We open our doors to families that typically live more than 30 minutes away from Lansing, and who have an ill child in the hospital or who is a patient at a clinic in the area. Families from all over mid-Michigan have all called our House their home-away-from-home.
Our House is located at 121 S. Holmes Street, Lansing, MI.
Each year, our House provides more than 200 families warm and caring home-away-from-home.
If your child is receiving treatment at a local hospital or clinic, please contact us at 517-485-9303 or through our contact form to learn more about how to apply to stay at the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan.
There are a tremendous amount of resources and activities in the area for families in addition to what the House provides.
Our staff and volunteers are available to help you learn more about things to do in Lansing and help you navigate the area while staying at the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan. Hard copies are available at the front desk or you may reach us at 517-485-9303 or through our contact form.
During this stressful time, it can be hard to think of taking a few minutes for yourself, but we recognize the importance of caring for the whole family while you care for your ill child. The House has a list of places you might enjoy visiting with well siblings or family while you're in the area. Stop by the front desk for a copy of the break guide.
To be eligible to stay at the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan families must have pediatric patients receiving medical treatment in Greater Lansing. Families may stay at our House as long as their child is receiving medical treatment in the Lansing area. Generally, pediatric patients include those 21 years of age and younger.
A referral form must be provided by the child's medical professional to our House before a family will be provided with a room. Most Sparrow Health System and McLaren Health Care facilities have our patient referral forms on hand, however, if you are seeking treatment for your child at a clinic or health care facility that does not have copies of our referral forms (or not sure if they have the forms, please contact us for a referral form or call us at 517-485-9303.
Referring physicians may call 517-485-9303 with any questions. FORMS MUST BE FILLED OUT AND RETURNED TO OUR HOUSE BY YOUR CHILD'S MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
Our families are asked to contribute a requested donation of $41.25 per night, however no family is ever turned away for inability to pay. The actual cost to our House for each family stay is nearly $120, but with the help of our community, we are able to keep our doors open to help the families in need of our House.
Due to space and safety concerns, we are only able to house close family members of the hospitalized child. One room is available per family, as we often have a waiting list for rooms. We do, however, understand that families' support systems differ, as do their definitions of "family." For example, we often house a mother and a grandmother of a hospitalized child, or a special aunt or uncle who is responsible for the child's care. Most rooms sleep up to four people. If you have any questions, please call ahead at 517-485-9303.
Of course, you'll want to bring clothing changes and personal toiletry items. Basic toiletries are provided and available if you forget! Otherwise, we are a true home-away-from home with pretty much everything you need. We supply towels, bedding, laundry detergent (and the free laundry facility to go with it), meals, TVs and DVD players, movies, toys, games, playroom, small library and free WiFi access throughout our House.
We have a wonderful complete kitchen so please bring any favorite foods. Also, on many nights, volunteers come to our House to make our guests tasty, hot, home-cooked meals — it's just one more way we try to make things a little easier on you. Don't worry about running out of anything! We stock personal, and food, items for our guest's use. Each guest room includes a cupboard in the pantry for you to store any dry groceries that you purchase. In addition, we have some refrigerator and freezer space for guest groceries.
Our House cannot accept advanced reservations because our rooms are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. However, you may let us know when you will be arriving by calling 517-485-9303 so we can plan on your arrival and put you on a waiting list if necessary. When you arrive at the hospital you can call us again to see if there is a room available at that time. More often than not we will have something available.
What time can I check into the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan?
Families should check in between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. when there is a volunteer on duty to help them register and give them a tour of our House. There are a number of things for us to show you that will make your stay as easy as possible, so plan about 30 minutes for registration.


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Discussion in 'Android Apps & Games' started by LuvArabians, Dec 24, 2009.
I've searched Google and these forums but haven't found anything. Just a simple app where I can put title and due date. Pop up reminders would be great too. Has anyone seen anything like this?
I just use Google Calendar for that kind of reminder. You can schedule an event for ALL day, not block any time, and schedule reminder(s). Works pretty well for something like that.
Note: You do get a little more control of the event from the web interface, but the phones default interface works ok.
I have created another calendar (from the web interface) for this kind of reminder with it's own associated color so this kind of event (reminder) is easy to spot.
Yeah just use the calendar. Or a post it note.


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There is a great new blog out there for first grade teachers! You can find it at http://1stgrconnections.blogspot.com/ It is a collaboration of first grade teachers from all over. If you'd like to join in or just go visit, everyone would love to see you. Be sure and comment on what you think would make the best graphics for the best "connections."
I'm headed out to get my class list for the year. My daughter started her first day of her senior year today and it is way too quiet in this house...sniff, sniff.
Tomorrow is meet the teacher night at my school and we start school next Wednesday. I'll hopefully have some pictures of my room to post at TBA's classroom photo linky party!


On the concept of citizenship as a basis of tolerance that cuts across sectarian and religious divisions, it should be said that our nation's founder, Mr Jinnah, made it patently clear that, "You may belong to any religion or caste or creed — that has nothing to do with the business of the state." Citizenship must trump the exclusivist interpretations of religious membership. All citizens have equal rights and responsibilities, regardless of creed, and as such their convictions should not be made a basis for disadvantageous treatment.
However, we must be under no illusions, the problem of intolerance has run deep and has seeped into the popular consciousness exhibited by populist political and religious discourse. There are issues deeper than simply a humane reading of religious texts. There are more difficult and complex issues involved, such as religious authority and tradition. The problem is that there is no calibrated theory of Islamic law, ethics, philosophy or even textual interpretation (tafsir) that we can count as 'progressive'. The challenges then are more complicated than we first thought; it is simply not the case of a particular interpretation but the underlying juristic, interpretational and ethical frameworks that provide the moral and psychological foundations of the obscurant religious discourse in Pakistan. This requires a more rigorous engagement and must emanate from new conceptions of education and jurisprudence. It is the paradigms from which the clerics, demagogues and puritans work that go unquestioned, the narrow and restrictive parameters they impose on interpretation that seem insulated from criticism.
That being said, there have always been many philosophical and intellectual traditions in Islam that emphasise the scope of reason, but perhaps the only option left for us today is to construct a theory of natural law within Islam that recognises reason, the inherent dignity of all human beings, and that moral values can be determined by all human beings regardless of conviction by the aid of our common reason.
Then there are other matters such as general law and order, education and other such issues that the state must solve in relation to its citizens. An intolerant society is often an impoverished society, not an affluent one. The path to this dangerous vice is often made alluring through harsh and unforgiving socio-economic conditions. Education and, more crucially, the values and moral priorities we pass on to the youth are critical, especially in a country like Pakistan where there is a huge youth bulge. A society must be equipped with the necessary intellectual tools and penchant for critical analysis to deal with demagogues and other opponents of democratic discourse, since the nature of such discourse does not rest upon an authoritarian leader but the success of autonomous and critical individuals willing to question. Such individuals will not come from a society where politicians have fake degrees, corruption is rampant, virtue is seen as weakness and basic welfare is not established.
Focusing on our nation's history, it was the vision of Mr Jinnah to have a state built on the pillars of liberty and tolerance. For liberty cannot be born from the barren desert of intolerance but only from the fertile soil of tolerance. Notions of democracy and republicanism that make up this country's political orientation are predicated on the notion of tolerance and the ability to withstand a multiplicity of viewpoints. It encourages maturity to debate and discuss rationally without the threat of violence or intimidation.
Elsewhere, the former Chief Justice and late Dr Sheikh Abdur Rahman has dealt quite admirably with the case of religious freedom in his work Punishment Of Apostasy in Islam, where he engages with the traditional fiqhi stance towards freedom of conscience and tolerance whilst advocating new paradigms and rulings reflecting the clear and unambiguous Quranic texts that clearly lay down the foundations for freedom of conscience and tolerance. Other Pakistani scholars such as Ghamidi, Muhammad Khalid Masud and the late Professor Rahman too have advocated similar lines of argument for change.
Finally, after supporting tolerance, we must remain critical of this concept and prevent some confusion that may have arisen. Toleration is not the final ideal, but the first step; the higher aim should be to have a deep appreciation of pluralism and respect. Toleration can guarantee a peaceful co-existence but it cannot guarantee a constructive, proactive and creative co-existence. That requires something much deeper and more profound than tolerance — pluralism and respect. For instance, an individual can be tolerant but also can be dogmatic in thinking that he or she has the only single exclusive response to the problems of society. Tolerance cannot guarantee synthesis, reconciliation and consensus, items that are crucial for fostering an intelligent and productive society.
The free exchange of ideas cannot simply happen through mere toleration.
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This repository contains the code which allows you to build the relayr Framework for iOS and OS X. The *RelayrSDK* project generates a product called `Relayr.framework` which, depending on your use purpose, can be run on a mac or on an iOS device.

