The People of First United believe God calls us to serve and celebrate together! We live our faith every day in ordinary ways to make this an extraordinary Community of Faith!
The Gleaners is a group of people who pick up surplus bread, buns, donuts and soup from food outlets. Food is then repackaged, frozen and distributed to the Food Bank, Neighbours Outreach Wetaskiwin, The Community Shelter and Touchstone Café. This is a collaborative project between First UC and Catholic Social Services.
First United Church is also a member of Neighbour's Outreach Wetaskiwin; and offers financial support to Kasota East Camp on Sylvan Lake.
The Leadership Team meets monthly to pray, hear reports, discern policy and engage vision for the congregation. The Worship Team is responsible for our worship life. There are many ways you can be involved in worship including: Music, decorating, welcoming/ushering, greeting at the doors; Hospitality following worship; Worship in Song [music before worship], reading Scripture or Minute for Mission, serving communion, Sound or Projection technician. Contact the Office.
The Spiritual Growth Team serves to enrich the spiritual journey of the congregation. This team meets quarterly and has responsibilities for education and faith practice for all ages.
works with the ministry staff to ensure appropriate and timely pastoral and spiritual care is provided to congregants and enquirers. This Team includes the Pastoral Care worker, the Prayer Shawl Ministry; pastoral care visitors, cards and the Newsletter. They seek to ensure people are welcomed into First United and supported in the joys and sorrows of day to day living. Regular visits to hospital, long term care and senior's residences are also part of this ministry.
We are called to create a community of faith where all are welcome. Sadly some people's experience of "church" has not been very helpful or welcoming.
First United is an Affirming Congregation who works to remove barriers and celebrate the diversity that we are as children of a loving God. As peoples of Treaty 6 and Metis Region 4, we are also called to reconciliation with our Indigenous neighbours and to ensure Canada's laws are in line with the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Stewardship Team encourages us to "Love our neighbours as ourselves". God has entrusted us with so much, there are many ways we can make a difference!
The Ministry & Personnel Committee is responsible for the oversight of staff and serves as a liaison between staff and congregants. They make recommendations about salary, working conditions, hiring and evaluate ongoing work. This Committee meets approximately every 6 weeks.
First United Church is part of Northern Spirit Region in the United Church of Canada.
Children worship with us and on their own each week in the Godly Play room.
Godly Play is a discovery based model of experiencing sacred story. We all have our own experiences of the holy. Sometimes we lack the language to express that understanding. Children find a safe space in the Godly Play room to make connections between scripture and their own lives. Using parable, silence, sacred and liturgical stories, with wonder, art and hospitality children and adults learn from one another.


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Petrí (engelska: Petri) är en ort i Grekland.   Den ligger i prefekturen Nomós Korinthías och regionen Peloponnesos, i den södra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Aten. Petrí ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Petrí är huvudsakligen kuperad, men åt sydväst är den bergig. Petrí ligger nere i en dal. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km norr om Petrí. Runt Petrí är det ganska glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Nemea,  km sydost om Petrí. I omgivningarna runt Petrí

Medelhavsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är december, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är juli, med  mm nederbörd.

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Move over hummus...this white bean dip is competition.
Don't get me wrong, hummus is a delicious and nutritious pick, but it's always good to switch things up, to get a wide and varied array of nutrients.
Secondly, it's versatile. Besides for dipping your Mary's Gone Crackers, veggie slices, or hey, just your spoon, it doubles as a protein-packed spread for toast. I've even used it instead of tomato sauce on a cauliflower crust pizza.
Last, but of course not least, it's nutritious. This recipe calls for a white bean called Navy beans, which got their moniker stemming from the fact that they were a staple food for the US Navy during the early 20th century.
Put all ingredients except the oil in a blender, and turn the motor on to medium speed.
Remove the center piece from the blender lid, and slowly drizzle in the oil with the motor running. Turn it up to high until the dip is smooth, about 10-20 seconds more.
Pour into a bowl to serve. Garnish with extra cracked pepper, if you wish.


If you're not making money with your website despite of the steady increase in the number of visitors, you need to investigate the negative factors. Google Analytics can confirm "what" (i.e. the facts such as popular pages, bounce rates), but not "why". So here's something you should know - reasons why people would leave your website without buying. There may be one reason that applies to your site, or may be a combination of two or more reasons.
The sentence with a link is not at the end of the article but half way the article. You don't conclude with your promotion, means you're not asking your reader to even consider a purchase before they leave.
The phrase is not a request to buy; for example "Click here to take a look" instead of "make a purchase".
Call-to-action should be big, bold and clear. Adding a button to your webpage makes a big difference. Using a free Call-To-Action Button Generator is a good idea.
Thrive Content Builder has an awesome CTA feature such as the image shown here.
Headline (page title) is the entrance to your blog post. That's what people find by organic search. Headline decides what kind of audience to invite, therefore it's important to choose the right keywords to find potential buyers.
A headline "Keep Your Leather Jackets Last Long" and relevant article may be informative, but that would only be likely to find people who want to know how to take care of their jackets, not those who are wishing to buy a new jacket.
But you may be able to promote leather polish within that page instead.
A headline "Long Lasting Leather Jackets" may invite people who are prepared to buy good-quality jackets.
This means every time you decide the headline of your page post, (a) your intention should always be clear - whether you're trying to sell or giving advice to your readers, and (b) If you're giving advice but promoting some products in the same page, make sure there's a connection in between the headline, article and the products.
It is so tempting to appeal that there's so much you can offer. Social share buttons, affiliate banners in your sidebar if you have any, footer menu, and even your top menu. However every link is an "exit" - whether internal or external - ushering visitors out of the page.
On top of all the "exits" that you may already have in your site, by placing more links in the blog post, you're only giving your visitors more opportunities to leave.
I'm referring to "by-the-way links" as a bad example here. Throughout your article, alongside the "Buy Now" button link, you carry on "By the way, if you're looking for XYZ, click here. We also have ABC, click here. If you want to know more about DEF, click here..." These are all distractors and alternative exits.
One of the "golden rule" of an online sales letter is to have only one exit, i.e. "Buy Now" button. And it should be placed several times in the page if it's lengthy. No side bar, no menu bar. But a blog like yours and mine is not a sales letter, we're not hard-selling. In niche marketing, we're giving information and advice to our readers, hoping they'll appreciate and make a purchase in the end. So I'm not saying you should only have one exit (link), I'm saying the number of links in your article should be minimised.
This is often a dilemma. Generally the longer your blog post is, the more refined information will be picked up by Google, hence you have a higher chance of ranking well. We are often advised to write at least 750 words - 1,000 words per blog post.
