.
Do the same for each critical aspect of your business. Show prospective buyers that they need leave nothing to chance. That the value you have placed on your business is justified because it is results based. Also, that these results can be replicated by anyone, and used as the basis for future projections. All they have to do is apply the proven, effective, documented systems already in place.
Want more? Visit our Home Page for actionable information that can be applied to make your business better, and easier to run. Regardless of whether or not you plan to sell. Or you may return from this Selling A Business Article to Contributed Articles to see more articles.


We are delighted to welcome you to St Michael and All Angels and hope you enjoy being with us in the presence of God.
Our vision for the work of God is summarised in the diagram on the left, which represents the vision for the entire Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg. On the arms of the cross you will see four key areas of focus for our fellowship: the ministry of all believers, visionary servant leadership, vibrant Christian community, and focused outreach.
St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican Church in Weltevreden Park, Johannesburg. We are part of the Diocese of Johannesburg.
As the Body of Christ, we are messengers and servants of God, charged to spread the Good News.
To equip ourselves to release Christ's power into the community.
We invite you to join us at one of our three Sunday services, or to one of our weekday services. Get all the service times and details about our various church services here. If you are joining us for the first time, please visit our Newcomers page.
You can get more information about our various ministry groups on the Ministries page and you can find the names of our church council members here. If you're a regular parishioner looking for detailed information on aspects like baptism, marriage, dedicated giving or church policies, then head on over to My St Mikes.
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