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The code expects Swift 3.0.2 and to manage the dependencies through [Carthage](https://github.com/Carthage/Checkouts). The steps to produce code are:

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6.2 earthquake hits Indonesia
The Strait Times
A strong 6.2-magnitude quake struck in Indonesia's north Sulawesi province on Sunday but there were no reports of damage or injuries, the geophysics agency said. The quake hit at 1.23pm about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-east of Melonguane city at a depth of 50 kilometres.
No tsunami alert was issued.
'Tremors are felt in the area but not significant ones. There's no report of damage,' agency official Suharjono told AFP.
Climate change is a cold certainty
Greg Roberts
© Unknown
Ice, ice and yet more ice
Russian sea captain Dimitri Zinchenko has been steering ships through the pack ice of Antarctica for three decades and is waiting to see evidence of the global warming about which he has heard so much.
Zinchenko's vessel, the Spirit of Enderby, was commissioned in January last year to retrace the steps of the great Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, marking the century of his Nimrod expedition of 1907-09.
Spirit of Enderby was blocked by a wall of pack ice at the entrance to the Ross Sea, about 400km short of Shackleton's base hut at Cape Royds. Zinchenko says it was the first time in 15 years that vessels were unable to penetrate the Ross Sea in January. The experience was consistent with his impression that pack ice is expanding, not contracting, as would be expected in a rapidly warming world. "I see just more and more ice, not less ice."
New Milepost for Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Steven Goddard
Watts Up With That
© Catlin Survey
Two of the Arctic ice sites show April 16 ice at recent record levels. The Japanese site IJIS has a seven year April record going back to 2003, and reports 2009 levels at the highest extent on record for the date: 13,649,219 km2.
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AMSRE Sea Ice Extent
The Danish Meteorological Institute has a five year database, and also shows April 16 ice extent as the highest in their short record.
Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Endless
Ice is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap.
The results of ice-core drilling and sea ice monitoring indicate there is no large-scale melting of ice over most of Antarctica, although experts are concerned at ice losses on the continent's western coast.
Antarctica has 90 per cent of the Earth's ice and 80 per cent of its fresh water. Extensive melting of Antarctic ice sheets would be required to raise sea levels substantially, and ice is melting in parts of west Antarctica. The destabilisation of the Wilkins ice shelf generated international headlines this month.
However, the picture is very different in east Antarctica, which includes the territory claimed by Australia.
East Antarctica is four times the size of west Antarctica and parts of it are cooling. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research report prepared for last week's meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations in Washington noted the South Pole had shown "significant cooling in recent decades".
Australian Antarctic Division glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
Comment: This just in from SOTT's special expeditionary correspondent - back home cooling off after his sizzling adventures in Cyprus:
"I can confirm from where I'm perched here in west Antartica, that the ice just goes on and on..."
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Mr Penn Guinn lifts off for another adventure last summer
Thousands in Colorado without power after storm
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A car and van are nearly buried in snow while parked in a lot near the mountain community of Genesee, Colo., on Saturday, April 18, 2009. Forecasters predict that the spring storm that has dumped up to two feet of snow in some parts of Colorado will move out on to the eastern plains on Saturday.
Denver - Hundreds of stranded travelers resumed their journeys Saturday after spending the night at shelters when a powerful spring storm walloped the Rocky Mountains and foothills west of Denver with more than 3 feet of snow.
Officials reopened an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Golden and Vail that had been closed Friday, said Colorado Department of Transportation spokesman Bob Wilson. Drivers were cautioned to expect heavy traffic and sloppy road conditions.
"It's not the I-70 you know in a June afternoon," Wilson said.
Storm warnings were dropped as the bulk of the storm moved east into Kansas.
About 15,000 homes and businesses were without power in Denver and areas north and west of the city. The heavy snow had weighed down power lines and tripped system circuit breakers. Piles of snow and closed roads were preventing crews from reaching some areas, Xcel Energy spokesman Joe Fuentes said, adding that crews hoped to restore power by 11 a.m. Sunday.
Coral Fossils Suggest That Sea Level Can Rise Rapidly
Andrew C. Revkin
Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:39 UTC
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Coral fossils in canal walls at a Mexican resort show evidence of a rapid increase in sea level 121,000 years ago, researchers say. Other experts on corals and climate are not convinced.
The study, being published Thursday in the journal Nature, suggests that a sudden rise of 6.5 feet to 10 feet occurred within a span of 50 to 100 years about 121,000 years ago, at the end of the last warm interval between ice ages.
"The potential for sustained rapid ice loss and catastrophic sea-level rise in the near future is confirmed by our discovery of sea-level instability" in that period, the authors write.
Yet other experts on corals and climate are faulting the work, saying that big questions about coastal risks in a warming world remain unresolved.
Among the most momentous and enduring questions related to human-caused global warming are how fast and how high seas may rise. Studies of past climate shifts, particularly warm-ups at the ends of ice ages, show that fast-melting ice sheets have sometimes raised sea levels worldwide in bursts of up to several yards in a century.
A question facing scientists is whether such a rise can occur when the world has less polar ice and is already warm, as it is now, and getting warmer.
Citing the evidence from fossil coral reefs, the authors of the new study say with conviction that the answer is yes.
The study focuses on a set of fossil reef remains exposed in excavations for channels at a resort and water park, Xcaret, about 35 miles south of Cancún on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.
Comment: Did you catch the contradiction? The good doctor says the rise in sea levels came "at the end" of the warming period, which was, presumably, the beginning of a great cooling period. He then goes on to speculate how for the seas may rise because of a warming period. These guys can't get their stories straight.
Taxing, a Ritual to Save the Species
Natalie Angier
© Serge Bloch
On these taxing days, when we become a defiantly bipartisan nation of whiners convinced that we are handing over to the Internal Revenue Service our blood and sweat and mother's milk, our pound of flesh and firstborn young, maybe it's time for a little perspective.
Legions before us have donated all these items and more to the public till, and not just metaphorically speaking, either. Benjamin Franklin was right to equate paying taxes with a deeply organic behavior like dying. It turns out that giving up a portion of one's income for the sake of the tribe is such a ubiquitous feature of the human race that some researchers see it as crucial to our species' success. Without ritualized taxation, there would be precious little hominid representation.
Moreover, plenty of nonhuman animals practice the tither's art, too, demanding that individuals remit a portion of their food, labor, comfort or personal fecundity for the privilege of group membership. And just as the I.R.S. depends on threat of audit as much as it does on anybody's sense of civic responsibility, so do other toll-collecting species ensure compliance by meting out swift punishment against tax cheats. For example, Marc Hauser of Harvard University has found that when a rhesus monkey is out foraging and comes upon a source of especially high-quality food, like, say, a batch of ripe coconuts, the monkey is expected to give a characteristic food call to alert its comrades to the find. "The bad thing about doing a food call is that it means others will come and take some of the food," said Laurie R. Santos, who studies the primates at Yale University. Yet a monkey who opts to keep mum about its discovery could face worse. Should other group members happen by while the private feast is under way, they will not only claim the food for themselves, but the most dominant among them will also beat the cheater indignantly.
Rare white British bluebells found in park
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Albino Bluebell: White versions of the Spanish variety of bluebells, introduced 200 years ago, are relatively common, but these are the much rarer native British type
The "albino" flowers lack the pigment that gives bluebells their traditional purplish blue colour.
They were found growing among a mass of blue flowers at Bluebell Wood in Ferry Meadows Country Park, Peterborough.
Ashley Wheal, ranger at the park, said: "We only have two white plants, so they are very special.
"It is very, very strange, probably only happening in one in every 10,000 bulbs.
Panic Stations! Sea Levels Are Rising: It's Time to Decide Which Coastal Cities Are Worth Saving
Scott Thill
© Nature
Since April Fool's Day expired, there has been nothing but bad news about Earth's various ice shelves circulating through the news. Antarctica's Wordie and Larsen ice shelves? The first is simply gone, and the second is disappearing fast. How about the Connecticut-sized Wilkins shelf? It has fragmented into polar pieces after the ice tether holding it to the Antarctic peninsula snapped this week, signaling that the Earth is undergoing some profound changes.
So what do melting ice shelves a world away have to do with the rest of us? That is where the fools come in.
Comment: Complete nonsense; info-entertainment journalism at best
See also: Antarctic sea ice up 43% since 1980: Where is the Media? and US Navy Physicist warns of possibly 'several decades of crushing cold temperatures and global famine', for a more probable scenario - based on real data and not computerised models programmed to deliver politicised results - facing mankind.
Fascinating satellite image which reveals how the Earth moved in Italy tragedy
Cher Thornhill
This intriguing image is being scrutinized by Italian scientists trying to unravel exactly how the Earth moved during Italy's devastating quake last week.
Pictured: An 'interferogram' shows the Earth's deformation pattern over the L'Aquila area in central Italy following the devastating quake last week
The picture shows shock waves radiating from the epicentre of the massive 6.3 seismic event in the medieval town of L'Aquila.
Its rainbow-coloured interference patterns were deduced using 'synthetic aperture radar' (SAR) data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed satellites.
Debrief: Head of Russia-led bloc reveals details of Kazakhstan mission
"our c19 is failing! Quick...let loose the fear of everything already known!"
obviously, because of it's astonishing speed ,we couldn't see the aeroplane when it hit the pentagram - thus making it's mass much smaller than is...

