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The structure of fullerene compounds
A. G. Avent, A. M. Benito, P. R. Birkett, A. D. Darwish, P. B. Hitchcock, H. W. Kroto, I. W. Locke, M. F. Meidine, B. F. O'Donovan, K. Prassides, R. Taylor, D. R.M. Walton, M. Van Wijnkoop
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This account reviews fullerene chemistry research at Sussex. C60Ph2 and C60Ph4 have been isolated as minor products from the reaction of C60Cl6 with C6H6 and FeCl3. [70]Fullerene reacts with ICl in C6H6 producing a single isomer of C70Cl10 in high yield. C70Ph8, which has a [5,6] cage double bond that can be selectively functionalized, or C70Ph10 are produced by the electrophilic substitution of C70Cl10 into C6H6 in the presence of FeCl3. C70Ph9OH is isolated as a minor component of the foregoing reaction mixtures. Autoxidation of C70Ph8 yields the bislactone, C70Ph8O4, which has an eleven atom ring in the surface of the cage. Cycloaddition to the [5,6] double bond of C70Ph8 with anthracene, C14H10, in C6H6 produces C70Ph8(C14H10). Two new methanofullerenes, C60(CBr2) and C60(CHCN), are produced by treating [60]fullererie in C6H6 with either CH 2BrCN or CHBr2 in the presence of LDA. Reaction of [60]fullerene with alkyl buta-2,3-dienoates in the presence of a phosphine results in [3 + 2] cycloadditions which produce alkyl 3'H-1,2-([1',2']cyclopenta)[60]fullerene-5'-carboxylates. [60]Fullerene reacts with Pt(cod)2, producing an insoluble precipitate of PtC60, further reaction with the bidentate ligand, Ph 2P(CH2)(n)PPh2) [n = 2 or 3] in PhMe yields the low solubility complexes Pt(η2-C60)[Ph2P(CH2)(n)PPh2)] (n = 2 or 3). Mixing of C6H6 solutions of [60]fullerene with P4 or vapour-solid reaction of [60]fullerene with P4 results in the formation of the intercalate C60(P4)2; there is no evidence for significant charge-transfer between the donor (P4) and acceptor (C60) molecules.
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Avent, A. G., Benito, A. M., Birkett, P. R., Darwish, A. D., Hitchcock, P. B., Kroto, H. W., Locke, I. W., Meidine, M. F., O'Donovan, B. F., Prassides, K., Taylor, R., Walton, D. R. M., & Van Wijnkoop, M. (1997). The structure of fullerene compounds. Journal of Molecular Structure, 436-437, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-2860(97)00321-9
The structure of fullerene compounds. / Avent, A. G.; Benito, A. M.; Birkett, P. R. その他.
In: Journal of Molecular Structure, Vol. 436-437, 15.12.1997, p. 1-9.
Avent, AG, Benito, AM, Birkett, PR, Darwish, AD, Hitchcock, PB, Kroto, HW, Locke, IW, Meidine, MF, O'Donovan, BF, Prassides, K, Taylor, R, Walton, DRM & Van Wijnkoop, M 1997, 'The structure of fullerene compounds', Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 436-437, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-2860(97)00321-9
Avent AG, Benito AM, Birkett PR, Darwish AD, Hitchcock PB, Kroto HW その他. The structure of fullerene compounds. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1997 12月 15;436-437:1-9. doi: 10.1016/S0022-2860(97)00321-9
Avent, A. G. ; Benito, A. M. ; Birkett, P. R. その他. / The structure of fullerene compounds. In: Journal of Molecular Structure. 1997 ; Vol. 436-437. pp. 1-9.
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Summary 0127: T825 (Digihome DTR80) Problem after using series record feature! HELP!!!!
Major problem going on here. Opened it, plugged it in... LOVED IT! That was until I used the SERIES RECORD option for the usual stuff for the missus... just her 3 fav soaps.
Since doing so, we noticed TREMENDOUS lag when trying to scroll along the timeline in the EPG. Assuming that the series record feature could be a cause I cancelled them all, but nothing helped. I performed a HDD format, reboot, first time install etc etc, and at first it all seems ok, but then within 24 hours it starts lagging again. No timers set, and all of a sudden its decided to record emmerdale again even though no timers of any description were set or highlighted.
Obviously this is really annoying, surely someone else is getting similar trouble after using the series record feature? I just wish i'd never gone near that thing, allthough it was the main reason I decided to buy one.
ALSO, if anyone here has links to the people who sort out OAD's for these things, if the bugs for this fault can be ironed out ok, another point I'd like corrected is that when you set a series record for say EMMERDALE on ITV, I dont really need the repeats on ITV2 recorded aswell later that night AND again in the morning!! 3 copies of one soap is a bit OTT! To set a SERIES RECORD ON THIS CHANNEL ONLY would sort that one out.
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When financial technology (fintech) start-ups began disrupting the global banking and finance industry a few years ago, many financial institutions took the wait-and-see approach to assess whether they should reinvent themselves to maintain their edge. After all, they had the advantage of a large client base, the ability to scale and the trust of the public, which was lacking in smaller fintech firms.
"The largest money market companies in China are Alibaba (Ant Financial) and Tencent (WeChat Pay). Alipay is giving about 10 million loans a day and Tencent is dominating the payment space, among others. They are 'eating' into the banking space even though they are not even banks to begin with," says DBS Bank's chief analytics officer Sameer Gupta.
Financial institutions have had to act quickly and embrace innovation to compete against the emerging fintech start-ups for market share. There were a few players that took on the challenge much earlier than the rest.
Singapore's DBS Bank, the largest in Southeast Asia, started its digital movement in 2013, as soon as it saw the fintech revolution happening in China, says Gupta. Acknowledging that the revolution would be a threat to its profit margins, the bank focused on its digital business strategy and has benefited greatly from its efforts. In addition to digitising its back-end operations, the bank introduced digital products such as PayLah! mobile wallet, DBS Home Connect mortgage application app, Digibank by DBS artificial intelligence-driven digital bank and POSB Smart Buddy (a wearable payment device).
"When we started implementing our digital strategy, fintech was fairly new. But we saw the importance of taking action," says Gupta on the sidelines of the SAS Global Forum 2018 in Denver, Colorado.
Some of the bank's digital strategy objectives were to acquire customers on a large scale at a low cost, eliminate paper, lower the cost of transactions and use data to drive and deepen relationships with customers. "We want to become digital to the core, not just putting lipstick on a pig. To do that, we have to really help change the mindset of each employee and change our monolithic systems to micro-services," says Gupta.
"[For example, we changed] processes that took months for transactions to be completed and made them instantaneous. We automated everything, from operations to design.
Data plays a big role in DBS' digital business strategy. In its efforts to make the bank more agile and efficient, decisions are no longer made by the highest-paid person in a meeting room. Instead, the bank lets data inform its decisions on which products to launch and what the best approach to reach its clients would be.
An example of this would be the bank's forecast of the cash demands of its automated teller machines (ATMs), says Gupta. In Singapore, DBS' customers conduct 25 million transactions a month at more than 1,100 ATMs. To make sure that the ATMs do not run out of cash before the next reload, the bank uses advanced analytics software SAS to forecast withdrawal activity and optimise the reloading process.
"I am happy to report that as at 2017, the number of cash-outs across our entire network is zero, the trips to reload the ATM network were reduced by 20% and the cash sent back to the bank was reduced by 40%," says Gupta.
Another DBS project that was data-driven is Home Connect. According to Gupta, the idea came about when the bank realised that mortgage applications were actually a very small part of the home-buying process.
"Prior to the application, the customer had already completed a lot of things. They had searched for the perfect house — the size, location, amenities available — and compared it with other houses," he points out.
The Home Connect app differentiates itself from the others by providing information that is useful at the beginning of the buying process. Just by pointing their smartphone camera at a residential building, the users will be provided with various information on the value of the property, made possible by data analytics technology. This includes the latest transaction price, neighbourhood insights, nearby amenities and monthly repayments and mortgage loans available, says Gupta.
"About 90% of Singaporeans are our customers, so we have a tremendous amount of data across the city state. We use all the mortgage data we have accumulated over the years and worked with the government to pull data from various public websites to build the app. We launched the app in October 2013.
The bank is also experimenting with IoT technology, starting with the POSB Smart Buddy device. Launched in Singapore last August, the payment device allows parents to reload money for their children using their mobile phones.
With the app, not only can the parents track their children's spending but also use it as a platform to teach their children about using money wisely. Gupta says the bank aims to gradually launch the programme at all schools across the city state.
A few years ago, DBS was looking for a suitable market around Asia to scale its business. The bank assessed its business in India, where it has been operating for the past 15 years with 40,000 customers. Although it has a few branches in the country, scaling was almost impossible due to the regulations that prohibit the bank from opening more branches.
However, there was a huge opportunity. At the time, India was experiencing an explosive growth in mobile phone penetration and the government was investing heavily in a biometric technology programme called Aadhar. Realising the potential of such a product, DBS introduced its first digital-only bank — Digibank — to Indian customers in 2016.
"We wanted it to be as user-friendly as possible. Users can download the app and open their account within 90 seconds)," says Gupta.
Within 24 months, Digibank acquired 1.8 million customers. It aspires to acquire five million users by 2021. Its operations only requires 10% of the human capital needed in a traditional operation.
Last year, DBS launched Digibank in Indonesia. As about 70% of the solutions can be reused, the bank spent only half the time it needed to introduce the product compared with the previous launch in India. It hopes to launch Digibank in Hong Kong and Taiwan next.
To fully embrace its digital business strategy, a culture change is needed. But it is not as easy as it sounds, says Gupta. For one, innovation can be risky and banks are not known to take risks.
"People trust banks. So while fintech players can launch an app with low security, banks cannot. But we do not want this to constraint our desire to become innovative," he says.
Apart from exposing its employees to activities such as hackathons and creating innovation labs to get teams to experiment together, DBS also renovated its spaces to be more collaboration-friendly.
The bank has introduced start-up incubators, encouraging its staff to engage with start-ups to create synergy and get fresh ideas. Over the past year, 70% of DBS' employees have participated in one or more of the activities, says Gupta.
The bank also works with a lot of fintech start-up partners in India, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Recently, it launched an API platform, which has more than 150 services, ranging from account-related functions (such as deposits, loans and investments) to foreign exchange rates, payments, transfers and transaction analytics. So far, the API has attracted more than 500 developers, says Gupta.
"We want to be faster and innovate better, so we need to learn a lot. As long as we do it in short bursts, get feedback and try to be better, I am sure we will drive long-term success by embracing digital revolution," he adds.


