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		IActionBinder<TInterface, TContext, TArg1, TArg2> For<TArg1, TArg2>(Expression<Func<TInterface, Action<TArg1, TArg2>>> interfaceMethod);
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Emma Woods
Future proofing for our frogs (and our children)
The start of this week was Arbor day, which also fell on World Environment day. Many schools and organisations have signed up with https://www.treesthatcount.co.nz to promote their planting projects and add to the target of 4.7 million trees to be planted in 2017 - one for every New Zealander! Because it was also a holiday in New Zealand, our school completed its planting project in the week before Arbor Day.
Since the earthquakes Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery has been on a temporary site on the outskirts of the city. For the past six years we're been putting in lots of plants including natives, edibles and wildflowers. An unplanned result of turning what was an empty paddock into gardens, is that the frogs from the neighbouring pond have started coming into the school grounds to shelter and find food. The children love hearing the frogs and occasionally someone will find one and carry it around attracting lots of attention and children interested in some close-up observation.
When our school returns to the city at the end of 2018, the land, except the native planting along the fence line, will be returned to a paddock, with all our plants removed and re-homed. We've started making long-term plans for our frogs by increasing the planting along the fence line and looking at ways we can create areas for them to shelter in and find food once we're gone.
This week we added 160 natives plants, courtesy of Trees for Canterbury, to the ones that were planted six years ago, when we first arrived on the site. The children were surprised that the large trees and bushes they play in now were the same size six years ago as they ones they were planting. Many seemed to realise the long-term significance of what they were doing.
What looks like just a line of trees to the adults at school, is a wilderness to the students. There are well worn trails and evidence of their play throughout. One of the wee boys in my Garden Explorers group loves the trees along the fence line, which he calls 'The Forest'.
This week I was privileged to receive an invitation from him to view his 'house'. He proudly showed me the way to the entrance and showed me inside. As he started showing me around I recognised the look on his face from times when people have stopped by my house unexpectantly to find me with dishes all over the counter or laundry piled up - happy to have guests but unsure how they'll view the 'lived-in' look. He looked slightly embarrassed to show me his 'living room' and then mentioned that it was a little 'messy and rusty' and that he really needed to tidy. When we'd established that a little clutter was fine in a house and that he hadn't really been expecting visitors anyway, he went on to show me his TV, which was a gap in the trees where he could see the rest of the playground, his hallway, bedroom and even a backdoor. He also disclosed that it wasn't just his house but also his workplace and that his job was fixing dead robots.
What might look like a jumble of materials and could easily fall prey to adults tidying and carrying out Health and Safety tasks, was actually a carefully crafted game which he went back to every break time.
I love how he's built up the outside of the house so that it's more private and hidden - the gap above is his 'TV' so he can watch the rest of the playground.
I love how our school has allowed students access to this planted area. There have been damaged trees and smaller ones that have been unintentionally trampled but the benefits have far-outweighed the negative and the majority of the plants have grown so tall now that the children's play doesn't impact them.
There's a movement that states, 'nature can take it', outlining the importance of children getting off the trails, exploring and yes, occasionally damaging nature. There's the belief that conservationists, environmentalists, scientists, artists and others are created by this direct and sometimes messy experience of nature - a love affair developed by direct and unstructured experience.
This week, Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery added to the goal of 4.7 million trees to be planted this year in New Zealand, but also worked towards helping our frogs and perhaps, unintentionally, our children's connection to nature.
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Preventing Bullying and Empowering Our Communities
November 3, 2011 at 12:23 PM ET by Hector Vargas
Hector Vargas, Executive Director of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, speaks about the importance of preventing bullying to empower our communities.
Panelists listen to a speaker at the Bullying Prevention Summit, organized by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and held in New York City on October 30, 2011. October 30, 2011. (by Akil Vohra, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders)
Like too many of the participants in Saturday's Bullying Prevention Summit in New York City, I experienced bullying and harassment in school. I remember vividly a classmate's repeated threats over a semester to "beat me up" and the sense of paralysis it created for me. What remains less clear is why. Did this classmate single me out because I was one of only a handful of Asian Americans in my school? Or was it because he had sensed some difference about my sexual orientation, even if I had not come out at the time?
Saturday's Bullying Prevention Summit, put on by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, created a space to explore this important issue and shine a spotlight on bullying and harassment in this country, in particular directed at AAPI and Muslim American communities. According to newly released statistics, Asian Americans reported the highest rate of bullying in classrooms, nearly 20% higher than any other racial or ethnic group. For bullying outside on school grounds, the rate was 10% higher for Asian Americans than for other racial groups.