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Grade II Listed Property in Westminster City Council
Permission Granted for Grade II Listed Property
Westminster City Council
We're happy to have received both Listed Building Consent and Planning Permission for the full refurbishment of a Grade II Listed terraced building, located within the St James Conservation Area, between Green Park and Charing Cross in London.
Our client was dedicated to repairing and refurbishing this Grade II Listed building after it had suffered a series of unsympathetic changes and neglect. For these works, we prepared a comprehensive Heritage Statement, ensuring that the works were complicit with the local and national planning policies, specifically in the context of preserving and enhancing heritage assets.
Our client sought to recondition and upgrade this historic townhouse in order to meet 21st Century living requirements, allowing for better use of space. This included a comprehensive extension and remodel of the existing property, with the insertion of new partition walls and rearrangement of the internal layout to meet modern living practices.
Following pre-application advice, the proposed works we managed to negotiate with Westminster's conservation officer, removing elements of the proposal that were deemed controversial whilst proving the overall impact of the proposed works would be beneficial ultimately preserving the significance of this heritage asset and the overall St James' Conservation Area. It, therefore, complied with section 7.2 of the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as well as Section 12 of the NPPF and Policies DES1 and DES5 of the UDP.
By successfully providing evidence that the works were necessary in order to not only maintain but enhance the special historic and architectural interest of this heritage asset, we were able to gain both Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent for forthcoming works.
If you require assistance in acquiring Listed Building Consent or Planning Permission for a listed building, please do not hesitate to contact one of our experienced consultants at hello@fullerlong.com
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Whitewashing Britain
Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era
Author: Kathleen Paul
Publisher: Cornell University Press
In the late 1940s, the Labour government faced a birthrate perceived to be in decline, massive economic dislocations caused by the war, a huge national debt, severe labor shortages, and the prospective loss of international preeminence. Simultaneously, it subsidized the emigration of Britons to Australia, Canada, and other parts of the Empire, recruited Irish citizens and European refugees to work in Britain, and used regulatory changes to dissuade British subjects of color from coming to the United Kingdom. Paul contends post-war concepts of citizenship were based on a contradiction between the formal definition of who had the right to enter Britain and the informal notion of who was, or could become, really British.
Rescripting Religion in the City
Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Author: Alana Harris
Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.
Migration und Integration: Akzeptanz und Widerstand im transnationalen Nationalstaat
Author: Sandra Kostner
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
New Directions in Law and Literature
Author: Elizabeth S. Anker,Bernadette Meyler
Category: Literary Collections
After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions. New Directions in Law and Literature furnishes an overview of where the field has been, its recent past, and its potential futures. Some of the essays examine the methodological choices that have affected the field; among these are concern for globalization, the integration of approaches from history and political theory, the application of new theoretical models from affect studies and queer theory, and expansion beyond text to performance and the image. Others grapple with particular intersections between law and literature, whether in copyright law, competing visions of alternatives to marriage, or the role of ornament in the law's construction of racialized bodies. The volume is designed to be a course book that is accessible to undergraduates and law students as well as relevant to academics with an interest in law and the humanities. The essays are simultaneously intended to be introductory and addressed to experts in law and literature. More than any other existing book in the field, New Directions furnishes a guide to the most exciting new work in law and literature while also situating that work within more established debates and conversations.
Radical Moves
Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
Author: Lara Putnam
In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn. But in the 1920s and 1930s, racist nativism and a brutal cascade of antiblack immigration laws swept the hemisphere. Facing borders and barriers as never before, Afro-Caribbean migrants rethought allegiances of race, class, and empire. In Radical Moves, Lara Putnam takes readers from tin-roof tropical dancehalls to the elegant black-owned ballrooms of Jazz Age Harlem to trace the roots of the black-internationalist and anticolonial movements that would remake the twentieth century. From Trinidad to 136th Street, these were years of great dreams and righteous demands. Praying or "jazzing," writing letters to the editor or letters home, Caribbean men and women tried on new ideas about the collective. The popular culture of black internationalism they created--from Marcus Garvey's UNIA to "regge" dances, Rastafarianism, and Joe Louis's worldwide fandom--still echoes in the present.
Literature of the 1950s
Good, Brave Causes
Author: Alice Ferrebe
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Category: Literary Criticism
This lively study challenges the myths about apathy and smugness surrounding British literature of the period. It rereads the decade and its literature as crucial in twentieth-century British history for its emergent and increasingly complicated politics
History, Memory and Migration
Perceptions of the Past and the Politics of Incorporation
Author: Irial Glynn
By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation. The chapters consider international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
Freedom of Religion, Minorities, and the Law
Author: Samantha Knights
Over the past fifty years, England has experienced considerable immigration, and as a result, the population has become increasingly religiously and culturally diverse. This plurality has inevitably raised fundamental questions about the individual and group rights and equality and non-discrimination on the one hand, with tolerance and social cohesion on the other. At a practical level the debates range from the issue of wearing religious clothing in schools to demands for the establishment of additional faith schools, through to requests for employment leave to perform religious rites. Underpinning the debate is the issue of how the political and legal system should view diversity, and how it should balance the competing interests of the individual or group against those of state or wider society, employer or educational establishment. The demands of religious groups and individuals have for some time been articulated in the public sphere and in the courts. However, the introduction of greater protection for religious minorities in English Law, including the Human Rights Act 1998, the EC Equality Directives, and the Equality Act 2006 have provided important milestones in this area. This book briefly covers the historical background to issues of religious freedom in England, and analyses the position of religion in the constitution and with regard to the legal framework including the state's obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights. It then deals in more detail with specific areas of legal practice including education, employment, immigration, and public law, examining key case law and analysing current problems. The book combines detailed analysis with a clear assessment of the practical and procedural issues which practitioners face.
A South-Asian History of Britain
Four Centuries of Peoples from the Indian Sub-continent
Author: Michael Herbert Fisher
Publisher: Greenwood World Pub
A narrative history of the shifting roles of South-Asian people in Britain as they moved from rare and exotic exceptions to integral components of multi-cultural British society.
The Irish in Post-War Britain
Author: Enda Delaney
Exploring the neglected history of Britain's largest migrant population, this new major historical study looks at the Irish in Britain after 1945. It reconstructs the histories of the lost generation who left independent Ireland in huge numbers to settle in Britain from the 1940s until the 1960s. Drawing on a wide range of previously neglected materials, Enda Delaney illustrates the complex process of negotiation and renegotiation that was involved in adapting and adjusting to lifein Britain. Less visible than other newcomers, it is widely assumed that the Irish assimilated with relative ease shortly after arrival. The Irish in Post-war Britain challenges this view, and shows that the Irish often perceived themselves to be outsiders, located on the margins of this theiradopted home. Many contemporaries frequently lumped all the Irish together as all being essentially the same, but Delaney argues the experiences of Britain's Irish population after the Second World War were much more diverse than previously assumed, and shaped by social class, geography and gender as well as nationality.This book's original approach demonstrates that any understanding of a migrant group must take account of both elements of the society that they had left, as well as the social landscape of their new country. Proximity ensured that even though these people had left Ireland, home as an imagined sense of place was never far away in the minds of those who had settled in Britain.
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Q: Performance wise difference between returning direct initialization and storing in variable Is there any difference (performance wise) between:
public User GetUser1()
{
    var user = _database.User.First();
    return user;
}