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Gigawatt Global, a global company that deals with renewable energy has decided to participate in a 7.5MW solar project in Burundi to assist in electricity generation in the country.
The solar power project, which will cost US$ 20m, is anticipated to generate a 15 per cent capacity of electricity and will be carried out in Gitega, 104 km from the capital city, Bujumbura. It will further supply electricity to at least 600,000 homes.
"Our impact investment model is to support developing countries, economically by providing renewable energy sources where they are most needed. We plan to put up 1,000 solar megawatts in Africa by 2020 hence supplying electricity to the many homes and institutions that are currently without this need," said Yosef Abramowitz, Gigawatt Global president.
The significant project by Gigawatt is made possible by a partnership with the Power Africa through the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) and the Energy and Environment Partnership (EEP) which constitutes the Austrian, British and Finnish governments. The firms have signed a US$ 1m grant agreement to see the latter two contribute the funds for the solar power project.
The US$ 1m donation will cater for different functions, USTDA funds will be used to address environmental, social, economic and technical aspects for the project and finances from EEP will be used for pre-development works and legal costs. The solar power project will be developed on a 37 acres of land.
Gigawatt Global, with headquarters in The Netherlands early this year erected a significant 8.5MW solar plant in Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, a plant that will generate 8.5MW and Africa's largest of its kind. The company announced it would be spending US$2billion in developing 1000Mw of solar power in Africa by 2020.


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In a saucepan, combine milk, cream, cinnamon, vanilla extract and nutmeg. Bring to the boil over medium heat. Once boiling, remove from the heat and allow to steep. In a large bowl or stand mixer, beat egg yolks and sugar until combined and thick ribbons form when the whisk is lifted. Slowly whisk in the milk and continue to mix until the mixture is combined and smooth. Add bourbon or rum, and stir. Refrigerate overnight or for up to three days.
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Battle sites: Fields of freedom
Courtesy National Park Service
Today they are wide expanses of green fields, silent but for the hollow roar of the breezes blowing through them. Linger long enough, though, and you'll hear the whizzing of bullets, the thundering of cannons and the echoes of bravery.
It's been so long since a war was fought on American soil that many of us would have trouble imagining a battle raging around our hometowns. But there are towns and countrysides from Massachusetts to Hawaii where hard-fought battles forever changed the landscape.
Many of these places have been preserved as national monuments and historic sites, not to glorify war but to honor the people who sacrificed so much in their struggle for the greater good. Now in the 21st century, many of these sites are more than just fields. Visitors will find tours, interpretive programs, museums and visitors centers showcasing both historical artifacts and immersive multimedia.
For visiting groups, they can be powerful reminders of the price paid for freedom.
Lexington and Concord, Mass.
Not far from Boston, Minute Man National Historical Park is 1,000-acres that preserves the sites of the battles of Lexington and Concord, where the "shot heard 'round the world" jump-started the Revolutionary War.
The park features a number of special stations and visitors centers where groups can learn about the events surrounding the beginnings of the revolution. Many groups begin at the main Minute Man visitors center, where they see a 25-minute multimedia show that introduces the context of the events that took place in Lexington and Concord.
At the park's Hartwell Tavern, costumed interpreters help to fill in details about life and warfare during the Colonial period.
"Every day from May to October, we do living-history programs and musket demonstrations," said Lou Sideris, the park's chief of planning and communications. "We talk about who the Minute Men were and how the people lived."
From the tavern, groups proceed to the North Bridge, where the fighting first broke out, and see the famous Minute Man statue erected there. There is another visitors center near the bridge, along with a formal garden and one of the brass cannons that British troops came to the area to confiscate.
Interested visitors can also walk the Battle Road Trail, which follows the route of British movements where fighting took place.
www.nps.gov/mima
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park
Chalmette, La.
The War of 1812 isn't often remembered like other more famous conflicts are, but its Battle of New Orleans made the strangest of bedfellows of then Gen. Andrew Jackson and pirate Jean Lafitte.
"No one will ever know why, but Lafitte offered Jackson his men, his supplies, his cannon and his knowledge of the bayous," said Kristy Wallisch of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park. "Jackson wasn't enthused about throwing in his lot with a bunch of pirates, but he was desperate."
Together with the Army, Navy and local volunteers, Jackson and Lafitte held off a British invasion of New Orleans that may have changed the course of the war. The event made Jackson a national hero, and the battlefield is now preserved as a national historical park.
"It looks fairly similar to what it might have looked like in 1815," Wallisch said. "There's a reconstruction of the rampart, and there's actually a house that was built in the 1830s. There's also a national cemetery that was established in the Civil War."
This fall, a new visitors center at the park will replace the one destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Interactive exhibits, multimedia presentations and scale models of cannons and ramparts will give groups an overview of the military events and their effects on the lives of nearby residents.
www.nps.gov/jela
Every year, more than 2.5 million people visit San Antonio to "remember the Alamo," where Davy Crockett and a small band of Texas freedom fighters held out for 13 days against Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana in 1836. Although the Alamo fell to the Mexicans in the end, it became one of the most legendary battle sites in American history.
Built on its current site in 1724 as Misión San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo was one of the mission churches established by Franciscan friars from Spain in the early 18th century. During the Texas revolution, soldiers holed up inside the structure in their heroic stand against Santa Ana.
To many visitors, the Alamo looks much smaller than it seems in pictures. Still, the details are impressive: Romanesque columns and arches on the facade give way to domed ceilings inside that resemble Renaissance, Gothic and baroque churches throughout Europe.
Since 1905, the Alamo has been managed by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Today, three buildings — the Shrine, the Long Barrack Museum and the Gift Museum — make up the historic site and include a variety of exhibits about the Texas revolution and other aspects of the state's history. Visitors can also walk through the adjacent Alamo Gardens.
www.thealamo.org
Gettysburg National Military Park
Gettysburg, Pa.
One of the most famous battles of the Civil War took place in Gettysburg during July of 1863, spreading out over thousands of acres of forest and farmland and spilling into the streets of the small town itself.
"It's the largest battle that was ever fought on the continent," said Dru Anne Neil, director of marketing and communications for the Gettysburg Foundation. "The town had about 2,400 residents, but over a three-day battle, about 165,000 soldiers fought here. Every public building became a hospital, including all of the churches."
Groups can take walking tours of historic downtown Gettysburg and see buildings that housed convalescing soldiers, or go out walking or driving on the historic battlefield at Gettysburg National Military Park.
"We say that the biggest artifact here at Gettysburg is the battlefield itself," Neil said. "There's nothing like being able to stand on the fields of Pickett's Charge and walk across the field if you so choose. You get a sense that happens in very few places."
Visitors to the battlefield should also stop at the visitors center, which opened two years ago to replace an aging previous facility. The museum houses thousands of Civil War artifacts, such as Robert E. Lee's camping accoutrements, as well as a historical film narrated by Morgan Freeman.
A highlight of the visitors center is the Gettysburg Cyclorama.
"The massive Cyclorama is bigger than a football field," Neil said. "It's the original painting from the mid to late 19th century that depicts Pickett's Charge. There's also a sound and light show with it."
www.nps.gov/gett
World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument
Although we may not call it a "battle," the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was the only World War II fighting to take place on American soil. World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, a park site in Honolulu, commemorates all of the men and women stationed at Pearl Harbor on the "day that will live in infamy."
Most groups begin their tours at the visitors center, which shows a 23-minute documentary film on the attack. A museum at the monument has personal memorabilia, photographs, artifacts from the battle and other exhibits related to the events at Pearl Harbor.
The main component of this national monument is the USS Arizona Memorial, a floating building commemorating the 1,177 crewmen who lost their lives on the ship. Visitors ride ferries out to the memorial, which sits in the harbor over the middle portion of the sunken battle ship.
In the memorial's Entry Room, flags from the nine states for which the Pearl Harbor battleships were named hang on display. In the Assembly Room, visitors can look down to see the remains of the USS Arizona on the ocean floor. The Shrine Room holds a large marble plaque inscribed with the names of the sailors and marines who were killed on the ship.
www.nps.gov/valr