The good news is when a product itself has many features and needs a lot of explanations, your article will be inevitably lengthy anyway.
The bad news is people are too busy to read. They want to read less, and digest as much information out of fewer number of texts. Ultimately they test your article to see if it helps them to make a decision; buy or not to buy. Lengthy and complex article can scare them away and, that may be one of the reasons you're not making money with your website.
A long blog post can be segmented by more headings and fewer sentences in each paragraph. Call-to-action button should be placed several times throughout the page, say one at half-way down from the top, another one at 2/3 down, and one more at the end of your post as a conclusion.
Images placed in above-the-fold (top half of your webpage) will indicate what the page is about instantly, telling your visitor whether they're in the right place or not.
It's much harder for your visitors to digest the content only by reading plain texts.
A blog post with no image display is visually bland and boring. People tend to scroll down quickly until they see an image, and if there isn't any, there's a greater chance for them to leave your page without reading, let alone making any purchase.
A product comparison page is great in helping visitors to make a decision to purchase. What you need is to display several products but not too many, with a clear indication of advantage and disadvantage of each product. Typical example would be something like "Design 7/10, Usability 9/10, Features 8/10... Overall rating 8/10" with detailed explanations.
Your visitors may get confused or bored if they see too many products in one page. But how many is too many? It really depends how the products are laid out and the similarity between the products. But they should be laid out in clear order with relevant images attached.
The last thing your visitors want to hear is "By the way, there's another product here...and here...and some more"!
You only start reading an interesting article and this giant ad pops up in your face. Your annoyance level is maximum when you can't find the [X] to close, or when you've accidentally clicked the ad to open a new window. You immediately close it and uncover the article that you were reading. Not just irritated by it but knowing the fact that the whole advertisement's been wasted... The moment you accidentally clicked and closed, the advertiser would have paid a few cents ppc (pay-per-click) to the agent for nothing.
People hate popups that don't offer any value. Such as the ones that repeat the same offer in the same popup, or the ones that generate a new popup each time the user clicks "no thanks".
With all that said, popup ads are proven to work - if they didn't work people wouldn't use them. Clickmagick suggests that many of their users have been able to increase average EPCs (earnings-per-click) by up to 42% using their popup feature.
Placing clickable advertisements (popups, banners) is a tremendously good idea to redirect your visitors to a product page.
But if they're not clicked, obviously they're not effective. Change the ads (e.g. design, size) or their position, or get rid of them completely.
Even worse if they're scaring your visitors away (i.e. they leave the page). Means the ads are only annoying them, not good enough to interest them.
Too many ads across your blog post will equally annoy your visitors.
Heatmap Tracker is a great tool to monitor your visitors' movements, enables you to check at what point your visitors tend to leave your site, e.g. as soon as an ad pops up.
"40% of people abandon a website that takes more than 3 seconds to load."
I'm not sure where that statistic originated, but if you Google search by the exact sentence, you'll find that it's mentioned in many sites. So keep in mind that visitors will not tolerate a few seconds of blank screen, unless your blog post has a reasonably enticing headline.
Mobile responsiveness is now crucial. You can make sure your website is "officially" mobile friendly from Google Developer's tool ("Is your web page mobile friendly?"). But the tool does not detect if your call-to-action button is in the "wrong place".
It's best to check it all yourself; access to your website using your own mobile device and ensure everything's fit in the small screen. The call-to-action area should be clearly noticeable, and the buttons are actually clickable.
Design as in the look of it, and also design as in usability and accessibility.
Old-fashioned looking website itself is off-putting. If it was created using an outdated editor, the site is probably poorly navigational, slow loading and mobile-unfriendly too.
The CMS (content management system e.g. WordPress) that you're using should be the most updated version. Old versions can prevent users from accessing some features because of the script that's obsolete. You should be using the latest theme and plugins that have been tested by the provider on the new version of the CMS.
At the end of the day, outdated website makes the visitors hard to find the value in it - unless there's an outstanding uniqueness, such as a very unique niche, or extremely interesting content. That may be one of the critical reasons that visitors would leave without making a purchase.
As a user, you get pretty disheartened when you're all prepared to buy but discover the purchase link is broken. As a marketer it's even more damning when you discover you've missed out on sales opportunities because the link's been broken for a while. So maintain your links periodically! It would be hard to check every single link in your website page by page, but there's a free plugin available for WordPress such as Broken Link Checker.
Sounds obvious and silly, right? But believe it or not, this is a conversation I had in the past with two of my fellow affiliate marketers.
Affiliate A: I was wondering why I wasn't making a cent, and realised I had forgotten to add an affiliate link in many of my blog posts.
Affiliate B: Yes, it's important to always remember to place a link.
Ray: What do you mean you've forgotten?
Ray: But as an affiliate, your ultimate purpose of building a website is to monetise it...?
Affiliate B: I tend to get carried away with the content I'm writing. As soon as I finish, that's enough and I publish it forgetting to include a link.
Don't forget to place a clear call-to-action!
If you feel you're not making enough money with your website, I hope you'll make some improvements by avoiding the 12 points listed above. Feel free to leave comments or questions below.
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The Circular Connection Between Kidney Disease and Gout
November 30, 2022, 1:50pm EST
Interview and article by: Jennifer Cramer-Miller
Gout has been called "the disease of kings", evoking the gluttony of King Henry VIII and suggesting that lavish overindulgence in food and alcohol cause the disease. For the estimated 8.3 million Americans who suffer from this incurable condition, it's far from that simple. So what is gout, what causes it, and how does it relate to kidney health?
Healthy kidneys filter waste from the blood, including uric acid. Compromised kidneys ineffectively filter uric acid out of the body through urination, resulting in a buildup which causes gout, a form of inflammatory arthritis.
When this excess of uric acid forms sharp crystals that settle in the joints, gout causes excruciating joint pain, swelling, redness, and stiffness.
Gout can affect certain groups at higher rates, and Hmong patients in Minnesota are four times more likely to suffer from gout and its complications than non-Hmong individuals. (According to a Project Summary from the Hmong Gout Genomics Board).
No one knows this better than Tzianeng Vang, a Minnesota Hmong man who lightheartedly refers to himself as a "professional gout patient" with thirty years' experience.
As a younger man, Tzianeng knew friends and family members with gout but hoped it would never happen to him.
Decades ago, his ankle hurt after he played soccer, but he dismissed gout as the potential cause. Although he tried to manage it with Tylenol, it didn't put a dent in the pain.
Eventually Tzianeng saw a gout specialist and his diagnosis and journey began. And it has not been easy. After years of chronic gout, he has developed an advanced stage called tophaceous gout. Tophi (Latin for "stone") appear as concentrated nodules of uric acid under the skin. These formations typically appear in the ears, fingers, and joints.