public User GetUser2()
    return _database.User.First();
}

A: Here is the output from LINQPad for C# 7.0 from the same functions on my database:
GetUser1:
IL_0000:  ldarg.0
IL_0001:  call        LINQPad.User.TypedDataContext.get_Users
IL_0006:  call        System.Linq.Queryable.First<User>
IL_000B:  ret

GetUser2:
IL_0000:  ldarg.0
IL_0001:  call        LINQPad.User.TypedDataContext.get_Users
IL_0006:  call        System.Linq.Queryable.First<User>
IL_000B:  ret

Here is the output with optimization turned off. Note the NOPs and BR.S are for debugging/breakpoint purposes.
GetUser1:
IL_0000:  nop
IL_0001:  ldarg.0
IL_0002:  call        LINQPad.User.TypedDataContext.get_Users
IL_0007:  call        System.Linq.Queryable.First<User>
IL_000C:  stloc.0     // user
IL_000D:  ldloc.0     // user
IL_000E:  stloc.1
IL_000F:  br.s        IL_0011
IL_0011:  ldloc.1
IL_0012:  ret

GetUser2:
IL_0000:  nop
IL_0001:  ldarg.0
IL_0002:  call        LINQPad.User.TypedDataContext.get_Users
IL_0007:  call        System.Linq.Queryable.First<User>
IL_000C:  stloc.0
IL_000D:  br.s        IL_000F
IL_000F:  ldloc.0
IL_0010:  ret

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I want to thank the Hockey Mom who brought this to my attention, because there is nothing I would rather do than to get the word out.
Mandi Schwartz is a 22 year old from Wilcox, Saskatchewan and plays hockey for Yale University. In 2008, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The disease went into remission, until earlier this year. Mandi returned home to Saskatchewan and has been undergoing chemotherapy, but she requires our help, as she needs to find a bone marrow or cord blood donor NOW. There has been a world-wide campaign (via facebook and the internet) to help her in hear search, but time is running out.
As one hockey mom mentioned on our facebook page a while back, we Hockey Moms need to stick together. Well, this hockey child needs us now, so let's help out and do what we can to get the word out. Maybe you can become Mandi's hero!
Hockey Moms in Canada are pulling for you, Mandi!
I've noticed your website a while ago, just never really got a chance to post anything back. I found it to be very useful and would like to see if you are able to get in touch with me and maybe we can have a discussion on a few of these topics. Would appreciate a response back.
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How incredible is this photo? I think I audibly gasped when it turned up in my Google search. (Yes, I was Googling my name. Don't pretend you don't do it too.) Obviously I was dying to know more about the story behind the photo and a quick email to the owner of the website was well worth it. The man in the photo is Fred Bauman and the plane is a P-51 fighter-bomber, which he flew in missions from Iwo Jima to Japan and back during WWII. He named it after his wife, Edna. Fred passed away in 2003, but Edna is still alive today, living in Rochester, and will turn 91 this March! Take what you will from the fact that Dear Edna's anniversary is in March too. I was given her mailing address and am seriously considering sending a note to let her know of her namesake. What do you think?
Since we're on the topic of namesakes, it's only fitting that I explain where my "Dear Edna" comes from. It is probably the most common question I get asked about my business, especially since my name isn't Edna at all. In fact, I received an email from Expat Edna just a couple weeks ago, curious for that very reason. That's fair — I would want to know too. But I'm always a little trepidatious when it comes to answering this question because it has the risk of being taken offensively. You see, it was the name that two of my girlfriends gave me one evening when we were all behaving like "old crones", as we liked to call it. Before you jump to the "oh, so you think I'm old" reaction, Ednas of the world, you can't deny that it's an old-fashioned name. My friends Bea and Gert were born of that evening as well, and our new monikers stuck, as nicknames do. We ended up addressing birthday cards and emails to each other using these alteregos and short story-lines even developed. Edna hitches up her horse-drawn carriage to go to the quilting bee, for example. Haha! Silly girls.
So when it came time to name my business, for which traditional wares like aprons and tea cosies were the focus, Edna naturally came up. I bounced around a few other names for awhile, but always came back to dear ol' Edna. It just felt right and of course now I can't imagine anything else.
Ever since this photo popped up, I've been really interesting in names and their histories. I loved this article on business names by The Design Trust, for example. If there is a story behind your name or something you have named, please share. I'd love to hear your stories!
Gert votes yes to sending Fred's wife a note. It's too serendipitous! This picture is a great discovery!