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students, we know the statistics are just as appalling. More than 8 in 10 LGBT students participating in a survey conducted by the Gay Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) reported verbal harassment based on their sexual orientation, and 4 in 10 reported physical harassment. Nearly 64% of LGBT students reported verbal harassment based on their gender expression.
For many attending the Summit, including myself, the event was an opportunity to find solutions to prevent bullying from the multiple, intersecting identities we share as Asian Americans. Throughout the day, youth and parents shared their stories of turning the shocking bias, fear and misunderstanding about race and ethnicity, religion and faith, immigration status, and certainly sexual orientation and gender identity they have faced into a spur to action to prevent further bullying and harassment.
One story stood out to me. There was a high school student from North Carolina who had faced bullying and harassment in school. He talked about the experience of being an Asian American, immigrant, and queer-identified student. In response, he took action, and his efforts to stop the bullying have led him to becoming a local and national advocate for LGBT youth.
It was inspiring to see youth participants spend the afternoon together discussing bullying prevention recommendations that take into account the specific concerns of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). And that gives me one of my biggest hopes coming out of the Summit.
The ease with which the young people and students who attended the Summit fully understood and incorporated the concerns of all of who we are as Asian American and Pacific Islander communities was reassuring. Across race and ethnicity, faith, class, immigration status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, age and all of the characteristics that make us who we are, these young AAPIs demonstrated how we should celebrate and acknowledge our broad diversity. More importantly, they showed us how we can use it to bring collective strength to AAPIs to address and prevent bullying and to empower our communities.
Hector Vargas serves on the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and is Executive Director of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association.


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Airbnb Sets to Raise $2.5B via IPO Later This Month
Dec 2 2020 · 12:29 UTC by Steve Muchoki · 3 min read
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Airbnb bookings have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, with over 41% while the company is planning its IPO.
American vacation rental online marketplace platform Airbnb is set to raise up to $2.5 billion through an initial public offering later this month. The Airbnb company has set the price range per share between $44 and $50 according to its IPO prospectus. Hereby raising its market valuation to $35 billion on a fully diluted basis.
The company's core business has significantly been affected by the ongoing coronavirus crisis as more people remain indoors to avoid contracting the virus. However, market data indicates it has performed fairly in comparison to its peers.
Notably, existing investors anticipate selling Airbnb stake worth $96 million during the IPO. The raised funds will help the company run smoothly through the pandemic. Moreover, there are high hopes that a viable coronavirus vaccine or drug will be approved perhaps early next year.
As a result, the company anticipates the economy will rebound significantly and the tourism industry will be among the top to recover. In the long term, Airbnb stocks become valuable as the company offers competitive services at competitive prices.
Airbnb will list on Nasdaq under ticker ABNB.
Airbnb IPO and Its Market Roundup
The company has been involved in prior private fundings, whereby earlier this year it managed to raise $2 billion. Previously, the company had raised $555.5 million from Google Capital back in 2016. Whereby the following year it managed to raise $1 billion from private investors.
Currently valued at approximately $31 billion, the company will become a major unicorn in its industry.
Notably, the company first became profitable during the second half of 2016, whereby its revenue grew more than 80% during that fiscal year. Not until last year when the company posted a loss of $322 million and the case was magnified by the coronavirus pandemic at the beginning of the year.
Apparently, Airbnb bookings have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic, with over 41%. Hereby dropping its revenue by over 70% during the second quarter of 2020. The company was compelled to lay off approximately 25% of its employees.
The figure was similar to the third-quarter results, as most people generally behavior heavily remains controlled by coronavirus pandemic. However, the company stated in the IPO filings that in some states people had begun to travel and book places that are less affected.
"They decided to get in their cars and travel close to home, often staying in small towns and rural communities," Airbnb's founders wrote in their letter to prospective shareholders in the filing. "Our business rebounded faster than anyone expected, and it showed that as the world changes, our model is able to adapt."
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Airbnb saw its market valuation surge above $100 billion for the first time ever.


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Jenna Dewan Sparks Engagement Rumors After Latest Photos Surface
By Daniel S. Levine - October 12, 2019 09:08 pm EDT
Jenna Dewan and boyfriend Steve Kazee might be planning for more than just welcoming their first baby. The former World of Dance host sparked engagement rumors on Wednesday when she shared a photo of her hand on her Instagram Story Wednesday. In the video, she was wearing a ring on the all-important left ring finger.