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We all deal with stress differently. Being a full-time caregiver can be very taxing. It's important to know when you should take steps to reduce stress before it negatively affects your quality of life and your effectiveness as a caregiver.
1. Learn as much as you can: Illnesses are complex. As they progress they pose new and greater challenges. Researching these progressions and reading about the best ways to manage symptoms can reduce anxiety. Be well prepared for the current situation and understand the future possibilities.
2. Plan ahead: No illness follows an identical course but they do progress in recognizable patterns. Planning for the next stages of the disease can help reduce stress.
3. Know your limits: Be honest with yourself and only do what you can handle without burning out. If there is too much on your plate, seek outside assistance. Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. Finding the help you need will present its own challenges, but it's worth the time investment.
4. Regularly reassess your role as a caregiver: If your loved one's illness progresses, their needs will change. You will need to adjust your expectations and responsibilities. Be sure to look at your changing role on a regular basis, and look ahead to future changes so you can prepare.
5. Get help: No matter what your situation is, there will be times when you need support, emotionally and physically. Don't fall into the trap of insisting on doing it all yourself.
6. Take care of yourself: You are the most important person to your loved one, so taking care of you is essential to them. Do not put yourself last. You can't neglect your own health and well being.
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8. Don't lose your sense of humour: Disease and long-term illness are serious matters but that doesn't mean you can't find some humour in daily events. Laughter is important, and can be comforting for both you and your loved one.
9. Share your situation: Talking about your situation and your feelings can be very therapeutic. Discussing your caregiving role with people may bring you new insights and valuable solutions to challenges your are facing.
10.Stay positive: Maintaining a positive attitude can affect the way you cope with the realities and stresses of care giving. If you are having trouble staying positive, consider joining a support group, seeing a therapist or talking to a trusted friend to help you regain perspective.
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Phew! I was wondering the same thing and hoping I hadn't missed an email or a deadline. Happy news!
Hi! The link to Parti 10 said there was 1 space available, so I reserved it just now. The booking site wanted to know the keyword so I went back a page to try to find it, but now the booking seems to have disappeared - it's just saying 'fully booked'. Can you help please? thank you!
Help! The booking people said the reservation will be automatically released after a short interval so I've reserved a space again but it needs a password for the event!! Anyone know it please? Diolch!
Hi, Just wondering how we will be contacted to pay the balance for the party, I don't want to miss it!
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Home / Thousands expected to celebrate Community Day at The Tech Interactive
Annual free day serves as a thank you to the community for its support of the San Jose institution
June 27, 2019, San Jose, CA— Thousands are expected to celebrate Community Day at The Tech Interactive Sunday, June 30. The science center in the heart of downtown San Jose will offer free admission, additional activities and discounted tickets to its educational IMAX films.
"The Tech is proud to call San Jose our home, where we have built such a rich legacy of inspiring the next generation of innovators to tackle big problems," said Tim Ritchie, president and CEO of The Tech Interactive. "You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who grew up in the South Bay without a fond memory of a field trip or time with family in our lovely mango-colored building."
The Tech has evolved quite a bit over its more than 20 years in existence. New exhibitions educate visitors in relevant topics including cybersecurity, robotics, bioengineering and immersive media in a fun and engaging way. The science center, formerly known as The Tech Museum of Innovation, began as a small tinkering space affectionately known as "The Garage" before opening in its current home in 1998. Before that, its founders launched a youth engineering design program that is still going strong today called The Tech Challenge.
Earlier this year, The Tech announced a new plan to bring its experiences to the world. The plan includes digitizing some of its experiences, creating opportunities for other cultural institutions to host its activities and giving teachers hands-on training in design challenge learning to bring more STEM education to young people everywhere.
Visitors on Community Day can experience all of The Tech's exhibits including Body Worlds Decoded, design a device that survives a big drop, explore genetics with Stanford, build a robot and more. This is the fourth annual Community Day, started after The Tech won the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the highest honor the U.S. awards museums.
Media Contact: Marika Krause Ponce I 408-591-0027 I mkrause@thetech.org


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SAFPAC
Training Aims and Requirements
Find an existential-analytic psychotherapist
UKCP training and CPD in critical existential-analytic psychotherapy
Develop your therapeutic relational abilities to help others be clearer about the meaning of their experiences and desires in a post postmodern world
Train and be on the UKCP and UPCA registers as an existential-analytic psychotherapist
Alternatively, if as a psychological therapist you have a minimum of 2 years' training that includes personal therapy, attend as continuous professional development (100 hours CPD per annum)
Learn through a practice-based programme in Wimbledon, London (Thursday evenings and one Saturday a term)
Consider the implications of what emerges in practice through humanistic, existential, psychoanalytic, postmodern and feminist ideas as well as the arts and humanities
Develop critical perspectives theoretically and politically on psychotherapy and the nature of psychotherapeutic knowledge
Be part of a learning community facilitated by university lecturers who are also practitioners and researchers
Access experienced clinical and academic supervisors and existential-analytic psychotherapists
Hear from a wide range of visiting speakers
Commence at any time during the year
Welcome to the Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
Our focus is to provide a training in critical existential-analytic psychotherapy. The training, which mainly takes place on Thursday evenings and a Saturday a term, is held at Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur's Cafe) 170 Arthur's Road , London SW19 7 AQ (near Wimbledon Park Underground Station).
Should you be interested in the training, or in therapy or supervision, with one of the existential-analytic psychotherapists on our register, please feel free to contact us for more information.
Prof Del Loewenthal (Chair)
Dr Julia Cayne (Vice Chair)
We were formed in 1998 as the Surrey Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling from students, alumni and staff of the MSc and PhD in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Surrey. These programmes in turn had commenced in 1978 at the Wolfson Medical Rehabilitation Centre in Wimbledon through South-West London College and the NHS.
When in 2004 these programmes transferred to what became the University of Roehampton, and were subsequently joined by the PsychD in Psychotherapy and Counselling, the alumni association changed its name to the Southern Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling (SAFPAC). In 2015 SAFPAC was approved, through the Universities Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (UPCA), to provide a training that enables its successful students to go on the UPCA and United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registers as existential-analytic psychotherapists. In 2019, the programmes returned to Wimbledon at Wimbledon Park Hall (Arthur's Cafe). Throughout that period the trainings have been in association with the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education, what is now The Research Group for Therapeutic Education at the University of Roehampton.
Term dates
Autumn Term 03/10/2019 - 05/12/2019 (Reading week: 31/10/19)
Spring Term 09/01/2020 - 26/03/2020 (Reading week: 20/02/20)
Summer Term 30/04/2020 - 02/07/2020 (Reading week: 28/05/20)
Saturday meetings 10.00am - 5.00pm:
Contact SAFPAC
Email safpac.co@gmail.com
The Training
We aim to facilitate a place where we can develop others' and our own potency and potentiality for being in the world with others. Here we might also still be able to think about how alienated we are through valuing existential notions such as experience and meaning whilst questioning other aspects such as existentialism's inferred narcissism and the place it has come to take up with regards to such aspects as psychoanalysis and the political. The post-existential would also include the post-phenomenological, where, for example, notions of being open to what emerges in the between (as well as of embodiment) would be given primacy.
Phase one (year one) is an introduction to critical psychotherapy and phenomenology initially through Rogers.
Phase two (year two) explores phenomenology in existentialism, psychoanalysis and postmodernism.
Phase three (year three) addresses some implications of theory and research for thoughtful practice.
Phase four (year four/continuity year) focuses on developing practice; the single session, brief and long term therapy.
Fees
Fees (£1000 per annum (or £375 per term) for the UKCP training and £750 per annum (or £275 per term) for CPD) can be paid termly and will be reviewed annually. Bursaries are available in certain situations. Click here for more details.
In addition, participants on the UKCP training will have to pay for clinical supervision and personal therapy. Click here for more information.
MORE ABOUT THE TRAINING
Chair – Professor Del Loewenthal
Vice Chair – Dr Julia Cayne
Treasurer – Dr Erik Abrams
Administrator – Betty Bertrand
Secretary – Dr Gillian Brooks
The programme is designed for those individuals who wish to meet the requirements for professional accreditation by the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (and for CPD). Besides private practice, the programme is also designed to meet the needs of professionals and public, private and voluntary organisations.
Fees and how to apply
Aside from this UKCP training, all advertised seminars and conferences can be booked through Eventbrite unless otherwise stated.
Other Associated organisations:
Apply to be on the training now!