Today our episode conversation was sparked by the Intercontinental Terminal Company plant fires in Houston. Reading articles led us to a quote from a Houston attorney by the name of Mo Aziz. Mo was kind enough to take time out of his day to be a part of our podcast.
His experience plant fires and explosions is recent and varied. He was involved in litigation in the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion from 2014-2017. Mo is also involved in Arkema litigation that is current and ongoing.
We had the pleasure of discussing plant safety and policies in regard to West, Arkema, ITC and in general with Mo. Listen in as we get an attorney's perspective on how quality matters.
Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz The Oldest Plaintiffs' Trial Law Firm in Texas.
Mo Aziz is a Partner at the Houston personal injury law firm of Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz. He is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, an invitation-only organization of trial lawyers. Mo served on the Plaintiff's Executive Steering Committee in the West Fertilizer Plant Explosion litigation from 2014 to 2017. He was able to secure settlements on behalf of 95 clients and this case was the first time in history that Plaintiffs were successful in products liability claims against Ammonium Nitrate manufacturers. In 2016, Mo represented the family of an exploding Takata airbag victim against Honda and Takata and the case was confidentially settled within four months. He reached a confidential settlement in a Title IX lawsuit against Baylor University on behalf of a sexual assault victim. Mo is currently involved in significant national litigation, including: Las Vegas Route 91 Mass Shooting litigation; Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics litigation as a result of Larry Nassar's sexual assault of female athletes; Arkema litigation in which he represents several dozen first responders injured from the explosions that occurred during Hurricane Harvey; complex flood litigation arising from Hurricane Harvey against developers and engineering firms; and Kuraray EVAL Plant litigation in which he represents several individuals injured as a result of the May 19, 2018 explosion at the plant. In 2018, he was named to the Top 100: Houston Super Lawyers list for the third year, the Texas Super Lawyers list for the sixth year, and was honored by the South Asian Bar Association of Houston with the Distinguished Member Award.


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Pre-season action from Graz as Sam Smith and Marc McNulty rescued a draw against Beşiktaş for the Royals.
Sam Smith and Marc McNulty were on the scoresheet in the Royals' 2-2 draw with Beşiktaş in Graz; late goals earned Reading a share of the result.
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Delcam has launched a multi-lingual learning zone for the 2011 version of its PowerSHAPE Pro CAD software for product design, tooling design and reverse engineering. This includes full details on the new release, including "What's New" videos from expert Application Engineers, and customer testimonials. The learning zone can be found at www.delcam.tv/PS2011/lz.
The languages included on the learning zone reflect the range of languages in which PowerSHAPE is available. These are English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Polish and Czech. The site also includes links to Delcam's international reseller network so that visitors can contact their local representative for further information or to request an evaluation copy.
PowerSHAPE Pro is the only CAD software to offer "Tribrid Modelling" – the addition of triangle modelling to the combination of surface and solid modelling that is offered in many other CAD packages as "hybrid modelling". Having all the different modelling techniques in a single package reduces the need to transfer data between multiple programs and so streamlines the whole product development process. The extended range of functionality, for example, the ability to undertake Boolean operations between triangle meshes and solids or surfaces, makes PowerSHAPE Pro ideal for the re-engineering of existing products into improved designs or for creating bespoke products, for example, for individual patients in the healthcare industry.
With Tribrid Modelling, PowerSHAPE Pro offers a flexible and pragmatic approach that allows the design intent to be captured from the physical model rather than simply producing a duplicate digital representation. This is particularly important when generating models from items that might be worn or damaged, and in cases where the quality of the initial data is less than perfect.
Other great strengths of PowerSHAPE Pro are in data translation and modelling for manufacture. The software incorporates the Solid Doctor, which allows users to tackle all the common problems that can be found when translating low precision and incomplete data, including gaps and overlaps between surfaces, or duplicated and missing surfaces, and generate a valid, high-precision solid model.
The Solid Doctor uses a combination of automatic data repair tools, together with surface creation and editing options for more challenging errors. This combination means that simple repairs can be carried out quickly and easily, while more complex problems can be overcome by deleting and replacing the existing surfaces within the model.