During an attack, jagged uric acid crystals fire intense pain in his back, neck, elbows, shoulders, fingers, toes, ankles, and behind the knees. Walking is often difficult, along with other everyday tasks, including getting dressed and moving freely without pain.
Gout specialists manage chronic gout with pain and uric acid reduction medications and recommend a low purine diet (to reduce the serum uric acid). So, it is Tzianeng's doctor's job to find the right medications for him (many of which have been ineffective). And it is Tzianeng's job to manage his diet.
These diet modifications are difficult, Tzianeng explained, to incorporate within his Hmong cultural diet, which is rich in pork belly, red meats, liver, and gizzards. He also doggedly avoids MSG, a flavor enhancer and preservative added to many Hmong sauces.
"I can feel when food triggers a gout attack almost immediately," Tzianeng explained. "It is like when you turn on a water heater and you hear the hiss through pipes. I feel a sudden heat warm up my joints."
Other common foods that elevate serum uric acid and can precipitate an attack include beer and alcohol, shellfish, beef, processed foods, and foods and beverages with high fructose corn syrup.
Troublemaking uric acid crystals can also lead to kidney stones, another painful outcome of this disease. These stones can damage the kidneys, which circle us back to the loop between gout and kidney disease.
As a resource for kidney patients and an organization with close ties to the Hmong community, the National Kidney Foundation wants to raise awareness of the gout/kidney health connection. That's why the National Kidney Foundation encourages anyone with gout to ask their primary care physician to check blood and urine tests regularly to monitor and safeguard their ongoing kidney health.
Thank you to Horizon for your partnership in raising awareness about CKD risk in the Hmong Community.

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Nov. 29th • 5:35 PM
Derek Forbort Back For Bruins Tuesday
Boston Bruins defenseman Derek Forbort (finger) will return from an 11-game absence Tuesday versus Tampa Bay. He was hurt on Nov. 1 in a game against Pittsburgh and was forced to undergo surgery to fix his right middle finger. Forbort will be on the bottom defensive pairing with Connor Clifton. The 30-year-old is a defensive defenseman who has collected only three points this season in 10 games with 27 hits and 18 blocks. He makes a good addition to the Bruins blue line but fantasy managers should look elsewhere.
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Derek Forbort Pops Up With A Pair Of Goals
Boston Bruins defenseman Derek Forbort was an unlikely hero on Saturday with two goals in a 5-2 victory over Philadelphia. He scored both of his goals in the second period and ended up with the game-winner. The 29-year-old finished with a plus-two rating and tallied three shots in total with one block, one hit and four penalty minutes. Forbort sits on the first defensive pairing, but he mostly doesn't do enough to attract the attention of fantasy managers. He has only five points, 17 hits and 10 blocks for the season in 14 games.
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Q: How update an individual database record by ID I've been running through the ASP.Net MVC C# Movie Database tutorial, but been trying to make a few minor changes to help learn what bits do what. I will add that I am a total beginner.
I have a page with a small form and a button, when I fill out the form and click submit the data in the form updates a pre-determined record in the database table.
In the controller code how do I specify a individual record? Assuming the table will only ever have one record in it, which is going to get updated periodically with new information?
I guess it is something to do with these two lines in the code:
            db.Entry(data).State = EntityState.Modified;
            db.SaveChanges();

I'm just not sure how to specify the record individually so it gets updated? The record will have an ID number (for example the ID will be "1").
The bit of code that will do the updating as it stands:
// POST: /Data/Update/

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Update(Data data)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            db.Entry(data).State = EntityState.Modified;
            db.SaveChanges();
            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }
        return View(data);
    }

A: EF need to know which row to update in the database.
If the "ID" property wasn't bound from request, you need to set it explicitly in your code:
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        data.Id = 1; //EF need to know which row to update in the database.
        db.Entry(data).State = EntityState.Modified;
        db.SaveChanges();
        return RedirectToAction("Index");
    }

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INSIDE PERU is a Peruvian-German organization with broad experience in intercultural and social exchange with Peru. We organize internships, accommodation, Spanish courses and studies abroad and are there for you right from the start to make your stay in Peru pleasant and successful.
Sönke studied History, Political Science and Latin American regional studies in Hamburg, Madrid und Montgomery. He holds a PhD in Peruvian history and has published academic and journalistic books and articles on Peru. He has lived in Peru for several years, working for different NGO's. At INSIDE PERU he is responsible for the internships and assists the participants of our program.
Born in Hamburg where he studied Political Science and History with a focus on Latin America. After his studies he lived for several years in Chile, where he worked for the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) and in a Renewable Energies project. At INSIDE PERU he's responsible for the website and marketing.
Joana is Peruvian and was born in Pisco. She studied Architecture at the Ricardo Palma University in Lima. Now she lives in Germany where she is studying in Hamburg to obtain her Master Degree in Architecture. At INSIDE PERU she's responsible for our accommodation program.
Donald was born in Pisco and worked as an engineer in the fishing industry. Now he is our office manager in Lima.
Carlos comes from Bellavista, Callao. He currently studies communication studies. At INSIDE PERU he is our official driver and he receives the participants of our programs.
Miriam comes from Lima and studies translation and interpreting at the Universidad Ricardo Palma. At INSIDE PERU she is responsible for receiving the participants of our programs and giving advice during their time in Peru.
Paolo is born in Pisco and studies engineering at the Universidad de Lima. At INSIDE PERU he is responsible for receiving the participants of our programs and giving advice during their time in Peru.


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DPAC Report into abuse of statistics by the Department for Work and Pensions and UK Government Ministers
At the end of June, the Department for Work and Pensions will be releasing their Annual Report.
Iain Duncan Smith and his hench-ministers will no doubt be touring the TV studios to deliver more propaganda about worklessness and disability.
Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) have released their own report of the DWP.
The report outlines 35 cases where Ministerial claims using statistics on the subject of Work and Benefits have fallen short of the standards expected of Government Ministers. DPAC believe that this demonstrates a consistent pattern of abuse of official statistics by Ministers of the present Government to paint a false picture of benefit claimants in the UK in support of policies which are aimed at cost cutting to the detriment of jobless, sick and disabled people.Within the document, each case is presented, and fully referenced to source material throughout.
When you next see Iain Duncan Smith on the TV News, ask yourself – is he lying? or is he simply making it up out of thin air again?
We've decided that he's lying.