HDH Law are acknowledged as one of the leading criminal law practices dealing with cases across Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire.
Our exceptionally experienced legal team cover cases ranging from motoring offences to major cases in the crown court involving fraud and homicide.
We welcome both private and publicly funded work and we are committed to providing a high standard of representation to all our clients.
Following his retirement from the practice in March 2014 Cedric is pleased to continue his association with the firm as a consultant.
Cedric Hennis is one of the most experienced Criminal Law practitioners in the North of England with over 25 years experience in a wide range of defence work from. He was originally a senior prosecuting solicitor in the midlands and Yorkshire before specialising in criminal defence work in 1984. He has conducted cases in all of the major courts appearing regularly in the Crown Court and Court of Appeal as well as in the lower courts, and he was one of the first solicitors to achieve rights of audience in the higher courts. In addition he has experience of defending clients at Courts Martial having successfully represented clients at military courts both in this country and abroad. He is a member of The Society of Higher Courts Advocates and a Member of the Association of Military Court Lawyers. A past president of the Doncaster Law Society he sits on a number of committees and panels advising on criminal law.
Having practised criminal law for over 20 years Cheryl has a wealth of experience in all aspects of the criminal justice system.
Her reputation and ability as a lawyer, is demonstrated by her large and loyal following. Cheryl has higher rights of audience regularly appearing before the crown and magistrates' courts. Cheryl is also a lower tier judge of the mental health tribunal.
Richard Haigh qualified in 1979. He prosecuted for seven years until 1987. Since that time he has been in private practice representing clients prosecuted for criminal offences.
In 34 years in the criminal justice system Richard Haigh has both prosecuted and defended every kind of criminal matter. His current practice requires him to appear at the police station (pre-charge) and the Magistrates Court. For the last 8 years he has practised regularly in The Crown Court representing clients facing the most serious offences and defending jury trials. He has also appeared in The Court of Appeal several times.
Born in Doncaster Amanda graduated with a 2:1 LLB (Hons) Law Degree from the University of Teesside in Middlesbrough. She then went on to complete the Legal Practice Course at the college of Law in York.
Since qualifying as a solicitor in June 2001 Amanda has solely practiced Criminal Law. Specialising in all areas of Criminal Litigation Amanda covers both advising and representation at the Police Station and also at the Magistrates Court. She has also represented people at the Crown Court. She is an experienced advocate with a good client following and covers the full range of criminal offences. Amanda is also a duty solicitor for the local Police Station and the Magistrates Court.


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I was recently approached by Ryan Covino, an internet marketing consultant who specializes in training real estate agents to move their business online, to provide an interview about the Internet Squeeze. Specifically, Ryan wanted to know more about the book and what I am doing to help medium-sized businesses move their operations from traditional brick and mortar tactics to ones that utilize the vast resources of the internet.
The interview was by telephone, and it was recorded, so as soon as Ryan publishes the interview, I will provide a link to his site. We covered an array of topics that ranged from my background in real estate brokerage to the work that I am currently doing on the Internet Squeeze.
I can tell you that the interview was enjoyable, because it is not often that I speak with a kindred spirit in real estate. Ryan obviously understands the movement that is occurring in real estate, and in most all other industries, to where consumers are using the internet to begin the process of buying the goods and services that each industry offers.
The main topic of discussion centered around my "favorite" techniques for driving traffic to a company website. I explained that I was a big proponent of content marketing, not so much for the great volume of traffic that it generates, but for the quality of the traffic. After all, traffic does not pay the bills; I want the targeted traffic of consumers who are most likely to need my products or services.
As an example, I showed him that the current Alexa Ranking of The Internet Squeeze is already below 300,000. Considering that this site is just over two months old, and there are tens of millions of websites that Alexa follows, the early traffic report is very promising. But again, it's not just about traffic, it's about targeted traffic. The Internet Squeeze wants to reach out to decision makers in medium-sized businesses, so again I looked to Alexa to give me an idea about who is visiting the site.
I am pleased with the Demographics Report as well. The age report very much parallels what you would expect to see from decision makers in the business world. A lot of younger people have a better grasp of what can be done with the internet, but they are not in the executive positions (typically) and they are not my primary target. This tells me that the Internet Squeeze is starting to reach the people who need to make decisions about implementing a sales vortex at their companies.
I will re-visit the interview with Ryan when he posts the audio-cast of the phone call. I hope you take the time to listen to the discussion, because there is so much to be learned about making the transition from a traditional business model to one that uses a powerful content marketing plan.


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Q: Why does Ubuntu One assume the files on the site are newer than the new ones on my computer? I recently installed 11.04 on my new computer. After I installed copies of my files from an older computer, Ubuntu One insists that the files on that site are newer than the ones just installed on my new computer. I want the computer to have preeminence. Why are new files I just edited deleted from my computer? I want to back stuff up not delete it to make my computer look like what's on Ubuntu One! ---gk

A: Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-client/+bug/503751
From the bugreport:

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*Open (or create if it doesn't exist): ~/.config/ubuntuone/syncdaemon.conf

*Add the following 2 lines to this file and save:
[main]
log_level = DEBUG

*Restart the Ubuntu One client

*Try to reproduce the behavior you've been seeing and then attach the following log file: ~/.cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log to the bug.
Is is also discussed on ubuntuforums here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8656215
All from 2010 but I do not seem to be able to find a fix for this(...)

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Several people injured in explosion near gas pipeline in Alabama
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Screenshot via WBRC-TV
(Reuters) - Colonial Pipeline shut down its main gasoline pipelines in Shelby County, Alabama, on Monday following reports of a fire on its right of way, the company said in a notice on Monday.
The segment of the pipeline was undergoing maintenance on Monday afternoon when it exploded, resulting in several workers suffering serious injuries, according to the Shelby County Sheriff's office.
The explosion occurred near Highway 13 and River Road, the Shelby County sheriff's department said.
Colonial said company personnel and emergency crews were responding to the incident.
Colonial Pipeline experienced a spill in Shelby County on Sept. 9, which leaked between 6,000 to 8,000 barrels of gasoline.
The explosion occurred about a mile from any residential area, according to local media reports.
Alabama's Emergency Management Agency said in a statement it is "monitoring the situation closely and are ready to offer assistance to the local municipalities if need. We are keeping the governor's office and other key personal updated on the situation."
(Additional reporting by Liz Hampton in Houston; editing by G Crosse)
Video of the fire was captured on Twitter:
More: Shelby County Alabama Gas Explosion Reuters
$3.2 billion health-insurance startup Oscar Health just revealed plans to offer a new kind of coverage in 2 cities


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Q: Laravel 3 - error: Connection to smtp.gmail.com:465 Timed Out I want to send email through laravel-3, but i am facing one error like this:
ERROR: Connection to smtp.gmail.com:465 Timed Out

I am using Swiftmailer Messages-master bundle to send emails, and I have written this code in my controller:
Config::set('messages::config.transports.smtp.host', 'smtp.gmail.com');
Config::set('messages::config.transports.smtp.port', 465);
Config::set('messages::config.transports.smtp.username','abc@gmail.com');
Config::set('messages::config.transports.smtp.password', 'mypassword');
Config::set('messages::config.transports.smtp.encryption', 'ssl');

Message::send(function($message)
{
    $message->to('xyz@gmail.com');
    $message->from('abc@gmail.com', 'Kishan Vadaliya');

    $message->subject('Email checking');
    $message->body('hii i am very happy for send this email through laravel');
});

Please help me to solve my error...