If you're planning on redecorating, it's time to look for some inspiring ideas for one of the most important rooms in your home: the bathroom. Modern, clean and chic, elegant or just minimalist, we present you the most fabulous suggestions that are a must-check before choosing a decorating style. We present you: Luxury Bathroom Ideas.
Luxury comes and shows in many ways, but if you'd like to keep a traditional decorative theme to your bathroom interior design than the classic American mansion type could be the style you're searching for. Gold accents, lots of creamy, brown and camel colors and lots of dark chocolate colored wood goes for the furniture used here. Also, the bathrooms are very decorative with many items that embrace opulence along with their utility.
On the other side, for those interested in a much more eclectic decorative style for bathroom interior design ideas, we suggest you something fun, playful and very youthful. For bathrooms like this, gadgets are very welcome to be added as accessories since they go along quite nicely with the entire style chosen for this room. Therefore, you can embrace colors, abstract prints, tech devices and futuristic showers.
If you're a non-conformist and the thought of being followed by another tech device even to your bathroom drive you insane, then you can choose to turn your bathroom into a heavenly place or a little corner dedicated to relaxing. Yoga and meditation lovers will be huge fans of these types of bathroom luxury ideas! You can add a huge bathtub, many candles, soft lighting items and if your home's got a view, then a huge window to show it would be more than welcome.
And last but not least, on our suggestion list for luxury bathroom ideas come the minimalist, basic and elegant ones. These types of bathroom styles are suited for people in search of a quiet and simple space that is designed in the most exquisite way possible so that it can fulfill its needs and purpose.
What's your favorite style from our Luxury Bathroom Ideas? Leave a comment below!
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"The genesis of the graphical user interface. On the code theology"
The book is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of abstractions in computer science - from the concepts of variables and objects to patterns and ontologies - which coincides with the evolution of abstractions in philosophy and theology. Graphical user interface, invented in the 1970s, appears as a stage in the development of these abstractions and, at the same time, the computer peripheral. On the basis of cultural homology it is asserted that the graphical user interface is morphologically equivalent to the medieval church, and the current state of affairs in computer science is similar to the situation in the late scholasticism.
Michael Kurtov, philosopher, researcher of media and metamedia, specialist in technotheology. Author of the book "Between boredom and dreams. Analysis of cinema experience "(2012).
Opening speech by the series editor Pavel Arsenyev and the author of the preface Alexei Grinbaum (Paris).
Michael Kurtov's book and other publications from the *démarche series can be purchased at the gallery shop. Writers of the series are united not only by underlined interest in the theory and the conditions of intellectual production as a whole, but also the overall thrust of train of thought, mode of action that involves, as a rule, establishing the trauma of institutional split, displacement, demarche.
"The policy of form" in their case - or, more broadly, "letter" - is determined by a critical attitude toward ideological devices infrastructure to the same extent that critical reflection outside or on the boundary of poetry / literature assumes a constant reexamination of one's own grounds and self-criticism. True to a certain political and rhetorical tradition, such a position values its freedom from various forms of institutional coercion the most, whether administrative or epistemological.
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Video Game Accessibility in 2020
Oh hey, it's 2021. It's a new year, and the perfect time to sit around and think about the year that has just been. Yes everyone, it's time for our 2020 recap episode of Access-Ability. We're going to look back over the whole year in gaming accessibility, and try to summarise the state of accessibility in video games, as it currently stands.
So, this week on Access-Ability, we're going to talk about what games did things well when it came to accessibility, which games struggled, and what overall trends came up over the course of the year.
So, any discussion of accessibility in video games in 2020 has to start by addressing the elephant in the room, The Last of Us 2. Put simply, The Last of Us 2 created a new benchmark for accessibility support in AAA video games this year. While not everything it did can be directly translated to other games, it stands as a really strong example of what AAA teams can accomplish if they really put their minds to it.
Developer Naughty Dog started the game with text to speech turned on as default, and opens on first boot up to a dedicated accessibility menu before the game itself even begins. The game features multiple different disability focused presets for people with vision, audio, or motor disabilities, and allows for a whole lot of manual tweaking of difficulty and settings.
From motion sickness modes to aim assist, a button to orient the player towards progress, to a text to speech readout of the Ui, the game was packed with useful settings. Some of the more notable settings included a whole host of ways to customise subtitle appearance and content, the ability to turn handwritten notes into plain text, and high contrast mode, which gave players the ability to turn the whole game greyscale, with the exception of important objects highlighted in bold and easy to parse colours.
The Last of Us 2 is even playable start to finish by totally sightless players, as demonstrated by gamers such as Twitch streamer SightlessKombat.
The Last of Us 2 was not perfect, it notably lacked audio descriptions which would have helped blind players during cutscenes, but the game undeniably stands head and shoulders above everything else released this year in terms of accessibility settings.
Sticking with PlayStation, The Last of Us 2 wasn't the only Sony first party game released last year that did an impressive job with accessibility. Spider-Man: Miles Morales mirrored a decent number of the settings found in The Last of Us 2, albeit in a less comprehensive manner. The game features for example the same sort of High Contrast mode as The Last of Us 2, as well as settings to help players turn button mashing segments off, remove button holds, or remove quick time events entirely.
Moving over to Nintendo, in March 2020 we finally saw the Switch updated to add full button remapping on a system level, bringing the system in line with Sony and Microsoft's consoles. The Switch's button remapping doesn't allow for motions to be remapped, which limits its usefulness in some games, but it largely helps more people play games on Switch. Many Switch games can now be remapped to be playable on a single Joycon, which opens up play to gamers who may need to play games one handed.
Right as lockdown was beginning, Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a game which is notable for its lack of accessibility settings, or any basic settings menu at all. The game features no ability to do things like change your text size, or alter your audio balance, and features several insects which can only be caught by audio cues without any visual cues to help deaf players. The latter of these was an issue in multiple Nintendo games this year, including Paper Mario: The Origami King, which features one mission that doesn't signal its completion visually, only with an audio change.
Pokémon Go this year introduced a bunch of features designed to help people play the game from home during the pandemic, which also happened to allow disabled players to start playing the game from home. Unfortunately, most of these features have been rolled back since.
Doom Eternal, released towards the start of the year, featured an aim assist mode, which goes a long way to making the game more accessible to players with motor disabilities.
While "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" style adventure game Grounded wasn't the first game to ever feature an arachnophobia mode, it did bring the topic to the forefront of discussion in 2020, and will hopefully lead to more games following suit in future.
Marvel's Avengers in September featured as part of the game's subtitles a couple of instances of non verbal cues being explained in subtitles. While not explicitly there as an accessibility feature, it was really helpful for me as an autistic player, and I'd love to see this done more deliberately in future.
Roguelike action adventure game Hades had its full release in 2020, and one of its most interesting settings options was a difficulty setting called God Mode. Basically, with God Mode on, players will gain a small defense buff to their character every time they die and have to start over from the beginning. This means that players constantly get stronger through perseverance, and that progress is more steady throughout play.
Indie RPG Ikenfell featured a bunch of really interesting accessibility settings too, from content warnings, the ability to skip fights while still gaining full experience from the encounter, and the ability to automate or semi automate the game's Paper Mario style timed button press damage system in combat.
This year also saw a rise in games adopting settings to help dyslexic players. A couple of more notable examples of this include Paradise Killer and Tell me Why, which both feature support for Open Dyslexic, a font designed to be more easily legible by dyslexic players.
After it became a surprise hit during the summer, indie multiplayer murder mystery Among Us took on board player feedback that one of the game's puzzles was inaccessible to colourblind players, and added symbols which could instead be matched for those players.
So, with a bunch of this year's biggest games out the way, let's take some time to look at the new consoles that released this year, and how accessible or not they were at launch. Additionally, we're going to take a bit of time to look at some promising overall industry trends when it comes to accessibility, and a couple of titles that were released late in the year.