DPAC is a grass roots campaign body. It was formed by a group of disabled people after the first mass protest against the austerity cuts and their impact on disabled people held on the 3rd October in Birmingham 2010, England. It was led by disabled people under the name of The Disabled Peoples' Protest. DPAC has over 15,000 members and supporters and works with many anti-cuts groups, Universities, Disabled Peoples' Organizations, and Unions
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Child Poverty Action Group Monthly News and Views
Shown below is the "News from CPAG – Child Poverty Action Group e-newsletter, a monthly round-up of our news and views". If you would like to subscribe to CPAG news, please click here.
IFS: major surge in child poverty by 2020
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted that relative child poverty will go up by a staggering 1.1 million children in the current decade, almost entirely due to tax and benefit changes introduced by the coalition government. Our response calling for a complete rethink of government strategy on child poverty was widely quoted by the media including the Daily Mirror, Evening Standard and Guardian.
Alison Garnham has blogged on why we must not abandon the child poverty targets and why making progress on poverty requires us to rethink public spending across the whole of government so that we get the fundamentals right – a fairer society and a stronger economy.
Universal Credit – will it work?
Our *new report published with the TUC looks at whether universal credit can deliver its objectives, and in particular whether it can 'make work pay'. For a summary of the report findings see Alison Garnham's blog for Liberal Democrat Voice.
Many thanks to the Orp Foundation for supporting our Universal Credit work programme.
Welfare rights conference 2013: Surviving Welfare Reform
We are now hosting our annual Welfare Rights Conference in both the north and south of the country. We hope this will give more people the opportunity to attend, keeping travel and accommodation costs to a minimum.
The Northern Conference in Manchester on Thursday 5 September.
The Southern Conference in London on Wednesday 11 September.
Further information and booking
Special offer – book your place before 1 July for an early bird discount.
Exhibition space: if you are interested in exhibiting your work, products and services at our conference, contact Naomi Jessop (njessop@cpag.org.uk).
Training note: our Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment courses across the UK are selling fast, book your place now to avoid disappointment! Visit our website to find dates in Norwich, Plymouth, York, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester and Cardiff.
Conference: Tackling child poverty in your local authority
On Thursday 18 July, CPAG is hosting a free conference in Birmingham, supported by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, exploring ways local authorities and their partners can creatively work to meet their commitments under the Child Poverty Act despite facing significant financial challenges.
Topics to be addressed on the day have emerged from discussions with local authorities and will include workshops on Universal Credit, Social Fund schemes, and including the voices of children and young people in child poverty strategies.
A new partnership with the Chartered Institute of Housing
We are delighted to be the chosen charity for CIH's Presidential Appeal. It's a welcome opportunity for us to partner with a great organisation with shared goals.
For anyone going to the Housing 2013 conference in June, come and see us on the CPAG exhibition stand!
See a full list of our other upcoming events.
CPAG: the movie
We are the lucky winners of a VoiceOver video donated by politics.co.uk. See their inside view of filming a CPAG campaign video on location. We'll let you know when the final video is launched!
The latest Understanding Society report indicates that while the public endorses the importance of reducing child poverty, there is also a hardening of attitudes towards the welfare state and benefit claimants. Our new campaign video aims to counter the common stereotypes.
Do you know a great campaigner?
Are you speaking out and taking action on issues that matter? Or does this sound like someone you know? Apply or nominate now for an SMK Campaigner Award, which equips people to become more effective campaigners. It's free to apply. For more information, or to apply or nominate, please visit: the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. Applications close at 1pm on 10 June 2013.
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April 5, 2013 by kevinlsmith64
April 1st 2013 – A dark day for the Welfare State
April 1st 2013 will go down as a dark day in the history of the Welfare State, not only and very depressingly, did the Health and Social Care Act become law but yet another avalanche of benefit cuts were brought into effect. This is despite the prolonged and persistent lobbying and protests by disability groups calling for the govt to assess the impact of its benefit cuts along with the UK's leading experts on social policy and the welfare state urging the government to reconsider. And, staggeringly, at the same time, those with an income of over £150,000 per annum will see their tax rate reduced from 50% to 45%. Anyone who believed the Government's rhetoric that "those with the broadest shoulders should carry the greatest burden" could be forgiven for thinking that all this an April Fools prank.
This week also saw the conviction of 3 people for the manslaughter of 6 children. The death of any child is a tragic and emotive issue, the judge described the act as "outside the comprehension of any right-thinking person" yet George Osborne and his fellow government ministers seem hell bent on using this tragedy to justify their policies of welfare reform / cuts. We have seen both the government and the media suggest and imply that the perpetuators of this evil crime are "a vile product of Welfare UK".
George Osborne has questioned why the Welfare State subsidises such people with the underlying suggestion that "living off benefits" somehow turns a person into an abhorrent scumbag. That suggestion is in itself abhorrent. The fact is the small percentage of evil people that commit such atrocities come from all walks of life, are both rich and poor, employed and unemployed. We are led to believe there is a massive problem with people who have never worked having multitudes of children to boost their benefits. However this is simply untrue. Only 4% of families with a parent on Jobseeker's Allowance have more than two children and only 1.5 per cent of those on benefits have never worked. The extreme cases as highlighted by the court case are even rarer; out of the 1.35 million households where one of the adults is claiming out of work benefit, only 190 of those families have 10 or more children.
The question should be turned back on George Osborne and we should ask why the government does not put all its efforts into catching those who defraud the system. Official figures show that 0.8% of benefit spending is due to fraud. So why are the 99.2% in receipt of assistance from the State being portrayed in some parts of the media – with full knowledge and acceptance of the government – as "scroungers and skivers". Good people, who through no fault of their own require support, are being demonised and scapegoated whilst it is highly probable that a minuscule minority continue to defraud the system. The government should of course go after those who commit fraud and while they are it, they should also close down the loopholes that allow corporate giants and individuals to avoid paying tax which is estimated by some to be around £25 billion a year and by others to be £70 billion while some state it to be closer to £100 billion. Whatever the exact figure is, it is blatantly clear that there are alternatives to hammering those who have the least.
We all need to ask ourselves the kind of society we want to live within. The Welfare State should be considered as an insurance scheme which was set up without incentives to make a profit. All who can contribute, do so at a progressive rate and it is something that is there for all of us whenever we need it. Public services run along the same lines (or rather most used to before the influx of outsourcing!). Make no mistake it is highly unlikely that anyone in this country has not been reliant upon or received the benefits both offer; from Child benefits to the NHS; libraries to refuse collection; education to state pensions. Are we prepared to throw all this away so a small minority can prosper?
Click here to sign the WOW petition from the Site of the resistance to the War on Welfare
"We call for a Cumulative Impact Assessment of Welfare Reform, and a New Deal for sick & disabled people based on their needs, abilities and ambitions"
This week we have also learnt that the government are coming after the National Minimum Wage. In 2008, a senior Tory source said: "The minimum wage won't be scrapped but it will be allowed to wither on the vine. A series of smaller, more affordable increases will mean it will just melt away." This seems to becoming to fruition with government ministers hinting that the national minimum wage could be held back from rising due to difficult economic circumstances.