A: only remove semicolon in php.ini file from your php folder of wamp server
instead of this line in php.ini
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after that you have to restart your wamp
Now, its work properly..
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Kadappattoor is a small village on the banks of Meenachil river near Pala in Kottayam district of Kerala. Kadappattoor, is located 30 km east of Kottayam. The village life is centered on the Shiva Kadappattoor Mahadeva Temple (also Kadappatoor Temple or "Katappattur Temple" or "Kadapattur Mahadeva Temple") The population consists of Hindus and Christians.

History
The unique stone idol of Lord Shiva in the temple is unlike the idols in other Shiva temples. This is the only Shiva temple in Kerala where Lord Shiva is worshipped in a Swaroopa Vigraha (idol). In all other Shiva temples Lord is worshipped in Linga form. The idol was discovered by a woodcutter named Madathil Paachu Nair inside a large tree (Country Fig - Ficus Glomerata) on the banks of Meenachil river on 14 July 1960 while he was cutting firewood. The day was quite unusually stormy with deafening thunderbolts. The woodcutter was frightened and jumped into the river as the tree fell to one side and the stone idol of Shiva appeared from that.

Shiva Idol
The news of appearance of a Shiva idol from the tree spread through central Travancore and people flocked to see the idol. Gradually a temple was built, initially in a unique architectural design resembling North Indian temples.

In 2006 the Katappattoor temple was renovated and completely remodeled in South Indian temple architecture style.  Now the temple has a three storied big rectangular sreekovil with copper covered pyramidal roof and golden thazhikakkudam. The sreekovil walls are decorated with sculptures. The namaskaramandapam also has a copper covered pyramidal roof and golden thazhikakkudam. People belonging to all religions are allowed entry into this temple.

Pilgrims
Thousands of pilgrims visit the Kadappattoor temple every year, on their way to Sabarimala. It is an important Idathavalam (pilgrimage shelter) for the Sabarimala pilgrims. The excellent facilities for staying in a serene atmosphere with ample space around the temple attracts Sabarimla pilgrims to this temple. Elaborate arrangements are provided for the pilgrims by the temple authorities. Alangad Sangham, a major participant of famous Erumely Pettathullal (a devotional dance, performed by the pilgrims) will rest here for a day on their way to Erumely. They will perform the Paanaka Pooja at this temple on Dhanu 26th (January ).

Legends

According to legends the Meenachil river originates from the Kamandalu of Gauna Maharshi (Sage Gauna) like the river Kaveri from Agasthya Maharshi's Kamandalu. Hence this river got the name Gauna Nadi. Gauna Maharshi filled his Kamandalu with Sapthanadi Theertham (water from the 7 holy rivers - the Ganges, Yamuna, Saraswathy, Sindhu, Narmmada, Godavari and Kaveri). A beautiful idol of Lord Subrahmanya was also there in his kamandalu. He was eagerly waiting for the Darshan of Lord Sree Rama who was in his return journey to Ayodhya after killing Ravana. Sree Rama was accompanied by a large number of devotees like Vibhishana, Sugreeva, Hanuman and Angada in the Pushpaka Vimana. So Maharshi Gauna could not see Lord Sri Rama and Sita Devi properly. Sage Gauna, angry and disappointed, threw the kamandalu away and the idol of Subrahmanya Swami came out. These incidents occurred on a hill and since then the hill is known as Kudamuruttimala. This flow of water became a river and thus the present Gauna nadi was formed. Along with the flow of the water, the idol was carried away to the Vishnu temple in Kidangoor and was later installed in a new sreekovil. This is the present Kidangoor Subrahmanya Swami Temple. So the water in Gauna river is as holy as the Sapthanadi Teertham.

Later Sree Rama and Sitha Devi gave darshan to Gauna Maharshi. Rama advised Gauna Maharshi to continue his Tapas and gave him a beautiful idol of Lord Shiva. Gauna Maharsi then started his journey along the river bank and at last reached a beautiful village and decided to stay there. He started worshipping Lord Shiva there. The local people were his ardent devotees and they provided him all assistance for Shiva pooja. Hence Gauna Maharshi named this place as 'Kadappetta ooru'. Later Gauna Maharshi went to Shivaloka. After that this place became a great forest. This place is now famous as Kadappattoor and the idol of Shiva worshipped by Gauna Maharshi is now famous as Lord Kadappattoorappan.