When it comes to the Xbox Series X and Series S, Microsoft was very forthcoming about accessibility support for their pair of new consoles. Right at the start of 2020, Microsoft let players know that all of their old controllers would be supported day one on the Series consoles, specifically stating that the Xbox Adaptive Controller would be supported at launch. This was a huge move, as it made the Series consoles the first ever games consoles to launch, day one, with a mass produced affordable accessibility controller available.
In terms of software support, the console basically kept intact all the Xbox One consoles accessibility settings, including screen magnifier and co-pilot mode, which allows two controllers to be registered as a single input. You can find a more in depth video on co-pilot mode linked in the video description.
The Series consoles packaging also featured some nice accessibility features, including stickers with partially unstuck ends which are easier to grip, and no twist ties used inside the packaging.
Sony by comparison maintained radio silence about accessibility settings on the PS5 until just a few short days before the console was released. The console's new controller features two major new features, haptic rumble, a new type of rumble that simulates complex sensations, and adaptive triggers, which resist being pushed to simulate sensations like the drawing of a bow string.
Both the haptic rumble and adaptive triggers, which both pose accessibility concerns, can thankfully be turned off on a system level, bringing the controller in line with the functionality of a PS4 controller.
However, unlike Microsoft, Sony has chosen not to allow older controllers to be used to play new games natively on the PS5. This isn't a hardware limitation, players can use remote play to play PS5 games with a PS4 controller, this is a choice by Sony to push new controllers, and a choice that unfortunately prevents players with custom made disability controllers for the PS4 from using them on the PS5,
The PS5 box itself contains twist ties, which can be difficult to open for users with motor disabilities, and the console lacks some basic accessibility settings, such as the ability to resize the console's tiny home screen icons, as well as lacking a screen magnifier. The PS5 does however feature system level text size alteration, colour blindness profiles, and system level default settings to tell your game if you'd like things like subtitles to be on by default.
For many new games, the PS5 features a built in hint and walkthrough video system, but this is locked behind a PS+ subscription fee.
As of today, Nintendo and Sony both still lack their own equivalent to the Xbox Adaptive Controller, but progress is being made on unofficial support for those consoles. Switch owners can use adapters such as the Switch Up Game Enhancer to connect an Xbox Adaptive Controller via a wired connection, and the Titan Too adaptor for PS5 is receiving firmware updates that seem like a promising lead to getting the Adaptive Controller, as well as PS4 controllers, working with PS5 games. Additionally, peripheral manufacturer Hori has released an adaptive controller for Switch, but it's available only in Japan, and costs considerably more than the Xbox adaptive Controller. Thankfully, it does support the same input connector types for players with existing peripherals.
One company who towards the end of this year have been making really promising strides forward in terms of accessibility settings are Ubisoft, who have really gone out of their way to try and improve the variety of settings they offer disabled players. I didn't cover any of Ubisoft's games on Access-Ability in 2020, largely because the company has failed to properly address mounting reports of harassment within the company from upper management, but going into 2021 I may have to change that stance. Ubisoft are becoming a key player in the video game accessibility space, and to ignore them entirely would do this series a disservice. However, I will mention the reports of harassment within the company when making videos about their accessibility settings.
One of this year's final big releases was Cyberpunk 2077, which has a huge amount of issues when it came to accessibility. The game lacked full key rebinding support, didn't allow for changing the text size of tiny subtitles above character heads outside of cutscenes, and notably gave one reviewer a photosensitive seizure during the review period. The game featured a warning, hidden deep within a EULA that joked at its start about how nobody reads them. The game has since been updated to alter the particularly egregious scene in question, but still features a lot of intense visual effects which could cause issues for photosensitive or epileptic players.
Lastly, VR gaming has basically made no steps forward in 2020 in terms of becoming more accessible. We've got a video on VR gaming accessibility coming up on the channel soon, just know that things are not really progressing at all in that space right now.
One big thing to note this year, something viewers of this show routinely mention in our comments, is that Japan is very much lagging behind Europe and America when it comes to including accessibility support in games. Most of the games this year that I had major praise for were developed outside of Japan, and a lot of Japanese developed games this year lacked even the most basic settings, such as subtitle options or button remapping.
Nintendo is particularly bad at this, with games featuring mandatory motion controls or featuring no settings menu at all. It's telling that Microsoft is the only major console manufacturer to feature support for a disability focused controller, and that they sent consoles this year to so many disabled players to review. They're a lot more willing to openly support disabled players and their needs. Even the Sony games this year I praised for their accessibility settings were largely developed outside of Japan. I have been told by commenters that this is a cultural thing. Japan is a lot less willing as a country to talk about accessibility for disabled people, but hopefully this changes over time.
One thing that was really nice to see this year was Accessibility becoming a more mainstream part of the gaming conversation. The Game Awards this year had an award for Most Accessible Game, even if the winner of that award being The Last of Us 2 was pretty predictable, and we even saw IGN publish accessibility reviews of the new next generation consoles. Granted, those IGN accessibility reviews were considerably delayed, I'd like to see them released the same day as the main reviews of the consoles in future, but it's a really promising step in the right direction.
With everything said, this was actually a really promising year for accessibility in games. A lot of games made really impressive steps forward, and more than anything else we saw the wider gaming community talking about this as a subject. Video game accessibility is slowly becoming mainstream, and we can only hope to see that continue into 2021.
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Solutions that work: Positive relationships can counter harmful effects of stress on the brain
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poverty, trauma, low-income, toxic stress, brain development, prenatal care, depression, anxiety, violence
By Nancy Cambria
Nancy Cambria reported this story with the support of the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism and the National Health Journalism Fellowship, programs of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.
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Fourth-grade classmates Rayell Hickman (left) and Kendal Bolden decorate the desk of his sister Jamyla Bolden at Koch Elementary School in September. Jamyla was killed in a drive-by shooting on Aug. 20, 2015, while doing her homework inside her mother's bedroom.
There's hope for fighting toxic levels of stress in children — hope you can actually see in brain scans from research conducted by St. Louis psychiatrist Joan Luby.
In scientific terms, the images show that children's brain development can be sheltered from the ravages of trauma, such as violence, abuse and poverty.
In more human terms, the brain scans show that positive relationships with parents, family and others can protect and heal.
Luby's research at the Washington University School of Medicine has documented that children in poverty without that support have smaller volumes in parts of their brain dealing with stress management, learning and executive decisions. Children in the same stressful circumstances, but with positive supports, have normal-sized brains.
It's a concept that has been reinforced through other research. Children and adults cope with stress better when they have developed emotional resilience. And that resilience is built through positive relationships.
That kind of support can lower a child's abnormal output of stress hormones — a key biological threat to health and development.
The takeaway for parents is a hopeful one: When stress threatens the well-being of children, simple, proven techniques work. It's a message that has relevance to all parents, regardless of neighborhood or income level.
Ruth Coleman got a crash course in stress when she, her husband and her four children were in the midst of losing their Warrenton home to foreclosure. They were forced to move into a mobile home in a rural town.
But thanks to a referral from her youngest son's Early Head Start program, they were already taking a parenting class that offered techniques to help the family cope.
She said the class gave them strategies to keep perspective and maintain a sense of humor. So, when her youngest children, ages 4 and 8, started loudly arguing over a banana during an interview, she let it slide because, "it's not going to make a hill of beans whether they were fighting over a banana today."
Coleman said she now lets her youngest son direct his play with her. Letting him make the rules took away power struggles and enabled her to better bond with him — a key factor in keeping toxic levels of stress at bay.
Ultimately, child advocates in St. Louis say toxic stress is a preventable health problem here — with adequate public and civic investment.
St. Louis has programs and initiatives dealing with toxic stress. But only 30 percent of the children in the region in need of mental health and behavioral support get it, according to a survey by the St. Louis Mental Health Board.
Investment has been further hindered by biases against the poor, who are likely to need the services most.
"We are far too likely to point fingers at poor parents and households when they need our help and support," said Anne Kessen Lowell, the former director of SouthSide Early Childhood Center.
Luby argues this is not rocket science. Solutions have been known for years.
She and others point to a blueprint for combating toxic stress among children and families in St. Louis.