Click here to sign the petition to protect the minimum wage.
"We believe that the minimum wage should be protected from being cut or frozen. The poorest paid should not be paying the price for this Government's failed austerity economics. We call on the Government to stop their changes to the Low Pay Commission's terms of reference, and protect the lowest-paid workers from these pay cuts."
In one way or another we are all being affected by the savage policies of austerity, directly or indirectly. Of course the natural tendency is to fight your own corner but now, more than ever before, we must all come together in solidarity to oppose all the cuts irrespective of whether we are directly affected, which groups we belong to or individual political beliefs. We must organise and resist in whatever way we can. Online, offline, inform, educate, write to your MP, petition, leaflet, take direct action, partake in civil disobedience, strike and occupy. This is not only a metaphorical life and death struggle; people are dying as a direct result of the actions of this government. Resist, resist and then resist some more.
Posted in Cuts, Health / Social Care, Welfare	| Tagged benefits, bpacc, disability, dla, dwp, esa, jsa, national minimum wage, nhs, pip, unemployment, welfare
March 15, 2013 by kevinlsmith64
Videos from the Benefits Justice Summit 9th March 2013, London
The start of Benefits Justice Summit
Winvisible
Mental Health Network
Using the law to fight the cuts – Wendy Pettifer (1 of 2)
Using the law to fight the cuts – Liz Davies (1 of 2)
Closing session – Action plan
Building campaigns locally (1 of 2)
Tenants Federation
Food & Allied Workers Union
Pensioners Association
Single Mother's Self-Defence
Posted in Campaigns, Cuts, Events, Health / Social Care, Welfare	| Tagged austerity, bedroom tax, benefits, benefits justice, bpacc, campaigns, council housing, cuts, dch, disability, disabled, dla, dpac, esa, ilf, jsa, mental health, pensions, pip, right to work, tenants, welfare
Benefit Justice Summit – Saturday 9th March – ULU London
The Campaign for Benefit Justice is uniting all those opposed to devastating benefit cuts. By linking up we can challenge the Government's divide and rule tactics and unite the 99% of people hit by these cuts. This summit will bring together disabled people, tenants, unemployed , trade unions, students, pensioners, single parents, and others to oppose benefit cuts.
The venue is fully-accessible for wheelchair users – for other access needs, please contact benefitjustice@gmail.com
Click here to download PDF of above
Click here to book your place on the Summit being held on Saturday 9th March at University of London Union (ULU), Malet St, London WC1E 7HY at 11am.
Cut rents, not benefits
Can't pay, won't pay
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If you'd like to get involved in the Benefit Justice Campaign, they would be glad to have your support.
Contact trades unions, tenants and community organisations to invite them to our Summit on the 9th March 2013.
Add your name to the Benefits Justice Statement
Ask local organisations to send a speaker to the Summit
Create a local Benefit Justice network, and keep us abreast of your activities by emailing us at benefitjustice@gmail.com.
Support the protests in London and across the country on 20th March 2013.
Our Open Letter to the Guardian Published on the 12th February, 2013
Cuts in benefit are an unjust attack on the poor and they must stop. People are already being driven into debt, hunger and homelessness. From April millions more will be hit by the bedroom tax, cuts in council-tax benefit, ending disability living allowance and further vicious cuts. In one of the richest countries in the world, the rise of food banks, destitution and poverty is not acceptable. People receiving benefits did not cause the banking and economic crisis and we do not accept them being scapegoated to pay for it.
The Campaign for Benefit Justice has called a summit event on 9 March in central London, bringing together tenants, disabled people, trade unions, the unpaid and the low paid as one national voice to end the war on the poor. All who support us should contact Benefit Justice via info@defendouncilhousing.org.uk or mail@dpac.uk.net [or benefitjustice@gmail.com]. Collecting unpaid corporate tax, capping private rents, insulating, repairing and "greening" homes, and building 100,000 first-class council homes would be a sane and just way to raise funds, build for growth and cut bills and rents.
Eileen Short, Chair of Defend Council Housing
Linda Burnip, Disabled People Against Cuts
Michael Bradley, Right to Work Campaign
Len McCluskey, General Secretary of UNITE the Union
Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the PCS Union
Dave Anderson MP
John McDonnell MP
Austin Mitchell MP
Caroline Lucas MP
Jane Aitchison (PCS), Joint Secretary of Unite the Resistance
Richard Buckwell, Chair of Ashfield UNISON Branch & East Midlands member of UNISON's National Housing Forum
Glyn Robbins, UNITE member
Dot Gibson, General Secretary of the National Pensioners Convention
Claire Glasman, WinVisible (Women with Visible and Invisible Disabilities)
Kim Sparrow, Single Mothers' Self-Defence
John Davies, Leeds Hands off our Homes
Dr Stuart Hodkinson, Lecturer at the School of Geography, University of Leeds
Shirley Frost, Sheffield Defend Council Housing, Campaign for Benefits Justice, and UNITE Community Members branch Sheffield
Imelda Messenger, Hackney tenant, Street Properties
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December 2013, Volume 67, No. 12 ›
Food Dating and Food Waste
‹ December 2013, Volume 67, No. 12
Food Technology Magazine | Article
THEODORE P. LABUZA
For a country so obsessed with food, it is alarming how much of it Americans throw away, despite the serious ethical, environmental, and financial implications of this waste. An estimated 40% of food in the United States goes uneaten (Hallet al., 2009), with the average American consumer wasting 10 times as much as food as the average consumer in Southeast Asia (Gunders, 2012).
The cost of this waste—estimated to be about $165 billion in the U.S.—is even more egregious when the resources used to produce, store, transport, and handle that food are considered. In fact, it is estimated that approximately 25% of America's freshwater use goes into the production of wasted food (Hall et al., 2009).
This waste occurs alongside hunger. Redistributing a third of all the food lost in the United States is estimated to be enough to feed every one of the 50 million food insecure Americans their total diet (Gunders, 2012) (USDA/ERS, 2012). Redistributing only 2% of food waste could provide the needed calories/day/person to lift all food insecure Americans above the hunger line (White, 2012).
Misinterpretation of the date labels on foods is a key factor leading to this waste. A recent study, "The Dating Game: How Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Food Waste in America," released by Harvard Law School and the Natural Resources Defense Council provides a legal analysis of food date label laws across the U.S. and illustrates pervasive confusion among industry and consumers, ultimately leading to significant amounts of food going to waste.