References

Villages in Kottayam district

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In this scene the angel Gabriel visits Abram in order to share more about God's covenant. Although hard for him to imagine, his 90 year old wife Sarah is to have a son. Abram's name becomes Abraham – the father of many nations. Based on Genesis 17 and 18. Featuring Ted Swartz and McNair Wilson. This clip is part of the Creation, Chaos & Covenant DVD.
A script download of Abraham is also available.
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What's really lame is that the owner of Black Jack did nothing but bitch, but didn't file a protest? STFU.
Wild Oats XI has retained its Sydney to Hobart line honours standing after a post-race protest against it was deemed invalid. The owner/skipper of runner-up Black Jack Peter Harburg claimed Wild Oats XI's automatic identification system (AIS) was not transmittingthroughout the whole race and that it disadvantaged the crews of Black Jack and third placed Comanche.
The Sydney to Hobart race committee subsequently lodged a protest against Wild Oats XI.
But a five-member international jury ruled the protest was invalid because it needed to have been lodged by a competitor. The crew of Wild Oats XI celebrated a stunning win on Friday, crossing the line in a time of 19 hours, 7 minutes and 21 seconds in one of the closest contests in the race's history.
Mr Harburg reported Wild Oats XI's automatic identification system (AIS) was not transmitting throughout the race. He claimed the lapse disadvantaged the crews aboard Black Jack and third-placed Comanche because they could not see where Wild Oats XI was at all times.
While not technically a racing tool, the AIS was introduced as a mandatory requirement this year to improve safety, and race organisers said the requirement to have it on was communicated in race briefings.
Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards claimed the AIS system was flawed while the boat's engineer Cameron Baillie said he believed their AIS was on throughout the race. "We were receiving the whole time, our device was telling us it was transmitting, so how else are you meant to know it's not transmitting, unless someone tells you?" said Richards.
Before the hearing, CYCA Commodore Paul Billingham said there was no obligation for the jury to impose a penalty.
Here is the text of the Jury finding:
Following a protest against Wild Oats XI by the Race Committee of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, which was held by the International Jury at Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania today, it was found that the protest was invalid and so Wild Oats XI retains her line honours crown.
1. The Race Committee's investigation and subsequent protest arose from the report from the owner of Black Jack, a competitor in the Race and therefore a person with a conflict of interest within the meaning of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS).
2. The Race Committee's investigation was prudent, however in these circumstances, for the protest to be valid under the Racing Rules of Sailing, a competitor with information about a potential rule breach must lodge the protest.
Rules that apply: RRS60.2 (a), Definitions – Conflict of Interest.
Decision: Protest Invalid.
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An Assassination of Truth
The Dreaded Cosmopolitans
Sen. Lankford Issues Apology to Black Constituents for Election Results Skepticism
Media Play Partisan Games with COVID-Vaccination Stats
'Squad' Members Elevated to Key House Committees
Chinese Smartphone Giant Xiaomi Added to U.S. Investment Blacklist
By Deroy Murdock
About Deroy Murdock
If there is a War on Black America, the warriors are not cops but blacks murdering blacks.
NYPD Detective Wenjian Liu's recent funeral and that of his patrol partner Detective Rafael Ramos would have been fractionally less tragic if they had been murdered in deranged reaction to a real problem. Imagine that they worked for a major automobile manufacturer and were gunned down by someone obsessed with America's 30,800 motor-vehicle fatalities in 2012. These murders still would remain hideous, though one might acknowledge the underlying societal challenge that fueled such an intolerable response.
But the assassinations of Liu and Ramos were not like this. Their murders, NYPD commissioner William Bratton correctly argues, were a "direct spinoff" of the Left's sulfurous rage over "racist killer cops" and their alleged serial homicides against black Americans in general and black men in particular. Blacks, the Left contends, are being wiped out by prejudiced police officers consumed with anti-black hatred.
This is a compelling and disturbing story. It also is a monstrous fiction or — more accurately — a volatile, stinking pile of lies.
Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley murdered Liu and Ramos execution-style in retaliation for the police-involved deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in Staten Island. Despite having enough hatred aimed at him to melt steel, none of police officer Darren Wilson's millions of critics has presented so much as one e-mail, letter, locker-room quip, precinct-house whisper, or other sliver of evidence that he harbors any hostility whatsoever toward blacks. In particular, Wilson has not exhibited enough such animus to murder Brown, an 18-year-old who (a racially integrated grand jury concluded) reached for Wilson's gun and then charged at him like a raging bull — just minutes after strong-arm robbing cigars from a convenience store.
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo's chokehold of Eric "I can't breathe" Garner was as sad, senseless, and needless as Garner's subsequent heart attack was fatal. Nonetheless, no one has given proof that Pantaleo was a bigot. Indeed, he and his unit were supervised that fateful day by Kizzy Adoni, a black female NYPD sergeant.
Furthermore, Esaw Snipes, Garner's widow, said on Meet the Press: "I really don't feel like it's a black-and-white thing." Garner and Snipes's daughter, Erica, agreed. She told CNN, "This is not a black-and-white issue."
But the colorlessness of the Brown and Garner deaths did not prevent Brinsley from gunning down Liu and Ramos as they sat in their squad car in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. "I'm putting wings on pigs today," Brinsley wrote en route to New York City to avenge Brown and "ErivGardner" (sic) before he turned his gun on himself. "They Take 1 Of Ours…… Let's Take 2 Of Theirs."
Sickeningly, some cheered this butchery.
"That nigga that shot the cops is a legend," one Brinsley fan applauded. Brandeis University student Khadijah Lynch declared December 20 that she had "no sympathy for the NYPD officers who were murdered today." The former undergraduate representative in Brandeis's African and Afro-American Studies Department added: "I hate this racist fucking country."
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Before and since Liu's and Ramos's assassinations, left-wing agitators and rioters have spoken about the police and blacks as if America in 2015 were the Deep South in 1955. These claims are baseless, bizarre, and — now – deadly.
"NYPD, KKK, how many kids did you kill today?" a group of rabble-rousers screamed, according to the New York Post.
How gross — and grossly false.
Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the NYPD is not a whites-only organization. According to the latest edition of the department's Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City, as of December 31, 2013, the NYPD's 34,584 uniformed officers were 51.8 percent white, 26.5 percent Hispanic, 15.8 percent black, 5.9 percent Asian, and 0.1 percent "other." If the NYPD practices white supremacy, it's remarkably rusty.
In fact, the two murdered detectives helped color this rainbow. Rafael Ramos was a Gotham native of Hispanic heritage. "He was a Puerto Rican kid who grew up on these streets," Ramos's pastor, Deacon John Cortes of Queens Christ Tabernacle Church in Queens, said in the Washington Post.
Wenjian Liu was laid to rest on January 4 — one week after Ramos — so that his family could fly in from China, where Liu was born. Liu's memorial included prayers by Buddhist monks. WNBC reported that Liu's mother and father avoided the actual interment of their only child. Chinese parents explicitly are not supposed to bury their offspring.
Does any of this resemble a cross burning?
Indeed, an unusual source last month confirmed the NYPD's heterogeneity.
"They should have killed two white cops instead of the Hispanic and Asian," Elvin Payamps allegedly complained into his cell phone. "I'm going to kill another cop. We should do it before Christmas." Wary of these overheard threats, NYPD officers arrested Payamps in Queens on December 24. He was charged with felony aggravated harassment and weapons violations.
Well, even if the NYPD does not resemble the Aryan Nation, its officers are just tyrants in blue, right? As the Stop Mass Incarceration Network's Travis Morales told the New York Post, "Police day in and day out brutalize and murder people with impunity."
If the NYPD's daily mayhem really is routine bordering on mundane, a city agency called the Civilian Complaint Review Board certainly would have heard this news. The CCRB began 22 years ago as an independent watchdog against police abuse. Yet despite the invective being hurled at the NYPD, reports of its misconduct have plummeted.
From January 1, 2014, through November 30, total complaints to the CCRB were down 10 percent, and excessive-force claims were off by 11 percent. These improvements were most dramatic in the five months from July 1 through November 30. Complaints totaled 1,813 versus 2,450 a year earlier. This 26 percent decrease is the steepest five-month plunge since this oversight panel's 1993 launch. During this interval, which included Eric Garner's death, excessive-force reports slid 29 percent. Even profanity accusations tumbled by 20 percent in America's most foul-mouthed city.
What about police shootings? Surely the NYPD is gunning down black men with abandon.
The latest data, in the NYPD's 2013 Annual Firearms Discharge Report, tell the opposite story. "The Department has made restraint the norm," this document explains. NYPD officers shot and killed 93 criminal subjects in 1971, when such annual statistics began. In 2013, they mortally shot a grand total of eight people. Despite a spike to 16 in 2012, this tied the NYPD's 2010 low-water mark for fatal shootings.
The eight whom the NYPD killed in 2013 were all males. Two were Hispanic. Six were black. One of these black men wielded a knife. The other five were armed with handguns. One of them had been arrested 13 times before he fired six shots at two cops on a subway car, non-lethally striking both, as well as a passenger. One policeman then dispatched the criminal. Another subject had been arrested nine times and spent more than 25 years in prison before triggering a bullet-filled street altercation. He aimed his gun at two officers, one of whom cut him down.
That same year, the NYPD reports, 335 New Yorkers were murdered, and 63 percent — or 211 of them — were black. The FBI's Crime in the United States 2013 specifies that 90 percent of black murder victims nationally are killed by black assailants. If those figures apply locally, black New Yorkers killed 190 black murder victims in 2013 — roughly one every other day.
Strangely, this mass carnage generates neither protests, chants, nor even a letter-writing campaign by the "Black Lives Matter" crowd.
So, Gotham's cops have cleaned up their language and, in 2013, shot and killed just six black men, all of whom were armed and dangerous. Where, exactly, does one find the NYPD's brutality and murder — "day in and day out?"
Once again, these slanderous claims turn out to be another gift-wrapped pack of lies.
One painful truth is that blacks are staggeringly over-represented in the areas of gunfire and murder. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, New York City's population was 23 percent black in 2013. Nonetheless, the NYPD found, blacks were 63 percent of murder victims and 55 percent of murder suspects. Blacks were 74 percent of shooting victims and 75 percent of shooting suspects. Among those arrested on firearms violations, 69 percent were black. Of those criminal subjects who shot at police officers that year, 100 percent were black.
The "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" Caucus says little if anything about these disappointing data. Instead, these demonstrators portray all blacks as mere innocents terrorized by a bigoted legal system and its sadistic enforcers.
In fact, the radical ANSWER Coalition believes this entire situation is nothing less than a "War on Black America."
So, is there actually a nationwide police program to liquidate blacks?
The Left is right about this: There is very limited reliable national information on their chief beef — that white cops slay innocent blacks. "Federal databases that track police use of force or arrest-related deaths paint only a partial picture," Jaeah Lee observed last August 15 in Mother Jones. "No agency appears to track the number of police shootings or killings of unarmed victims in a systematic, comprehensive way."
It sure would help if the U.S. Department of Justice maintained such figures from across America. Of course, Attorney General Eric Holder has run Justice for six years now, and Obama has had his pen and phone since January 20, 2009. So, if such statistics are scarce, the Left should scold these two black men for not gathering them in the first place.
Using what proof he could locate, however, City Journal senior editor Steve Malanga found the Left's slogans ring hollow. As he wrote on December 4, "The data show that significant crime declines have been accompanied by a leveling off and then a reduction in confrontations with the police, as reported by Americans of all races." Citing the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) information, Malanga explained that in 2002, 173,000 blacks reported that police officers had used force against them. By 2011, that figure had fallen to 130,000 — a 25 percent drop. In 2002, 78 percent of blacks agreed with this statement: "When I was stopped by police, the officers acted properly." In 2011, 83 percent of blacks concurred.
The BJS also revealed that blacks were more than six times likelier than whites to have been murder victims in 2011 (27.8 per 100,000 versus 4.5 per 100,000). Blacks also were almost eight times likelier to have committed murder than whites (34.4 per 100,000 versus 4.5 per 100,000).
"Police killings of blacks are an extremely rare feature of black life and are a minute fraction of black homicide deaths," Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald argued December 22. "The police could end all killings of civilians tomorrow and it would have no effect on the black homicide risk, which comes overwhelmingly from other blacks."
Based on spotty but best-available numbers from the FBI, USA Today reported last August that, on average, white police officers killed 96 blacks annually between 2006 and 2012. This included both armed and unarmed individuals.
In 2013, the FBI indicates, 12,253 Americans were murdered. Among them, 51 percent — or 6,261 of them — were black. Since blacks compose 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks were 392 percent over-represented among murder victims. And some 90 percent of them (5,635) were killed by other blacks.
So, if we assume that the trend from 2006 to 2012 continued into 2013, white cops killed 96 blacks — including some who were armed — while black killers annihilated 5,635 black people. Incredibly, 1.7 percent of the problem receives 100 percent of the attention.
If there is a War on Black America, the warriors are not cops. The warriors are black murderers who destroy other blacks.
Thus, the Left's full-throated, now fatal, fury is more than just a high-volume attack on the police. It's an assassination of truth.
Please join me in supporting the Silver Shield Foundation, which is assisting the families of Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. Donations can be made online or by check to the Silver Shield Foundation, 870 UN Plaza, First Floor, New York, NY 10017.
— Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor of National Review Online, and a senior fellow with the London Center for Policy Research.
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The career development and identity of Victorian local government chief executives: is gender a factor?
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Diamond, Andrea (2007) The career development and identity of Victorian local government chief executives: is gender a factor? Other Degree thesis, Victoria University.
The aim of this research is to investigate the variations in experiences, career identity and career development of female and male CEOs in Victorian local government, in order to establish if gender in any way either facilitates or hinders career success. The starting point for this study is not a hypothesis to be tested but rather an attempt to understand CEOs' own conceptions. The study is also interested in the influence of Councillors on CEO career development and identity and seeks to establish whether CEOs and Councillors have a common understanding of success for a CEO. Phenomenography is the selected qualitative approach, as it provides a framework for describing experience and examining variations in experience. In-depth semi-structured interviews are conducted with 21 CEOs and Councillors and the interview transcripts form the basis of the research data. The findings identify that Councillors have a significant impact on the career development and experience of being a CEO. While outcomes for CEOs are clearly influenced by Councillors, CEO identity does not appear to be as interwoven with Councillor perceptions. CEOs do however, suggest that performance is not the major determinant of CEO success, but rather identify capacity to engage Councillors as the most crucial issue in gaining a successful outcome. The study also identifies a strong and recurrent theme of institutionalised sexism within the sector and as such finds that the experiences of females and males do differ in a number of ways. Female CEOs experience more scrutiny than their male colleagues and suggest that their actions reflect not only on them as individuals, but on all women.
Item type Thesis (Other Degree thesis)
Subjects Historical > RFCD Classification > 350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Hospitality Tourism and Marketing
Keywords local government, Victoria, chief executive officers, career development, gender, sex discrimination