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Dewan showed off the cover for her new book, Gracefully You and flipped through a copy in the clip. A quick glimpse of her hand at the beginning revealed she was wearing a ring on her index and ring fingers..
The rings do not look like a traditional engagement ring though, and there are two rings stacked on her ring finger. However, as Marie Claire points out, Dewan's other recent Instagram photos show her left ring finger bare.
Kazee and Dewan announced they are expecting their first baby together on Sept. 24.
The couple famously kept their relationship private for months, so it is entirely plausible that they would keep engagement news close to the vest until they felt prepared to announce it. They started dating last fall, but Kazee waited until Valentine's Day to go public with the relationship. Kazee did not even appear on Dewan's Instagram until June.
"Somehow, inexplicably, I've been granted the honor to have this be the person that I get to be side by side with throughout this wild journey we call life," Kazee, a Tony-winning actor who appeared on Shameless, wrote on Instagram in February. "Jenna I don't know what I did to deserve your love but I will always be so thankful that our lives found their way to each other. Here's looking at you, kid."
Aside from the major milestones in her personal life, Dewan's career has rarely been busier. She is set to host a new dance - themed dating show for Fox called Flirty Dancing. She also stars in Soundtrack, an upcoming Netflix series previously known as Mixtape. Dewan is also putting her divorce from Channing Tatum behind her.
"It was a hard journey of growth and change," Dewan told PEOPLE recently. "Ultimately now I can honestly say that I'm living in a very joyful new place in my life, and I'm happy about it."
Dewan later said there was "no one event" that led to their split and praised her friends for helping her get through a difficult time.
"You would never expect your life to take a turn the way it does," Dewan explained. "But embracing it and starting fresh and figuring out what you want in life and what means a lot to you and what's meaningful, what is going to make you happy... I'm grateful that I now am at a place where I understand myself and what I want and I'm happy about this new chapter. I'm in a place of joy."
Tatum has also moved on, dating singer Jessie J. Despite the new chapters in their lives, the former couple's 6-year-old daughter Everly is still their top priority.
"We're all aware that it's a new normal, we're all getting used to it," Dewan told PEOPLE. "You can still have a relationship and just because the forms change as to who you are to each other, it doesn't take away from the love that we had or that we shared all those years."
Dewan's book Gracefully You: Finding Beauty and Balance in the Everyday hits stores on Oct. 22.
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Colchester-based Care UK Celebrates 'Outstanding' Ratings for its Treatment Centre
by onlineteam | May 16, 2017 | Awards | 0 comments
Colchester-based healthcare, social care and care homes group Care UK has been awarded a clean sweep of Outstanding ratings for one of its treatment centres in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Read...
Council's Economic Growth Team Wins RICS Regional Regeneration Award
The new creative business centre, 37 Queen Street, scoops top prise in the Regeneration category at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) East of England. Read...
Colchester Law Firm Awarded Contract by Navigator Terminals
by onlineteam | May 16, 2017 | Win | 0 comments
Birkett Long, which has offices in Colchester, Chelmsford and Basildon, has won a contract to work with Navigator Terminals, the UK's largest independent bulk liquid storage provider. Read...
Council Completes Prestigious New Office Space for Law Firm Birkett Long
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Colchester Borough Council has successfully completed the work on new building Amphora Place located off Sheepen Road. The office has been let to Birkett Long, the well-respected Essex legal and financial advisers firm, who have relocated their Colchester operations...
University of Essex: One of the Most International Universities in the World (THE)
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With almost 140 countries represented, The University of Essex has secured joint 15th place in a ranking of the most international universities in the world compiled by Times Higher Education. Read...


I'm not that far past being a teen myself, but as someone who is biracial, I think today's YA audience is a bit luckier than I am when it comes to finding someone who shares their background in a novel. Since teens of today have been allowed to identify legally as "more than one race," it makes perfect sense that more YA novels have featured biracial characters.
The best part? Sometimes they don't even have to be problem novels about racism. Progress, folks!
I presented research on this topic at YALSA's YA Lit Symposium, and I still have plenty more titles on my reading list. I also discovered an academic text on being mixed race in YA (sadly, due to a half.com snafu, I have yet to read it): Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature by Nancy Thalia Reynolds (Scarecrow Press, 2009).
Here, though, are a few titles I've read thus far that your mixed and unmixed teens alike should find compelling and fun.
Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa (Delacorte Press, 2003) is about Violet Paz, a half-Cuban, half-Polish American girl whose family is insisting she have a quinceañero, or a traditional coming-out for girls when they turn 15. That would be fine, except that Violet's father refuses to delve into his youth in Cuba, and Violet feels that it would be insincere to have a Cuban party when she knows next to nothing about Cuba. So she takes it upon herself to do a little research, at the risk of keeping secrets from her family. Osa's approach to the topic is light, and you don't have to be mixed to enjoy the book.
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Peña (Delacorte Press, 2008) has a plot that depends much more heavily on parsing one's mixed identity, but it's also just about family, summer vacation, girls, and baseball. Danny happens to be really good at baseball, and he happens to like a girl who is just the same — and just the opposite — as him: she's half-white and half-Mexican, and she grew up knowing her Mexican family and living in Mexico, while Danny's estranged Mexican father is one of the reasons he's spending the summer away from his white mother and her boyfriend. I love how real the setting and the dialogue feel in this book.
The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson (Flux, 2011) is one of my favorites, simply because it's about a student revolution — so of course it takes place in the capital of student activism, the Bay Area. Asha and her friend Carey are both mixed, and their eponymous slogan is meant just to be an inside joke but ends up a rallying cry for the tons of mixed race teens and college students they end up meeting, all of whom are tired of being told to "just pick one." Instead of being an insular story about one girl and her friend, this book is about finding a community and finding oneself because of that.
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, 2010) is actually published for adults, but I think it would be popular with high school students as well. Like the author herself, Rachel is half-Danish and half-black, and after a family tragedy, she is sent to live with her African-American grandmother in Portland. Because she grew up feeling Danish, Rachel finds it especially difficult to fit in with the mostly black community she now lives in, and she can't figure out whether to call herself black, biracial, or Danish — or what any of those terms mean.
These are just four of countless titles that I'm beginning to find. While lots of historical fiction for teens and kids has dealt with being half-black and half-white, especially in the context of slavery, it's only the more recent titles I find that acknowledge that there are individuals mixed in all sorts of ways, like Taiwanese and white (Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies) by Justina Chen, Little, Brown, 2006), Finnish and black (Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves, Simon Pulse, 2010), or Jewish-Japanese and Cuban (I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina Garcia, Simon & Schuster, 2008). It's about time that all of these teens starting having a voice that says both that they're more than one color and also that color is just the beginning of an identity.
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The protagonist/narrator of Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk (2001) is mixed-race: black, white and Japanese. Crutcher deals head-on with both the issues of being multiracial in an all-white town and racism in general in a fast-paced, sports themed novel that still flies off the shelf in my library.
Nalo Hopkinson's Chaos features a Canadian teen whose mother is African American and father is a white Jamaican. She deals several times with people's confusion regarding her race and her friend group is quite diverse as well.
"The Window" (1997) by Michael Dorris (1945-1997) is one YA title that jumps to mind. It was an "ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1998" title. The book focuses on eleven-year-old Rayona Taylor, a girl born of an American Indian mother (nation unspecified) and an African American/Irish American father. The title works as a prequel to Dorris's earlier (adult) novel "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" (1987) – in which Rayona is 15 years-old – and is related to Dorris's last (adult) novel – "Cloud Chamber" (1997) – which focuses upon the Irish ancestors of Rayona and her father Elgin.


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KUWAIT MEN'S WORLD OPEN 2009
If that idea was a shock to the English, who have long enjoyed the good fortune of having more players, coaches, and courts than anyone else, it also increased a feeling of envy at the talent possessed by the Egyptians. And since then this emotion will have grown. On the eve of the 2009 Men's World Open, there were three Egyptians in the world's top four and four in the top nine, and a fifth, Mohammed El Shorbagy, who has only just left school, who is already making his way ominously up the world's top twenty.
When Ashour comes to defend his title, with his startling creativity, winning smile, and unusual, thumb-dominated grip, we should gain new perspectives about Wagih's assertion.
That's because the venue for the Kuwait Men's World Open 2009 is less than a thousand miles from Cairo, quite close by Professional Squash Association (PSA) World Tour standards, and players from squash's most successful nation may find it more comfortable to compete in Kuwait than in Europe, or anywhere else.
Certainly the blue-skied paradise of Green Island is as great a contrast to the cool clouds and metal-and-stone of Manchester's SportCity as you could get. And Middle East spectators may well want one of the Egyptians to win.