Consumers are faced with a range of phrases and dates stamped on food products—"sell by," "use by," "best before." Believing the dates to indicate food is unsafe, they err on the side of caution by discarding food when it is often still good to eat. One industry survey showed that 91% of consumers had thrown away food out of concern for its safety when the date they referred to was the "sell by" date—a date actually intended to communicate to the retailer that the product beyond that date still had shelf life remaining but not at the quality level the company desired to present to consumers. In fact, the former CEO of Trader Joes is creating a store concept that will sell past dated food, something already in existence for food salvage stores (FMI Research, 2011).
A different study showed that 54% of consumers believed that eating food past its sell by/use by date constituted a health risk (Ransom, 2005). In addition to throwing food away prematurely, consumers may potentially consume unsafe food if they trust too much in the date and ignore how the food has been handled. Products that are inadvertently temperature abused in distribution, retail, and home storage do pose an unknown risk.
From the outside, there appears to be a rational, objective system behind these dates. However, in reality, there is no federal government oversight or other guidance that would establish consistency, except for required dating of infant foods because the nutrients decline over time, not because of concern over foodborne illness. Without federal mandates, states have vast discretion to regulate date labels in almost any way they see fit and those set ignore the problem of temperature abuse, a real food safety issue for many refrigerated foods.
For example, New York does not require date labels to be applied to any products, while six of its neighboring states do have such requirements. Twenty states plus the District of Columbia have regulations addressing the sale of past-dated food products, while the other 30 states have no such restrictions. Ultimately, for most products, it is up to the manufacturer to determine whether to include a date, which date to include, and how to determine the timeframe.
A standardized, more coherent system for food date labels would serve everyone better. It should provide more clear communication to consumers about the meaning behind the dates and establish consistent language and best practices for determining those dates.
Theodore P. Labuza, Ph.D., a Professional Member of IFT, is the Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 ([email protected]). Dana Gunders is Staff Scientist at Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY 10011 ([email protected]).
FMI Research. 2011. U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends. Food Mktg. Inst.
Gunders, D. 2012. Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill. Natural Resources Def. Council.
Hall, K.D., Guo, J., Dore, M., and Chow, C.C. 2009. The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact, PLOS ONE. (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007940).
Ransom, G. 2005. Consideration for Establishing Safety-Based Consume-By Date Labels for Refrigerated Ready-to-Eat Foods, National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, J. of Food Prot. 68(8): 1761-75.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/Econ. Res. Serv. 2012. Food Security in the U.S. (http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx).
White, M. 2012. American Wasteland: Jonathan Bloom on Why Food Waste Deserves Our Attention, worldwatch.org. (http://blogs.worldwatch.org/nourishingtheplanet/american-waste-land-jonathan-bloomon-why-food-waste-deserves-our-attention).
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As 2011 comes to a close, climate science celebrates an important landmark. It has now been 33 years, or a third of a century, since sensors aboard NASA and NOAA satellites began measuring temperatures throughout the earth's lower atmosphere.
For 33 years, we have had precise, objective temperature data that do not require guesswork corrections to compensate for uneven thermometer placement and non-climate surface temperature biases such as expanding urban heat islands and land-use changes. The satellite data, moreover, tell us the earth is warming at a more modest, gradual, and reassuring pace than was foretold by United Nations computer models.
The satellite sensors became operational at a time that is very convenient for those who believe humans are causing a global warming crisis. Global temperatures declined from the mid-1940s through the late 1970s. As a result, the sensors coincidentally began measuring global temperatures at the very beginning of our most recent global warming trend. Had the sensors been in place 33 years earlier, during the 1940s, the overall pace of warming shown by the satellite sensors would be less than half what is shown by the post-1978 temperature data.
Even so, the measured temperature trend is quite modest. John Christy, who along with Roy Spencer oversees the NASA satellite sensor program, reports temperatures have warmed at an average pace of 0.14 degrees Celsius per decade since the satellite sensors became operational. This is merely half the pace predicted by computer models utilized by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Christy appears to be making a generous concession regarding the warming that has occurred. The temperature data seem to show warming closer to 0.3 degrees over the 33 year period, or 0.09 degrees Celsius per decade. But why quibble over the difference? A warming of 0.14 degrees per decade, or 1.4 degrees per century, is still significantly less than predicted by UN climate models and far from an impending global warming crisis.
Importantly, the satellite sensors show less warming in the lower troposphere (approximately 10,000 feet above the earth's surface) than is reported by surface temperature readings. Global warming theory holds that one of the fingerprints of human-induced global warming is more rapid warming in the lower troposphere than at the surface. The reason for this is carbon dioxide molecules reside in the lower troposphere and have their greatest heat-trapping effect there.
As a result, if global temperatures are rising as a result of human carbon dioxide emissions, the satellite sensors should report more warming in the lower troposphere than is actually occurring at the surface. In essence the satellite sensors should report a warming trend somewhat more severe than is actually occurring at the surface of the earth.
Surface temperature measurements, however, indicate more rapid warming at the surface of the earth than in the lower troposphere. According to James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute, temperatures at the surface of the earth rose twice as fast during the past 33 years as the satellite data show. Surface temperatures compiled by the UK's University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit reflect a similar warming trend.
With temperature data indicating more warming at the earth's surface than in the earth's lower troposphere, one of the following must be true: (1) the surface temperature data is more corrupted by heat biases such as expanding urban heat islands and localized land-use changes than the IPCC admits, (2) the warming of the past 33 years is primarily the result of factors other than greenhouse gas emissions, or (3) longstanding, widely believed assumptions about greenhouse gas theory are wrong.
Regardless of which one or more of the three options are true, the satellite sensors have contributed greatly to our scientific understanding of the earth's ever-changing climate. Thirty-three years and counting, we rightly celebrate the scientific advances provided by satellite temperature sensors.


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April 24, 1800; 220 years ago (1800-04-24)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
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More than 38 million books and other printed materials, 3.6 million recordings, 14 million photographs, 5.5 million maps, 8.1 million pieces of sheet music and 70 million manuscripts, 5,711 incunabula, and 122,810,430 items in the nonclassified (special) collections:
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The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress.
The head of the Library is the Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.[3]
The primary function of the Library of Congress is to serve the Congress. ... The Library welcomes public use of its general reference facilities and endeavors to offer the widest possible use of its collections consistent with their preservation and with its obligation to serve the Congress and other government agencies.The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S.Copyright Office.Libraries are important cornerstones of a healthy community. ... College students often use the library when they are home for the weekend or for holidays. And the reference resources in public libraries are usually unavailable elsewhere in the community. The library is a unique and valuable resource.