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Box Office: 'Don't Breathe' Tops 'Suicide Squad,' Scares Up $10M Friday
'Don't Breathe' image courtesy of Sony and Screen Gems
Sony and Screen Gems' horror offering Don't Breathe ended up last weekend of August with an unquestionable bang. The Fede Alvarez thriller, about three down-on-their-luck teens who commit a home invasion only to end up trapped by a very disapproving homeowner, earned solid notices coming out of its SXSW premiere back in March and scored an 87% Rotten Tomatoes score (with a 7.2/10 average rating among 105 reviews). This brutal and efficient (but also emotionally compelling) little chiller deserves every penny it's going to make over the next month.
The $10 million-budgeted film made $10m last night, including $1.8m-worth of Thursday previews. Conventional wisdom suggests a $22m opening weekend, which will give it the weekend crown over the "in its fourth weekend" Suicide Squad. I would imagine word-of-mouth will be positive since the film works as intended and has a satisfying conclusion. The film earned a B+ from CinemaScore, which is pretty solid for a horror movie. Of note, if it can top the $21.6m opening of Light's Out, it'll score the top original horror debut of the year, give or take whether you count 10 Cloverfield Lane ($24m) as original. That's a coin toss, but this is a big win for Don't Breathe either way.
This has been a great year for theatrical horror, and it's only fitting that a summer where a lot of the blockbusters burned out ends with a hugely profitable cheap/original horror movie. By the way, if you can arrive a couple of minutes late (or close your eyes and ears in the theater for the first couple minutes), I'd suggest you do so, since the film's media res opening is way too spoilerly even by the horrible standards of obnoxiously thrill-killing media res prologues. I so very much hate media res and wish genre filmmakers would stop using it for an unnecessary "hook."
Next up is Mechanic: Resurrection. So yeah, I guess Jason Statham didn't get any real bump from his Furious 7 and Spy appearances. The Millennium Films production, released by Lions Gate Entertainment in the States, earned just $2.62 million yesterday, including $355k in Thursday previews. Mechanic: Resurrection was a rarity in that it was a sequel to a remake. The Mechanic, a remake of a 1972 Charles Bronson film, opened with $11.4m back in January of 2011. It was the last solo Statham action vehicle to open above $10m.
The films got better (Safe, Homefront, Redemption, etc.) but the numbers didn't reflect as much. Mechanic: Resurrection isn't a very good movie, so weep not for its likely $7 million debut weekend. If it ends up below $6.9m for the weekend, will be the action star's second lowest wide (2,000+ screens) debut outside of the "before he was a star" $3.8m debut of John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars back in August of 2001. Adding Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, and Michelle Yeoh may help overseas, but this will be lucky to crack $15m domestic.
Lionsgate's exposure was relatively low per usual, and this was the first Lionsgate Premiere offering to go wide after a year of limited releases and day-and-date debuts. The first film earned $76 million worldwide on a $36m budget, but it did well in post-theatrical and Millennium and friends are hoping for a redux this time out as well. Obviously, the usual foreign pre-sales situation applies, so this was a low risk and (likely) low reward situation. No harm, no foul, although I wish the movie was a little sharper, give or take a priceless moment where Statham applies something resembling Batman's trusty "shark repellent."
Next up is a release that went semi-wide at the last minute. Roadside Attractions unleashed Southside with You into 813 theaters this weekend instead of the planned platform debut. The well-reviewed (93% fresh with a 7.5 critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes) romantic drama concerns the extended first date between a young Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson back in the summer of 1989, a date which climaxed with an evening show of The Karate Kid part III Do the Right Thing. The Richard Tanne picture earned around $1.017 million on its first day, which will probably mean a $2.889m weekend. Hopefully, this one will go a little wider over the next month.
And finally, a wide release that wasn't. The Weinstein Company ended up releasing Hands of Stone in just 810 theaters this weekend. The poorly reviewed boxing biopic, starring Edgar Ramirez as Roberto Duran, Robert De Niro as his coach, and Usher Raymond as Sugar Ray Leonard, earned $624k on its first day, giving the Jonathan Jakubowicz picture a likely $1.866m opening weekend. So if you want to see this in theaters, you have about a week or so to do it. I don't have much more to say about this one, but I will try to check it out over the next week if time allows.
In limited debuts, The Hollars opened in four theaters courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. John Krasinski's directorial effort, which also co-stars Margo Martindale, Anna Kendrick, Josh Groban, Charlie Day, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Richard Jenkins, and Sharlto Copley, earned around $13k yesterday for a likely $43k debut weekend for $10k per-location-average. The cast means a possible expansion over the next month, so this will be one to follow. I know at least one film critic colleague who loathes this with a fiery passion (it got a 53%/5.7 score on Rotten Tomatoes), so I may not rush in to see it no matter how much I adore the cast.


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Set among a pine-tree garden, Villa Olympia offers spacious air-conditioned rooms, 800 metres from Galaxidi. It has a pool with sun terrace, a tennis court and an a la carte restaurant. All rooms of Olympia have large floor-to-ceiling windows and include a living area. They come with a TV, a refrigerator and kettle. Their balconies offer views either to Korinthiakos Gulf or the hotel's gardens. The a la carte restaurant serves Greek and international dishes. There is also a pool bar with a shaded seating space offering refreshing drinks and cocktails. Kalafati beach is 150 metres away from Villa Olympia. The hotel offers free Wi-Fi access in its public areas and free private parking is available on site.