Strengthen family bonds
Unique Davis, 11, of the Old North neighborhood in St. Louis, has a father who went to prison when she was 5. He's serving an 18-year sentence.
Depression and anxiety are rampant among children who have parents or other loved ones in prison. In Missouri, the number of children with parents in prison is about 48,000, about the population of Chesterfield.
These children worry fiercely about their parents, and vice versa, said Hakee Mitchell, founder and executive director of Assisting Children of Prison Parents, an organization in Ferguson that offers tutoring and mentoring.
In November, the group arranged for Unique to visit her father.
Moments after Unique spotted him in the prison visitors' room, she ran into his arms. They played cards and talked about the future when her dad would someday be free.
"It's almost like a sense of calm comes over them," Mitchell said of the prison visits. "It's like, 'OK, I've had questions, and now they've been answered.' "
Know trauma symptoms
Toxic stress and trauma trigger outbursts over incidents that other children handle more easily. From elementary grades through high school, that can lead to suspension or expulsion and possible juvenile court involvement.
Jennings schools Superintendent Tiffany Anderson wants staff and students to understand trauma and ways to de-escalate that stress response.
Under the guidance of Washington University School of Medicine pediatrician Sarah Garwood, the school district received a $60,000 grant from Missouri Foundation for Health to help staff and students better understand trauma and stress.
It is one of many trauma education initiatives taking place locally and statewide in the fields of education, health, youth services and juvenile rehabilitation.
Staff and students are learning how past trauma can be reactivated by triggers such as certain words or smells or confrontation that reminds children of past violence. They focus on tamping down confrontations. The district plans to create safe places in each school for students to work through sudden anger and other painful emotions.
"We're giving teachers a new framework on how they respond to student behaviors," said Anthony Robinson, the district's director of secondary education.
Start before birth
Babies born to depressed or stressed mothers are less likely to receive the nurturing they need. And that hurts brain development when it's needed most.
It's why Cynthia Rogers, a psychiatrist and researcher with WU's School of Medicine, created a program at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals that screens new mothers for depression.
In late October, Keonshay Clark, 22, was identified as needing help after she gave birth to her second daughter, DaKodah, at Barnes-Jewish. She needed to find a new place to live within the month.
Social workers at the hospital referred Clark to Nurses for Newborns, a home-visiting program that tracks the health of the baby and supports the mom.
"We are really there to lift them up in their parenting role," said Melinda Ohlemiller, chief executive at Nurses for Newborns, who said about 40 percent of the new moms they serve test positive for depression.
Empower moms with hope
New moms dealing with toxic stress often feel isolated and hopeless.
Kendra Copanas, chief executive of the Maternal Child and Family Health Coalition, said mothers, particularly in the African-American community, often do not seek help.
Copanas said agencies in St. Louis are trying to break that isolation in unique ways. The maternal child coalition, for example, recently started a "Letters of Love" campaign in which volunteers write letters of congratulations and support to expectant and new moms in stressful situations.
The coalition also hosts a mothers support group. One of the members is Shanette Upchurch, 42, a mother of four from Riverview. Upchurch copes with isolation, depression, debt and a history of abuse. Work is hard. Twenty years ago, Upchurch said she saw firsthand how toxic stress in her life was damaging her children. It was the day she was called to come quickly to the school office. She found her kindergartner throwing desks and chairs in the principal's office.
Therapy revealed her son had absorbed years of trauma from watching his mother being beaten by a partner. He was exhibiting a "fight or flight" response common to children under intense stress.
Her son is now a high school graduate, employed and an involved dad.
"But it took so much just to get him as a functioning person," she said.
Five years ago, after her youngest child was born, Upchurch signed up for home-visiting services and therapy, and joined the support group. She said the group changed her outlook on life and parenting. She's so hooked she convinced her daughter, 19, and her daughter-in-law to join.
"I need to be at these meetings," she said. "When I come here it's like family."
Teach parenting strategies
Some parents never got the nurturing they needed when they were young and have few parenting models, said John Constantino, a psychiatrist and researcher with WU's School of Medicine. These parents may not know the best ways to fully connect with their own children, particularly amid high stress.
Constantino is managing a federally funded trial program in the St. Louis region to protect children from toxic stress. It uses a specialized parenting education program to train groups of parents with children enrolled in Early Head Start programs.
The program supplies "good enough" parenting tips and teaches praise as a first response. Ultimately the strategies help parents better enjoy their parenting role, and their children's behavior improves, Constantino said.
"It makes parents more attuned to protect their kids from their stress," Constantino said.
Coleman, who took the class with her husband amid their foreclosure crisis, said the class taught her the value of simple but focused play time with her children.
"That type of play says, I've got this 15 minutes with you," she said. "No matter what else is going on in my life, you're my center of attention for this 15 minutes."
Encourage wellness
One evening a month, Dr. Thomas Kernan takes off his white medical coat and heads into a conference room at an Affinia Health Care clinic to conduct a Mind-Body Skills Group for patients, most of them low-income, dealing with toxic stress.
Kernan, along with a social worker, teaches relaxation and breathing skills, guided imagery and meditation to help patients reduce stress. He said regular relaxation techniques can be as effective as medication to alleviate high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and other maladies.
Kernan is a graduate of the national Center for Mind Body Wellbeing, which has studied the effects of stress relaxation and mindfulness in struggling populations around the world, including refugees. In St. Louis, he said his patients typically have histories of trauma.
"All of these kids and families that I see that are exposed to these toxic effects of stress would benefit from learning some self-care skills to help decrease those effects," he said.
Kernan goes so far as to hand out to patients a self-recorded, 15-minute CD called "Soft Belly," which promotes breathing through your belly, mimicking how infants breathe. He tells them to use the CD five times a week.
With his soothing voice and ambient music and ocean waves in the background he asks patients "begin to breathe through your nose and out through your mouth, relaxing and letting go with each exhalation … letting your belly be soft."
Talk about stress
Wellness programs of all sorts are now considered a necessity for health, particularly among the poor — so much so that the St. Louis Regional Health Commission launched the wellness initiative Alive and Well STL to reduce toxic stress regionwide.
It aims to make the concepts of stress reduction and positive relationships more universally known and practiced in the region. Benefits should ultimately trickle down to children.
Connie Fisher of Mental Health America of Eastern Missouri, who gives stress information training through the initiative, said people still lack basic information on reducing stress. Even 10 to 15 minutes a day of mindfulness — being completely present in the moment — can make a huge difference, she said.
More widely, Alive and Well STL aims to remind everyone they have power to help someone in pain during stressful times. They may not be able to change gun violence or poverty, but the group argues that small words and actions can incrementally make a big difference.
"A big part of this is the availability of caring and loving supportive people around us," said Joe Yancey, chief executive of Places for People and spokesman for the Alive and Well initiative. "Because the reality is, at the end of the day, my well-being is dependent on the well-being of my neighborhood, of my co-workers, of my child's school and its families."
[This story was originally published by St. Louis Post-Dispatch.]
Photos & videos by Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch.


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How do I add a new baseboard when there isn't an 'edge' to click on?
Check that you have 'grid(PBR)' ground texture that is used on the sides. That could be your answer.
There is no problem adding baseboards where the 'edges' are displayed (like he did for the two blank ones in the image). It's only where they aren't displayed that he can't add. Clicking in the region where the edge should be does nothing.
The question is how do you get into this position in the first place?
Also, what happens if you turn the camera around 180 degrees and click beyond the edge of the baseboard?
I'll try to find out, but it might not be possible. The only comment so far is that the built-in route was cloned, and this happened.
Further investigation reveals that the white region does not mark the boundary of the baseboards at all. In map view they are white baseboards. They can be deleted, and the edges of the remaining baseboards re-appear. So the reason that baseboards can't be added is that they are already there. It is actually possible to move the viewpoint down to the plane of the surface and view the objects that protrude below the surface (the bridge piers) which is why the first impression is that the baseboards don't exist at all.
So the correct description is that new baseboards sometimes appear with a grid pattern and sometimes appear white/invisible. If this isn't how it's supposed to work I can just delete the route and see if it occurs again.


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flooding of urban and poor drainage areas.
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