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↑ 2.0 2.1 "2017 Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress" (PDF). Library of Congress. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
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Home Features E3 2019 Eyes-on: Marvel's Avengers doesn't yet let its characters stand out in interesting ways
E3 2019 Eyes-on: Marvel's Avengers doesn't yet let its characters stand out in interesting ways
By Alessandro Barbosa
Crystal Dynamic's Avengers has a tough challenge to overcome. How do you gather some of Marvel's most iconic modern heroes into one game and balance their unique abilities with a cohesive and realistic combat system? How do you have characters like Thor and Black Widow fighting the same enemies without one feeling out of place? Sitting down to watch a 30-minute gameplay demo, these questions raced through my head. And I left with an answer that wasn't exactly satisfying.
The demo in question took place during the same event the reveal trailer used to introduce you to Avenger's story. A-Day, or the day the Avengers failed to stop a threat that decimated San Francisco, played host to a litany of action sequences that hopped between the five starring characters, namely Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Captain America. The action seamlessly transitioned from one skirmish to the other, giving the entire encounter a strong sense of scale that has some battles ranging on different fronst. Iron Man and Thor, first to the scene, both dispatched groups of enemies leading up to the Golden Gate Bridge, while later on Hulk was dropped into the action from above and had to make his way across a crumbling highway to join in on the action.
These set-pieces looked and sounded great, but there's no shaking the feeling that that's what they were: set-pieces not indicative of the core loop Avengers is likely going to settle into in most of its stages. This demo played out like an extended final battle you'd expect to see in an Avenger's film. Every character plays their part, has their quip, and isn't around long enough to truly appreciate. And although everything was being played live, a large portion of the demo was taken up by extravagant transition sequences between characters, involving interactive cutscenes with quick time events or putting you into a brief and mindless looking on-rails shooter as Iron Man.
This isn't as much of a problem as it might seem if the rest of Avenger's breaks from this mould, but the demo wasn't enough to fully settle on that either. Perhaps what was more alarming was just how similar each character looked in action. Melee combat appears to follow the same rhythm as Rocksteady's Arkham series, which is unsurprising given its use across most systems of this ilk. Enemies have indicators above their heads that are colour-coded to their attacks, which give you time to react with parries or dodges in turn. Crystal Dynamics refused to go into detail about what was happening in the combat on show, but it was evident enough that if you've played the Arkham titles or, more recently, Marvel's Spider-Man, you should be comfortable here.
The problem arose when it was clear that each of the five characters all fought in the same ways. Small differences changed animations to actions to fit the characters in question, but there was no clear difference on both their individual attack impacts or specific enemies being matched up to particularly powerful foes. You fight the same enemies as Thor and Black Widow, who should have a massive difference in abilities being an Asgardian God and international super spy respectively. But each character just seems to swap out specific attacks that take up the same spaces. Some offensive melee abilities, some ranged ones and, if you're lucky, the ability to hover above the action and slightly shift the rules of engagement.
Without a deep dive into how combat ticks, it's again difficult to know if this was just a symptom of a short showing for each character or if this is Avenger's Achilles heel. With so many variables between each of these characters, it's understandably difficult to build one cohesive combat system to govern them all, so this approach seems logical. But it also feels disappointing if that's the case, even if you're given the chance to whip characters into tanks with Thor's hammer or ping pong your shield around a room as Cap. Because they're essentially achieving the same things just different flashy actions, the feeling of playing as a different character might be lost entirely.
It's still early for Avengers, especially when you consider it being still a year at least before it launches. But these are the sorts of questions I had when the project was first announced back in 2017. And now, more than two years later, they're still lingering.
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Tulsa Mayor Declares Civil Emergency Ahead of Trump Campaign Rally
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on May 30, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
June 19, 2020Updated: June 19, 2020
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, a Republican, declared a civil emergency and announced a curfew near the arena where President Donald Trump will host a campaign rally this weekend.
Bynum's executive said that "crowds in excess of 100,000" are expected to show up near the rally. Opposition protests are also scheduled, according to the mayor, who said that he will place a federal exclusion zone near the arena.
The Tulsa Police Department also wrote that "as part of our preparations for President Trump's Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone's safety.
"As posted earlier, the area illustrated in this map will need to be free of vehicles and pedestrian traffic," the office wrote. In a separate post on Facebook, police said that the area of downtown will be off-limits from 10 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Saturday.
Bynum, in his executive order, said that he received information from the city's police department and other agencies that "individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive or violent behavior in other states are planning to travel to the City of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally."
People who were camped outside the arena to attend the Trump rally were moved out of the area, local media outlets reported.
🚨CURFEW IN EFFECT FOR DOWNTOWN🚨
As part of our preparations for President Trump's Rally this Saturday, we are working on making the area secure for everyone's safety.
As posted earlier, the area illustrated in this map will need to be free of vehicles and pedestrian traffic. pic.twitter.com/uT76N0IWRc
— Tulsa Police (@TulsaPolice) June 19, 2020
According to Trump's reelection campaign, more than 1,000,000 people have registered online for the Tulsa rally, which is first-come-first-served. The arena has a capacity of under 20,000.
Supporters were required to sign a waiver releasing Trump's campaign for potential exposure to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
"Looking at a 2nd event in town to get more people to be w/@realDonaldTrump," Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale wrote earlier this week. "Gonna be GREAT in the most open state in the nation!"
As many as 250 Oklahoma Army National Guard soldiers are being activated to help provide security during President Donald Trump's campaign rally Saturday in Tulsa, authorities said Wednesday.
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin said the guardsmen will be used as a "force multiplier" to help secure safety zones around the downtown BOK Center where the rally is to be held.
The guardsmen will be unarmed but will carry shields, batons, and pepper spray in case they need to protect themselves, said Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Geoff Legler. Franklin says officers from multiple local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies also will help provide security and that several blocks downtown will be closed for Saturday's event.


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Sunderland unveiled their home Goalkeeper kit for the 2008/09 season made by Umbro. Craig Gordon is pictured wearing the new Sunderland goalkeepey jersey. The green top will be worn by Gordon and Sunderland's other keepers in the Premier League next season.
The top is part of the 2008-09 home kit range which recently went on sale at club shops. The new home kit is available to buy now long-sleeved home shirts are now also in stock. The goalkeeper jersey goes on sale from Monday (June 2). You'll find a leaked picture of the 08/09 away shirt here.
Another Snot green football shirt! What\'s the world coming too???

I am glad to see posts about goalkeeper kits these days though, i think they\'re just as important as every other kit.


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Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Ph.D.
Leadership Practice
Immigration & Education
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Lowenhaupt, R. & Montgomery, N.* (2018). Family engagement practices as sites of possibility:
Supporting immigrant families through a district-university partnership. Theory into Practice, 57(2), 99-108.