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James Martin Devaney
Sandhurst, Victoria
James Martin Devaney, poet, novelist, journalist and teacher, was born on 31 May 1890 at Sandhurst, Victoria, fourth child of Patrick Devaney, a labourer from Ireland, and his native-born wife Mary, née Conroy. Educated at Bendigo and at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Sydney, in 1904 James entered the college's Marist Brothers' juniorate. In 1915 he made his final vows and took the religious name Fabian Joseph. Trained as a teacher, from 1911 he successively served in schools in Sydney, South Australia and New Zealand. Brother Fabian contracted severe tuberculosis and returned to Sydney in 1919 to teach at Darlinghurst. His Superior so relentlessly opposed adequate medical treatment that, driven to the point of despair, Devaney left the Order in July 1921. He recuperated in a sanatorium near Rockhampton, Queensland, and at the Diamantina Hospital, Brisbane. On 29 November 1924 at the Church of Mary Immaculate, Annerley, he married his nurse Phyllis Norah de Winton; they were to remain childless. Living mostly in the Brisbane district, and at times in Sydney and at the Blue Mountains, Devaney established a career as a freelance journalist. Under the pen-name 'Fabian', from 1924 to 1943 he contributed a nature column to the Brisbane Courier (Courier-Mail from 1933) which was syndicated in other Queensland newspapers. He had a long association with the Catholic Leader as editor of its literary page and on occasions was acting-editor. His volumes of verse, Fabian (Melbourne, 1923), Earth Kindred (Melbourne, 1931), Dark Road (Melbourne, 1938) and Where the Wind Goes (Sydney, 1939), established him as a fine lyric poet, well regarded by contemporary critics. Poems (Sydney, 1950) brought together selections from his earlier works and from Freight of Dreams which had been printed in Melbourne, but not released, in 1946. In Poetry in Our Time (Melbourne, 1952) he confronted modernism and forcefully expounded his own beliefs, but was seen by many critics as reactionary. Although his two historical novels, Currency Lass (Sydney, 1927) and Washdirt (Melbourne, 1946), were less successful, a volume of vivid and imaginative stories based on Aboriginal lore, Vanished Tribes (Sydney, 1929), enjoyed popular success; it was later used in schools and was an influence in the formation of the Jindyworobak movement. The New Law (Brisbane, 1955), a dramatic dialogue set in biblical times, received little critical attention. Devaney played a leading role in the vigorous local literary community of the 1930s and 1940s: he provided a focus for the Catholic Poetry Society and was president (1944-45) of the Queensland Authors' and Artists' Association. While John Shaw Neilson convalesced in Devaney's Brisbane home in 1941, Devaney helped to transcribe his poems. His spirited defence of Neilson's painstaking craftsmanship—Shaw Neilson (Sydney, 1944)—disposed of criticism of Neilson as an 'instinctive warbler' and a 'thoughtless mystic'. In 1947 he edited the Unpublished Poems of Shaw Neilson (Sydney). That year he delivered lectures under the auspices of the Commonwealth Literary Fund, from which he subsequently received a pension. He supported the writing community through lectures and workshops, encouraged writers such as Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) and assisted others financially in the publication of their works. In 1958, in company with Professor Manning Clark and Judah Waten, he represented Australian writers on a visit to the Soviet Union. Having interrupted his journalism, Devaney found it difficult to obtain the same work after World War II. In 1946 he had returned to teaching, first in Victoria and then at pastoral stations in Queensland. He resigned from his last post in February 1962 to nurse his wife. She died from a drug overdose in July. Her addiction had resulted in their virtual separation from the mid-1940s, but he had continued to hope for the eventual restoration of their domestic life. Tall, spare, gentlemanly and modest, Devaney was a humanitarian with a deep-rooted sense of justice. He remained a staunch Catholic, but no sectarian, who opposed intolerance and narrow-mindedness within the Church. Never afraid to speak his mind, he supported the Labor Party, advocated 'a democracy free from the monarchy' and was reputed to have declined appointment as M.B.E. in 1968. He died on 14 August 1976 in Brisbane and was buried in Redcliffe cemetery.
Dirrawan The Song-Maker
Dirrawan went into the bush to spear waat, but he forgot about waat the red wallaby. he thought about dirridirri the small bird and deereeree the wagtail he thought about wonning the lightning and tumberumba the thunder.
The Frog Pool
Week after week it shrank and shrank as the fierce drought fiend drank and drank, till on the bone-dry bed revealed the mud peeled;
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Oh, came you up by the place of dread (west red, and the moon low down) where no winds blow and the birds have fled


WABASH - Kathleen Montague lifts two small cake pans from the oven as the smell of chocolate fills her modest kitchen. It's Wednesday, her day to bake cakes, she said. "Every day I do something different to help Philip rememb . . .


Two great waterfalls in a relatively short distance, with 0 effort required to explore them.
Dettifoss and Selfoss are two waterfalls located closely together, separated only by about one kilometer of easy walking along a cliff top.
From the parking lot it is easy to find the start the trail. Just to the right of bathroom, or the water closet (WC) is the beginning to get to both Dettifoss and Selfoss.
We started by walking to Dettifoss, following all the signs to the falls. It first kicks you out almost right on top of the falls. From there you can either walk down closer to the falls or further down stream from the falls to actually see the full cascade of Europe's largest waterfall in terms of volume of water. The trails closer to the falls will most likely be closed unless you are there in summer.
After Dettifoss, you follow the cliff upstream to find yourself at Selfoss. You will lose visuals of the falls the closer to the top of the falls you get.
The entire way is super flat with a few steps here and there. It is an easy walk to enjoy some cool water falls.
If you are in north Iceland make this a priority. Dettifoss is mind boggling immense. We drove up on the west side because that road is paved. I think it has a better vantage point as well. When you walk to Gulfoss a 5-10 minute walk up river you can hop around on the rocks above the falls. The east side probably is a better vantage point for pictures of Gulfoss though.
When we reached Dettifoss there were two gorgeous rainbows at the drop. Everyone was excited about it. It was a fun little trek out to Dettifoss to see such a powerful waterfall, but I wish I would've been on the other side of the waterfalls to really capture better photos. Not a big deal... Selfoss on the other hand was a pleasant surprise. The streams were smaller and had some vegetation in between the flow and was breathtaking. Both were a sight to see for certain.
I explored around these waterfalls during a pretty severe storm so although I did not have to deal with any of the typical crowds, I did have some limited access to the best vantage points of Dettifoss. You could see how Dettifoss is tremendously powerful, but I honestly did not get that feeling from it. I thought, Selfoss had a bit more going for it in terms of grace and composition for images.


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So, I'm finally starting to get settled in my new place and job...the last of my furniture gets moved on Friday. I took these pictures of my Boston kitchen before I packed up everything. Just for a little perspective: I was sitting on my bed when I took this photo.
No wonder I think about food all the time. I sleep in my kitchen.
For those of you in the burbs this is actually a GREAT studio living situation....though it is NOT good for someone who is trying to avoid snacking in her bed. I've definitely been guilty many, many times of that one.
So another thing you 'ought to know about my old kitchen....That oven in the photo above? It doesn't work. It's a total foil. There are no coils in the electric oven. They were removed, making the oven useless for anything other than storage.
All the apartments in my building were equipped the same way. With a HUGE microwave and no oven. Unfortunately, my management company failed to tell me that before I signed the lease. So when I threatened to vacate, and get my deposit back (after a very sad attempt at a baked potato) they bought me that Delonghi convection oven pictured below.
It's a little bigger than a toaster oven, but I could make a 12 inch pizza in it. It was fine for cooking for 1 or 2. But I was not about to host any dinner parties cooking with that thing. Now, in my new CT digs, I have the option using it as a 2nd oven!
Right now I'm living at Rafe's mom's house....Couldn't turn down the great rent ($0/month utilities included). His mom spends a lot of time at her friend Hank's house, so she generally only passes through to pack a bag or leave some delight in the refrigerator.
There was turkey gumbo in the fridge the day I moved in.
And her kitchen....ahhh, the glory of a REAL oven and lots of counter space.
The previous owner designed the kitchen. For those readers familiar with the restaurants of CT, I was told he was a chef at one of the 'Max' restaurants. I have a feeling it might have been one of the Italian restaurants since this butcher block counter would be great to roll pasta.
Lee (Rafe's mom) is a fantastic cook, and her kitchen has all the tools a home cook like me could ask for....lots of pots and pans. Cast iron, a wok, Wusthof knives and the coveted Le Creuset dutch oven....(yes, I've already used it). She also has all the typical ingredients that you would need in a well stocked pantry: flour, sugar, spices....and some not so typical....like gumbo file, farro, and white balsamic vinegar.
Slowly but surely, It's starting to feel like home.
When was the last time you moved? What helps you to feel 'settled' in a new place?
Amazing new kitchen! The luxury of counter space is not one to take for granted! I hope you have a fabulous time maximizing their potential!
Wow! What a big difference. You lucked out with the new digs. Rafe's mom sounds wonderful. Can't wait to see what you whip up in your new kitchen.
I moved 3 months ago. I generally feel settled when everything is put away. It doesn't take much to make me happy.
I love seeing the old and new kitchens. Your back bay one was so tiny and cute!! I can't believe how incredible Rafe's mom's kitchen is though. You must be having a field day.
PS $0/month utilities included - you can not beat that!!
I love those butcher block counters. Hope all is going well! After moving every year or so, I bought a condo last fall and am loving the feeling of being settled. The first thing I did was make my bed and unpack a few plates, glasses and silverware-- that helped it feel like home, despite the 50,000 unpacked boxes.
Look at all your space! I'm wicked jealous! Hope you are settling into life in CT! I'll be back in WMass this Sunday - Sunday...will you be banging around Ludlow? Would love to meet up and hear all about how things are going! Boston misses you!
Looks like a great kitchen to get some serious cooking done. Can't wait to see what you start making!
Glad it's going well so far. That kitchen is definitely an upgrade!!
We moved this past august and it's definitely exhausting! Glad it sounds like things are off to a good start!