What they may not know is the range of issues confronting these players. Karim Darwish, Ramy Ashour and Amr Shabana are at different stages of their careers, with quite different plans, hopes, and mindsets.
Darwish has been World No.1 all year but superbly improved though he is, with better developed physical attributes and greater self-confidence, he has yet to win the World Open. Till he does his status as the leading player will be questioned, a situation which may create tension for him, and tension has sometimes been his greatest opponent.
Ashour in form looks so brilliant, is so stunningly inventive, and has so luminous a presence, that one wonders why he is not dominating his sport. But the modern player's great dread, persistent ailments and the possibility of long-term injury, has troubled the young man earlier and more persistently than most.
Hence Ashour's preparation may have involved special attention to his schedule, to energy conservation, to movement-specific training, and perhaps to physiotherapy as well, so that the difficulties with feet and legs over the past couple of years don't hinder his movement.
Shabana, another player of exceptional brilliance and with deceptively hidden mental strengths too, has not yet shown signs of pushing back up to the pinnacle which he occupied for fully thirty-three months until Darwish toppled him at the turn of the New Year.
A recurring knee injury brought Shabana's retirement in Virginia in February after which he slipped outside of the world's top three and one is bound to ask whether, at thirty years of age, Shabana is preparing to hand over to the younger Egyptians, two of whom describe him as like an elder brother. Is the great man preparing to wind down, or does he still have the ambition to do it all again? Kuwait may provide answers. It may also offer glimpses into his heart.
For some though, none of this trio is favourite for the title. Some think that Greg Gaultier, the Frenchman who kissed the Duchess at the Queens Club in London where the Super Series Finals were held in March, is not only the cheekiest player of the year, but has been playing the best.
Gaultier reached six out of eight finals in the first half of 2009, winning both the Tournament of Champions and the Super Series Finals where he looked the best player in the world from start to finish.
He had a new team around him, worked hard for many weeks, and developed his body and state of mind. His ability to mix the short and the long games, his capacity to switch from defence to attack and back again with disorienting fluidity, the speed with which accelerated the rallies when his opponent was weakening, all these were greater than before.
Gaultier is aware that he has improved, but by how much, he is less sure. His main fault, a combustible temperament, has seemed a little more channelled, with regular inputs from what he calls his mind coach.
Against this, Ashour and Shabana have both won titles in Kuwait, Gaultier has not. They may feel more at home here. They may also have been keeping some of their powder dry for Kuwait.
Here we should mention Gaultier's compatriot and inspiration. Thierry Lincou, the former World Champion who is trying to eke the remains of a very special career, could easily become inspired himself by playing, possibly for the last time, in the event in which he made French history.
Lincou at thirty-three years of age may still be good enough to beat anyone. Nick Matthew however may be good enough to win the championship.
There have been many courageous comebacks over the years but few better than that of the Englishman who was out of it for nine months with a shoulder injury but came back to beat Ashour, Gaultier and Darwish this year and reach a career-high ranking of World No.1.
In the process Matthew became the top Englishman. Ordinarily you would say that his predecessor, his fellow Englishman James Willstrop would be a title contender too, he certainly has the talent, but the first half of the year was spoiled by illness and injury and he slid from the top ten.
There is one other former World Champion who will be a contender in Kuwait, David Palmer, who too may have enough left in him for another serious challenge. He is recently impressed the Wallabies Coach Robbie Deans who asked to see whether his rigorous training methods might help the Australian rugby team.
Fitness and stamina have been cornerstones of a will to win which has made Palmer one of the most successful players of modern times. "How do you keep going when your legs are gone?" asked Deans, who played squash with him at the Sydney football stadium complex.
Quite a few players on the PSA World Tour have wanted to know that. But Palmer wasn't letting on. "It's like playing chess at a million miles an hour," was his most insightful comment. He may be thirty-three years of age, but underestimating him will probably be costly. Even for the Egyptians.
The Kuwait Men's World Open 2009 will be staged from the 1st to 7th November and boast prize money of US$275,000, the largest ever offered by any World Open or World Tour event. For more information about the first official sporting World Open Championship to be hosted in Kuwait which is a landmark in the country's sporting history, visit the events official website: www.KuwaitWorldOpen2009.com
By Richard Eaton
Egypt is the new capital of world squash, according to its head coach Amir Wagih, speaking in the first flush of delight after Ramy Ashour captured his first World Open title in Manchester, England last year.
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