Lowenhaupt, R. & McNeill, K. (2018). Making the case for K8 science supervision: Subject-specific instructional leadership in an era of reform. Leadership and Policy in Schools.
McNeill, K., Lowenhaupt, R., & Katsh-Singer, R. (In press). Instructional leadership and the implementation of the NGSS: Principals' understandings of science practices. Science Education.
Cherbow, K.*, McNeill, K., Lowenhaupt, R., McKinley, M.*, Lowell, B.* (In press). NGSS Lesson Adaptations: A resource for integrating the science practices into your instruction. Science and Children.
Lowenhaupt, R. & Reeves, T.* (2017). Changing demographics, changing practices: Teacher learning in new immigrant destinations. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2(1), 50-71.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2016). Immigrant acculturation in suburban schools serving the New Latino Diaspora. Peabody Journal of Education, 91 (3), 348-365.
Lowenhaupt, R., Spillane, J., & Hallett, T. (2016). Accountability talk: Pulling down institutional logics in organizational practice. Journal of School Leadership, 26(5), 783-810.
Reeves, T.* & Lowenhaupt, R. (2016). Teachers as leaders: Pre-service teachers' aspirations and motivations. Teaching and Teacher Education, 57, 176–187.
Hopkins, M., Lowenhaupt, R., & Sweet, T. (2015). Organizing instruction in new immigrant destinations: District infrastructure and subject-specific school practice. American Educational Research Journal--Social and Institutional Analysis, 52(3), 408-439.
Lowenhaupt, R. & Reeves, T.* (2015). Toward a theory of school capacity in new immigrant destinations: Instructional and organizational considerations. Leadership & Policy in Schools. 14(3), 308-340.
Halverson, E., Lowenhaupt, R., & Kalaitzidis, T. (2015). Towards a theory of distributed instruction in creative arts education. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 23(3), 357-385.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2014). The language of leadership: Principal rhetoric in everyday practice. Journal of Educational Administration, 52(4), 446-468.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2014). School access and participation: Family engagement practices in the New Latino Diaspora. Education and Urban Society, 46 (5), 522-547.
Lowenhaupt, R., McKinney, S., & Reeves, T.* (2014). Coaching in context: The role of relationships in the work of three literacy coaches. Professional Development in Education, 40(5), 740-757.
Halverson, E., Lowenhaupt, R., Gibbons, D., & Bass, M. (2009). Conceptualizing identity in youth media arts organizations: A comparative case study. E-learning, 6(1), 23-42. http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/6/issue6_1.asp
Hargreaves, A. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2017). Leading with consistency: How the ends don't always justify the means (and vice versa). In Waite, D. (Ed.), The International Handbook of Education and Leadership. (pp.63-78). Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell.
Hopkins, M. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2016). Structuring integration and marginalization: Schools as contexts of reception in New Immigrant Destinations. In E. Frankenberg, L. Garces, & M. Hopkins. (Eds.), Education and civil rights: Obstacles and opportunities for supporting integration and equity across the educational pipeline. (pp. 105-120). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Scanlan, M. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2015). Educational leadership in medium and small urban districts serving the New Mainstream. In I. Sutherland, K. Sanzo, and J. Scribner (Eds.), Leading small and mid-sized urban school districts. (pp. 223-240). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2015). State policy and school capacity in Wisconsin's New Latino Diaspora. In E. Hamann, E. Murillo, & S. Wortham (Eds), Revisiting Education in the New Latino Diaspora. (pp. 245-261). Westport, CT: Ablex.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2015). Navigating porous boundaries. In G. Theoharis & S. Dotger (Eds.), On the high wire: Education professors walk between work and parenting. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
McKinney, S. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2013). New directions for socially just educational leadership:
Lessons from disability studies. In L. Tillman & J. Scheurich (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Educational Leadership for Diversity and Equity. (pp.309-327). New York, NY: Routledge.
Camburn, E., Kimball, S. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2008). Going to scale with teacher leadership: Lessons learned from a district-wide Literacy Coach Initiative. In M. Mangin & S. Stoelinga (Eds.), Effective Teacher Leadership: Using Research to Inform and Reform (pp.120-143). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
POPULAR PRESS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Lowenhaupt, R. (May, 2016). Progressive school leadership in the era of accountability. Teachers College Record. Commentary at: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=20273
Lowenhaupt, R. & Cho, V. (2015). Case study response. In L. Sadeghi & K. Callahan (Eds.), Educational Leadership in Action. New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Lowenhaupt, R. (2014). In schools in the 'New Latino Diaspora' Spanish speaking families now have access to school practices but still have difficulty actively engaging with them. Retrieved on June 26, 2014 from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/ [Guest blog for the London School of Economic's USA Blog]
Scanlan, M., & Lowenhaupt, R. (2014). How to fix the achievement gaps, The Podium Editorial. Boston Globe. Retrieved on May 6, 2014 from http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/05/06/how-fix-achievement-gaps/cX7VmB1UYUrUSiHzqhD0OP/story.html
Lowenhaupt, R. (2013). Book review of Latinas in the workplace: An emerging leadership force by Esther Elena Lopez-Mulnix, Mimi Wolverton, and Salwa A. Zaki: Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2011, 139 pages, $22.50 (paperback). Journal of Latinos and Education, 12(2), 160-161.
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Between Thor's introduction to the Guardians and the shot of an Avengers team that included the Hulk running into the Battle of Wakanda, Infinity War had some blatant omissions from its trailers. But a comprehensive video comparing what was seen in the movie to the footage shown in promos highlights just how many other changes there were between its teasers and what fans saw on the big screen. And not all of them were designed to mislead viewers.
This detailed and meticulous comparison from the YouTube channel Zhiying Di (that we came across at Slashfilm) highlights the numerous changes between the trailers for "the most ambitious crossover event in history" and what made it into theaters. While some intentional misdirections are understandable, like hiding how many Infinity Stones Thanos had at certain points of the movie, others feel like an obvious attempt to deceive--like showing Hulk in the middle of the big fight. However the majority are small things,. like a slightly different camera angle, or minor improvements to the film's visual effects or color palette.
By Odin's beard, Infinity War wasn't even the first Disney blockbuster that left potentially iconic moments on the cutting room floor--looking at you Rogue One--but that's way more changes than we ever would have caught on our own. And while we've reluctantly accepted studio promos can't be entirely trusted anymore, this does do an excellent job at showing how much fine-tuning takes place before a movie is finalized. Just because a complete trailer has been released doesn't mean the film is complete. Even if Hulk not smash, green effects need work.
Which change do you think makes the most sense? Which one was the most egregious? Fine tune your thoughts in the comments below.